Who?

Laurence Sterne
English writer (born in Ireland) (1713-1766)
 
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian poet (born in France) (1313-1375)
 
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Englishman and romantic poet (1792-1822)
 
Virgin
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Virgo
 
cyberpunk
a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism
 
bulimic
a person suffering from bulimia
 
natural
someone regarded as certain to succeed
 
window trimmer
someone who decorates shop windows
 
yardman
worker in a railway yard
 
Marcel Lajos Breuer
United States architect (born in Hungary) who was associated with the Bauhaus in the 1920's (1902-1981)
 
Nip
(offensive slang) offensive term for a person of Japanese descent
 
Desiderius Erasmus
Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe; although his criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church led to the Reformation, he opposed violence and condemned Martin Luther (1466-1536)
 
Samuel Adams
American Revolutionary leader and patriot; an organizer of the Boston Tea Party and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1722-1803)
 
emancipationist
a reformer who favors abolishing slavery
 
heavyweight
an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds
 
Hero of Alexandria
Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)
 
grande dame
a middle-aged or elderly woman who is stylish and highly respected
 
coon
an eccentric or undignified rustic
 
boy
a male human offspring
 
Jean-Claude Duvalier
son and successor of Francois Duvalier as president of Haiti; he was overthrown by a mass uprising in 1986 (born in 1951)
 
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