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Cyrus Shahmiri
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Topic: The greatest people who were born in your city? Posted: 31-Aug-2005 at 15:02 |
Tehran (Ancient Rey/Rhages):
Zoroaster, founder of Zoroastrianism. Harun ar-Rashid, the greatest Abbasid who ruled Islam at the zenith of its empire. Rhazes (Ar-Razi), the greatest physician of the Islamic world, the first person to introduce the use of alcohol (Al-Kuhl).
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Posted: 31-Aug-2005 at 15:16 |
Pittsburgh, USA
Stephen Foster- Songwriter
Andy Warhol- Artist
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Posted: 31-Aug-2005 at 16:25 |
Can't offer much.
Southampton, England.
Isaac Watts the hymn writer.
Also the headmaster of my school in the mid-17th century* wrote the last defence of the flat earth theory that anyone took seriously. But I forget his name.
* despite appearances, I was not a pupil at the time.
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Posted: 31-Aug-2005 at 21:58 |
The pickins' are pretty slim for Knoxville, TN. Admiral Farragut is the easy choice.
A large section of West Knoxville is named after him. Suffice to say that I don't like the man, and I don't like the High School named after him...
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τρέφεται δέ, ὤ Σώκρατης, ψυχὴ τίνι;
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Bilbao. I think the most famous are Miguel de Unamuno (writer in
Spanish) and Sabino Arana (fouder of modern Basque Nationalism).
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Posted: 01-Sep-2005 at 03:50 |
Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri
Tehran (Ancient Rey/Rhages):
Zoroaster, founder of Zoroastrianism.
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how do you know that Zoroaster was born in Tehran?
AFAIK his date of birth has a huge error from 6th century BC to even 38th Century BC !!
so its not known exactly when did he exist, somewhere in the 3000 years between 6th and 38th cuenturies BC is not an Accurate assumption, he could be a myth.
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Posted: 01-Sep-2005 at 05:02 |
Erm.... Me!
Don't know about anyone else famous being born in my area but we had a famous death. Robert Rogers of Rogers Rangers drank himself to death in my local pub. There's even a plaque where his stool was and a stool there so you can sit in the same spot and drink yourself to death too (many are). And what's more his grave's just outside the pub so you can look at him while doing so.
Another pub nearby a mate's house used to be JRR Tolkein's local for a few years. If you read the description of the pub in Hobbiton they're virtually identical.
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Posted: 01-Sep-2005 at 05:58 |
Well, what about the most famous people who have lived and died in our city?
Mevlana Celaleddin Rum- a great poet, mutasavvf, sufi, lived and died in Konya, my home city.
St. Paul- an important figure for Christianity, the founder of trinity was born in Cilicia, Tarsus, a city 40 km to my current city.
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Don't know about anyone else famous being born in my area but we had a famous death. Robert Rogers of Rogers Rangers drank himself to death in my local pub. There's even a plaque where his stool was and a stool there so you can sit in the same spot and drink yourself to death too (many are). And what's more his grave's just outside the pub so you can look at him while doing so. |
Isn't he that loyalist during the American Revolution? I don't like him anyways, if I remember right he was the one who caught Nathan Yale of the state I live in Connecticut. While I don't have or know of any famous people from my area, Nathan Yale was a spy for the Americans and was caught and hung.
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Cyrus Shahmiri
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Posted: 01-Sep-2005 at 07:28 |
Originally posted by azimuth
Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri
Tehran (Ancient Rey/Rhages):
Zoroaster, founder of Zoroastrianism.
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how do you know that Zoroaster was born in Tehran?
AFAIK his date of birth has a huge error from 6th century BC to even 38th Century BC !!
so its not known exactly when did he exist, somewhere in the 3000 years between 6th and 38th cuenturies BC is not an Accurate assumption, he could be a myth.
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You are right but it is said he was born in Rhages -> http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9383383
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Posted: 01-Sep-2005 at 07:42 |
Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri
Zoroaster, founder of Zoroastrianism.
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The greatest philosopher of our time
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anakkale- Admiral Piri Reis
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Posted: 01-Sep-2005 at 08:49 |
Originally posted by Iranban
Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri
Zoroaster, founder of Zoroastrianism.
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The greatest philosopher of our time
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i think he died like somewhere between 2600 to 5000 years ago.
which makes him NOT in your time.
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Posted: 01-Sep-2005 at 12:07 |
Originally posted by azimuth
Originally posted by Iranban
Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri
Zoroaster, founder of Zoroastrianism.
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The greatest philosopher of our time
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i think he died like somewhere between 2600 to 5000 years ago.
which makes him NOT in your time.
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djeezes, you again
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Posted: 01-Sep-2005 at 12:35 |
Originally posted by azimuth
Originally posted by Iranban
Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri
Zoroaster, founder of Zoroastrianism.
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The greatest philosopher of our time
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i think he died like somewhere between 2600 to 5000 years ago.
which makes him NOT in your time.
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He's not a philosopher either but a religious leader or prophet.
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Posted: 01-Sep-2005 at 18:39 |
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Also Hector of Troy...
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Posted: 01-Sep-2005 at 19:58 |
I won't bother
i'm Athenian
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Posted: 01-Sep-2005 at 21:25 |
Noam Chomsky, Bill Cosby, adopted Benjamin Franklin (who was born in Boston).
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Valentin Gomez Farias:
President of Mexico. Promulgated the called Farias Law that divided the Church from the State in Mexico.
Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena:
Mexican Engineer and Designer. He patented the Color TV.
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