Tuesday, June 4

Check this cool site out. Things people accomplished when they were your age. Thanks to Fluffy Muppet for the link. At age ?? (not telling!!): Based on a nightmarish dream, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Russian ambassador Aleksandr Borosovich Kurakin introduced the practice of serving meals in courses. Frederic William Herschel, an English astronomer, invented the contact lens. American sprinter Evelyn Ashford won her final Olympic gold medal at age ??, old for a sprinter. Amedeo Avogadro developed Avogadro's hypothesis. Law School professor Anita Hill charged that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas made indecent remarks to her. Margie Profet proposed a new theory of menstruation which claims that menstruation protects against infection and won a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin achieved his life's ambition at age ?? and wondered, what do you do after that? Mozart stopped composing and started, well, you know.