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Post by bjd on Apr 20, 2020 8:06:22 GMT
The owl and the pussycat! One of the rare poems I ever bothered memorizing.
King Lear Title character of a play by Shakespeare
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 20, 2020 8:46:34 GMT
Amanda Lear - French singer, Italian television personality, muse of Salvador Dali for 15 years, model for the character of Patsy Stone in AbFab
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 20, 2020 11:17:17 GMT
Salvador Dali then!
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Post by casimira on Apr 20, 2020 15:50:52 GMT
Sal Mineo, American actor, writer, director, singer. Murdered in 1976.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 20, 2020 15:58:41 GMT
Minnie Riperton - wonderful singer, biggest hit Lovin' You. Died too early.
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Post by mossie on Apr 20, 2020 18:22:21 GMT
Eric Clapton - English rock musician
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 20, 2020 19:06:00 GMT
Ricky Gervais - unfunny comedian
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 20, 2020 19:46:48 GMT
(I thought is was just me who thought so. Emperor's new clothes I thought.) (Three 'thought's in two sentences. Must be nearly a record.) (Especially considering I tend to just have one a day.)
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 20, 2020 23:29:37 GMT
Me three re: Gervais! I thought it was because I'm not English and am relieved to know that it's just my innate good taste.
Gervonta Davis -- teeny little American boxer
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 21, 2020 3:46:30 GMT
Miguel de Cervantes - considered to be Spain's greatest writer, depicted on the Spanish euro coins for 0.50, 0.20 and 0.10
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Post by bjd on Apr 21, 2020 6:04:00 GMT
Miguel de Unamuno Spanish poet and philosopher
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Post by whatagain on Apr 21, 2020 7:06:33 GMT
Childeric III. Last of the merovingian kings. Followed by Pepin le bref (the short) himself, i dont have to remind you, father of Charlemagne (carolus magnus).
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 21, 2020 9:05:42 GMT
Eric Bristow - top darts player of times gone by.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 21, 2020 11:37:35 GMT
Christo - Bulgarian conceptual artist who wraps up big things. After wrapping the Pont Neuf in Paris in 1985, he was supposed to wrap the Arc de Triomphe in September 2020, but who knows?
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Post by bjd on Apr 22, 2020 8:00:36 GMT
Christophe French singer who died recently
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 22, 2020 11:26:19 GMT
Cosmo Topper - fictional bank president who was haunted by an amusing dead couple in the 1937 movie
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Post by casimira on Apr 22, 2020 11:46:24 GMT
Nicolaus Copernicus- Renaissance era mathematician and astronomer
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 22, 2020 15:13:26 GMT
John Scopes -- defendant in the famous "Scopes Monkey Trial" of 1925. Scopes was accused of teaching evolution in defiance of Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. ... The trial publicized the Fundamentalist–Modernist controversy, which set Modernists, who said evolution was not inconsistent with religion, against Fundamentalists, who said the Word of God as revealed in the Bible took priority over all human knowledge. The case was thus seen both as a theological contest and as a trial on whether modern science should be taught in schools.(italicized portion from the Wikipedia entry)
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 22, 2020 17:47:40 GMT
Paul Scofield - English actor with a distinctive voice
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Post by casimira on Apr 23, 2020 12:52:17 GMT
F. Scott Fitzgerald- American author best known for The Great Gatsby
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 23, 2020 17:44:26 GMT
Gerald Murphy -- painter pal of the Fitzgeralds, Picasso, Stravinsky, and Léger in the golden years of the 1920s in France.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 23, 2020 18:56:42 GMT
Vera Drake - fictional abortionist in a Mike Leigh film of the same name
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Post by casimira on Apr 24, 2020 12:13:22 GMT
Veronica Lake- 1940's Hollywood actress with a peek a boo hairstyle
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 24, 2020 15:39:28 GMT
Guglielmo Marconi - Italian radio wizard
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 24, 2020 15:59:29 GMT
Marco Polo -- Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer who traveled through Asia in the 13th century
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Post by mossie on Apr 24, 2020 18:55:49 GMT
Pol Pot - lovely commie leader of Cambodia, responsible for the deaths of about 25% of the population
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 24, 2020 21:40:43 GMT
Roman Polanski - Polish film director
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 24, 2020 22:41:33 GMT
Meyer Lansky -- American major organized crime figure, he developed a gambling empire that stretched across the world
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 25, 2020 7:51:30 GMT
Friedrich Bayer - founded a pharmaceutical company and trademarked the name heroin in 1898 as a cough suppressant
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 26, 2020 0:58:36 GMT
Does it work? Rich Little -- Canadian-American impressionist & conservative creep
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