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I have a book report due in a few weeks and I'm having trouble finding a truly interesting biography, what better place than the c0r. The requirements are that this person must have had an important beneficial impact in society and it must be either an authorized biography or an autobiography. I'm sick of the usual stuff and I just yawned at the people some of my classmates are doing; John Lenon, Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe.

I was thinking something of an artist, preferably not THAT well know. It would be interesting to read about something of an architect, jazz musician, artist, journalist...etc.

So far I'm with Ian Curtis on this , but I want some more options.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug

How about some of the pioneers of electronic music, or the rave/acid house movement? Surely one of them would have a biography, right? Maybe Kraftwerk or something (not sure if you can do bands, or just individuals?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand

Marvin Gaye. He meant so much to so many people, and his life ended in tragedy.

http://www.free-scores.com/boutique...php?artiste=714

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Casanova

Or if you want to be boring and do electronic music:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Grasso

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Levan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky_Siano

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Originally posted by Domesticated Or if you want to be boring and do electronic music

Hey!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syd_Barrett

R.I.P syd

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Originally posted by winston http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syd_Barrett R.I.P syd

i was going to say the same thing

Nelso Mandela is pretty chill, i wrote a paper on him last year.

Anthony Burgess

Jenna Jameson.

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Originally posted by Domesticated Jenna Jameson.

Winner. That's a fucking awesome idea

Modern society or society in general?

Rasputin

Josef Mengele - Nazi doctor in auschwitz who conducted a bunch of very very cruel and gruesome experiments on inmates and then proceeded to run to south america and was never caught.

Woty, Masaharu Taniguchi has definitely the coolest biography ever. He:

• Got himself a 10 year old girlfriend when he was a freshmen at university;
  
  
• Ran away from home to leave with her;
  
  
• Came back home after he realise things wouldn't really work out;
  
  
• Found another girlfriend - and a mistress - and gave them both herpes;
  
  
• Survived a massive earthquake;
  
  
• Because he was poor soon after that, he founded a religion (Seicho-no-ie).
  

Romeo Dallaire

Pick somebody from this list. Link

For example

Simo Hayha
Simo Hayha had a fairly boring life in Finland. He served his one mandatory year in the military, and then became a farmer. But when the Soviet Union invaded his homeland in 1939, he decided he wanted to help his country.

Since the majority of fighting took place in the forest, he figured the best way to stop the invasion was to grab his trusty rifle, a couple of cans of food and hide in a tree all day shooting Russians. In six feet of snow. And 20-40 degrees below zero.

Of course when the Russians heard that dozens of their men were going down and that it was all one dude with a rifle, they got fucking scared. He became known as "The White Death" because of his white camouflage outfit, and they actually mounted whole missions just to kill that one guy.

They started by sending out a task force to find Hayha and take him out. He killed them all.

Then they tried getting together a team of counter-snipers (which are basically snipers that kill snipers) and sent them in to eliminate Hayha. He killed all of them, too.

Over the course of 100 days, Hayha killed 542 people with his rifle. He took out another 150 or so with his SMG, sending his credited kill-count up to 705.

Since everyone they had was either too dead or too scared to go anywhere near him, the Russians just carpet-bombed everywhere they thought he might be. Supposedly, they had the location right, and he actually got hit by a cloud of shrapnel that tore his coat up, but didn't actually hurt him, because he's the fucking White Death, damn it.

Finally on March 6th, 1940, some lucky bastard shot Hayha in the head with an exploding bullet. When some other soldiers found him and brought him back to base, he "had half his head missing." The White Death had finally been stopped...

...for about a week. In spite of having come down with a nasty case of shot-in-the-face syndrome, he was still very much alive, and regained consciousness on March 13, the very day the war ended.

OR

Jack Churchill

An allied commander in WWII, and an avid fan of surfing, Captain Jack Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill aka "Fighting Jack Churchill" aka "Mad Jack" was basically the craziest mother****** in the whole damn war.

He volunteered for commando duty, not actually knowing what it entailed, but knowing that it sounded dangerous, and therefore fun. He is best known for saying that "any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed" and, in following with this, for carrying a sword into battle. In WWII. And not one of those sissy ceremonial things the Marines have. No, Jack carried a fucking claymore. And he used it, too. He is credited with capturing a total of 42 Germans and a mortar squad in the middle of the night, using only his sword.

Churchill and his team were tasked with capturing a German fortification creatively called "Point 622." Churchill took the lead, charging ahead of the group into the dark through the barbed wire and mines, pitching grenades as he went. Although his unit did their best to catch up, all but six of them were lost to silly things like death. Of those six, half were wounded and all any of them had left were pistols. Then a mortar shell swung in and killed/mortally wounded everyone who wasn't Jack Churchill.

When the Germans found him, he was playing "Will Ye No Come Back Again?" on his bagpipes. Oh, we didn't mention that? He carried them right next to his big fucking sword.

After being sent to a concentration camp, he got bored and left. Just walked out. They caught him again, and sent him to a new camp. So he left again. After walking 150 miles with only a rusty can of onions for food, he was picked up by the Americans and sent back to Britain, where he demanded to be sent back into the field, only to find out (with great disappointment) the war had ended while he was on his way there. As he later said to his friends, "If it wasn't for those damn Yanks, we could have kept the war going another 10 years!"


I mean, it doesn't get much cooler than that.

wait does it have to be cultural?

how about l. ron hubbard? hah

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Originally posted by trunks1022 wait does it have to be cultural? how about l. ron hubbard? hah

Some Awesome recommendations so far. Now I'm considering:

Ian Curtis (still, he seems to have had a very interesting life)
Kraftwerk
Casanova
Syd Barrett

I'm gonna read over some of the ones posted. Remember, a positive impact in society. Jenna Jameson... not really. I hear Neil Strauss wrote a book on her though and I love his writing so I wish, but no.

Went with this.

Lol, HST should be an interesting one

Just finished reading Lance Armstrongs.. Don't know how that fits in, but still I guess it had quite a big impact on a lot of people, and I'm guessing on a social level, made people more aware of cancer etc.

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Originally posted by Sushipunk Lol, HST should be an interesting one

I'm not sure my english teacher will approve.

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