Famous Canadians

ianpickering

General

20 Jan 04 00:11

ivanhoe

Felicific Forest

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Moves: 53894

21 Jan 04 04:42

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Originally posted by ianpickering
Ok. Take out musicians and Film stars who made their mark in America and Sportsmen and women and you're not exactly left with an impressive list are you? (Alexander Graham Bell was Scottish!).

An even more difficult question. Famous Belgians?

Paul Henri Spaak
Peter Paul Rubens
Breughel the younger
Breughel the elder

JAMES ENSOR !!

http://www.tigtail.org/L_View/TIG/TVM/X2/c.PImpressionism/ensor/ensor.html

http://nl.altavista.com/image/results?pg=q&stype=simage&imgset=2&q=James+Ensor

RENÉ MAGRITTE !!

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/magritte_rene.html

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/magritte.html
links:bottom of the page

Tintin aka Kuifje

Manneke Pis

Varg

Thinking...

Odersfelt

Joined: 20 Jan 03
Moves: 14580

21 Jan 04 10:06

Originally posted by ianpickering
[b]Ok. Take out musicians and Film stars who made their mark in America and Sportsmen and women and you're not exactly left with an impressive list are you? (Alexander Graham Bell was Scottish!).
b]

All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
🙂

Toe

Joined: 10 Feb 03
Moves: 12969

21 Jan 04 11:51

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Not famous, but certainly a Canadian of distinction:
General Romeo Dallaire
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3414487.stm

Pyrrho

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Moves: 6355

21 Jan 04 12:10

Originally posted by Varg
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
🙂

Do I detect a bit of Monty Python here...? Got to love Life of Brian. 🙂

-Jarno

imvegan

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Moves: 1584

22 Jan 04 19:14

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Karen Kain and Veronica Tennant - ballerinas extradordinaire!

In friendship
Ranjana

Schindler

Vienna, Austria

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22 Jan 04 19:19

Michael Schade and Ben Heppner famous opera tenors!

Michael

rgoudie

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22 Jan 04 19:37

Originally posted by ianpickering
Ok. Take out musicians and Film stars who made their mark in America and Sportsmen and women...

Okay, then, how about the following sets of people:

Pierre Trudeau
Brian Mulrooney
John A. MacDonald
etc.

Karla Homolka
Paul Bernardo
Clifford Olson
etc.

-Ray.

Tosser

Joined: 09 Jun 03
Moves: 3438

22 Jan 04 19:54

Famous Canadians.....mmmm......

Shania Twain, Elisha Cuthbert (24), Bryan Adams, Jacques Villeneuve (Former F1 World Champion), Tomasz Radzinski (Everton Striker) and really scraping the barrel Ike Brovlowski (Kyle's adopted brother in South Park)...

😵