GENIUSES IN HISTORY: Beethoven, Da Vinci, Mozart, Paganini, JS Bach, William Blake, Van Gogh, Socrates, Joan Of Arc, Galileo, Madame Curie, The Great Kat!

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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, Greatest Classical Composer in history, who composed the masterpiece Symphony #9, while TOTALLY DEAF!	DANTE'S "INFERNO" from Dante's genius "DIVINE COMEDY", which features 9 LEVELS OF SUFFERING, DEMONIC SLAVES INFLICTING TORTURE ON SINNERS and SATAN DEVOURING TRAITORS! "ALL HOPE ABANDON, YE WHO ENTER HERE."	CARAVAGGIO, radical Italian Baroque painter, raving lunatic sword fighter/murderer who shocked the art world by painting naturalistic images of religious subjects. Innovator of using transparent shading penetrated by a bright light from a high source to depict divinity.	RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, RIMSKY-KORSAKOV was a brilliant RUSSIAN COMPOSER/NATIONALIST, Naval Officer, and composer of the famous "THE FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLE-BEE" from "The Tale Of Tsar Saltan"!
SOCRATES, Philosopher, Prepares to Carry out his DEATH SENTENCE drinking HEMLOCK	JEAN-FRANCOIS CHAMPOLLION was a French Egyptologist, linguistic prodigy and the "Father of Egyptology." Through the use of the ROSETTA STONE, Champollion was the FIRST person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics.	MARK TWAIN, GENIUS American author, famous for writing "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Twain was BORN as HALLEY'S COMET passed over Earth and VOWED to DIE with the COMET'S RETURN in 75 YEARS - - AND HE DID!	DIOGENES, UNCONVENTIONAL and CONTROVERSIAL Greek PHILOSOPHER, one of the founders of CYNICISM and was famous for carrying a lantern in the daylight in search of "AN HONEST MAN"!
HOUDINI, the legendary double-jointed magician who specialized in escaping from straitjackets, chains, handcuffs, ropes, trunks, jails, padlocked containers and milk cans underwater. He was also famous for demystifying spiritualists and proving they were frauds. Houdini DIED on HALLOWEEN, in 1926!	GEORGE WASHINGTON, the FIRST PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES, Commander in Chief of the Continental Army in the AMERICAN REVOLUTION & "FATHER OF THE COUNTRY"!	LEONARDO DA VINCI, brilliant painter, inventor, musician, engineer, sculptor, architect and scientist. The prototype of the "RENAISSANCE MAN", da Vinci painted the masterpieces "MONA LISA" and "THE LAST SUPPER" and wrote notebooks in his own code of mirror (backwards) writing, which kept his ideas and inventions secret.	HIERONYMUS BOSCH Hieronymus Bosch is the genius artist, whose paintings combined irreverent and grotesque images, fantasy, freaks, devils, and bizarre symbolism to depict corruption, indulgence, religious hypocrisy and human greed!
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART, died when he was only 35 years old, after being commissioned to compose a Requiem Mass from a mysterious stranger, which Mozart misinterpreted as a pronouncement of his own death.	JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH, Baroque Composer who wrote the genius UNFINISHED masterpiece "ART OF FUGUE" in his last years, while SLOWLY GOING BLIND!	VINCENT VAN GOGH, tortured genius artist who only sold 1 painting in his lifetime. Today, every Van Gogh painting sells for millions of dollars each and are considered priceless collectibles.	WILLIAM BLAKE, ARTIST and POET, was called "HIDEOUS", "INSANE" & a LUNATIC. Pictured is Blake's "THE ANCIENT OF DAYS."
ANTONIO VIVALDI, Baroque Classical Composer who was known as the "RED PRIEST" and was buried in a pauper's grave.	RICHARD WAGNER, genius opera composer who invented the "LEITMOTIVE" (melodies corresponding to characters) and revolutionized operas with the 4 opera masterpiece "THE RING."	MADAME CURIE in what looks like a POLICE MUG SHOT in France's Excelsior Mag's SMEAR CAMPAIGN	FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, famous German Philosopher who went insane at 45 years old and declared that "GOD IS DEAD", opposed Christianity and believed in the concept of "WILL TO POWER" and "SUPERMAN": (the ideal human).
NICCOLO PAGANINI was called "The Devil's Son" and "Witch's Brat" for his demonic and amazing violin virtuosity! Audiences thought Paganini made a pact with the devil to be able to perform supernatural displays of technique!	THEODORE ROOSEVELT was the youngest President of the United States at the age of 42. He was a statesman, police commissioner, Nobel Peace Prize winner, author, hero, cowboy, soldier, hunter, naturalist, explorer and leader of the Rough Riders! Roosevelt's policy was "SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK."	GALILEO GALILEI was one of the world's greatest scientific pioneers. He was an inventor, astronomer and a REBEL, who angered the Roman Catholic Church by claiming the Earth is NOT the central point of the universe, which the Church claimed it was.	JOAN OF ARC Burning at the Stake
PABLO DE SARASATE'S music was known for its fantastic and virtuosic technique, Spanish folk melodies, and fast tempos.	ANTONIO BAZZINI was one of the most highly regarded artist of his time and influenced the great opera composer Puccini in his Grand Operas. His music was known for its highly virtuosic techniques.	QUEEN ELIZABETH I, known as the Virgin Queen, was the daughter of King Henry VIII and was the Queen of England from 1558-1603. Elizabeth I was a DIPLOMATIC GENIUS, who made England into a major world power.	FRANZ LISZT was one of the forerunners of virtuoso pianists and led the way for extreme virtuosity in composition.
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI, genius Opera Composer, suffered from a malady known as "neurasthenia"-a mental disorder with psychosomatic symptoms.	EDGAR ALLAN POE, tortured genius writer of such brilliant masterpieces as "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Raven", is considered the Master of the Macabre and died penniless at the age of 40.	THE GREAT KAT, REINCARNATION of BEETHOVEN, Shred Guitar Virtuoso, Musical Revolutionary, Inventor of "Shred/Classical" Music - Bringing Classical Music to the Masses and RESURRECTOR of CLASSICAL MUSIC!