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Muhammad Ali (née Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.) is an American icon, loved by some, hated by others, but hardly ever ignored. Born January 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay rose to fame by winning an Olympic Gold Medal for boxing in the 1960 Olympics and went on to even greater acclaim as a three-time World Heavyweight champion, making the game glamorous to a much wider audience than usual in the early to mid sixties. A handsome man, a powerful fighter, and a lyrical wit, he reached the masses with his good looks and quotable charm. Converting to Islam in 1964, after having been recruited by Malcolm X, he changed his name from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali. He was subsequently stripped of his title when he refused to fight in Vietnam, famously asserting: “I ain’t got no fight with them Viet Cong…” His conviction as a draft dodger was later overturned. Operating under the assertion that in the ring he could “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”, Muhammad Ali maintained the title over such luminaries as Archie Moore, George Foreman, Sonny Liston, Ken Norton and Joe Frazier. He was forced into retirement after the onset of Parkinson’s Disease. In his later years, Muhammad Ali has been a kind of elder statesman, giving time and money to various charities and causes. President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005. His life story was made into a very successful movie called Ali in 2001, starring Will Smith, who was nominated for an Oscar for the role. Married four times, he is the father of nine children.

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Marquis de Sade (born Donatien Alphonse Francois) is known principally in connection with the association of his name with sadism, or the obtaining of pleasure through cruelty to others. The Marquis was a Frenchman of the aristocratic class who adhered to the principles of the French Revolution. His large body of written work is a paean to the lifestyle he admired and practiced – that of a sexual libertine of a violent bent, unfettered by law or morality. De Sade spent almost half of his life in prisons or insane asylums. Upon his death, much of his work was destroyed by his son, and subsequent generations disavowed his very existence. In the late 1940s, the then current Marquis de Sade stumbled upon information of his ancestor and his reputation, and set about learning more about him, collecting his extant works, and laboring to establish him as a progenitor of whom to be proud. Today, the Marquis de Sade remains a figure of fascination, and is as likely to be honored as a proponent of literary freedom and extreme individualism as a vilified proponent of immoral and, well, sadistic behavior.

Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym of Alice in Wonderland’s creator, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the shy Victorian don of Christ Church, Oxford, who spun a fantasy that has become immortal. Lewis Carroll came naturally to his storytelling proclivities, being one of eleven children and used to entertaining his siblings. In addition to his children’s writings, Lewis was an accomplished scholar and teacher of mathematics, as well as an avid photographer at a time when that art was in its infancy. Lewis Carroll obtained fame and wealth with the success of the “Alice” books, but his quiet life changed little. He remained at Oxford until his death from complications of influenza. By any name, Lewis Carroll was a genius who has afforded pleasure to millions over the years.