Who is your historical hero?

[Norman Potting]

Norman Borlaug, doesn't get the credit he deserves.

Interesting thread, especially with people such as this that I had never heard of until now.

Several of mine have been mentioned, Alan Turing and Brunel in particular. Sir Ludwig Guttman has deservedly earned a higher profile due to the Olympics - I had never heard of him until recently.

 

[Titanic]

Johann Sebastian Bach.

 

[Elvis]

Harry Cowley. Local man who stood up for the people living in the slums in Brighton. Would make a great 500 word essay. Harry lived in the (what is now) Hanover district of Brighton, wonder what the hell he'd think of the area now!!

 

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

How people can think Ghandi is a hero is ridiculous. He may have 'freed' his Country but for what? Poverty and Corruption? India was much better off under British Imperialism.

 

[ROKERITE]

Marie Stopes.

 

[Taybha]

The wright brothers , especially Ian

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

Henry V

 

[withdeanwombat]

Ah!

The Kit Napier question.

 

[severnside gull]

Horatio Nelson.




.....................and Kit Napier

 

[nnaann]

Is there even the smallest shred of truth in any of that??

It came from my old history teacher, so I'd hope so! Hitler was a really strange person in a lot of ways (aside from the obvious). I always found it ironic that he gassed millions of jews, but was a vegetarian.

 

[Nibble]

It came from my old history teacher, so I'd hope so! Hitler was a really strange person in a lot of ways (aside from the obvious). I always found it ironic that he gassed millions of jews, but was a vegetarian.

I think you have been listening to too many chinese whispers and myths. Hitler was not a vegetarian. In fact he often professed his love for game pie and bovarian sausage and his chef talked often of Hitler's love for stuffed pigeon. Hitler also used to inject Bulls semen. He was sometimes oredered by his physician to go on a vegetarian diet to aid his digestion, which he had a problem with.

As for that atrology bollocks your history teacher came out with I despair... Churchill was a great War Prime Minister because he was able to stand up to a bully by bluff, aggression and an uncanny forsight.

 

[matthew]

Christopher Hitchens - he's dead now so it counts

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Mussolini

He got the trains running ON TIME

Out of interest, http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.asp., no he didn't. Good website this, too.

You two confuse me with your avatars.

Anyway another vote for Lord Nelson.

 

[East Preston Gull]

George dub step bush..he made me realise that any thick fu** could get a top job! An inspiration for us all.

 

[the wanderbus]

Nelson

Sammy or Garry?

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

Bobby Sands. That boy knew how to diet.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Joe Strummer. Coming up to 10 years since his untimely death. We'll never see the like again.

 

[Return of the Rev]

Joan of arc
YouTube

 

[The Kid Frankie]

James Bond

 

[Don Quixote]

Jack Kerouac