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Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan Turns 100

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Edgar Rice Burroughs was a rich kid turned serial business failure — until he discovered pulp fiction and created a wild man named Tarzan.

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Julia Child: Eat Well, Live Big, Bloom Late!

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How can you not love Julia Child? She was 6′ of bonhomie, exuberant passion, in love with food and with life. And she waited until age 36 to find it!

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P.D. James: From Civil Servant to Literary Royalty

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PD James retired from the Home Office after writing eight successful mysteries. Today, at age 90, she’s a baroness and still going strong!

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6 Late-Blooming Athletes To Get You Going

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Six people who found their inner athlete after age 50! Featuring two bodybuilders, a boxer, kayaker, marathoner and mountain climber.

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Mrs. Benz Borrows The Car

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The next time you see a Mercedes on the highway, think of Bertha Benz, the daring gal who took the very first test drive at age 39!

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Jules Verne: Sci-Fi Stockbroker

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Verne failed at writing plays and trading stocks before turning to his fabulous tales at age 35.

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The Late Bloomer Internet Reading List *Updated*

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A regularly-updated list of late bloomer articles from around the Internet.

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15 Fascinating Legal Late Bloomers

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What do John Cleese and Jonathan Fields have in common? Read about 15 creative folks who detoured to law school first.

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How James Michener Derailed My Career

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As an archaeology grad student, I decided to reread one of my favorite novels, The Source, to judge its accuracy. The story takes place in Israel, on a mound (also known as a tel) formed by millennia of habitation. As each artifact comes to light, the story flashes back to its origin. The Source depicts awful excavation standards, even for [...]

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How Bram Stoker Handled A Soul-Sucking Boss

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What do Dracula and The Devil Wears Prada have in common? Recently I attended the opening of a gourmet chocolate kitchen.  As I sampled the delicious goods, someone asked, “Are you in The Industry too?” The amazing chocolatier, you see, has a day job.  He’s a sound engineer.  He’s done films you’ve heard of. In [...]

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Movies, Misfortune And The Making Of Roget’s Thesaurus

Peter Mark Roget

“The man is not wholly evil – he has a Thesaurus in his cabin.”  (Captain Hook as described by J. M. Barrie in Peter Pan) At  14, he went to university and by age 19 he’d earned his medical degree. (You might call him a Georgian-era Doogie Howser.) He went on to teach physiology at the University of London, [...]

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Why Are Some People Late Bloomers? Part 2

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In Part 1, I explored how “a good garden may have some weeds” — life’s difficulties and Later Blooming. In this installment, I look at two intriguing traits that many Later Bloomers share: Having too many passions and Learning by experimentation Too Many Passions During the Renaissance, humanism arose in revolt against the limits of Medieval education, [...]

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