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 Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 8:22 pm
I'm bored, it's late, and physics is frying my brain. Now then, let's play a history game. Name a random historical figure type person and list a little known fact about said person. The next person to post should either named name a person with either the same first or last named as the previous person listed, a person from the same time period, or a person from the same era. Since my brain is fried right now, let's go with the following:
A young woman named Jane Grey was queen for nine days before Elizabeth I of England came into power.
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Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 5:28 pm
Elizabeth I of England was a Virgin Queen and had a dog she was very fond of.
Yeah, I can't think of anything.
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Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 6:14 pm
Richard Nixon had a dog who he was very famous for, and was the only president to ever resign.
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 1:35 pm
Richard Plantagenet I revolted against his father, but his father Henry II let him keep the title of Duke of Aquitaine.
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 6:42 pm
Eleanor of Aquitaine, the mother of Richard the Lionheart, divorced her first husband.
Oh! Two in one! SCORE! xO
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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 5:09 pm
Adlai Stevenson said : "What other single human being has touched and transformed the existence of so many? She walked in the slums and ghettos of the world, not on a tour of inspection, but as one who could not feel contentment when others were hungry" about Elenor Roovesvelt. (I <3 Adlai. His name mean's god is jsut. I jsut think that's great.)
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 6:27 pm
tgas Adlai Stevenson said : "What other single human being has touched and transformed the existence of so many? She walked in the slums and ghettos of the world, not on a tour of inspection, but as one who could not feel contentment when others were hungry" about Elenor Roovesvelt. (I <3 Adlai. His name mean's god is jsut. I jsut think that's great.) Theodore Roosevelt was President of the United Sates during the early 1900's, and established some of the first national parks.
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Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 9:57 pm
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a cousin of Teddy Roosevelt's. Polio confined him to a wheelchair, and photographs of him were only ever taken from the waist up, to disguise this fact.
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Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 3:27 pm
FDR's wife, Elanore Roosevelt, was his cousin.
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Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 7:21 pm
Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of Britain from 1940-1945, and then again from 1951-1955.
I won NaNo! =DD
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Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 6:38 pm
Spencer Perceval was the first and only British Prime Minister to be assassinated.
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 6:23 pm
Edmund Spenser went to Merchant Taylor's school.
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Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 7:01 pm
tgas Edmund Spenser went to Merchant Taylor's school. Edmund was the name of a character in The Chronicles of Narnia, a series created by C.S. Lewis for children.
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 7:22 pm
Lewis Carroll, a.k.a. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, wrote the Alice in Wonderland books and lots of whimsical poetry. (Incidentally, his birthday was the same day [different year, obviously] as mine. ninja )
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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 9:07 am
Charles I's statue near Trafalgar Square sits facing his place of exectution. Also, Charles I's father was gay.
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