***Geek Club History Draft***

[BiPolarBear 483]

Volty: sent you a pick to help keep it moving. I could be asleep when TBBOM picks.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Haile Gebreselassie - athlete

 

A modern legend on the international distance running scene, Gebreselassie set 27 world records during his career. He won gold at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics in the 10,000 meters. He also holds eight world championship indoor and outdoor track titles from the 1,500 meters to the 10,000 meters, and he won the world half marathon championships in 2001. Winning nine major marathons in his career, he set a world record in the marathon at the 2008 Berlin Marathon, finishing in 2:03:59, at the age of 35.

[Voltaire 5,205]

Another quality Bear writeup

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Any of us could afford the raw materials to produce The Mona Lisa. A little paint, a canvas, a palette, some brushes... Our efforts would artistically fall far short of the fore mentioned masterpiece, but a few of the works might be good enough to sell. The paintings could hang for many years.

Now imagine that your raw materials cost huge amounts of money (like $26 million US). Instead of the rather effortless stroke of a painter's brush, hundreds of people are needed to construct the works of art and when they are completed they only last a few days before they are disassembled and the materials recycled. That means there is nothing to sell.

And speaking of nothing; that is exactly the meaning the works of art: Nothing. The only meaning is derived from the individual who sees the art and remembers it.

Three million people saw one of the works. It existed on two sides of the world at once. The blue structures were in Japan and the yellow structures were in California. The name of the work of art is "The Umbrellas". Each umbrella stood over 19 feet high and were over 28 feet in diameter. On the Japan location of the work, permission had to obtained from 459 land owners in advance of construction. There were 3,100 umbrellas in total, worldwide.

Besides producing non-salable, art with no meaning, the credit for each work is shared with the spouse since 1962. Although she died in 2009, each work completed since her death and those planned for the future carry her name.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude - visual artist

"I am an artist, and I have to have courage ... Do you know that I don't have any artworks that exist? They all go away when they're finished. Only the preparatory drawings, and collages are left, giving my works an almost legendary character. I think it takes much greater courage to create things to be gone than to create things that will remain." - Christo

 

Edit- functioning link : http://christojeanneclaude.net/life-and-work

 

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It looks like this link at the bottom won't work, I'll edit later.

To Vudu.

[Voltaire 5,205]

Haile Gebreselassie - athlete

 

A modern legend on the international distance running scene, Gebreselassie set 27 world records during his career. He won gold at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics in the 10,000 meters. He also holds eight world championship indoor and outdoor track titles from the 1,500 meters to the 10,000 meters, and he won the world half marathon championships in 2001. Winning nine major marathons in his career, he set a world record in the marathon at the 2008 Berlin Marathon, finishing in 2:03:59, at the age of 35.

 

Got it. As it were, this is your 5th athlete so I put him in Wildcard. Take a look and see how you want stuff ordered.

 

Getting closer ... 57 more ...

 

Updated to 133.3

 

To Vudu

[vuduchile 1,945]

Doctor - William Mayo

 

Founder of medical practice that became the world renowned Mayo Clinic.

[Voltaire 5,205]

Skip 90sbaby... Back to Vudu down the homestretch.

[vuduchile 1,945]

Conqueror:

 

Alaric, a Visigoths leader, took part in several campaigns under the Romans. However, when he did not receive the expected promotion in the Roman Army, he led his people against the empire. Alaric now demanded that the Visigoths should have their own independent state. In AD 410 Alaric's army was strong enough to enter Rome. Roman slaves joined with the Visigoths in sacking the city. With the slavesjoining his army, Alaric now had 40,000 men at his disposal.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaric_I

 

[vuduchile 1,945]

Social Scientist:

 

BF Skinner:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaric_I

 

 

Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990), commonly known as B. F. Skinner, was an American psychologist,behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher.^[2][3][4][5] He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard Universityfrom 1958 until his retirement in 1974.^[6]

Skinner considered free will an illusion and human action dependent on consequences of previous actions. If the consequences are bad, there is a high chance that the action will not be repeated; if the consequences are good, however, the actions that led to it will become more probable.^[7] Skinner called this the principle of reinforcement.^[8]

Skinner called the use of reinforcement to strengthen behavior operant conditioning, and he considered the rate of response to be the most effective measure of response strength. To study operant conditioning he invented the operant conditioning chamber, also known as the Skinner Box,^[9] and to measure rate he invented the cumulative recorder. Using these tools he and C. B. Fersterproduced his most influential experimental work, which appeared in the book Schedules of Reinforcement.^[10][11]

