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Post by enigma72 on Aug 26, 2020 14:54:16 GMT
I can't decide who to say.
You?
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Aug 26, 2020 19:08:48 GMT
Quite a few.
I'll throw out Akhenaten. All of the sudden, Amenhotep IV decides there's one, and only one, God? his hymns to his God are similar to some of the Psalms of King David. He could have been the Pharaoh of the Exodus. Is it a coincidence that the two monotheistic religions, Judaism and the Cult of Aten, came about in the same place at the same time? He was nearly deformed but had a beautiful wife.
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Post by politicidal on Aug 26, 2020 20:44:16 GMT
Ivan the Terrible.
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Post by maya55555 on Aug 26, 2020 22:20:16 GMT
The Worship of THE ATEN began with Akhenaten's father, Amenhotep III. The Psalm to which you are referring is 104 only. The Exodus was much later than the reign of Akhenaten, by most scholars. Scholars doubt that the Hebrews influenced royal thought; at best it was the other way around.
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Post by Winter_King on Aug 27, 2020 8:16:18 GMT
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Aug 27, 2020 8:38:20 GMT
Trajan
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Aug 27, 2020 19:24:44 GMT
Cleopatra VII. She was the end product of the most perverted inbreeding program in history. The Ptolemaic Dynasty routinely mated brother and sister, son and mother. Cleo could have had three heads, seven arms and the IQ of a centipede. Instead, she wrapped Julius Caesar and Marc Antony around her finger and held her own against Rome. For a while. And, contrary to Hollywood, she wasn't all that beautiful. She might have been a dervish in the sack, who knows?
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Post by maya55555 on Aug 28, 2020 21:10:27 GMT
Cleopatra VII. She was the end product of the most perverted inbreeding program in history. The Ptolemaic Dynasty routinely mated brother and sister, son and mother. Cleo could have had three heads, seven arms and the IQ of a centipede. Instead, she wrapped Julius Caesar and Marc Antony around her finger and held her own against Rome. For a while. And, contrary to Hollywood, she wasn't all that beautiful. She might have been a dervish in the sack, who knows? She had wealth!
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Aug 28, 2020 21:26:03 GMT
Cleopatra VII. She was the end product of the most perverted inbreeding program in history. The Ptolemaic Dynasty routinely mated brother and sister, son and mother. Cleo could have had three heads, seven arms and the IQ of a centipede. Instead, she wrapped Julius Caesar and Marc Antony around her finger and held her own against Rome. For a while. And, contrary to Hollywood, she wasn't all that beautiful. She might have been a dervish in the sack, who knows? She had wealth! No doubt. Egypt was the breadbasket of Europe and would have been under Rome's thumb sooner or later. The amazing thing about her was that she wasn't a mental case. That was a mighty shallow gene pool. Her brothers and the later Ptolomies were borderline idiots. And very very fat, due to inbreeding. Cleopatra might not have rivaled Liz Taylor in looks but she wasn't fat or moronic.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Aug 29, 2020 6:02:09 GMT
I've always been fascinated by Sir Henry Morgan, perhaps because he made piracy on the high seas respectable.
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Post by hi224 on Aug 29, 2020 11:20:40 GMT
Probably Louis Le Prince, Ben Franklin, Teddy Roosevelt, Alexander the Great, John Brown, Richard III.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Sept 2, 2020 19:20:58 GMT
Probably Louis Le Prince, Ben Franklin, Teddy Roosevelt, Alexander the Great, John Brown, Richard III. John Brown is a good one. Great cause, bad execution (pun intended).
Why Hollywood hasn't made a good movie about Brown is beyond me. A miniseries, The good Lord Bird, is being filmed, but, from what I've read, it's told from the viewpoint of a slave, not Brown. Brown story has everything, drama (Brown loved the limelight, especially at the end), action, a moral dilemma (end justify the means?) and a powerful ending.
Brown was very instrumental in bringing on the Civil War. The underlying terror of he South was slave revolt, a slew of Nat Turner's. By 1860, many in the South believed the North was full of John Brown's, eager to incite slave revolts.
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Post by hi224 on Sept 2, 2020 21:12:58 GMT
Probably Louis Le Prince, Ben Franklin, Teddy Roosevelt, Alexander the Great, John Brown, Richard III. John Brown is a good one. Great cause, bad execution (pun intended).
Why Hollywood hasn't made a good movie about Brown is beyond me. A miniseries, The good Lord Bird, is being filmed, but, from what I've read, it's told from the viewpoint of a slave, not Brown. Brown story has everything, drama (Brown loved the limelight, especially at the end), action, a moral dilemma (end justify the means?) and a powerful ending.
