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Donatello - Artist (visual)

 

cut and paste job:

 

Unquestionably the greatest sculptor of the early Renaissance, Donatello [wiki] was born in Florence, though he traveled widely and was famous throughout Italy. Donatello had complete mastery of bronze, stone, wood, and terra cotta, and nothing escaped his extraordinary capabilities: relief sculpture, nudes, equestrian statues, groups of figures, and single figures seated or standing. In fact, he reinvented the art of sculpture just as other contemporaries were reinventing the art of painting, and his innovations and discoveries were profoundly influential. Above all, Donatello seemed to be able to bring sculpture to life by his ability to tell a story, combine realism and powerful emotion, and create the impression that his figures were more than mere objects of beauty for passive contemplation, but creations filled with energy and thought, ready to spring into action.

 

http://www.italian-renaissance-art.com/images/Donatello-Annunciation.jpg

[Voltaire 5,392]

Conqurer/Consolidator
1 Genghis Khan - BPB - 4.3
2 Atilla the Hun - TBBOM - 4.4
3 Tamerlane - 90sb - 8.1
4 Qin Shi Huang Di - Volty - 16.5
5 Hernando Cortez - TBBOM - 23.2
6 Harry S. Truman - Vudu - 31.4
7 Saladin - TBBOM - 37.3s
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Administrator
1 Augustus Caesar - Volty- 10.5
2 Steven Smith - 90sb - 23.5
3 William the Conqurer - TBBOM - 31.2
4 Tang Taizong - Volty - 32.4
5 James E. Webb - Vudu - 42.2
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Statesman
1 Abraham Lincoln - BPB - 7.3
2 George Washington - Vudu - 11.4
3 Winston Churchill - TBBOM - 12.4
4 Theodore Roosevelt - 90sb - 13.5
5 Henry Clay - 90sb - 26.2s
6 Pericles - TBBOM - 33.2
7 John F. Kennedy - 90sb - 34.1
8 Simón Bolívar - Volty - 39.1
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Adviser
1 Otto von Bismark - TBBOM - 9.2
2 Niccolo Machiavelli - Volty - 18.6
3 Tony Schwartz - 90sb - 24.1
4 Dr. W. Edward Deming - BPB - 39.3
5 Cardinal Thomas Wolsey - TBBOM - 40.5
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General (tactical)
1 Alexander the Great - BPB - 3.3
2 Horatio Nelson - TBBOM - 7.2
3 Robert E. Lee - 90sb - 7.7
4 Hannibal - Volty - 9.1
5 Khalid ibn al-Walid - Volty - 32.4
6 George Patton - Vudu - 33.5
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General (strategical)
1 Sun Tzu - BPB - 1.3
2 Napoleon Bonaparte - Vudu - 5.4
3 Julius Caesar - 90sb - 10.1
4 Subutai - Volty - 10.5
5 Erwin Rommel - TBBOM - 13.2

