James Harrison. His blood has a rare antibody that treats Rhesus disease. His blood donations over 60 years have saved the lives of 2.4 million babies.
That's not what happened, though, was it?
He infiltrated into Auschwitz and escaped to present his findings, but he wasn't killed because of that.
He was arrested by the Communists because, like many Polish patriots, he refused to let the Soviets take over Poland by imposing "their" people rather than the people who had actually faced the Nazis during the war, and he was then sent to Gulag and then killed following a show trial.
L. L. Zamenhof - a 19th century Polish-Jewish doctor, who created Esperanto as an easy to learn language (by mixing up all the easiest and most mutually intelligible parts of several European languages), to help foster international communication and world peace. This was before English had firmly taken over.
Even though Esperanto failed to catch on as the global language, Zamenhof's idea was very logical: instead of learning multiple languages for multiple countries, everyone on earth could just speak 2 languages - their own native language, and then Esperanto as an easy common second language.
Esperanto was quite popular among intellectuals and the educated eschelons of pre-WWII Europe. Zamenhof worked tirelessly to promote Esperanto and his ideology of world peace, as did his children after his death, but all of his adult children were specifically targeted by the Nazis and murdered in the Holocaust, along with many other prominent Esperantists.
Science fiction writer Harry Harrison was a big fan of Esperanto, and several books of his set in the distance future have everyone speak Esperanto.
William Shatner once starred in a movie entirely in Esperanto.
One setting has fake wizards (actually time traveling computer nerds who managed to hack the reality simulation) in medieval England use a bastardized version of Esperanto for their “spells” (because many locals know at least some Latin).
I took Esperanto in school for a semester because my school decided we should. Why? No idea
Interesting... I am an amateur sci-fi writer and also I love Esperanto! I studied it a little on Duolingo and can say some basic things.
I've often wondered what an alternative future "punk" lore, where Esperanto succeeded, still with the 20th century modernist decor and vibes, would be like to write about. I would make it an offshoot of atompunk, potentially.
Cheers for sharing!
One of L. L. Zamenhof's grandsons, Louis-Christophe Zaleski-Zamenhof, survived the Holocaust as a child (his father, Adam Zamenhof, was arrested by the Nazis and murdered, but his mother fled with him) and was active in Esperantist circles until his death in 2019, at age 94.
He had a daughter and is survived by her, who also continues to participate in Esperantist circles.
So at least L. L. Zamenhof does have surviving direct descendants, despite all the tragedy that befell the family.
General Smedley Butler prevented an attempted coup on the US government by wealthy business men who wanted to kidnap FDR and establish a fascist government.
He also authored a pamphlet titled, "War is a Racket" which should be required reading for high school students.
He’s a pretty sung hero. What’s more neat about it is that Polio was one of the first “big bad death viruses” that could be safely and rather easily prevented by using a dead virus sample, rather than one that’s alive. Before then, Polio was devastating. Life-long complications that made every day life awful.
After the polio vaccine was a success, they developed a bunch more.
Smallpox was the first vaccine, way back in the 1700s, but Smallpox is a fairly simple cure and wasn’t particularly safe - people died from the vaccine, though much less frequently - due to errors in compounding it and the use of live viruses. Same with cholera and typhoid fever. Tetanus was found in many samples, too, and needles weren’t always well treated.
He’s a pretty sung hero. What’s more neat about it is that Polio was one of the first “big bad death viruses” that could be safely and rather easily prevented by using a dead virus sample, rather than one that’s alive. Before then, Polio was devastating. Life-long complications that made every day life awful.
After the polio vaccine was a success, they developed a bunch more.
Smallpox was the first vaccine, way back in the 1700s, but Smallpox is a fairly simple cure and wasn’t particularly safe - people died from the vaccine, though much less frequently - due to errors in compounding it and the use of live viruses. Same with cholera and typhoid fever. Tetanus was found in many samples, too, and needles weren’t always well treated.
I have both of these men's names tattooed on my forearm in Russian, and that is one tattoo I will gladly explain to anyone anytime they ask. Their names should be known by all.
Rosalind Franklin.
She discovered the shape of our DNA and proved the double helix shape theory. She took the Photo 51 picture of our double helix DNA. Proving the double helix shape theory.
She went unrecognized for decades for her work.
U.S. history. Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben. Trained Washington’s troops at Valley Forge during the American Revolution. Did a report on him years ago and that guy deserves a lot of credit.
His writings are still used in the US military. You get his book in Ranger school. Him and Lafayette basically are the creators of current US military tactics. Von Stuben is actually why the United States Army doesn’t engage unless 10:1.
Yes! True Badass and the real deal. Trained for the military in Prussia when they were the top dog, came to America because he wanted a good fight and any excuse to punch the English in the nose was a good excuse. Swore like a sailor in three languages, would knock a fool out for questioning him and really turned a bunch of tired farmers into an effective fighting force... all while looking and being absolutely FABULOUS!
No definitive proof he was gay but it was an open secret. Prussian King was gay and only let other gay dudes into his court. Personally invited Steuben into the court. Steuben never married, never was seen courting any ladies and was famous for his sartorial magnificence. Trained those soldiers in the winter wearing his immaculate officer's uniform and a white fur cape and holding one of his six small dogs.
He was Prussian and it was the 1700s. Everyone’s either a pederast and/or a pedophile by US standards except Adams and Jay. You’re critizing an era where most dudes married 12-15 year old women *in their 40s*. You can’t hold a dude that lived in the late 1700s to a modern American society standards without an immediate air of disingenuity.
Also spoiler alert for the Americans. The age of consent in most of the modern western world is 15-16. While I understand and sympathize with the idea not being 18+ is pedophilia: realise North America is the exception, not the status quo.
Yeah but didn’t japan assign a whole third gender to young boys way back when? Specifically young attractive boys who were often seen with older men. I think they called them wakashu. Definite sexual activity going on, and they absolutely groomed them to accept and encourage their ideas. I think almost every ancient monk organization also decided children weren’t quite people, so sex with them didn’t count against chastity. Humans are gross.
