Sometimes stiffness goes away as you move. If it does not, it can be a sign of Parkinson's disease. You might notice that your arms don't swing when you walk, or maybe other people have said you look stiff. An early sign might be stiffness or pain in your shoulder or hips. People sometimes say their feet seem 'stuck to the floor.'.
Luciano Pavarotti, who has died aged 71 of pancreatic cancer, grew up in the 1940s listening to the previous golden generation of tenor stars on record and radio. So the presence of the past underpinned his own recorded achievement as a singer.
Emma Morano is an Italian supercentenarian who is, at the age of 116 years, 169 days, the world's oldest living person, and the last verified living person to have been born in the 1800s. Morano married in 1926 and had a child, but experienced a terrible loss when he tragically died at 6 months old.