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re: Little known Historical events fromthe lives of better known Historical figures

Posted on 5/18/16 at 10:29 pm to
Posted by soccerfüt
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Posted on 5/18/16 at 10:29 pm to
In 1913, one section of Vienna was home to Freud, Hitler, Tito, Stalin and Trotsky.

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Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 5/18/16 at 10:30 pm to
u beta baw
Posted by CroakaBait
Gulf Coast of the Land Mass
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Posted on 5/18/16 at 10:51 pm to
Ho Chi Minh, of communist Vietnam fame, once worked as a baker at the Omni Parker House Hotel in Boston back in the nineteen-teens. Learned this useful fact while watching a clip on Food Network about Boston Cream Pie, which, interesting in and of itself, is actually a cake.
Posted by 911Moto
Member since Sep 2013
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Posted on 5/18/16 at 11:27 pm to
He also killed his master to escape slavery.
Don't know about boning Pocahontas though - she was around 8-10 years old when they met. Don't believe the Disney version of John Smith/Pocahontas.
This post was edited on 5/18/16 at 11:28 pm
Posted by biglego
San Francisco
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Posted on 5/18/16 at 11:37 pm to
quote:

etween that and being a Nazi sympathizer, Lucky Lindy was kind of a dick.


I don't know if he was a dick, or if he was simply very shy and uncomfortable with fame. He was the superstar of his day and didn't seem to enjoy that.
Posted by tigerpimpbot
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Posted on 5/18/16 at 11:56 pm to
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I watched a program about what Churchill went through as a young man. Really interesting stuff.


Daddy fricked whores and had syphillis and Jr. became one of the singularly worst secretaries of the navy in the entire history of the United Kingdom.

Don't call it a comeback
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
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Posted on 5/19/16 at 12:01 am to
His mother was a noted beauty. She died of complications from breaking her ankle after trying to walk downstairs in a new and unfamiliar pair of high heel shoes.
Posted by DrunkerThanThou
Unfortunately Mississippi
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Posted on 5/19/16 at 12:06 am to
If anyone ever deserved a movie it was Jean Lafitte. Wiki
Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 5/19/16 at 12:06 am to
HOT LIPS: That was a great speech you made, Frank. You're a born leader, just like Churchill. His mother was American, you know.

FRANK BURNS (almost giddy): Really? So was mine!
Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 5/19/16 at 12:10 am to
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If anyone ever deserved a movie it was Jean Lafitte



It's actually quite entertaining. My favorite scene has Lafitte in a swordfight against the villain in the dungeon of The Cabildo. (Did it have one? Well it does in this movie)
Posted by geauxtigahs87
Louisiana
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Posted on 5/19/16 at 12:49 am to
Before the surrender at Appamattox, Grant and Lee first met each other almost 20 years earlier during the Mexican War.

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Entering the house, Grant greeted Lee in the center of the room. The generals presented a contrasting appearance; Lee in a new uniform and Grant in his mud-spattered field uniform. Grant, who remembered meeting Lee once during the Mexican War, asked the Confederate general if he recalled their meeting. Lee replied that he did, and the two conversed in a very cordial manner, for approximately 25 minutes. The subject had not yet gotten around to surrender until finally, Lee, feeling the anguish of defeat, brought Grant's attention to it. Grant, who later confessed to being embarrassed at having to ask for the surrender from Lee, said simply that the terms would be just as he had outlined them in a previous letter.
Posted by Yewkindewit
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Posted on 5/19/16 at 7:39 am to
Butt fricking, arse kicking, world traveling, mistress slaying SOB!
Posted by TejasHorn
High Plains Driftin'
Member since Mar 2007
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Posted on 5/19/16 at 7:50 am to
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Churchill


First to mind. Fought in the Boer war and escaped a prison camp, walking alone across the African plain.

Was sacked after Galipoli. Volunteered to fight in the trenches instead of retiring back to the country.

There's other examples... His biography is probably the biggest page turner you'll read.
Posted by Yewkindewit
Near Birmingham, Alabama
Member since Apr 2012
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Posted on 5/19/16 at 8:06 am to
Butt fricking, arse kicking, world traveling, mistress slaying SOB!
Posted by ManBearTiger
BRLA
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Posted on 5/19/16 at 8:33 am to
In the same vein of badassery, Kurt Vonnegut managed the first American Saab dealership before it went out of business within a year.
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