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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Cleopatra.. she must have been some woman.. she enchanted Two strong leaders.

The ancient Egyptians,the Pyramid at Giza built perfectly aligned to the cardinal points 4,500 years ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Malcolm X

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lawrence of Arabia, supposedly I'm related to him from my dad's side of the family ...

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Marcel Marceau-mime artist.

before he became a mine clown he was a member of the French resistance in World War II.he smuggled 70 Jewish children out of the country by posing as a boy scout leader,he led them through the wilderness to neutral Switzerland.

later a liaison officer to general george patton's army

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Interesting ( but not admired).

Hitler

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Emillie pankhurst I mean she burnt her bravissimo

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mary Seacole

Jamaican nurse who helped British Soldiers

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

Ghandi

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Ghandi "
is that because hairdressers the world over were frustrated by him?

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT


"Ghandi is that because hairdressers the world over were frustrated by him? "
Go to sleep

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Ghandi is that because hairdressers the world over were frustrated by him? "
no it's because he he ousted a British Empire by peaceful means. I think he was a marvelous person from history the nearest the Earth has had to a modern Jesus

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT


"Ghandi is that because hairdressers the world over were frustrated by him? "
He was a peaceful humble human being.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Ghandi is that because hairdressers the world over were frustrated by him? He was a peaceful humble human being."
I'm humble but noisy and have a full head of hair

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT


"Ghandi is that because hairdressers the world over were frustrated by him? He was a peaceful humble human being.I'm humble but noisy and have a full head of hair "
A wig?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Ghandi is that because hairdressers the world over were frustrated by him? He was a peaceful humble human being.I'm humble but noisy and have a full head of hair A wig?"
syrup you mean noooooo

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT


"Ghandi is that because hairdressers the world over were frustrated by him? He was a peaceful humble human being.I'm humble but noisy and have a full head of hair A wig?syrup you mean noooooo"

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By *oss and SuzieCouple
over a year ago

Porthmadog

Genghis Khan. Must have been a bit of a lad for 20% of the west to have DNA related to him.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Ghandi is that because hairdressers the world over were frustrated by him? He was a peaceful humble human being.I'm humble but noisy and have a full head of hair A wig?syrup you mean noooooo

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I do love a fig though having said that we digress and I have someone else I'd like to dedicate homage to, Michelle mone love that woman

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

Rasputin

Julius Caesar

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross


"Ghandi "

Known to millions as GooseyGoosey

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By *urydiceRisingWoman
over a year ago

Dublin

Anais Nin - a true sexual explorer, writer, philosopher, deviant

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Father Jean Gerardot

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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago

liverpool wavertree picton clock

Nikola Tesla

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By *ssex_tomMan
over a year ago

Chelmsford

Oliver Cromwell.. Lord Protector.. he would sort out our Parliament..

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

John Noakes -Blue Peter presenter.

John Noakes was born in Shelf, Yorkshire and was the longest serving presenter on Blue Peter.

when most presenters still used 'received pronunciation' on the BBC John Noakes kept to his Yorkshire accent.

For a while he held the record for free fall parachute jumping (5 mile).

His freind and TV companion the border collie 'Shep' gave him an

unintended catchphrase "Get down Shep" !

For Blue Peter he climbed Nelson's Column without any safety harnesses whatsoever, using a simple wooden ladder at the very top.

he died in May 2017 and half his ashes were scattered from a Firework rocket at is former Rishworth school near Halifax Yorkshire !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Malcolm M

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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago

liverpool wavertree picton clock

Dr Royal Rife

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By *V-AliceTV/TS
over a year ago

Ayr

Luis Walter Alvarez

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It would be interesting to discover if Oscar Wilde was quite as witty as posterity would have us believe.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Karen Carpenter .

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American singer

and drummer part of a duo with her brother Richard.

She is listed in Rolling Stone magazine as one of the 100 greatest singers of all time.

the first band 'Richard Carpenter trio' she did not sing, she played the drums and was an accomplished drummer she also played bass guitar.. At 5ft 4", she could not be seen behind the drum kit by reviewers . she was persuaded to stand at the microphone in front singing

She had the eating disorder anorexia nervosa which was related to her death from complications. Her death raised awareness of eating disorders..

