Samhain13 Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 Eliot, George - author of Silas Marner Quote Link to comment
KayaK Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 Francis Gary Powers - U2 spy plane pilot shotdown over russia in late '50s; became an international pawn between the superpowers and eventually released in spy swap Quote Link to comment
Samhain13 Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 (edited) Gary Cooper - famous Hollywood actor/performer of the "Golden Years". Edited September 30, 2006 by Samhain13 Quote Link to comment
chabacano Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 hannibal - carthaginian general Quote Link to comment
Samhain13 Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 Ignatius of Loyola -- Catholic Saint (Patron saint of soldiers?) Quote Link to comment
KayaK Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 John D. Rockefeller - the world's richest man at the beginning of the 20th century controlling a virtual world oil monopoly thru Standard Oil; broken by anti-trust law the company's pieces became today's Exxon Mobile, Chevron Texaco, etc. Quote Link to comment
kenzoku Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 Karpov - Chess player, Quote Link to comment
quicksilver06 Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 Landis,John - Film Director - Blues brother director Quote Link to comment
KayaK Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 Nightingale, Florence - acknowledged mother of modern nursing; dubbed the "lady with the night lamp" as she made rounds at night tending to wounded british soldiers on the front during the crimean war Quote Link to comment
chabacano Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 oppenheimer, j. robert - american theoretical physicist; 'father' of the atom bomb Quote Link to comment
KayaK Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 Princess Diana Spencer - wed the prince of wales in a fairytale wedding; died in a tragic accident with the prince of harrod's Quote Link to comment
KayaK Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 Queen Victoria - longest reigning british monarch; grandmother to most of europe's royals Quote Link to comment
cheeselogger Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 Robert Redford Quote Link to comment
KayaK Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 Salman Rushdie - british author of indian descent; the object of a "fatwa" from ayatollah khomeini after the release of his book "the satanic verses" Quote Link to comment
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