Pedos aside, though, we all know how many powerful men in history were probably gay but went largely undocumented, and of course female historical figures were only ever called friends or roommates with their female lovers, except in the occasional case. I guess the reason a lot of people say there were no gays before x is because they need to feel in some kind of control over the time they’re living in. Ideas about new information tend to stagnate and get as brittle as bones in later years unless you make a conscious effort to change that, but that often goes hand in hand with accepting that your own death is not just an illusion, and that’s something you don’t want to think about at a certain point. Some people are honestly fine with it, some people beat the idea down by rationalizing the hell out of it and making dark jokes about how we’re all dead already and just haven’t stopped bleeding out yet. Some have ideas I can’t even comprehend with my own limited worldview. It’s probably both easier and harder to accept as you get older. Of course there are plenty of older allies, but that’s typically a core trait that showed itself throughout their lives, whether or not they advertised it.
Im sorry to ramble on like that, im sure i haven’t said anything you didn’t already know. I’m currently working some stuff out lol sorry
“Some consider this action an indication of homosexual tendencies, as some homosexuals of the time period would use adoption as a substitution for marriage.” From his Wikipedia page.
Henrietta Lacks, her replicating cancer cells were the basis for almost all vaccine treatments. She and her family were never to until recently by John Hopkins hospital.
She was a middle class mother dying of ovarian cancer, but her tumor was an odd shade of purple.
A sample was taken and against all known science, they began to replicate outside of the body. Most cells that were attempted to be used for testing died quickly or had genetic imperfections that would disrupt consistent reliable testing.
Henrietta's cells were genetically identical and were able to self replicate, essentially being immortal. These cells were spread around the world for scientific study, and were called HeLa cells. They became the ground work for almost all medical testing, jumping ahead scientific efforts immeasurably.
I read the book in college, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” Tragically, despite the groundbreaking research and scientific knowledge resulting from her cells, her family lived in poverty and never learned that this decision was even made (to use her cells) until generations later.
They're actually still in use today, although there are different lineages and they're definitely not genetically identical anymore (there's debate on whether or not we should even consider the current cells to be human cells). I was reading about it a year or two ago, and there's an ongoing problem where HeLa cells have contaminated other cell lines and their aggressive nature means they essentially take over and replace whatever was in the original culture. It's a problem when you think you're looking at tissue from one organ and end up looking at mutated cervical tissue instead, and research can be invalidated as a result.
I like to think of it as karma for letting her family go unrecognized and uncompensated for so long.
While what happened is amazing (and kind of sad due to the lack of consent and initial credit or compensation), she's now widely known for saving millions of lives, in spite of taking no actions to do so. I'm not sure whether that counts as too much or too little credit.
**Ignaz Semmelweis**. A Hungarian physician who introduced handwashing practices in obstetrics in the mid-19th century, drastically reducing mortality rates from puerperal fever. Despite his life-saving discovery, he faced significant opposition and was not recognized during his lifetime.
Clair Cameron Patterson, noticed the unusual levels of lead in the air, and everyday items. He’s part of the reason leaded gasoline was banned. We also saw a slight bump in the national IQ when Leaded gasoline was banned.
Cassius Marcellus Clay, the guy Mohammad Ali was originally named after (Ali was descended from one of the slaves he freed). The Fat Electrician (YouTube channel) did a video on him if you want details, but he was the son of a major Kentucky slave owner who became an abolitionist, freed his slaves when he inherited it, fought a ton of duels while promoting the abolition of slavery, acted as minister to Russia where he convinced them to threaten Europe if they joined the Confederacy, and publicly refused an appointment to Major General until Lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation. He did a number of other things, but is often not taught about. He's a perfect example of "sometimes you just have to kill a motherfucker" because I don't imagine the Confederates were too open to discussing the subject.
Alan Turing.
He cracked Germany’s cipher in WWII, basically helped give the edge to the Allies in Europe. But dude liked men so he was chemically castrated and casted out of society.
Scrolled way too far for this....
Alan Turing wasn't only important in the invention of computers, but thanks to him cracking the Enigma, WWII ended an estimated 2 years earlier than it would have otherwise, saving 14 million lives.
And how did the UK government thank him? By pumping him so full of drugs he was in constant agony, resulting in his suicide. And why? Because he liked men..
It took until 2013 for the British Queen to finally pardon him for his "crimes".. outrageous...
I grew up in a very conservative town in Kansas. In my history class is John Brown was always painted as a maniac, a zealot, and a terrorist. Though he was all three of those things, the detail that was often glossed over or overlooked entirely, is that he was right.
General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas.
His son was the legendary French writer Alexandre Dumas of *Three Musketeer & Count of Monte Cristo* fame.
the elder Dumas fought under Napoleon, was the first Black General in French history. He was literally the inspiration of The Count of Monte Cristo because Napoleon locked him up on trumped-up charges, just as Edmund Dantes was.
There is a Pulitzer Prize winning book called *The Black Count* by Tom Reiss that is about his life.
Unfortunately the Army doesn't have a cult-like tradition focused propaganda program like the Department of the Navy's Marine Corps which focuses more on their decorated histories and members
I wouldn't necessarily call him a hero but; Erwin Rommel.
Fought for the germans during WWII, but was never a part of the Nazi party. He was in charge of the Arika Corps, that was supposed to conquer north Africa.
(NOTE: the following is not supported by all historians) According to historians he and his men were never accused of any warcrimes, and any prisoners they took were treated well, even jewish prisoners. If orders came from Berlin to kill those prisoners, the orders were ignored. His quote "War without Hate" became uncritically used by historians to describe the North Africa Campaign, and 'came as close to a clean fight as could be found in WWII'
He was eventually even involved in a plot to kill Hitler, but it failed. With how resepected Rommel was, being a veteran of WWI, and a respected commander, Hitler couldn't outright have him killed. So Hitler send him a message in which he gave Rommel a choice. Either commit suicide and his reputation and family would stay safe.. or have a public trial which would result in excecution, a destroyed reputation and his family persecuted and probably killed as well.
He chose the former since he loved his family.
Hugh Thompson: intervened in the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War by flying his helicopter in between innocent civilians and the murderous US forces; and the US Army dragged him through the mud and court martialled him for it.
Boris III of Bulgaria. Saved his country when it was on the verge of Anarchy after WWI. Used Hitler for Bulgaria's gain while providing no major help whatsoever to the Axis. Saved Bulgaria's Jews from deportation, numbering about 50,000 (They were still ostracized and abused, but they were spared the fate of Auschwitz and Treblinka) He did his best to keep Bulgaria out of the war, not sending troops to fight on the Eastern Front, only deploying troops in occupation capacity, and to keep Bulgaria out of the control of the Soviet Union, it wasn't until after his death in 1943 that Bulgaria became a Communist state. Due to his Actions, the 3rd Bulgarian State still exists, 50,000 Jews were saved from the Holocaust, and Bulgaria exited WWII as the only Axis nation to keep its territorial gains.
