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Posted by admin on 2003-04-21 17:32. 0 comments. 8695 reads
 

This section contains memorial tributes of deceased famous members.

Mother Teresa, the Roman Catholic nun who devoted her life to the poorest of the poor in Calcutta had a pacemaker. "I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone."

Twenty-seven years after Dr. John Hopps invented the first pacemaker in 1950, he was fitted with one to regulate his heartbeat. Hopps died just before his invention was vot...





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