Upstart3
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How about one of our Victorian heroines, like Florence Nightingale?
Reply #11281. Feb 07 13, 6:48 PM
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salami_swami
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Not royalty, and she didn't do anything noteworthy. It's someone else that made her famous...
Reply #11282. Feb 07 13, 11:46 PM
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Upstart3
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Would that someone be from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?
Reply #11283. Feb 08 13, 8:56 AM
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salami_swami
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After googling to see what that meant...
No, it does not appear so.
This person is famous due to a novel written using her namesake.
Reply #11284. Feb 08 13, 9:53 AM
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paulmallon
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is the thing that someone else did to make her famous of a medical nature (first female heart-transplant recipient e.g.)?
Reply #11285. Feb 09 13, 11:08 AM
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Upstart3
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Alice Liddell?
Reply #11286. Feb 09 13, 5:20 PM
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paulmallon
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was she a model for an artist or sculptor?
Reply #11287. Feb 09 13, 7:24 PM
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jabb5076
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I suspect upstart has it--The Alice of the two Lewis Carroll books--Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
Reply #11288. Feb 09 13, 7:54 PM
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salami_swami
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Upstart is correct! Nice. :)
Who are you?
Reply #11289. Feb 10 13, 2:33 PM
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Upstart3
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I'm a living man in my sixties.
Reply #11290. Feb 10 13, 2:36 PM
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jabb5076
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Politician?
Reply #11291. Feb 10 13, 3:08 PM
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Upstart3
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Not in politics.
Creative.
Reply #11292. Feb 10 13, 3:14 PM
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Upstart3
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I am a Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Reply #11293. Feb 10 13, 3:17 PM
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Pegbshack
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Shigeru Miyamoto?
Reply #11294. Feb 10 13, 6:06 PM
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Upstart3
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Correct!
Your turn!
Reply #11295. Feb 10 13, 6:53 PM
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Pegbshack
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Here's the next one:
A man born in the 17th century and died in the 18th century.
Reply #11296. Feb 11 13, 5:29 AM
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paulmallon
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was he European born?
Reply #11297. Feb 11 13, 7:03 AM
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Pegbshack
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Yes.
Reply #11298. Feb 11 13, 4:27 PM
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Pegbshack
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I have an eponymous research department at the University of Oxford.
Reply #11299. Feb 13 13, 5:10 AM
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Pegbshack
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I'm the youngest of the five children of my family.
Reply #11300. Feb 15 13, 5:53 AM
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