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Hart wrote the 1999 follow-up A View from the Year 3000, [33] voiced in the perspective of a person from that future year and ranking the most influential people in history. Roughly half the entries are fictional people from 2000 to 3000, but the remainder are taken mostly from the 1992 ranking, with some sequence changes. [34] [35]
A culture hero is a mythological hero specific to a group of people (cultural, ethnic, religious, etc.), who changes the world through invention or discovery.A typical culture hero might be credited as the discoverer of fire or agriculture, songs, tradition, law or religion, and is usually one of the most important legendary figures of a people, sometimes as the founder of its ruling dynasty.
This is a list of people known as the Great, or the equivalent, in their own language. Other languages have their own suffixes, such as Persian e Bozorg and Hindustani e Azam . In Persia, the title "the Great" at first seems to have been a colloquial version of the Old Persian title "Great King" ( King of Kings , Shahanshah ).
Famous last words of 19 famous people. Elena Holodny. Updated February 16, 2017 at 11:57 AM. Last words have always fascinated people.
Geronimo – United States, Apache military leader and medicine man, fought the United States army during the late 19th century, defending his homeland and people. Gauchito Gil – Argentina, legendary outlaw gaucho. Salvatore Giuliano – Sicily, the historian Eric Hobsbawm described him as the last of the "people's bandits" (à la Robin Hood).
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Both Eastern and Western cultural traditions ascribe special significance to words uttered at or near death, [4] but the form and content of reported last words may depend on cultural context. There is a tradition in Hindu and Buddhist cultures of an expectation of a meaningful farewell statement; Zen monks by long custom are expected to ...
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