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Post by whatagain on Apr 11, 2017 16:10:52 GMT
Subutai. General in chief of Genghis kan. Read the series by conn iggulden. Very enjoyable.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 11, 2017 16:28:52 GMT
Butterfly McQueen -- American actress mostly remembered as the scatterbrained "Prissy" in Gone with the Wind. Weary of being stereotyped, she ended her career in films in 1947, although continued acting in television and on the stage.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2017 17:19:25 GMT
Steve McQueen - American action star whose deadly tumour was "as big as a grapefruit."
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 12, 2017 7:29:11 GMT
Queen Nefertiti - Egyptian Queen and Great Royal Wife
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Post by whatagain on Apr 12, 2017 11:04:15 GMT
Titi et Grominet Tweety and Sylvester in less civilzed languages..
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2017 12:47:57 GMT
Wallace and Gromit - have a less conflictual relationship than the above
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Post by questa on Apr 17, 2017 12:43:41 GMT
Alfred Russel Wallace defined the Wallace Line which runs between Bali and Lombok and separates Australian from Indonesian flora and fauna. P S the Lombok Strait is 800-1800 m deep and the main area for US and other submarines to slink through the archipelago
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Post by whatagain on Apr 17, 2017 15:10:06 GMT
Frederick the great. Another guy who after restructuring his army went from conquest to conquest.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2017 4:48:31 GMT
Rick Steves - travel guru for some
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Post by bjd on Apr 18, 2017 6:31:13 GMT
Steve Reeves American bodybuilder actor
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 18, 2017 7:23:40 GMT
Hedley Verity - English cricketer killed in WWII. A superb slow left arm bowler. Still holds a first class cricket world record from 1932 when he took 10 wickets for 10 runs against Nottinghamshire.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2017 10:24:04 GMT
Eyvind Earle - longtime backgroud illustration of Disney animated films
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 18, 2017 11:07:53 GMT
Wyatt Earp - 19th century Western lawman of dodgy repute.
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Post by questa on Apr 18, 2017 13:54:50 GMT
Baby Bear who found everything was "J u s t R i g h t"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2017 14:34:29 GMT
Jennifer Beals - American actress whom nobody will forget for the scene of the water splashing down on her in Flashdance
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Post by bjd on Apr 18, 2017 18:12:48 GMT
Fergus Henderson English chef
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Post by mossie on Apr 18, 2017 18:15:43 GMT
George W Bush - responsible for the rise of el Qaida and Daesh
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2017 20:50:47 GMT
but also now an increasingly respected portraitist, so maybe he was just in the wrong job
Morgan le Fay - prominent sorceress in Arthurian legend
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Post by whatagain on Apr 19, 2017 5:41:57 GMT
Lefevre. General or Marshall of napoleon. Husband to Madame sans gêne if my memory is correct.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 10:40:24 GMT
Brett Favre - American football player whose other claim to fame is that he was born in the same hospital as I.
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Post by bjd on Apr 19, 2017 11:32:04 GMT
Bret Harte American short story writer and poet
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 19, 2017 13:06:49 GMT
Jonathan Hart - Robert Wagner in the Hart to Hart series
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 13:21:52 GMT
Oona O'Neill - last wife of Charlie Chaplin
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Post by whatagain on Apr 19, 2017 15:03:01 GMT
François Fillion Future ex-could have been president of France maybe this sunday !
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 20:57:13 GMT
it's Fillon, not Fillion! Trần Anh Hùng - Franco-Vietnamese film director who became famous for The Scent of Green Papaya
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 19, 2017 23:11:03 GMT
Eberhard Anheuser -- bankrolled and later ran the company eventually known as Aheuser-Busch
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2017 5:50:48 GMT
Warren G. Harding - United States president for 2 years in the 1920's
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Post by whatagain on Apr 20, 2017 9:35:07 GMT
Heinz Lammerding Bastard who commanded the 2 PzD Das Reich in 1944 and is therefore responsible of the slaughters of Oradour sur Glane and Tulle.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2017 10:21:12 GMT
Oscar Hammerstein - American composer and theatrical director
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Post by questa on Apr 21, 2017 14:09:03 GMT
Oscar the name bestowed on the Academy Award of Merit when Academy librarian, Margaret Herrick said the statue 'looked like her uncle Oscar'
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