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Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 4:33 am

I say at the moment because I tend to get enamored quickly and become disenchanted and re-enamored ( xd ) with someone else just as quickly. My standard favorite tends to be Leonardo Da Vinci, but after I read Galileo's Daughter I became very interested in his works and what his destroyed letters might have contained. Anyone else have any favorites or points of interest, and why?

Tell me lots...I need a new enamorata! heart domokun

Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 11:53 am

Guy Fawkes. The man was a complete moron. *And* there's a poem about the Gunpowder Plot. What's not to love?

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Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 1:49 pm

Calvin Coolidge, because no one knows who he was, but he was the president before Hoover. surprised heart

Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 2:03 pm

Peter the Great; he tried so hard to westernize Russia.

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Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 4:21 pm

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a pop musician before MTV and VH1 and who spent his very short life writing more music than any of the so-called artists of today can dream about. He was the heavy metal artist of his time and enjoyed placing odd instruments together. Historically he was one of the first classical artists who relied on the common people instead of being a roch lord's pet composer, an unheard of thing if you write operas and concertos.

Next to him is Robert Teach. Brownie points if you know who that is and what he did.

Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 4:54 pm

Familiar with the name, .Far, but I don't remember the specifics...

As a yout' I idolized Thomas Alva Edison. He had an interesting life story... Once he burned down his father's barn just to watch it burn. Then he was taken to the town suqare and spanked in front of everyone...

Of course, he was also a consummate inventor, as well.

Quote:

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
-- Thomas Edison

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Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 12:11 am

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a pop musician before MTV and VH1 and who spent his very short life writing more music than any of the so-called artists of today can dream about. He was the heavy metal artist of his time and enjoyed placing odd instruments together. Historically he was one of the first classical artists who relied on the common people instead of being a roch lord's pet composer, an unheard of thing if you write operas and concertos.

Next to him is Robert Teach. Brownie points if you know who that is and what he did.

Are we talking about Robert Teach as in Blackbeard the Pirate, captain of the Queen Anne's Revenge, or is there another one I'm missing too?

Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 11:59 pm

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a pop musician before MTV and VH1 and who spent his very short life writing more music than any of the so-called artists of today can dream about. He was the heavy metal artist of his time and enjoyed placing odd instruments together. Historically he was one of the first classical artists who relied on the common people instead of being a roch lord's pet composer, an unheard of thing if you write operas and concertos.

Next to him is Robert Teach. Brownie points if you know who that is and what he did.

Are we talking about Robert Teach as in Blackbeard the Pirate, captain of the Queen Anne's Revenge, or is there another one I'm missing too?

*hands out the brownie points* Yup, Blackbeard, a man so feared that it was believed the Devil sent him to rot in Purgatory instead of allowing him into Hell. Also he founded a couple of cities in Madagascar (a favorite pirate island hangout) and light his hair on fire before he went into battle.

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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 12:44 pm

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Akiyoko

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a pop musician before MTV and VH1 and who spent his very short life writing more music than any of the so-called artists of today can dream about. He was the heavy metal artist of his time and enjoyed placing odd instruments together. Historically he was one of the first classical artists who relied on the common people instead of being a roch lord's pet composer, an unheard of thing if you write operas and concertos.

Next to him is Robert Teach. Brownie points if you know who that is and what he did.

Are we talking about Robert Teach as in Blackbeard the Pirate, captain of the Queen Anne's Revenge, or is there another one I'm missing too?

*hands out the brownie points* Yup, Blackbeard, a man so feared that it was believed the Devil sent him to rot in Purgatory instead of allowing him into Hell. Also he founded a couple of cities in Madagascar (a favorite pirate island hangout) and light his hair on fire before he went into battle.

Yep, now that I hear it I know. I'm not sure where I learned it, but I did know it deep inside the thinkmeats I like to think I use.

Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 5:58 pm

Today my favorite historical personage is Elagabalus. What's not to love about one of Rome's crazy emperors? Look him up some time, there's some interesting stuff on him out there.