Author: John Irving (has come up once that I've
seen, at ACF Regionals last year)
Scientist:
Tsiolkovsky, or maybe Sakharov. Or
Ghiorsio. Or Fresnel.
Or Leewanhoek.
Scientific phenomenon: the Casimir
Effect
Artist: Anouilh. People write about every OTHER
Napoleonic French painter.
Mathematician:
Lobachevsky
World Leader (past): Any Khan not Genghis, nor Osman
Pasha, nor Yao or Y.
World Leader (present): Daniel
"Erap" Estrada of the Phillipines -- he's such a
colofrul character, too.
War: The Boer Wars don't come
up a lot. Neither does the War of Griffin's Pig or
the Winter War.
Edmund