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Quasi (at the Quakadero)

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Polly Holliday
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William Shatner     Actor
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Pan Twardowski - in Polish folklore and literature, is a sorcerer who entered a pact with the Devil.

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"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."

Charles Bukowski
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Keeping Poland in touch...

Ubu Roi, one of the most impressive fictional characters ever!
Created by Alfred Jarry, first presented in 1896.


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Vashti (5th Century BC)
 
Persian queen and proto-feminist
 
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Winnetou is a fictional Native American hero of several novels written in German by Karl May (1842–1912).

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Liu Xiaobo (1955 - 2017).
Chinese educator, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, recently (July 13th) deceased. 


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William Youngfellow     One of Eliot Ness's Untouchables

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Elmo Zumwalt (1920-2000).
US Navy Admiral.



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Arthur Agee     Basketball player, subject of documentary Hoop Dreams

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José Bonifácio (1763 - 1838).
Brazilian mineralogist*, poet and politician. Main mentor of Brazil's independence from Portugal (1822).
* Discovered the first mineral containing element lithium.




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Nicolae Ceaușescu (26 January 1918 – 25 December 1989) - Romanian communist dictator from 1965 to 1989

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John Dillinger     Criminal

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George Everest (1790 - 1863). British surveyor and geographer.
A "small hill" in the Himalayas was named after him.


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John Francis "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald     JFK's grandfather (on mother's side).

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Eduardo Galeano (1940 - 2015). Uruguayan writer.
"Justice is like a snake; It only bites those who are barefoot."


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Clint Hill (middle)     Jackie Kennedy's bodyguard

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