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Tom Mix                                    January 6, 1880

Earl Scruggs                              January 6, 1924

Harry Reser                            January 17, 1896

Benjamin Franklin               January 17, 1706

Robert E. Howard                 January 22, 1906

Dock Boggs                              February 7, 1898

Arthur  Collins                      February 7, 1864

Frank Frazetta
                       February 9, 1928

Ronald Colman                      February 9, 1891

Abraham Lincoln                    February 12, 1809

Kotoōshū Katsunori           February 19, 1983

George Washington
            February 22, 1732

Enrico Caruso                       February 25, 1873

John Duffey                                March 4, 1934

Sir Richard F. Burton              March 19, 1821

Jerry Reed                                          March 20, 1937

Harry Houdini                          March 24, 1874

Tim McCoy                                  April 10, 1891

John Brown                                   May 9, 1800

Hobart Smith                               May 10, 1897

Manly Wade Wellman               May 21, 1903

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle            May 22, 1859

William Boyd                                June 5, 1895

Lin Carter                                      June 9, 1930

Pol Plançon                                  June 12, 1851

Basil Rathbone                             June 13 1892

Art Bell                                         June 17, 1945

David "Stringbean" Akeman    June 17, 1916

Ray Harryhausen                       June 29, 1920

Jon Pertwee                                   July 7,  1919

Kenneth, Lord Clark                       July 13, 1903

W. G. Grace                                            July 18, 1848

William Powell                           July 29, 1892

Alfred, Lord Tennyson           August 6, 1809

Maj. Les Hiddins                     August 13, 1946

Sir Walter Scott                      August 15, 1771

T. E. Lawrence                        August 16, 1888

H. P. Lovecraft                        August 20, 1890                                   
Vess L. Ossman                       August 21, 1868

T. R. H. John Buchan             August 26, 1875

Jack Kirby                              August 28, 1917

Conway Twitty                 September 1, 1933

Edgar Rice Burroughs      September 1, 1875

Johnny Mack Brown       September 1, 1904

Roscoe Holcomb                 September 5, 1912

Agatha Christie                September 15, 1890                        
Warner Oland                        October 3, 1879

Carole Lombard                     October 6, 1908

Uncle Dave Macon                 October 7, 1870

P. G. Wodehouse                       October 15, 1881

Theodore Roosevelt             October 27, 1858

Carl Sagan                                   November 9, 1934

Mark Twain                      November 30, 1835

Joe Morley                           December 3, 1867     

Buck Jones                          December 12, 1891

Jane Austen                        December 16, 1775

Humphrey Bogart             December 25, 1899

Franzl Lang                         December 28, 1930

Fred Van Eps                       December 30, 1878

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Q. “What do you think of when you see a pretty girl walking down the street?
A. One part of me says, “I’d like to meet her, date her.” The other side of me says, “I wonder how her head would look on a stick?”
~ Edmund Kemper

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
~ Terry Pratchett

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mahatma Gandhi

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.
  - Robert Bloch

"The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles, and slate pencils. But give me the banjo...When you want genuine music — music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strycnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth’s pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose — when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo."
~Mark Twain

Art is when some guy does what other people do for fun, expects to get paid for it, and then treats you like a moron when you correctly think it sucks.
~Walter Dutch

We are all brothers under the skin, and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.
~Ayn Rand

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
~George Bernard Shaw

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
~ Elbert Hubbard

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
~ Vladimir Nabokov,  LOLITA

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
- Bernard Bailey

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
  - Oscar Levant

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
- Salvador Dali

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered--either by themselves or by others. - Mark Twain

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
- Will Rogers

Don't bother just to be better than your contem- poraries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner

"Not being able to yodle [sic] pisses me off. I feel like half a man!"
~Hilarious quote from a Youtube comment

Try to avoid getting involved with somebody who's gonna need killing before it's over. It may seem to you that that narrows the field somewhat, but be diligent.
~ Jill Conner Brown

The problem with a Utopia is that you have to kill anyone who doesn't want it.
~ Walter Dutch

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
~Mark Twain

“Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.”
~ Emo Philips

 "I wish I owned half that dog. I'd shoot my half."
- Puddin' Head Wilson

Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
  - Italian Proverb

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
 - Ambrose Bierce

People who like this sort of thing will find it just the sort of thing they like.
~ Abraham Lincoln

"The only difference between a man and a derelict is a job."
~ William Powell in MY MAN GODFREY

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
- Mae West

When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.
~ Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.
~ Astrid Cruz

QURAN ONLINE
Arabic & English

SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON
A great site devoted to one of my greatest heroes

FOREIGN LEGION BLOG
This guy is awesomely nuts about the Legion!


