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How do we measure up to the feats of others? This week, Tidbits investigates the age of these achievers at the time of their accomplishments. • Mary, Queen of Scots became Queen of Scotland when she was just six days old, upon the death of her father. Scotland was ruled by regents throughout her childhood. When Mary was 16, she married the French Dauphin Francis, who became King Francis II when she was 17. The union lasted only two years, as Francis died in 1560, and Mary returned to Scotland. Her life did not have a happy ending, as she was beheaded for plotting the assassination of her cousin Queen Elizabeth I of England. • Some golfers might never shoot a 48 for nine holes of golf, but Tiger Woods achieved this feat at age 3. He had already been featured in Golf Digest by the age of 5. Exceptional Maintenance Professionally Managed Huge Variety of Apartments
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• Norwegian figure skater Sonja Henie competed in her first Olympics at Chamonix, France, at age 11 finishing dead last. But just four years later she took the gold medal, followed by two more wins in 1932 and 1936. Her performances took place on outdoor rinks in the cold and wind. Although she performed in a knee-length wool skirt, she didn’t need to worry about that hampering her jumps – in her day, it was deemed “unladylike to jump into the air” or perform spins. Sonja retired at age 23, moved to Hollywood, and became one of the industry’s highest paid movie stars of her day. • Two actresses were presented Oscars for Best Supporting Actress at very young ages. Ten-year-old Tatum O’Neal received the honor for her performance in 1973’s Paper Moon, while Anna Paquin was the winner at age 11 in 1994 for her role in The Piano. In 1935, sixyear-old Shirley Temple was awarded the very first Juvenile Oscar, a special honorary Academy Award for “her outstanding contribution to screen entertainment during the year 1934.” Shirley began her film career at age 3 and retired in 1950 at age 22. She later served as U.S. Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. • Jessica Tandy was 80 years old when she was awarded her first Oscar, Best Actress in 1989’s Driving Miss Daisy. Another 80-yearold, George Burns, took home his first Oscar for the 1975 film The Sunshine Boys. • Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest President in U.S. history when he was elected at 42 years, 10 months in 1904. Ronald Reagan holds the record for the oldest at 69 years, 11 months when he was elected in 1980 and reelected at age 73. • When she was born in 1912, the press called Doris Duke the “million dollar baby.” She was the only child of American tobacco baron James Duke, who headed a company in business since the Civil War. Her father’s donation of $40 million resulted in a name change from Trinity College in Durham, North Carolina, to Duke University. When Doris was 12, her father died and bequeathed her upwards of $30 million, leaving only a modest trust fund to her mother. At 14, Doris sued her mother to keep her from selling the family assets. Over the course of her lifetime, Doris increased her father’s fortune by four times. She spent much of her time traveling and was an avid art collector. Doris also owned five homes, including a 2000-acre New Jersey farm, a penthouse on Park Avenue, a Beverly Hills mansion, a Hawaiian palace, and a summer home in Newport, Rhode Island. When she died in 1993, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation was worth about $1.2 billion. See the next page for more!
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• Noted French painter Claude Monet was 60 when he began work on his famous water lilies series of paintings. The group of 250 works were this Impressionist’s depiction of his flower garden at Giverny. He suffered from cataracts in both eyes when many of the panels were painted, and underwent a risky eye surgery at age 82, which was not overly successful. In 2014, one of the Water Lilies paintings sold at a Christie’s auction for $27 million. • Greek runner Dimitrion Yordanidis was 98 when he completed a 26-mile marathon in 7 hours, 33 minutes, in 1976. It took 100-year-old Fajua Singh a little longer, just over 8 hours, to finish the Toronto Marathon in 2011. Compare these to the record marathon time of just over 2 hours, 2 minutes.
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• Famed astronaut John Glenn was 40 years old when he became the first American to orbit Earth, making three orbits aboard Friendship 7 in February, 1962. The Ohio-born Glenn was a 22-year-old Marine when he was deployed to the Pacific Front in World War II, flying 59 combat missions over the course of the war. During the Korean War, he served on 90 missions. At 38, he was selected for the U.S. Space Program. Glenn retired from NASA two years after his historic flight into space. At age 53, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, and at 63, made an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. In 1998, at age 77, after an absence of 36 years, John Glenn returned to space aboard the space shuttle Discovery, becoming the oldest person to fly in space. The mission lasted nine days and included a study on aging and space travel. Glenn returned to his senatorial duties for another year, retiring at 78. • Most folks haven’t heard of Hulda Crooks, an American mountaineer. This incredible woman climbed Mt. Whitney, the highest peak in the continental United States, and Japan’s Mt. Fuji at age 91. In fact, she climbed to Mt. Whitney’s 14,505-foot (4,421-m) peak 23 times between the ages of 65 and 91, along with 97 other peaks. At 95, she was still walking two miles every day. Hulda lived to be 101.
