Famous people linking game

NewOrder · **Reply #20 on:** October 24, 2004, 08:01:54 AM

Gillian Gilbert - She was keyboards on New Order and she was also singer and basse in The Other Two, band formed with Steve Morris (New Order's drummer) after the band split up for a couple of years.. They dated till the early 90's then something happened I don't know what. In 2001 she left New Order, for reasons unknown to me.. and has dissapeared from music highlights since then...

Malte279 · **Reply #21 on:** October 24, 2004, 12:54:53 PM

Thomas Jonathan Jackson - confederate general during the US civil war who was nicknamed "Stonewall". He was accidentally shot and mortaly wounded by his own men during the battle of Chancellorsville.

NewOrder · **Reply #22 on:** October 26, 2004, 02:08:22 PM

Nicholas Cage (I think you spell it like that.. dunno) - He's some sort of an actor

Malte279 · **Reply #23 on:** October 26, 2004, 04:50:38 PM

Edwin McMasters Stanton - American lawyer, justice minister, and secretary of defense from 1862 to 1868. When President Andrew Johnson tried to fire him, he baricaded himself in his office.

Petrie · **Reply #24 on:** October 26, 2004, 06:56:16 PM

Nancy Cartwright - if my memory serves me right, she was the voices for Dana and Dinah in LBT 6

Malte279 · **Reply #25 on:** October 27, 2004, 02:46:37 AM

Thomas of Aquin - English medieval clergyman, scholar and philosopher whose studies and philosophies left a a lasting impression in Europe.

Malte279 · **Reply #26 on:** November 05, 2004, 03:38:55 PM

Nelson A. Rockefeller - US vice-president under Gerald Ford (from 1974 to 1977)

Malte279 · **Reply #27 on:** November 19, 2004, 07:48:20 AM

I'll give it a last try to keep the memory to these games up. Maybe they found a more interesting replacement with the "Who am I" and "Guess the place" games.

Robin Hood - English mythological character with a historical background (in late 12th / early 13th century). According to the legend an outlaw who took from the rich to give to the poor.

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #28 on:** November 20, 2004, 05:41:33 PM

David-Hero in the Bible and the Torah who slayed Goliath the giant and became king of Israel.

Malte279 · **Reply #29 on:** November 21, 2004, 06:47:44 AM

Diomedes - Greek hero during the Trojan war (we have frequent mentions of antient Greek places or heros these days) who even wounded two gods (Ares, the god of war, and Aphrodite, the god of love) during the battles.

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #30 on:** November 21, 2004, 05:22:37 PM

Sparticus-a gladiator slave who led an army of slaves against the Roman Empire (also played by a famous actor (misplaced the name) in a long but good movie).

Malte279 · **Reply #31 on:** November 21, 2004, 06:38:31 PM

^ I saw the movie not too long ago. The actor you are refering to is Kirk Douglas.

Santa Anna - Mexican dictator in the 19th century.

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #32 on:** November 24, 2004, 03:37:27 PM

^I only saw that movie once a few months ago, so I must of forgotten the name pretty quick.

Anne Frank-a Polish Jewish girl who died in the Holocaust just a few weeks before her camp was liberated. Her famous diaries were recovered by her father a few years after the war.

Malte279 · **Reply #33 on:** November 25, 2004, 03:22:39 AM

^ I've been to the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam, and I have read a lot about her and her families fate. It is so horrible that, with all it's horror, it was but one out of millions of fates determined by the most horrible crime.

Kirk Douglas - the famous actor mentioned above for playing Spartacus.

Nick22 · **Reply #34 on:** December 01, 2004, 02:18:08 PM

Sam Neill- actor who starred as the legendary wizard Merlin in a NBC miniseries
BTW Malte, Stanton was the answer to the question you posed in the Great Valley forum. Stanton was a radical Replublican, and a holdover from the Lincoln administration. When Johnson tried to fire him, the radical Republicans impeached him.Ludendorff left the Nazis in 1925, after the party had thrown its support to Hindenburg.
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #35 on:** December 01, 2004, 03:39:23 PM

^ Yes, Edwin McMasters Stanton was the one I was refering to. Maybe I should start an American history quiz over here?

Lewis Wallace - American author who is especially known for his novel "Ben Hur".

Nick22 · **Reply #36 on:** December 01, 2004, 10:17:05 PM

Ernst Rohm- head of the SA, shot during the purge of June 30-July 1, 1934.
Nick

Nick22 · **Reply #37 on:** December 01, 2004, 10:18:41 PM

^ And yes, Malte, you should start a US History thread. That way I can keep my facts straight.
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #38 on:** December 02, 2004, 03:15:35 AM

^Matthew Brady - very famous American 19th century photographer. Most of the famous photos from 19th century America were made by him or his assistants.

(The only thing I'm worried about is, that other people may not be too interested in these history threads, so it may be misinterpreted as some attempt to brag with knowledge, which is not my intention.)

Malte279 · **Reply #39 on:** December 02, 2004, 03:17:00 AM

^ Sorry, that name has a nasty ending letter. With Yuri Gagarin and most Chinese and Japanese emperors having been named before I think it is perfectly fine if you go for the d (last but one letter) for the next person.