Top 10 Famous People Who Didn’t Actually Exist

It seems that every few years, rumors arise about mysterious athletes in obscure countries whose talents are guaranteed to change the future of sports. One of the most recent examples concerned Masal Bugoluv, a supposed 16-year-old soccer prodigy from the small eastern European country of Moldova. News of the phenom first broke on soccer blogs and forums, where Bugoluv was described as a surgical striker who already played for the Moldovan national team. Soon enough, the mainstream soccer media

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Top 10 Most Famous Celebrity Deaths

when pyrotechnics set off during the filming of a scene for Twilight Zone: The Movie brought down one of the circling helicopters, decapitating the 53-year old actor and killing the two child actors he was holding in his arms at the time. The accident very nearly derailed the careers of director John Landis and producer Steven Spielberg, but both were acquitted on charges of involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment (though they did pay a hefty settlement to the victim’s families). The film, being a Landis/Spielberg production, was expected to do well but flopped at the box office

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Top 10 Famous Mustache Guys Without Their Mustaches

The Mustache

Arguably one of the most famous bits of lip hair in the history of mankind, Hitler’s mustache has come to represent all that is evil and impure in facial hair. If anyone in the world ever misused their mustache, it was Adolf Hitler. Instead of using his mighty

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Top 10 Most Famous Women in History

find sanctuary in northern states over the next eleven years. Her efforts made her a hunted woman in the south, resulting in as much as a $40,000 price being put on her head at one point. When the Civil War broke out, her work with the Underground Railroad ended but her service to the Union cause did not.  During the war she served, in turn as: a nurse, a scout for the Union, and, at one time, even a Union spy. After the war, she remained a tireless advocate for civil and human rights and a figure in the woman’s suffrage movement right up to the year of her death in 1913. Widely known and well-respected while she was alive, after her death she became an American icon. She is frequently referred to as the

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Top 10 Most Visited Famous Grave Sites

In a Paris cemetery, Oscar Wilde, (1854 to 1900) was laid to rest in the prestigious Paris cemetery, Pere Lachaise, after residing in a grave in Bagneaux Cemetery on a plot of ground only available for temporary lease. Temporary lease? Yes, and for this reason, he was encased in quicklime so the corpse would decompose faster. The famous Irish writer, poet and playwright is visited frequently by fans and his work is still being read throughout the world today, 100 years after his death. Fifty years after his passing the remains of his longtime friend, Robert Ross, was placed in his tomb. His tomb was sculpted by the famous American, Jacob Epstein. Oscar Wilde rests in peace at number 10,

9.  Bruce Lee

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Top Ten Famous Scenes (And the Movies They Were Inspired By)

their favorite movies or directors.  Whether it is a replicated character type, location, editing technique, or even entire scene, modern filmmakers keep the past alive with through mimicry and recreation.  Sometimes the influences are subtle.  Other times, they are more blatant.  Here are ten great examples of famous scenes inspired by earlier works.

10.  The Scene: Jack Nicholson chopping down the door in The Shining.

Everybody knows this scene: Jack Torrance and his family take care of an inn in the Rocky Mountains for several months.  Jack comes down with cabin fever and starts to be influenced by sinister forces in the inn.  At one point, he angrily takes an axe to a locked door separating him from his family.  One of the main reasons for its popularity was the infamous line,

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Famous and Funny Quotes

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Famous Movie Quotes:

1. "There's no place like home."
-- Dorothy Gale as played by Judy Garland in the movie 'The Wizard of Oz'

2. "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse."
-- Vito Corleone as played by Marlon Brando in the movie 'The Godfather'

3. "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
-- Rhett Butler as played by Clark Gable in the movie 'Gone With the Wind'

4. "Here's looking at you, kid."
-- Rick Blaine as played by Humphrey Bogart in the movie 'Casablanca'

5. "Go ahead, make my day."
-- Harry Callahan as played by Clint Eastwood in the movie 'Sudden Impact'

6. "May the Force be with you."
-- Han Solo as played by Harrison Ford in the movie 'Star Wars'

7. "I'll be back."
-- The Terminator as played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie 'The Terminator'

8. "You talkin' to me?"
-- Travis Bickle as played by Robert De Niro in the movie 'Taxi Driver'

9. "Say hello to my little friend!"
-- Tony Montana as played by Al Pacino in the movie 'Scarface'

10. "What we do in life, echoes in eternity."
-- Maximus as played by Russell Crowe in the movie 'Gladiator'

Funny Famous Quotes:

"When I'm good, I'm very good. When I'm bad, I'm better."
--Mae West

"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else."
-- Woody Allen

"I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out."
--Rodney Dangerfield

"I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house."
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor

"Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry."
-- Bill Cosby

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
-- George Burns

"Behind every successful man is a surprised woman."
-- Maryon Pearson

"We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glow-worm."
-- Winston Churchill

"Women should be obscene and not heard."
-- Groucho Marx

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
-- Yogi Berra
 

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Top 10 Famous Nurses

Virginia Avenel Henderson graduated from the Army School of Nursing in 1921, during WWI. During this time she came up with a solid definition of her vocation, describing nursing as

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