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Post by htmb on Oct 6, 2012 16:38:58 GMT
Steve Spurrier Heisman Trophy winner, American football coach and current head coach at the University of South Carolina.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2012 16:43:25 GMT
Jean-Marc Rieser >>> extreme cartoonist who was never politically correct
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2012 1:08:31 GMT
Joan of Arc - victim of the British
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Post by htmb on Oct 7, 2012 2:22:23 GMT
Archibald Leach - AKA Cary Grant
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Post by onlymark on Oct 7, 2012 4:26:23 GMT
Hồ Chí Minh - Defeated the French Union in 1954 at battle of Dien Bien Phu.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2012 6:26:22 GMT
Heinrich Himmler - created the SS and Nazi concentration camps
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Post by onlymark on Oct 7, 2012 7:48:01 GMT
Ruholla Khomeini - took control of Iran after a revolution overthrew in 1979. Instigated the Basij Mostazafan, a mass movement of young people under 17 years of age. When the Iran-Iraq War started in 1980, Khomeini issued a fatwa and promise of paradise and they were incorporated into the Iranian military. The Iranian clergy took over command from the regular military leaders in mid-1982. In July 1982 Iran launched Operation Ramadan near Basra. The clergy used "human-wave" attacks calling for the young people from age 9 years old and up to move forward in human wave attacks to clear minefields so the regular Army could follow. “They come toward our positions in huge hordes with their fists swinging...You can shoot down the first wave and then the second. But at some point the corpses are piling up in front of you, and all you want to do is scream and throw away your weapon. Those are human beings, after all!"
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2012 8:41:30 GMT
"Doc" Holliday - gambler, gunfighter and dentist, friend of Wyatt Earp
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Post by onlymark on Oct 7, 2012 9:49:38 GMT
William Walker - An american fillibuster takes over and proclaims himself President of Nicaragua. Tried to conquer several central american countries. Eventually executed.
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Post by bjd on Oct 7, 2012 9:52:34 GMT
Judy Holliday - American actress
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2012 10:13:07 GMT
Ida Lupino - English-born actress and director who worked mostly in the United States
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Post by onlymark on Oct 7, 2012 10:39:06 GMT
Augusto Pinochet - Chairman of military junta 1973-1974 in Chile; Supreme Head of the Nation 1974; President of Chile 1974 - 1990. Gained power in a coup; suppressed and exiled opposition; over 3000 "disappearances" and 28,000 tortured.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2012 10:50:46 GMT
Gustave Eiffel - famous French engineer. If he had not changed his name in 1880, tourists would be visiting the Bönickhausen Tower in Paris.
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Post by bjd on Oct 7, 2012 11:14:15 GMT
Konstantin Stanislavsky - Russian actor, director and theorist of theatre
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Post by onlymark on Oct 7, 2012 12:57:41 GMT
Volodymyr Kondratenko - with Vladyslav Volkovich, aka The Nighttime Killers, responsible for a string of murders in Kiev, Ukraine between 1991 and 1997. The killers claimed that they began the murder spree in order to prepare themselves for an eventual career as contract killers, practicing on the homeless, and continued killing for profit and for fun.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2012 15:31:04 GMT
Francis Drake - English sea captain, considered a pirate by the Spaniards
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Post by onlymark on Oct 7, 2012 16:07:46 GMT
Ivan Drago - fictional character that appeared as Rocky Balboa's rival in the 1985 film Rocky IV. He is portrayed by Dolph Lundgren.
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Post by bjd on Oct 7, 2012 16:15:03 GMT
Jean-Claude Van Damme -- famous Belgian action film actor
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Post by htmb on Oct 8, 2012 0:48:41 GMT
Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn, Jr. (born July 12, 1934), is an American pianist who achieved worldwide recognition in 1958 at the age of twenty-three, when he won the first quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Cliburn
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2012 5:20:54 GMT
Ambrose Burnside - American politician and industrialist whose facial hair led to the creation of the term 'sideburns'.
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Post by bjd on Oct 8, 2012 7:18:05 GMT
Pierce Brosnan -- one of the actors who played James Bond
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2012 11:30:28 GMT
Pierre Elliott Trudeau - former Canadian prime minister, now an airport.
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Post by htmb on Oct 8, 2012 12:05:03 GMT
HarryTruman - The final running mate of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, and thirty-third president of the U.S.
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Post by bjd on Oct 8, 2012 14:12:38 GMT
Stephen Harper -- current Prime Minister of Canada -- not yet an airport
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2012 14:58:47 GMT
Henri Dunant - Swiss recipient of the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 and founder of the Red Cross
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Post by htmb on Oct 8, 2012 18:34:01 GMT
Henrietta Lacks African-American woman who was the unwitting source of cells which were cultured by George Otto Gey to create an immortal cell line for medical research.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2012 19:06:52 GMT
Lancelot du Lac - the most trusted of King Arthur's knights according to legend, in spite of some dalliance with Queen Guinevere.
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Post by bjd on Oct 8, 2012 19:17:21 GMT
Lance Armstrong-- discredited American cyclist who won the Tour de France several times
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2012 14:42:39 GMT
Vivian Vance - American actress famous for her role as Ethyl Mertz on "I Love Lucy."
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Post by htmb on Oct 9, 2012 15:07:49 GMT
Vivien Leigh British actress who played Scarlet O'Hara in Gone With the Wind.
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