Skinner developed a philosophy of science that he called radical behaviorism,^[12] and founded a school of experimental research psychology—the experimental analysis of behavior. He imagined the application of his ideas to the design of a human community in his utopian novel Walden Two,^[13] and his analysis of human behavior culminated in his work Verbal Behavior.^[14] Skinner was a prolific author who published 21 books and 180 articles.^[15][16] Contemporary academia considers Skinner a pioneer of modern behaviorism along with John B. Watson and Ivan Pavlov. A June 2002 survey listed Skinner as the most influential psychologist of the 20th century.^[17]

[Voltaire 5,205]

That's one too many for now; coming into the corner, Vudu had taken Mayo, so we'll put Skinner on standby. It's to Bear. 90sbaby can make up his two any time. I'll check my mail.

[Voltaire 5,205]

Yes there's mail ... and Bear is going to make me look it up whatever Dyson did...

 

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This "Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering" is a "Sir". His yacht is 299 feet long and you know his name. His net worth is about $5 billion dollars.

 

You either own or have heard of his best known invention.

 

Sir James Dyson - Engineer

 

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To TBBOM

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Franz Kafka - thinker.

 

Back in high school, I was, as I'm sure is not surprising, a pompous proto-hipster doosh. You know, the kids that sit in coffee shops snapping their fingers to applaud bad poetry, and smoke cloves?

 

There was a place in Memphis called "the deliberate literate." It was a combination coffee shop slash pretentious bookstore. I was forbidden to go there, as it was downtown, many miles away, but it was my favorite haunt.

 

The owner gave me a copy of the collected writings of Kafka once. I loved it. Still have that copy somewhere, probably in my parents attic.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Hero of Alexandria - engineer

 

This man could have started the Industrial Revolution in 50 AD with the invention of the Aeolipile, a form of steam or jet engine where jets of steam spin a ball. However, he failed to realize what the device could do, and thought of it as nothing but a toy. Some have speculated that the abundance of slave labor negated any need for a labor-saving device, so no one applied his device in the manner of the Industrial Revolution. Hero also wrote many works on subjects ranging from pneumatics to mathematics to physics.

[Voltaire 5,205]

I was weighing Kafka and somebody else, asking TBBOM for advice and he promptly snagged him. Having tipped off Kafka to TBBOM, I'll move Jane Austen to writer.

 

The person I'll take in to fill Austen's place in Great Woman is not Susan B. Anthony. No.

 

Susan B. Anthony - Reformer

 

That's my fifth reformer, so I'll shuffle out Peter the Great to Wildcard to fill it out. I'll fill in my lst Great Woman later.

 

For now, I'll take

 

PT Barnum - Artist (Performing)

 

Another bit of advice I got from TBBOM, I was weighing him with another as well.

[Voltaire 5,205]

It's to Bear. with Vudu's Skinner pick a bit early. 90sbaby is still owed two as well.

 

If Bear comes through first, 90sbaby will be on the clock for four.

 

TBBOM says "this has been fun but it needs to end" and I agree with that. We can gather some names for Free Agents when we're done.

 

All updated ... 49 more names,

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

I was weighing Kafka and somebody else, asking TBBOM for advice and he promptly snagged him. Having tipped off Kafka to TBBOM, I'll move Jane Austen to writer.

 

The person I'll take in to fill Austen's place in Great Woman is not Susan B. Anthony. No.

 

Susan B. Anthony - Reformer

 

That's my fifth reformer, so I'll shuffle out Peter the Great to Wildcard to fill it out. I'll fill in my lst Great Woman later.

 

For now, I'll take

 

PT Barnum - Artist (Performing)

 

Another bit of advice I got from TBBOM, I was weighing him with another as well.

For the record, I didn't snag him, I asked permission.

[Voltaire 5,205]

For the record, I didn't snag him, I asked permission.

 

Yes. This.

 

And it's OK. Actually, I'm glad since this is a good name that may otherwise go undrafted, so it keeps him off the frustrated list. Omar Kayyam is another, I'm glad Vudu took him.

 

It's true that I really wanted Kafka, but I really wanted the other one too so now with Kafka gone, I can move Austen to Writer and it frees up a spot so I can get the other lady for Great Woman.

[iam90sbaby 2,503]

Dumb Focking Moron - Flava Flav

Dumb Focking Moron - Warren Harding

[Voltaire 5,205]

Bear then two more for 90sbaby.

