I'm in favor of removing the reason for there to be an etc.

Just change it to uppercase, indicating an acronym ETC (Executive Tweeting Champion)

Too many negatives there for me to follow!

the entry has been changed: American business magnate; TV personality; 45th American President

I was making a clever (I thought) comment, and not engaging in political discussion. I'm sorry if you felt it was in violation of the no politics rule.

Thanks! Seems much more accurate now.

More mythology today.

14. Roman goddess of the hunt & the Moon
Your answer: Diana

Reminder for when I get home and can access this:

Michel Foucault = French philospher; sociologist; historian - should be philosopher, not philospher

Diana, by the way, in on the list of entries that won't come up for me when I enter the name in the search field.

Mexican Saint associated with Guadeloupe; first indigenous American saint

Your answer: St. Juan Diego

8. Isley
American singer-songwriter of the pop group 'The Isley Brothers'

No first name given.

That's one of the ones I am still trying to get at - when I enter Isley, the system only shows me Bob Paisley. Not quite the same thing!

Your statement that there are no famous Belarusians is patently false - it just means you don't know them. Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, for one, shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in physics, so fans of those awards know his name. Skarnya is famous enough to have streets named after him, and awards bearing his name given to two different awards for service to the arts. I propose changing the description to read: Belarusian 16th century printer of early biblical texts using Cyrillic script

I think the person who set up a number of these entries on the database, which seem to have come from the names of people whose images appear on postage stamps in their native country, felt that most players would not know them, and wanted to emphasise that they are indeed famous in their part of the world. That is, after all, part of the point of the game - to learn about people who are household names in some circles, but of whom you may never have heard. And if you don't want to learn about them, you can just develop your familiarity with the typical names associated with the various nationalities. (Which will lead you astray when the family moves to a new country, of course.) That said, it is redundant to include the word in this game, as their fame in some circles is a given. However, since I can only access the database by entering people's names, I can only rewrite them when they are drawn to my attention. There is no way of making a blanket deletion!

I hope that your statement was meant to be an attempt at a joke. Even the most insular of us are likely to have heard of Louis B Mayer, Irving Berlin, Marc Chagall and Olga Korbut, all of whom were born in the country now known as Belarus. There are many more.

Cary Grant
Your answer: British film actor; 'North by Northwest' & 'To Catch A Thief'

He became an American in 1942

Is it possible to fix the typo below please?

10. Adam Gottlob Oehlenschlager
Your answer: Danish poet; playwight; introduced romanticism into Danish literature; wrote Danish national anthem

Done.

Fictional character; cat in T.S. Eliot's book 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats'

Your answer: Mungojerrie

Canadian actor; Captain Kirk of 'Star Trek'; author; producer; director; musician

Your answer: William Shatner

musician, really?

Yes indeed. Shatner recorded at least eight music albums, including a parody on both Bowie's "Major Tom" and the "Star Trek" original TV series.

Some of the other Star Trek actors also recorded one or more songs.