She died in 1983 aged only 32 at her funeral over 1000 people attended

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Ghandi is that because hairdressers the world over were frustrated by him? no it's because he he ousted a British Empire by peaceful means. I think he was a marvelous person from history the nearest the Earth has had to a modern Jesus"

Ghandi was an incredible man

I also admired Maya Angelou

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Emily Wilding Davison suffragette..

She was force-fed 49 times.

she achieved first class honours in English but could not graduate because degrees from Oxford were closed to women. In a recently made Clare Balding documentary about her, a slowed down video

of old film clearly shows she was trying to pin a banner/scarf on King George V horse in the 1913 Derby at Epsom and not trying to kill herself..

There is a plaque to her at Epsom racecourse

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By *tephTV67TV/TS
over a year ago

Cheshire

Sir Nicholas George Winton MBE was a British humanitarian who established an organization to rescue children at risk from Nazi Germany. Born to German-Jewish parents who had emigrated to Britain, Winton supervised the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II. Ref; Wikipedia

Check out the clip on YouTube, That's Life, where he is in the audience, what happened next brought me to tears

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Mary Seacole

Jamaican nurse who helped British Soldiers

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She was a pioneer! I'd love to have dinner with her and Florence Nightingale

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Sir Nicholas George Winton MBE was a British humanitarian who established an organization to rescue children at risk from Nazi Germany. Born to German-Jewish parents who had emigrated to Britain, Winton supervised the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II. Ref; Wikipedia

Check out the clip on YouTube, That's Life, where he is in the audience, what happened next brought me to tears "
remember seeing it... one of the best things television ever did

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It is not the famous nor the infamous that intrigue me, it is the normal people that go above and beyond

I could fill this thread, but shall offer just one, Irena Sendler

When World War II broke out, Irena Sendler was a 29-year-old social worker, employed by the Welfare Department of the Warsaw municipality.

After the German occupation, the department continued to take care of the great number of poor and dispossessed people in the city.

Irena Sendler took advantage of her job in order to help the Jews, however this became practically impossible once the ghetto was sealed off in November 1940.

Close to 400,000 people had been driven into the small area that had been allocated to the ghetto, and their situation soon deteriorated.

The poor hygienic conditions in the crowded ghetto, the lack of food and medical supplies resulted in epidemics and high death rates.

Irena Sendler, at great personal danger, devised means to get into the ghetto and help the dying Jews.

She managed to obtain a permit from the municipality that enabled her to enter the ghetto to inspect the sanitary conditions.

Once inside the ghetto, she established contact with activists of the Jewish welfare organization and began to help them.

She helped smuggle Jews out of the ghetto to the Aryan side and helped set up hiding places for them.

When the Council for Aid to Jews (Zegota) was established, Sendler became one of its main activists.

The Council was created in fall 1942, after 280,000 Jews were deported from Warsaw to Treblinka.

When it began to function towards the end of the year, most of the Jews of Warsaw had been killed.

But it played a crucial role in the rescue of a large number who had survived the massive deportations. The organization took care of thousands of Jews who were trying to survive in hiding, seeking hiding places, and paying for the upkeep and medical care.

In September 1943, four months after the Warsaw ghetto was completely destroyed, Sendler was appointed director of Zegota’s Department for the Care of Jewish Children.

Sendler, whose underground name was Jolanta, exploited her contacts with orphanages and institutes for abandoned children, to send Jewish children there.

Many of the children were sent to the Rodzina Marii (Family of Mary) Orphanage in Warsaw, and to religious institutions run by nuns in nearby Chotomów, and in Turkowice, near Lublin.

The exact number of children saved by Sendler and her partners is unknown.

On 20 October 1943, Sendler was arrested. She managed to stash away incriminating evidence such as the coded addresses of children in the care of Zegota and large sums of money to pay to those who helped Jews.

She was sentenced to death and sent to the infamous Pawiak prison, but underground activists managed to bribe officials to release her.

Her close encounter with death did not deter her from continuing her activity. After her release in February 1944, even though she knew that the authorities were keeping an eye on her, Sendler continued her underground activities.