 

I'm going to have to get a reminder about Flava Flav.

[BiPolarBear 483]

I have actually met Jeff "Skunk" Baxter while he was working the Roland booth at a music industry trade show. Jeff was one of the first to play guitar synthesizers.

 

Jeff is best known for his work on the first three Steely Dan records.

 

Did you know he is also a military consultant who has worked for the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency?

 

He is also on the NASA Explorations Systems Advisory Committee.

 

Baxter is listed as "Senior Thinker and Raconteur" at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition

 

There is more, but I think you get the idea.

 

Jeff "Skunk" Baxter - Jack of All Trades.

[Voltaire 5,205]

The Skinner pick for Vudu goes in now an it's to 90sbaby for two.

 

46 more names.

[iam90sbaby 2,503]

Monica Lewinsky - Seductress - Monica Lewinsky, a young White House intern, made headlines for her affair with the then President, Bill Clinton. One of the most controversial high-profile political sex scandals in the history of America, ‘The Lewinsky Scandal’, created shock waves across the country. After a series of public denials of the affair, Clinton finally admitted to have had ‘an illicit physical relationship’ with Lewinsky. He was later charged with ‘perjury’ and was impeached. He was, however, acquitted following a 21-day trial. Lewinsky received immense media glare and publicity after the scandal - she appeared on many TV shows, commercials, and interviews and even made an appearance on a comic sketch, on ‘Saturday Night Live’. She also came out with her own line of handbags called the ‘The Real Monica, Inc.’. The label sold in many countries across the world. After a certain period of time, she could not handle the media frenzy and found it immensely difficult to lead a private life in America. Hence, she moved to London, where she obtained a degree in psychology from the London School of Economics.

 

 

 

Traci Elizabeth Lords - Seductress - is an American actress, singer, model, writer, producer, and director. She achieved notoriety in the 1980s after it was discovered she had appeared underage in numerous pornographic films.

 

Born in Steubenville, Ohio, Lords initially landed a job as a nude model at the age of fifteen, using a false driver's license. After being featured in the September 1984 issue of Penthouse magazine, she appeared in dozens of illegal videos between 1984 and 1986, and became one of the most sought-after pornographic actresses of the era. During May 1986, when authorities discovered she had been underage while making all but one of her pornographic films, distributors were ordered to remove all her material to avoid the risk of prosecution for trafficking in child pornography. The withdrawal of her films cost millions of dollars and her case became the biggest scandal to affect the adult film industry.

After her departure from pornography, Lords enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute where she studied method acting with the intention of becoming a mainstream actress. She made her screen debut in 1988, when she had a leading role in the remake of Roger Corman's sci-fi classic Not of This Earth. Lords followed with the role of Wanda Woodward in John Waters' teen comedy, Cry-Baby (1990). Her other acting credits include the television series MacGyver, Married... With Children, Tales From The Cript, Roseanne, Melrose Place, Profiler, First Wave, Gilmore Girls and Will & Grace. She also appeared in films such as Virtuosy (1995), Blade (1998), Zack and Miri Make A Porno (2008) and most recently Excision (2012), which earned her Fangorio Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as Fright Meter Award and CinEuphoria Award.

Besides her film career, Lords also pursued music. After her song "Love Never Dies" was featured on the soundtrack to the film Pet Cemetery Two (1992), she got signed to Radioactive Records and subsequently released her debut studio album, 1000 Fires (1995) to a critical acclaim. Despite the poor sales of the album, the lead single "Control" had a moderate commercial success. It managed to peak at number two on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart and was included on the soundtrack to the film Mortal Combat (1995), which was eventually certified double platinum by the Recording Industry of America(RIAA). In 2003, Lords published her autobiography, Traci Lords: Underneath It All, which received positive reviews from critics and debuted at number thirty-one on the The New York Times Best Seller List.

[vuduchile 1,945]

Scientist - Physics - Collaborators

 

Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun

 

The fathers of wireless communication

 

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1909/

 

 

[BiPolarBear 483]

If somebody said they had tickets to the ballet, and wondered if I would like to go, the look of loathing I would give them would dash any attempt at a polite response. If, on the other hand, they offered a ticket to see Misty Copeland at the ballet, I would rush out and buy a new suit.