6 Wellington (Arthur Wellesley) - TBBOM - 15.2
7 Norman Schwartzkopf - BPB - 33.4
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Reformer
1 Martin Luther - Volty - 8.5
2 Diocletian - TBBOM - 16.4
3 Harriet Tubman - 90sb - 19.5
4 Ashoka - Vudu - 21.4
5 Constantine the Great - Volty - 27.1
6 James Madison - TBBOM - 30.4
7 Oliver Cromwell - TBBOM - 37.2
8 Martin Luther King Jr. - BPB - 40.4
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Religious Leader
1 Jesus Christ - TBBOM - 1.2
2 Mohammid - TBBOM - 14.4
3 Buddha - BPB - 17.3
4 Moses - Vudu - 17.4
5 St. Paul - Volty - 38.5
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Explorer
1 Christopher Columbus - Volty - 4.5
2 Marco Polo - TBBOM - 5.2
3 Neil Armstrong - Vudu - 8.2
4 Jacques Cousteau - BPB 11.3
5 Lief Erickson - 90sb - 18.3s
6 Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastian Elcano - Volty - 30.5
7 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark - BPB - 34.3
8 Edmund Hillary - 90sb - 39.4
9 Vasco da Gama - Volty - 42.5
10 Francisco Pizarro - Volty - 43.1
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Mathematician
1 Leonhard Euler - 90sb - 2.4s
2 Euclid - Volty - 20.5
3 Carl Friedrich Gauss - TBBOM - 21.2
4 G.F. Bernhard Riemann - BPB - 23.3
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1 Hippocrates - TBBOM - 11.2
2 Alexander Flemming - 90sb - 12.1
3 Joseph Lister - BPB - 21.3
4 Sigmund Freud - TBBOM - 22.4
5 Edward Jenner - Volty - 23.1
6 Paracelsus - Vudu - 27.4
7 C. Walton Lillehei - BPB - 35.3
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1 Albert Einstein - Vudu - 1.4
2 Stephen Hawking - BPB - 2.2
3 Nicola Tesla - TBBOM - 3.2
4 J. Robert Oppenheimer - 90sb - 7.4s
5 Galileo Galilei - Vudu - 13.4
6 Isaac Newton - Volty - 14.5
7 Nikolaus Copernicus - Volty - 19.1
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1 Charles Darwin - Volty - 5.1
2 Louis Pasteur - Vudu - 14.2
3 Antoine Lavoisier - Volty - 21.1
4 Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie - 90sb - 37.6
5 Linus Benedict Torvalds - 90sb - 38.1
6 Jonas Salk - BPB - 38.3
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Social Scientist
1 Adam Smith - Volty- 7.1
2 E.O. Wilson - BPB- 18.2
3 Karl Marx - TBBOM - 19.2
4 Emile Durkheim - 90sb - 20.1

5 John Locke - Volty - 24.5
6 Timothy Leary - BPB - 36.3
7 Auguste Comte - Vudu - 38.2
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Inventor
1 Orville and Wilbur Wright - 90sb - 3.5
2 Thomas Edison - BPB - 5.3
3 Roger L. Easton - 90sb - 7.5s
4 Johannes Gutenberg - Vudu - 9.4
5 Tim Berners-Lee - Vudu - 26.1
6 Cai Lun - Volty - 26.6
7 James Watt - TBBOM - 27.2
8 Alexander Graham Bell - Volty - 35.1
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1 Charles Babbage - 90sb - 2.3s
2 Alan Turning - BPB - 22.3
3 Michael Faraday - Volty - 22.5
4 Frank Lloyd Wright - BPB - 33.3s
5 John Logie Baird - Vudu - 34.2
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1 Thomas Jefferson - Volty - 13.1
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1 Aristotle - TBBOM - 6.3
2 Plato - 90sb - 11.5
3 Confucius - Volty - 17.1
4 Voltaire - Vudu - 23.4

5 Rene Descartes - BPB - 24.3
6 Alan Watts - BPB - 28.3
7 Socrates - Volty - 41.1

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1 Michaelangelo - Volty - 2.6
2 Rembrandt - 90sb - 18.4s
3 Vincent van Gogh - TBBOM - 18.5
4 Georgia O'Keeffe - Vudu - 19.4
5 Pablo Picasso - Volty - 34.5
6 Paul Cézanne - Vudu - 36.2
7 Donatello - BPB - 41.3
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Artist (performing)
1 The Beatles - Vudu - 4.2
2 Ronald Reagan - 90sb - 14.1
3 Niccolo Paganini - BPB - 25.3
4 Harry Houdini - TBBOM - 26.5
5 Michael Jackson - Volty - 29.1
6 Elvis Presley - TBBOM - 29.2
7 Paul Newman - Vudu - 29.4
8 Steve Irwin - 90sb - 40.1
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1 Michael Jordan - Vudu - 7.6
2 Jim Thorpe - Volty - 15.1
3 Herb Brooks - 90sb - 27.5
4 Pelé - Volty - 28.5
5 Vince Lombardi - 90sb - 33.5

