Sonja

I'd like to meet:

BRADLEY WHITFORD, BRADLEY WHITFORD, BRADLEY WHITFORD, BRADLEY WHITFORD... can you tell I'm obsessed and utterly in love with BRADLEY WHITFORD??? Oh and I want to meet this guy below...
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Music:

YUM!!! Video of Sarbel, performing "Yassou Maria", representing Greece at the Eurovision Song Contest in Finland in May, 2007 (good Lawd this boy's delicious!!):

Movies:

I'm addicted to movies. Not that there's much to do besides movies in the desert. I'll watch pretty much anything... Some examples are: Boondock Saints, Dodgeball, 28 Days Later, Spy Game, Shrek 1 &2, Elizabeth, Monsters Inc, Last Emperor, Kundun, Troy, Alexander, Grease, Amelie, Cinema Paradiso, Europa Europa, , Malena, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby and so many more, I'd be here for hours typing. Oh yes, Brad Pitt makes me faint.

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Television:

THIS IS WHAT I LOOK LIKE WHEN I FIRST WAKE UP

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Books:

Crime and Punishment, Brothers Karamazov, Dead Souls, Idiot, Notes From the Underground, Russian authors (primarily Dostoyevski, Tolstoy and Gogol), as well as anything written by James A. Michener (Hawaii, Poland, Mexico, Iberia, Texas, Caribbean, Alaska, Caravans, Chesapeake, Sayonara, Recessional, The Novel, Legacy, Space, Long Journey, Centennial etc).

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Heroes:

Josip Broz Tito was the lifelong President of Yugoslavia. He ruled from 29 November 1943, until his death on 4th May 1980 at 3:05pm in Ljubljana, Slovenia, three days before his 88th birthday. He was the only man that united the people that fall under the category of South Slavs.
Some say he was a communist, I say he was a nationalist, as he tried to create a unified Yugoslavia. People erroneously think of Yugoslavia as a part of Warsaw Pact - Tito broke all diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union until after Stalin's death, and never entered the eastern Bloc.
Martin Luther King Jr. - a great man cut short by hatred.
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King Jan Sobieski III of Poland, without whom Austria would have lost Vienna to the Ottoman Turks, which would have resulted in Western European struggle for preservation. Leopold of Austria hated the fact that Sobieski was hailed as the hero of Europe, and never erected a single memorial to the brave Polish King in Vienna, choosing to put up his own memorials commemorating his victory over the Turks, even though he hid throughout the battle, leaving Sobieski to lead the battle to protect the easternmost western city of Vienna.
Queen Elizabeth I, the fickle English Queen, who ruled England from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603. Known as the Virgin Queen (State of Virginia is named after her) as she never married, Elizabeth inherited a country that was near economic, religious and social collapse, that was threatened by countries much stronger than her own.
In her famous quote "I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too." (http://creativequotations.com/one/612.htm), Elizabeth showed the world that she was made of steel, especially as she beat the mighty Spanish Armada soon afterwards (the quote is from her speech to her troops in preparations for the battle with Spain, militarily the strongest country in the world at the time).
Upon her death she was mourned and worshipped, leaving England one of the richest countries in the world.
Milos Obilic was a Serbian knight. He was the founder of the Order of the Dragon, whose entire existence was dedicated to killing the Ottoman Sultan. In the Battle of Kosovo Polje on 28 June 1389, Obilic went into the Turkish camp under the pretenses of desertion and killed Sultan Murad I, even though he knew that this act equaled a certain death sentence.
Obilic was executed by Murad's son, the new Sultan Bayezid. The Order of the Dragon continued it's existence, and a century later it included Romanian (Wallachian) Prince Vlad Dracul, as well as his son Vlad Tepes (The Impaler) or Vlad Dracula (Dracul means Dragon, and Dracula is the diminutive of Dracul, meaning son of Dracul).
Milos Obilic remains to this day a hero of the great battle, as well as a symbol of selfless service, personal courage and loyalty.
Vlad III of Wallachia (present day Romania), also known as Vlad Tepes (The Impaler) or Vlad Dracula, was a Prince of Wallachia during a time when Eastern Europe was falling victim to the mighty Ottoman Empire.
Vlad III was a member of the Order of Dragon of St. George, which gave him his name (Dracul means Dragon, and as son of Vlad Dracul, Vlad III received the name Dracula, son of Dragon). While other kingdoms, duchies, principalities and such readily bowed to the Turkish Sultan, Vlad III never gave up - in fact, Wallachia was never completely conquered by the Ottomans.
Vlad III became infamous after Bram Stoker's book was published in late 19th century, though the book is fictional. While there is no doubt that Vlad was cruel and sadistic, there is no proof that he actually drank blood (unlike the Transylvanian Countess Elizabeth Bathory a.k.a. Erzsebet Bathory). Vlad Tepes instituted law and order in his domain, which, as anyone familiar with the Balkans knows, is next to impossible. There are two anectodes that I find particularly amusing:
1. Vlad Dracula was known throughout his land for his fierce insistence on honesty and order. Thieves seldom dared practice their trade within his domain, for they knew that the stake awaited any who were caught. Vlad was so confident in the effectiveness of his law that he laced a golden cup on display in the central square of Tirgoviste. The cup was never stolen and remained entirely unmolested throughout Vlad Dracula's reign. (http://www.donlinke.com/drakula/vlad.htm#Vlad)
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2. A merchant from a foreign land visited Tirgoviste. Aware of the reputation of Vlad Dracula's land for honesty, he left a treasure-laden cart unguarded in the street over night.
Upon returning to his wagon in the morning, the merchant was shocked to find 160 golden ducats missing. Then the merchant complained of his loss to the prince, Vlad assured him that his money would be returned.
Vlad Dracula then issued a proclamation to the city: find the thief and return the money or the city will be destroyed. During the night he ordered that 160 ducats plus one extra be taken from his own treasury and placed in the merchant's cart.
On returning to his cart the next morning and counting his money the merchant discovered the extra ducat. The merchant returned to Vlad and reported that his money had indeed been returned plus an extra ducat. Meanwhile the thief had been captured and turned over to the prince's guards along with the stolen money.
Vlad ordered the thief impaled and informed the merchant that if he had not reported the extra ducat he would have been impaled alongside the thief. (http://www.donlinke.com/drakula/vlad.htm#Vlad).