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Post by whatagain on Jun 29, 2023 6:21:24 GMT
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. Finnish Marchal who contained the Soviet invasion in 1939.
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Post by bjd on Jun 29, 2023 6:37:13 GMT
Emiliano Zapata Leading figure of the Mexican revolution of 1910
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 29, 2023 7:17:37 GMT
Stéfanos Tsitsipás - Greek tennis champion
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Post by whatagain on Jul 2, 2023 16:48:28 GMT
Jodie Foster. Fantastic US actress and filmmaker.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 2, 2023 16:56:11 GMT
Marlene Dietrich - an icon of her era. I actually saw her at Tivoli in Copenhagen in the 1970s.
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Post by whatagain on Jul 2, 2023 17:56:19 GMT
Patrick Hernandez French singer known for one hit called ‘born to be alive’. But you hear constantly since more than 40 years.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 2, 2023 18:07:40 GMT
Ricky Nelson - American singer and teen actor popular in the 1960s, died in a plane crash on the way to a gig
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Post by whatagain on Jul 2, 2023 18:55:28 GMT
Elsa Lunghini. Known as Elsa. French singer and actress. Known at 13 for her major hit ‘t en va pas’
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 2, 2023 23:42:37 GMT
Elsa Lanchester -- English actress with a long career in theater, movies and tv, she is popularly remembered as the Bride of Frankenstein.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 3, 2023 6:28:49 GMT
Sal Mineo - American actor who was stabbed to death
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Post by mossie on Jul 3, 2023 6:53:06 GMT
Alma Cogan - English singer
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 3, 2023 7:23:53 GMT
Ganymede - mortal who was abducted by the gods to be Zeus's cup bearer
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Post by whatagain on Jul 3, 2023 16:03:34 GMT
Mahatma Gandhi.
What few people know is that he was afraid of rats. French rats. Because then there would be gossip. He was afraid of the Gandhi raton (qu,en dira-t-on) : what will people say of it.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 3, 2023 16:30:57 GMT
Magic Johnson - former NBA basketball star
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 3, 2023 21:54:51 GMT
Maggie Gyllenhaal -- American actress & filmmaker
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 4, 2023 4:02:05 GMT
Ivan Lendl - unsmiling former Czech tennis champion
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Post by whatagain on Jul 4, 2023 10:16:30 GMT
Mendelssohn Felix .german Musician.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 4, 2023 15:33:41 GMT
William Bendix - American actor in the 40s and 50s
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Post by whatagain on Jul 4, 2023 15:58:59 GMT
Gordon Bennet. Australian général whose troops were taken prisoner in Malaysia whilst he escaped. Causing controversy for abandoning his post.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 4, 2023 21:12:35 GMT
(Bennett)
Benjamin Franklin - former American ambassador to France
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Post by whatagain on Jul 5, 2023 12:10:00 GMT
Line Renaud. French actress who might well celebrate her 100 years on stage.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 5, 2023 13:04:32 GMT
Audrey Hepburn - Belgian born Hollywood star
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Post by mossie on Jul 5, 2023 14:27:39 GMT
Robert Burns - Scottish poet, responsible for Auld land syne
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Post by whatagain on Jul 5, 2023 15:33:26 GMT
Ambrose Burnside. Nordist général during the civil war. Good officer turned into a disastrous army commander. His spectacular whiskers gave name to sideburns.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 5, 2023 18:41:09 GMT
Sebastian Stan - Romanian actor who plays the Winter Soldier in the Marvel cinematic universe
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Post by bjd on Jul 6, 2023 5:24:28 GMT
Stan Laurel Ollie's partner in Laurel and Hardy comedy duo
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 6, 2023 5:51:41 GMT
Aure Atika - French actress and director who still doesn't know who her father is, in any case not the man her mother thought it was, with whom she had sex while on LSD
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Post by whatagain on Jul 6, 2023 20:42:12 GMT
Laure Sainclair. Porn French actress. Sexy as hell she boosted VMD sales for quite a few years. A real looker.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 7, 2023 15:44:13 GMT
Robert Bresson - extremely austere French film director
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Post by whatagain on Jul 8, 2023 11:58:11 GMT
Albert de Saxe Cobourg Gotha. King of Belgians nicknamed the knight king.
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