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Eventually, I'll have to do a research project on some famous person. I'm not sure who I want to do it on yet though.

Any ideas?

(It can be anyone BUT Martin Luther King, my teacher says she's sick of reading so many essays on the guy and his life story)

George W. Bush, or me.

The Marquis de Sade!

Malcolm X

The Marquis de Sade!
I second that!

It's fun subverting teachers intentions for projects. We had to do a project on the history of a religion. The teacher never specified what counted or not, so I researched Anton LeVay and the Church of Satan. The teacher was uber-pissed, especially since he had to give me a 98% in the project.

John Glenn

stan lee

florence nightengale

The Marquis de Sade!
sounds tempting, read his bio on wikipedia

I think it shall uber-piss the teacher well....mwahahahaha

It's fun subverting teachers intentions for projects. We had to do a project on the history of a religion. The teacher never specified what counted or not, so I researched Anton LeVay and the Church of Satan. The teacher was uber-pissed, especially since he had to give me a 98% in the project.

Man, that's not fair. I made a speech once that advocated blockading Africa and various other third-world countries for their own good. It was well-researched and my presentation was close to perfect from a technical standpoint. But my bitch of a teacher docked crazy amounts of marks because she didn't like what I said.

Man, that's not fair. I made a speech once that advocated blockading Africa and various other third-world countries for their own good. It was well-researched and my presentation was close to perfect from a technical standpoint. But my bitch of a teacher docked crazy amounts of marks because she didn't like what I said.
That happened the first time I did anything like that, but I managed to somehow get the principal to make him grade purely by the quality and not the opinions. That was like the one good thing that the principal ever did for me.

No MLK? Have you ever heard of Bayard Rustin? He was a pretty cool guy, he was the brains behind MLK he taught him all that nonviolence hippy stuff.. He was a lot cooler than MLK too, he was a former communist and a notourious sodomite. I met his gay lover, he lives in NYC.

Think I should do Jesus?

This is for a public-school, so I can take out all the religous information. Leaving Jesus' life with...

He was a guy who said things that pissed off the Roman government. So they eventually got a giant cross and nailed him to it. Then they burned him. It just so happened that people remembered this guy for over 2000 years by means of religon.

you should totally do peter kropotkin.

explorer, scientist, anarchist revolutionary. has both a volcano and a city named after him. though his escape from prison isn't quite as epic as bakunin's.

and i'm not kidding, his life would make a fucking amazing movie. i assume that could translate into a good paper/project.

Akhenaten, Nefertiti's husband and Tut's probable son-in-law. He was called the "heretic pharoh". He claimed there was only one god and he could talk to him. The culture of the period allowed for dozens of gods. He had all traces of other gods destroyed and made the people acknowledge only one. There is a lot of mystery concerning his life. When he died, the priests tried to eliminate all reference to him and to date his tomb has never been found.

Stalin, or mabey the darker side of Galileo? (COUGH-Illuminati-COUGH)

darker side of Galileo

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sounds tempting, read his bio on wikipedia

I think it shall uber-piss the teacher well....mwahahahaha

I have plenty of good references on my Hero - The Divine Marquis if you should ask. He was well ahead of his time. I laugh at postmodernism due to the fact it was old hat to the Marquis, I laugh at those who say are behavior is genetically influence because the Marquis said that well before genetic science came into being. Then there is his influence on the Revolution

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Galileo founded the Illuminati(Supposedly.)

Galileo founded the Illuminati(Supposedly.)
It would be so fucking cool to do an essay on the Illuminati for history class.
Complete with paranoid raving.
"They're watching us!!!!!!!"

Or perhaps I should do one on John Kerry and reference ONLY the most EXTREME right-wing sites on the internet.

Then I'll reference to ONE "sane" source and claim that their information is not as well proven as those of the insane right-winged sources.

Galileo founded the Illuminati(Supposedly.)
Depends if you believe Dan Brown or Jack Chick.

(honestly on this I'd go with Chick, kinda. Brown invented the Galileo connection just to make a story).

ooh ooh ooh do jack chick!!!

ooh ooh ooh do jack chick!!!
Wow, how did I miss that.

Depends if you believe Dan Brown or Jack Chick.

(honestly on this I'd go with Chick, kinda. Brown invented the Galileo connection just to make a story).

I've actually heard quite a few references to Galileo and the Illuminati way before Dan Brown entered the spotlight.