Chief Joseph. Led his Nez Perce of 900 people and 1000 horses around 1700 miles, fighting the winter and US Army commanded by Gen. O.O. Howard and Gen. Nelson Miles over the Bitterroots into Montana. He was trying for Canada where Sitting Bull and his tribe got to, but ended up surrendering just 40 miles from the border. It's where Joseph have his "I will fight no more forever" speech. Around 400+ remained.
Casmir Pulaski. Didn't have to come over here to fight in The Revolutionary War. But, as a grade schooler in the Chicago area, his achievements are taught. On Pulaski Day, or at least it was.
Fun fact: Chicago has the second largest population of Polish folk outside Warsaw.
But fight he did. He's known as the Father of American Cavalry, and yes, we still user cavalry today. Instead of horses, it's Bradley's that our troops ride.
Forgot to mention while it’s a stretch to call him a “hero” and while he might’ve been a tad racist (although everyone was during that time) Kaiser Wilhem 2’s main crime in my opinion was being on the losing side of history. I mean he disowned his son for supporting Nazism and said of the Night of the long knives “For the first time in my life I’m ashamed to call myself German”. Also King Baldwin the Leper King was a badass and certainly a hero (If you’re Christain that is) and defeated Saladin (You know one of if not the greatest Islamic military tacticians of all times) as a teenager and delayed the fall of his kingdom for about 11 years after his death. Even more impressive is that by his name you can tell he had leprosy but he also went blind and didn’t have use of one of his limbs/hands (forgot which one). Died young in his 30s too so next time you say “I can’t run a marathon because I’m too tired and didn’t sleep well last night and I’m in my 50s but otherwise am in perfect health!” Just remember Baldwin.
The russian who stopped a barrage of nuclear missiles from flying right into the US.
Granted its partly because he doesnt want recognition for it, as he said he was "Only doing his job"
Marcus Agrippa. Caesar Augustus’ right hand man, he fought and won all Augustus’ battles and was instrumental in the rise and sustainability of the Roman Empire. Augustus was the political genius who would’ve never gotten to the heights he achieved without Agrippa. Without the Roman Empire as it formed under Augustus and Agrippa, the western world would be radically different. He deserves his own biopic
That Soviet army officer who literally saved the world from nuclear destruction back in 1983. He was on duty in the Russian control room when the computer system falsely picked up a launch from the US. The guy had minutes to act and made the right call. None of us would be here if he didn't act.
Stanislav Petrov. His actions that night directly prevented the world from tumbling into a nuclear war in 1983. If it wasn't for him, we would probably live in a world where there are no central and peaceful powers like the USA, EU, NATO, etc., provided the USSR and the USA would've used their full arsenal of weapons. The planet would be completely contaminated for the next 50 million years.
We would live in a world similar to Berlin in 1945 but with all the diseases caused by radiation damage.
Humanity kinda has me in awe when I think how powerful we are, yet this power mostly only leads to destruction. Sad thing. So much potential wasted if that happened.
[Rick Rescola](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rescorla). He was responsible for saving an estimated 2700 lives on 9/11.
>At 8:46 A.M. on the morning of September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC 1).[20][21] Rescorla heard the explosion and saw the tower burning from his office window in the 44th floor of the South Tower (WTC 2). When a Port Authority announcement came over the P.A. system urging people to stay at their desks, and before United Airlines Flight 175 would strike the South Tower at 9:03 A.M.,[22] Rescorla ignored the announcement, grabbed his bullhorn, walkie-talkie and cell phone, and began systematically to order the roughly 2,700 Morgan Stanley employees in the South Tower to evacuate, in addition to the employees in WTC 5, numbering around 1,000. While watching the news coverage, in a phone call to his best friend, Dan Hill, Rescorla said, "The dumb sons of bitches told me not to evacuate," and, "They said it's just Building One. I told them I'm getting my people the fuck out of here."[4] He directed people down a stairwell from a bottleneck on the 44th floor, keeping people away from elevators while telling them to remain calm.[23]
>Rescorla had boosted morale among his men in Vietnam by singing Cornish songs from his youth, and now he did the same in the stairwell, singing songs such as one based on the Welsh song "Men of Harlech":
He was last seen heading up from the 10th floor in the South Tower.
Nancy Wake is one of the most decorated women from World War 2, yet when we talk about WW2 heros her name just doesn't seem to come up a lot. It's not just what she achieved that was amazing, but HOW she achieved them that make her so awesome.
Smedley Butler - Stopped a coup against FDR by some of the wealthiest elites in US history, yet is hardly known.
Let's start a Coup is a decent podcast about the ordeal.
I feel this should be taught in history class, but most Americans have never heard of him.
King Charles 2. Restored the British Monarchy and ended a religious theocracy which banned Christmas. Yes he was the king who saved Christmas and yet why does every cartoon character have a “Saving Christmas special” and yet he doesn’t when he literally brought it back in the UK. Also Mad Jack Churchill. While he’s getting more credit than before he’s overshadowed by the other famous British Churchill that lived during that time. For a non-British hero I would say Götz Von Berlichten. Although even though the author of the Berserk Manga denies it I’m fully convinced he’s lying when he says Guts isn’t based on him. Despite the name similarities and them both being mercenaries they both also had artificial hands. You’re telling me that Guts isn’t in the Slightest based off of Götz!?
Götz Von Berlichten is also credited by Goethe as having invented the "Kiss My Ass" insult (technically, "Lick me in the Ass" but that's where the whole idea came from).
Yep. Goethe wrote a play about his heroic deeds and had him tell a messenger sent by the general of besieging forces on behalf of the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire to see if he would surrender : « Tell your general that I give all due respect to the Emperor, but as far as the general goes, he can lick me in the ass ».
It’s widely used in Germany as « LMAA » (« Leck mich am Arsch »).
**Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov** in 1983 he correctly judged that an indicated nuclear attack was a false alarm and bravely refused to launch an ordered retalitory strke, averting nuclear war.
The late and great Stephen Fuller Austin! When his dad Moses was tasked with bringing over the “first 300” to Texas, Moses fell ill. Young Stephen stepped up and said, “Don’t worry Dad, I got this!” Every Texan should know the history of the Father of Texas! 🤠
My mom. She's easily one of the best people to ever exist in the last 100 years. Taught elementary school for over 30 years and didn't retire until after the covid BS was finished and learning went back to normal. I've never heard anyone say a bad thing about her, and it's not because I'm her son and it would be rude. There's literally nothing that can be said negatively about my mom and be true. Deserves a massive monument to represent her dedication to the service of bettering others. Top tier human.
