Historical Figures 2.0: The Initials
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Topic: Historical Figures 2.0: The Initials
Posted By: Matti
Subject: Historical Figures 2.0: The Initials
Date Posted: December 01 2017 at 05:39
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Historical Figures (Real or Fiction) A-Z is among the very few "Just for Fun" topics that have a real "human interest", I think. I have a suggestion for a new, more demanding game based on the same idea. Instead of just dealing with the letter of the surnames (or one-part names or whatever), A, B, C..., we have TWO letters, ie. the initials of the person. First we run through the alphabets with persons whose surname begins with A (AA, BA, CA, DA,...), the next round goes like AB, BB, CB, DB,... and so on. To avoid over-difficult initials, the rare letters Q, U, X, Y, Z can be skipped. I'm sure the game offers enough challenge without those letters. I hope you who enjoy Historical Figures will start playing this one too! And of course fictional persons are accepted here as well. To start: AA for Anouk Aimée (b. 1932), French film actress.  (A Man and a Woman, 1966) |
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: December 01 2017 at 07:33
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I'd have gone with Andre Agassi, tennis star. :) Buzz Aldrin (b 1930) - American Astronaut and the 2nd person to walk on the moon.  ------------- 
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 01 2017 at 14:11
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Carmine Appice (born 1946). American drummer & percusionist: Vanilla Fudge, etc.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: December 01 2017 at 15:07
 Dan Aykroyd (born 1965) U.S actor and comedian; 1/2 of the Blues Brothers-------------
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 01 2017 at 21:59
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Edson Arantes do Nascimento (born 1940). Brazilian soccer player known as Pelé.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 02 2017 at 00:10
This is going nicely, thanks!  Fred Astaire (1899 – 1987), American dancer, singer and actor.  |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 02 2017 at 02:38
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Gianni Agnelli (1921- 2003). Italian industrialist. FIAT Big Boss.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 02 2017 at 03:03
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Hans Arp (1886-1966) German/French sculptor, painter and poet  ------------- 
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Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 02 2017 at 03:56
You guessed this one... Ian Anderson (b. 1947), British rock musician best known as the leader of Jethro Tull.  |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 02 2017 at 04:54
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And his one might be even easier to guess: Jon Anderson (b. 1944) English singer and songwriter: former lead vocalist of Yes and one of the archetypical vocalists of progressive rock  -------------
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Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 02 2017 at 05:02
Yes it was! Yet another prog musician: Kevin Ayers (1944 – 2013), English singer-songwriter associated to the Canterbury scene, one of the founders of Soft Machine.  |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 02 2017 at 05:54
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Laura Antonelli (1941 - 2015). Italian actress.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 03 2017 at 23:41
Marian Anderson (1897 – 1993), African-American contralto, one of the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century. |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 04 2017 at 04:51
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Neil Armstrong (1930 - 2012). First man on Moon.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 04 2017 at 23:21
Outi Alanen (b. 1967), Finnish actor (films, TV-serials, theatre, voice acting). |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 06 2017 at 10:10
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Pedro Almodóvar (b. 1949). Spanish film director and producer.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 07 2017 at 04:41
Internet knew this, not me. I just wrote Quentin A on the google search: Quentin Alexander, young American singer who came to attention from American Idol in 2015. (But that's cheating! Next!)Roger Ackroyd, the title character in Agatha Christie's mystery novel starring Hercule Poirot (1926).  (As a young reader I was fascinated by this Finnish cover.) |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 07 2017 at 11:57
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Salvador Allende (1908 - 1973). Chilean politician. President 1970-1973.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 11 2017 at 00:04
Theodor Adorno (1903 – 1969), German philosopher, sociologist and composer. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 11 2017 at 02:38
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Urbanus van Anus (b. 1949) Urbain Servranckx, Belgian comedian, singer and comic book writer.  -------------
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 11 2017 at 03:37
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Vincent Auriol (1884 - 1966). French president from 1947 to 1954.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 11 2017 at 03:54
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Wim Aantjes (1923-2015) Dutch politician  -------------
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Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 11 2017 at 04:24
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I'll skip XA, YA and ZA. We have the first round finished, now B's!  |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 11 2017 at 04:58
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Big Bill Broonzy (1893-1958) Lee Conley Bradley, American blues singer  -------------
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 11 2017 at 10:27
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Chico Buarque (born 1944). Brazilian composer, singer, writer, poet and political activist.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 12 2017 at 03:17
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Dieuwertje Blok (b. 1957) Dutch TV presenter and actress  -------------
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Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 12 2017 at 03:34
Duane Barry, the episode title character in The X Files (the fifth episode of the second season). A violent patient in a mental institution, once abducted by aliens. (Others I thought of: David Bowie, Donald Barthelme, David Brin)PS. Oops, another DB posting while I was working on mine... But I have a nice EB already on my mind, just a second.
