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FROM THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
(other than Presidents): Benjamin Franklin,
John Hancock, Paul Revere, John Paul Jones, LaFayette,
Rufus King,
James Otis, Baron von Steuben, Joseph Warren, Benedict
Arnold (well, you
can't win them all)
POLITICAL LEADERS: Winston
Churchill, Simon Bolivar, Edmund Burke,
Benito Juarez, Edward VII, George VI, Bernardo
O'Higgins, Jose' de
San Martin, Francisco de Paula Santander, Jose'Rizal,
Jose' Marti,
Pandit Nehru, Lajos Kossuth, Jonas Furrer,
Guiseppe Mazzini,
Eduard Benes, John A. MacDonald, Aaron Burr, George
McGovern, Barry
Goldwater, Estes Kefauver, Adlai Stevenson (not the
governor of Illinois,
but his father who was Vice President in 1892), Thomas
E. Dewey, Alf
Landon, Hubert H. Humphrey, Wendell Wilke, W.E.B.
DuBois, William
Jennings Bryant
MILITARY LEADERS: Omar
Bradley, John J. Pershing, Douglas McArthur,
General Winfield Scott, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker,
Jimmy Doolittle,
General Mark Clark, General George C. Marshall
REPUBLIC OF TEXAS: Sam
Houston, Stephen Austin, Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie,
William B. Travis (and, it should be added, General
Santa Ana)
FINE ARTS: Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart (and his father, Leopold), Ludwig von
Beethoven, Jean Sibelius, Franz Liszt, Josef Haydn,
Irving Berlin,
Gutzon Borglum, Charles W. Peale, Alfons M. Mucha, John
Philip Sousa,
both Gilbert & Sullivan, George Gershwin, George M.
Cohen, Count Basie,
Nat King Cole, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Signmund Romberg
ACTORS: John Wayne, Red
Skelton, Clark Gable, W.C. Fields, Will Rogers,
Burl Ives, Roy Rogers, Danny Thomas, Ernest Borgnine,
Oliver Hardy,
Tom Mix, Audie Murphy, Gene Autry, Wallace Beery, Eddie
Cantor
INDUSTRY & LABOR: Henry
Ford, Samuel Gompers, Walter P. Chrysler,
John Wanamaker, S.S. Kresge, J.C. Penney, John Jacob
Astor, John L. Lewis
ADVENTURERS: Lewis &
Clark, Charles A. Lindberg, Kit Carson, Roald
Amundsen, Adm. Richard Byrd, Commodore Robert Peary
PHILOSOPHERS: Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthold E. Lessing,
Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet)
ATHLETES: Bob Feller, Tris
Speaker, Ty Cobb, Paul "Dizzy" Trout,
Harry Carey, Dell Rice, Jimmy Fox, Joe Tinker (of
"Tinker to Evers
to Chance"), Jack Dempsey, Arnold Palmer, Jack Arthur
Johnson
ASTRONAUTS: Edwin E.
"Buzz" Aldrin, Jr., Leroy Gordon Cooper,
Donn F. Eisele, Virgil I. Grissom, Edgar D. Mitchell,
Walter M.
Schirra, Jr., Thomas P. Stafford, Paul J. Weitz, James
B. Irwin,
John Glenn.
WRITERS: Samuel Clemens
(Mark Twain), Sir Walter Scott, Rudyard Kipling,
Robert Burns, Wassily I. Maikow, Heinrich Heine, Jean
P.C. de Florian,
Leopoldo Lugoner, Antonio de Castro Alves, James
Boswell, Alexander
Pushkin, Arthur Conan Doyle, Johnathon Swift, Oscar
Wilde
LAW: John Marshall, Earl
Warren, Thurgood Marshall
MEDICINE: Drs. Alexander
Fleming, Jules Bordet, Antoine DePage, Edward
Jenner, Charles and William Mayo, Karl and William
Menninger
SCIENCE: Hans C. Orsted,
Jons Jakob Frk. von Berzelius, Alfred Edmund
Brehm, Luther Burbank, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Albert
Abraham Michelson,
Gaspard Monge, C.F.S. Hahnemann, Pedro N. Arata,
Alexandre Gustave
Eiffel, Alexander Fleming, James Smithson
...as well as Harry Houdini, Norman Vincent Peale,
David Sarnoff,
Thomas J. Watson, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Cecil J. Rhodes,
Marvin Zindler, and many, many more.
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Article: 6865 of alt.freemasonry
From: gordon@ll.mit.edu (Gordon Matheson)
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