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Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?

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Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?
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RE: Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?
September 28, 2016 at 12:38 pm
Augustus Caeser, no possible doubt... Outwardly moral, deeply unscrupulous. And not ashamed of either.

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September 28, 2016 at 12:40 pm
To many to limit to one but I'll start with Tesla. I also like TR, but I'm thinking most of mine would fall in the science/discovery arena.
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RE: Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?
September 28, 2016 at 1:25 pm
Probably Shakespeare. I would really like to have a conversation with him.
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RE: Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?
September 28, 2016 at 1:32 pm
Does Christopher Lee count as 'historical'? 'Cause I'd give my left nut to have had dinner with him when he was alive. The stories he could've told, from stabbing Nazis to ravishing women as Dracula, and everything in between...
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RE: Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?
September 28, 2016 at 1:37 pm
(September 28, 2016 at 1:32 pm)Iroscato Wrote: Does Christopher Lee count as 'historical'? 'Cause I'd give my left nut to have had dinner with him when he was alive. The stories he could've told, from stabbing Nazis to ravishing women as Dracula, and everything in between...

I'll accept it. By all accounts, he was an amazing friend to have.
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RE: Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?
September 28, 2016 at 1:41 pm
(September 28, 2016 at 1:32 pm)Iroscato Wrote: The stories he could've told, from stabbing Nazis ...

Which he never did tell, by the way. He always was evasive when someone wanted to talk to him about the war, according to collegues and journalists. Probably not his fondest memories. There's also a pretty well founded rumour that he witnessed the last public execution in France. The one of Eugen Weidmann in june '39.
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RE: Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?
September 28, 2016 at 1:43 pm
(September 28, 2016 at 1:41 pm)abaris Wrote:
(September 28, 2016 at 1:32 pm)Iroscato Wrote: The stories he could've told, from stabbing Nazis ...

Which he never did tell, by the way. He always was evasive when someone wanted to talk to him about the war, according to collegues and journalists. Probably not his fondest memories. There's also a pretty well founded rumour that he witnessed the last public execution in France. The one of Eugen Weidmann in june '39.

That's understandable - though to be honest he could've just read the menu and I'd sit there like a wide-eyed kid listening to how Grandpa once fought a shark and then teamed up with it to take on the mafia.
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RE: Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?
September 28, 2016 at 1:49 pm
You mentioned not reading Tolkien?

Get you some, with Chris Lee.

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RE: Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?
September 28, 2016 at 1:57 pm
(September 28, 2016 at 1:49 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: You mentioned not reading Tolkien?

I for one tried to read him. But his old fashioned and less than dynamic narrative killed it for me. He's constantly jumping back and forth between groups and timelines. You read a chapter and the next one starts with other characters at the time you had been three chapters before. That's rather the narrative style of the 19th century and not easily stomached by people growing up with different styles.
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RE: Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?
September 28, 2016 at 2:01 pm
(September 28, 2016 at 1:57 pm)abaris Wrote:
(September 28, 2016 at 1:49 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: You mentioned not reading Tolkien?

I for one tried to read him. But his old fashioned and less than dynamic narrative killed it for me. He's constantly jumping back and forth between groups and timelines. You read a chapter and the next one starts with other characters at the time you had been three chapters before. That's rather the narrative style of the 19th century and not easily stomached by people growing up with different styles.

It's not for everyone. But the longer and more I dig into him, the more I love and appreciate what he did.
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