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[Mixter]

...woman...

This just made it to the top of digg.com:

http://www.dailymail...h-birthday.html

Anyone know anything about her, especially other sources to confirm the validity?

Edited by mixter, 24 March 2009 - 10:46 PM.

[Wandering Jew]

130?


blows jean calment out of waters and abolishes 122 record. There're also claims of 250 year old man who lived through the last dynasty of china, 150 grandma in a small tribe of Africa.

Edited by Wandering Jew, 24 March 2009 - 10:57 PM.

[VictorBjoerk]

definitely not true...

[robert122]

Comparing Dosova to Calment is like comparing Batman (a fictional superhero) to firefighters who died in 9-11. It's not only preposterous, it's an insult.

[Mind]

Related recent story from Uzbekistan.

[robert122]

Related recent story from Uzbekistan.

The Yusupova claim came first. I think Kazakhstan was jealous, so they searched for a claim to be older. It's a "Nationalist" longevity myth. In reality, places with poor recordkeeping typically have claims that go to as high as the locals believe. Note that Moloko Temo of South Africa started out claiming 114 in 1988 (no proof of age prior to that) and died at "134" in 2009...but the ages of her children (in their 70s) suggest she was more likely 104 or even just 94 than 134.

In Central Asia, many persons increased their age to avoid war service or to collect early pensions.

Note that in places like England, claims to 152, 169, even 207 were made in the Middle Ages, but since birth registration was mandatory no one in the UK has surpassed 115. Still the same people, the same country, the same culture...but written records killed the longevity claim there.

[niner]

Dosova is Borat's great great grandmother.

[VictorBjoerk]

I don't think such false claims like this deserve any attention at all.....

[Danail Bulgaria]

The question is if this is a false claim? During the Soviet Union, there has been a very acurate recordkeeping in modern Kazakhstan, and definately the problem is not in poor recordkeeping, if she really can represent her date of birth from the Soviet Union's era, or if the documentation, dated from the Soviet Union shows her birth date.