What have you done at that age?

[MA-Caver]

Dunno what the intial purpose of this site is but they say to type in your age (go ahead... nobody else will know) and compare yourself to the accomplishments of other (famous) people. If you got kids then type in their respective ages and see what other people have done at their age.

http://www.museumofconceptualart.com/accomplished/

 

[shesulsa]

Cool. Thanks 4 posting!

 

[TigerWoman]

Here's part of the list for age 55:

Painter Pablo Picasso completed his masterpiece, Guernica.

Italian physicist Alessandro Volta invented the voltaic cell.

Richard Daniel Bass reached the summit of Mount Everest.

I don't think I will be climbing any mountains today, my knee hurts and not the knee that usually hurts. But I can make a masterpiece . TW

 

[KenpoTex]

Inventor Samuel Colt patented the Colt six-shooter revolver.

Oh hell yeah!

 

[shesulsa]

At age 39:

Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon.

Sharon Adams became the first woman to sail alone across the Pacific Ocean.

Charles Goodyear discovered vulcanization and led the way to the effective use of rubber.

John Cage composed is best and most listenable work, consisting of 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence.

Thomas Paine wrote the pamphlet "Common Sense" calling for American Independence. It sold 300,000 copies in five months.

Jimmy Connors reached the U.S. Open semifinals while playing against opponents half his age.

Judy Chicago unveiled her work "The Dinner Party," a room-sized reinterpretation of The Last Supper from a woman's perspective.

In the wake of the firing of Jocelyn Elders as Surgeon General for the use of the M-word, Earl Vickers proclaimed an International Day of M**********n and used the internet to organize the biggest simultaneous o****m in history with media coverage around the world.

 

[Lisa]

At age 39:

Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon.

Sharon Adams became the first woman to sail alone across the Pacific Ocean.

Charles Goodyear discovered vulcanization and led the way to the effective use of rubber.

John Cage composed is best and most listenable work, consisting of 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence.

Thomas Paine wrote the pamphlet "Common Sense" calling for American Independence. It sold 300,000 copies in five months.

Jimmy Connors reached the U.S. Open semifinals while playing against opponents half his age.

Judy Chicago unveiled her work "The Dinner Party," a room-sized reinterpretation of The Last Supper from a woman's perspective.

In the wake of the firing of Jocelyn Elders as Surgeon General for the use of the M-word, Earl Vickers proclaimed an International Day of M**********n and used the internet to organize the biggest simultaneous o****m in history with media coverage around the world.

Me Too Shesulsa!

 

[MA-Caver]

Well mebbe my 15 minutes are coming up here soon.
At age 43:
Music teacher William Herschel discovered Uranus.

Marie Curie won her second Nobel prize, for the isolation of pure radium.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy became the youngest man elected to the United States presidency.

Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Timofeyevich Beregovoi was the oldest man ever to join the cosmonaut corps.

Baseball player Nolan Ryan pitched the sixth no-hitter of his career.

Annie Taylor, a widowed school teacher, went over the 160-foot-high
Horseshoe Falls in a barrel.

Isabel Peron, a former professional dancer, became the first female chief of state in the Americas when she took over as President of Argentina.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote the poem Kubla Khan.

Sarah Byrd Askew created the first bookmobile.

 

[Shodan]

For my son's age.......

At age 2:

Speed skater Bonnie Blair began skating. She later won five Olympic gold medals.

Austrian skier Toni Sailer learned to ski . He later won three gold medals in a single Olympics.

 

[rainbows]

Age 20...
Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard and cofounded Microsoft.

Canadian hockey player Scott Olsen founded Rollerblade, Inc.

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.

Egyptian hermit Saint Anthony gave away his inheritance and joined a group of ascetics, eventually becoming the father of Christian Monasticism.

D. H. Lawrence began writing his first novel, The White Peacock.

Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice, her second and most famous novel.

English author Elizabeth Barrett Browning published her first volume of poetry.

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.

Leon Battista Alberti wrote a Latin comedy that was hailed as the "discovered" work of a Roman playwright.

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?"

 

[Vadim]

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.