Thread: Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age

Nana, we got where to put your age, it's the link you forgot to post .. LMAO!



At age 40:

John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.

Joan Ganz Cooney founded Children's Television Workshop and became the mastermind behind "Sesame Street."

Charles Thurber patented a typewriter.

Chemist Franz Karl Achard developed a process for extracting sugar from beets.

Physicist William Sturgeon created the first electromagnet.

Jean Eugene Atget, now considered one of the greatest photographers, took up photography.

Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, a mother of six who occasionally wrote for magazines, published Uncle Tom's Cabin, an antislavery novel of such force that it is generally recognized as one of the causes of the Civil War.

Earl Vickers unveiled his audio effects plug-in SFX Machine at the 1997 NAMM convention

At age 41:

Joshua Norton, a pauper, declared himself Norton I, Emperor of the United States. He became San Francisco's biggest tourist attraction and was probably the model for the character of "The King" in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn.

Huey Long delivered the longest speech on record, a 15 1/2 hour marathon including cooking recipes and pointless anecdotes.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, on giving birth at age 41, said "I'll try anything once."

Rudyard Kipling became the youngest Nobel Laureate in literature.

Christo completed his 24 1/2 mile "Running Fence" through the hills of northern California.

Antoine Laurent de Jussieu invented the modern classification of plants.

Charles Babbage proposed a large-scale digital calculator, the "analytical engine."

Rosie Flaxman-Binns undertook her first scuba dive even though she cannot swim and is terrified of deep water.

Originally Posted by nanajoanie

At the bottom there is a tiny space to type in your age then click on the words next to it. Put your glasses on girl.

Nana you forgot to put the link in when you posted about this. That is why she is asking where. I googled and found the site and posted the link.

Originally Posted by Eyore

Nana you forgot to put the link in when you posted about this. That is why she is asking where. I googled and found the site and posted the link.

I'm so anal sometimes...............Sorry about that.

Originally Posted by nanajoanie

I'm so anal sometimes...............Sorry about that.

At age 34:

Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry, publishes "The Star Spangled Banner."

Judith Guest began writing her first novel, Ordinary People.

After defeating Antony and Cleopatra's forces in a naval battle, Augustus became the master of the Roman world.

Matthias Jakob Schleiden, a German botanist, formulated the cell theory of physiology.

Paul Belleci saw in concert the same week Reba McIntyre, Rancid, and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

Originally Posted by janelle

Joanie, it was the missing link.

Look back on page one and someone else found the website. Without checking I think it was Eyore.

Do you think anything happened at Cricks age???????????

Originally Posted by tsquared

Do you think anything happened at Cricks age???????????

Guess I should email him about this thread. He's been real busy. We still email a few times a day tho.