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Post by mossie on Dec 27, 2023 15:11:38 GMT
Winston Churchill - saved us from Hitler
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Post by casimira on Dec 27, 2023 17:38:03 GMT
Hillary Clinton- former First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State. Wife of former US President Bill Clinton
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 27, 2023 21:52:58 GMT
Dana International- Israeli pop singer who won the Eurovision Song contest in 1998.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 28, 2023 6:17:38 GMT
Bintou Dembélé - French dancer and choreographer who started as a hip hop street performer
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 28, 2023 6:28:20 GMT
Demi Moore --American actress. Is she retired?
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 28, 2023 8:30:10 GMT
Davey Moore - American boxer who died after a fight in 1959. Subject of a Bob Dylan song.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 28, 2023 11:58:54 GMT
Wes Craven - American director of mostly horror movies who gave us A Nightmare on Elm Street with Halloween costume favourite Freddy Kruger
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 28, 2023 15:24:27 GMT
Wesley Hall - West Indian fast bowler of the 1960’s cricket team.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 28, 2023 16:03:18 GMT
Lucas van Leyden -- Dutch painter and printmaker of the early 16th century
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 28, 2023 17:02:40 GMT
Lucky Luciano - Italian born gangster of the ‘20’s and ‘30’s.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 28, 2023 17:18:59 GMT
Kyle Eastwood - folk singer living in France, son of an old movie action hero and director
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 28, 2023 17:23:56 GMT
Crystal Gayle - American country singer famous for “Don’t it make my brown eyes blue”. 1977 can you believe!
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 29, 2023 0:48:38 GMT
Isn't it something?! I just heard "Alone Again, Naturally" in the soundtrack of a tv show. It was on charts all over the world in 1972.
I guess the older you get, the more you remember. Well, not stuff like algebra, obviously, but important stuff like Top 40 songs.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 29, 2023 6:58:34 GMT
Sylvester Stallone - American move actor and director
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 29, 2023 10:15:43 GMT
Sylvia Plath - American poet who married English poet Ted Hughes.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 30, 2023 5:51:29 GMT
Võ Nguyên Giáp - North Vietnamese victor of the battle of Dien Bien Phu who lived to be 102
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Post by whatagain on Dec 30, 2023 15:45:28 GMT
Manfred von Richthofen. German ace during WW1.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 30, 2023 15:56:05 GMT
Frédéric Beigbeder - French author currently embroiled in a #MeToo affair
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 31, 2023 8:37:20 GMT
Eric Bristow - world darts champion from years gone by.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 31, 2023 10:24:24 GMT
Donna Hightower - American jazz singer who had a megahit in Europe in 1972
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 31, 2023 11:39:49 GMT
Don Henley - founder member of the Eagles.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 31, 2023 17:00:51 GMT
Lleyton Hewitt - Australian tennis champion
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Post by whatagain on Jan 1, 2024 16:17:30 GMT
Henri Wittamer. Belgian chocolatier. Now the 4th generation and known over the world. They still own the original shop in Bruxelles.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 1, 2024 18:03:10 GMT
Henley on Thames
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 1, 2024 19:30:21 GMT
now you're screwing with us ![](https://s20.postimg.cc/rwnwcelil/grin.gif)
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Post by bjd on Jan 1, 2024 19:34:20 GMT
Katarina Witt Medal-winning German figure skater
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 1, 2024 19:36:42 GMT
Andrei Tarkovsky - Russian movie director
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 2, 2024 0:58:26 GMT
Booth Tarkington -- American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered the United States' greatest living author. Several of his stories were adapted to film.
Probably everyone in my age group, certainly those from the US & maybe Canada, could instantly supply the information that Booth Tarkington was an American novelist. Nevertheless, I sort of doubt that the aforesaid age group has actually read any of his work.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 2, 2024 6:13:03 GMT
John Wilkes Booth - actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
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Post by mossie on Jan 2, 2024 8:23:10 GMT
William Booth - founded the Salvation Army with his wife
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