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• At 95, Grandma Moses, who had taken up painting at age 78, wrote, “…in olden times, things were not so rushed. I think people were more content, more satisfied with life than they are today. You don’t hear nearly as much laughter and shouting as you did in my day, and what was fun for us wouldn’t be fun now.” This renowned American folk artist generated 1,500 paintings over three decades before passing away at age 101.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Not only was Benjamin Franklin one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, he was a gifted inventor, author, printer, politician, postmaster, scientist, civic activist, statesman, and foreign diplomat. There might be a few things on this list that you didn’t know were Franklin’s creations!
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• Born in Boston in 1706, Franklin’s formal schooling ended at age 10. At 12, he began an apprenticeship in his brother’s print shop. • His first invention came along when Franklin was 11. An enthusiastic swimmer, he developed a pair of swim fins. They weren’t what we think of today as flippers, but rather were a pair of oval planks with holes in the center that were attached to the hands. • At 17, Franklin moved to Philadelphia, where he worked in print shops over the next few years. At 22, he set up his own shop, and the following year began publishing his own newspaper. Always an avid reader, Franklin came up with the idea of fellow book lovers sharing their books with others, as well as pooling funds to buy more books for the group. Franklin’s idea turned into the Library Company of Philadelphia, the first subscription library. When he was 33, the collection was moved to Independence Hall. • Franklin’s love of books led to his invention of the “long arm,” a wooden pole with a grasping claw on the end that enabled him to reach books on high shelves. • When Franklin was 36, he devised a metallined fireplace with rear baffles for better airflow. Placed in the middle of the room, this cast iron stove radiated heat in all directions and kept the room warm hours after the fire went out. In addition to greater heat, the Franklin stove produced less smoke than an open fireplace and used less wood. Continued on the next page!
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by Samantha Weaver • It was a man named Thomas Jones who made the following sage observation: “Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.” • If you’re like the average American, you order meals to take away from restaurants more often than you actually eat inside a restaurant. • You may be forgiven if you’ve never heard of Violet Jessup, who lived a remarkably fortunate (or unfortunate, depending on your point of view) life. At the age of 23, Jessup was serving as a steward on the RMS Olympic when the luxury liner collided with a British warship and sank. She survived to continue her profession, taking a position on the RMS Titanic less than two years later, in 1912. That didn’t end well, as we all know, but once again, Jessup survived. Amazingly, she continued her oceangoing career, and during World War I she served as a nurse aboard the Hospital Ship Britannic. When the Britannic struck a mine and sank, Jessup was pulled underwater and hit her head on the keel of the ship. Despite her injuries, she was rescued once again. Three maritime disasters didn’t seem to faze her, though; she remained a stewardess for the rest of her career. • In 2007, researchers using Google Earth discovered the world’s largest beaver dam. Located in the wilderness of northern Canada, the dam is more than a half- mile long at 2,790 feet; experts estimate the structure was started in the mid-1970s. • If you’re a resident of Ohio, please keep in mind that in that state, it is illegal to get undressed in front of a man’s portrait. *** Thought for the Day: “The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic -- in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea -- known to medical science is work.” -- Thomas Szasz (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
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• Serving as Philadelphia’s postmaster for 16 years led to Franklin’s invention of an improved odometer. It began with his curiosity as to how far he was traveling by carriage between Philadelphia and Boston, carrying out his postmaster duties. He attached a geared device to the rear wheel of his carriage, measuring the revolutions made by the wheel. Every 400 revolutions caused the device to register ahead one mile (1.6 km). He used his invention to streamline the mail delivery, measuring the distances between postal stations to develop more efficient mail routes. • Franklin was even responsible for a musical instrument called the hydrocrystalophone, which in simpler terms was known as the glass armonica. His armonica consisted of a series of glass bowls of graduated size floating in a tray of water. The varying sizes produced different musical tones based on the size of the bowl. Before long, it was being played in concert halls across Europe and America, and even Mozart and Beethoven composed music for it.
