used my experience to convince her of my love

Ahmed Muhamed Dore, 112 years old on marrying a 17 year old:

I didn’t force her, but used my experience to convince her of my love; and then we agreed to marry.

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The Economist:

Last week a Saudi judge sentenced a 75-year-old widow to four months in jail and 40 lashes for inviting two young men into her house. The errant youths, one of them a nephew of the woman’s late husband, said they had simply been kind enough to bring the elderly lady some loaves of bread.

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The Economist:

Fisher-Price, the toy company that used to market them, has just eliminated almost all the View-Master titles that have been a staple of young lives for almost 70 years…

View-Masters were introduced at the 1939 New York World’s Fair and became an overnight sensation. During the second world war the armed forces produced training reels for identifying enemy and friendly aircraft and ships…

In all, more than 1.5 billion reels have been produced, every one of them to the same size and format, and usable in every model of viewer ever made.