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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.


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To: MNDude

Antonin Scalia, Ronald Reagan (in good health) , Maggie Thatcher or Winston Churchill still in power.


41 posted on 05/27/2019 3:39:02 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought. ))
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To: MNDude

Sam Kinison

Phil Hartmann

Justice Scalia


42 posted on 05/27/2019 3:39:03 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Big Red Badger

Chris Farley
John Belushi
Gilda Radner
Phil Hartman


43 posted on 05/27/2019 3:39:03 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MNDude

Knute Rockne, Any child who died and any aborted fetus


44 posted on 05/27/2019 3:39:13 PM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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To: Big Red Badger

Both.


45 posted on 05/27/2019 3:39:33 PM PDT by Track9 (I mess up the bell curve.)
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To: MNDude

Winston Churchill, George Patton, Jack Pershing


46 posted on 05/27/2019 3:39:50 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: MNDude

Ronald Reagan, George Patton & Billy Graham


47 posted on 05/27/2019 3:39:53 PM PDT by LibertyWoman
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To: MNDude

Jefferson, Edison, Einstein.


48 posted on 05/27/2019 3:40:39 PM PDT by georgiarat (The most expensive thing in the world is a cheap Army and Navy. - Carl Vinson)
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To: MNDude

George Washington. Lincoln. J. Edgar Hoover, just because he hated communists.


49 posted on 05/27/2019 3:41:52 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: MNDude

George S. Patton Jr.


50 posted on 05/27/2019 3:42:28 PM PDT by Ancient Man
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To: MNDude

Ronald Reagan, Margret Thatcher, Vincent Van Gogh


51 posted on 05/27/2019 3:42:37 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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To: MNDude

Abe Lincoln
Marc Bolan
Ernie Kovacs


52 posted on 05/27/2019 3:43:02 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: MNDude
Living longer would mean disturbance to the complex chain of events that have led to all of us being here to have this conversation, so it's just lucky this is a moot topic. Probably should start this in reverse order, because my first one (the first one that comes to mind) would likely have so altered the next few centuries that the others wouldn't have been born, or at the very least, wouldn't have wound up in the appropriate circumstances.
  1. Alexander the Great
  2. Basil II "the Bulgar Slayer"
  3. King Aethelstan

53 posted on 05/27/2019 3:44:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Rod Serling? Hardly.)
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To: bagster

Bonus points: Amy Winehouse.

If you get a chance go to u tube and check out Karise Eden, you might like her.


54 posted on 05/27/2019 3:44:48 PM PDT by heshtesh
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To: MNDude

Schubert
Mendelssohn
Mozart


55 posted on 05/27/2019 3:45:04 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: MNDude

Czar Alexander II of Russia and Frederick III of Germany. Both of these men were bent on reforming their respective countries. And both died prematurely, Alexander from an assassin and Frederick from cancer. If either or both of these men had lived normal life expectancies the terrible and bloody history of the 20th century might have been very different.


56 posted on 05/27/2019 3:45:05 PM PDT by NRx (A man of honor passes his father's civilization to his son without surrendering it to strangers.)
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To: MNDude

Lee Atwater


57 posted on 05/27/2019 3:45:06 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.)
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To: MNDude

Tony Snow
John Adam’s
Jim Croce


58 posted on 05/27/2019 3:45:31 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: georgiarat
"...taking Irish immigrants..."

Well, he should be shamed just for letting the Irish in, period.

/sarc>

59 posted on 05/27/2019 3:45:36 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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To: dfwgator
Angus is still with us, Malcolm is the one who passed away.

Ooopsie.

Now that you mention it, I meant to say Bon Scott, the lead singer who croaked on his own puke.

Imagine AC/DC songs with Bon Scott singing them instead of that new guy (who's not terrible). They would be SOOOO much more awesome.

GodsGiftToBallroomNotoriety


60 posted on 05/27/2019 3:46:11 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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