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Topic: Historical figures (real or fiction) A-Z
Posted By: Atkingani
Subject: Historical figures (real or fiction) A-Z
Date Posted: March 04 2017 at 19:01
Let's try a new one.

Pictures, paintings, images, movie representations, etc, are welcome. Additional information like birth & death dates, country of origin, etc, especially for the less known are welcome too. Smile 

Attila, the Hun.








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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 04 2017 at 19:54
Brezhnev, Leonid





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Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: March 04 2017 at 20:01
Chretien, Jean 




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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 04 2017 at 20:05
Dracula (Vlad the Impaler)

Vlad Tepes 002.jpg


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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: March 04 2017 at 20:09
Sara Early was an American educator, black nationalist, temperance activist



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Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: March 04 2017 at 20:35
Fermi, Enrico




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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 04 2017 at 20:39
Gropius, Walter.




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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 04 2017 at 20:43
Helen of Troy



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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: March 04 2017 at 20:57
Ivan the Terrible



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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 04 2017 at 21:39
Jason



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Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: March 04 2017 at 22:25
Killer Kowalski




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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 04 2017 at 22:31
Lovecraft, H.P.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/H._P._Lovecraft%2C_June_1934.jpg

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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: March 04 2017 at 22:47
Malcom X



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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 04 2017 at 22:53
Nixon



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Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: March 04 2017 at 23:09
Orestes




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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 04 2017 at 23:13
Rosa Parks



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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: March 04 2017 at 23:15
Jackie Robinson



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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 04 2017 at 23:17
Schoenberg



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Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: March 04 2017 at 23:27
Juan Carlos 

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Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: March 04 2017 at 23:32
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsday" rel="nofollow - Newsday  (New York):
Once there was a very tiny country, surrounded by war and killing, blessed with a good leader who decided his best legacy, after winning a civil war, would be to abolish the army, and – breaking the mold created by despots in the other small countries around him – let the people vote.
Meet Costa Rica and its visionary former president, Jose Figueres, who, 40 years later, has earned the right to philosphize on man and government and war – and to do so without a touch of irony.


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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: March 05 2017 at 00:19
I think we got slightly off the alphabet unless there is a T in those names I didn't see

Toussaint L'Ouverture

known as Toussaint L'Ouverture or Toussaint Bréda, was the best-known leader of the Haitian Revolution. His military and political acumen saved the gains of the first Black insurrection in November 1791



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Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: March 05 2017 at 00:37
sorry, my alphabet is poor, or is it my eye sight ?

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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 05 2017 at 01:00
^ I assumed it was that fat joint smoldering in the ashtray.   Hey it's Saturday.

Uncle Sam





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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: March 05 2017 at 01:56
^My knees and elbows are the only fat joints that smolder anymore..Dead



Voltaire



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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 05 2017 at 02:56
Wenceslaus I

Wenzeslaus by Peter Parler.JPG


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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 05 2017 at 06:56
Xenophon,
Greek soldier, philosopher & historian, author of 'Anabasis'.




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Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: March 05 2017 at 11:59
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

^ I assumed it was that fat joint smoldering in the ashtray.   Hey it's Saturday.

Uncle Sam




Oh WOW! How did you know? LOL


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Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: March 05 2017 at 12:11
Young, Thomas

18th-19th Century English polymath, Thomas Young was a polymath, famous for his double slit experiment which displayed the wave nature of light, the development of "Young's Modulus", an intrinsic property of materials with significant engineering applications, and his deciphering of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, including the Rosetta Stone. 




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Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: March 05 2017 at 14:46
Zarathustra (Zoroaster)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/CIMRM_44-Mithraic_pater_%28Dura_Europos%29_B.jpg

ancient Iranian prophet

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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 05 2017 at 16:01
Atahualpa, the last Sapa Inca.




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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 05 2017 at 16:20
John Wilkes Booth

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Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: March 05 2017 at 17:03
Casimir III the Great (Pol. Kazimierz III Wielki) - King of Poland (1333 - 1370)

http://poczet.com/grafika/Wielki.jpg

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Charles Bukowski


Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 05 2017 at 17:15
David, Jacques-Louis, French painter.



One of his most famous paintings: "Leonidas at Thermopylae".



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Guigo

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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 05 2017 at 21:01
Einstein

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Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: March 05 2017 at 22:51
Feynman, Richard

Charismatic physicist and bongo player extraordinaire.




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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 05 2017 at 23:20
Goya

Autorretrato de Goya (1795).jpg


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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 05 2017 at 23:31
Hemingway, Ernest.




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Guigo

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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 05 2017 at 23:50
Innocent lll

Innozenz3.jpg


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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 06 2017 at 01:35
Julius Caesar (100-44 BC)




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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 06 2017 at 01:48
Bobby Kennedy

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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 06 2017 at 01:55
Martin Luther (1483-1546)




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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: March 06 2017 at 02:03
Soren Kierkegaard



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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: March 06 2017 at 02:19
^I think you went backwards

Machiavelli



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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 06 2017 at 02:27
Nietzsche



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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 06 2017 at 03:23
Oppenheimer, Robert




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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 06 2017 at 04:00
Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)




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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: March 06 2017 at 04:56
Vidkun Quisling



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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 06 2017 at 06:27
Robespierre, Maximilien de (1758-1794)




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Guigo

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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: March 06 2017 at 06:38
Carl Edward Sagan (1934-1996), notable American astronomer and science communicator.
 


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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 06 2017 at 12:08
Trudeau, Pierre Elliot, Canadian politician (1919-2000).




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Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: March 06 2017 at 12:15
Ulyanov, Vladimir Ilyich (a.k.a Lenin)


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/LeninEnSuizaMarzo1916--barbaroussovietr00mcbr.png

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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


Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 06 2017 at 15:53
Vő Nguyęn Giáp, Vietnamese general (1911-2013).

