Leonhard Seppala, musher in the 1925 Great Race of Mercy in Alaska which delivered serums to diphtheria-stricken Nome and inspired the annual Iditarod Dogsled Race.
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Very cool, Cleander! I'll admit, up until this point, I only knew the name of one of the dogs in that particular run.
Samuel Adams
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Amelia Earhart
"I suppose the sewing machine's too heavy to bring?. . . I can't abide the thought of that Witch fiddling with it. . ."
Edward Lear, an English writer of comic verse
There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.
"...when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."
Lewis Carroll, famed as the author of Alice in Wonderland & its sequel
Charles M. Schulz, of "Peanuts" fame
(I was tempted to do C.S. Lewis but that seemed too obvious )
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Sandra Boynton, author of fun children's books
"I suppose the sewing machine's too heavy to bring?. . . I can't abide the thought of that Witch fiddling with it. . ."
Boris Karloff, horror movie actor.
Krystal Jung, actress and singer.
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(Lady) Jane Grey, Queen of England for nine days after the death of Edward VI, after which she was executed, when Mary I (Tudor) claimed the throne of England.
Georgie Henley (suddenly realised she fits here), former child actor and now young adult actor, currently filming more episodes of The Spanish Princess (in which she plays Henry VIII's sister Meg).
There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.
"...when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."
Harrison Ford, American actor
"I suppose the sewing machine's too heavy to bring?. . . I can't abide the thought of that Witch fiddling with it. . ."
Frederick Douglass, famous abolitionist.
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Lady Diana Frances Spencer who, until her divorce on 28/8/1996, became Princess of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall, Duchess of Rothesay, Countess of Carrick, Baroness Renfrew. When she died a year later, in a Paris car crash she was commemorated as Princess of Wales, the People's Princess.
Sarah Brightman, an English classical crossover soprano.
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