Day 140

In response to @Rock_Dr - who wanted more rain drenched gravestones - here we are.  We’re flat hunting, but got side tracked :-)

I’ve given you a selection of heroes, but there are so many more.  Next time, Douglas Adams will get a photo all of his own.  In the extra - proof I’m still sober, even when “his nibs” had a beer......

I know you like a few factoids so did you know that:

Malcolm Maclaren died of peritoneal mesothelioma and George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) coined the term “pop music”.

Karl Marx wrote a play set in a mountain village in Italy and Alan Sillitoe was widely celebrated in the Soviet Union.  Both got out of military service due to “weak chests” - probably TB in Marx’s case, definitely TB in Sillitoe’s.

Harinder Kaur Veriah died of racism and Opal Whitely (Francoise Marie de Bourbon-Orleans) died aged 94 in an English “insane asylum”where she had been for 44 years.

Yusuf Dadoo’s dying words were:
“You must never give up, you must fight to the end.”

Malcolm McLaren: Authentic creativity vs. karaoke culture
https://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_mclaren_authentic_creativity_vs_karaoke_culture

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/eliot_george.shtml 

https://theconversation.com/karl-marx-ten-things-to-read-if-you-want-to-understand-him-95818

https://youtu.be/8dVVgTAJ2Qo

http://www.harinderveriahtrust.org/what-we-do/harinder-veriahs-story/

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/opal-whiteleys-riddles

https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/dr-yusuf-mohamed-dadoo 

https://youtu.be/cBojbjoMttI