Originally posted by rbmorrisAt age 35:
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Based on a nightmarish dream, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Russian ambassador Aleksandr Borosovich Kurakin introduced the practice of serving meals in courses.
Frederic William Herschel, an English astronomer, invented the contact lens.
American sprinter Evelyn Ashford won her final Olympic gold medal at age 35, old for a sprinter.
Amedeo Avogadro developed Avogadro's hypothesis.
Law School professor Anita Hill charged that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas made indecent remarks to her.
Margie Profet proposed a new theory of menstruation which claims that menstruation protects against infection and won a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant.
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin achieved his life's ambition at age 35 and wondered, what do you do after that?
Mozart stopped composing and started, well, you know.
oh crap.
i think i do know.
he started decomposing, right?
ok anyone with a working elixir of youth, i'm in for $100.
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Originally posted by rbmorrisAt age 16:
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Albert Einstein wrote an essay containing the beginnings of the special theory of relativity. In it, Einstein showed that time and motion are relative to the observer.
American sharpshooter Annie ("Annie Get Your Gun"😉 Oakley challenged and defeated the well-known marksman Frank Butler, whom she later married. She could hit a dime in mid-air from 90 feet.
Legendary womanizer and adventurer Casanova was expelled from a seminary for moral misconduct.
Cuban revolutionary Jose Marti had his first arrest and exile.
George McFarland ("Spanky" in the Our Gang series) retired from the movies and spent the rest of his life doing sales and charity work.
Sir Henry Morton Stanley ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"😉 sailed for New Orleans as a cabin boy.
Cornelius Vanderbilt began a ferry service between New York City and Staten Island.
Tennis player Tracy Austin became the youngest person to win the U.S. Open.
Guitar player and songwriter Maybelle Carter invented the 'Carter lick,' which used the thumb to play melody and changed the role of the guitar in country music to that of a lead instrument.
American poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant wrote the first draft of his most famous poem, Thanatopsis.
American film director Howard Hawks became a professional car and airplane racer.
Patrick Taylor left home in Beaumont, Texas with only a suitcase full of clothes, 35 cents and the desire to attend college. Evenually he earned a petroleum engineering degree and became one of the richest men in Louisiana.
Emilie Redfern managed to offend the entire town of Chatham and be forcibly removed.
Rhiannon Carr of Wisconsin, to protest St. Patrick's Day celebrations, vowed to celebrate St. Andrew's Day in an obnoxiously Scottish fashion.
Kaylie found one of the greatest guys in the world.
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Jim Bakker, former PTL minister, was convicted of fraudulently raising $158 million in contributions.
Diane Morgan completed her lifelong goal of traveling from America to England to meet her long lost relatives, whom she had never met before, including two aunts, an uncle and approximately 40 cousins. She found them all living in the same town where her mother was born and raised before moving to America after marrying an American GI.
At age 20:
Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard and cofounded Microsoft.
English novelist Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, which was immediately successful.
Ragtime composer Scott Joplin became an itinerant pianist and travelled throughout the Midwest.
Despite a lack of experience, James Cagney fast-talked his way into a vaudeville dancing job.
D. H. Lawrence began writing his first novel, The White Peacock.
Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice, her second and most famous novel.
Polish-born Joseph Conrad, one of the great English language novelists, began learning English, his third language.
Charles Lindbergh learned to fly.
John Stuart Mill pulled himself out of depression and found that the ordinary events of life could again give him some moderate amounts of pleasure. He decided that happiness is attained not by making it the direct goal of life, but by fixing one's mind on some other pursuit.
The Greek philosopher Plato became a disciple of Socrates.
Alexander Graham Bell taught a stray Skye Terrier to talk. By training the dog to growl on cue and then manipulating his mouth and throat, Bell could make him produce the phonemes "ow, ah, ooh, ga, ma, ma," to say "How are you, Grandmama?"
At age 0:
Jesus Christ was born of a virgin.
(Baby) Evans, daughter of Mrs. T.W. Evans, became the first child to be born in an airplane. The first children to be born in a car, covered wagon, boat, etc., were also born at this age.
By eight weeks of age, Christian Friedrich Heinecken was speaking intelligible German. Many children can't even speak English at that age.
At six months of age, William J. Sidis, Jr., the son of a psychiatrist, knew the alphabet.
At nine months, the American actress Maude Adams first appeared on stage. She later played the title role in Peter Pan.
At ten months, Mary Stuart was crowned Queen of Scots.
Before he was one year old, Leonard Bernstein played his first piano note. He appeared to enjoy the note very much.
Originally posted by rbmorrisThat actually made me feel better about myself:
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At age 48:
Umberto Eco, a professor of semiotics, wrote his first novel, The Name of the Rose.
George Blanda played his last year of NFL football.
I have written many songs, and Blanda retired while I still can do my job. Blanda was way over the hill when he retired. 😀