toldailytopic: Who, besides bible persons, is your favorite historical character and

Ps82

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I admire George Washington ... and you can figure out all the reasons for yourself.

But as far as someone I find intriguing and would have loved to have gotten to know better: Gen. George Patton. I perceive him to have been a soldier's soldier, a tactical genius, a bit eccentric, a romantic when it came to military history, but courageous enough to make real-time decisions and speak his mind. That, of course, got him into trouble more than once. Not saying that he was a "perfect" man without any vices that I might not respect ... but certainly saying that he is an interesting person.

I would like to see a few people with his gumption in our legislature today - hopefully standing up for truth, justice, and our constitution. ????
 

Memento Mori

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Wilhelm Wundt. Father of Experimental Psychology.

Phineas Gage. Showed the link between behavior, emotion, and personality as a relationship between the frontal lobe and the other parts of the brain and the ability to recover from severe brain injury at least to some minor extent.
 

THall

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It would be hard to choose between Thomas Jefferson, Winston Churchill, and Alan Bartlett Shepard. All were great men who held on to truth in the face of great adversity.
 

Nick M

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I have VC's pick. Seth Bullock. The real person in history, not that perverted version from David Milch. I admire Bullock myself.
 

Nick M

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And Winston Churchill. God bless him.

Winston Churchill said:
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill said:
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
 

Psalmist

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toldailytopic: Who, besides bible persons,
is your favorite historical character and why?

Three more outside of the realm of Christendom.

John W. and Emma Olinger, and son their George W. Olinger, Sr.

It's a Denver thing.
 
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