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To: LindyBill who wrote (432842)	6/23/2011 11:57:25 AM
From: skinowski	Respond to of 794488

if we all had a "age 65" expiration date "Platonic Guardians" may want to take a closer look into this... :)

To: LindyBill who wrote (432842)	6/23/2011 3:47:44 PM
From: KLP	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794488

Accomplishments PAST 65......I doubt most people over 65 have cause society anywhere near the money that some of the younger hard drinkers and druggers, and robbers, and murderers have cost this country..... Some say life starts at 65...so don't go winking out yet.... At age 65: Jazz musician Miles Davis defiantly performed his final live album, weeks before he died. Self-taught American primitive artis Morris Hirshfield began painting. Doris Markle traveled to Tibet with her husband, not part of a tour, something anyone could do. Vietnamese farmer Thai Ngoc claims to have stayed awake for 34 years, after suffering a bout of fever in 1973. Despite his prolonged insomnia, he is mentally sound and physically active. Kathe Smith of south Georgia is raising her two-year-old grandson, taking care of house, yard, swimming pool, five dogs and three cats, walking two miles a day pushing said grandson in a stroller, and doing yoga with cats and grandson crawling all over her, despite having nerve damage on the left side of her body and being 'disabled' for twelve years. At age 70: Benjamin Franklin helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Businessman Cornelius Vanderbilt began buying railroads. French actress Sarah Bernhardt had a leg amputated but refused to abandon the stage. Justice John W. Sirica heard the Watergate case. Judy Brenner, who had recently run the Boston Marathon, chased a teenage shoplifter 100 feet and helped hold him until police arrived. At age 75: Japanese ukiyoe painter Katsushika Hokusai created "Painting Hundred Views of Mount Fuji" and prepared the release of the 15th and final volume of his "Ten Thousand Sketches." Warren Buffett set up a $30 billion contribution to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for use in various world-wide cheritable causes. Cancer survivor Barbara Hillary became one of the oldest people, and the first black woman, to reach the north pole. Cabbie "Jack the Hack" has been driving a taxi in New York City for 55 years. Ike Turner spent a night in jail due to an old felony narcotics warrant that turned out to be invalid. At age 80: Jessica Tandy became the oldest Oscar recipient for her work in Driving Miss Daisy. George Burns became the second oldest Oscar recipient for his work in The Sunshine Boys. American writer and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes published "Over the Teacups," which displayed his characteristic vitality and wit. Christine Brown of Laguna Hills, California flew to China and climbed the Great Wall. Paul Newman earned an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie for "Empire Falls" in 2005. Dick Van Dyke appeared in the movie, "A Night at the Museum." Sir George Martin (along with his son Giles) co-produced the Beatles' album "Love," the soundtrack to a Cirque du Soleil play. museumofconceptualart.com