Who is your favourite famous person from another era and why?
8 Answers to "Who is your favourite famous person from another era and why?"
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Mad Jack Churchill, and a distant cousin of mine, Srgt York. Fascinating guys.
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James Clark Maxwell simply to hear him talk about his equations and electromagnetic theory.
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Bob Dylan, because he is a genius poet / singer / song writer, and I only just recently started to get into his work. I love his wit and cynicism, and I think we need more artists like him in the modern scene, cause there sure is a lot to be said about this current era we're in.
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Wintston Churchill....few people know that he had a terrible stutter. He studied constantly and prepared answers for questions that he MIGHT be asked one day. This made him a expert in many areas, and a truly great leader.
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John Francis Hylan, nicknamed "Red Mike".
Hylan's most famous words against "the interests" was the following speech, made in 1922, while he was the sitting Mayor of New York City (1917–25):
'The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation. To depart from mere generalizations, let me say that at the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as the international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes.
‘They practically control both parties, write political platforms, make catspaws of party leaders, use the leading men of private organizations, and resort to every device to place in nomination for high public office only such candidates as will be amenable to the dictates of corrupt big business.
‘These international bankers and Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests control the majority of the newspapers and magazines in this country. They use the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of office public officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government. It operates under cover of a self-created screen [and] seizes our executive officers, legislative bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.
This "invisible government," Hylan and others—William Jennings Bryan, Charles Lindbergh Sr. (R-MN)—argued, exercised its control of the US Government through the Federal Reserve.Like (2)
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Spartacus - fought against oppression
Leonidas - bravely fought force much greater than hisLike (2)
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william tecumseh sherman. he was an iconoclast and wasnt interested in pretense or bullfarkle.
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Best Answer (Chosen by Voting):
Posted by blake7722 Mar 12th, 2013 at 2:42PM
John Milton, the author of "Paradise Lost"
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