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Ruth Elizabeth Colwell 1905 - 2009

Ruth Elizabeth Colwell of Garberville, Humboldt County, California was born on December 8, 1905, and died at age 103 years old on March 23, 2009.
Ruth Elizabeth Colwell
Garberville, Humboldt County, California 95542
December 8, 1905
March 23, 2009
Female
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  • 12/8
    1905

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    December 8, 1905
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  • 03/23
    2009

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    March 23, 2009
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    Ruth Elizabeth Colwell lived 31 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 103.
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In 1905, in the year that Ruth Elizabeth Colwell was born, the German born physicist, Albert Einstein, proposed the Special Theory of Relativity: 1) that observers can never detect uniform motion except relative to other objects and that 2) unlike the velocity of massive objects, the speed of light is a constant and is the same for all observers independent of their constant velocity toward or away from the light source. Not such simple concepts that lead to the equation everyone now knows: E = mc2.
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In 1921, by the time she was 16 years old, the silent film The Sheik, directed by George Melford and starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres (also featuring Adolphe Menjou) debuted on October 21st. Critics weren't enthusiastic but the public loved it - in the first few weeks 125,000 people had seen the movie - and it eventually exceeded $1 million in ticket sales. And Rudolph Valentino, an Italian American, became the heartthrob of a female generation.
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