6 Muhammad Ali - Vudu - 37.5

7 Bo Jackson - BPB - 42.3
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1 William Shakespeare - Volty - 3.1
2 Homer - TBBOM - 8.4
3 William Wordsworth - BPB - 21.3
4 Pablo Neruda - BPB - 27.3
5 Edgar Allen Poe - Vudu - 28.2
6 Lord Byron - TBBOM - 33.2
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1 Earnest Hemingway - BPB - 6.2
2 Charles Dickens - BPB - 14.3
3 Leo Tolstoy - TBBOM - 24.4
4 Mark Twain - Vudu - 30.2
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1 Herodotes - Vudu - 22.2

2 Marcus Tullius Cicero - Volty - 36.4

3 Nostradamus - TBBOM - 43.4
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Composer
1 Johann Sebastian Bach - Vudu - 2.1
2 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - BPB - 12.3
3 Ludwig von Beethoven - Volty - 12.5
4 Frédéric Chopin - TBBOM - 25.2
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1 Henry Ford - 90sb - 4.1
2 Steve Jobs - BPB - 8.3
3 John D. Rockefeller - Vudu - 20.2
4 Giovano di Bicci di Medici - TBBOM - 20.4
5 Andrew Carnegie - Vudu - 24.2
6 Bill Gates - Volty - 25.1
7 Sergei Brin and Larry Page - BPB - 26.3
8 J.P. Morgan - Volty - 31.1
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Jack-of-all-trades
1 Leonardo da Vinci - Volty - 1.1
2 Benjamin Franklin - Vudu - 15.4

3 Archimedes - 90sb - 22.1
3 Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz - Volty - 37.1
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Great Woman
1 Queen Elizabeth I - TBBOM - 2.5
2 Joan of Arc - Vudu - 10.2
3 Marie Curie - BPB - 13.3
4 Catherine the Great - BPB - 15.3
5 Amelia Earhart - 90sb - 15.5
6 Sacajawea - 90sb - 16.1
7 Florence Nightingale - Vudu- 18.1
8 Oprah Winfrey - 90sb - 26.4s
9 Eleanor Roosevelt - 90sb - 28.1
10 Isabella of Castile - TBBOM - 28.4
11 Empress Dowager Cixi - 41.2
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Seductress
1 Cleopatra - Volty - 6.4
2 Mata Hari - BPB - 16.3
3 Helen of Troy - TBBOM - 17.2
4 Anne Boelyn - TBBOM - 34.4
5 Lucrezia Borgia Vudu - 41.4
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1 Vlad the Impaler - Vudu - 6.1
2 Adolph Hitler - 90sb - 9.5
3 Joesph Stalin - TBBOM - 10.4
4 Caligula - 90sb - 29.5
5 Nero - 90sb - 30.1
6 Emperor Hirohito - BPB - 30.3
7 Mao Zedong - BPB - 31.3
8 Idi Amin - 90sb - 31.5
9 Ivan the Terrible - TBBOM - 35.2
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1 Nelson Mandela - Vudu - 3.4
2 Joquin Guzman - BPB - 9.3
3 Bernie Madoff - 90sb - 21.5
4 Mahatma Ghandi - Vudu - 25.4
5 Eric Snowden - BPB - 37.3

6 Osama bin Laden - Volty - 40.6
7 Jack The Ripper - 90sb - 41.5
8 Richard Nixon - 90sb - 42.1
9 Thug Behram - TBBOM - 43.2
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Talk Show Guest
1 Robin Williams - BPB - 10.3
2 Tom Waits - BPB - 29.3
3 Marquis de Sade - TBBOM - 38.4
4 Tsutomu Yamaguchi - TBBOM - 39.2
5 Porfirio Rubirosa - Vudu - 40.2

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1 William Orten - Vudu - 16.2
2 Andrew John Volstead - Vudu - 32.2
3 Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson - 90sb - 35.5
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1 Marilyn Monroe - Vudu - 12.2
2 Clint Eastwood - BPB - 19.3
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Only one more ninja turtle and one more personality from Bill and Ted's history report are left.

