I saw a documentary on him a few weeks ago and according to the doc. they think he died from a knee injury... there was something about his kneecap being ripped off and then it got infected and then he died....

I have to ask...why king Tut? According to most historians, the only reason he was so famous was because his tomb was stuffed with gold (the only "historical" thing he ever did was to re-convert Egypt back to polytheism...and he didn't do that all by himself either O_o)

Maybe it's because he was still really young when he became kid?
I remember reading about his tomb, unraided by bandits. That was a miracle

Plus there's the fact that so little is known about him (like how he died). That gives him a mysterious factor and a lot of people like that sort of thing (at least where i live they do)

True, very true
But I was never good and people history
Animals and mythology on the other hand...

But anyway, who else has some favs?

Miyamoto Musashi. Iqbal Massih. Big Bird.


I think my great grandfather had a peanut farm in Asia too. Heard they were fun to plant.

lol
Benizakura
He was Japan's strongest dog! But he's not real XD

So many... I admire people from different disciplines, walks of life and historical periods and regions of the world: Sun Tzu, marshall Zhukov, Miyamoto Musashi, Kekkonen… Sad thing is we hardly know of anything of women of the historical periods.

But If I have to pick one, I would say Socrates. His teachings are the foundation of much that I admire and aspire to be.

well this isnt a person but it is so interesting to me:titanic
there may be even more mysteries about it that people dont know about yet.

Went to the King Tut exhibit a few weeks ago. I don't understand why they call it the King Tut Exhibit when a large majority of the exhibit was about his father, the religious uprising, some queen's name I forgot and his sister...that's all I remember. He did die from an infection in the knee. Or at least, so they say. But isn't that boring? I like the story about him being bashed in the head. Damn cat scans, technology ruins all the fun.

I agree.

It was a better story when he was murdered in order to remove him from the throne to make way for someone else..........who's name I can't remember.

Priest Ai (or Aye) followed him to the throne, and then Horemheb his general. But scientist doubt the conspiracy theory nowadays.

i dont know... that theory always seemed to bug me

I have to say my favorite person currently is someone in current history. Lance Armstrong. I love that guy.Recently someone in my town won a bike ride with lance at the same bikeshop I go to*so jealous*

wow. lucky for your friend.

id have to say michael j. fox. i read his book and the stuff hes had to go through its amazing. i got loads of respect for him.

favorite person is.... Morgan Freedmon

well maybe not my MOST favorite, but let's say favorite actor.

...You could at least do him the honor of spelling his name right if you like him so much.

Mr.Hershey.I LIKE CHOCOALATE!!!!!

I never really did get why mary tudor was given the name bloody mary. I know it had to do something wit the brutatilty of her reign but thats all I know

She was a fiesty girl.

yeah from what I ha ve studied

1. Chlodwig King of Franconia and his wife(cause he first proclaimed "Christianity" as a "national religion" in his empire in 800a.D.-> Europe and its future)
2. Martin Luther
3. Johann Sebastian Bach

Martin Luther? Whaaaaat. Hah, my history books have not been to kind to him.

i admire his courage in his situation at that time and how he critizezed things as well as you do here in this forum =PPP....

yah, it's an important question what you believe and what not.....

Mary Tudor: called so due to her brutal persecution of Protestants in England. She was the queen of England during what you might call "England's inquisition Period" (the period in time where a country starts persecuting one religion, often with the Catholics doing the persecuting)

I've heard from somewhere that she did this cuz she fell in love with a Spanish...king? or nobleman...

I think his name was peter or something.. I also know tha sometime before her deathshe begged him to come back to england(or was it london?) because he was away
she hated her sister so I was suprised to find out that she named elizibeth her succesor

Soo many people to chose from! *dies* Here's a few that I really can't decide on...

Shakespeare, Lady Murasaki, Thich Nhat Hanh, Giordano Bruno, Dali (& his wife Gala!), and Virginia Woolf

Let's just add in all of the great artists/actors/writers/dancers and feminists...

Mine is Hayao miyazaki I love his movies! especially spirited away, Howls moving castle, Kikis delivery service, and castle in the sky. Someday I wanna get a job at studio ghibli as an animator

Queen Elizabeth I
Eleanor Roosevelt
The boys of Easy Company
Ian Fleming
Sylvia Platt
Hayao Miyazaki
Leji Matsamuto

Technically I should say Jesus Christ, but other than him: FDR. He brought us out of the Great Depression, led the country through WWII, while all the while fighting polio. And then, this really sucks, he died before his even got to see his years of work pay off.

Fantastic choices, GREEDisGOOD. I didn't even think of FDR.

*Benjamin Franklin
*Alexander the Great
*Napoleon
*Cleopatra
*Queen Elizabeth
*Aristotle
*Leonardo Da Vinci
*Jesus
*And many more... sorry that I couldn't name a favorite.

I think not many here know of the person i like.
its Manfred Von Richthofen , he was in the WW- I from the German side.

He was a fighter pilot , better known as the RED BARON !

uhmmmmm my self

o well lol actually Harly barly (hope the spellin is correct)

...nigga, WHAT?!

Pliny the Elder.

Alexander the Great fan til i DIE!

Vivaldi! He composed the most amazing music ever.

But...but...Alexander spread Greek art and history all over Europe---he should be on your list too

1. Yahshua (Jesus' Hebrew name, because Jesus was a Jew)
2. Sun Tzu
3. Themistocles (Supreme Commander of Athenian naval forces during Xerxes campaign)
4. Douglas MacArthur
5. Marius (First roman to allow citizens, not just nobles, to fight for their lands)

Vivaldi was Italian. o_O

Ah, Vivaldi. Pretty cool.

1. Quinn Almann
2. Tolkien
3. Gakt
4. Maki Murakami
5. Alexander the Great
6. King Arthur
7. Merlin *he he he*

Malcolm X
Gandi
(Sorry ゆきえいり gotta steal you answer)Merlin
and me! LOL

Um....
alexander the great
kennedy
Hiitler (no im definatly kidding about that one)
hard to say i only remember history in history class

Marcus Aurelius
Charlemagne
Thucydides
Voltaire
Joseph II
FDR
Sun Yat Sen

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Çerkes Ethem
Che Guevara
Fatih Sultan Mehmet
Suleiman The Magnificent
Leonidas ()

I guess I've got to change my favorite. I can't believe I picked anyone other than this guy.

Oskar Schindler - If you don't know who he is, find out. He is one of the greatest people in history. He saved over 1,100 Jews from the Holocaust by hiring them out to his factory in Poland. He initially wanted to make a fortune for himself by doing this, but after seeing the horrible suffering, started to secretly save them. This was extremely dangerous and ruined him financially.

In any case, all I can say is watch "Schindler's List". It's one of the best movies ever made.

Personally, I really like Jules Verne

I guess it will be my mom and my friends. I also like Fern Michaels and Janet Evanovich and Natsuki Takaya.