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Connecting Michelangelo and Jeremy Clarkson



Michelangelo
They included a design for the Capitoline Hill with its trapezoid piazza displaying the ancient bronze statue of Marcus Aurelius.

Marcus Aurelius
* In the 2000 film ''Gladiator'', Richard Harris portrays Marcus Aurelius as a mentor to the main character.

Richard Harris
Harris was ultimately succeeded as Dumbledore by Michael Gambon.

Michael Gambon Irish-English actor
He clipped his namesake corner the second time, and when asked why by Jeremy Clarkson, replied, "I don't know, I just don't like it."


Michelangelo
*'' The Agony and the Ecstasy'' (1965), directed by Carol Reed and starring Charlton Heston as Michelangelo

Charlton Heston
He campaigned for Republicans and Republican presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush.
President]] George W. Bush in 2003
In July 2003, in his final public appearance, Heston received the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House from President George W. Bush.

George W. Bush
"I think people look at him and think John Wayne", said Piers Morgan, editor of the British ''Daily Mirror''.

Piers Morgan English journalist and television host
In October 2003, journalist and television personality Jeremy Clarkson emptied a glass of water over Morgan during the last flight of Concorde in response to some photographs published in the ''Mirror''.


Michelangelo
Michelangelo's grandnephew, Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger, published the poems in 1623 with the gender of pronouns changed, and it was not until John Addington Symonds translated them into English in 1893 that the original genders were restored.

John Addington Symonds
Symonds's daughter, Madge Vaughan, was probably writer Virginia Woolf's first same-sex crush,{{Citation needed|date=January 2022}} though there is no evidence that the feeling was mutual.

Virginia Woolf
* The 1996 album '' Poetic Justice'', by British musician Steve Harley, contains a tribute to Woolf, specifically her most adventurous novel, in its closing track: "Riding the Waves (for Virginia Woolf)".{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}

Steve Harley
In January 2015, "Make Me Smile" re-charted at No. 72 in the UK, after '' Top Gear'' presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May urged viewers to download the song, as part of their discussion that Harley had recently received a speeding fine.


Michelangelo
Towards the end of 1495, the political situation in Florence was calmer; the city, previously under threat from the French, was no longer in danger as Charles VIII had suffered defeats.

Charles VIII of France King of France from 1483 to 1498
To secure France against invasions, Charles made treaties with Maximilian I of Austria (the Treaty of Barcelona with Maximilian of Austria on 19 January 1493) and England, (the Treaty of Étaples with England on 3 November 1492) buying their neutrality with large concessions. The English monarch Henry VII had forced Charles to abandon his support for the pretender Perkin Warbeck by despatching an expedition which laid siege to Boulogne.

Perkin Warbeck
* English comedians Stewart Lee and Richard Herring both make references to Warbeck, and fellow pretender Lambert Simnel in much of their work, both as Lee and Herring and individually.

Stewart Lee
Put simply, if Clarkson can say the prime minister is a one-eyed Scottish idiot, then I can say that I hope his children go blind.}}





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