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Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 12 2017 at 03:40
Emily Brontë (1818 – 1848), English novelist and poet best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights (1847). |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 12 2017 at 04:53
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Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, statesman etc.  -------------
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 12 2017 at 12:24
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Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875). French romantic era composer: Carmen.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 12 2017 at 14:25
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Herman Brood (1946-2001) Dutch musician and painter. Rock 'n roll junkie.  -------------
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Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 13 2017 at 00:42
Irving Berlin (1888 – 1989), American composer. One of the icons of 'The Great American Songbook'. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 13 2017 at 06:35
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) German composer  -------------
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 13 2017 at 06:42
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Karl Benz (1844 - 1929) German engineer: Mercedes-Benz.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 13 2017 at 09:13
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Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982) Ukrainian leader of the Soviet Union 1964-1982  -------------
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 13 2017 at 09:29
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A lot of M.B. people... but I'll go with: Monica Bellucci (born 1964). Italian actress and fashion model.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: December 13 2017 at 19:26
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Neil Bartlett Chemist famous for creating the first noble gas compound.  ------------- when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 13 2017 at 23:39
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[O.B. was a tough one... but then I saw this book on a library shelf.] Olivier Bourdeaut (1980 - ), French writer who debuted with a novel En attendant Bojangles (2016).  |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 14 2017 at 03:24
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Paul Bunyan. A character of North America folklore.  N.B.: Glad to find a fictional character using the initials. ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 14 2017 at 03:38
Sir Quentin Blake (1932 - ), English illustrator and children's author, perhaps best known for illustrating books by Roald Dahl. |
Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: December 14 2017 at 14:22
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Richard Branson British entrepreneur and investor; billionaire founder of the Virgin Group.  ------------- when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 14 2017 at 14:52
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Simon Bolivar (1783 - 1830). El Libertador.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 15 2017 at 03:06
Timothy Bottoms (1951 - ), American actor and film producer. (The Paper Chase, 1973) |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 15 2017 at 12:05
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Skipping the U. Martin Van Buren (1782 - 1862). 8th President of the USA, 1837-1841.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 15 2017 at 12:19
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^Van Buren is a Dutch surname, in which "van" is a prefix. W.A. van Buren (b. 1967) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfstedentocht" rel="nofollow - Elfstedentocht participant in the 1986 edition, nowadays commonly known as King Willem-Alexander. The Dutch Royal House uses the pseudonym "van Buren" on certain occasions.  -------------
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 15 2017 at 14:32
^ I know it's a prefix like von, de, etc. but I wrote it the way it's done in the USA (he was American) where this prefix is treated like a separate entity.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 16 2017 at 08:13
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X.B.... no. Y.B.... no. Hmmm, Zowie Bowie... But his real name is Duncan Zowie Jones. Ok, new round! Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008), Grand Master of science fiction. (Sorry, no pic this time as I'm using my mobile phone.) |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 16 2017 at 09:01
You're obviously right! Hou could I forget about Nick D'Virgilio  ?-o0o- Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) French abbot, reformer of the Cistercian order  -------------
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Atkingani wrote:Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 16 2017 at 14:13
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Claudia Cardinale (born 1938). Italian actress and goddess.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 17 2017 at 23:52
Dolores Claiborne, the title character - a woman suspected of murder - in Stephen King's novel of the same name. Played brilliantly by Kathy Bates in Taylor Hackford's Dolores Claiborne (1995). |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 18 2017 at 02:45
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Elijah Craig (1738 or 1743 - 1808) American Baptist preacher who has been credited with the invention of bourbon whiskey.  -------------
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 18 2017 at 04:13
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Frank Capra (1897 - 1991). Italian-American film director.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 18 2017 at 04:32
