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Sadakichi Hartmann was born in Japan to a Japanese mother and a German father and was raised in Germany. He became an American citizen in his thirties. There he was a prominent member of the Bohemian scene in New York City, being crowned "King of the Bohemians" in the 1910s. He was a poet and a critic and did some rather bad paintings.

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Catch him on The Dirty Dozen as Victor Franko. He's made of pure awesome in that one.

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Colonel Gould Shaw, a wealthy man from a family of abolitionists, led the 54th Massachusetts regiment, the first black regiment in the American Civil War.


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So, how about Serge Lifar? He was a russian dancer & choreographer who danced with the Ballets Russes for a while, and later became the director of the Paris opera ballet.


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I thought about posting Dio until I hit the small snag of him really not being hot. At all.
So, I present something else instead.


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The Right Honorable 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, aka Benjamin Disraeli.


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