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John Adams. When Washington became the first President of the United States, Adams was the first Vice President.He was instrumenatal in proposing American Independance.
John C. Calhoun. Born Mar.18.1782 near Abbeville S.Carolina at points in life held offices of Congressman,Senator,Secretary of War,Secretary of State and Vice President of the United States.
Al Jolson. Al Jolson was born in Lithuania and immigrated with his family to the USA.Birth name Asa Yoelson.Gained worldwide fame for starring in the first 'talking' picture 'The Jazz Singer' in 1927.
John F Kennedy. Kennedy's answer to Mrs.Conelly's comment of 'Dallas seems to love you Mr.President' just before he was hit in the head by a bullet that killed him.
Sitting Bull. With the help of other tribes he wiped out General George Armstrong Custer and his force of 260 in the famous battle of the Little Bighorn more commonly known as 'Custer's Last Stand'.
George Washington. The Founder of the Continental Army he turned a ragtag collection of farmers and merchants into a well trained fighting force that eventually defeated the British and won independence for America. A grateful people elected him the first President of The United States a post he served with distinction.
Amelia Earhart. This was the last radio transmission received from her that launched one of the largest and longest searches in history, no trace has ever been found.
| "I've always loved my wife, my children, and my grandchildren, and I've always loved my country. I want to go. God, take me"? | Last Words Of Famous People
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Dwight D Eisenhower. Overall commander of the Allied forces during WWII, he later went on to become President of the United States.
W C Fields . A notorious drinker and daily consumed huge amounts of gin even to his dying day.
Archimedes of Syracuse. Well, do you remember the greatest mathematician and inventor of Hellenistic Age? Sure, it's Archimedes, the citizen of Syracuse. That's how he died: Second Punic War. Roman army blockades Syracuse for two years, but even Archimedes' catapults and flame throwers do not save the city. The Roman soldiers get in, and one of them fids an old man, working on some project on the ground. Then Archimedes proclaims his last words: 'Don't disturb my circles!'. (There has been also recorded other version, like 'Stand away, fellow, from my diagram. . . . Somebody give me one of my engines.').
'The rest is silence'. 'Oh, I die, Horatio; The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit: I cannot live to hear the news from England; But I do prophesy the election lights On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice; So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less, Which have solicited. The rest is silence.' www.sullivanet.com
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Year 1945. Roosevelt rests at his private retreat in Warm Springs, Georgia. One day, posing for an artist who painted his portrait, he complains that he has a terrible headache and dies of a cerebral hemorrhage.
'Quoth the Raven, Nevermore.'. 'America's Ace of Aces' - Bong, Richard Ira; 'Steel True, Blade Straight' - Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan; 'Called Back' - Dickinson, Emily.
Giacom Casanova. Well, that's really unexpected, since Casanova is mostly known for his reputation of women seducer. But still, he was also famous clergyman and alchemist.
| Which great Russian authors last words were: 'It's been a long time since I've had champagne'? | Last Words and Epitaphs
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| 'Yes, that was death. I died - and I awoke. Yes, death is an awakening.' Which fictional character said these words (they were the last words)? | Last Words and Epitaphs
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Prince Andrei Bolkowsky - War and Peace by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy.
| 'I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have'. Whose last words were these? | Last Words and Epitaphs
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Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo is best known as an artist, the creator of such masterpieces as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Yet Leonardo was far more than a great artist: he made meticulous observations and carried out research in fields ranging from architecture and civil engineering to astronomy to anatomy and zoology to geography, geology and paleontology.
Jean-Paul Marat. Jean-Paul Marat was one of the most radical and bloodthirsty of all the leaders of the French Revolution. On 13 July, a woman named Charlotte Corday asked the guard at his apartment door if she could hand over information about a counter-revolutionary group to Marat. Marat approved her entry, and she sat in a chair next to his tub and gave him a list of conspirators. After reading the list, Marat remarked, 'They shall all be guillotined.' As he did, Corday pulled a long-bladed kitchen knife from her dress and drove it into Marat's left chest; she had actually come to take revenge for the execution of a friend. She was caught and executed four days later.
