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re: Whose your favorite historical figure
Posted on 1/10/16 at 1:08 pm to athenslife101
Posted on 1/10/16 at 1:08 pm to athenslife101
George Washington
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Posted on 1/10/16 at 1:15 pm to biglego
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Before his brother died and Richard became King, his reputation was pretty solid. After that, it really went into the shitter, although some revisionist Tudor propaganda accounts for a lot of that. I agree with that. It does speak somewhat to his popularity at the time that he could actually be defeated by Henry Tudor. Would've been unthinkable under Edward IV who mustered tens of thousands for battle. But there's no denying Richard was brave and more qualified for the throne than Henry. Did you see the show, not sure what channel, where they actually found his body under a parking lot? Had the curved spine and some appalling head wounds.
Read about it, didn't see the show.
The factionalism, back-stabbing and jockeying for position during the Wars of the Roses was just amazing.
Posted on 1/10/16 at 1:23 pm to Lionnation1993
Dolph Lundgren
Posted on 1/10/16 at 1:26 pm to TigerinSC
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James Earl Rudder
Ronald Speirs
Dick Winters
Carlos Hathcock
I wish someone would have written a book just about Speirs like so many other BoB members, he was one bad motherfricker.
Posted on 1/10/16 at 1:39 pm to athenslife101
Eleanor of Aquataine
Posted on 1/10/16 at 1:40 pm to FightinTigersDammit
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The factionalism, back-stabbing and jockeying for position during the Wars of the Roses was just amazing.
Makes the GOP v Dems look like a bunch of mealy mouthed pussies. Could you imagine actual battles, with fricking swords and pikes and thousands of casualties, being fought for politics? I'd probably respect our leaders more at least.
Posted on 1/10/16 at 1:43 pm to athenslife101
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Such a Pimp and if Nicholas Girod's plan had saved him before he died he would have been the best NOLA resident of all time.
read this if you don't know what I'm talking about
Such a Pimp and if Nicholas Girod's plan had saved him before he died he would have been the best NOLA resident of all time.
read this if you don't know what I'm talking about
Posted on 1/10/16 at 1:49 pm to athenslife101
Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller
Posted on 1/10/16 at 2:08 pm to biglego
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Makes the GOP v Dems look like a bunch of mealy mouthed pussies. Could you imagine actual battles, with fricking swords and pikes and thousands of casualties, being fought for politics? I'd probably respect our leaders more at least.
With the losers being exiled, imprisoned or executed.
Posted on 1/10/16 at 2:09 pm to athenslife101
Engelbert Humperdink
Posted on 1/10/16 at 2:48 pm to chRxis
Ray Spruance
Posted on 1/10/16 at 2:48 pm to athenslife101
Marcus Garvey
Posted on 1/10/16 at 2:52 pm to athenslife101
Archimedes. He was possibly the most innovative and brilliant person who ever lived, possessing a creative intellect that that is the chief ingredient of true genius and something that today's sniveling number crunchers could never understand.
Posted on 1/10/16 at 3:01 pm to Rex
quote:believe what you will, but man won that battle. And no salt was ever sewn.
I wonder how much farther along in scientific and cultural process we'd be if the Carthaginians instead of the Romans had won the Punic Wars.
Posted on 1/10/16 at 3:28 pm to Corch Urban Myers
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Love him or hate him, he got shite done.
If you remove the human suffering element from Hitler, he would have been regarded as one of the most important leaders since Charlemagne. He literally brought his country out of a crippling depression on top of post-war compounding post-war sanctions. That being said, you can't study history and divorce yourself from very inhumane situations created by any leader.
Even if you ignore his rapid militarization of Germany and the annexation of a weak Europe, he systematically eliminated people based on a loose theory that he had about the human race. Genocide is nothing new in human history, but for it to happen less than a hundred years ago is more shocking. Hitler was a psychopath by the end of his reign of terror, anyone admiring him in any respect is not much better.
This post was edited on 1/10/16 at 3:31 pm
Posted on 1/10/16 at 3:43 pm to athenslife101
Tywin Lannister
Bud Grant
Michael Brown's step-father
Bud Grant
Michael Brown's step-father
This post was edited on 1/10/16 at 3:49 pm
Posted on 1/10/16 at 3:45 pm to BLIZZAKE7
Malcolm X
Haile Selassie
Isaac Newton
Haile Selassie
Isaac Newton
Posted on 1/10/16 at 4:58 pm to Rex
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wonder how much farther along in scientific and cultural process we'd be if the Carthaginians instead of the Romans had won the Punic Wars
Interesting question. Not Bc Carthage would've made great advancements, but Bc Europe might've made greater advances without Rome's crushing taxation and slave system.
Posted on 1/10/16 at 5:01 pm to athenslife101
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Whose your favorite historical figure
The person who figured out that who is = who's, not whose.
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