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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 3, 2024 9:58:44 GMT
Hambone Willie Newbern - American country blues musician, 1920’s to ‘40’s.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 3, 2024 17:22:50 GMT
Bernie Taupin - wrote all of Elton John's best songs until Elton went downhill
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 4, 2024 8:16:07 GMT
Bernie Sanders - some people’s favourite politician
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 4, 2024 11:35:12 GMT
Brigitte Nielsen - Danish actress who began acting with Schwarzenegger but married Stallone, now on her 5th marriage
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 4, 2024 12:16:13 GMT
Tenzing Norgay - one of the first two people who reached the summit of Everest in 1953.
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Post by whatagain on Mar 4, 2024 13:52:10 GMT
Richard Attenborough. British director.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 4, 2024 14:51:51 GMT
Prince Louis of Battenberg - had a cake named after him when he married Princess Victoria.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 4, 2024 21:35:18 GMT
Françoise Bettencourt Meyers - richest woman in the world (L'Oréal fortune)
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 5, 2024 3:22:01 GMT
Geeez ~ I help keep that woman afloat!
Bette Davis -- American actress & first woman president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 5, 2024 7:43:53 GMT
Ted Danson - actor famous for the wonderful Cheers.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 5, 2024 9:45:16 GMT
Danilo Montero - Costarican Christian music singer
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 7, 2024 13:22:53 GMT
Herbert Lom - Czech/British actor
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Post by whatagain on Mar 7, 2024 16:38:38 GMT
Dicke Bertha. Name given to a howitzer of 420 mm of short range by the Germans.
Same name ( grosse Bertha) is erroneously given to the Pariser Kanonen which could fire rounds of about 220 mm at 100 ims and effectively bombed Paris.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 7, 2024 16:43:26 GMT
That’s not a famous person then. It’s a gun.
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Post by patricklondon on Mar 7, 2024 21:12:16 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 7, 2024 21:28:56 GMT
Great name!
Michael Foot - strange leader of the UK Labour party 1980-83.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 8, 2024 1:41:31 GMT
Gael García Bernal -- Mexican actor & filmmaker
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 8, 2024 9:06:06 GMT
Marcus Garvey - Jamaican political activist, revered by some and hated by others. Died in 1940.
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Post by whatagain on Mar 8, 2024 9:10:50 GMT
What is interesting is that she only had one big foot. So historians think she had a malformed foot. What we call a pied bot in French. Dixie Bertha was also named after Bertha Krupp, the daughter of the industrial. |
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Post by whatagain on Mar 8, 2024 11:49:25 GMT
Giuseppe Garibaldi. One of the 3 Founders of the Italian nation - during the Risorgimento (unification) in the second half of the XIXe.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 8, 2024 14:23:46 GMT
Alec Baldwin -- an actor in deep doo-doo for someone elses negligence
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 8, 2024 14:53:53 GMT
Hannibal Lecter - fictional serial killer
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 8, 2024 16:17:45 GMT
Marcia Ball -- Louisiana-Texas pianist, singer, & songwriter
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 8, 2024 19:26:03 GMT
Mireille Darc - actress in a couple with Alain Delon for many years, then she went blind
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 9, 2024 8:15:31 GMT
Darcey Bussell - retired ballet dancer.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 9, 2024 17:43:03 GMT
Ken Russell - extravagant movie and opera director who did a lot to advance Glenda Jackson's career
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 10, 2024 0:27:26 GMT
Enrique Iglesias -- Spanish singer and songwriter
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Post by whatagain on Mar 10, 2024 9:50:09 GMT
Henri IV. King of France mugged and killed in Paris.
Something I used to say to US tourists asking if Paris is safe.
His assailant was killed by dismembering.
(Écartèlement un French, a civilised way to dispose of unwanted citizens.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 10, 2024 10:15:27 GMT
Henning Wehn - German comedian based in the UK.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 10, 2024 14:48:41 GMT
Anaïs Nin - writer of erotica, born of Cuban parents in France
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