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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2017 9:52:24 GMT -5
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Post by Hit Girl on May 21, 2017 12:42:48 GMT -5
John Tyler
He was once president of the United States, apparently.
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...is no Barry Windham.
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Post by Dragonfly on May 21, 2017 12:44:58 GMT -5
Former mayor of Pittsburgh and full-on lunatic Joseph Barker. He won via a write-in campaign, fueled by either a city wide hatred of Catholics or a gigantic practical joke that went awry. (I tend to believe the latter.) Perhaps his most notable achievement was when he had Bishop Michael O'Connor arrested for "improperly running" Mercy Hospital. In a move befitting the Joker, he acted as the prosecutor, judge and jury. (He found O'Connor guilty.) Barker's death was as memorable as his time in office - he was decapitated by a train while drunk. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Barker_(mayor)The history of Pittsburgh is littered with weird, quirky mayors. "Mayor Joe" is simply the weirdest. |
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You're the lowest on the totem pole here, Alva. The lowest.
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Post by mizerable on May 21, 2017 13:06:33 GMT -5
John Tyler He was once president of the United States, apparently. Supported the Confederacy during the Civil War. Has two living grandchildren. Quite an interesting guy if you read up on him. Those years between Jackson and Lincoln had a lot of interesting drama going on. It gets overlooked, but the tensions due to all the stuff going on made those years very worthwhile to check out. |
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Post by Hit Girl on May 21, 2017 14:08:56 GMT -5
Maurice Wilson
A lunatic who tried to climb Mount Everest alone in 1934, despite having no climbing experience whatsoever.
He reached 22,000 feet before dying.
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SAJ Forth
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Jamaican WCF Crazy!
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Post by SAJ Forth on May 21, 2017 14:21:06 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2017 15:16:00 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2017 7:29:13 GMT -5
Henry Rathbone - the officer sitting with Lincoln at Ford's Theatre - read up on what happened to him and his wife.   Also, Boston Corbett - the man who shot John Wilkes Booth. John Tyler He was once president of the United States, apparently. Also the only president to not get a state funeral, since he died after the Civil War began and he was a Confederate (also making him the only president buried under a foreign flag). |
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Post by Citizen Snips on May 22, 2017 12:43:53 GMT -5
Wilmer McLean (May 3, 1814 – June 5, 1882) was an American wholesale grocer from Virginia. His house near Manassas, Virginia was involved in the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861. After the battle he moved to Appomattox, Virginia to escape the war thinking that it would be safe. Instead, in 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in McLean's house in Appomattox. His houses were, therefore, involved in one of the first and one of the last encounters of the American Civil War. He lived in his house with his wife, Virginia.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi (March 16, 1916 – January 4, 2010) was a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings during World War II. Although at least 160 people are known to have been affected by both bombings, he is the only person to have been officially recognized by the government of Japan as surviving both explosions.
Yamaguchi, a resident of Nagasaki, was in Hiroshima on business for his employer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries when the city was bombed at 8:15 am, on August 6, 1945. He returned to Nagasaki the following day, and despite his wounds, he returned to work on August 9, the day of the second atomic bombing. That morning he was telling his supervisor how one bomb had destroyed the city, to which his supervisor told him that he was crazy, and at that moment the Nagasaki bomb detonated
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2017 13:21:20 GMT -5
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Post by Hit Girl on May 22, 2017 16:08:48 GMT -5
Tommy Barber
Scored the winning goal for Aston Villa in the 1913 FA Cup final
The attendance that day?
121,919 people.
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The Unconquered Sun
King Koopa
He has no pants! What a heathen!
Lord of Storms and Kittens!
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Post by The Unconquered Sun on May 22, 2017 18:20:41 GMT -5
My grandmum, Pat Sutton, the reason IHL hockey had a rule that players had to be protected by a glass wall when on the bench. She had a great arm when it came to throwing her beer at the players  |
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El Pollo Guerrera
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His name has chicken in it, and he is good at makin' .gifs, so that's cool.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on May 23, 2017 2:07:54 GMT -5
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on May 23, 2017 3:18:51 GMT -5
Easily one of my all time favorite figures of American history. |
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Push R Truth
Patti Mayonnaise
Unique and Special Snowflake, and a pants-less heathen.
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Post by Push R Truth on May 23, 2017 6:35:50 GMT -5
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Post by BorneAgain on May 23, 2017 8:13:45 GMT -5
I've mentioned him before, but one of the most incredible stories is that of Stanislav Petrov. As a duty officer at a Sovet nuclear early warning system in 1983, he concluded that the 7 missiles seen on radar and believed to be from the United States were a false alarm and did not report them to his superiors. He was proven correct and in recognition for his sharp thinking, which very might have prevented full scale nuclear war he was... reprimanded for improper filing of paperwork and reassigned to another post.
Because saving the world is nice, but procedure must be followed after all.
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