Building the Wall
Yo-Yo Ma, a noted cellist, was born in Paris to Chinese
parents, but American.
Osama Bin Laden, who founded al-Qaeda, was from Saudi
Arabia, and died in Pakistan.
Uranus, seventh planet from the sun, is a gas giant named
for a Greek god.
Freddie Mercury, whose parents were Parsi, was born in
Zanzibar but moved to Middlesex.
Ulysses, aka Odysseus, great-great grandson of an Olympian
god, returned to Greece via Troy.
Che Guevera, a Marxist Argentinian, revered in Cuba, was
shot in Bolivia.
Karen Blixen wrote Out of Africa. She was Danish.
Idris Elba, English (Sierra Leonean and Ghanaian parents),
had a Baltimore accent in The Wire.
Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, descendent of Indian Muslim
royalty, was born in St. Petersburg.
Her mother
was American, from New Mexico.
Living in
France, the family escaped to England at the outbreak
of the
Second World War, and though a pacifist, Khan joined the Resistance
against the
Nazis, the first female Special Operations agent
sent into
Occupied France, posthumously awarded the George Cross
after being
betrayed, captured and then executed at Dachau Concentration Camp.
God is also called Yahweh, Jehovah, Allah, Krishna, Nkosi, Jah Rastafari,
and Shàngdì.
Darth Vader was raised on Tatooine, but died on a space
station built by his own Empire.
Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan, is considered one of the greatest
travellers of all time.
Christina, Queen of Sweden, spent much of her life in Rome.
Kaspar Hauser, an idiot, was raised in complete isolation in
a dungeon.
Woody Guthrie, American folksinger, wrote “This Machine
Kills Fascists” on his guitar.
Adolf Hitler, patriot, was a colossal asshole.
Donald Trump, businessman, grandson of white immigrants,
married to a white immigrant,
has yet to release
his taxes.
Outstanding
ReplyDeleteyowza! Donald T Rump
ReplyDeleteon getting the bump
unexpectedly electedly
finds himself president
unhinged new resident of the
colourless white house
king with a third spouse, an
illegal immigrant
nude and supplicant
given to plagiarism
declares he hates borders
is beholding to Russian orders
can't see hypocrisy
kisses, grabs and rapes
women with apparent impunity
and worst of all
does it with immunity
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