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What three historical people do you wish lived longer?
Posted on 05/27/2019 3:20:24 PM PDT by MNDude
There are thousands of people who have made the world a better place to live. Many died before they were old and some would might be great to have around for a lot longer.
Which three historic people do you wish could have lived another 30 years?
Thomas Edison? Rod Sterling? Shakespeare? John Paul II? You get the point.
TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: abrahamlincoln; alexanderthegreat; chat; georgespatton; greatestpresident; vanity; williamshakespeare
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To: ought-six
People do not understand that the era of Federal Dominance and Power is a consequence of Lincoln.
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posted on
05/27/2019 4:49:06 PM PDT
by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no o<ither sovereignty.")
To: Yogafist
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posted on
05/27/2019 4:50:24 PM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: Yogafist
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posted on
05/27/2019 4:50:28 PM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: Mustangman
I understand your sentiments, but breaking up over the issue of slavery would not have gone well. The south turned a legit issue... States rights .. into something ugly... the right to have slaves. You are not going to like this link regarding Lincoln's efforts to protect slavery.
The Ghost Amendment that haunts Lincoln's Legacy
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posted on
05/27/2019 4:51:40 PM PDT
by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no o<ither sovereignty.")
To: ought-six
I bet you’re right. Our memory set is getting rare.
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posted on
05/27/2019 4:51:49 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
To: MNDude
King Henry VIII - Just to see how many more wives he would of had.
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posted on
05/27/2019 4:53:50 PM PDT
by
marajade
(Skywalker)
To: Dogbert41
I think picking Reagan is cruel to be honest. He was completely unaware of his surroundings.
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posted on
05/27/2019 5:04:25 PM PDT
by
napscoordinator
(Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
To: MNDude
Alexander the Great
Harold (the king who died at Hastings)
McKinley. Because of Roosevelt we got Wilson and progressivism, the 16th Amendment, the Fed, etc.
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posted on
05/27/2019 5:04:48 PM PDT
by
Defiant
(I hope the Russians trick me into voting for Trump again in 2020.)
To: Defiant
One more: Mohammed’s wife. If she had lived, she would have told him to quit with his stupid cave fantasies and make her happy.
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posted on
05/27/2019 5:05:56 PM PDT
by
Defiant
(I hope the Russians trick me into voting for Trump again in 2020.)
To: MNDude
Babe Ruth, Andrew Brietbart and Franklin Roosevelt
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posted on
05/27/2019 5:07:06 PM PDT
by
amnestynone
(We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
To: MNDude
Andy Kaufman,
Phil Hartman,
Gilda Radner
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posted on
05/27/2019 5:09:15 PM PDT
by
SMGFan
("God love ya! What am I talking about")
To: poconopundit
Yes! 4 feature films and he was gone, so sad.
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posted on
05/27/2019 5:09:49 PM PDT
by
Gasshog
To: amnestynone
Andrew Brietbart, William Colby, Adm Boorda
(All on the Friends of Bill list.)
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posted on
05/27/2019 5:11:08 PM PDT
by
Cvengr
( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
To: P.O.E.
“Marc Bolan”
Nice!
Albert Einstein
Neil Armstrong
Marilyn Monroe
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posted on
05/27/2019 5:12:07 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Only a Replacement Wall? Ann Coulter is deeply saddened)
To: MNDude
Anne, Queen of Great Britain, died at 49. She had 17 pregnancies but never a baby! Would wish to change that. Britain would then get no Hanover's on the throne. No Hanover's, no George III.
Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States. Died at 65 years of age. He was a Southerner, ho abhorred slavery and didn't want to see it spread. He died in his second year in office. Without Fillmore and then Buchanan as Presidents following him, the Union might have survived.
Theodore Roosevelt. 26th President of the United States. Was only 60 at his death. He was seriously thinking of running in 1920. I think had he done so, he would have kept the country strong, both militarily and economically. Maybe we could have got four terms out of him rather than his socialist cousin, Franklin.
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posted on
05/27/2019 5:15:15 PM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
To: MinorityRepublican
That makes me wonder. How would the Soviets punish Hitler if they captured him alive. They could be quite imaginative. The GRU was notorious for forcing their new officers watch a film of them disposing of a traitor (possibly Oleg Penkovsky) by strapping him to a stretcher and cremating him alive. Hitler shot himself for a good reason.
To: MNDude
Just a few of my favorites, who should have lived longer: GEN Robert E. Lee, LTG George Patton, Jr, President Thomas Jefferson, MAJ Audie Murphy & Patsy Cline.
Yours, TMN78247
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posted on
05/27/2019 5:16:12 PM PDT
by
TMN78247
("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
To: MNDude
Jimi Hendrix. Bruce Lee. Elliott Smith.
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posted on
05/27/2019 5:17:11 PM PDT
by
LanaTurnerOverdrive
("I've done things in my life I'm not proud of. And the things I am proud of are disgusting.")
To: Reily
Czar Nicholas II is another possibliity.
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posted on
05/27/2019 5:19:38 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: ought-six
See my earlier post about saving those programs that NBC had trashed by about the mid 1970s. Most of Ernie’s work got chucked as well and little of it survives today.
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posted on
05/27/2019 5:21:40 PM PDT
by
OttawaFreeper
("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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