Gustave Courbet (1819 – 1877), French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th century French painting. The Desperate Man (Self Portrait), 1843-5. |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 18 2017 at 04:41
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Sorry for rushing, but I so much wanted to have this one: Holden Caulfield, the narrator/ main character in the adolescent fiction classic The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger.   ... I have never forgotten it, that's for sure. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 18 2017 at 05:28
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Ingram Cecil Connor III (1946 - 1973) American musician, commonly known as Gram Parsons  -------------
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 18 2017 at 05:34
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Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963). Iconic French writer, designer and film maker of the XXth Century. Portrait of Cocteau, by Amedeo Modigliani, painted 1916.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 19 2017 at 02:34
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Klaas Compaen (1587-1660) Dutch corsair and pirate  -------------
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 19 2017 at 03:26
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Lucius Sergius Catilina (108 BC - 62 BC). Roman senator and conspirator. Cicero's Catilinam. Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? Quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit audacia?  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 19 2017 at 03:36
Sir Michael Caine (1933 - ), English actor and producer. (The Cider House Rules, 1999) |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 19 2017 at 05:15
^I thought you should go with Marcus Tullius Cicero...  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 19 2017 at 05:39
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Nero Claudius Caesar etc (37 - 68 AD). Roman emperor, the last of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.  -------------
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Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 19 2017 at 06:33
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^ It's nice to have various preferences in our choises (no Romans from me!).  |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 19 2017 at 08:41
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Pierre de Coubertin (1863 - 1937). French educator. Father of the Modern Olympic Games.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 19 2017 at 08:50
Quentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt; 1908 – 1999), English writer, actor and gay icon. |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 19 2017 at 17:13
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Raynald de Châtillon (1125 - 1187). AKA Arnaldo da Chatillon (in Italian). Crusader. ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 19 2017 at 23:48
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834), English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian. Founder of the Romantic movement. |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 20 2017 at 14:18
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Thomas Cochrane (1775 - 1860). British naval officer. A successful captain of the Napoleonic Wars and the Independence Wars of Brazil and Chile. The Sea Wolf.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: December 23 2017 at 13:36
Ulric Cross: Trinidadian jurist, diplomat, and RAF navigator - possibly the most decorated West Indian of WW2  Nicknamed "Black Hornet, " Cross was a bomber squadron leader, and the model for a Ken Follet character.------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 24 2017 at 16:04
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Vera Clouzot (1913 - 1960). Brazilian actress, humanitarian and political activist. Wife of French film director Henri-Georges Clouzot.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 26 2017 at 09:08
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William Campbell Alter of Paul McCartney, devised for the Paul is dead-theory.  -------------
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 26 2017 at 18:18
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Skipping X. Jacques Yves-Cousteau (1910 - 1997). French naval officer, inventor, oceanographer, film maker, conservationist, etc.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 27 2017 at 00:02
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Skipping Z. The 4th round starts! Arthur Dent, the main character in Douglas Adams' SciFi parody The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  (In the BBC TV series played by Simon Jones.) |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 27 2017 at 15:17
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881). British politician. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1868; 1874-1880).  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 27 2017 at 15:59
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Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) English naturalist, geologist and biologist. Founder of the evolution theory.  -------------
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Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 27 2017 at 23:57
Donald Duck, a world-famous cartoon character created by Walt Disney in 1934. Known for his short temper and a positive look on life. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 28 2017 at 03:00
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Eugène Delacroix (1798 - 1863) French painter  -------------
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 28 2017 at 05:19