• On May 19, 1836, during a raid, Commanche Indians in Texas kidnap 9-yearold Cynthia Ann Parker and kill her family. Adopted into the Commanche tribe, she lived a happy life with them for 25 years until Texas Rangers recaptured her and forced her to live again among Anglo-Americans. Weakened by self-imposed starvation, she died of influenza. • On May 18, 1920, Karol Jozef Wojtyla is born in Poland. Wojtyla went on to become Pope John Paul II, history’s most well-traveled pope and the first non-Italian to hold the position since the 16th century. Pope John Paul II issued the Catholic Church’s first apology for its actions during World War II. • On May 21, 1932, aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first pilot to repeat Charles Lindbergh’s feat, landing her plane in Ireland after a 2,000-mile solo flight across the North Atlantic. • On May 23, 1941, Joe “The Brown Bomber” Louis beats Buddy Baer to retain his heavyweight title at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. Baer knocked Louis through the ropes in the first round, but Louis clawed his way back and eventually gutted out a victory. • On May 22, 1969, the legendary actor, philanthropist and automobile enthusiast Paul Newman makes his onscreen racing debut in the film “Winning.” Three years later, Newman launched a racing career of his own, driving a Lotus Elan in his first Sports Car Club of America race. • On May 24, 1971, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, an antiwar newspaper advertisement signed by 29 U.S. soldiers supporting the Concerned Officers Movement appears. The ad was in support of the group’s members who opposed the departure of the carrier USS Constellation for Vietnam. • On May 20, 1995, President Bill Clinton permanently closes the two-block stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House to all vehicular traffic, citing the need for security. The road had been opened to traffic for nearly 200 years. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
• At 79, Franklin was still coming up with new ideas. Suffering from presbyopia, he conceived the idea of “double spectacles,” which allowed him to see distant objects as well as see close work. He hired his optician to use lenses from two sets of glasses, cutting them horizontally, and putting them into frames. It was the birth of bifocals! • Benjamin Franklin did not patent a single one of his inventions, choosing to gift them to the public. In his words, “As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own, freely and gladly.”
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HOW OLD? HOW YOUNG? • Child actor Jackie Coogan was already a millionaire by the time he was seven, after appearing in 1921’s The Kid, opposite Charlie Chaplin. Coogan earned an estimated $3 to $5 million ($48 to $65 million in today’s dollars) as a child, with the majority of the money squandered by his mother and stepfather on furs, diamonds, and expensive automobiles. At age 24, Coogan sued his parents, but received only $126,000 after paying legal expenses. In later years, we knew Coogan as Uncle Fester on the 1960s sitcom The Addams Family. • It took 11-year-old Thomas Gregory 11 hours and 54 minutes to swim across the English Channel in 1988. He will remain the youngest on record, as there is now a minimum age of 16 to attempt the feat. Roger Allsopp is the record holder as the oldest to make the swim, an achievement that took 17 hours and 51 minutes when he was 70 years old. • Dr. Balammurali Ambati holds the record of being the world’s youngest doctor. He was already doing calculus at age four, and coauthored a research book on AIDS at age 11. Ambati graduated from medical school at age 17. Today, in his early 30s, this ophthalmologist, educator, and researcher works at the University of Utah. • Kentucky country singer Loretta Lynn was 15 when she wed Oliver Lynn and had four children by the time she turned 20. She was a grandmother for the first time at age 29. Over the course of her successful career, Loretta Lynn has written more than 160 songs and released 60 albums, with sales of 45 million records. She’s had 16 #1 singles and has won four Grammy Awards. Continued on the next page!
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Girlhood -- In a bleak housing block somewhere in one of the unphotogenic corners of Paris, 16-year-old Marieme (Karidja Toure) struggles to get through each day taking care of her family and nursing the wounds from her heavyhanded abusive older brother. Her grades are so low that she decides to drop out, and to her relief, she finds three comrades who make her feel alive and valuable. Marieme gets deeper and deeper into risky behavior, and starts going by “Vic.” It’s a gripping and realistic drama, navigated by an amazing non-actor in the lead role. TV RELEASES “Orange Is the New Black Season 2” “Call the Midwife: Season 4” “Glee Season 6” “American Dad Volume 10” “Boardwalk Empire: CSR” “The Larry Sanders Show -- The Complete Series” “NewsRadio -- The Complete Series” (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
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• Anne Frank received a diary for her 13th birthday in 1942, and three weeks later her family went into hiding from the German Nazis. They remained safe for over two years, during which time Anne recorded her life’s experiences, until their hiding place was betrayed. Anne was sent to the German concentration camp BergenBelsen, where she died from typhus just weeks before British troops liberated the camp. Her manuscript was preserved by a family friend and has been translated into 67 languages, selling more than 30 million copies. At age 15, Anne Frank wrote, “In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” • If you’re a hockey fan, they you’ll know that the oldest player in NHL history is Gordie Howe, who was 52 when he retired in 1980. • Apparently there is no age limit for folks figuring out that their marriage just isn’t going to work. An English couple Bertie and Jessie Wood called it quits after 36 years in 2009 when they were both 97. • Mickey Rooney made his film debut at age 6 and went on to appear in more than 300 movies. As a teenager, he was chosen to portray Andy Hardy in a series of 14 successful films. Between the ages of 15 and 25, he made 43 movies. In his words, “I was a fourteen-year-old boy for 30 years.” • Explorer Marco Polo was just 17 when he set off from Venice on an expedition to Asia that would last 24 years, traveling 15,000 miles (24,000 km). He penned the stories of his adventures in the Far East in The Travels of Marco Polo.
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