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  • 13
    Dec
    2011
    6:22pm, EST

    Polish pensioners suit up for 'Swan Lake'

    Janek Skarzynski / AFP - Getty Images

    Members of the Barborka pensioners dancers group (From L) Gabriela Koscielniak, Ola Szczepanska, Halina Rycombel, Anna Nierobis and Monika Bator perform Swan Lake on Nov. 30,2011 at a community center in Lazy.

    By Rich Shulman

    You have to hand it to these ladies for having the courage to get on a stage and do this.

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    Janek Skarzynski / AFP - Getty Images

    Members of the Barborka pensioners dancers group prepare to perform Swan Lake on November 30 ,2011 at a community center in Lazy.

    Janek Skarzynski / AFP - Getty Images

    Member of the Barborka pensioners dancers group Gabriela Koscielniak performs Bollywood inspired dance on Nov. 30 ,2011 at a community center in Lazy.

    Janek Skarzynski / AFP - Getty Images

    Members of the Barborka pensioners dancers group (From L) Gabriela Koscielniak, Ola Szczepanska, Halina Rycombel, Anna Nierobis and Monika Bator take a bow after performing Swan Lakeon Nov. 30 ,2011 at a community center in Lazy.

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    6:17pm, EDT

    Brazil woman is now world's oldest person at 114 years

    Ana Carolina Fernandes / Reuters

    Maria Gomes Valentim, 114, lies on her bed in Carangola May 19, 2011. A Brazilian great-great grandmother, Valentim is the world's oldest living person at the age of 114 and 313 days, said Guinness World Records on Wednesday.

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  • 1
    Feb
    2011
    1:15pm, EST

    The oldest person in the world

    David Goldman / AP

    Besse Cooper, 114 years and five months old, sits in her room at a nursing home in Monroe, Ga. on Tuesday, Feb. 1. Cooper is now the world's oldest person, according to the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group.

    By Jonathan Woods, msnbc.com

    What a beautiful face. It's remarkable that some people can age so gracefully.

    Cooper claimed the title after Eunice G. Sanborn, of Jaacksonville, Texas, died Monday at the age of 114. Sandborn acquired the distinction Nov. 4, 2010, upon the death of a French nun, Eugenie Blanchard, on the French Caribbean island of St. Barts. She was also 114.

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    She looks wonderful, I'm onl 60 and look older than she does. Whis I knew her secret.

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