User:JQF/ideas

This page is for my personnal use to remember ideas or items I would otherwise forget.

People
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Real

 * Calico Jack, One of the firecest Pirates ever
 * Estrid, Viking Queen
 * Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of things like the Morse code
 * Isobel Gowdie, Influencial Witch
 * Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Sister to King Edward VII
 * Moll Pitcher, Early American Profit
 * Ólafur Elíasson, Dutch Modern Artist

Canada

 * Anna Haining Bates, The Nova Scotia Giantess
 * Billy Bishop, WWI flying ace
 * Charles Blondin, First to walk across the Niagra Falls by tightrope
 * D'Arcy McGee, only assassinated federal politician
 * Emily Carr, Female painter affiliated with the Group of Seven
 * Emma Albani, first worldwide singing superstar
 * Elizabeth Arden, the creator of modern make-up
 * Glenn Gould, the modern Mozart
 * Grey Owl, famous conservationists
 * James Barry, Surgeon, woman pretending to be a man to work?
 * Jay Silverheels, TV's Tonto
 * Jean Drapeau, Mayor and responsible for current Montreal culture
 * Lois Maxwell, the first and longest Miss Moneypenny
 * Louis Cyr, One of the world's first strongmen
 * Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, Defended Quebec (under France) from the British during the fall of Quebec
 * Marshall McLuhan, media genius
 * Mary Pickford, Canadain co-fonder of United Artists
 * Norval Morrisseau, Aboriginal Canadian artist
 * Peter Easton, Canadian Pirate, one of the best at his trade
 * Sam Steele, One of the most prolific members of the NWMP
 * Stephen Angulalik, Inuit trader post operator and partial historian

Musicians

 * Bowser and Blue, a musical duo from Quebec, Canada who write and perform comedic songs
 * May Irwin, famous singer
 * Stan Rogers, Canadian folk musician and songwriter
 * Susan Aglukark, a Canadian singer-songwriter who blends Inuit folk music traditions with pop
 * The Vestibules, a Canadian Comedy group

Japan

 * Hasekura Tsunenaga, First Japanese ambassidor, 1613-1620, from New Spain to France
 * Dembei, a Japanese fisherman who shipwreaked in Russia and piqued their interest in Japan
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Fictional/Mythlogical

 * Ivan Tsarevich, Russian hero prince
 * Koschei, Russian villain wizard
 * Lazarus, the guy Jesus raised from the dead

Groups

 * Black Donnellys, Massacred Family in a Feud
 * Esper, People with psycic powers
 * Māori, New Zealand Natives
 * 'Ndrangheta, one of the most powerful and ruthless organized crime organizations in Italy, with a significant presence in Canada
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Quotes

 * "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," Martin Luther King Jr.


 * "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard," John F. Kennedy


 * "It's not the size of the man in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the man." Phil Fondacaro


 * "It is written among the limitless constellations of the celestial heavens, and in the depths of the emerald seas, and upon every grain of sand in the vast deserts, that the world which we see is an outward and visible dream of an inward and invisible reality." - Opening of The Thief and the Cobbler


 * "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong." Frederick Douglass


 * Theodore Roosevelt is known to be quoted, "The things that will destroy America are ... the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life."


 * "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." — Benjamin Franklin
 * One of several misquotes of a phrase commonly attributed to Franklin. The actual quote is "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." This quote may or may not have originated from Franklin. See Those who would give up Essential Liberty, for more information. (Future of the Book)


 * List of famous misquotations

Items

 * Shaun Greenhalgh's forgeries
 * Amarna Princess
 * Risley Park Lanx