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Favorite historical figures?

I no order not neccesarily favourite more the best.

Charles darwin
Thomas jefferson
Albert einstien
Issac newton
Aristotle
Winston churchill
Thomas edison
George orwell
Leonardo da vinci
Michael faraday
Nicalous copernicus
Galileo galeli
 
hey, thanks for ****ing up the page margins bub.
 
bushrules91 said:
what happened to three? you sure have a lot of favorites. no offense
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LOL. I missed the part where it was supposed to be only 3.

1. Thomas Jefferson
2. Benjamin Franklin
3. George Washington
 
Frank Gerow and Thomas Cronin
 
I’m going to go with the first two authors that interested me as a 3rd grade elementary school student with a penchant for reading and a grandmother steeped in 19th century literature.

Arthur Conan Doyle and his contemporary Bram Stoker.

They got me into “reading” and feeding my mind. To this day, if I am eating a bowl of cereal in the morning, I am reading the list of nutritional contents on the side of the box. I really can’t imagine not being able to read. Talk about torture.

I could list many more and many favorites from my state history. But if I go back to those authors and their works they were the first sparks that ignited my mind. Nana knew what she was doing too; just a few years later she threw Shakespeare at me!
 
Johnny Depp
Brad Pitt
Jennifer Aniston
 
justone said:
Brueghel is awsome, gets to you to the bottom

What is your take on Hieronymus Bosch? He is super, sometimes I go between them 2, whom I like more

Hieronymus Bosch - Google Image Search
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Bosch is more like Salvatore Dali, his paintings are full of strange monsters. He is interresting if you want to see the conception of heaven and hell at that time, and late medieval morality.

Brueghel is more "realist" I think, some of his paintings are like photographs of the late middle age. And in "netherlandish proverbs", you can see around 100 different proverbs in a single painting.

Netherlandish Proverbs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
Paris has potential... but she is not "historical" yet

I also thought of...

Kobe Bryant
Kelly Slater
Keanu Reaves
 
1. George Washington
2. John Locke
3. Martin Luther King Jr.
 
1. Thomas Jefferson
2. Bill Clinton
3. George W. Bush Jr.
 
George Orwell
Emmanuel Kant
Kurt Vonnegut
Zamyatin
RightAtNYU
 
Jonathan Swift: Quite possibly the wittiest man who ever walked the earth, IMO. Any person who appreciates truly ingenius wit should read every single one of his essays.

Hypatia of Alexandria: A truly brilliant woman and she was witty in her own right. She once showed her menstral rags to a potential suitor in order to turn him down in a not-so-gentle manner. Now that's some funny **** right there! I'd LOVE to have met the woman who did something like that.

James Wright: Inventor of Silly Putty. 'nuff said.
 
Sun Tzu
Winston Churchill
Babe Ruth for the historical sports figure
 
Steve Austin (The Six Million Dollar Man) I wanted to be bionic so bad. Now that I have titanium screws holding my shoulder together.... it sux.

Mary Anne from Gilligan's Island....she was instrumental in awakening my inner porn star.

Ozzy Ozbourne... still giving hope to ugly, incoherent, talentless hacks after 500 years.
 
Saladin
Churchill
Pankhurst
 
Alexander the Great
Brian Boru
Abraham Lincoln
 
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
Albert Einstein
George Orwell

Speaking of Einstein, here is my desktop backround...

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Mohandas Gandhi (I hate when people spell it Ghandi)
Niccolo Machiavelli
Galileo Galilei
Abu Ali Sina Balkhi (Avicenna)
 
H.L. Mencken
Sinclair Lewis
Senators Robert M LaFollette, Sr, & Jr.
Margaret Sanger
Ezra Pound


OswaldTheOsprey
 
1. Buddha
2. Hitler

I'll explain if necessary to avoid "OMG YOU ARE LIEK A NAZI?!?!?1/1111".
 
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