Brown was very instrumental in bringing on the Civil War. The underlying terror of he South was slave revolt, a slew of Nat Turner's. By 1860, many in the South believed the North was full of John Brown's, eager to incite slave revolts.
my issue with the good lord bird is it feels like its making light of the whole situation.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Sept 2, 2020 21:42:42 GMT
John Brown is a good one. Great cause, bad execution (pun intended).
Why Hollywood hasn't made a good movie about Brown is beyond me. A miniseries, The good Lord Bird, is being filmed, but, from what I've read, it's told from the viewpoint of a slave, not Brown. Brown story has everything, drama (Brown loved the limelight, especially at the end), action, a moral dilemma (end justify the means?) and a powerful ending.
Brown was very instrumental in bringing on the Civil War. The underlying terror of he South was slave revolt, a slew of Nat Turner's. By 1860, many in the South believed the North was full of John Brown's, eager to incite slave revolts.
my issue with the good lord bird is it feels like its making light of the whole situation. I've seen the novel compared to Huckleberry Finn in tone. Almost whimsical. Not sure that the adjective I'd be shooting for.
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Post by deembastille on Sept 2, 2020 22:05:59 GMT
Abraham Lincoln. Less than a year of professional learning. One of the smartest dudes out there.
Henry the eighth. Using wives like Kleenex.
Marie Antoinette. 187 new dresses a year.
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Post by enigma72 on Sept 4, 2020 16:11:03 GMT
Abraham Lincoln. Less than a year of professional learning. One of the smartest dudes out there. Henry the eighth. Using wives like Kleenex. Marie Antoinette. 187 new dresses a year. Me too deem. There are so many . But these are fascinating!
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Post by politicidal on Sept 4, 2020 16:50:17 GMT
Probably Louis Le Prince, Ben Franklin, Teddy Roosevelt, Alexander the Great, John Brown, Richard III. John Brown is a good one. Great cause, bad execution (pun intended).
Why Hollywood hasn't made a good movie about Brown is beyond me. A miniseries, The good Lord Bird, is being filmed, but, from what I've read, it's told from the viewpoint of a slave, not Brown. Brown story has everything, drama (Brown loved the limelight, especially at the end), action, a moral dilemma (end justify the means?) and a powerful ending.
Brown was very instrumental in bringing on the Civil War. The underlying terror of he South was slave revolt, a slew of Nat Turner's. By 1860, many in the South believed the North was full of John Brown's, eager to incite slave revolts. I think Tarantino had aspirations to make a John Brown movie for a while. Maybe that bled into Django Unchained.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Sept 4, 2020 17:09:05 GMT
John Brown is a good one. Great cause, bad execution (pun intended).
Why Hollywood hasn't made a good movie about Brown is beyond me. A miniseries, The good Lord Bird, is being filmed, but, from what I've read, it's told from the viewpoint of a slave, not Brown. Brown story has everything, drama (Brown loved the limelight, especially at the end), action, a moral dilemma (end justify the means?) and a powerful ending.
Brown was very instrumental in bringing on the Civil War. The underlying terror of he South was slave revolt, a slew of Nat Turner's. By 1860, many in the South believed the North was full of John Brown's, eager to incite slave revolts. I think Tarantino had aspirations to make a John Brown movie for a while. Maybe that bled into Django Unchained. Not sure if I'd want Tarantino to do it. QT would undoubtedly mess with history, letting Brown beat RE Lee at Gettysburg single handed, armed with just a samurai sword
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Post by hi224 on Sept 4, 2020 18:59:57 GMT
I think Tarantino had aspirations to make a John Brown movie for a while. Maybe that bled into Django Unchained. Not sure if I'd want Tarantino to do it. QT would undoubtedly mess with history, letting Brown beat RE Lee at Gettysburg single handed, armed with just a samurai sword
Can't be worse then whatever the hell good Lord bird is
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Sept 4, 2020 19:06:54 GMT
Not sure if I'd want Tarantino to do it. QT would undoubtedly mess with history, letting Brown beat RE Lee at Gettysburg single handed, armed with just a samurai sword
Can't be worse then whatever the hell good Lord bird is I don't like historical films that mess with history. Didn't like Braveheart, Wallace mating with Isabella before he was ripped apart by the English. Hitler and Co. didn't die in a French movie theater in 1944, like Inglorious Basterds. Especially Braveheart, William Wallace was a good enough story without that silliness.
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