At age 19:

Writer, painter and filmmaker Jean Cocteau published his first volume of poetry.

By age 19, W. B. Yeats "lived, breathed, ate, drank and slept poetry."

French symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud ("A Season in Hell") abandoned his writing. He had proposed that poets become visionaries by pursuing a complete derangement of the senses. Later he became a gunrunner in Africa.

Gore Vidal, who never bothered with college, completed his first novel.

Abner Doubleday devised the rules for baseball.

Laura Fox says, "I graduated high school last year while being homeless, jobless, severely malnourished and very sick. I worked my a** off, and I walked to school. Sometimes I slept in the baseball dugouts. I never had exceptional grades, but I still TRIED. If somebody like me can graduate high school, then ANY of you could do it! I promise! Just use a little bit of effort. Getting my diploma handed to me was one of the happiest moments in my entire life."

Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky resigned his Imperial Guard commission for a life of "meaningful endeavor" -- writing music.

Paleontologist Richard Leakey launched his first expedition in search of human fossils.

Tired of watching friends fall prey to drugs and crime, Matty Rich fought back by directing "Straight Out of Brooklyn."

Henry David Thoreau delivered a Harvard commencement address. Expanding on Emerson's 1836 essay on "Nature", he proposed that man should work one day a week and leave six free for the "sublime revelations of nature."

Horticulturist Luther Burbank read Charles Darwin's book, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication. Inspired by this, he went on to create hundreds of new varieties of fruits, vegetables, and flowers.

American school girl Amy Chapman enrolled in German Gymnasium (much higher level than U.S. high school), majoring in Economics, after only 11 months of learning the language.

Paul Johnson obtained his personal training certification and six months later won an Alaskan arm wrestling competition.

A soldier named John Paris escaped a German POW camp, finding his way to safety by using the stars of the night sky as his map and compass. He later went on to become Chief Technical Director of two prominent U.S. planetariums: Houston's Burne Baker, then Rochester's Strasenburgh.

Dan Topliffe survived a 50+ foot fall from an oak tree in Clayvillle, NY while working for a tree trimming company. His boss said it was a miracle. He went from the tree to the ground and had only a sore spot on his back and a scratch on his elbow.

Laura began showering on a regular basis.

Ok so I can accomplish what laura did yey

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