Who are your favorite folks from history? Mine: Socrates King Leonidas I Alexander the Great Hannibal Barca Erwin Rommel Mohandas Ghandi Isoroku Yamamoto King Richard III Salah Al-Din (Saladin)
Janet Reno! She is a patriot, and perhaps the greatest American to ever live. God bless you, Ms. Reno
Aristotle Galileo Sir Isaac Newton (even if he was an arrogant git!) Albert Einstein Euclid William Shakespeare Ernest Hemingway
Man, Doc Holiday is flippin' cool. All those good/bad dudes from the Old West are some of my favs because I love the Old West. Ah, and Napoleon was pretty cool also.
Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. Zapata may not have mad emy favs but he was cool.
Zapata, like Che Guevara, is not so much a historical figure as a myth that lives in the minds of todays people with little relationship to the erstwhile living version. When I was a kid and everybody dug Davy Crockett and Mickey Mantle and such, my big heroes were Achilles, Odysseus, and Crazy Horse. I was delighted at the choice of Brad Pitt to play the fleet-footed Achilles in the Troy movie. To bad it was such a stinker. With Pitt and the straight story they could have had a killer film. Crazy Horse has never had any film come close to depicting what he was about, a remarkable genius of cavalry and charismatic leader. Odysseus (of the strong thighs, you might recall) has gotten some weird treatment ranging from "Hercules"-type films to Joycean craziness. Too bad, too. He was cool cat. His meeting with Achilles was an intellectual wipe-out: he tricked the hero out of his dragqueen disguise in about 20 seconds. A hair tougher than the more famous stunting of the cyclops. This is the guy who, instead of wearing earplugs to get past the sirens, had himself lashed to the mast so he could hear the singing without harming his mission. That says something right there. My kind of guy. The feats and foibles of the Odyssey are cool enough, including a early example of drug intervention and dick-whpping a witch into shape. (Not for nothing, we assume, was Penelope the archetypal faithful wife) But he really shone slaying Persephone's suitors upon his return. You want a Rambo infiltration and one-man massacre, this is it. And only he could bend his bow. Check that out. Then did a cooler shot than Robin Hood thorugh the axe rings, THEN mowed down Penelope's suitors one by one. They just don't do epics like that anymore. And it sucks that kids are no longer exposed to these kinds of stories.
Edgar Allen Poe Leonardo Da Vinici Validmer Lyllich Lenin Fidel Castro Che Gavara (You gotta love the shirt) J.F.K. Gengus Kain (Might have spelt them wrong, it's too early.)
St. Sebastian Gandhi Jeffrey Dahmer St. Gerard Majella Nathuram Godse Arjuna The Unknown Rebel (he's my avatar) Buddha Blackbeard Sri Ramakrishna St. Teresa of Avila Dr. John C. Lilly Lao-Tzu
Because anthrax is a disease or due to it's role in the WW2? Either way, I find it scary rather than hilarious.
Winston Churchill Karl Marxs Nicolo Machiavelli Thomas Hobbes Robert the Bruce erm bit of a mixture there, and there probably are more can't think just now
