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That's a diabolically bad list
Ulysses Grant ahead of Genghis Khan? Napoleon at 2? What in the fuck
Who do you believe is the most fascinating historical figure?
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Ulysses Grant ahead of Genghis Khan? Napoleon at 2? What in the fuck
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Richard Feynman
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That's an oxymoron
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Catherine I of Russia - from orphan maid to empress of Russia.
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That Time ranking might be one of the worst lists I've ever seen.
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Man basing your pick for most interesting based on hairline is about as sheepdog as it getsThe Buddha or Bob Barker. Bob's hairline held strong for almost 100 years. Nothing but respect.
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The more you read about Napoleon, the more interesting he gets.
He conquered everyone he fought for 10+ years and then had the most monumental failure ever - and on the road to Russia, he literally read a book that detailed how the Russians used Fabian tactics to beat the Swedes. The Russians proceeded to use those exact same tactics to beat him. He got mad about it and threw the book out of his carriage on his retreat. The Russians found the book and put it in a museum.
That’s just one small anecdote of thousands.
He wrote volumes of memoirs and had notes written down on the thousands of books he would read, but his handwriting was sometimes so bad even he couldn’t understand the notes when he went back to review them.
He would read like a kid on the ground by candlelight, with his legs up in the air and his hands clasped against his chin. Like a kid reading comic books, he would read reports from the front. Etc.
He was a hot headed genius who personally wrote a large portion of the French civil code, laws France still uses to this day.
More weird things. Most people think of him as French. The French didn’t. They saw him as Italian. He always spoke French with a bad Corsican accent. Italians didn’t think of him as Italian. They saw him as French. He was a man without a homeland and built an empire that sprawled across Europe.
He sold Louisiana to America. He was responsible for the war of 1812. Every Spanish independence movement in Latin America owes their independence to him in a weird way. So does Brazil from Portugal.
He took a Muslim middle name and signed his name Ali Bonaparte for a time. He offered to convert to Islam and nearly did.
He had sex with intelligent - no, brilliant women, some of the prettiest and smartest girls of his era, but also told them a woman’s worth was measured by how many children they had. He was a revolutionary who stood against slavery and for some version of equal rights but never extended those rights to women and reinstated slavery in Haiti before later abolishing it again…
He was a really bizarre genius. There are more books written about him than any other figure and there still aren’t enough
He conquered everyone he fought for 10+ years and then had the most monumental failure ever - and on the road to Russia, he literally read a book that detailed how the Russians used Fabian tactics to beat the Swedes. The Russians proceeded to use those exact same tactics to beat him. He got mad about it and threw the book out of his carriage on his retreat. The Russians found the book and put it in a museum.
That’s just one small anecdote of thousands.
He wrote volumes of memoirs and had notes written down on the thousands of books he would read, but his handwriting was sometimes so bad even he couldn’t understand the notes when he went back to review them.
He would read like a kid on the ground by candlelight, with his legs up in the air and his hands clasped against his chin. Like a kid reading comic books, he would read reports from the front. Etc.
He was a hot headed genius who personally wrote a large portion of the French civil code, laws France still uses to this day.
More weird things. Most people think of him as French. The French didn’t. They saw him as Italian. He always spoke French with a bad Corsican accent. Italians didn’t think of him as Italian. They saw him as French. He was a man without a homeland and built an empire that sprawled across Europe.
He sold Louisiana to America. He was responsible for the war of 1812. Every Spanish independence movement in Latin America owes their independence to him in a weird way. So does Brazil from Portugal.
He took a Muslim middle name and signed his name Ali Bonaparte for a time. He offered to convert to Islam and nearly did.
He had sex with intelligent - no, brilliant women, some of the prettiest and smartest girls of his era, but also told them a woman’s worth was measured by how many children they had. He was a revolutionary who stood against slavery and for some version of equal rights but never extended those rights to women and reinstated slavery in Haiti before later abolishing it again…
He was a really bizarre genius. There are more books written about him than any other figure and there still aren’t enough
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Ron Jeremy .
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Fedor losing a single fight did not define or tarnish his entire career. By invading Russia, Hitler sowed the seeds of the Third Reich's downfall. The Nazis would eventually have lost WWII anyway once America got off it's ass, but it would have been an even longer and bloodier conflict.
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Hilariously bad list
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Abraham Lincoln for me.. I've read many books on his life and they are some of the best books I've ever read on any historical figure.
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FTFY.
I kid, I kid. You're a good dude and a solid poster and I'm not taking the piss out of you. I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree on this one bro.
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Yeah, not my pick either but the idea he was a moron is a dumb take which what I was saying.
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One doesn't jump out as a top dog, but there are quite a few I enjoyed reading and watching about.
Hernan Cortez-Conquistador
Henry Every-Pirate
Marco Polo-Merchant/explorer
Buckminster Fuller-Polymath
T.E. Lawrence/Lawrence of Arabia-Soldier/scholar
Hernan Cortez-Conquistador
Henry Every-Pirate
Marco Polo-Merchant/explorer
Buckminster Fuller-Polymath
T.E. Lawrence/Lawrence of Arabia-Soldier/scholar
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Most fascinating
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Marcel Duchamp
Mary Shelly
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Crazy Horse
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