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Badass men in the last 2000 years
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By *.T.Man
over a year ago
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"Henry VIII. Literally invented divorce because he was sick of a bitch"
Literally invented the Church of England as the Catholic Church would not permit Divorce. Divorce was a thing already.
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"That Scottish bloke who used a long bow and broadsword in the second world war. Walked into battle playing his bagpipes. Pretty sure he was in Samurai Jack too
Dave Heart "
Jack Churchill.
Clearly a psychopath but at least he was in the right time and place. |
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By *oggoneMan
over a year ago
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Jonas Salk - Invented Polio Vaccine, didn't patent it. Estimated this vaccine was worth $7 billion.
Msgr Hugh O'Flaherty Helped 000s escape the nazis in ww2, POWs and jews. The gestapo knew but couldn't catch him. |
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By *oggoneMan
over a year ago
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"That Scottish bloke who used a long bow and broadsword in the second world war. Walked into battle playing his bagpipes. Pretty sure he was in Samurai Jack too
Dave Heart
Jack Churchill.
Clearly a psychopath but at least he was in the right time and place."
He is from a line of nutters that born with the fear part missing. His grandson had some of the best journalism and books on the Yugoslavian civil war all while having a bad smack addiction.
Churchills grandad died in the boer war, found surrounded by bodies of enemies. |
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"That Scottish bloke who used a long bow and broadsword in the second world war. Walked into battle playing his bagpipes. Pretty sure he was in Samurai Jack too
Dave Heart
Jack Churchill.
Clearly a psychopath but at least he was in the right time and place.
He is from a line of nutters that born with the fear part missing. His grandson had some of the best journalism and books on the Yugoslavian civil war all while having a bad smack addiction.
Churchills grandad died in the boer war, found surrounded by bodies of enemies. "
Fear part missing is a big psychopath tell. war is the perfect place for them really. |
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There are so many great men, but for some reason I always remembered this guys name and his story.
William Brydon - the "sole survivor" of the 1842 retreat from Kabul.
An army of 4500 plus 12000 civilians were slowly picked off and cut down across the 90 mile trek through snowy mountain passes in January, on their way to the nearest garrison in Jalalabad.
It's not entirely accurate though, despite being known as the sole survivor, around 100 soldiers were taken captive and later released, and another man reached Jalalabad days after Brydon but died very soon after.
Though apocryphal, it is still an interesting story.
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Alex Zanadi
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Fought his way in to Formula 1
Pretty much died when he was T-boned at about 130mph in a Cart race, obliterating both his legs below the knee- to the point he lost about 60% of his blood before getting to hospital- doctors have no clue how he managed to survive the crash, injuries, multiple resuscitations and surgery.
Somehow, he did survived all this, the extreme rehab and eventually he got back to car racing- including driving his remaining laps of the race that nearly killed him.
After racing, he decided to take up competitive hand bike racing- winning gold medals at the London Paralmypics.
Last year, he was involved in yet another serious racing injury during a hand bike competition, crashing in to a truck, resulting in injuries so severe he was in an induced coma for weeks and is once again battling back slowly, reportedly now being able to speak again.
He's endured and overcome more challenges than most people could imagine- can't think of anyone more badass?
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"John Snow… although he knew nothing  "
I saw on twitter that it’s 8 years (today) since the episode of him getting [redacted] by the nights watch came out. |
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"John Snow… although he knew nothing
I saw on twitter that it’s 8 years (today) since the episode of him getting [redacted] by the nights watch came out. "
Oh god… poor old John Snow 
Ps. I still would  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Leonidis (300 of Sparta) Bit out of the time scale OP gave. He died 480bc if I'm remembering rightly."
I let cleopatra in on the other badass thread so he is in  |
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"Leonidis (300 of Sparta) Bit out of the time scale OP gave. He died 480bc if I'm remembering rightly.
I let cleopatra in on the other badass thread so he is in "
Despite being out of the time range, she was badass and dersvered to stay in the thread |
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