What is Your knowledge of WORLD HISTORY? Are the following HISTORICAL FIGURES, Fictional OR REAL?

Question

People Listen Up! bring me up to date please! Are the following HISTORICAL FIGURES Fictional OR did they REALY EXIST? I am asking because I really do not know! (1) Count Dracuela? (2) Tarzan? (3) Lone Ranger? (4) Lone Ranger & Tanto? (5) Tanto? (6) Hunchback of Norter-Dame? (7) Robinson Curose? (8) Doctor Frankenstein? (9) Doctor Jeckyl? (10) Mr. Hyde? (11) Dr. J. and Mr. H.? (12) Scrooge? (13) Old Man and the Sea? (based on actual experience?) (14) Moby Dick? (based on actual experience?) (15) Grapes of Wrath (based on actual experience?) (16) For Whom the Bell Tolls (based on actual experience?) (17) Zoro? (18) Don Juan? (19) Don Quixote? (20) Man of La Mancha? (21) Madam Buterfly? Talk to me peoople!

Answer 1

1) Count Dracuela? Fictional, loosely based on Vlad III the Impaler, also known as Vlad Dracula or Vlad Drăculea

(2) Tarzan? Fictional

(3) Lone Ranger? Fictional (4) Lone Ranger & Tanto? (5) Tanto? Fictonal. Inspiration for the name may have come from The Lone Star Ranger, a novel by Zane Grey. Karl May's tales of Old Shatterhand and Chief Winnetou may have influenced the creation of the concept, they in turn were influenced by The Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper; the legends of Robin Hood and the popular character Zorro were also a likely inspiration.

(6) Hunchback of Norter-Dame? Fictional

(7) Robinson Curose? Fictional. The story was probably influenced by the real-life events of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway marooned on a Pacific island (currently Alexander Selkirk Island, Chile) for four years.

(8) Doctor Frankenstein? Fictional. Maybe inspired by reports of experiments on frog's legs by Italian scientist Luigi Galvani.

(9) Doctor Jeckyl? (10) Mr. Hyde? Fictional. Various direct influences have been suggested for Stevenson's interest in the mental condition that separates the sinful from moral self. Among them are the Biblical text of Romans (7:20 "Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me."); the split life in the 1780s of Edinburgh city councillor Deacon William Brodie, master craftsman by day, burglar by night; and James Hogg's novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824), in which a young man falls under the spell of the devil.

(12) Scrooge? Fictional

(13) Old Man and the Sea? (based on actual experience?) Fictional. General biographical consensus holds that the model for Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea was, at least in part, the Cuban fisherman Gregorio Fuentes.

(14) Moby Dick? (based on actual experience?) Fictional. There were two factual occurrences that almost certainly inspired Melville's tale. One was the sinking of the Nantucket whaling ship Essex, which foundered in 1820 after it was attacked by an 80-ton sperm whale 2,000 miles (3,700 km) from the western coast of South America. First mate Owen Chase, one of eight survivors, recorded the events as the Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex. There was also a real-life albino sperm whale, known as Mocha Dick, that lived near the island of Mocha off Chile's southern coast, several decades before Melville wrote his book. Jeremiah N. Reynolds had written an account of Mocha Dick's battle with a ship. Mocha Dick, like Moby-Dick in Melville's story, escaped countless times from the attacks of whalers, whom he would often attack with premeditated ferocity, and consequently had dozens of harpoons in his back. Mocha Dick was eventually killed in the 1830s. Thus, it seems highly probable that Melville used Mocha Dick as the basis for his book. It has been suggested that Melville changed the name "Mocha" to "Moby" in 1846, four years before the novel was published, after meeting an old South Seas shipmate, Richard Tobias Green.

The third and perhaps most important element was Melville's experiences as a sailor, and in particular on his voyage on the whaler Acushnet in 1841–1842. His whaling experiences were chronicled in his popular novel Typee and its sequel Omoo, and many historians believed it served as a basis for much of Moby-Dick.

(15) Grapes of Wrath (based on actual experience?) Based on the "Okie" migration to California during the Dustbowl.

(16) For Whom the Bell Tolls (based on actual experience?) Some experiences from the time of World War One have been worked into For Whom the Bell Tolls. According to Anthony Burgess, the farewell at the station [15] is the equivalent of Hemingway's departure to the Italian front. An interesting aspect is that as Jordan went to school instead, maybe the war represents for Hemingway, as well as for his character Robert Jordan, a part of his education. The last thoughts of Jordan could refer to Ernest's wounding in Fossalta where it seemed to him "more natural to die than to go on living". The gray-haired soldier who already appeared (From Boy to Man) might have been the prototype of Anselmo, while Golz's look is that of real life Polish General "Walter", commander of the XIVth International Brigade.

