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

At age 27:

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. dropped out from his job at General Electric to become a full-time writer.

Henry David Thoreau went off for two years to live alone in a cabin at Walden Pond.

Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space.

Memphis millionaire Frederic W. Smith, whose father built the Greyhound bus system, founded Federal Express.

Scottish botanist David Douglas discovered the Douglas fir.

Ernest Hemingway published his first novel, The Sun Also Rises.

Boston dentist William Morton pioneered modern anaesthesiology after learning that inhalation of ether will cause a loss of consciousness.

Jimi Hendrix choked to death on his own vomit after ingesting wine and sleeping pills.

Janis Joplin died of an overdose of whiskey and heroin.

Conceptual artist Piero Manzoni crapped in 90 small cans which were then factory sealed and offered for sale at the price of gold.

Bob K., first degree murder, in prison for life with no chance of parole.

Jessica Schram trolled MySpace for seven straight hours during work.

(For those of you new here: every year since I discovered http://www.museumofconceptualart.com/accomplished/index.html when I was 15, I've posted what other people accomplished when they were my age. Usually, this is a birthday post, but sometimes I forget until a little later. One time I even forgot about it until my next birthday!)

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At age 24:

Nelly Bly made a solo trip around the world in less than 80 days for the New York World, beating Phileas Fogg's fictional record.

Radioastronomy grad student Jocelyn Bell Burnell observed an unknown signal from outer space; this resulted in the discovery of pulsars.

John Couch Adams became the first person to predict the position of a planetary mass beyond Uranus.

Johannes Kepler defended the Copernican theory and described the structure of the solar system.

Entrepreneur Ted Turner took over his father's billboard advertising business. He later launched CNN.

Tracy Chapman released her first album, winning three Grammies.

Scottish physician Mungo Park became the first European to reach the West African interior.

Edgar Allen Poe won a $50 prize for the story "MS. Found in a Bottle."

Noah Webster published a spelling book.

Isaac Pitman devised the first scientific shorthand system.

Security guard Frank Wills alerted D.C. police to the Watergate break-ins.

Rainey Fellows donated a kidney to her (now ex-) boyfriend. They aren't together now, but he's doing very well. They're still friends.

Helene got a high score of 170440 in the popular online game Robot Unicorn Attack.

Tasha looked into her five-year-old son's eyes and decided to leave her abusive husband. Then she beat the odds and didn't go back even once.

David Hosei started his ninth business, eFamily.

These get pretty hilarious :)







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Now I'm at 3,891 words! Team Brennario still has no Stars, though.

←Part 1 (edited) & Part 2 (unedited) Part 4 (unedited)→

( Moya's Space Log, part 2 (Where is my vague understanding of Moya's priorities? Am I ever going to manage to write a part of this without having to add four words later?) )

( Moya's Space Log, part 3 )

By the way, Notepad's word wrap put enters after every few words, so I had to manually remove all of them. If you see a line ending in an odd place, that means I missed one, so let me know.

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So this weekend was kinda frustrating at first.

Yesterday, I learned that on the six-day NASA trip I get to go to if I have a high enough grade in the HAS course, I'll have to design some sort of...something with a group. Author...well, you know the rest. But on the plus side, in history class we got to bring and play different Monopoly games, so I brought the Nintendo Monopoly game I won at Main Event! (I didn't win, though.) Still, once I got home, I stayed up until just before midnight working on my HAS essay and just before 1 working on a packet in anatomy.

Then today, I got up at 2 PM today and worked on my HAS stuff more, finishing at about 6:30. At least I don't have to worry about any homework for the rest of the weekend! Yay!

EDIT: "Today, I got up at 2 PM today?" Wow, that's redundant.

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