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Emma Morano’s live spanned three centuries.
Born in 1899 in Civiasco, Kingdom of Italy, Emma Martina Luigia Morano died in 2017 at the age of 117, in Verbania, Italian Republic.
She survived an abusive marriage, the loss of her only son, two World Wars and 90 Italian governments.
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Ireland’s postal code system is unusually precise.
Where most systems group multiple addresses into a postcode, Eircode gives each address a unique code.
Many Irish addresses had no house number or name; the 2015 Eircode introduction fixed multiple issues at once.
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Ireland’s postal code system is unusually precise.
Where most systems group multiple addresses into a postcode, Eircode gives each address a unique code.
Many Irish addresses had no house number or name; the 2015 Eircode introduction fixed multiple issues at once.
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Ireland’s postal code system is unusually precise.
Where most systems group multiple addresses into a postcode, Eircode gives each address a unique code.
Many Irish addresses had no house number or name; the 2015 Eircode introduction fixed multiple issues at once.
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The Principality of Sealand is an unrecognised micronation on an offshore platform in the North Sea.
A sea fort built some 11 km off the English coast during WW2, it briefly housed pirate radio stations before being seized in 1967 by Roy Bates, who declared it independent.