Wow, how did I miss that.
yeah, you can do a whoel thing on how the vatican super government had his friend murdered by a cancer inducing drug developed by the government

It would be so fucking cool to do an essay on the Illuminati for history class.
Complete with paranoid raving.
"They're watching us!!!!!!!"
Thats the awesomest way to fail a history class ever!
BTW did anybody see that movie "National Treasure"? I was wondering if that movie had anything to do with the illuminati, from what I saw on the previews it seemed to deal a lot with the illuminati symbols in American culture like the all seeing eye on top of the pyramid on the dollar.

Me, dammit! I'm a 15 year old boy bent on world domination. Also, I believe love is evil, and cheese is holy. And I'm completely serious.

Think I should do Jesus?

This is for a public-school, so I can take out all the religous information. Leaving Jesus' life with...

He was a guy who said things that pissed off the Roman government. So they eventually got a giant cross and nailed him to it. Then they burned him. It just so happened that people remembered this guy for over 2000 years by means of religon.

I think you should do Mother Theresa. Or Hitler. Since there's a lot of misperceptions about both of them.

Mother Theresa wasn't as saintly as she has been portrayed. And Hitler's just pretty interesting. Evil, but interesting, like his drug addiction and his sexual orientation.

I've actually heard quite a few references to Galileo and the Illuminati way before Dan Brown entered the spotlight.
Do you have any sources for me to peruse?

yeah, you can do a whoel thing on how the vatican super government had his friend murdered by a cancer inducing drug developed by the government
And how Islam's Allah is really a moon god.

Thats the awesomest way to fail a history class ever!
BTW did anybody see that movie "National Treasure"? I was wondering if that movie had anything to do with the illuminati, from what I saw on the previews it seemed to deal a lot with the illuminati symbols in American culture like the all seeing eye on top of the pyramid on the dollar.

Bleh....I hated that movie. The acting was pretty terrible. However, it did provide a decent amount of light on Illuminati symbols in America, as well as the history of the Knights Templar and the Masons.

Come on! I'm sure your teacher will be surprised if you do a research project on me!

i would just like to point out that there is nothing more boring (on both the student and teacher ends of the deal) than doing a report on people that pretty much everybody already knows something about.

you should totally do peter kropotkin.

explorer, scientist, anarchist revolutionary. has both a volcano and a city named after him. though his escape from prison isn't quite as epic as bakunin's.

and i'm not kidding, his life would make a fucking amazing movie. i assume that could translate into a good paper/project.

My thoughts exactly.

Henry Kissinger. One of the coolest people to ever be in the White House, and with some great quotes too.

Henry Kissinger. One of the coolest people to ever be in the White House, and with some great quotes too.

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Lenny Bruce.

At least your research would be funny.

I'll give my vote to De Sade.
Otzi, The Iceman hight be interesting. However, everything that is known about him is based on forensic research.

http://www.mummytombs.com/mummylocator/featured/otzi.htm

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/ancient/AncientRepublish_853689.htm

King Prachao Sua of Thailand.

i would just like to point out that there is nothing more boring (on both the student and teacher ends of the deal) than doing a report on people that pretty much everybody already knows something about.
yeah, you make a very good point there

Eventually, I'll have to do a research project on some famous person. I'm not sure who I want to do it on yet though.

Any ideas?

(It can be anyone BUT Martin Luther King, my teacher says she's sick of reading so many essays on the guy and his life story)

If it doesn't have to be an American you should look into Elizabeth (Erzsébet) Bathory. She was a wacked out 16th century Transylvanian princess who figured the way to prevent wrinkles was to bathe in the blood of young girls. She opened a finishing school for young ladies and hung a cage with spikes above her bath so the blood would drip down on her.

Eventually the locals got tired of her evil ways and walled her up in her castle.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~kvenjb/madmonarchs/erzsebet/erzsebet_bio.htm

If it doesn't have to be an American you should look into Elizabeth (Erzsébet) Bathory. She was a wacked out 16th century Transylvanian princess who figured the way to prevent wrinkles was to bathe in the blood of young girls. She opened a finishing school for young ladies and hung a cage with spikes above her bath so the blood would drip down on her.

Eventually she the locals got tired of her evil ways and walled her up in her castle.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~kvenjb/madmonarchs/erzsebet/erzsebet_bio.htm
:eek:
I can't believe I forgot about her!
Just yesterday I was freaking my friends out by telling them about her at around 1:00 am when they were both sleep-deprived and getting paranoid.

Isn't there a black metal band named after her too?

