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An ex-council worker on how she makes her pension stretch to holidays, a car and theatre trips
Find out more here: ‘I’m 78 on an £18,000 income and live a very good life in London’ | The Guardian
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Read more here: Quad City Dressmaker Dies on Eve of 101st Birthday | WQAD
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This Australian dancer and choreographer is 103 years old!
The charming Eileen Kramer is a national treasure — she learnt the twist from Louis Armstrong in Paris, and moved back to Australia at 99 because she dreamed of hearing kookaburras again.
Watch the full video here: 103-year-old Dancer Eileen | ABC News Facebook
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Age ain’t nothing but a number. This joyous video is part of the Facebook Gallery of Groups exhibition, more info below.
Watch then full video here: Meet the very old skateboarders | Time Out London Facebook
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Professor Maggie Boden, one of the most eminent experts in artificial intelligence, reflects on her 50 years of puzzling the mind-brain problem.
Read more here: It is “sheer fantasy” to think AI will ever match an intelligent human | University of Sussex
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Elizabeth Cotten was never famous, and almost slipped into total obscurity.
Read the full article here: She was a maid at 9, wrote a hit song at 11 — and won a Grammy at 93 | Timeline
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The incredible ballerina who’s been doing what she loves for 70 years.
Watch the video here: Amazing Humans: The 77 year old ballet dancer – BBC Three | Facebook
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Once the highest paid model of her time, these days Isabella Rossellini also moonlights as an organic farmer and matriarch of a New York crime family.
Read the full article here: Isabella Rossellini on her career revival, organic farming and ageing gracefully | Stuff
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101-year-old Mary flew hundreds of Spitfires during WWII. And now she wants more women to take to the skies.
Watch the full video here: Meet WWII’s Last Surviving Female Spitfire Pilot | BBC London