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Francis Drake (1540 - 1596). English sea captain, privateer and slave trader.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 28 2017 at 05:33
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(Was just about to post Friedrich Dürrenmatt, the Swiss writer...) Georges Jacques Danton (1759 – 1794), a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution.  |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 28 2017 at 05:41
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Henri Dunant (1828 - 1910) Swiss banker and social activist. Founder of the Red Cross.  -------------
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Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: December 28 2017 at 08:25
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Ivan Drago Fictional Russian boxer; opponent of Rocky Balboa in Rocky IV.  ------------- when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 28 2017 at 08:57
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Johnny Depp (born 1963). American actor: Jack Sparrow.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: December 28 2017 at 11:17
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Krishna Das American kirtan and new age harmonium player and singer.  ------------- when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 29 2017 at 03:52
Lawrence Durrell (India 1912 – France 1990), British novelist, poet, dramatist and travel writer. Works include e.g. The Alexandria Quartet (1957-60). He moved to Corfu in 1935 -- as perhaps remembered by those who have read, or seen the TV series based on, his little brother Gerald's popular autobiographic books. |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 29 2017 at 06:16
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Marcel Dassault (1892 - 1986). French aircraft industrialist. Mirage III, Super Étendard, Mirage 4000, Rafale, etc.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: December 29 2017 at 09:23
Nick Drake (1948 - 1974), English singer-songwriter. Recorded three acoustic guitar based albums and committed a suicide.   |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 30 2017 at 12:03
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Ophelia of Denmark. A character in Shakespeare's Hamlet.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: December 30 2017 at 21:37
Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982) American science fiction writer, author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (the inspiration for Blade Runner) and The Man in the High Castle ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 31 2017 at 11:02
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Quincy Delightt Jones (b. 1933) or simply Quincy Jones. American musician, composer, arranger, producer, etc.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: December 31 2017 at 11:12
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Richard Dawkins (born 1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, author, and outspoken atheist  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 31 2017 at 23:08
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Salvador Dalí (1904 - 1989) Spanish genius.   ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: January 01 2018 at 11:10
Tess Durbyfield, tragic heroine of Thomas Hardy's classic 1891 novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Here portrayed by Nastassja Kinski in Roman Polanski's 1979 adaptation "Tess." (I read and enjoyed the novel in university, though I preferred Hardy's lighter work Far From the Madding Crowd. ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: January 02 2018 at 03:50
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Hi Peter, nice choices you've got here. ^ My T.D. would have been Tyler Durden. Had no-one for U.D. or V.D., (does someone have?) and I bet X, Y and Z will be skipped too. But here's an obvious one: Walt Disney (1901 - 1966), American entrepreneur, animator and film producer.  |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: January 02 2018 at 06:43
Thanks, Matti!  Here's a good -- if less highbrow -- "UD" (though her initials might better be DD ):Uschi Digard (born 1948) Swedish-born former soft core actor, best remembered for showing her top shelf talents in various Russ Meyer movies.  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: January 02 2018 at 06:47
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Going directly to the combo *E. Ahmet Ertegun (1923 - 2006). Turkish-American business man. Head of Atlantic Records. Important name for the rock music.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: January 02 2018 at 06:56
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Blake Edwards (1922 - 2010) William Blake Crump, American filmmaker of Pink Panther fame  -------------
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: January 02 2018 at 07:00
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One rock producer deserves another: Bob Ezrin (born 1949) Canadian record producer, best known for working with major-league rock acts including Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Deep Purple, and Kiss.  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: January 02 2018 at 07:02
Whoops! Too slow!  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: January 02 2018 at 09:18
Carolus Enckell (1945 - 2017), Finnish painter and essayist. |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: January 02 2018 at 13:49
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^^^ Let it stay... QUOD ABUNDAT NON NOCET.
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: January 02 2018 at 14:36
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Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974). American composer, pianist, bandleader, etc.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |