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RE: Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?
September 28, 2016 at 2:09 pm
I just struggle with books in general these days. Doesn't help that I'm an ADD-addled man in a world filled with distractions. I did blast through a few Pratchett novels last year and enjoyed them hugely, but aside from that and a few others I don't delve anywhere near as much as I'd like.
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RE: Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?
September 28, 2016 at 2:12 pm
I don't get hurt by it. [shrugs]
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RE: Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?
September 28, 2016 at 2:54 pm
Id never say any certain people get my full on admiration and respect looking back in history.
All these people who are remembered as great people usually have some dark aspects to them like they raped someone or they didn't invent all the things they said they invented and so on.
So if you're talking about favourite people in that sense then I just don't know.
To give a vague answer I'd say the people who helped pave the way for modern western civilisation, secularism, freedom of speech, technology improvements.
The people who I love to read about, think about and imagine I was there at the time I suppose are absolute bastards like ghengis Khan, Hitler, Alexander the Great, Tiberius, Caligula, the first Europeans who sailed to the Americas.
Basically the absolute cunts of history.
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RE: Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?
September 28, 2016 at 2:58 pm
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RE: Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?
September 28, 2016 at 3:00 pm
Mine is probably Empress Wu. Just read the book Princesses Behaving Badly. It explains everything.
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RE: Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?
September 28, 2016 at 3:01 pm
Maybe Charles Darwin, he could have been a bastard and those things didn't make it into the history books but I think he might be a safe bet.
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