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RE: Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?
September 28, 2016 at 9:49 am
Tallulah Bankhead !
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RE: Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?
September 28, 2016 at 10:01 am
Caligula
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RE: Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?
September 28, 2016 at 10:07 am
(September 28, 2016 at 9:49 am)chimp3 Wrote: Tallulah Bankhead !
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On the set of one her movies (Lifeboat) she wore no knickers and flashed so often the set workers complained. The director (Hitchcock) said he wasn't sure if it was a problem for wardrobe or hair dressing.
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RE: Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?
September 28, 2016 at 10:08 am
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Julian The Apostate.
The last pagan emperor of the world, a survivor of a politically motivated slaughter of his family, brought up in christian exile, a bookworm turned war hero turned civil servant turned emperor.
Christians would later proudly concoct a narrative that one of their own, a saint no less...had assassinated him. They even went so far as to put the imperial decree of succession-to-christ, more or less, in his mouth as his dying breath...... It's far more likely that he died in battle and with him, imo, any chance for a reprieve from the next 1000 years of christian asshatery on a global scale.
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RE: Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?
September 28, 2016 at 11:06 am
Without the slightest doubt Winston Churchill.
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RE: Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?
September 28, 2016 at 11:07 am
I really don't know. I think a "which people would you invite to dinner" would be easier, but even that would change daily for me. FDR's kind of interesting with the New Deal and all that. I'd be frightened about life if that never came to be.
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