[Voltaire 5,392]

Another three hours or so...

 

... And no, nothing from 90sbaby in my inbox

[iam90sbaby 2,720]

Jack-The-Ripper (criminal) - Jack the Ripper is the best known name given to an unidentified serial killer generally believed to have been active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. The name "Jack the Ripper" originated in a letter written by someone claiming to be the murderer that was disseminated in the media. The letter is widely believed to have been a hoax, and may have been written by journalists in an attempt to heighten interest in the story and increase their newspapers' circulation. Within the crime case files, as well as in contemporary journalistic accounts, the killer was called "the Whitechapel Murderer" as well as "Leather Apron".

 

 

Osama bin Laden (criminal) - was the founder of al-Qaeda, the organization that claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks on the United States, along with numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets.^[5][6][7] He was a Saudi Arabian, a member of the wealthy bin Laden family, and an ethnic Yemeni Kindite.^[8]

 

 

I never knew me and Osama bin Laden had the same birthday.

[vuduchile 1,945]

Temptress

 

Lucrezia Borgia is long overdue for a makeover -- six centuries overdue, to be exact. Born the illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI and married off by the time she was 13, the 15th century temptress has been synonymous in the history books with murder, incest and High Renaissance papal intrigue. But was Lucrezia the woman truly as notorious as Lucrezia the myth?

British author Sarah Bradford tackles her story, determined to overturn centuries of bad press for the villainess, emphasizing that young Lucrezia was raised in a world rife with Machiavellian maneuverings. Rome in the rinascimento was a place where sexual intrigue and vendettas were an accepted fact of everyday life, where children were frequently betrothed in marriage while still in the womb.

Therefore it was not so unusual for Pope Alexander to marry his barely teenage daughter to the well-connected Giovanni Sforza, only to dissolve the union as soon as it no longer advanced his political interests. His reason for the church-sanctioned split? He claimed Lucrezia's husband was impotent. Eager to defend his sexual prowess, the spurned Sforza was the man responsible for starting the Borgia incest rumors; he insisted that the real motive behind the divorce was the lusty pontiff's desire to keep Lucrezia all to himself.

 

Bradford is quick to point out that there's little concrete evidence to support this claim, but still, the biographer proves she can dish with the best of them when necessary. Even as she's denying some of the more salacious rumors clinging to Lucrezia's legend, she faithfully includes the deliciously slanderous bits she stumbled across in her research. (One chronicler wrote that the pope's daughter was "the greatest there ever was in Rome," which would have been no small feat considering the number of courtesans in the city.) And when Lucrezia's second husband met with a violent end, many blamed her for the murder, though it was more likely attributable to her scheming brother, Cesare.

Still, a nagging question may begin to plague readers: Was Lucrezia only a mere pawn in an increasingly bloody game of chess, as Bradford would have us believe? The author insists that Lucrezia came into her own as a political dynamo only when she married her third husband, Alfonso d'Este, assuming the title Duchess of Ferrara. Far away from the Roman imbroglios of the troubled Borgia clan, Lucrezia became a doting mother, patron of the arts and, most notably, protector of Ferrara's Jewish citizens.

In a biography that reads with all the swift intrigue of a novel, Bradford touches upon Lucrezia's court rivalries with women, including her long-standing competition with her sister-in-law, Isabella d'Este, but reserves far more of the narrative for her subject's amorous liaisons. In this regard, Lucrezia the subject delivers more than ample fodder for her enthusiastic biographer. After charming Ludovico Ariosto with her legendary beauty, Lucrezia won herself a role in the author's epic poem "Orlando Furioso" before securing the love of Pietro Bembo, another great Renaissance poet who sang the praises of the duchess. (" 'If during this period you chance to find your ears are ringing it will be because I am ... writing pages about you that will still be read a century after we are gone.' ") Bradford shrinks from speculating about the true nature of the relationship between Lucrezia and Bembo, insisting that it's possible their romance was in the tradition of courtly -- not carnal -- love. Whatever their bond, the emphasis Bradford places on their friendship proves that the poet's longing missives achieved their desired effect on both their original recipient and her 21st century biographer.

