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Child Prodigies -
07-07-2005, 11:47 AM
I envy them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_prodigy
Shakuntala Devi:
"She demonstrated the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers 7,686,369,774,870 x 2,465,099,745,779 picked at random by the Computer Department of Imperial College, London, on June 18, 1980 in 28 seconds. Her correct answer was 18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730." |
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07-07-2005, 12:21 PM
Sidis was the greatest of them all... and yet achieved so little! Too much pressure to perform at an early age. mwah:
Oh, and I have penis envy too! Fucking brats...
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07-07-2005, 12:24 PM
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Murray Gell-Mann - Taught himself calculus at seven. Went to Yale at 15 and received his PhD from MIT at 20. Winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Administrator
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07-07-2005, 12:25 PM
[img]http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/news_images/2724_7320_5.jpg[/img]
NPH > *
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1st Lieutenant
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Location: humping gobots...
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07-07-2005, 12:28 PM
doooooooooooooooogie!...
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07-07-2005, 12:41 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso
His name in full was Pablo Diego José Santiago Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno CrispÃ*n Crispiniano de los Remedios Cipriano de la SantÃ*sima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso Blasco López
LOL
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Colonel
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07-07-2005, 12:42 PM
Damn, beat me to it!!!!!! happy:
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Major General
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07-07-2005, 01:53 PM
geRV might remember this guy....
[img]http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/images/james_harries_lead.jpg[/img]
[url=http://www.tongs.org.uk/wiki.pl?action=browse&diff=1&id=JamesHarries:5e839]James Herries[/url:5e839](now known as "Lauren Harries")
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07-07-2005, 02:07 PM
smart little fuckers eh.
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Major General
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07-07-2005, 03:51 PM
[quote:76dfe]Sidis was socially inept his entire life. Later he vowed to keep from sex and pursuit of women to focus on his intellectual development.[/quote:76dfe]poor kid couldn't think straight cry:
f yeah, stevie wonder is on the musicians list. rock:
I'm jealous of this kid:
[quote:76dfe]Jay Greenberg (born December 13, 1991, New Haven, Connecticut) is a child prodigy composer who entered the Juilliard School in 2002 and has composed numerous works.
He came to the world's attention in part through the sponsorship of Juilliard instructor Samuel Zyman, who lauded Greenberg's youthful talent during a CBS News 60 Minutes broadcast on November 28, 2004. "We are talking about a prodigy of the level of the greatest prodigies in history, when it comes to composition. I am talking about the likes of Mozart, and Mendelssohn, and Saint-Saëns."
Greenberg makes extensive and effortless use of composing software and holds great hope as an emerging talent for the future. He has already written five symphonies and many other works. His most famous work is currently an Overture to 9-11, about the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. At the time of the attacks, he was living in Macedonia but has since returned to the United States. His father, who is an American, and his mother, who is an Israeli, had no musical background, but Jay Greenberg found himself attracted to music from an early age. He uses the nickname "Blue Jay."[/quote:76dfe]
second edit: [img]http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2004/11/28/image657973x.jpg[/img]
Wait, nevermind. After googling his name, I found that I'm not jealous of "him". I'm jealous of "his abilities".
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General of the Army
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07-07-2005, 04:03 PM
NEEEEEEERDS!
[img]http://www.80sreborn.com/images/revenge-nerds-2-4.jpg[/img]
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Captain
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07-07-2005, 04:04 PM
<------- cool:
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Colonel
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07-08-2005, 03:11 AM
[img]http://www.tongs.org.uk/files/james-wide.jpg[/img] = [img]http://www.tongs.org.uk/files/lauren_harries_2005.jpg[/img]
eek: oOo: ed:
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Senior Member
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07-08-2005, 03:14 AM
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NEEEEEEERDS!
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07-08-2005, 08:23 AM
[img]http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2004/11/28/image657973x.jpg[/img]
Duke of Ray? eek:
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