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Not sure if these have been posted already or not, but even if they have - they are worth a repeat.

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Hemingway. How I would have loved to fish with him. Would have left before the drinking though. Couldn't have kept up with him there.

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Camus. For Frenchman of a certain age and alienated young adults of any country, the coolest author around;

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Nietzsche. Love him or hate him. Hugely influential in all of the arts and in continental philosophy:

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The blood and iron chancellor. Thank him for a unified Germany:

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And while we're unifying countries, what about Italy.

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For Canadians of a certain vintage.
PC leader Robert Stanfield fumbles a ball during the 1974 federal election. During a stop in Ontario, some thirty photos were taken of Stanfield throwing and catching the ball. The one that ran on the front pages the next day?


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Appomattox Court House.
Jacksons Stone wall.
Fort Sumter
 

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