The Name Game - Chapter 4

[blueyecicle]

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Ferdinand Magellan
The first circumnavigator of the real world

Portuguese Fernão Magalhaes

Ok I googled the info but knew the name!

[1stwahine]

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Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (July 13, 1608 – April 2, 1657), ruled February 15, 1637 – 1657.
Eldest son of Emperor Ferdinand II from the house of Habsburg and his first wife, Maria Anna of Bavaria. Made King of Hungary in 1625, King of Bohemia in 1627, and King of the Romans in 1636.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdina..._Roman_Emperor

[localgrl]

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Ferdinand von Zeppelin - 1838–1917, German army officer and airship inventor and builder

http://www.answers.com/topic/ferdinand-von-zeppelin

[1stwahine]

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Louis Ferdinand Celine - French writer and physician, 1894-1961
“The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.”

[localgrl]

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Celine Marie Claudette Dion (or better known as just Celine Dion) - a French-Canadian Grammy and Juno award winning pop singer, and occasional songwriter and actress

[1stwahine]

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Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen, usually known as Marie Antoinette; (2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was Queen of France and Archduchess of Austria. She was a daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and his wife Empress Regnant Maria Theresa of Austria and was married to Louis XVI of France at age 14. As Louis XVI's wife and mother of "lost dauphin" Louis XVII, she was guillotined at the height of the French Revolution in 1793 and subsequently interred with her husband in the royal crypt at the Saint Denis Basilica in Paris. She was born Her Royal Highness Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria, Princess of Hungary, Bohemia and Tuscany.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette

[Adri]

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Maria Callas, opera singer

http://www.callas.it/

[Mike_Lowery]

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Maria Quiban. Former KHNL weather anchor and Yum Yum Tree girl.

[1stwahine]

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Maria Tallchief (January 24, 1925) is a now-retired American ballerina.

From 1942 to 1947 she danced with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, but she is best known for her time with the New York City Ballet from 1947 to 1965.

She was born Betty Marie Tall Chief in Fairfax, Oklahoma on January 24, 1925, to an Osage Nation father and a Scotch-Irish mother.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Tallchief

[localgrl]

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Maria Morris Miller - A Canadian Botanical Artist

[1stwahine]

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Reginald Wayne Miller (born August 24, 1965 in Riverside, California) is an American former professional basketball player. Miller spent the entirety of his 18-year NBA career with the Indiana Pacers. Miller was known for his precision three-point field goal shooting, especially in clutch situations. It is believed that no one hit more buzzer beaters than him. He holds the NBA record for career three-pointers made (2,560). Currently, he works as a NBA commentator (along with his sister Cheryl Miller) for TNT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggie_Miller

[Adri]

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Arthur Miller, playwright and once husband to Marilyn Monroe

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/amiller.htm

[Mike_Lowery]

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OK, I doubt that Anna Miller's a real person. I'm going to name Shannon Miller, US Olympic gymnast. Do I really have to post a link to show that Shannon's real?

[Adri]

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Claude Shannon, engineer and one of the founders of the electronic communications age

http://www.nyu.edu/pages/linguistics...0003/shan.html

Mike You don't have to use links but it was an admin request that we do so whenever possible. I suspect so that people *might* learn something about the people we post instead of just us tossing out names.

[Mike_Lowery]

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Thanks Adri.

Claude Lemieux, former NHL player.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/hoc...l/players/334/