Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age

[nanajoanie]

Type in your age - all there is too it. Kinda interesting.

Nana - At age 66:

Noah Webster completed his monumental American Dictionary of the English Language.

The composer Franck wrote his only symphony.

American physician Francis Townsend paved the way for Social Security by suggesting that all retirees over the age of 60 should receive $200 a month.

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[buttrfli]

type it in where?

you're gettin forgetful nana lol

[Eyore]

I googled and found the link for it.
http://www.museumofconceptualart.com...hed/index.html

[evrita]

At age 32:

Penniless and unemployed, Buckminster Fuller decided against suicide, resolving instead to live out the rest of his life as an experiment to see what one person could do to help humanity.

By the time of his death at age 32, Alexander the Great had conquered almost the entire known world.

Composer, conductor and painter E. T. A. Hoffmann began to write the tales for which he is now primarily remembered.

English artist and poet William Blake wrote and illustrated "Songs of Innocence."

Johann Rudolf Wyss wrote "The Swiss Family Robinson."

English parson Thomas Robert Malthus wrote his "Essay on the Principles of Population."

Don Simpson got hit in the eye by his karate instructor and bled all over the place.

I better get going Ohh wait I cut myself last month and bled pretty good does that count??

[Willow]

At age 38:

Poet Robert Frost sold his farm and used the proceeds to move to England where he could devote himself primarily to writing, and that made all the difference.

Dian Fossey became the first primatologist to be accepted by mountain gorillas in their natural environment.

French physician Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec invented the stethoscope as a way to avoid having to place the physician's ear to the female patient's breast.

Robert Fulton developed the steam boat.

Physicist Georg Simon Ohm discovered Ohm's Law.

James Marshall discovered gold in California.

Earl Vickers started the Clockworks Project, in which he kept a detailed record of what he was doing and thinking each time a random timer went off.

Famous mathematician/songwriter Tom Lehrer recorded "An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer," in which he commented that "By the time that Mozart was my age, he'd been dead three years."

[earnhardt1]

At age 29:

The Buddha decided to renounce the world and abandon family and posessions. Seven years later, he realized this brought him no closer to the wisdom he sought.

Scottish-born inventor Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the first complete sentence by telephone.

Agatha Christie, the most translated writer in the world, published her first book.

Michael Faraday demonstrated electromagnetic rotation, leading the way to the invention of the electric motor.

Blacksmith Kirkpatrick MacMillan invented the first real bicycle.

English novelist Emily Jane Bronte wrote the romance Wuthering Heights .

Singer-songwriter Carole King released her best-selling album Tapestry.

French naturalist George Dagobert founded the science of comparative anatomy.

By age 29, Paul (from England) fathered three lovely children, and by working very hard for six days a week and spending all his free time with them, hopes to raise them to be complete and successful human beings with many positive attributes including compassion, generosity, wisdom, honesty, etc.

By age 29, Coco had raised her drug-addicted niece, had two children of her own, gotten married, held a full-time job and went to school full-time, graduating with a 4.0 GPA in Accounting,

[tough guy]

At age 28:

The Danish physicist Niels Bohr published his revolutionary theory of the atom.

French novelist George Sand published her first novel, Indiana.

Dr. Ludwig Zamenhof of Warsaw invented the artificial language Esperanto.

British physician Thomas Wakley began publishing The Lancet.

Jamaican reggae composer/performer Bob Marley recorded "I Shot the Sheriff."

Nuclear plant lab tech Karen Silkwood died in a car crash on her way to meet with a New York Times reporter and a union official to document her allegations about falsified quality control reports.

French naturalist Jean B. Lamarck coined the word biology to encompass the studies of botany and zoology.

Radio DJ Brent McCoy killed a mouse, seemingly by staring at it, in his living room.

[suprtruckr]

At age 46:

Mary Leakey first spotted the fossilized molar teeth that won Louis Leakey fame for discovery of the missing link.

Benjamin Franklin conducted experiments with a kite and discovered that lightning is an electrical discharge.

A Scottish surgeon, James Baird, discovered hypnosis.

Golfer Jack Nicklaus became the oldest man ever to win the Masters.

Alfred Eisenstaedt made his most famous photo, of a sailor sweeping up a girl in a kiss during a V-J day celebration in Times Square.

Isabel Bevier became the first person to use a thermometer for meat cooking.

By age 46, Victor Pigott successfully completed five Bachelor degrees, six graduate diplomas and three Master's degrees, plus some incomplete qualifications.

[nanajoanie]

type it in where?

you're gettin forgetful nana lol

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.

[socks1211]

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

[Heidi]

A lot of people seem to have found sucess at age 26. Maybe I'm next!

At age 26:

American anthropologist Margaret Mead wrote her famous dissertation, Coming of Age in Samoa, which claimed that in some societies adolescence is not a particularly difficult time.

Albert Einstein published five major research papers in a German physics jornal, fundamentally changing man's view of the universe and leading to such inventions as television and the atomic bomb.

Benjamin Franklin published the first edition of Poor Richard's Almanac, which was to play a large role in molding the diverse American character.

Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Chereshkova became the first woman to travel in space.

College dropout Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer.

Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, revolutionizing the economies of the United States and Britain.

Antoine Joseph Sax invented the brass saxophone.

"Johnny Appleseed" brought apple seeds to the Ohio Valley.

Napoleon Bonaparte conquered Italy.

Gon Yangling memorized more than 15,000 telephone numbers in Harbin, China.

Orion Krynen of Denver, CO reached this age without much incident.

British ethologist Jane Goodall set up camp in the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve on Lake Tanganyika and began studying the lives of chimpanzees.

Ken Kesey published his first novel, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Thomas Pynchon published V., for which he won the William Faulkner First Novel Award.

Jimi Hendrix choked to death on his own vomit.

Kirsteene Luhrmann of Melburne, Victoria quit smoking.

Stephen Breen from Dublin, Ireland found this site.

Darren Blackburn became the first and only athlete of the Principality of Sealand, despite being somewhat lacking in athletic ability.

Syd Jesus co-founded the dUdU Art Collective in Oakland, California and turned an entire warehouse space into a conceptual art piece entitled "The $5000 Gallery."

Matthew Royer took a dog for a walk every day of the year in Minnesota, with a coldest daytime high of 0 degrees F. The average walk time was 30 minutes.

Derrick Pallas was horrified to realize he was losing his hair, just like Dad.

Jan Birkeland from Norway managed to get to work without hitting a single red light.

Angie Olson got so drunk on her 26th birthday, her friends were able to dress her up as a clown.