Wow. I thought you were wanting to know who to do medical research on. ;)

How geekly are you? You could always do Linus Torvalds or Richard "Free as in Freedom" Stallman. Bet your teacher hasn't gotten an essay on any of them.

Wow. I thought you were wanting to know who to do medical research on. ;)

How geekly are you? You could always do Linus Torvalds or Richard "Free as in Freedom" Stallman. Bet your teacher hasn't gotten an essay on any of them.
smart, but not geeky smart

How about Tycho "I gotta pee so bad I'm gonna burst" Brahe?

A few suggestions:

1) Rasputin
2) Torquemada
3) David Koresh
4) I forget his name, but the guy in As Nature Made Him
5) Jesus -- especially if you're in public school
6) any porn star or nude model
7) Verne Troyer

A few suggestions:
4) I forget his name, but the guy in As Nature Made Him


David Reimer

Sad story. Committed suicide last year.

Interesting read as it really gives an arugment for nature vs nurture.....

John Leland. Baptist minister. Friend of Jefferson and an ardent supporter of the seperation of church and state.

Macciovelli(sp).

HL Menkin

My ancestor Angus McDonald. Lord Dunmores war and actually had the balls to turn down a commision from George Washington. ;)

Emma Goldman or Huey Newton

Jackie Chan. :D
Jet Li :D
Albert Einstein

Millitary, Political, Mad people?

Do one on "Ed Gein". :)

Napoloean.

The power of French nationalism compels you!

Gary Coleman

Emma Goldman

i still say kropotkin would be better. besides, emma just recently had a pbs documentary made about her, so she's old news.

Hitler

Alot of people enjoy reading about him and his butt buddies and why they did what they did, how he came to power etc.

Hitler's a good one. Interesting person to see, a determined person close to madness conquered western Europe.

hitler is a terrible one. he's got his own fucking tv channel. enough with the hitler already.

Nikola Tesla

I like doing research projects on people who kicked ass.

Saladin is a good one. (Or, if you prefer, Salah al-Din.)

Barbarossa is not too shabby either. Can't go wrong with pirates.

Zhou Enlai. I love this guy. Unless you've studied the PRC you've probably never heard of him, but he's pretty much the only reason China is still Communist.

Do one on "Ed Gein". :)
Ah yes, Ed Gein. The guy who inspired Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Psycho, and Silence of the Lambs.

Bah, expand your mind a bit and forget about all this modern history crap. Hitler, Martin Luther King, Lenin, Stalin, bah. All far to recent.

Go back to some of the greatest but somewhat unknown generals of the ancient world. Hannibal Barca or Scipio Africanus. I'll bet your teacher has never had a report turned in on either of them. And seriously, isn't writing about some of the greatest commanders of the ancient world better than hashing out yet another essay on yet another WWII leader or civil rights activist?

I have to go with DeSade myself, a fascinating life history which can bring a lot of insight into the nature of the terminal French Monarchy. Otherwise go for someone truely unusual, Heraclitus.

An unusual one - quite an interesting character, and there will be plenty of information around.

Eleanor of Aquitane.

Who of where I can almost hear you scream.

Wife of 2 kings - Henry 11 (?) of England, and one of the Kings of France (you can look it up).

Mother of two kings - Richard the Lionheart and King John.

Renowned as a woman of beauty and culture, and quite the political schemer as well.

Anyone renowned as a woman in medieval times must have had a lot going for her.

hitler is a terrible one. he's got his own fucking tv channel. enough with the hitler already.
History Channel??

History Channel??

yup. the hitler channel. all hitler, all the time. annoys the crap out of me - there are literally thousands of years of history to cover and they spend nearly every hour of every day talking about the same 10 year period.

Eventually, I'll have to do a research project on some famous person. I'm not sure who I want to do it on yet though.

Any ideas?

(It can be anyone BUT Martin Luther King, my teacher says she's sick of reading so many essays on the guy and his life story)

Ghandi

Hitler

Napoleaon

Eminem *shudders*

Do the thing about Risto Ryti, a political leader in the wartime Finland, and how he sacrificed his own political future, and freedom (if I remember correctly), to save the independence of Finland.

A true hero, he was

yup. the hitler channel. all hitler, all the time. annoys the crap out of me - there are literally thousands of years of history to cover and they spend nearly every hour of every day talking about the same 10 year period.
Yeah, I've noticed that as well. Which is why I rarely watch it.

HH Holmes, America's first noted serial killer, and his Murder Castle.

An unusual one - quite an interesting character, and there will be plenty of information around.