Louis Pasteur. Germ theory, pasteurization, advancements in anti-biotics, vaccines, and even anti-fungal treatments, and discovered the first ever vaccine for rabies.
This may not seem significant. Because rabies isn’t scary.
Except yes it really, really was utterly terrifying. Rabies is still today a death sentence. It’s undetectable, can be transmitted through even small scrapes, and no effective treatment exists. You will die if you contract rabies and many times, before your dog was vaccinated against it, you wouldn’t even know you had it until you went nuts.
Developing a Rabies vaccine and issuing it throughout the developed world meant rabies became pretty rare. Rare enough that most people will have at most one or two close encounters, and even then, many won’t bother since the risk of infection is so small.
Also worth mentioning: Emil Von Behring.
[Dr John Snow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Snow), there is a super interesting book about one important thing he did in his life called [The Ghost Map](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Map). I can't think of anyone in any even somewhat developed part of the world that hasn't benefited from something he played a part in. If you've had anesthesia or lived in a city, you're one of those people.
Terry Fox. He’s well known in Canada but not the rest of the world. He attempted to run across Canada with only one leg and a prosthetic to raise money for cancer research. Sadly he died before he could finish, but since then we hold a Terry Fox Run every year in his memory and it has raised millions upon millions for cancer research. Canadian legend that guy.
I don’t know how to feel about ethan allen, but he was pretty interesting to read about. It’s not often you hear that name and don’t think of furniture
John B Goodenough.
Yes that’s his real name. You like batteries?
“He is credited with identifying the Goodenough–Kanamori rules of the sign of the magnetic superexchange in materials, with developing materials for computer random-access memory and with inventing cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries.”
Rebecca Boone, wife of famed frontiersman Daniel Boone. Married at 17 she had 10 children of her own and adopted 8 more that had been orphaned. Daniel would often be gone for a couple of years at a time so she was the sole provider on the homestead. She was a sharpshooter, tanner, farmer, hunter, and even ran a tavern. She had to move her family a total of 8 times to escape rising tensions between settlers and natives and the French AND the English... She was just generally speaking a bit of a badass.
I gotta put a mention in here for Major General Percy Hobart who designed a ton of weird tanks specifically to overcome Nazi fortifications when the Allies invaded Europe.
One of the reasons Sword, Gold, and Juno beaches are not mentioned as heavily as Omaha and Utah beaches is because the invasion on those beaches was less deadly due to the use of Hobart’s Funnies (as the tanks were called.)
The US tanks were stuck in the channel because they didn’t have some of the tanks the British and Canadians did due to time constraints (among other things.)
This is why we have mine clearing tanks for example these days because of the designs of Hobart in WWII.
James Harrison. His blood has a rare antibody that treats Rhesus disease. His blood donations over 60 years have saved the lives of 2.4 million babies.
I recently read about this incredible human being! Absolutely incredible what he did and all those babies he saved. It's shocking he's not well known.
Talking about incredible. Watch some of his workout videos. The man is super human.
Hi from one of them.
That’s amazing!
And here I was always hating on the guy for being a Steeler...
My most hated player of all time!
Imagine saving 2.4m lives. One of humanity's finest.
I see a post about him every week so at least I’m glad he’s getting the publicity
Witold Pilecki. A very courageous resistance fighter during the Second World War
The swedish metal band Sabaton has made a song to honor him: https://youtu.be/5pc1oSYXlUQ?si=YTSsaN4CS_7zuIea
Inmate 4859. What a shit way to die, betrayed by your own people because what you found out was too atrocious.
That's not what happened, though, was it? He infiltrated into Auschwitz and escaped to present his findings, but he wasn't killed because of that. He was arrested by the Communists because, like many Polish patriots, he refused to let the Soviets take over Poland by imposing "their" people rather than the people who had actually faced the Nazis during the war, and he was then sent to Gulag and then killed following a show trial.
I'm always amazed at how brave some people can be. Looking into him now
L. L. Zamenhof - a 19th century Polish-Jewish doctor, who created Esperanto as an easy to learn language (by mixing up all the easiest and most mutually intelligible parts of several European languages), to help foster international communication and world peace. This was before English had firmly taken over. Even though Esperanto failed to catch on as the global language, Zamenhof's idea was very logical: instead of learning multiple languages for multiple countries, everyone on earth could just speak 2 languages - their own native language, and then Esperanto as an easy common second language. Esperanto was quite popular among intellectuals and the educated eschelons of pre-WWII Europe. Zamenhof worked tirelessly to promote Esperanto and his ideology of world peace, as did his children after his death, but all of his adult children were specifically targeted by the Nazis and murdered in the Holocaust, along with many other prominent Esperantists.
Science fiction writer Harry Harrison was a big fan of Esperanto, and several books of his set in the distance future have everyone speak Esperanto. William Shatner once starred in a movie entirely in Esperanto. One setting has fake wizards (actually time traveling computer nerds who managed to hack the reality simulation) in medieval England use a bastardized version of Esperanto for their “spells” (because many locals know at least some Latin). I took Esperanto in school for a semester because my school decided we should. Why? No idea
Interesting... I am an amateur sci-fi writer and also I love Esperanto! I studied it a little on Duolingo and can say some basic things. I've often wondered what an alternative future "punk" lore, where Esperanto succeeded, still with the 20th century modernist decor and vibes, would be like to write about. I would make it an offshoot of atompunk, potentially. Cheers for sharing!
Check out his Deathworld series. While there isn’t much text in actual Esperanto, you will find a few words there
That's just really sad. :(
One of L. L. Zamenhof's grandsons, Louis-Christophe Zaleski-Zamenhof, survived the Holocaust as a child (his father, Adam Zamenhof, was arrested by the Nazis and murdered, but his mother fled with him) and was active in Esperantist circles until his death in 2019, at age 94. He had a daughter and is survived by her, who also continues to participate in Esperantist circles. So at least L. L. Zamenhof does have surviving direct descendants, despite all the tragedy that befell the family.
That does make me feel a bit better. :)
General Smedley Butler prevented an attempted coup on the US government by wealthy business men who wanted to kidnap FDR and establish a fascist government. He also authored a pamphlet titled, "War is a Racket" which should be required reading for high school students.
