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Isaac Asimov​

Dig the burns.
 
I heard on the radio a couple of days back that obama was trying to come up with a way to stop Putin.

My first thought was that he should try cutting out broccoli.

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:lol:
 
Isidore Beilin (Irving Berlin)

Dig that Pootin - the guy who wrote "God Bless America" is a Russian. :thup:
 
This is a friend of mine, somewhat famous... Terri Flettrich was born in Siberia in 1917 and grew up largely in Shanghai, couriered some news photos from the Japanese invasion of that city to the US in 1937, worked her way to New Orleans' first TV station in 1948 where she hosted a children's program in the early '50s in the role of "Mrs. Muffin":

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Later on that station she began a program that became a model for Good Morning America on ABC-TV, wrote some [ame="http://www.amazon.com/house-bend-Bourbon-Street/dp/B0007H7BNK/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1395497181&sr=1-1"]books[/ame], outlived two husbands and a son, and to this day dominates any room she walks into on her vivacious spirit and treasure trove of stories. She'll be 97 this year.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZElweLWMPc"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZElweLWMPc[/ame]
 
Anton Chekhov
Leo Tolstoy
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Ivan Turgenev
Isaac Asimov
Boris Pasternak
Vladimir Nabokov
 
Pyotr Alexeyevich (Russian: Пётр Алексе́евич, Пётр I,)
 
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Rimsky KorsakovFlight of the Bumblebee:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYAJopwEYv8]Flight Of The Bumblebee - Rimsky-Korsakov - YouTube[/ame]
 
Prokofiev/Dance of the Knights: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBsKplb2E6Q]Prokofiev - Dance of the Knights - YouTube[/ame]
 

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