ToToToToT: Born to Post This Way

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Kazakova/Dmitriev

famous Britons:

Winston Churchill
Charles Darwin
William Shakespear
Isaac Newton
Oliver Cromwell
Alex Ferguson
Bernard Montgomery

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Shakespeare

All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
Measure for Measure
Much Ado about Nothing

[orientalplane]

1. A tie between Shakespeare and Darwin

2. Measure for Measure - truly dark material

Recycledquestions.co.uk:

A cottage in the country or a flat in the city?

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a flat in the city

And what is surely more recycling...film adapations of EM Forster novels:

A Passage to India
A Room with a View
Maurice
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Howards End
purple something I've forgotten
purple crying on the lawn because you'd rather watch something else

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A Passage To India

WW2 generals:

Bernard Montgomery
Charles de Gaulle
Dwight D Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
George Patton
Georgy Zhukov
Josip Broz Tito

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Eisenhower

Getrude Lawrence
or
Vera Lynn?

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Vera Lynn

Movies about famous people:

The King's Speech
The Aviator
The Social Network
The Young Victoria
Nowhere Boy
The Last Station
Invictus

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The only one I've seen is The Aviator, which I don't like, so I'll go with The Social Network.

"Lust for Life" (Iggy Pop song)
or
Lust for Life (Vincente Minnelli film)?

[Allen]

Lust for Life (film)

Films About Artists

Pollock
Basquiat
I Shot Andy Warhol
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Frida
My Left Foot
Girl With A Pearl Earring
Vincent and Theo

[MikiAndoFan#1]

Girl with a Pearl Earring.

Japanese songs of 2010:

Ichiban Kirei na Watashi wo (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xged46_mika-nakashima-yyyy-ichiban-kirei-na-watashi-wo-pv_music)
Aitakute Aitakute (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lTwN6QMIxE)
Suki de, Suki de, Suki de. (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xeni50_pv-koda-kumi-suki-de-suki-de-suki_music)

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Kumi Koda, "Suki de, Suki de, Suki de"

Ayumi Hamasaki
or
Yukari Fresh?

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Yukari Freash

heatbreaking books I have read:

Red Road from Stalingrad - Mansur Abdullin
A Long Way Gone - Ishmael Beah
A Crime So Monstrous - E. Benjamin Skinner
Las Night I Dreamed Of Peace - Dang Thuy Tram
With The Old Breed - Eugene Sledge
Letters from a Lost Generation - Vera Britain

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Letters from a Lost Generation - Vera Britain

Adolphe Menjou as Gen. George Broulard in Paths of Glory
Anthony Sharp as Frederick (Minister of the Interior) in A Clockwork Orange
or
Sydney Pollack as Victor Ziegler in Eyes Wide Shut?

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Anthony Sharp as Frederick (Minister of the Interior) in A Clockwork Orange

19th century black intellectuals:

W.E.D. Du Bois - author, sociologist, civil rights activist
Booker T. Washington - educator, author, civil rights activist, and former slave
Frederick Douglass - orator, author, statesman and escaped slave
George Washington Carver - inventor of peanut butter, once compared to Leonardo da Vinci
Alexander Dumas - author of The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo
Garrett Morgan - inventor of gas mask, traffic lights

[Rex]

DuBois - he was the smartest and the least obsequious towards The Man! (honorable mention to Carver, who was gay).

Favorite character from The Color PurpleCelie
Sophia
Shug
Mister
Harpo
or
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