I think she is one of the most beautiful sites you can witness with eyes and what she has accomplished makes her astounding on to of beautiful. She didn't start dancing until she was 13 years old, which is impossibly old. As she matured, her body type was not the typical shape associated with a ballerina. Strike three was that she is Black. Black don't ballet.

Well they do now; and with grace and elegance that is out of this world.

Misty Copeland - Great Women

 

 

http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/459849/a-ballerinas-tale-the-rise-of-misty-copeland/

[Voltaire 5,205]

Scientist - Physics - Collaborators

Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun

 

The fathers of wireless communication

 

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1909/

 

 

I took Marconi as an inventor a long time ago, did a nice write up too.

 

Edit: 76.5

[Voltaire 5,205]

Still have Vudu, then TBBOM.

[Voltaire 5,205]

Vudu's pcik was a double but he's been back on the clock too long, we'll skip him, go to TBBOM.

 

Still owe the makeup one to Vudu.

[Voltaire 5,205]

TBBOM is in Beijing getting drunk and stupid and asked me to make two picks for him...

 

Phurfer - Thinker

 

RuPaul - Seductress

 

No, no, can't do that...

 

 

Miyamoto Musashi - Wildcard

 

He died as all samurais dream to die... of thoracic cancer at age 61 after going undefeated in sixty duels throughout his lifetime. He was famed for his two sword technique and wrote a book on strategy tactics and philosophy. He didn't just kill those sixty, he was involved in clan warfare as well and so the real number of kills is astronomical.

 

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T.E. Lawrence - Talk Show Guest

 

The real life inspiration for Indiana Jones, Nathan Drake, Lara Croft and other fictional archaeologist/adventurers as well as spy intrigue and a death under conspicuous circumstances.

 

Thomas Edward Lawrence CB DSO (16 August 1888^[5] – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, military officer, and diplomat. He was renowned for his liaison role during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign and the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916–18. The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia—a title used for the 1962 film based on his First World War activities.

[Voltaire 5,205]

Suleiman the Magnificent - Administrator

 

No, not a magician but you couldn't tell from the hat. Check out his really nice hat: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/EmperorSuleiman.jpg/220px-EmperorSuleiman.jpg

 

 

The most prominent of the Ottoman Great Sultans, his reign lasted 46 years, presiding over the apex of the Ottoman Empire's military, political and economic power. This is the Ottoman guy that personally sacked the Christian strongholds of Belgrade and Rhodes and laid siege to Vienna. He was all over the Middle East and North Africa as well and had naval supremacy in the Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, and Persian Gulf.

 

At the helm of an expanding empire, Suleiman personally instituted major legislative changes relating to society, education, taxation and criminal law. His canonical law fixed the form of the empire for centuries after his death. He was a distinguished poet and goldsmith; he also became a great patron of culture, overseeing the "Golden" age of the Ottoman Empire in its artistic, literary, and architecutural development.

[Voltaire 5,205]

Maria Montessori - Great Woman

 

Maybe a little personal for me, I work in a pre-school/kindergarten and have Montessori training. I asked TBBOM if I should take Montessori and move Jane Austen to Writer or if I should keep Austen in Great Woman and take Franz Kafka. He says he's like to take Kafka if I didn't mind. I said I didn't care; well that solved that, it was a coin toss anyways which is why I was asking him in the first place.

 

Montessori was trained as as doctor, the first ever to complete Italian medical school but due to gender discrimination, she was not allowed to practice. So instead she turned to education, due to limited funding, she set up a school in a low-income slum of Rome teaching young children where she achieved phenomenal results Her methodology was widely respected and has been copied worldwide such that nowadays ,many high end wealthy schools and parents use it.

 

 

Cut and paste from wiki:

 

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1906–1911: Casa dei Bambini and the spread of Montessori's ideas The first Casa

In 1906 Montessori was invited to oversee the care and education of a group of children of working parents in a new apartment building for low-income families in the San Lorenzo district in Rome. Montessori was interested in applying her work and methods to mentally normal children, and she accepted.^[26] The name Casa dei Bambini, or Children's House, was suggested to Montessori, and the first Casa opened on January 6, 1907, enrolling 50 or 60 children between the ages of two or three and six or seven.^[27]

At first, the classroom was equipped with a teacher's table and blackboard, a stove, small chairs, armchairs, and group tables for the children, and a locked cabinet for the materials that Montessori had developed at the Orthophrenic School. Activities for the children included personal care such as dressing and undressing, care of the environment such as dusting and sweeping, and caring for the garden. The children were also shown the use of the materials Montessori had developed.^[28] Montessori herself, occupied with teaching, research, and other professional activities, oversaw and observed the classroom work, but did not teach the children directly. Day-to-day teaching and care were provided, under Montessori's guidance, by the building porter's daughter.^[29]

