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Gazi
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Topic: Your Favourite Historical People Posted: 18-May-2005 at 06:50 |
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ArmenianSurvival
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Posted: 18-May-2005 at 08:01 |
My list would look something like this (im probably forgetting a bunch of people)
1. Any ancient poet or contributor to human culture
2. Vartan Mamikonian
3. Alexander the Great
4. Julius Caesar
5. Hannibal
6. Siddharta Gautama
7. Karl Marx
8. Albert Einstein
Theres many more that i cant think of right now.
@Gazi...Nice Lennon tribute lol. Im a pretty big Beatles fan as well.
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Paul
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Posted: 18-May-2005 at 10:04 |
Originally posted by Gazi
Probably everyone has people they admire throughot history.Mine are:
- Yunus Emre
- Ummi Sinan
- Rumi
- Saladin
- Ataturk
- Orkan Begh
- Ibn i Sina
- Karacaolan
- Genghis Khan
- Archimedes
- Sokollu Mehmed Pasha
- Tughril Begh
- Alparslan
- Omar Khayyam
- John Lennon
I know most of them are from the middle east but thats just because I dont know western european history that well....
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Genghis Khan & John Lennon????????????
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My List would be
Robin Hood Ollie Cromwell The Levellers The Diggers Pancho Villa Hereward the Wake Harry Flashman
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giani_82
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Posted: 18-May-2005 at 10:17 |
1. Vasil Levski
2. Georgi Benkovski
3. Minamoto no Yosh*tsune
4. Confucius
5. Spartacus
6. Hannibal
7. Tokugawa Ieyasu
8. Tzar Simeon I The Great
9. Khan Asparuh
10. Khan Krum
11. Miyamoto Musashi
12. Guan Yu
13. Aleksandr Nevski
14. Cao Cao
15. Vasiliy Zaycev
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white dragon
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Posted: 18-May-2005 at 11:08 |
hannibal at the top, ill get back to you about any more i think of
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Reginmund
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Posted: 18-May-2005 at 12:54 |
God, there are so many I don't even care to list them all, but I can mention the ones which cross my mind right now.
The barbarian defiers of Rome, like Vercingetorix, Brennus, Arminius, Alaric, Fritigern and his Goths at Adrianople. Basically all the distinguished leaders of the Celtic and Germanic tribes, who challenged the far more advanced Roman superpower.
People who started out with little, but which managed through strength, courage and ambition to carve their way to power. People like Robert Guiscard and Oda Nobunaga fit well into this cathegory.
And wise rulers, like Octavian, Justinian, Charlemagne and Saladin.
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Gazi
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Posted: 18-May-2005 at 13:21 |
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Posted: 18-May-2005 at 13:46 |
1. Pericles
2. Alexander the Great
3. Thoukidides
4. Epaminondas
5. Iphicrates
6. Archimedes
7. Konstantinos Paleologos
8. Karatheodoris
9. Tesla
10. Einstein
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Posted: 18-May-2005 at 15:19 |
1. Chinggis Khan
2. Maximilliam Robespierre
3. Theodore Roosevelt
4. Qin Shi Huang Di
5. Alexander Hamilton
6. Niccolo Machiavelli
7. Ayn Rand
8. Thomas Paine
9. Steven Hawking
10. Benjamin Franklin
11. Ramses II
12. Edwin Hubble
13. Zhu Yuangzhang
14. Chandragupta Maurya
15. Susan B Anthony
16. Babur
17. Mustapha Kemal
18. Hatchepsut
19. Simon Bolivar
20. Richard Nixon
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Posted: 19-May-2005 at 00:13 |
1. Benjamin Franklin
2. Albert Einstein
3. John Locke
4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
5. Spartacus
6. Abraham Lincoln
7. Winston Churchill
8. Leonardo Da Vinci
9. Alexander Hamilton
10. Ronald Reagan
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Posted: 19-May-2005 at 00:23 |
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Lars Ulrich !m! (0.0) !m!
