[wordup] Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age
Adam Shand
adam at personaltelco.net
Tue Apr 30 03:16:09 EDT 2002
So, given the list below. How old am I?
Via: http://www.theonetruebix.com/words/when_i_was_your_age.html
From: http://www.museumofconceptualart.com/accomplished/index.html
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 biologyto encompass
the studies of botany and zoology.
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