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What I like:
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Neal Adams - known for his greens
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Black Adder - with a plan so cunning you could put ears on it and call it a weasel
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Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact -
John W. Campbell -
Ben Bova -
Stanley Schmidt
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Project Apollo - going where no man has gone since
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The Art of War - the fundamentals
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Jon Astley - but is it...commercial?
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David Bromberg - the danger man
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension - no matter where you go, there you are
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José Raúl Capablanca - the chess machine, and perfect gentleman - the best of Cuba
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George Washington Carver - making everything out of anything
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Geoffrey Chaucer - poet, pilgrim, soldier, diplomat, customs officer
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Winston Churchill - righteous defiance personified
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John Cleese - the Black Knight, in the abattoir, with a parrot
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Cocoa Beach - missiles, tiki bars, sushi, the head parrot head
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Bill Cosby - the man who gave me the story of
Noah
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Richard Curtis - running the gamut from Adder to Actually
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Frederick Douglass - a writer so powerful his autobiography was denounced as a ghosted hoax by his enemies
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Dune (novel) - as the worms turn
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Bob Dylan - he knows something is happening but...
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Edward, the Black Prince - a bit like the girl with the curl
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Epaminondas - smashed Sparta and established a string of democratic city-states to the horror of Athens
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William Faulkner - a nose for Emily
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F. Scott Fitzgerald - flapper mapper
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Peter Gabriel - the sledgehammer
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John of Gaunt - the houses, the women, the family life...
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Cary Grant - a better actor than we could have imagined
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Al Green (musician) - take him to the river
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Victor Davis Hanson - culture, carnage, Carlin: these are all 'c' words
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Goldie Hawn - the 1960's IT girl (information technology was much more fun then)
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Robert A. Heinlein - by his bootstraps
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Hellboy - so, how does a demon exercise free will?
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Ernest Hemingway - the terse youth
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Henry II - what a family dinner table!
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Nat Hentoff - the principal of principle
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Katharine Hepburn - playing opposite the weaker sex
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Charlton Heston - the best baptist ever
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John Hiatt - cause we haven't left the parking lot
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James P. Hogan (writer) - everything you know is wrong
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Homer - an inspirational figure who overcame the handicaps of being blind, and possibly fictitious, to found Western epic literature
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Thomas Jefferson - founding father of the
University of Virginia
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Jack Kirby - the man who was king
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Cyril M. Kornbluth - the man who foresaw the demand for ventilated spaceships
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Lahaina, Hawaii - a
whale of a
town (but don't
monkey with the
tree)
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Emanuel Lasker - the model of the modern grandmaster
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Stan Lee - the man who is "The Man"
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Lee Teng-hui - the pragmatic democrat
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C. S. Lewis - agape's solicitor
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Apple Macintosh - the distinguished opposition
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Walter M. Miller - prophet of Liebowitz
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John Milton - an epic protestant
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Monticello - an enlightened house
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Moties -
The Mote in God's Eye - ISBN 0671741926
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Bob Newhart - he's got Guiding Light right behind him
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Larry Niven - master of Known Space
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Patrick O'Brian - man of letters
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Danny O'Keefe - chronicler of the self-afflicted
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George S. Patton - fascinating man, mad as a hatter
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Pearl (poem) - where the streets have no name -
the Middle English compliments of the
University of Virginia
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Plato - metaspelunker
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Jerry Pournelle - the lord of Chaos Manor
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James Randi - The million dollar skeptic
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Teddy Roosevelt - famous to the ages as
Alice Roosevelt's father
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P. Craig Russell - for bringing art nouveau to
H. G. Wells
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Arnold Schwarzenegger - gets the gray out
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Scipio Aemilianus Africanus - carthagio delenda est - the adopted son makes good
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William Shakespeare - he wrote them! get over it!
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Julian Simon - winner of the purple wagers
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Adam Smith - the other event of 1776
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - conscience of a nation
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Bud Sparhawk - at the Dragon
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Sports Night - the best work of
Aaron Sorkin
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Jim Steranko - master stylist
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Al Stewart - the tiltawhirl of pop
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Tom Stoppard - wicked
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Richard Thompson - she was pushed
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To Kill a Mockingbird - facts versus point of view
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Alexis de Tocqueville - slept on the volcano
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J. R. R. Tolkien - catch his work editing
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -
the Middle English
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Linus Torvalds - found more than most to property rights
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Spencer Tracy - on screen, a 20th Century American everyman
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Trout Fishing in America - the musical duo, not the book they drew their name from
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Harriet Tubman - extremest in the cause of liberty
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Mark Twain - letter writer from the Earth
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U2 - how long?
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Van Morrison - streetlights all turn blue?
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John Varley - improving with age
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Jules Verne - and his editor, who insisted on upbeat stories with happy endings
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Leonardo da Vinci - genius
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Lech Wałęsa - Socialism defeated by a trade union (you just can't make this stuff up!)
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Booker T. Washington - the perfect is still the enemy of the good
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George Washington - by standing forward, and then standing down, the Father of the Republic
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Simon Wiesenthal - never forget
- Wikipedia (see:
Wikipedia:About) - flawed but fabulous
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Colonial Williamsburg - where the Whigs and Tories are still going at it
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Warren Zevon - the bard of Roland