In this first classroom, Montessori observed behaviors in these young children which formed the foundation of her educational method. She noted episodes of deep attention and concentration, multiple repetitions of activity, and a sensitivity to order in the environment. Given free choice of activity, the children showed more interest in practical activities and Montessori's materials than in toys provided for them, and were surprisingly unmotivated by sweets and other rewards. Over time, she saw a spontaneous self-discipline emerge.^[30]

Based on her observations, Montessori implemented a number of practices that became hallmarks of her educational philosophy and method. She replaced the heavy furniture with child-sized tables and chairs light enough for the children to move, and placed child-sized materials on low, accessible shelves. She expanded the range of practical activities such as sweeping and personal care to include a wide variety of exercises for care of the environment and the self, including flower arranging, hand washing, gymnastics, care of pets, and cooking.^[31] She also included large open air sections in the classroom encouraging children to come and go as they please in the room's different areas and lessons. In her book ^[32] she outlines a typical winter's day of lessons, starting at 09:00 AM and finishing at 04:00 PM:

• 9–10. Entrance. Greeting. Inspection as to personal cleanliness. Exercises of practical life; helping one another to take off and put on the aprons. Going over the room to see that everything is dusted and in order. Language: Conversation period: Children give an account of the events of the day before. Religious exercises.
• 10–11. Intellectual exercises. Objective lessons interrupted by short rest periods. Nomenclature, Sense exercises.
• 11–11:30. Simple gymnastics: Ordinary movements done gracefully, normal position of the body, walking, marching in line, salutations, movements for attention, placing of objects gracefully.
• 11:30–12. Luncheon: Short prayer.
• 12–1. Free games.
• 1–2. Directed games, if possible, in the open air. During this period the older children in turn go through with the exercises of practical life, cleaning the room, dusting, putting the material in order. General inspection for cleanliness: Conversation.
• 2–3. Manual work. Clay modelling, design, etc.
• 3–4. Collective gymnastics and songs, if possible in the open air. Exercises to develop forethought: Visiting, and caring for, the plants and animals.

She felt by working independently children could reach new levels of autonomy and become self-motivated to reach new levels of understanding. Montessori also came to believe that acknowledging all children as individuals and treating them as such would yield better learning and fulfilled potential in each particular child.^[32] She continued to adapt and refine the materials she had developed earlier, altering or removing exercises which were chosen less frequently by the children. Also based on her observations, Montessori experimented with allowing children free choice of the materials, uninterrupted work, and freedom of movement and activity within the limits set by the environment. She began to see independence as the aim of education, and the role of the teacher as an observer and director of children's innate psychological development.^[31]

[Voltaire 5,205]

To Bear.

 

Vudu is still owed one since his last pick was already taken but since he was skipped last time, 90sbaby can go if Bear goes.

 

39 more names.

[vuduchile 1,945]

Max Born - Scientist Physics.

 

1954 Nobel Prize winner for fundamental research on quantum mechanics.

[Voltaire 5,205]

Ok all caught up. Bear then Vudu again.

[BiPolarBear 483]

The Cedar Fire was first reported on October 25, 2003, in central San Diego County. The fire was driven by the "Santa Ana Winds", which I have experienced personally; hot, dry and fast. The wind was easily able to carry sparks and larger burning items long distances, including over roads, which slow down the spread of fires on calm days.

The Cedar Fire is the largest in California History. It burned 280,278 acres and over 2800 buildings. 2232 of those buildings were homes. Fifteen people were killed. It was finally completely contained on December the 5th. The cost in dollars was close to a billion dollars.

All this was caused by one novice hunter, Sergio Martinez. He got lost in the woods and didn't want to yell for help because he was afraid he would scare the deer...Better instead to build a fire so rescuers could find you. Great call, Serg.

The Federal judge could have given him ten years, but felt Mr. Martinez.was truly remorseful and sentenced him to six months in a minimum security facility. During his stay he was allowed to go to his job, go to church, and leave confinement to meet other obligations as needed. I know some of you are thinking he got off easy, but let me add that he had to pay a fine: Nine thousand dollars.

The judge was the Honorable Roger T. Benitez, appointed by George W. Bush. He is still sitting.

