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01-20-2010, 09:53 PM
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Further hint: The man who succeeded me and was responsible for my removal from power was a Catholic who was later assassinated in a suspicious military coup.
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01-21-2010, 07:56 AM
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Location: Victoria TX
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Sounds like Bao Dai.
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01-21-2010, 09:04 AM
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That's be me..
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01-21-2010, 06:49 PM
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Location: Victoria TX
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Although born in the USA, my family left when I was three, and I never returned. I rose through the ranks of the British colonial service, and once had to brutally quell a native uprising against my flagrant profiteering, which forced London to remove me from my post. I was contacted by an American who was a notorious figure in one of the most outrageous miscarriages of justice in US history, who asked me for a gift to a college from my ill-gotten gains. That college, now a university, bears my name.
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01-22-2010, 03:36 PM
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Location: Victoria TX
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Hint: This university is among those attended by a President of the United States.
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01-22-2010, 06:42 PM
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Location: Vermont / NEK
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Must've been multiple presidents: Elihu Yale. Interesting read about the Cotton Mather connection. One of my favorite cartoonists, Gary Trudeau, is an alumnus as well.
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01-22-2010, 07:12 PM
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Location: Victoria TX
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Quote:
Originally Posted by square peg
Must've been multiple presidents: Elihu Yale. Interesting read about the Cotton Mather connection. One of my favorite cartoonists, Gary Trudeau, is an alumnus as well.
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Elihu Yale is correct. |
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01-22-2010, 07:31 PM
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Location: Vermont / NEK
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Born in the second half of the 19th century, I was a part time stage actor and bar owner, but I made my real bread and butter in sport. I was pretty reliable at what I was good at and was the first American athlete to earn a million dollars in the course of a career.
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01-22-2010, 08:30 PM
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Location: Victoria TX
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Quote:
Originally Posted by square peg
Born in the second half of the 19th century, I was a part time stage actor and bar owner, but I made my real bread and butter in sport. I was pretty reliable at what I was good at and was the first American athlete to earn a million dollars in the course of a career.
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Given that it is the only clue, it needs to be made clear whether "career" means earning as an athlete, or earnings overall. |
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01-22-2010, 08:46 PM
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Location: Vermont / NEK
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In just the athletic career of this individual. Massachusetts-born individual, I might add.
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