But Bembo was hardly the last in a long line of Lucrezia's illustrious loves. She began a dangerous connection with her brother-in-law, the notorious womanizer Francesco Gonzaga, husband of the loathed Isabella. All of these romantic imbroglios must have served as a pleasant distraction for Lucrezia; when she wasn't shuttling to her country house to avoid the plague, she suffered from being nearly perpetually pregnant from the time she married d'Este until her death.

If Lucrezia's troubled pregnancies are heart wrenching, they offer modern readers an unexpected account of medicine in the cinquecento, particularly in the area of obstetrical care. Though attended by some of the most learned doctors in Renaissance Italy, she was still treated with largely medieval techniques and suffered several difficult deliveries, miscarriages and stillbirths before experiencing the tragedy that ultimately claimed her life at the age of 39.

The chief triumph of "Lucrezia Borgia," however, is the sheer magnitude of new research involved in the work; the author used private letters, diaries and even long-secret Vatican files, lending the portrait a tone far more credible than the sensationalized work of previous biographies. This new approach toward the life of a misunderstood woman proves that even long- despised historical figures can be rendered heroines in the end.

[vuduchile 1,945]

Administrator

 

James E Webb

 

 

2nd Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space

 

Webb oversaw NASA from the beginning of the Kennedy administration through the end of the Johnson administration, thus overseeing all the critical first manned launches in the Mercury through Gemini programs, until just before the first manned Apollo flight. He also dealt with the Apollo 1 fire.

 

In 2002, a planned space telescope, originally called the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST), was renamed the James Webb Space Telescope as a tribute to Webb.

[Voltaire 5,392]

You just barely missed out on Osama bin Laden, he just went off the board a few picks ago.

 

Damn, Lucretia Borgia is huge for seductress. On my list, I was hoping to get around to her.

[iam90sbaby 2,720]

Ah I went back to page one to see if he was picked and he wasn't didn't scroll up to check if had just been taken.

 

Richard Nixon (criminal)

[BiPolarBear 495]

Bo Jackson - Athlete

 

 

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Michel de Nostradame; better known as Nostradamus. Non fiction writer.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostradamus

[iam90sbaby 2,720]

Michel de Nostradame; better known as Nostradamus. Non fiction writer.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostradamus

 

My next pick.

[Voltaire 5,392]

42.5 Vasco de Gama - Explorer

 

The Portuguese navigator who sailed around Africa to reach India

 

43.1 Francisco Pizarro - Explorer

 

The Spanish conquistador responsible for conquering the Incas in Peru.

 

More write-ups soon on them. I've got babysitting duty this morning.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

 

 

Thug Behram - criminal

 

Thug Behram or Buhram (ca 17651840), also known as Buhram Jemedar and the 'King of the Thugs', was a leader of the Thuggee cult active in Oudh in northern central India during the late 18th and early 19th century, and is often cited as one of the world's most prolific serial killers. He may have been involved in up to 931 murders by strangulation between 17901840 performed with a ceremonial cloth (or rumal, which in Hindi means handkerchief), used by his cult.[1][2][3] Behram was executed in 1840 by hanging.

[iam90sbaby 2,720]

Voltaire since you are the history expert I was thinking you should give a halfway report before we start the second half

[Voltaire 5,392]

Voltaire since you are the history expert I was thinking you should give a halfway report before we start the second half

 

Thanks but my opinion is biased. Patsweiser has offered to do something like that. We can ask him. We're still a bit of a ways off from halfway though. Halfway would be 72 rounds, whereas we're only in round 43.

[iam90sbaby 2,720]

 

Thanks but my opinion is biased. Patsweiser has offered to do something like that. We can ask him. We're still a bit of a ways off from halfway though. Halfway would be 72 rounds, whereas we're only in round 43.

 

 

That would be cool, yeah I knew we were far off I just figured I'd bring it up before it was to late.