 


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Guigo

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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: March 06 2017 at 16:06
President Woodrow Wilson by Harris & Ewing, 1914-crop.jpg

Woodrow Wilson, US President 1913-1921

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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 06 2017 at 16:30
Xerxes I   Fourth Achaemenid king, assassinated 465 BC

Xerxes Image.png


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Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: March 06 2017 at 21:03
Yeager, Chuck




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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 06 2017 at 21:17
Zapata, Emiliano (1879-1919), Mexican leader.




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Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: March 06 2017 at 21:22
Avogadro, Amedeo

Famous chemist, shortlisted nominee for the "ugliest picture on wikipedia" award.




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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 06 2017 at 21:38
Buddha



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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 07 2017 at 05:23
 
Columbus, Christopher (1446-1506).




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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: March 07 2017 at 06:46
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902-1984), English physicist and Nobel Prize winner.
 
 


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Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: March 07 2017 at 09:16
Eddington, Arthur

English astronomer whose theoretical and observational work made crucial early contributions to Einstein's theory of General Relativity.




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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 07 2017 at 09:36
Francis of Assisi




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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: March 07 2017 at 10:21
Dennis Gabor (1900-1979), Hungarian-British electrical engineer, physicist, and inventor of holography.
 


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Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: March 07 2017 at 11:17
Henry VIII - King of England (1509 - 1547)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_52dIRXvFw8/UKOeEU2tULI/AAAAAAAAAbc/dDCE3vP7I1w/s1600/Henry_VIII_Chatsworth.jpg

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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


Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: March 07 2017 at 12:50
Ignatious of Loyola (Saint)



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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 07 2017 at 13:36
John Plantagenet (1166-1216), king of England from 1199 until his death. Nicknamed "John Lackland". 
Although despised by many historians and the people in general, he gave England the Magna Carta.






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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 07 2017 at 18:23
Jackie Kennedy

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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: March 07 2017 at 18:27



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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 07 2017 at 18:32
Menelaus

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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 07 2017 at 18:41
Nicholas of Myra, aka Santa Claus. (270 AD - 343 AD)




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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 07 2017 at 18:42
George Orwell

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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 07 2017 at 18:57
Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662). French mathematician, writer and philosopher.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.





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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 07 2017 at 21:18
Don Quixote, as illustrated by the great French engraver Gustav Doré





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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: March 07 2017 at 21:44
Peter Mark Roget
Invented that book with the words that are different words for the words you are using when you can't think f a new word.



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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 07 2017 at 22:18
Saladin (1137-1193), Kurdish ruler of Syria and Egypt.

Statue of Saladin in Damascus, Syria.




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Guigo

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Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: March 07 2017 at 22:23
Torricelli, Evangelista 

Inventor of the barometer




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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 07 2017 at 22:38
U Thant (1909-1974), 3rd Secretary General of the United Nations. Country: Burma (Myanmar).




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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: March 07 2017 at 23:54
Van de Graff, Robert J 

Invented Prog. 



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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 08 2017 at 01:48
William of Orange (1533-1584), founder of the Netherlands



Note: The name William of Orange is applied to stadholder William III, who was also King William III of the UK.


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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 08 2017 at 02:29
Xao Shui Mu    Chinese philosopher I just made up.



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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: March 08 2017 at 03:06
Yegorov, Boris

Cosmonaut, first physician in space. 



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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 08 2017 at 03:50
Today, March 8th, the International Women's Day and so...

Zenobia (240-275), Queen of the Palmyrene Empire. She defied and almost won the Roman Empire.




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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: March 08 2017 at 06:52
Georgio Abetti (1882-1982), Italian solar astronomer


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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: March 08 2017 at 11:20
In keeping with the Women's day theme

Rose Bird, first female chief justice of California. 



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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 08 2017 at 12:07
Violeta Chamorro (born 1929), President of Nicaragua (1990-1997).




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Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: March 08 2017 at 12:59
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobrawa_of_Bohemia" rel="nofollow - Dobrawa of Bohemia (ca. 940/45 – 977) - the wife of the first Polish ruler Mieszko I

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Dobrawa.jpg

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Charles Bukowski


Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 08 2017 at 14:31
Elizabeth I of England and Ireland.

Portrayed by actress Helen Mirren.



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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 08 2017 at 17:36
Anne Frank  



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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 08 2017 at 18:10
Anita Garibaldi (1821-1849), wife of Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi. Born in Laguna, SC, Brazil.




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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 08 2017 at 20:20
Anita Hill    brave Washington whistle-blower... and hot !



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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: March 09 2017 at 06:29
Clara Immerwahr (1870-1915), German chemist and first woman to be awarded a doctorate in chemistry in Germany.
 


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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 09 2017 at 06:47
Junck (b. 1954), Lëtzeburgish president of the European Commission




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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: March 09 2017 at 07:28
Sir Thomas Beecham, Britain's finest musical conductor



Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: March 09 2017 at 07:39
Wilhelm Furtwaengler, Germany's greatest musical conductor



Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 09 2017 at 07:40
^^ Where's the K? TongueWink

Lord Kelvin (William Thomson, 1824-1907).




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Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: March 09 2017 at 09:59
Laozi - an ancient Chinese philosopher

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/DaodeTianzun.jpg

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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


Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: March 09 2017 at 10:20
Margaret Alice Murray (1863-1963), British Egyptologist, archaeologist, anthropologist, historian and folklorist. She was the first woman to be appointed as a lecturer in archaeology in the U.K.
 


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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: March 09 2017 at 12:16
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. Nietzche mustache you a question .



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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 09 2017 at 14:26
Odysseus.




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Guigo

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Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: March 09 2017 at 15:27
St. Paul

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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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