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Magnum Vaeltaja 
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Richard Branson
British entrepreneur and investor; billionaire founder of the Virgin Group.  |
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when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents
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Atkingani
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Posted: December 14 2017 at 14:52 |
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Simon Bolivar (1783 - 1830).
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Matti
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Posted: December 15 2017 at 03:06 |
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Timothy Bottoms (1951 - ), American actor and film producer.
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Atkingani
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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.  |
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^Van Buren is a Dutch surname, in which "van" is a prefix.
W.A. van Buren (b. 1967) 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.  Edited by someone_else - December 15 2017 at 12:21 |
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Atkingani
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Posted: December 15 2017 at 14:32 |
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^ 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.
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Matti
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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.) |
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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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Claudia Cardinale (born 1938).
Italian actress and goddess.  Edited by Atkingani - December 16 2017 at 18:58 |
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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).
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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: December 18 2017 at 04:13 |
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Frank Capra (1897 - 1991).
Italian-American film director.  |
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Gustave Courbet (1819 – 1877), French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th century French painting.
 The Desperate Man (Self Portrait), 1843-5. |
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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. |
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Ingram Cecil Connor III (1946 - 1973)
American musician, commonly known as Gram Parsons  |
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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.  |
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Klaas Compaen (1587-1660)
Dutch corsair and pirate  |
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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?  |
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Sir Michael Caine (1933 - ), English actor and producer.
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Posted: December 19 2017 at 05:15 |
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^I thought you should go with Marcus Tullius Cicero...
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