[Voltaire 5,392]

Jack the Ripper could be controversial in the gray area since it's a nickname given to an unknown and unidentified murderer. It's kind of like "Unabomber". Now I've given it some thought and I'm fine with that and will accept it If you guys are.on board as well. "Jack the Ripper" certainly sounds more name-ish than "the Whitechapel Murderer" or"Leather Apron" which is all the same guy. I just want to point that out because if we don't make a fuss now, I have (at least one) name that's similar that I may slip in later that I was wondering about and wasn't going to use but would now consider.

 

Anyways, I'm willing to roll with "Jack the RIpper", obviously 90sbaby is too.

[Voltaire 5,392]

A headsup team shuffling... with Socrates on board, I'm moving John Locke from Philosopher to Social Scientist

[iam90sbaby 2,720]

Jack the Ripper could be controversial in the gray area since it's a nickname given to an unknown and unidentified murderer. It's kind of like "Unabomber". Now I've given it some thought and I'm fine with that and will accept it If you guys are.on board as well. "Jack the Ripper" certainly sounds more name-ish than "the Whitechapel Murderer" or"Leather Apron" which is all the same guy. I just want to point that out because if we don't make a fuss now, I have (at least one) name that's similar that I may slip in later that I was wondering about and wasn't going to use but would now consider.

 

Anyways, I'm willing to roll with "Jack the RIpper", obviously 90sbaby is too.

I was going say Aaron Kosminski but I figured most would say who? JTR is arguably the most famous serial killer of all time. I hope everyone is okay with the pick.

 

Jeff I am pretty sure I know who you are picking

[Voltaire 5,392]

I was going say Aaron Kosminski but I figured most would say who? JTR is arguably the most famous serial killer of all time. I hope everyone is okay with the pick.

 

Jeff I am pretty sure I know who you are picking

I won't be picking this person for a long, long time if at all but if I do, it'd be as a talk show guest on the lower end of my list.

[Voltaire 5,392]

Oh cr@p. Post three in this thread with things organized by category has picked up an error.

 

Edit: well that was a nightmare and a half to fix.

[BiPolarBear 495]

I tried, but was unable to locate a particular short story by this author, I saw it in a magazine, and the author mentioned that it was written in a style that had been abandoned. You give the reader enough information to figure out who the people in the story might be, but never reveal their names.

 

The story was about a wealth business man who was quite smitten by a young actress. He used his power and influence to get a date with her. He showed up at her 10th story Manhattan suite and was told by a maid to please be seated and while the lady finshed getting dressed. The suite was unreal with huge windows over looking Central Park. She had a Harlequin Great Dane that wanted to play. The mogul started throwing a ball, much to the delight of the dog. He launched the ball across the room and the Harlequin followed it...right out the window.

 

"I'm ready!!" announced the starlet.

 

They left for dinner. The young actress finally ask, "I know you went to a lot of trouble to meet me, and you have said hardly a thing all night. Why is that?" "I'm not feeling well". He said.

 

I'm sure that was true.

 

In Cold Blood is one of his works.

 

Truman Capote - Writer (non-fiction)

[Voltaire 5,392]

Was guessing Paul Harvey at first.

 

This story of the businessman: the businessman is Capote or the story was written by him and you've forgotten his name?

[BiPolarBear 495]

Was guessing Paul Harvey at first.

 

This story of the businessman: the businessman is Capote or the story was written by him and you've forgotten his name?

 

The story was written by Capote. I never knew the names of the players involved. I sure wish I could have dug up the original story for you guys. One thing our little game has taught me is that history and knowledge can also be limited by the internet. The internet is obviously the largest store house of information, but it misses a lot that was in print before its existence.

[Voltaire 5,392]

It's been long enough. 90sbaby can go.