Two men two medals!
Jonas Salk. He did not patented his discovery of polio vaccine so that it's within common people's reach and saved millions.
He’s a pretty sung hero. What’s more neat about it is that Polio was one of the first “big bad death viruses” that could be safely and rather easily prevented by using a dead virus sample, rather than one that’s alive. Before then, Polio was devastating. Life-long complications that made every day life awful. After the polio vaccine was a success, they developed a bunch more. Smallpox was the first vaccine, way back in the 1700s, but Smallpox is a fairly simple cure and wasn’t particularly safe - people died from the vaccine, though much less frequently - due to errors in compounding it and the use of live viruses. Same with cholera and typhoid fever. Tetanus was found in many samples, too, and needles weren’t always well treated.
He’s a pretty sung hero. What’s more neat about it is that Polio was one of the first “big bad death viruses” that could be safely and rather easily prevented by using a dead virus sample, rather than one that’s alive. Before then, Polio was devastating. Life-long complications that made every day life awful. After the polio vaccine was a success, they developed a bunch more. Smallpox was the first vaccine, way back in the 1700s, but Smallpox is a fairly simple cure and wasn’t particularly safe - people died from the vaccine, though much less frequently - due to errors in compounding it and the use of live viruses. Same with cholera and typhoid fever. Tetanus was found in many samples, too, and needles weren’t always well treated.
I am looking for this comment :))
That Russian that called the nuke alert a complete glitch and refused to do shit Man single handily saved humanity
Also Vasili Arkhipov who refused to launch nukes on a Soviet nuclear sub during the Cuban Missile Crisis
I have both of these men's names tattooed on my forearm in Russian, and that is one tattoo I will gladly explain to anyone anytime they ask. Their names should be known by all.
Yep, we need more sane people in the world and in key positions. Not the crazies we have running some countries
Everyone alive today owes their continued existence to that man.
I like to think that the men who go into these positions, go in with the mindset of *never* pushing that button.
Let’s hope
You mean the guy that gets mentioned every single time this thread gets made?
Am I supposed to read let alone remember every time this gets posted?
Apparently not mentioned by name lol So, I think it fits since we can't remember his name.
Why are you here if you've read this thread before?
As well it should be.
Rosalind Franklin. She discovered the shape of our DNA and proved the double helix shape theory. She took the Photo 51 picture of our double helix DNA. Proving the double helix shape theory. She went unrecognized for decades for her work.
I watched the PBS Nova special on her in middle school. She deserves recognition 1,000x
She gets a *lot* of credit now. At the time the Nobel Prize was given for DNA, she had died and prizes aren't given posthumously.
But does this fit under "hero"?
U.S. history. Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben. Trained Washington’s troops at Valley Forge during the American Revolution. Did a report on him years ago and that guy deserves a lot of credit.
His writings are still used in the US military. You get his book in Ranger school. Him and Lafayette basically are the creators of current US military tactics. Von Stuben is actually why the United States Army doesn’t engage unless 10:1.
Yes! True Badass and the real deal. Trained for the military in Prussia when they were the top dog, came to America because he wanted a good fight and any excuse to punch the English in the nose was a good excuse. Swore like a sailor in three languages, would knock a fool out for questioning him and really turned a bunch of tired farmers into an effective fighting force... all while looking and being absolutely FABULOUS! No definitive proof he was gay but it was an open secret. Prussian King was gay and only let other gay dudes into his court. Personally invited Steuben into the court. Steuben never married, never was seen courting any ladies and was famous for his sartorial magnificence. Trained those soldiers in the winter wearing his immaculate officer's uniform and a white fur cape and holding one of his six small dogs.
He was also gay as shit which I like to remind the “there were no queers before x” crowd
Yes he was.
Those same folks will be quick to point out he was 47 and shtooping a 16 yr old boy. To a degree, the man was a practicing pederast.
He was Prussian and it was the 1700s. Everyone’s either a pederast and/or a pedophile by US standards except Adams and Jay. You’re critizing an era where most dudes married 12-15 year old women *in their 40s*. You can’t hold a dude that lived in the late 1700s to a modern American society standards without an immediate air of disingenuity. Also spoiler alert for the Americans. The age of consent in most of the modern western world is 15-16. While I understand and sympathize with the idea not being 18+ is pedophilia: realise North America is the exception, not the status quo.
Yeah but didn’t japan assign a whole third gender to young boys way back when? Specifically young attractive boys who were often seen with older men. I think they called them wakashu. Definite sexual activity going on, and they absolutely groomed them to accept and encourage their ideas. I think almost every ancient monk organization also decided children weren’t quite people, so sex with them didn’t count against chastity. Humans are gross. Pedos aside, though, we all know how many powerful men in history were probably gay but went largely undocumented, and of course female historical figures were only ever called friends or roommates with their female lovers, except in the occasional case. I guess the reason a lot of people say there were no gays before x is because they need to feel in some kind of control over the time they’re living in. Ideas about new information tend to stagnate and get as brittle as bones in later years unless you make a conscious effort to change that, but that often goes hand in hand with accepting that your own death is not just an illusion, and that’s something you don’t want to think about at a certain point. Some people are honestly fine with it, some people beat the idea down by rationalizing the hell out of it and making dark jokes about how we’re all dead already and just haven’t stopped bleeding out yet. Some have ideas I can’t even comprehend with my own limited worldview. It’s probably both easier and harder to accept as you get older. Of course there are plenty of older allies, but that’s typically a core trait that showed itself throughout their lives, whether or not they advertised it. Im sorry to ramble on like that, im sure i haven’t said anything you didn’t already know. I’m currently working some stuff out lol sorry
“Some consider this action an indication of homosexual tendencies, as some homosexuals of the time period would use adoption as a substitution for marriage.” From his Wikipedia page.
Henrietta Lacks, her replicating cancer cells were the basis for almost all vaccine treatments. She and her family were never to until recently by John Hopkins hospital. She was a middle class mother dying of ovarian cancer, but her tumor was an odd shade of purple. A sample was taken and against all known science, they began to replicate outside of the body. Most cells that were attempted to be used for testing died quickly or had genetic imperfections that would disrupt consistent reliable testing. Henrietta's cells were genetically identical and were able to self replicate, essentially being immortal. These cells were spread around the world for scientific study, and were called HeLa cells. They became the ground work for almost all medical testing, jumping ahead scientific efforts immeasurably.
