Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Accomplishments by age

1: Christian Heinecken read the Pentateuch.
3: Mozart learned the harpsichord.
7: Fred Astaire performed on stage.
15: Bobby Fischer became a grandmaster.
17: Pele played in the World Cup final.
23: Keats wrote "Ode on a Grecian Urn".
25: Orson Welles wrote and directed Citizen Kane.
27: Hemingway wrote his first novel, The Sun also Rises.
33: Emerson wrote "Nature".
37: Michelangelo finished the Sistine Chapel.
45: Foreman won the heavyweight title.
48: Umberto Eco wrote his first novel, The Name of the Rose.
54: Beethoven completed the 9th.
55: Picasso painted Guernica.
75: Hokusai painted 100 views of Fuji.
89: Schweitzer ran a hospital in Africa.

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