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Sun Nov-09-08 01:39 PM
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Who do you consider the most fascinating people in history? |
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In no particular order and it's mostly just off the top of my head. So I can gurantee that I left a ton of people off the my list.
Dr. Nicola Tesla Khan family Che Guevara Patrice Lumumba Qin Shi Huang the borgias Chairman Mao Zedong Nina Simone
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Sun Nov-09-08 01:48 PM
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KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!!
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Sun Nov-09-08 01:57 PM
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4. The most famous Genghis Khan |
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but his decedents were also very prolific in their conquering. They are overlooked entirely too much by history in my humble opinion
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Sun Nov-09-08 01:58 PM
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5. Yeah, everybody's heard of Genghis, a lot of people have heard of Kubla, but |
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there were a lot of other ones about.
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Sun Nov-09-08 02:05 PM
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allowed women to own property and seek litigation. Same as Genghis Khan he allowed people to worship freely and this all took place around 1252.
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Sun Nov-09-08 01:50 PM
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2. Tesla is pretty interesting. |
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I think Bobby Fischer is a fascinating character, in that it's oddly fascinating to see someone so obviously, brilliantly talented fall so quickly off the deep end.
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Sun Nov-09-08 01:55 PM
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Julius Robert Oppenheimer
Jack Roosevelt Robinson
Amelia Earhart
William Randolph Hearst
Henry Ford
George Herman "Babe" Ruth
This is a very thought-provoking question. :thumbsup:
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Sun Nov-09-08 01:58 PM
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6. Hmm... a lot of world-changing people... |
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are the kind of people I wouldn't want babysitting my kids. :P
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Sun Nov-09-08 02:02 PM
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7. wait just one minute here |
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you have kids?
Did something happen I am un aware of?
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Sun Nov-09-08 07:27 PM
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17. Not that I know of... |
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and I haven't been around THAT much, so probably not at all... :P
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Sun Nov-09-08 02:02 PM
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8. I don't think I'd want mine playing with Oppie's toys |
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"Herbert! You're positively glowing!"
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Sun Nov-09-08 02:07 PM
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Not so much in the original Hindu people that the term originated, but in wandering people all together.
Sailors Voyagers Adventurers Searchers Nomadic peoples Gatherers Pioneers Bohemians Explorers Wanderers Etc
So many peoples broke off into these sub-groups that I couldnt really say one people. I am facinated with the Appalachian people though. But underneath it is really because most fit into one of those segments I mentioned.
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Sun Nov-09-08 02:41 PM
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11. T.E. Lawrence for one |
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Howard Hughes, Muhamed Ali, Lady Bathori, Greta Garbo, Mozart
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Sun Nov-09-08 02:47 PM
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12. People who took on the authorities and put their lives on the line |
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Edited on Sun Nov-09-08 02:48 PM by lunatica
Harriet Tubman who not only kept going back to lead slaves to freedom, but who turned out to be a very valuable spy for Union forces in the Civil war. She would just walk into the Confederate camps and wait on them as if she was one of their slaves and they never even noticed or cared that she would be there during their strategy meetings. She also lead the Union army through deadly swamps on a few occasions saving their lives.
Suffragettes who fought over many generations to bring us the vote.
Black civil rights leaders Rosa Parks, MLK jr. Medgar Evers,
Mahatma Ghandi and the Dalai Lama.
With so much fear that paralyzes people now I wonder what they would think of us.
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Sun Nov-09-08 03:06 PM
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Edited on Sun Nov-09-08 03:07 PM by cemaphonic
Suleyman is pretty underrated too.
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Sun Nov-09-08 03:46 PM
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14. George Washington, Ghenghis Khan, Muhammad, Eleanor or Aquitaine, |
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Francis of Assissi, Leonardo Da Vinci, Sappho, Pope Sylvester II (Gerbert of Aurilac)...
That's off the top of my head.
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Sun Nov-09-08 05:00 PM
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15. definitely Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Elizabeth I, Thomas Jefferson |
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Theodore Roosevelt
for starters.
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Sun Nov-09-08 05:28 PM
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16. OP should state a limit! :) Cleopatra; Newton; JFK; Nixon; "King Arthur". |
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Sun Nov-09-08 08:13 PM
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Really I was hoping to generate discussion about prominent figures from the past. Most of the people listed in this topic barely get a paragraph in most History books (well at least the American educational system).
For example Dr. Nicola Tesla was probably one of the most brilliant inventors the world has ever known yet he is almost non-existent from American history books.
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Sun Nov-09-08 08:14 PM
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19. Margaret Sanger. Thomas Jefferson. Abraham Lincoln.... |
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Eleanor Roosevelt. Amelia Earhardt (sp?) Hunter S. Thompson Studs Terkel Molly Ivins Dorothea Lange Susan B. Anthony Eugene V. Debs
Just the ones that come to mind.
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Sun Nov-09-08 08:16 PM
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John Admas Jefferson Washington Lincoln Homer Metacomet Shackleton James Cook
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Sun Nov-09-08 09:51 PM
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Eleanor of Aquitaine is one, and Thomas Jefferson another, but there are many many more I find fascinating.
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Edited on Sun Nov-09-08 10:19 PM by socialdemocrat1981
1. Jesus Christ and his disciples 2. Emperor Akbar of India 3. Shah Jehan (who built the Taj Mahal) in India 4. JFK and Robert Kennedy 5. Mary Pinchot Meyer (President Kennedy's lover) 6. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran 7. Abraham Lincoln 8. Martin Luther King Jr. 9. Mahatma Gandhi and Prime Minister Nehru of India 10. Pierre Trudeau 11. Emperors Claudius, Caligula and Nero of Rome
And many more...
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Sun Nov-09-08 10:45 PM
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24. The early feminists, of course! |
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Edited on Sun Nov-09-08 11:05 PM by nytemare
Col. Klauss Von Stauffenburg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_Schenk_von_StauffenbergChiune Sugihara http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiune_SugiharaCarl Sagan In recent history Liviu Librescu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liviu_LibrescuAdolf Hitler. And I have to add Amelia Earhart. I guess there is some theme to my picks, being that one was a dictator, and many of the others tried to fight him and/or his ilk.
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Mon Nov-10-08 01:40 AM
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here is a partial list:
Hypatia Erik the Red all the women especially of the Icelandic Sagas Empress Theodora Rabia al-Adawiyya Jalal ad-din Muhammad Balkhi (aka Rumi) Borte (first and favorite wife of Genghis Khan, a real power broker in her own right.) Timur-i-Leng (aka Tamurlane) Vlad Tepes Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel Dr. John Dee Sir Philip Sidney Aphra Behn Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Walt Whitman Marie LaVeau Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin William Butler Yeats Maud Gonne Mata Hari "Two-Gun" Sid Hatfield Aleister Crowley Doreen Valiente Alan Turing
...I could go on and on and on....
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Charles James Fox - Radical Whig and scourge of William Pitt and George III.
Duke of Wellington - probably Britain's greatest general. Probably Britain's worst prime minister.
Nye Bevan - the creator of the British NHS
Erasmus of Rotterdam - great renaissance scholar and theologian
Ivan the Terrible - fascinating, but for all the wrong reasons.
But there's plenty more then that.
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