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- Cream_a_da_crop : He became a better person than you
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By all accounts he died a happy man though, so I guess it's something
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Actor Oliver Reed died during the production of ‘Gladiator.' He consumed 3 bottles of Captain Morgan's Jamaica rum, 8 bottles of German beer, numerous cognacs after challenging sailors from HMS Cumberland to a drinking contest. He then defeated several sailors in arm-wrestling before collapsing.
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Most young people haven't seen it, but everyone should watch the Enron documentary, "The Smartest Guys In The Room," and read the book.
He impregnated a stripper while married, got divorced, cashed out near the peak, and left Enron before the implosion that he was largely-responsible for creating.
Because his stock-sale was divorce court-ordered, he couldn't be accused of insider trading, and got to keep most of his ill-gotten gains.
He left Enron with $250 million, married the stripper, bought a Gulfstream, and a 77,000-acre ranch (with a 14,000 ft mountain he re-named Mount Pai), making him (at the time) the second-largest landowner in Colorado.
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Someone mentioned Howard Zinn! Reeeeeeeeeeeee
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I know very little about Henry VIII like why would anyone study bong history - and I'm more partial to the idea that English reformers within the Catholic Church manipulated Mr. #8 to create the Church of England they wanted, what do drama historians think about this thread?
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I think it would be the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Nothing beats that because all of a sudden the US became a complete single unipolar powerhouse. All the nation states including India that had closed economies had to shift towards open economies as they realized that system was not working out.
You had McDonalds all the way in Russia. That is how you knew capitalism truly won over communism.
I cannot imagine any other event of the 1990's that shook the world as much as the dissolution of the soviet union.
Today that event still impacts the world as Russia in its present form is too small to fight for itself and thus fell into the sphere of influence of China.
Is there any other major event of the 1990's that had as great an impact?
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If it were only Nero, then sure, but apparently he was involved with multiple people afterwards, one that continued to call him Poppaea, and the other Poppaea's ex-husband.
Was Rome just a bunch of schizos LARPing?
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