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       NAPOLEON
Napoleon! He gave birth to the modern world. He put the pansy ass nobility in their place and started judging his peeps for what they actually did ( with special focus on what they did for him.) He blazed the trail for equality, democracy, for all the power hungry bastards to follow. He realized history would tell what ever story was written or painted..so he posed like the emperor. Bling and all. Hell, they guy carried painters with him in battle to paint heroic portraits of him, how awesome is that?
Nominated by Ivana B. Awesome
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         NOSTRADAMUS
Nostradamus worked during the 16th century as a apothecary, astrologer and author of almanacs. During the plague he was considered a miracle worker. Upon his death he was buried standing up. He is remembered today for his amazing skill at foretelling future events. His collection of 4 line poems (almost continuously in print for the past 400 plus years) can be viewed as masterpieces of crafty writing where broad generalities can be interpreted as mystic foretelling. Or, the divine words of a clairvoyant seer hiding his witchcraft among prose.
Nominated by Ray
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Didn't all historic leaders take war artists to the front with them? Surely that's where all the war paintings of battles that didn't involve Boney come from: you know, like King Billy crossing the Boyne on his white stallion, the Charge of the Light Brigade, etc? And let's not forget Boney got pwned by His Grace the 1st Duke of Wellington, and modelled his own image for those portraits on the Rt Hon the 1st Viscount Nelson.
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I dunno, that sounded pretty geeky to me.
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Yea kinda something that the kids in the front of the class would like
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Yeah the really "spotty" ones
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Wellington was a terrorist
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Arthur, Duke of Wellington was awesome.
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There are very few things more awesome than Stephen Fry's depiction of Wellington in Blackadder III:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEhDRG-jEwE
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This is true. Although Blackadder Goes Forth was my favourite series, some of my favourite episodes appear in Blackadder the Third, that particular one is top of the list.
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Even if Nostradamus was NOT a mystic (I don't think he was) I do think he likely had an uncanny ability to understand individual and collective psychology, and extrapolate this out seemingly forever, to make some remarkably accurate predictions. In his day, to make these types of sophisticated "prophecies" was pretty awesome
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Ah, Napoleon. The last man with open ambitions to conquer Europe by force who it's still socially acceptable to admire.
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