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Post by whatagain on Apr 21, 2017 15:44:40 GMT
Cartouche. Nickname of a famous gangster in the france of the 18th century. When they were called brigands. See the movie with Belmondo (young)
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Post by bjd on Apr 21, 2017 17:04:29 GMT
Audrey Tautou French actress best known for playing Amélie Poulain
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2017 18:50:56 GMT
Michel Butor - French writer who rejected the term nouveau roman that people applied to his work
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Post by questa on Apr 22, 2017 0:00:18 GMT
Elbert Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist and philosopher.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2017 5:20:19 GMT
Ethel Mertz - sidekick of Lucy Ricardo on the classic I Love Lucy series
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Post by whatagain on Apr 22, 2017 11:41:34 GMT
Captain America cannot comment, never read / watched / bothered.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2017 12:28:54 GMT
Martina Navratilova - former Czech tennis champion now happily married to a former Miss USSR
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Post by questa on Apr 22, 2017 15:43:24 GMT
Tina Turner age defying singer still belting out her long list of chart toppers
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2017 17:18:49 GMT
Burn Gorman - English actor who came to a sad end in the Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood - I will mention for non afficianados that Torchwood is an anagram of Doctor Who.
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Post by bjd on Apr 23, 2017 5:26:53 GMT
Herman Melville American writer, most famous for Moby Dick
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 23, 2017 9:04:36 GMT
Melissa McCarthy : American actor
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2017 12:15:20 GMT
Eric Cartman - the nastiest and also the most popular character of the animated series South Park
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Post by mossie on Apr 23, 2017 16:31:26 GMT
Daniel Ricciardo - Australian F1 driver
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2017 9:05:58 GMT
Brigitte Bardot - wrinkled protector of animals
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 24, 2017 10:26:07 GMT
Brian Boru - 10th century Irish King
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2017 14:40:47 GMT
Gillian Anderson - American-British actress
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Post by questa on Apr 25, 2017 1:02:36 GMT
Dennis Keith Lillee a cricket legend. his fast bowling had batsmen in terror.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2017 4:28:41 GMT
Nissim de Camondo - member of a French banking family with a museum in his name in Paris
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Post by bjd on Apr 25, 2017 10:53:39 GMT
Orlando Bloom English actor
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 25, 2017 12:33:21 GMT
Joseph Bloomingdale - one of the founders of the U.S. department store Bloomingdale's now owned by Macy's.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2017 5:07:42 GMT
Dalai Lama - spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism
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Post by questa on Apr 26, 2017 5:22:31 GMT
Elaine Paige OBE English singer and actress best known for her work in musical theatre.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 26, 2017 9:49:03 GMT
Christine Lagarde - MD of the IMF.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2017 13:56:46 GMT
Karl Lagerfeld - German fashion designer
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Post by whatagain on Apr 26, 2017 22:54:27 GMT
Felix Steiner Commanded the 5th PzD 'Wiking' during WW2 then got promoted...
(I prefer the ficitonal Steiner played by James Coburn in 'Iron cross' by Sam Peckinpah. a much better german soldier)
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Post by questa on Apr 27, 2017 2:10:56 GMT
Felix the Cat, an animated cartoon character created for cartoons from 1919 to 1936, then in television series from 1959 to 1962 and again from 1995 to 1997.
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Post by mossie on Apr 27, 2017 19:45:01 GMT
Hecuba - wife of King Priam of Troy, had 19, repeat 19, children.
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Post by whatagain on Apr 27, 2017 20:00:46 GMT
Hector probably met Hecuba - complicated, that story.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2017 21:36:05 GMT
Rip Torn - American actor whose name I found ridiculous even as a child
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Post by questa on Apr 28, 2017 0:53:07 GMT
Horatio Hornblower fictional Napoleonic Wars era Royal Navy officer who is the protagonist of a series of novels by C. S. Forester.
(I too thought it a stupid name, K2)
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