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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 23, 2018 13:02:30 GMT
We've gone all the way back to Page 1!
So the next has to be... Mungo Park!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 24, 2018 10:35:56 GMT
N'Golo Kanté - French football player currently signed up with Chelsea
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Post by amboseli on Jan 24, 2018 11:45:09 GMT
Radja Nainggolan - Belgian-Indonesian football player, currently signed up with AS Roma
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2018 14:29:37 GMT
Patrick Ewing- Jamaican-American retired NBA player.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 24, 2018 15:16:49 GMT
Rick Steves - travel superman
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Post by amboseli on Jan 24, 2018 16:12:33 GMT
Mick Jagger - singer of The Rolling Stones
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 24, 2018 22:27:21 GMT
Dick Whittington- famous pantomime character but actually Mayor of London in the 14th century and major moneylender to the King.
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Post by questa on Jan 25, 2018 1:48:23 GMT
Enid Blyton UK Children's story writer
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 25, 2018 6:11:04 GMT
Blythe Danner - American actress, mother of Gwyneth Paltrow
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Post by bjd on Jan 25, 2018 6:22:34 GMT
Theodor Herzl Austro-Hungarian journalist and political activist
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 25, 2018 14:57:08 GMT
Hafsia Herzi - French actress noted for her endless belly dance in Abdellatif Kechiche's magnificent The Secret of the Grain.
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Post by bjd on Jan 25, 2018 18:40:36 GMT
Sian Gibson Welsh comedian and actress
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 25, 2018 21:59:48 GMT
Ang Lee - Taiwanese film director (Brokeback Mountain...)
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Post by whatagain on Feb 6, 2018 13:27:39 GMT
Jamie Lee Curtis some of the nicest legs of the movie industry. With the brains that go with them.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 7, 2018 4:54:44 GMT
Ben Bradlee - executive editor of the Washington Post from 1968 to 1991
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Post by questa on Feb 7, 2018 5:45:37 GMT
The Brady Bunch or "how to solve the most difficult social upheavals of melded families in half an hour (less ads)"
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 7, 2018 9:51:26 GMT
Munchkins - the little people in Wizard of Oz.
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Post by questa on Feb 7, 2018 10:39:40 GMT
Uncle Ho Leader of the North Vietnamese. The "uncle" is a honorific meaning "my father's eldest brother" who is the leader of the family.
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Post by whatagain on Feb 7, 2018 11:18:24 GMT
Baron Munchausen An interesting character who got out of a pit by pulling on his hair. Gave the expression in french 'une histoire tirée par les cheveux'.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 7, 2018 13:58:11 GMT
Arthur Schopenhauer - German philosopher
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 7, 2018 14:05:21 GMT
Penn Jillette - one half of the magnificent Penn and Teller magic duo.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 7, 2018 17:05:12 GMT
William Penn - gave his name to Pennsylvania, a new Trump state
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Post by whatagain on Feb 7, 2018 21:30:26 GMT
Liam Neeson an excellent Schindler...
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 7, 2018 22:35:44 GMT
Patrick Macnee - excellent partner of Diana Rigg
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Post by bjd on Feb 8, 2018 6:49:15 GMT
Ricky Nelson American singer and actor on TV. Died in a plane crash.
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Post by questa on Feb 8, 2018 8:09:22 GMT
Anthony Hoskyns-Abrahall Anglican priest and Bishop of Lancaster from 1955 until 1975.
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Post by mossie on Feb 8, 2018 10:44:29 GMT
Lord Halifax British Foreign Minister at beginning of the War. Sacked by Churchill by proposing we should make a peace deal with Hitler, brokered by Mussolini. Should have been shot for treason.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 8, 2018 11:47:33 GMT
Michel Ordener - revolutionary general who gave his name to one of the cross streets at my intersection
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 8, 2018 11:54:35 GMT
Helen Mirren - actress who is ageing well (if that isn't sexist).
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 8, 2018 23:37:38 GMT
Christopher Wren - apparently built a few churches in London
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