Once Upon a Time …
Everybody was young, once upon a time; playing, hoping, dreaming. They figured for themselves a future that became their reality (if they were lucky and determined), maybe something to keep on their perpetual “to-do” list, or a weight to wear daily as their mantle of self-disappointment.
This is just something that I have been thinking about ….
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900.)
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- Your Author (aka Carol Bourns)
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- Dame Agatha Christie, DBE
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- Albert Einstein and sister, Maria “Maja” Einstein
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- Angelina Jolie Voight (aka Angelina Jolie)
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- Adolf Hitler (aka “Führer und Reichskanzler)
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- Audrey Kathleen Ruston (aka Audrey Hepburn)
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- William Jefferson Blythe III, (Clinton) (aka the 42nd President of the United States)
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- William Henry “Bill” Gates III, KBE and his mother, Mary Maxwell Gates
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- Björk Guðmundsdóttir (aka Bjork)
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- Andrew Warhola (aka Andy Warhol)
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- Charles (Milles) Manson ( aka Manson Family Leader)
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- Sir Charles Spencer “Charlie” Chaplin, KBE (aka Charlie Chaplin)
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- Chastity Sun Bono (aka Chaz Salvatore Bono)
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- Arnold (Alois) Schwarzenegger (aka “The Terminator” and Governor of California)
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- Ernesto Guevar ( aka Che Guevara, “El Che”, “Che”)
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- Britney (Jean) Spears
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- Christopher Walken
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- Courtney Michelle Harrison (aka Courtney Love; Kurt Kobain’s Wife and lead singer of Hole)
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- Kurt (Donald) Cobain
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- Lhamo Döndrub (aka Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso; 14th Dalai Lama)
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- David (Robert) Jones (aka David Bowie)
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- Demi Guynes Kutcher (aka Demi Moore)
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- Dennis (Lee) Hopper
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- Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE
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- Reginald Kenneth Dwight (aka Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE)
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- Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (aka Fidel Castro, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba)
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- Farrokh Bulsara (aka Freddie Mercury)
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- Humphrey (DeForest) Bogart
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- Kim Jong-il (aka Kim Jong Il, de facto leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: North Korea )
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- James (Douglas) Morrison (aka Jim Morrison, “The Lizard King”)
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- James Patrick Page, OBE (aka Jimmy Page)
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- John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (aka American serial killer active between 1972 and 1978)
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- Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE (née Wells) (aka Julie Andrews)
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- Catherine Bush (aka Kate Bush)
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- Katherine Ann Moss (aka Kate Moss)
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- Barack (Hussein) Obama II (aka 44th and current President of the United States.)
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- Leonardo (Wilhelm) DiCaprio
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- Chan Kong-sang (aka Jackie Chan)
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- Norma Jeane Mortenson (baptized Norma Jeane Baker) (aka Marilyn Monroe)
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- Brian Hugh Warner (aka Marilyn Manson)
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- Sir Michael Philip Jagger (aka Mick Jagger)
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- (John Charles) Julian Lennon
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- Sean (Taro) Ono-Lennon (aka Sean Lennon)
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- Richard Starkey, MBE (aka Ringo Starr)
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- George Harrison, MBE (aka “the quiet Beatle)
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- James Paul McCartney, MBE (aka Paul McCartney)
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- John (Winston) Ono Lennon, MBE (aka John Lennon)
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- Yoko Ono and Her father, Yeisuke Ono, a descendant of an Emperor of Japan.
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- Anna Mae Bullock (aka Tina Turner)
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- Allen Stewart Konigsberg (aka Woody Allen)
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- Robert De Niro, (Jr.)
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- Ronald (Wilson) Reagan (aka 40th President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California)
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- Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (aka Prime Minister then President of Iraq)
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- Nancy (Laura) Spungen (aka Sid Vicious’ girlfriend)
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- John Simon Ritchie (aka Sid Vicious)
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- Stephen Hawking and his sister, Mary
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- Steven (Paul) Jobs (Note: The ONLY “youth” picture, on the internet, I could find of Jobs.)
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- Joseph Alois Ratzinger (aka Pope Benedict XVI)
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- Vladimir (Vladimirovich) Putin
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- Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (aka Winston Churchill)
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- Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna “Capet” (aka Marie Antoinette, Queen consort of France and Navarre)
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- Diana Frances Spencer (aka HRH, Princess of Wales)
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- Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (aka Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother)
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- Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor (aka Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada in Canada, Queen of Australia in Australia, etc. In the Channel Islands and Isle of Man, Duke of Normandy and Lord of Man)
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- Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor (aka Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester) and his mother, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor (aka Queen Elizabeth II)
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- Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (aka F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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- Thomas (Alva) Edison
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- Francis Albert Sinatra (aka Frank Sinatra)
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- George (Walker) Bush
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- (Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt and her father, Elliott Bulloch Roosevelt
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- Theodore Roosevelt (aka “Teddy” Roosevelt)
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- Edward Alexander Crowley (aka Aleister Crowley, Frater Perdurabo and The Great Beast)
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- Ernest (Miller) Hemingway (aka Ernest “Papa” Heminway)
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- Michael (Joseph) Jackson
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- Annelies Marie Frank (aka Anne Frank)
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- Charles (Robert) Darwin and his sister, Caroline Darwin
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- Jack London
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- Edgar Rice Burroughs
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- Amy (Jade) Whinehouse
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- Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell (aka Anais Nin)
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- William (Alan) Shatner
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- Priscilla Ann (Wagner) Beaulieu (aka Priscilla Presley)
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- Elvis (Aaron) Presley (aka “the King of Rock and Roll”)
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- John (Fitzgerald) Kennedy (aka “Jack” Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States)
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- Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
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- Mohandas (Karamchand) Gandhi (aka Mahatma Gandhi, the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement.)
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- George Herman Ruth, Jr (aka Babe Ruth)
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- James Earl Carter, Jr. (aka Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States)
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- Carlos Ray Norris (aka Chuck Norris)
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- Grace (Patricia) Kelly (aka Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, commonly referred to as Princess Grace)
“How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
…and I will leave you with this: “If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.” – James Russell Lowell
August 10, 2010
Crazy Notebook
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