Because of the danger she had to go into hiding. The necessities of her clandestine life prevented her from attending her mother's funeral.

She eventually passed away in 2008, aged 98

Above and beyond x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have a fascination for Savants..... The Real Rain-man, Kim Peek and his ability just fascinated me as does all other savants ...... Gilles Tréhin, Daniel Tammant , Stephen Wiltshire, Orlando Serrell

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By *ORDERMANMan
over a year ago

wrexham

Charles Edward Stuart... The bonnie Prince..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It is not the famous nor the infamous that intrigue me, it is the normal people that go above and beyond

I could fill this thread, but shall offer just one, Irena Sendler

When World War II broke out, Irena Sendler was a 29-year-old social worker, employed by the Welfare Department of the Warsaw municipality.

After the German occupation, the department continued to take care of the great number of poor and dispossessed people in the city.

Irena Sendler took advantage of her job in order to help the Jews, however this became practically impossible once the ghetto was sealed off in November 1940.

Close to 400,000 people had been driven into the small area that had been allocated to the ghetto, and their situation soon deteriorated.

The poor hygienic conditions in the crowded ghetto, the lack of food and medical supplies resulted in epidemics and high death rates.

Irena Sendler, at great personal danger, devised means to get into the ghetto and help the dying Jews.

She managed to obtain a permit from the municipality that enabled her to enter the ghetto to inspect the sanitary conditions.

Once inside the ghetto, she established contact with activists of the Jewish welfare organization and began to help them.

She helped smuggle Jews out of the ghetto to the Aryan side and helped set up hiding places for them.

When the Council for Aid to Jews (Zegota) was established, Sendler became one of its main activists.

The Council was created in fall 1942, after 280,000 Jews were deported from Warsaw to Treblinka.

When it began to function towards the end of the year, most of the Jews of Warsaw had been killed.

But it played a crucial role in the rescue of a large number who had survived the massive deportations. The organization took care of thousands of Jews who were trying to survive in hiding, seeking hiding places, and paying for the upkeep and medical care.

In September 1943, four months after the Warsaw ghetto was completely destroyed, Sendler was appointed director of Zegota’s Department for the Care of Jewish Children.

Sendler, whose underground name was Jolanta, exploited her contacts with orphanages and institutes for abandoned children, to send Jewish children there.

Many of the children were sent to the Rodzina Marii (Family of Mary) Orphanage in Warsaw, and to religious institutions run by nuns in nearby Chotomów, and in Turkowice, near Lublin.

The exact number of children saved by Sendler and her partners is unknown.

On 20 October 1943, Sendler was arrested. She managed to stash away incriminating evidence such as the coded addresses of children in the care of Zegota and large sums of money to pay to those who helped Jews.

She was sentenced to death and sent to the infamous Pawiak prison, but underground activists managed to bribe officials to release her.

Her close encounter with death did not deter her from continuing her activity. After her release in February 1944, even though she knew that the authorities were keeping an eye on her, Sendler continued her underground activities.

Because of the danger she had to go into hiding. The necessities of her clandestine life prevented her from attending her mother's funeral.

She eventually passed away in 2008, aged 98

Above and beyond x"

Fantastic, the world was built by people like this

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By *piritsonfabCouple
over a year ago

Nottingham


"Marcel Marceau-mime artist.

before he became a mine clown he was a member of the French resistance in World War II.he smuggled 70 Jewish children out of the country by posing as a boy scout leader,he led them through the wilderness to neutral Switzerland.

later a liaison officer to general george patton's army"

Wow. That's awesome

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By *r D30Man
over a year ago

Loughborough

Richard Burton. Victorian explorer, brought back and translated Arabian nights as well as being a frequent flyer in pretty much every brothel in the known world at the time.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Che Guevara

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By *uciyassMan
over a year ago

sheffield

Boris Johnson. He was PM once wasn’t he

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hannibal, to at least ask what's its like up a mountain with a column of elephants .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh and Einstein. What a brain box.

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By *ORDERMANMan
over a year ago

wrexham


"Richard Burton. Victorian explorer, brought back and translated Arabian nights as well as being a frequent flyer in pretty much every brothel in the known world at the time. "

Not forgetting the karma sutra which he translated..

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