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re: Great people who almost remained in obscurity
Posted on 8/28/20 at 8:14 pm to athenslife101
Posted on 8/28/20 at 8:14 pm to athenslife101
The guy in WHAM that wasn’t George Michael.
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Posted on 8/28/20 at 8:25 pm to athenslife101
Audie Murphy. Dropout with a middle school education. Turned down from enlisting several times for being underweight. Finally gets in and becomes the most badass military guy ever.
Todd Graves. Boilermaker and sockeye salmon fisherman to raise capital after everyone told him his business plan sucked. Took the risk and has one of the fastest growing chains in the nation.
Ed Orgeron. Lifetime position coach, became literally the worst head coach in Ole Miss history. Bounced around to the Saints, Tennessee, looked like he was going to get a shot at being the head guy at USC after a stint there. Passed over again and came to LSU. Les gets shite canned and Ed assembles the greatest team in the history of college football.
Todd Graves. Boilermaker and sockeye salmon fisherman to raise capital after everyone told him his business plan sucked. Took the risk and has one of the fastest growing chains in the nation.
Ed Orgeron. Lifetime position coach, became literally the worst head coach in Ole Miss history. Bounced around to the Saints, Tennessee, looked like he was going to get a shot at being the head guy at USC after a stint there. Passed over again and came to LSU. Les gets shite canned and Ed assembles the greatest team in the history of college football.
This post was edited on 8/28/20 at 8:27 pm
Posted on 8/28/20 at 8:30 pm to athenslife101
Every city in the South should have a statue up of whoever invented the air conditioner.
Carrier?
Carrier?
Posted on 8/28/20 at 8:34 pm to athenslife101
Circus Child
nvm
quote:oh
almost remained in obscurity
nvm
Posted on 8/28/20 at 8:37 pm to juice4lsu
Good pick
Posted on 8/28/20 at 8:37 pm to East Coast Band
quote:“IN 1833, JOHN GORRIE WAS a young physician looking for a place to practice. He found it in the port city of Apalachicola, Florida. There, although he was a tireless resident at two hospitals, he found time to serve (at various times) as postmaster, bank director, councilman, city treasurer, and even mayor. But it’s his research into tropical diseases and treatments for yellow fever that had the most lasting effect, on both locals and far beyond.
Every city in the South should have a statue up of whoever invented the air conditioner.
Carrier?
Dr. John Gorrie is remembered as the father of air conditioning.”
Atlas Obscura Link
Posted on 8/28/20 at 8:44 pm to Spawn
quote:There were two guys in The Dwight Twilley Band: Dwight Twilley and another guy.
The guy in WHAM that wasn’t George Michael
They had one great top 20 hit single
Posted on 8/28/20 at 8:45 pm to athenslife101
Ulysses S. Grant.
Posted on 8/28/20 at 9:01 pm to athenslife101
Also fascinating are people who are famous but never knew it.
Van Gogh sold only one painting while he was alive and died a penniless vagrant. Now, everything he ever painted is worth more than $100 million. Edgar Allen Poe was a similar failure until after his death.
Posted on 8/28/20 at 9:50 pm to athenslife101
Nikola Tesla
Posted on 8/28/20 at 9:57 pm to athenslife101
LSUFreek
Posted on 8/28/20 at 9:58 pm to AUFANATL
quote:LINK
Edgar Allen Poe was a similar failure until after his death
quote:He wasn't obscure. His problem was he couldn't figure out how to make money out of his fame.
it was his publication of "The Raven," in 1845, which made Poe a literary sensation
quote:
Despite his success and popularity as a writer, Poe continued to struggle financially and he advocated for higher wages for writers and an international copyright law.
Posted on 8/28/20 at 11:41 pm to AUFANATL
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Van Gogh sold only one painting while he was alive and died a penniless vagrant. Now, everything he ever painted is worth more than $100 million. Edgar Allen Poe was a similar failure until after his death.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was all but forgotten when he died. He was working as a script writer in Hollywood but only got one writing credit. His books and stories had been out of print for years when he was rediscovered years later. His books later became a staple of high school literature classes across the United States.
Posted on 8/29/20 at 12:27 am to athenslife101
Louis Prima
Posted on 8/29/20 at 12:35 am to athenslife101
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an you think of someone who everyone knows but almost just became a footnote?
Adolph Hitler was almost just an obscure artist
Posted on 8/29/20 at 1:08 am to VictoryHill
This gave me painful goosebumps!
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Ed Orgeron. Lifetime position coach, became literally the worst head coach in Ole Miss history. Bounced around to the Saints, Tennessee, looked like he was going to get a shot at being the head guy at USC after a stint there. Passed over again and came to LSU. Les gets shite canned and Ed assembles the greatest team in the history of college football.
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