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Originally Posted by Cassini90125
Without explanation, and in no particular order other than the first:
Frankie Foster
George Washington
Chester Nimitz
Albert Einstein
Darien Shields
Thomas Paine
Charles Darwin
Kim Wilde
Thomas Altamore
Sir Lancelot
Boris Yeltsin
Winston Churchill
Rochelle Defalco
Sarah Sussman
Edward Busch
I left out a few names to avoid potential controversy, and I'm sure I neglected to mention two or three, but it's otherwise a fairly complete list. The names you don't recognize are from my personal life, past and/or present.
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That's an excellent list, Cassini, good to see Einstein,Paine and Darwin there especially but I had to raise an eyebrow at Boris Yeltsin as his faliures always seem more apparent to me than his successes which were handed to him by the hapless Mikhael Gorbachev. There's a very funny story about Yeltsin's finest hour though, not that I'm not trying to assasinate him or anything, you understand. During the coup in 1991 when the Communist die-hards tried to stem the reformist tide and removed Gorbachev from power, Yeltsin bravely stood his ground in the Russian Parliament building and waited for the tanks he knew the central commitee would have to send. As the world waited for the seemingly inevitable bloodbath, Gorbachev's friend and ally Eduard Shevardnadze (later President of Georgia) went to see Yeltsin in his office and came back telling the world's media that Yeltsin was in fighting form and would die to protect Russia's fledgling democracy. Only much later did he reveal that Yeltsin, expecting death, had got blind drunk and fallen asleep under his desk. Of course, Shevardnadze wasn't going to tell the world that.
Oh I forgot to add any of my own. Too many! Let's see....George Orwell, Ursula Leguin, Kurt Vonnegut. Hmm all writers. How about Nestor Mahkno? Not many have heard of him. Now he was a Ukrainian chap who fought (successfully for a while) both Reds and Whites in the post russian revolutionary-civil war. He knew very well that the Bolsheviks were dangerous control freaks and those fighting them in the Ukraine(supported by the rest of Europe and America) were a bunch of reactionary anti-semites, who'd led the pograms of the previous decades.