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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 11, 2019 13:39:45 GMT
Captain Nemo - Jules Verne character in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
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Post by whatagain on Apr 11, 2019 20:40:22 GMT
Nemesis. Goddess of vengeance.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 12, 2019 3:36:59 GMT
Lionel Messi - Argentinian football star
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Post by bjd on Apr 12, 2019 6:05:50 GMT
Nelly Melba Australian operatic singer in the early 20th century. The dessert peach melba allegedly named for her.
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Post by questa on Apr 12, 2019 12:42:18 GMT
Ned Kelly Oz bushranger whose story demonstrates the victimisation of the Irish in settlement times.
(Melba Toast was also invented for Nelly, who found it improved her singing voice)
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 12, 2019 13:52:59 GMT
William Tell - mythical Swiss crossbow marksman
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Post by whatagain on Apr 12, 2019 16:40:03 GMT
Belle stars. Group of the 80 they waited for a sign of the times.
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Post by mossie on Apr 12, 2019 19:28:25 GMT
Les Dawson - good old fashioned English comedian, told mother-in-law jokes and similar, how very non-PC
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 12, 2019 20:57:52 GMT
Dawn French - Welsh comedienne known for countless roles
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Post by bjd on Apr 13, 2019 16:52:56 GMT
Fred Mertz Lucy's neighbour in a long-running US television show, I Love Lucy
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Post by amboseli on Apr 13, 2019 21:17:35 GMT
Freddie Mercury - British rocker, singer and frontman of Queen
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 14, 2019 6:22:31 GMT
Marie Curie - Franco-Polish scientist
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Post by casimira on Apr 14, 2019 16:04:43 GMT
Marlee Matlin- American actress, activist and author
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 14, 2019 17:18:14 GMT
Arlette Laguiller - leader of the French Trotskyist "Workers Combat" Party, who ran for president 6 times (and is the record holder for candidacies), also the first woman to run for president in France. She received 5.72% of the votes in 2002, which is pretty amazing.
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Post by whatagain on Apr 15, 2019 16:46:21 GMT
La Fayette. French officer well known in the US.
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Post by mossie on Apr 15, 2019 18:06:01 GMT
Mustafa Ataturk - Led Turkey to independence
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Post by questa on Apr 16, 2019 5:38:26 GMT
Sir Stafford Cripps UK Statesman.
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Post by amboseli on Apr 16, 2019 9:03:59 GMT
Jack the Ripper - serial killer in London in 1988
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 16, 2019 11:03:25 GMT
Justin Theroux - ex-husband of Jennifer Aniston
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Post by whatagain on Apr 16, 2019 11:04:46 GMT
Therese desqueyroux. Principal character of a roman of Francois Mauriac. She poisoned her husband. Bernard. Tries to explain but he doesn't give her the opportunity to do so.
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Post by amboseli on Apr 16, 2019 11:16:46 GMT
Desmond Dekker - Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer and composer
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Post by mossie on Apr 16, 2019 14:46:31 GMT
Jussie Smollett - strange American actor who seemed to take play acting outside the theatre
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 16, 2019 15:51:23 GMT
Molly Brown - "unsinkable" socialite who didn't allow the tragedy of the Titanic stop her in lifeboat #6
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Post by amboseli on Apr 16, 2019 21:01:31 GMT
Billy Joel - American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 17, 2019 14:29:01 GMT
Noël Noël - minor French actor who starred in a movie called Sputnik Sputnik in 1958
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Post by amboseli on Apr 17, 2019 15:11:03 GMT
Noel Gallagher - British musician (Oasis)
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Post by mossie on Apr 17, 2019 18:19:54 GMT
Edward Elgar - English composer, and what a contrasting musician to the above
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Post by whatagain on Apr 17, 2019 23:33:37 GMT
Garfunkel. Friend of Simon.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 19, 2019 5:27:32 GMT
Fritz Henkel - creator of a German soap empire
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Post by amboseli on Apr 19, 2019 11:43:29 GMT
Ella Fitzgerald - American jazz singer
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