Name That Historical Person

[mandrill]

Will Shakespeare.

 

[mandrill]

Coleridge.

 

[shack]

This is a very high brow community. Impressive.

 

[anon1]

slipped the surly bonds of Earth
.................... and touched the face of God.

Ronald Reagan

 

[Aardvark154]

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.
Where never lark, or even[8] eagle flew —
And, while with silent lifting mind I have trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
- Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

John Magee, A U.S. National who while serving as a Pilot Officer in the RCAF was killed in a mid-air collision flying a Spitfire in the U.K. in December 1941 (he was only 19).

The poem is entitled "High Flight."

 

[Jerry LL]

Josef Stalin.

 

[prestokeys]

Josef Stalin.

Where have you been?

 

[prestokeys]

I'm surprised no one got this very famous poem by Walt Whitman.

 

[prestokeys]

 

[SillyGirl]

Lord Byron?

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

My heart is Like a Singing Bird by Harrison Keach

 

[Petzel]

Robert Browning

 

[Petzel]

Will Shakespeare.

I said that already on the previous page.

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Can anyone name this character??

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Atilla the Hun

Very good

 

[prestokeys]

Lord Byron?

Yes.

My heart is Like a Singing Bird by Harrison Keach

No.

Robert Browning

No.

 

[prestokeys]

 

[Aardvark154]

While my first instinct is to say my Great Great Aunt, it was actually Sir Walter Scott

 

[shai]

Carl Sagan

 

[prestokeys]

Who wrote this letter? (I apologize for his messy writing, but I don't think penmanship was on his mind at the time)