Robert Hale Merriman, the leader of the American Volunteers in the International Brigades, and his wife Marion, were well known to Hemingway. Considering the almost suicidal fight of Merriman over the Jarama River and his final death in Gandesa one may think that these two historical personalities were the main figures Hemingway has portrayed in his novel.


(17) Zoro? Fictional. Zorro is similar to some real bandits in California history. He is often associated with Joaquin Murrieta, the "Mexican Robin Hood", whose life was fictionalized in an 1854 book by John Rollin Ridge, and in the 1998 film The Mask of Zorro, where Murrieta's brother succeeds de la Vega as Zorro. Other possible inspirations include Robin himself (though he was English, of course), California bandit Salomon Pico, Tiburcio Vasquez, and William Lamport, an Irish soldier living in Mexico in the 17th century. Lamport's life was fictionalized by Vicente Riva Palacio in the 19th century. While there are many theories about who the 'real' Zorro was, it seems most likely that McCulley drew inspiration from several different sources, not to mention the 1905 novel The Scarlet Pimpernel, which features a number of parallels to McCulley's later creation. Many Californians believe that the Yokuts Indian Estanislao was one of the inspirations for Zorro. Estanislao led a revolt against the Mission San Jose in 1827.

There is not much historical basis for the Spanish hacienda culture depicted in the books and films. The population of California increased when it was a territory of the Viceroyalty of New Spain (later Mexico) for 300 years, but a multi-generational feudal society and peasant class never fully developed, as it had in Mexico proper. It was just too remote. California was not even settled until the 1760s and most Mexican land grants were less than ten years old when Mexico lost California during the Mexican-American War. However, life in 17th century colonial New Spain was modeled on the class society of Europe, with nobility at the top and peasants at the bottom, and hacienda culture was and is prevalent in the rural areas of Mexico proper. In this regard, some authors tend to believe that Johnston McCulley borrowed heavily from Vicente Riva Palacio's novel Memories of an Impostor: Don Guillén de Lamport, King of Mexico.

The Andalusian-colonial society depicted in the Zorro Hollywood films, with gentlemen in bolero suits and swords and ladies in comb and mantilla, is quite picturesque and certainly evokes the gracious living of the creole in colonial New Spain.

(18) Don Juan? Fictional. Based on an old Spanish legend.

(19) Don Quixote? (20) Man of La Mancha? Fictional.

(21) Madam Buterfly? The opera was based partly on a short story by John Luther Long, based on the recollections of his sister, Irvin Correll, who had been to Japan with her husband, a Methodist missionary.

Answer 2

1. Count Dracula, a fictional character in the Dracula novel by Bram Stoker, was inspired by one of the best-known figures of the Romanian history — Vlad Dracula, nicknamed Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler) — who was a ruler of Wallachia (1456-1462).
2. Edgar Rice Burroughs began writing Tarzan of the Apes at 8 pm, December 1, 1911. The work was completed at 10:25 pm, May 14 of the following year. On June 11 he submitted the manuscript to All-Story magazine; June 26 he received $700 for it. Tarzan was published complete in the October issue with illustrations by Clinton Pettee.
3. The Lone Ranger was an early, long-running radio and television show based on characters created by George W. Trendle of Detroit, Michigan and developed by writer Fran Striker.
4. The titular character is a masked Texas Ranger in the American Old West, who gallops about righting injustices, usually with the aid of a clever and laconic American Indian sidekick called Tonto, and his horse Silver. He would famously say "Hi-yo Silver, away!" to get the horse to gallop.
5. Tonto, see above.
6. Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885), was the author of Hunchback of Notre Dame.
7. Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English.
8. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. First published in London in 1818 (but more often read in the revised third edition of 1831).
9/10/11. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1 is a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson first published in 1886. The work is known for its vivid portrayal of the psychopathology of a split personality; in mainstream culture the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" has come to signify wild or bipolar behavior.
12. Ebenezer Scrooge is the main character in Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol.
13. The Old Man and the Sea is a novella by Ernest Hemingway written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. General biographical consensus holds that the model for Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea was, at least in part, the Cuban fisherman Gregorio Fuentes.
14. Moby-Dick is the enormous white whale who torments Captain Ahab in the Herman Melville novel Moby-Dick (1851).

Answer 3

Alexander The Great reshaped the ancient world, yet was tolerant of the conquered peoples' beliefs and religions. 10 2) Abraham Lincoln one of our greatest leaders 10 3) Elizabeth I of England ruled during a period of tolerance and enlightenment, 9, had father issues and had no heir 4) Maximilien Robespierre 5, leader of a revolution, executed by the revolution 5) Thomas Edison as an inventor, 10, as a human being, I know nothing about him 6) Cleopatra tough to separate fact from legend and just plain fiction 7) Jose De San Martin you got me with this one. never heard of him. 8) Mother Teresa 10 as a human being, but likely to have no historical impact 9) Thomas Jefferson 10 in shaping our political system 10) Benito Mussolini 1, a bad guy who associated with two other bad guys