historical figures

[soserious]

can you name any historical figures?
I have some already but there are so many I have forgotten- web searches offer limited results.
Just reel off as many names as you can think of- if it`s good and I don`t already have it- repped-

[Master Long]

Frank Zappa.

Oh, and Muhammad

[soserious]

Hmm, I was thinking more along the lines of Benjamin Franklin, Queen Victoria, Leonardo da Vinci...

[Master Long]

Vercingetorix

[ColdShroom]

Don Juan Matus (http://www.geocities.com/the_wanderling/don_juan_matus.html)

[soserious]

Nice one, any more?
*repped as per the deal*

[Valk]

What is an historical figure in your opinion SS?

[Master Long]

Queen Boudica

[soserious]

Yes, I have her down already.
Valk, what I am looking for are historical figures of note- be that world achievement, medicine, politics, inventions and adventurers ect.
Who is that famous person (woman?) who advanced medicine, I think it was before penicillin?

Oh, also any currently living of the same are good too, I have Mr Armstrong already.

[Master Long]

Sidney Korshak

Full Description (for THE FIXER)
From the 1940’s until his death in the 1990s, attorney Sidney Korshak was not only the most powerful lawyer in the world, according to the FBI, but also the enigmatic, almost vaporous player behind countless 20th century power mergers, political deals, and organized crime chicaneries. As the underworld’s primary link to the corporate upperworld, Korshak’s backroom dominance and talent for anonymity will likely never be equaled. Former Teamster boss Jackie Presser once said, "Sidney’s the smoothest sonovabitch in the business. There’s nothing he can’t fix...and he doesn’t even have an office. The guy don’t even have a briefcase. Keeps everything in his head." Former Paramount Pictures Studio head Robert Evans summarized: "Let’s just say that a nod from Korshak, and the Teamsters change management; a nod from Korshak, and Santa Anita and Vegas shut down; a nod from Korshak, and the Dodgers can suddenly play night baseball. Am I exaggerating? Quite the contrary. In the spirit of confidentiality, it’s an underplay."
A biography of the myth-like mafia lawyer Sydney Korshak has been on the "must-do" list for countless talented investigative reporters. Such a book is long overdue. Korshak was the subject of a Nick Tosches Vanity Fair article some years ago, and is now the subject of a feature film rumored to be in development at Paramount with producer Robert Evans (for whom Sydney was a lifelong mentor) and Tosches. Yet, amazingly, there has never been a biography.
The time is now. Top-notch investigative reporter Gus Russo is coming off of the huge critical and commercial success of THE OUTFIT (Bloomsbury, 2002), which received rave reviews in The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, which is now in development as a major extended mini-series with USA Networks, and which was the first definitive history of the Chicago mafia.


http://www.lukeman.com/Titles/fixer.htm

[Bobo]

Here (http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/By_Subject/Exploration/Explorers/) (<- click) are some of my favourite historical figures, the explorers... I've always felt a bit jealous to them because in their time earth was still full of mystery. Only recently I have realized that despite the fact that almost everything on this planet has already been discovered, I can still do my own adventures to places I haven't personally seen. But, if I could choose, I'd rather be born centuries back and join one of the notorious explorers for their mind blowing adventures. That, or the future (if) we ever get to explore the universe.

[ColdShroom]

http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/electrical/tesla/pictures/misc/tesla50.jpg
Nikola Tesla (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla)


http://www.etheric.com/Downloads/MEC.jpg
John Searl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Searl)

[Master Long]

William Jennings Bryan

[Spike]

Issy Brunel

[The Big Banana]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernicus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hilbert
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullio_Levi-Civita
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudoxus_of_Cnidus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes

[Bobo]

http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1369

:mrgreen

[ColdShroom]

http://www.maxkava.com/uploaded_images/chuck_norris-712436.jpg

Chuck Norris (http://www.chucknorris.com/)

[Bobo]

:lol: :lol: :lol: Ok...

http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/games/david-hasselhoff.jpg
David Hasselhoff :lol:

[ColdShroom]

http://www.nodulo.org/ec/2005/img/n035p04.jpg
Che (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara)

[Thought Pro]

Bill Clinton is an ok guy. :?