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I am reading stalin, sad, but unbeleivably facinating.

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Sylvia Pankhurst, Annie Bessant, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Feliks Dherzhinski to name but a few.

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Not an individual but .... The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

.... fascinates me!

I adore the art, but beyond that, I wonder what kind of people they really were. How religious, bohemian, decadent and, indeed, secretive were they?

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I would love to meet Hanibal on one of his Elephants heroically crossing the Alps, a great military fete.
His Army consisted of 60.000 men and thirty-seven Elephants.
Seventeen of whom died en route,

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They all had affairs with their models too.

By John Everett Millais - [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=189349

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Catherine the Great
Emilie du Chatalet

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Hi

Alexander the Great.

He reputably had 600 Concubines.

What a way to go.

It is a Man thing Ladies, we have our dreams, and that is all they are.

We would much rather settle for a genuine lady who loves us warts and all.

A freak in the sheets once a week, would be even better,

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Princess Diana - Id like to know how she managed to have such a big loving heart
Jesus the man .... I’d like to know his story in a non biblical sense
Peter Gabriel .... he’s still alive but an interesting musician with many diverse stories to tell through his music

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I also loved studying Stalin.But William Wilberforce and Elizabeth Fry are right up there.

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Ghandi
Martin Luther King
Nelson Mandela

The Bronté sisters

Emeline Pankhurst

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