OTRR.ORG
Free OTR downloads


Comic Book Archive
Free digital comic books


DOC SAVAGE ONLINE
The pulp hero...organised

ARCHIVE.ORG
Massive source for radio show mp3

ONLINE QURAN TEACHER
Electronically learn Tajweed

KRITI  FM
The BEST online Cretan music station

WILD ABOUT HARRY (Houdini)
These folks Love Harry Houdini...in spades!


Soldiers of the Queen
"I say, wot, wot!"

มนต์รักเพลงไทย
Monrakplengthai - Free Thai music downloads

DAN CARLIN - HARDCORE HISTORY
Free badass podcast for them that LOVE history

THE OLD CORRAL
History of B-Westerns


MANLY WADE WELLMAN
Online resource for the great horror storyteller

WILLIAM BLAKE ARCHIVE
The legendary artist and poet

DIGITAL COMICS MUSEUM
Comic books in .CBR format

AGATHA CHRISTIE ONLINE
The official Agatha Christie website
EURO-TRASH CINEMA
Spaghetti/Peplum/etc. DVR - Great!
TIRINDAZ 
Turkish Archery

ATARN
Asian Traditional Archery Network

MANCHU ARCHERY
Great Site!

TRADITIONAL BOW SHOP
Quality bows

THE CINNABAR BOW
Traditional Chinese blows

GROZER RECURVE BOWS 
From Hungary

TURKISH FLIGHT ARCHERY BLOG
Very interesting


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Without the slightest question, I declare Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton the president of the society;  fluent in 28 languages, wrote 48 books,  was a soldier, a spy, a swordsman, visited Mecca, and helped discover the source of the Nile.
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The vice-president of the society, Sir C. Aubrey Smith was chosen because,  well, look at the photo!  If he weren't the the epitome of the Society on film (nobody does it better), the fact that he was a champ test Cricketer puts him over the top, wot-wot?
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John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweeds- muir GCMG GCVO CH PC!  

If the creation of the Hannay books isn't enough to get a chap into the Society of Gentlemen, then what on this Earth is?  A stern fellow in photos, to be sure,  but a lively master of action on the printed page!

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Nobody could grimace like old Teddy Roosevelt;  this is the stare of a man who had been places and done things.  He was a cowboy, a Roughrider,  a writer,  and one of the best presidents America has ever had. 
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If this picture alone didn't warrant his entry into the society, the poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson most certainly would.  The Charge of the Light Brigade? What could possibly be more stiff-upper-lip than that?
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Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, alongside being a practicing physician, was the writer that brought us the top icons of our fiction wing, Sherlock Holmes and Professor Challenger! He proves, through himself and his work, if you belong in the society, any name you have will be cool!
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Lots of people were against slavery in America,  but John Brown engaged in armed insurrection to make it happen,  and two years before the Civil War.  He was hanged for his troubles, a crime which Victor Hugo rightfully called murder.
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 The kind of Englishman that everyone ought to be,  if that can possibly help it, Trevor Howard is one of those that causes one to subconsciously tighten one's diction and improve one's suavity.
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Another Howard in the society,  this time Leslie Howard.  He's the guy that made being a fop and having a flower for your symbol a rakish and daring thing,  which one can admit is an amazing feat!
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Scholar, writer, diplomat, inventor, printer, world traveler, and part architect of the land of the free?  I'd say that that list is his resume' down through time;  his legend is clear.  Add to that that he loved chess, and he's the gentleman's ideal!
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