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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 27, 2019 9:15:35 GMT
(I have always felt really sorry for anybody in the world saddled with the name 'Beau'.)
Beau Brummell - iconic arbiter of men's fashion, preeminent dandy of the early 19th century. The men's department of the Printemps department chain in France went by the name Brummell until 1999.
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Post by bjd on Oct 27, 2019 9:33:27 GMT
Donna Shalala -- American politician, former US Secretary of Health and Human Services With that name she should have been a back-up singer in Motown. On to Beau Brummell: Bruce Lee Actor and martial arts person from Hong Kong
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Post by whatagain on Oct 27, 2019 14:51:24 GMT
Céline Dion. Fantastic singer. No accent when she speaks. Incredible Quebec accent when not. Always a mystery to me that you can lose your accent when singing.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 27, 2019 16:32:20 GMT
Dionne Warwick -- American singer whose career has spanned almost six decades
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 27, 2019 17:47:14 GMT
Jack Warner - one of the founders of Warner Bros. studios.
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Post by whatagain on Oct 27, 2019 17:49:32 GMT
Werner von SIEMENS. German inventor. Got a lot of Siemensstrasse so invented a lot.
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Post by bjd on Oct 27, 2019 19:57:17 GMT
Werner Herzog German filmmaker, author and actor
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 27, 2019 22:22:31 GMT
Ernest Hemingway - American adventurer who wrote a few books
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Post by whatagain on Oct 28, 2019 13:49:58 GMT
Ho chi Minh. Aka uncle ho. Was first a problem to the french then to the Americans.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 30, 2019 3:32:50 GMT
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- Nigerian writer, lecturer, feminist
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Post by bjd on Oct 30, 2019 7:40:15 GMT
Mama Cass Elliot one of the Mamas and Papas singing group in the 1960s
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Post by whatagain on Oct 30, 2019 11:07:11 GMT
Yamamoto. Great Japanese admiral. Author of the plan to attack pearl harbour.
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Post by bjd on Oct 30, 2019 12:47:18 GMT
Yamamoto ka kapoté.
Mother Teresa Albanian nun who worked in Calcutta
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 30, 2019 22:55:22 GMT
Hunter S. Thompson - American author
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 31, 2019 2:36:37 GMT
Thomas McCann -- obscure Scottish golfer after whom the Thom McAn brand of shoes was named. No, there was no particular reason for that. During WWI, when the low-cost shoe brand was developed, the owner named the new retail chain after a person he found in a Scottish golfing roster.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 31, 2019 6:59:18 GMT
Flannery O'Connor - iconic writer from the American south
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Post by monetsmum on Oct 31, 2019 11:08:33 GMT
Nerys Hughes - Welsh actress and narrator
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 31, 2019 13:55:28 GMT
Elisabeth Shue - American actress
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Post by bjd on Oct 31, 2019 16:45:04 GMT
Huey Long Former governor of Louisiana and senator until his assassination in 1935
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Post by whatagain on Oct 31, 2019 17:56:07 GMT
Alain Delon. French idol of the cinema. Now last friend if Brigitte Bardot. No one else claims openly to be so much far right...
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 1, 2019 6:09:16 GMT
Franklin Delano Roosevelt - only American president elected for four terms
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Post by monetsmum on Nov 1, 2019 6:34:10 GMT
Severiano Ballesteros - a Spanish professional golfer
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 1, 2019 6:41:13 GMT
Hi, MM!
Mariano Barba -- Mexican songwriter & singer
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 1, 2019 7:15:30 GMT
Al Bano - Italian crooner who was paired for a long time with Romina Power
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Post by monetsmum on Nov 1, 2019 8:28:25 GMT
Albert Einstein - German-born theoretical physicist
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Post by bjd on Nov 1, 2019 12:33:12 GMT
Frank-Walter Steinmeier Current president of Germany
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Post by whatagain on Nov 1, 2019 17:35:22 GMT
Walt Disney. What would be our lives without him ?
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 1, 2019 18:59:49 GMT
Michel Ney - Duke of Elchingen, Prince of the Moskowa, Maréchal of the Empire. Oops, executed by Louis 18.
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Post by bjd on Nov 1, 2019 19:22:59 GMT
Helen Mirren English actress with a Russian father
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 2, 2019 19:43:38 GMT
Renzo Piano - Italian architect based in Paris
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