Eleanor of Aquitane.

Who of where I can almost hear you scream.

Wife of 2 kings - Henry 11 (?) of England, and one of the Kings of France (you can look it up).

Mother of two kings - Richard the Lionheart and King John.

Renowned as a woman of beauty and culture, and quite the political schemer as well.

Anyone renowned as a woman in medieval times must have had a lot going for her.


It was Louis VII of France that she married before Henry II

You could also write about how BOTH of her husbands imprisioned her.

How about Ernesto Che Guevara?

George Lincoln Rockwell, David Duke, Timothy McVeigh, Tom Metzger, Richard Butler and their effect on modern society's attitudes towards race

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Henry 11 (?) of England

There has never been a Henry the Eleventh of England. I presume you mean Henry II (the second). And anyway, any of the following are very under apriciated figures of history, certianly by the fact that they are not taught in the British education system very much, and I doubt in the rest of the world (But don't quote me on that)

Cathrine the Great of Russia

Sondjata of the Mali Empire

Perkin Warbeck of Flanders (In AS History in Britain but needs more attention)

Bodica of the Icinei

And there are plenty more, this is just a tiny fragment.

She's often overlooked nowadays, but back in the 1800 you couldn't read a US paper without the name Victoria Woodhull on it. She was America's first woman candidate for president. SHe has an intense history. I won't spoil too much, but lets say she was Vanderbilt's clairvoyance, knew of a scandal involving Harriet Beecher Stowes brother, and not to mention starting with literally nothing and raising herself to becoming the first woman on wallstreet (as well as one of the wealthiest).

Also, I would reccomend Cicero, one of the greatest Roman statesmen and orators of all time. Always fighting for the people, he was one of the strongest advocates for the Roman Senate (as opposed to the Roman Empire).

I have personaly done a report on Hitler. If you make the paper neutral like you should anyway, the teacher probably wont mind it. It still gives the shock value when they find out who your subject is to.

My vote goes to DeSade though, its hard to lead a more colorful life than that. Runner up for Elizabeth Bathory, that lady was crazy and she got to actually pursue what she wanted instead of getting locked away (for a while at least.)

President Ronald Wilson Reagan.

I have personaly done a report on Hitler. If you make the paper neutral like you should anyway, the teacher probably wont mind it. It still gives the shock value when they find out who your subject is to

How the hell does a report on Hitler have *any* shock value? Answering the question "who would you must like to talk to for an hour?" question with Hitler doesn't even have shock value anymore. Hundreds of thousands of students have done papers on Hitler so much that Hitler is the historical paper equivalent of an ethics paper on abortion.

are you a libertarian?

teddy roosevelt

i once went to a campaign appearance for a libertarian candidate for state office. he spent 80% of is time railing against teddy roosevelt. turns out teddy started the "executive order" thing that drives libertarians mad.

Ronald Reagan
Erwin Rommel (really interesting, not such a bad guy either)
Teddy Roosevelt
Gen. Patton
Gen. Tommy Franks

*smacks head*

General Patton, why didn't I think of that?

Isn't he the guy who wanted to do crazy things in WW2? The guy that, if elected President, would've made mad war with the Soviet Union?

*smacks head*

General Patton, why didn't I think of that?

Isn't he the guy who wanted to do crazy things in WW2? The guy that, if elected President, would've made mad war with the Soviet Union?
If you want someone batshit insane try McArthur who requested for a nuke to be dropped in every Chiniese city during the Korean war.

My vote goes to Jack Chick. Just for the insanity factor and the certain bonus points you would get for including cartoons.

Or...you could write about perhaps the craziest person to ever grace these forums- Defensor Fidei (RIP)

If you want someone batshit insane try McArthur who requested for a nuke to be dropped in every Chiniese city during the Korean war.
He's goin on the list...hoo ya


and perhaps Jack Chick as well...

Harry S Truman. One of our most underappreciated presidents.

Or...you could write about perhaps the craziest person to ever grace these forums- Defensor Fidei (RIP)
Defensor's dead?! YAY!!!!!! :)

Augustus Caesar

Rutherford B. Hayes
James Abram Garfield
Chester Auther

Fidel Castro

hitler marx mussolini lenin stalin tony george gorbachov krucshev Franz ferdinand kaiser wilhelm george senior maraline monroe elvis castro gadaffi che trotsky mao ho chi min the brazillian president who when you meet him he invites you to a bbq and football game or some local guy you know , he may turn out to be a hero for people.