Kirk Hammett
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Posted: 19-May-2005 at 05:06 |
1. Caius Germanicus Galicula (murdered his sister, by pure jealousy, inpregnant by him)
2. Tiberius (said to love children a bit too much)
3. Commodus (playing in a full armor suit with weaponless gladiators)
4. Nero (need to introduce him)
5. Adolf Hitler (the sanest in this list)
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Posted: 19-May-2005 at 05:44 |
In no order of preference:
Leonidas
Marcus Aurelius
Justinian
Basil Bulgaroktonos
Frederik II Stupor Mundi
Martin Luther
Thomas Mnzer ( Leader of German Peasant revolt in 1525)
Oliver Cromwell
Maximilien Robespierre
Karl Marx
The Communards in Paris 1871
Geronimo
Lenin
Buenaventura Durutti (Leader of Spanish Anarchists during the Civil War)
Nelson Mandela
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Posted: 19-May-2005 at 07:42 |
Fulk Nera (count of anjou)
Robespierre (I was Robespierre in a previous life)
William the Conquerer
Templars
Teutonic knights
Mayan, Incas, Aztecs etc
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Posted: 19-May-2005 at 10:25 |
Aristoteles and his students
Cenghis khan
Kubilai khan
Attila
M.Kemal Atatrk
Mao Zedong
Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan
Napolion
Hitler
Lenin
Papa Johannes Paul II.
etc...
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Posted: 19-May-2005 at 14:34 |
Octavius Augustus
Harry Truman
I have many more, but these two are my favorite.
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Komnenos
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Posted: 19-May-2005 at 19:36 |
Originally posted by Tobodai
2. Maximilliam Robespierre |
Originally posted by Quetzalcoatl
Robespierre (I was Robespierre in a previous life) |
Originally posted by Komnenos
Maximilien Robespierre |
Is this the possible beginning of a "Robespierre Appreciation Society"?
"To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty."
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Posted: 20-May-2005 at 04:12 |
Some of my favorites:
Pisistrathos (not sure I spelled correctly. Anyway, he's an Athenian Tyrant)
Augustus (smart SOAB)
Flavius Aecius
Charlemagne
Thomas Aquinus
Frederick II Hohenstaufen
Villard de Honnecourt
Afonso III (King of Portugal)
Joo I (King of Portugal)
Joo II (King of Portugal)
Maximilian Habsburg
Leo X
Leonardo da Vinci
Richelieu
Peter I of Russia
David Hume
Christopher Wren
Isaac Newton
Beaumarchais
Josephine du Beauharnais Bonaparte
Otto von Bismark
Frank Lloyd Wright
Robbie Fowler
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Posted: 20-May-2005 at 07:42 |
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Robbie Fowler
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Is that the Robbie Fowler, former Liverpool and current Man City striker? What a strange choice! Please explain!
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Posted: 20-May-2005 at 08:52 |
1. Alexander the Great (no introductions needed, my childhood idol!)
2. Pyrrhus (great commander and dreamer who never fulfilled his over ambitious visions)
3. Diogenes of Sinope (cynic philosopher, unique personality overall)
4. Epictetus (Stoic philosopher, his ideals are close to genuine Christian morality)
5. Ecumenical Patriarch Photius (great scholar and brilliant personality)
6. Socrates (simply great)
7. Aristotle (not only a superb philosopher, but one of history's first serious scientists as well)
8. Basilius II Bulgaroctonus (one of the most successful emperors of Byzantium)
9. Niccolo Macchiavelli (cynic scholar, but his general ideas are the ancestor of modern realpolitik, no matter if strong governments deceive us by imposing political correctness)
10. Mahatma Gandhi (superb philosopher and leader, more Christian than most of the Christians I know)
11. Archbishop Chrysostomus of Smyrna (holy man and martyr of the Greek nation, preferred to stay where he lay and get brutally murdered by the Turkish mob, instead of escaping)
12. Theodoros Kolokotronis (brilliant tactician and commander, a true hero of the Greek revolution against Ottoman rule)
13. Marshall Erwin Rommel (real soldier and patriot)
14. Marshall Georgy Zhukov (humanity owes the Russian officer much)
15. General Nikolaos Plastiras (heroic Greek officer and good politician)
16. General George Grivas (mastermind of the Cypriot uprising against British rule in the '50s)
17. Leonardo Da Vinci (no comments...)
18. Jim Morrison (a true poet, one of my favorite singers)
19. Nikolaos Kavvadias (great Greek poet)
20. Ioannis Metaxas (Greek dictator who, on the contrary with other fascist leaders of his time, proudly denied the entry of Italian troops in Greek soil and decided to fight)
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