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Historical people who appear in fiction

  1. President Rutherford B. Hayes in Turkey Red (novel by Esther Loewen Vogt)
  2. Harry Houdini (and many others) in Ragtime (novel by E. L. Doctorow)
  3. Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon Bonaparte, Billy the Kid, Sigmund Freud, Ludwig van Beethoven, Joan of Arc, Genghis Khan & Socrates in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989 movie)
  4. Sigmund Freud in The Seven Percent Solution (Sherlock Holmes novel by Nick Meyer)
  5. Oscar Wilde in The West End Horror (follow-up Sherlock Holmes novel by Nick Meyer)
  6. Nellie Bly on Voyagers! TV series
  7. John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald in 11/22/63 (novel by Stephen King)
  8. Vincent van Gogh (et al.) on episodes of Doctor Who
  9. Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking on Star Trek: The Next Generation
  10. Paul Revere (and many others) in Johnny Tremain (Newbery award winning young adult novel by Esther Forbes)
  11. President Ulysses S. Grant in several episodes of The Wild Wild West TV series
  12. Samuel Clemens (and many others) in The Fabulous Riverboat, in Philip José Farmer’s Riverworld series.
  13. Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and others in The Winds of War by Herman Wouk

I’ll pass

eta: I see Wouk is still alive at the age of 101.

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Since it’s Darwin’s birthday:

Controversial scientific theories

  1. Evolution
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Controversial scientific theories

  1. Evolution
  2. String theory
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Controversial scientific theories

  1. Evolution
  2. String theory
  3. Global Warming
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Controversial scientific theories

  1. Evolution
  2. String theory
  3. Global Warming
  4. Cold fusion
49631

Controversial scientific theories

  1. Evolution
  2. String theory
  3. Global Warming
  4. Cold fusion
  5. Eugenics
49632

Controversial scientific theories

  1. Evolution
  2. String theory
  3. Global Warming
  4. Cold fusion
  5. Eugenics
  6. Abiotic oil
49633

Controversial scientific theories

  1. Evolution
  2. String theory
  3. Global Warming
  4. Cold fusion
  5. Eugenics
  6. Abiotic oil
  7. Vaccination
49634

Controversial scientific theories

  1. Evolution
  2. String theory
  3. Global Warming
  4. Cold fusion
  5. Eugenics
  6. Abiotic oil
  7. Vaccination
  8. Parallel universes
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Controversial scientific theories

  1. Evolution
  2. String theory
  3. Global Warming
  4. Cold fusion
  5. Eugenics
  6. Abiotic oil
  7. Vaccination
  8. Parallel universes
  9. Social Darwinism
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Controversial scientific theories

  1. Evolution
  2. String theory
  3. Global Warming
  4. Cold fusion
  5. Eugenics
  6. Abiotic oil
  7. Vaccination
  8. Parallel universes
  9. Social Darwinism
  10. Big bang theory
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Controversial scientific theories

  1. Evolution
  2. String theory
  3. Global Warming
  4. Cold fusion
  5. Eugenics
  6. Abiotic oil
  7. Vaccination
  8. Parallel universes
  9. Social Darwinism
  10. Big bang theory
  11. The Earth goes around the Sun
49638

Controversial scientific theories

  1. Evolution
  2. String theory
  3. Global Warming
  4. Cold fusion
  5. Eugenics
  6. Abiotic oil
  7. Vaccination
  8. Parallel universes
  9. Social Darwinism
  10. Big bang theory
  11. The Earth goes around the Sun
  12. The Earth is Round, not Flat
49639

Controversial scientific theories

  1. Evolution
  2. String theory
  3. Global Warming
  4. Cold fusion
  5. Eugenics
  6. Abiotic oil
  7. Vaccination
  8. Parallel universes
  9. Social Darwinism
  10. Big bang theory
  11. The Earth goes around the Sun
  12. The Earth is Round, not Flat
  13. Hollow Earth

Next: Mysteries (in any genre) without the word “Mystery” in the title

  1. Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold
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Next: Mysteries (in any genre) without the word “Mystery” in the title

  1. Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold
  2. Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
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Next: Mysteries (in any genre) without the word “Mystery” in the title

  1. Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold
  2. The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon
49642

Mysteries (in any genre) without the word “Mystery” in the title

  1. Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold
  2. The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon
  3. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Mysteries (in any genre) without the word “Mystery” in the title

  1. Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold
  2. The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon
  3. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  4. Fatherland by Robert Harris
49644

Mysteries (in any genre) without the word “Mystery” in the title

  1. Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold
  2. The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon
  3. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  4. Fatherland by Robert Harris
  5. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
49645

Mysteries (in any genre) without the word “Mystery” in the title

  1. Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold
  2. Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
  3. The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon
  4. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  5. Fatherland by Robert Harris
  6. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
  7. The Case of the Civil War Sword – Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol