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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 26, 2023 4:18:26 GMT
Millie Bobby Brown -- British actress
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 26, 2023 18:03:14 GMT
Pierce Brosnan - former Irish James Bond in the movies
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Post by mossie on Nov 27, 2023 8:03:59 GMT
Ferdinand de Lesseps - responsible for the Suez Canal, which vastly shortened shipping routes between S Africa and Europe
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 27, 2023 10:08:53 GMT
Ajax the Lesser- Greek mythological hero
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Post by whatagain on Nov 27, 2023 13:08:05 GMT
Willy Messerschmidt. Plane Lover.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 27, 2023 13:52:50 GMT
Sherlock Holmes - fictional British detective
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 28, 2023 6:11:43 GMT
Havelock Ellis -- -- English physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 28, 2023 8:56:06 GMT
Ruth Ellis - last woman to be hanged in England for murder.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 28, 2023 15:39:07 GMT
Paul Bismuth - non existant person used as an alias by Nicolas Sarkozy for mobile phone registration in an ongoing law case too weird to be explained here
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 28, 2023 17:14:34 GMT
Auliʻi Cravalho -- American actress and singer who was the voice of Moana in the Disney film
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Post by whatagain on Nov 28, 2023 17:34:22 GMT
Valery giscard d’Estaing. Former French président.
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Post by bjd on Nov 28, 2023 19:51:43 GMT
Paul Valéry French writer, poet and philosopher in the first half of the 20th century
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 28, 2023 20:34:28 GMT
Raul Castro - brother of Fidel and former President of Cuba.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 28, 2023 20:57:54 GMT
Cassandra - Greek priestess, fated to deliver true prophecies that were never believed, a bit like current climatologists
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Post by whatagain on Nov 28, 2023 21:46:06 GMT
Sandra Kim. Only Belgian to ever win Eurovision contest. Strangely whilst she is of Italian origin growing up in Wallonia she went to Flanders and made her career there.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 29, 2023 0:03:58 GMT
Francis Drake -- English explorer and privateer best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition between 1577 and 1580. This was the first English circumnavigation, and third circumnavigation overall
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 29, 2023 12:34:57 GMT
Cisco Kid - TV cowboy of the 1950’s.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 29, 2023 16:08:12 GMT
Cokie Roberts - American television journalist
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 30, 2023 3:05:29 GMT
Kiefer Sutherland -- Canadian actor and musician
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Post by mossie on Nov 30, 2023 8:05:04 GMT
Hermann Goering - boastful boss of the German Air Force, which had its feathers plucked in 1940
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 30, 2023 15:13:45 GMT
Ringo Starr - one of the two surviving ex Beatles
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 30, 2023 16:14:28 GMT
Bingo Little - regular character in Jeeves and Wooster books.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 30, 2023 17:35:20 GMT
Goliath -- character in the Book of Samuel (the Bible), described as a Philistine giant defeated by the young David in single combat. Modern scholars believe that the original slayer of Goliath may have been Elhanan, son of Jair, who features in 2 Samuel 21:19, in which Elhanan kills Goliath the Gittite,and that the authors of the Deuteronomic history changed the original text to credit the victory to the more famous character David. Hope that cleared up any misconceptions anyone might have, although it rather ruins the well-known and easy-to-say phrase "David and Goliath", which denotes. a contest wherein a smaller, weaker opponent faces a much bigger, stronger adversary.
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Post by bjd on Nov 30, 2023 17:54:27 GMT
Liam Neeson Actor from Northern Ireland who lives and works in the States
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 30, 2023 18:33:46 GMT
Patrick Macnee - played john Steed on The Avengers
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 1, 2023 9:55:01 GMT
Goliath -- character in the Book of Samuel (the Bible), described as a Philistine giant defeated by the young David in single combat. Modern scholars believe that the original slayer of Goliath may have been Elhanan, son of Jair, who features in 2 Samuel 21:19, in which Elhanan kills Goliath the Gittite,and that the authors of the Deuteronomic history changed the original text to credit the victory to the more famous character David. Hope that cleared up any misconceptions anyone might have, although it rather ruins the well-known and easy-to-say phrase "David and Goliath", which denotes. a contest wherein a smaller, weaker opponent faces a much bigger, stronger adversary. That was interesting. A lot of the bible has apparently been rewritten to make it more palatable.
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Post by whatagain on Dec 1, 2023 12:35:16 GMT
Douglas Mac Arthur. US general well known for his high command during the Pacific campaign and Korea war. Less known is that he started his career in 1899 when US crushed a rebellion of Filipinos who wanted to become indépendant. (How dared they …). As a result 10 000 of Filipinos were killed in action. And about 200 000 civilians due to famine and cholera. These were the good old times.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 1, 2023 12:48:23 GMT
I'm not seeing 3 consecutive letters
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Post by whatagain on Dec 1, 2023 12:58:46 GMT
Mac.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 1, 2023 14:11:48 GMT
Going blind.
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