Karl Marx. Shortly before Karl Marx's death his housekeeper asked if he had any last words. Nice answer she got. :)
| On the grave of which great conqueror is the following epitaph: 'A tomb now suffices for him whom the world was not enough'? | Last Words and Epitaphs
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| 'VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT' (Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.) On which psychologist's grave is this epitaph most likely to appear? | Last Words and Epitaphs
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Carl Jung. This is actually the epitaph of Carl Jung.
| Here's the epitaph: 'Here lies _______, the once and future king'. What is the missing name? | Last Words and Epitaphs
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King Arthur. 'Hic jacet Arthurus, rex quondam rexque futurus'
| This Victorian novelist observed "I am dying as I have lived: beyond my means". Who was he? | Famous Last Words
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Oscar Wilde. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born, in 1854, into a celebrated Dublin family. He took after his mother, Lady Jane, and was often referred to as a "snob", but his life did not match his aspirations in so many ways and he died in poverty in a Paris hotel room in 1900. The dying words "Either this wallpaper goes or I do" have also been attributed to Oscar Wilde.
| Which famous American actor said "I should never have switched from scotch to Martinis"? | Famous Last Words
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Humphrey Bogart. Humphrey DeForest Bogart, born in 1899 in New York, was to become one of Hollywood's most distinctive leading men. Veteran of 85 films, 'Bogey' died of cancer in 1957.
| Which outlaw was heard to utter "That picture is crooked", before departing this earth? | Famous Last Words
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Jesse James. Jesse Woodson James was born in Missouri in 1847 to a Baptist Minister and his wife. After the Civil War, Jesse and his brother Frank, together with their gang robbed banks and trains across America. In 1881, with a price on his head, Jesse rented a house under the assumed name of Tom Howard. Being short of cash, and all his gang members either dead or imprisoned, he recruited Bob and Charlie Ford to help him rob the local Bank. The lure of the $10,000 bounty on Jesse proved too much for the Fords, and in April 1882 Bob put a bullet in the back of Jesse's head as he stood on a chair to dust and straighten a picture, so ending the life of the legend that was Jesse James.
| Which American President's dying words were "I have a terrific headache"? | Famous Last Words
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Franklin D Roosevelt. The 32nd President of the USA, Franklin Delanore Roosevelt, fought a bout of polio to be elected to the first of his four terms of office in 1932. He died of a cerebral haemorrhage in 1945.
| Another of his many famous quotes being "I like children if they're properly cooked", whose final words were "On the whole I'd rather be in Philadelphia"? | Famous Last Words
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W C Fields. Born William Claude Dukenfield in Philadelphia in either 1879 or 1880 (sources cannot agree!), Fields left home at the age of 11. In his teens he entered showbusiness as a comic juggler, progressing to silent and later talkie movies. He died in Pasadena on Christmas Day, 1946.
H G Wells. Herbert George Wells was born on 21 September 1866 in Bromley, Kent. A pioneer of English science fiction, his first novel 'The Time Machine' brought him fame in 1895, and he continued writing in that genre for the next few years, producing works such as 'The Invisible Man' in 1897 and 'The War of the Worlds' the following year.
| "Am I dying, or is this my birthday?", were the final words of which British politician? | Famous Last Words
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Nancy Astor. Born Nancy Witcher Langhorne in 1879 in Richmond, Virginia, Lady Nancy Astor was the first woman to sit as a Member of the British Parliament in 1919. She remained in Parliament until her retirement in 1945 and died in 1964, at the age of 85.
| Which Roman Emperor declared "What an artist the world is losing in me" upon his death? | Famous Last Words
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Nero. Born in Antium, Italy in 37 AD, Nero was the fifth of the Roman Emperors. His reign lasted for 14 years, from 54-68 AD and is mostly remembered for the great fire of Rome which raged through the city for nine days during 64 AD. Nero committed suicide during the summer of 68 AD at the age of 31.
| A couple more actors to finish with. Whose dying words were "My fun days are over"? | Famous Last Words
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James Dean. Jame Byron Dean was born 1931 in Indiana. Having made three films in just over a year Jimmy Dean embodied the restless American youth of the mid 1950s. In September 1955, on the way to compete in a race, he died in a motorway accident.
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