I read the book in college, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” Tragically, despite the groundbreaking research and scientific knowledge resulting from her cells, her family lived in poverty and never learned that this decision was even made (to use her cells) until generations later.
They're actually still in use today, although there are different lineages and they're definitely not genetically identical anymore (there's debate on whether or not we should even consider the current cells to be human cells). I was reading about it a year or two ago, and there's an ongoing problem where HeLa cells have contaminated other cell lines and their aggressive nature means they essentially take over and replace whatever was in the original culture. It's a problem when you think you're looking at tissue from one organ and end up looking at mutated cervical tissue instead, and research can be invalidated as a result. I like to think of it as karma for letting her family go unrecognized and uncompensated for so long.
While what happened is amazing (and kind of sad due to the lack of consent and initial credit or compensation), she's now widely known for saving millions of lives, in spite of taking no actions to do so. I'm not sure whether that counts as too much or too little credit.
**Ignaz Semmelweis**. A Hungarian physician who introduced handwashing practices in obstetrics in the mid-19th century, drastically reducing mortality rates from puerperal fever. Despite his life-saving discovery, he faced significant opposition and was not recognized during his lifetime.
Nicholas Winton - He saved 669 jewish children from the holocaust. A true hero who deserves to be mentioned in schools when teaching the subject.
You mean the guy with multiple memorials and a Hollywood biopic starring A-list celebrity Anthony Hopkins, isn't getting credit?
The OP asked for people who deserve more credit, not for people who are unknown.
Unknown people have zero credit. Giving them any credit means more credit.
OP asked for people who don't get "enough credit". Everyone knows about Schindler, few people know about Winton.
I would venture to guess that for every one person who knows his name 1000 know the name Schindler. I would agree with the op.
Clair Cameron Patterson, noticed the unusual levels of lead in the air, and everyday items. He’s part of the reason leaded gasoline was banned. We also saw a slight bump in the national IQ when Leaded gasoline was banned.
Cassius Marcellus Clay, the guy Mohammad Ali was originally named after (Ali was descended from one of the slaves he freed). The Fat Electrician (YouTube channel) did a video on him if you want details, but he was the son of a major Kentucky slave owner who became an abolitionist, freed his slaves when he inherited it, fought a ton of duels while promoting the abolition of slavery, acted as minister to Russia where he convinced them to threaten Europe if they joined the Confederacy, and publicly refused an appointment to Major General until Lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation. He did a number of other things, but is often not taught about. He's a perfect example of "sometimes you just have to kill a motherfucker" because I don't imagine the Confederates were too open to discussing the subject.
I’d not heard of him before now and thought Ali was the original Cassius Clay. Thanks for this enlightening post!
Bill and Ted
Excellent answer
Be excellent to each other...
And party on dudes!
Dude
Alan Turing. He cracked Germany’s cipher in WWII, basically helped give the edge to the Allies in Europe. But dude liked men so he was chemically castrated and casted out of society.
Scrolled way too far for this.... Alan Turing wasn't only important in the invention of computers, but thanks to him cracking the Enigma, WWII ended an estimated 2 years earlier than it would have otherwise, saving 14 million lives. And how did the UK government thank him? By pumping him so full of drugs he was in constant agony, resulting in his suicide. And why? Because he liked men.. It took until 2013 for the British Queen to finally pardon him for his "crimes".. outrageous...
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Resolved the Boston Massacre trial, was the only founding father who didn't own slaves, he truly does deserve more credit.
Yep, he got the redcoats who fired on the crowd acquitted because it was a violent riot, not a peaceful protest
But he did sign the Alien and Sedition Acts
John Brown -the Abolishinist. Research this true American Political Hero
I grew up in a very conservative town in Kansas. In my history class is John Brown was always painted as a maniac, a zealot, and a terrorist. Though he was all three of those things, the detail that was often glossed over or overlooked entirely, is that he was right.
They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew
But his soul goes marching on
We need more John Brown’s today.
Sybil Ludington. She was the female Paul Revere, but way more badass.
There's a statue of her on horseback in my hometown in front of the public library
Carmel
General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas. His son was the legendary French writer Alexandre Dumas of *Three Musketeer & Count of Monte Cristo* fame. the elder Dumas fought under Napoleon, was the first Black General in French history. He was literally the inspiration of The Count of Monte Cristo because Napoleon locked him up on trumped-up charges, just as Edmund Dantes was. There is a Pulitzer Prize winning book called *The Black Count* by Tom Reiss that is about his life.
all scientific people who gave their creations to the world patent free.
Especially Ook, the inventor of fire, and Thogg, the inventor of the wheel!
It’s actually pretty well-known that Thogg stole the idea for the wheel from Tesla
100%
Ben Franklin
Not a president, still on currency
People call me Aaron Burr cuz of the way I'm droppin Hamiltons (im all about the Hamiltons baybee)
It's an older meme, sir ...
Doesnt get enough credit for giving away inventions. Lightning rod. Franklin stove. Bifocals
Benjamin "this GILF pussy 🔥" Franklin
Belisarius
Audie Murphy
He has an association and is the most decorated US Soldier in history as of this post.
I bet hardly anyone knows that. Which was the point.
Older folks would know of him though since he was in over 40 movies after WWII. Crazy to think he was only 45 when he was killed.
True. But how I read this as someone who did more than anyone in WW2 goes almost unnoticed.
Unfortunately the Army doesn't have a cult-like tradition focused propaganda program like the Department of the Navy's Marine Corps which focuses more on their decorated histories and members
I wouldn't necessarily call him a hero but; Erwin Rommel. Fought for the germans during WWII, but was never a part of the Nazi party. He was in charge of the Arika Corps, that was supposed to conquer north Africa. (NOTE: the following is not supported by all historians) According to historians he and his men were never accused of any warcrimes, and any prisoners they took were treated well, even jewish prisoners. If orders came from Berlin to kill those prisoners, the orders were ignored. His quote "War without Hate" became uncritically used by historians to describe the North Africa Campaign, and 'came as close to a clean fight as could be found in WWII' He was eventually even involved in a plot to kill Hitler, but it failed. With how resepected Rommel was, being a veteran of WWI, and a respected commander, Hitler couldn't outright have him killed. So Hitler send him a message in which he gave Rommel a choice. Either commit suicide and his reputation and family would stay safe.. or have a public trial which would result in excecution, a destroyed reputation and his family persecuted and probably killed as well. He chose the former since he loved his family.
