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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 25, 2024 10:07:11 GMT
Hugo Boss - now a huge fashion company but Boss himself was originally a supplier of military uniforms to the Nazis.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 26, 2024 8:43:58 GMT
Nicolas Gob - Belgian actor who always plays police investigators
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 26, 2024 8:54:30 GMT
Pola Negri - Polish actress, mostly in the silent era although she did appear in films as late as 1964.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 29, 2024 6:32:59 GMT
Lana Turner - American actress who looked good in tight jumpers
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 29, 2024 14:43:49 GMT
Nerys Hughes - Welsh actress best known for her part in the TV series the Liver Birds.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 30, 2024 17:21:33 GMT
Huggy Bear - informer in the TV series Starsky & Hutch
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 30, 2024 17:58:08 GMT
Bear Grylls- wild man of the woods..Dodgy.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 30, 2024 22:42:45 GMT
Vyacheslav Gryaznov -- Russian classical pianist & arranger
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 31, 2024 11:13:18 GMT
Charlton Heston - American tough guy actor
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Post by whatagain on Jul 31, 2024 11:35:31 GMT
Charles Martel. Stopped the Omeyyades at Poitiers.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 31, 2024 12:49:49 GMT
Marie Curie - Polish naturalised French citizen who studied radioactivity and won the Nobel price twice. Apparently her notebooks are still stored in lead lined boxes.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 31, 2024 13:55:11 GMT
Alison Lurie - American author who won the Pulitzer Prize
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 1, 2024 13:24:24 GMT
John Laurie - Scottish actor best known for Private Frazer in Dad’s Army.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 3, 2024 15:41:53 GMT
Laurence Fishburne -- American actor
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 3, 2024 20:30:03 GMT
Laurence Fox - idiot right wing actor who thinks he’s far more important than he is.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 5, 2024 4:10:44 GMT
Jeremy Renner - American actor who ran over himself with a snowplow
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 5, 2024 7:50:54 GMT
Renee Zellweger - American actress with excellent English accent.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 5, 2024 12:46:50 GMT
Florian Zeller - French writer and director who won two Oscars with The Father
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 7, 2024 6:40:26 GMT
Florence Nightingale - 19th century nurse who transformed nursing
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 7, 2024 17:43:25 GMT
Svengali - fictional impresario whose negative attributes have been mostly erased over the years
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 7, 2024 18:41:39 GMT
Venerable Bede - ancient historian from the 8th century
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 8, 2024 6:00:48 GMT
LeBron James - American basketball player
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Post by whatagain on Aug 8, 2024 7:29:39 GMT
Ron Weasley. Friend of Harry.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 8, 2024 7:52:15 GMT
Cristiano Ronaldo - footballer
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 8, 2024 14:34:15 GMT
Ronald McDonald -- clown mascot of the golden arches
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 8, 2024 15:54:08 GMT
Ronnie Spector - co founder of The Ronettes. No longer with us.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 8, 2024 16:08:57 GMT
Hector Guimard - French master of Art Nouveau who created the strange vegetal metro entrances in Paris
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 8, 2024 16:43:40 GMT
Mark Zuckerberg - co founder of Facebook
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 9, 2024 10:31:36 GMT
Huckleberry Finn - fictional bad boy who wasn't so bad after all even if the PC world has cancelled him
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 10, 2024 7:12:18 GMT
Mickey Finn - owner of the Lone Star saloon in Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century who used to put knockout drops in customers drinks so they would pass out and he could rob them.
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