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Post by whatagain on Jul 18, 2023 8:22:07 GMT
Fulgencio Batista. Took power in Cuba before ww2 then staged a coup when failing reelection turning full time dictator and exploiting his country with backing from U.S. ultimately ousted by Castro.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 18, 2023 11:34:56 GMT
Gennifer Flowers - "model" who claimed to have a relationship with Bill Clinton before he was elected president
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Post by whatagain on Jul 18, 2023 12:31:06 GMT
George Floyd. A man killed by cops.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 19, 2023 2:36:24 GMT
Floyd Patterson - world heavyweight boxing champion for a while
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Post by whatagain on Jul 19, 2023 10:24:12 GMT
George Patton. Very efficient Us general during ww2.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 19, 2023 14:27:35 GMT
Geppetto - Italian wood carver who created a slave called Pinocchio according to the original story
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Post by whatagain on Jul 20, 2023 17:23:26 GMT
Peter the Great. Tsar who founded Petrograd / Saint Petersburg / Leningrad
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 21, 2023 3:25:49 GMT
Terence Hill - star of Italian spaghetti westerns in the 1970s
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Post by whatagain on Jul 21, 2023 15:22:53 GMT
Ambrose Power Hill. Confederate général in charge of a corps at Gettysburg.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 30, 2023 12:14:29 GMT
Moses - important prophet of the Christian and Muslim faiths, also wrote most of the Torah so he must have had a lot of spare time
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 1, 2023 6:02:03 GMT
Hosea -- 8th-century prophet in Israel & the author of the Biblical Book of Hosea
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Post by mossie on Aug 1, 2023 6:46:10 GMT
Joseph Stalin - Uncle Joe during the war. Strange how their dictates names all end in "in"
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 1, 2023 12:59:51 GMT
Sylvester Stallone - American actor who needs to retire
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 2, 2023 0:00:31 GMT
Alain Delon -- acclaimed French actor
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 2, 2023 5:15:03 GMT
Samuel R. Delany - American science fiction author who doesn't shy away from sex
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 3, 2023 14:37:58 GMT
Philippe de Lanoy -- one of the Leiden Pilgrims who arrived in Plymouth Colony in 1621 to join the Mayflower colonists there. Many of his descendants became wealthy & influential, the most immediately recognizable of whom might be FDR.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 9, 2023 17:52:35 GMT
Abdelkader. Algerian who opposed the French invasion of Algiers in 19th century. Known for being very pious very capable military speaking and a very human person who protected his defeated opponents.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 9, 2023 21:15:56 GMT
(There are a lot of paintings of him in museums -- he was also quite vain!)
Della Reese - American jazz singer
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 9, 2023 23:43:42 GMT
Ella Reeve Bloor -- American labor organizer and long-time activist in the socialist and communist movements
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Post by whatagain on Aug 10, 2023 17:37:52 GMT
Ernst Stavropol Blofeld. James Bond most récurrent enemy.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 10, 2023 23:12:56 GMT
Orlando Blppm - English actor who first gained fame as en Elf
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 14, 2023 3:18:00 GMT
Even though Blppm sounds like an Elvish name, I'm going to assume you meant
Orlando Bloom
so will follow with
Michael Landon -- teenage werewolf who was also Little Joe
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 14, 2023 8:53:56 GMT
small keyboard! Gael García Bernal - Mexican actor
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Post by mossie on Aug 14, 2023 14:19:15 GMT
Edward Elgar - English composer
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Post by whatagain on Aug 14, 2023 16:47:53 GMT
Gary Moore. Irish Guitarist who plays a sublim guitar solo in ‘still got the blues ‘ Shit. The guy is dead !
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 19, 2023 12:22:07 GMT
Edgar Allan Poe - American writer and poet whose work has held up remarkably over the years
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Post by whatagain on Aug 29, 2023 16:53:27 GMT
Clara Morgane. French porn actress.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 29, 2023 17:21:55 GMT
Former porn actress. She changed profession in 2004 and is now a television personality and singer.
Lara Fabian - Belgian pop star who represented Luxembourg in the 1988 Eurovision contest
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Post by whatagain on Aug 30, 2023 11:21:18 GMT
Lara Fabian and my wife share the same hairdresser. She is nice to the people there.
Bianca, sweetheart of Bernard in the Disney Movie.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 30, 2023 11:54:42 GMT
Blanca Li - Spanish modern dancer, now based in Paris
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