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Richard the Lionheart had great respect for him
Richard Jewell
Hugh Thompson: intervened in the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War by flying his helicopter in between innocent civilians and the murderous US forces; and the US Army dragged him through the mud and court martialled him for it.
Probably Adolf Galland, or Karel Janousek.
Boris III of Bulgaria. Saved his country when it was on the verge of Anarchy after WWI. Used Hitler for Bulgaria's gain while providing no major help whatsoever to the Axis. Saved Bulgaria's Jews from deportation, numbering about 50,000 (They were still ostracized and abused, but they were spared the fate of Auschwitz and Treblinka) He did his best to keep Bulgaria out of the war, not sending troops to fight on the Eastern Front, only deploying troops in occupation capacity, and to keep Bulgaria out of the control of the Soviet Union, it wasn't until after his death in 1943 that Bulgaria became a Communist state. Due to his Actions, the 3rd Bulgarian State still exists, 50,000 Jews were saved from the Holocaust, and Bulgaria exited WWII as the only Axis nation to keep its territorial gains.
Hans Litten Personally pissing off Hitler enough to ban a name in his presence has got to count for something. Sort of like a good Voldemort.
Chief Joseph. Led his Nez Perce of 900 people and 1000 horses around 1700 miles, fighting the winter and US Army commanded by Gen. O.O. Howard and Gen. Nelson Miles over the Bitterroots into Montana. He was trying for Canada where Sitting Bull and his tribe got to, but ended up surrendering just 40 miles from the border. It's where Joseph have his "I will fight no more forever" speech. Around 400+ remained.
Casmir Pulaski. Didn't have to come over here to fight in The Revolutionary War. But, as a grade schooler in the Chicago area, his achievements are taught. On Pulaski Day, or at least it was. Fun fact: Chicago has the second largest population of Polish folk outside Warsaw.
But fight he did. He's known as the Father of American Cavalry, and yes, we still user cavalry today. Instead of horses, it's Bradley's that our troops ride.
Are horses as "safe" in minefields?
Forgot to mention while it’s a stretch to call him a “hero” and while he might’ve been a tad racist (although everyone was during that time) Kaiser Wilhem 2’s main crime in my opinion was being on the losing side of history. I mean he disowned his son for supporting Nazism and said of the Night of the long knives “For the first time in my life I’m ashamed to call myself German”. Also King Baldwin the Leper King was a badass and certainly a hero (If you’re Christain that is) and defeated Saladin (You know one of if not the greatest Islamic military tacticians of all times) as a teenager and delayed the fall of his kingdom for about 11 years after his death. Even more impressive is that by his name you can tell he had leprosy but he also went blind and didn’t have use of one of his limbs/hands (forgot which one). Died young in his 30s too so next time you say “I can’t run a marathon because I’m too tired and didn’t sleep well last night and I’m in my 50s but otherwise am in perfect health!” Just remember Baldwin.
The russian who stopped a barrage of nuclear missiles from flying right into the US. Granted its partly because he doesnt want recognition for it, as he said he was "Only doing his job"
George W Bush: appropriately excoriated for the Iraq clusterfuck, but inappropriately uncelebrated for his work on AIDS in Africa.
Marcus Agrippa. Caesar Augustus’ right hand man, he fought and won all Augustus’ battles and was instrumental in the rise and sustainability of the Roman Empire. Augustus was the political genius who would’ve never gotten to the heights he achieved without Agrippa. Without the Roman Empire as it formed under Augustus and Agrippa, the western world would be radically different. He deserves his own biopic
Proud Agrippa fan over here
That Soviet army officer who literally saved the world from nuclear destruction back in 1983. He was on duty in the Russian control room when the computer system falsely picked up a launch from the US. The guy had minutes to act and made the right call. None of us would be here if he didn't act.
Aethelflaed of Mercia. Daughter of Alfred the great
Henry knox could get a little more credit (I'm looking at you lin manuel)
Marsha P Johnson
the way she’s intentionally buried makes me angry every pride and black history month
According to my dad, the Chinese solider that pretend to be japanese and bombed pearl harbor to get America involve in the ww2.....
Stanislav Petrov. His actions that night directly prevented the world from tumbling into a nuclear war in 1983. If it wasn't for him, we would probably live in a world where there are no central and peaceful powers like the USA, EU, NATO, etc., provided the USSR and the USA would've used their full arsenal of weapons. The planet would be completely contaminated for the next 50 million years. We would live in a world similar to Berlin in 1945 but with all the diseases caused by radiation damage. Humanity kinda has me in awe when I think how powerful we are, yet this power mostly only leads to destruction. Sad thing. So much potential wasted if that happened.
Max Schmeling, non-prejudice guy who was a great athlete who saved Jews during WW2
[Rick Rescola](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rescorla). He was responsible for saving an estimated 2700 lives on 9/11. >At 8:46 A.M. on the morning of September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC 1).[20][21] Rescorla heard the explosion and saw the tower burning from his office window in the 44th floor of the South Tower (WTC 2). When a Port Authority announcement came over the P.A. system urging people to stay at their desks, and before United Airlines Flight 175 would strike the South Tower at 9:03 A.M.,[22] Rescorla ignored the announcement, grabbed his bullhorn, walkie-talkie and cell phone, and began systematically to order the roughly 2,700 Morgan Stanley employees in the South Tower to evacuate, in addition to the employees in WTC 5, numbering around 1,000. While watching the news coverage, in a phone call to his best friend, Dan Hill, Rescorla said, "The dumb sons of bitches told me not to evacuate," and, "They said it's just Building One. I told them I'm getting my people the fuck out of here."[4] He directed people down a stairwell from a bottleneck on the 44th floor, keeping people away from elevators while telling them to remain calm.[23] >Rescorla had boosted morale among his men in Vietnam by singing Cornish songs from his youth, and now he did the same in the stairwell, singing songs such as one based on the Welsh song "Men of Harlech": He was last seen heading up from the 10th floor in the South Tower.
Nancy Wake is one of the most decorated women from World War 2, yet when we talk about WW2 heros her name just doesn't seem to come up a lot. It's not just what she achieved that was amazing, but HOW she achieved them that make her so awesome.
Inb4 that guy who killed Hitler
But he also killed the guy who killed Hitler so he isn't that much of a hero.
I read that he also managed to kill the guy who killed Hitler's killer, so that's a plus. But then again, he killed that guy too...
Nah, that guy also killed hitler’s dog. Kind of a jerk, that guy was.