[iam90sbaby 2,720]

The Notorious B.I.G (artist visual)

 

NWA (reformer) - was an American hip hop group from Compton, California. It was one of the earliest and most significant popularizers of the gangsta rap and West Coast hip hop subgenres, and is widely considered one of the seminal groups in the history of hip hop music.^[4] Active from 1986 to 1991, the rap group endured controversy owing to their music's explicit lyrics that many viewed as being disrespectful of women, as well as its glorification of drugs and crime.^[5] The group was subsequently banned from many mainstream American radio stations. In spite of this, the group has sold over 10 million units in the United States alone. The group was also known for their deep hatred of the police system, which sparked much controversy over the years.

[BiPolarBear 495]

The Notorious B.I.G (artist visual)

 

 

 

I think you mean "artist (performing)" unless you like looking at fat guys.

[iam90sbaby 2,720]

 

I think you mean "artist (performing)" unless you like looking at fat guys.

 

Yeah that is what I meant

[Voltaire 5,392]

You got one bear?

[BiPolarBear 495]

''You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm. Once you were apes, and even now man is still more ape than any ape.''

''What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.''

''When we have to change our mind about someone, we hold the inconvenience he has caused us very much against him.''

''Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.''

"God is dead."

Philosopher, cultural critc, poet, composer, and Latin and Greek scholar.

 

Friederich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Jack-of-All-Trades

 

 

 

[vuduchile 1,945]

Mathematician

 

Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher, who laid the foundation for the modern theory of probabilities.

 

Mathematician Blaise Pascal was born on June 19, 1623, in Clermont-Ferrand, France. In 1642, he invented the Pascaline, an early calculator. Also in the 1640s, he validated Torricelli's theory concerning the cause of barometrical variations. In the 1650s, Pascal laid the foundation of probability theory and published the theological works Pénsees and Provinciales. Pascal died in Paris on August 19, 1662.

[vuduchile 1,945]

 

Advisor

 

Louis McHenry Howe (January 14, 1871 April 18, 1936)[1] was an American reporter for the New York Herald best known for acting as an early political advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

 

Born to a wealthy family in Indianapolis, Indiana, Howe was a small, sickly, and asthmatic child. The family moved to Saratoga, New York, after serious financial losses, and Howe became a journalist with a small paper that his father purchased. Howe married Grace Hartley and spent the next decade freelancing for the New York Herald and working various jobs. He was assigned to cover the New York state legislature in 1906, and soon became a political operative for Thomas Mott Osborne, a Democratic opponent of the Tammany Hall political machine.

 

After Osborne fired Howe in 1909, Howe attached himself to rising Democratic star Franklin D. Roosevelt, with whom he would work for the rest of his life. Howe oversaw Roosevelt's campaign for the New York State Senate, worked with him in the Navy Department, and acted as an advisor and campaign manager during Roosevelt's 1920 vice presidential run. After Roosevelt contracted polio in 1921, resulting in partial paralysis, Howe became Roosevelt's public representative, keeping his political career alive during his recovery. He arranged Roosevelt's 1924 "Happy Warrior" convention speech that returned him to the public eye, and helped to run Roosevelt's narrowly successful 1928 campaign to become Governor of New York. Howe then spent the next four years laying the groundwork for Roosevelt's landslide 1932 presidential victory. Named Roosevelt's secretary, Howe helped the president to shape the early programs of the New Deal, particularly the Civilian Conservation Corps. Howe grew ill shortly after Roosevelt's election, and died before the end of his first term.

 

Howe also acted as a political advisor to Franklin's wife Eleanor, whom he encouraged to take an active role in politics, introducing her to women's groups and coaching her in public speaking. Eleanor later called Howe one of the most influential people in her life. Franklin Roosevelt biographer Jean Edward Smith called Howe "a backroom man without equal in Democratic politics",[2] and Roosevelt publicly credited Howe and James Farley for his first election to the presidency in 1932.

[Voltaire 5,392]

I've been kicking Nietzsche back for a few rounds. I almost took him last time. I kinda wasn't going to get him this time round either, there's such a logjam but for sure the time after that though. Grrr... I hate when that happens. I cant get these names out fast enough.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Nicolaus Otto, engeineer

Nicolaus Otto was a German inventor credited with developing the four-stroke or Otto-cycle engine which sparked the development of the motor car. His Otto-cycle engine worked in four steps; drawing in fuel and air, compressing the mixture, igniting it and expelling the exhaust. This Otto-cycle is still used in the internal combustion engines that run all of our cars today.