Sergio Martinez - Dumb Focking Moron

[Voltaire 5,205]

Skip Vudu ... to 90sbaby.

 

Easy to predict where he's going, he had eight picks left, all eight spots are in talk show guests.

[vuduchile 1,945]

Visual Artist:

 

Annie Liebovitz does fine photographic portraits and is most well known for her work with Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone magazine. Her photographs are intimate, and describe the subject.

 

Take a look at some of her work here:

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=famous+annie+leibovitz+photos&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwibk9-LhuvKAhUESiYKHfi5COcQsAQIHw&biw=1366&bih=643

 

[iam90sbaby 2,503]

Jimi Hendrix - Talk Show Guest - Jimi Hendrix is considered as one of the greatest electric guitarists that the musical world has ever witnessed. He composed music combining different genres of hard rock, jazz and blues into soulful unforgettable renditions. His style of music has been a source of inspiration for many budding musicians. He started his musical career by forming his first band The Jimmy Hendrix Experience where he played the guitar and also sang as the lead vocalist. His first single “Hey, Joe” took the world by storm. He made headlines after his iconic performance in 1969 in the Woodstock Festival and the Isle of Wight Festival in the 1970s. His second album was Axis: Bold as Love released in 1968 and his final album Electric Ladyland was also released in the same year. It featured the hit “All Along the Watchtower.” Soon after, the band split in 1969. His style of music was strongly influenced by blues artists like B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Albert King, Elmore James and rhythm and blues guitarists Curtis Mayfield and Steve Cropper. His music was also inspired by the jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery. This lead guitarist expired at the age of 27 on 18th September, 1970.

 

 

Harry Anslinger - Talk Show Guest - was United States government official who served as the first commissioner of the U.S. Treasury Department's Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN). He was a staunch supporter of prohibition and the criminalization of drugs as well as a morphine addict.^[1][2]

Anslinger held office an unprecedented 32 years in his role as commissioner until 1962. He then held office two years as U.S. Representative to the United Nations Narcotics Commission. The responsibilities once held by Anslinger are now largely under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy.

I think it would be interest in to have Anslinger as a talk show guest right now, especially with all the debate going on right now about should marijuana be illegal or not, and since he was a key figure in making it illegal, I'd love to see modern day pot smokers chew his a** out.

[Voltaire 5,205]

Skip Vudu ... to Bear.

[BiPolarBear 483]

Jennifer Lawrence needed a buddy on the Green Team Talk Show Guest lineup.

 

Amy Schumer - Talk Show Guest

 

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Pope Sixtus IV - Businessman Sixtus gets the nod for realizing that the “wages of sin” meant more than unpleasant repercussions. There was money to be made in damnation, and Sixtus mined it by opening up a new market -- the dead -- for the indulgences the church had been selling for years. Relatives of the deceased quickly filled the Vatican’s coffers with payments intended to lessen the time their loved ones spent in purgatory. In 1478 Sixtus “grew his market” by authorizing the Spanish Inquisition, which swelled purgatory’s ranks by 100,000 souls in 15 years. He also was the first pope to license brothels.

 

Henri Charrière - Talk Show guest.

 

Subject of one of my favorite books, and a movies starring Steve McQueen, he escaped from Devil's Island in French Guinea. Read or watch it.. Amazing story.

[Voltaire 5,205]

So what are the criteria for being a great pirate?

 

• You need a beard color.. . OK. He's Red Beard. Got it.
• Missing a body part, replaced with some mechanical device ... OK lost an arm, wears an early 16th century prosthesis, got it.
• You need a character named after you in a Johnny Depp pirate movie.... got it.
• Talk like a pirate ... I dunno, his voice is lost to time. Aaarrrgh! Maybe, maybe not. He spoke Spanish, Greek, Arabic, Italian, and French though so he could fock with your head in your native language.
• Booty ... oh hell yeah, lots of booty and plunder.
• On the run from the authorities... No. Fock that. They ran from him, he won and was a nightmare for anybody in the Mediterranian. They were terrified of him as had not a ship but an entire plundered armada and after completely shutting down trade, invaded ports as well. They had no answer for him. The Mediterranean was a Muslim lake. He crushed the power of the Italian city states and raided their ports. Nations in western Europe would send ships around Africa and West across the Atlantic to avoid him. The Barbary pirates lasted as long, long time after him.

 

Lots of great stories with this guy too.

 

Oruç Reis (Barbarossa) - Criminal