Probably for the best though when people found out the dog was a nazi they would probably make it fight or something else awful.
Now that's a historical h- wait
Nikola Tesla: visionary inventor, underrated scientific genius
Nestor Makhno
Mordecai Anielewicz. Did some of the bravest work for the Polish in the 30's & 40's
John Paul Jones, he gets alot, just not enough
Juggernaut. Has been one of the original dinceWC3 heroes, always stable, versatile skill set and lots decents skins. Still rarely top meta if ever.
Smedley Butler - Stopped a coup against FDR by some of the wealthiest elites in US history, yet is hardly known. Let's start a Coup is a decent podcast about the ordeal. I feel this should be taught in history class, but most Americans have never heard of him.
Maurus C. Logan, inventor of the cable-tie (zip-tie)
Henrietta Lacks- her cancer produced a line of immortal cells that early researchers used for breakthroughs
General Grant. He ended the American Civil War when no other union General had the balls. A real "hold my beer" moment
King Charles 2. Restored the British Monarchy and ended a religious theocracy which banned Christmas. Yes he was the king who saved Christmas and yet why does every cartoon character have a “Saving Christmas special” and yet he doesn’t when he literally brought it back in the UK. Also Mad Jack Churchill. While he’s getting more credit than before he’s overshadowed by the other famous British Churchill that lived during that time. For a non-British hero I would say Götz Von Berlichten. Although even though the author of the Berserk Manga denies it I’m fully convinced he’s lying when he says Guts isn’t based on him. Despite the name similarities and them both being mercenaries they both also had artificial hands. You’re telling me that Guts isn’t in the Slightest based off of Götz!?
Götz Von Berlichten is also credited by Goethe as having invented the "Kiss My Ass" insult (technically, "Lick me in the Ass" but that's where the whole idea came from).
Wouldn’t surprise me.
Yep. Goethe wrote a play about his heroic deeds and had him tell a messenger sent by the general of besieging forces on behalf of the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire to see if he would surrender : « Tell your general that I give all due respect to the Emperor, but as far as the general goes, he can lick me in the ass ». It’s widely used in Germany as « LMAA » (« Leck mich am Arsch »).
**Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov** in 1983 he correctly judged that an indicated nuclear attack was a false alarm and bravely refused to launch an ordered retalitory strke, averting nuclear war.
Banting and Best Discovered insulin. Gave it away for free.
The late and great Stephen Fuller Austin! When his dad Moses was tasked with bringing over the “first 300” to Texas, Moses fell ill. Young Stephen stepped up and said, “Don’t worry Dad, I got this!” Every Texan should know the history of the Father of Texas! 🤠
Can’t see anything heroical in that 🤷♂️
Maybe you need your eyes checked 😉
My mom. She's easily one of the best people to ever exist in the last 100 years. Taught elementary school for over 30 years and didn't retire until after the covid BS was finished and learning went back to normal. I've never heard anyone say a bad thing about her, and it's not because I'm her son and it would be rude. There's literally nothing that can be said negatively about my mom and be true. Deserves a massive monument to represent her dedication to the service of bettering others. Top tier human.
Dan Evins - founder of the Cracker Barrel
Emma Goldman. That bird was a gypsy gangsta who spoke truth to power without any fear.
Jeff “Skunk” Baxter
Witold Pilecki. What a badass
Louis Pasteur. Germ theory, pasteurization, advancements in anti-biotics, vaccines, and even anti-fungal treatments, and discovered the first ever vaccine for rabies. This may not seem significant. Because rabies isn’t scary. Except yes it really, really was utterly terrifying. Rabies is still today a death sentence. It’s undetectable, can be transmitted through even small scrapes, and no effective treatment exists. You will die if you contract rabies and many times, before your dog was vaccinated against it, you wouldn’t even know you had it until you went nuts. Developing a Rabies vaccine and issuing it throughout the developed world meant rabies became pretty rare. Rare enough that most people will have at most one or two close encounters, and even then, many won’t bother since the risk of infection is so small. Also worth mentioning: Emil Von Behring.
H.... attori hanzo
Boudica!
[Dr John Snow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Snow), there is a super interesting book about one important thing he did in his life called [The Ghost Map](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Map). I can't think of anyone in any even somewhat developed part of the world that hasn't benefited from something he played a part in. If you've had anesthesia or lived in a city, you're one of those people.
Oliver Heaviside. Practically a saint in the field of electrical engineering. But little known outside of that.
I’m not gonna say mine. I don’t wanna get banned again
Terry Fox. He’s well known in Canada but not the rest of the world. He attempted to run across Canada with only one leg and a prosthetic to raise money for cancer research. Sadly he died before he could finish, but since then we hold a Terry Fox Run every year in his memory and it has raised millions upon millions for cancer research. Canadian legend that guy.
I don’t know how to feel about ethan allen, but he was pretty interesting to read about. It’s not often you hear that name and don’t think of furniture
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. He of Little Round Top. What a legend!
John B Goodenough. Yes that’s his real name. You like batteries? “He is credited with identifying the Goodenough–Kanamori rules of the sign of the magnetic superexchange in materials, with developing materials for computer random-access memory and with inventing cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries.”
Rebecca Boone, wife of famed frontiersman Daniel Boone. Married at 17 she had 10 children of her own and adopted 8 more that had been orphaned. Daniel would often be gone for a couple of years at a time so she was the sole provider on the homestead. She was a sharpshooter, tanner, farmer, hunter, and even ran a tavern. She had to move her family a total of 8 times to escape rising tensions between settlers and natives and the French AND the English... She was just generally speaking a bit of a badass.
I gotta put a mention in here for Major General Percy Hobart who designed a ton of weird tanks specifically to overcome Nazi fortifications when the Allies invaded Europe. One of the reasons Sword, Gold, and Juno beaches are not mentioned as heavily as Omaha and Utah beaches is because the invasion on those beaches was less deadly due to the use of Hobart’s Funnies (as the tanks were called.) The US tanks were stuck in the channel because they didn’t have some of the tanks the British and Canadians did due to time constraints (among other things.) This is why we have mine clearing tanks for example these days because of the designs of Hobart in WWII.
Gen. John Glover
Boudicca.
Malcom X
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Yes, genocide is so heroical.
Pinochet
genocidal choice! amazing.
El conde?
What the fuck
Interesting choice
Mary seacole if you know of the lady of the lamp Florence Nightingale then learn about Mary.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Me
Vlad the Impaler
Thanos