 

[Voltaire 5,392]

Dante Alighieri - Poet

 

cut and paste I've got to run and will only have access by phone soon

 

Durante degli Alighieri was a major Italian poet of the late Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.

 

In the late Middle Ages, the overwhelming majority of poetry was written in Latin, and therefore accessible only to affluent and educated audiences. In De vulgari eloquentia/On Eloquence in the Vernacular, however, Dante defended use of the vernacular in literature. He himself would even write in the Tuscan dialect for works such as The New Life (1295) and the aforementioned Divine Comedy; this choice, although highly unorthodox, set a hugely important precedent that later Italian writers such as Petrarch and Boccaccio would follow. As a result, Dante played an instrumental role in establishing the national language of Italy. Dante's significance also extends past his home country; his depictions of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven have provided inspiration for a large body of Western art, and are cited as an influence on the works of John Milton, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, and Lord Alfred Tennyson, among many others. In addition, the first use of the interlocking three-line rhyme scheme, or the terza rima, is attributed to him.

 

Dante has been called "the Father of the Italian language".[2] In Italy, Dante is often referred to as il Sommo Poeta ("the Supreme Poet") and il Poeta; he, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are also called "the three fountains" or "the three crowns".

[Voltaire 5,392]

In my mind I have a great write up for this next one, maybe my phone will work but I've got to eat breakfast.

 

Robert Clive - Conquerer

 

The sun never set on the British Empire. Last round I'd taken a guy, Vasco da Gama, who opened up a trade route to India. He brought pepper and cinnamon to Europe for the first time and made Portugal rich. Now, 300 years on, all of Europe is fighting for access to the place. No, no. Clive wouldn't have it tht way. I'm taking the guy who took the whole place over in the name of England. India was always rich and today has over a billion people. Clive added the crown jewel to the British Empire.

 

I'll write more if my phone lets me, very interesting guy this one here. Off to eat.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Quintus Servilius Cepeio - Dumb mother focker

 

In 105 B.C., the Roman Republic was facing an existential threat. The Cimbri, a Germanic tribe from modern day Denmark, was migrating, and they decided Italy looked like a nice place. 300,000-500,000 fighting men, and all their women, children, and animals blundered south.

 

The only hope Rome had? That Roman tactics and discipline could stand against the tide.

 

In 105 BC, Rome and its new consul Gnaeus Mallius Maximus and the proconsul Quintus Servilius Caepio, in order to settle the matter once and for all, gathered the largest force it had fielded since the Second Punic War, and possibly the largest force it had ever sent to battle. The force consisted of over 80,000 men, along with tens of thousands of support personnel and camp followers in two armies, one led by each consul.

 

Unfortunately for Rome, Capeo, the junior consul, was a patrician (an aristocrat) and refused to take orders from an upjumped plebe like Maximus. In contradiction of orders, he kept his army in a seperate camp, and refused to communicate with the other Roman force, until Maximus yeilded command to him. He eventually opted to attack without support, and without even informing his co-consul.

 

The result? The roman army was wiped out virtually to a man.

 

Only the emergence of one of the greatest leaders in Rome's history saved the Roman Republic.

[BiPolarBear 495]

James Brown - Artist (performing)

 

The clip is almost 18 minutes, but it is a fantastic show.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09qbhwcpA6A

[Voltaire 5,392]

Another hour or two for Vudu...

[vuduchile 1,945]

Fiction author

 

John Steinbeck

 

He wrote many others, but these are my 3 favorite:

 

Of Mice and Men

East of Eden

The Grapes of Wrath

 

Penning any single one of these three novels would be considered a fantastic achievement in the field of literature.

 

Commie leanings aside, Steinbeck was one of America's greatest ever.