Methuselah
According to the Bible, Methuselah was the oldest person who ever lived. He reportedly reached the age of 969 years. (See Genesis 5:27.) He is mentioned in Genesis as the son of Enoch and the father of Lamech[?]. His name has become a general synonym for any living creature of great age.Robert Heinlein wrote a science fiction series about rejuvenation and a project called the 'Howard family' that was working to extend the human lifespan beyond a hundred and fifty years - the first volume was called Methuselah's Children.
Methuselah is also a bottle size for champagne, equivalent to eight ordinary bottles.
Methuselah is also the name of a 4700 year old bristlecone pine currently growing in California. It is the single oldest known living organism.
He was here on August 16th--last
limping along the road and bleeding from a wound in the shoulder."
"Was Tuesday the 16th?" said Parton, counting the days backward on
anyhow. It is too blessed queer for me to mix myself up in it, and I
sure-"
"Well, I'm not so confoundedly heartless," I returned, pounding the
prejudices to run away with his sense of justice. "I'm going to
landlord here won't let me take one of his boys along to support our
internal struggle. "I suppose we really ought to help the fellow out
affair of any kind with a man like Carleton Barker, much less in an
details. He hadn't time to write more, because he comes up for
his case he was necessarily hurried."
"It's deucedly hard luck for us," said Parton, ruefully. "It means
Scottish trip--he's fighting for his life."
And so it happened that on Monday morning, instead of starting for
get copies of the newspapers containing accounts of the crime that
until we arrived in London and were visited by Barker's.
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