Who's your historical hero?

[jermoneo1]

Mine has gotta be Leland Stanford, the founder of Stanford University. After making all his money, he realized the iniqueties of the corperate system and agitated for legislation that would further an alternative; the worker owned cooperative. Of course, he ran head on into the barons of industry and simply couldn't change the country's course as it went into the 20th century.

[Communism]

Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna

[Professor Jumbo]

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[Zoomie]

Vercingetorix.

[Quest_techie]

alan turing.....

cryptography is the bombe......

[Revo]

My historical heros are:
-Rudi Dutschke
a german socialist student how organize great demonstrations. Hes got shot down by Josef Erwin Bachmann a reader of the "Bild" newspaper which made great mad rush against Rudi.

-Che Guevara
not of his mind of politic, but his determination.

[stickchick24]

Mine would be Bertrand Russell. He was a very liberal and open minded philosopher and mathematician (Russells paradox).


Peace & Love

[Ole_Goat]

Rufus T. Firefly, Leader of Freedonia.

Hail, Hail Freedonia,
Land of the free and brave!

After Firefly, I guess it would be either Churchill (Winston, not Ward) or Lincoln (Abraham, not the car).

[Johnnypaipai]

This my seem overly patriotic, but my historical heroes wer the men of the American Revoltion. Not because they fought to establish the Independence of the colonists, but because they had the balls to start a revolution against the strongest country in the world at the time. Knowing that they were out-gunned, out-classed, out-trained, and out-numbered militarily, they still had the intestinal fortiude to overthrow King George.

[samson]

at the moment, i would say there are three

Amelia Airheart

Ted Williams

Ben Franklin

[*Ewan*]

Rosa Luxemburg- German socialist who through her theory of council communism brought communism into the 20th century and byond in many ways. She was a martyr, shot by the german army in 1919 afer the sparticist revolution failed.

Che Guevara- His determination to spread revolution all over the world and the way that he was willing to die for his cause.

[Ash_Freakstreet]

alan turing.....

cryptography is the bombe......
the bombe!

yeah!

[Ash_Freakstreet]

My historical Hero is Kaiser Wilhelm I. I like his mutasche.

[makno]

nestor maknho ....buenaventura durruti -francisco acaso....emiliano zapata...peter kropotkin ...lucy parsons

[all_rhodesian_reject]

Cecil Rhodes

[Gerva]

right now, i'd say: Giuseppe Garibaldi :l'eroe dei due mondi

[AT98BooBoo]

Middle Ages. Martin Luther, Jacob Arminius,William Tyndale



Colonial Period.George Washington,Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin.

Civil War Period. Abraham Lincoln. Col. Joshua Chamberlain Commanding Officer 22 Maine at Battle of Gettysburgh.

WWII. FDR Obvious reasons. Private Desmond T. Doss. Private Doss who was a consciencious objector and therefore a medic was the first non combatant to recieve the Congressional Medal of Honor. Private Doss single handedly saved 75 wounded men in one battle despite of heavy enemy fire.

Deitrich Bonhoffer. This Luthern Pastor/Theologian was one of the few German clergyman that stood up to Hitler. He paid with his life.

[Libertine]

Socrates
Thomas Jefferson
Henry David Thoreau
Rosa Parks
Timothy Leary

[hailtothekingbaby]

Galileo Galilei, for pursuing truth in the face of christian tyranny and its stubborn backwardness.

Martin Luther King, for bringing a little more equality in this world.

The remaining indigenous tribes of North America for having suffered 3 centuries of severe repression and decimation at the hand of the European invaders. A battle still going on...

[IronGoth]

Vlad Drakul - for showing that there is an easy, simple and violent solution to a complex problem.

[PerfectChaos8095]

Thomas Jefferson
Karl Marx

[AerialReaver]

Trudeau

[RandomOne]

Bach, the dude was a machine

[marysoul]

martin luther king jr.

[meridianwest]

Napoléon Bonaparte.

Julius Caesar.
Vercingetorix.
Baldassare Cossa.

[DrTJEckleburg]

Emperor Frederick II

Arminius

JFK

Mohandas Gandhi

Spartacus

Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub

[bmw5233]

I have two:

Robert E. Lee
and
Gustavus Adolphus

[jeffjohnson]

Mine would be John Colter
He was a mountain man who was with Lewis and Clark and the discoverer
Of Yellowstone allso known as Colters Hell. This was a time in history of great adventure and discovery. I wish I could have been there.

[JuliettesCrying]

Lincoln

[dirtydog]

Bill Wilson, one of the cofounders of Alcoholics Anonymous.

[psychedelic goddess]

Carl Jung
Alexander the Great

[NotDeadYet]

Thomas Jefferson wrote most of one of the most significant political documents in world history at a relatively young age, and had what it took to further channel his sharp intellect into action and become President of the United States. This guy was the complete package. He demonstrated complete mastery of politics, philosophy, science, architecture, European culture, and world history. And he did it all with quiet confidence, respect for others, sophisticated taste, and an original sense of style.

Though he did live in an era that is entirely different from modern times, his distinctive and impressive personal qualities come through quite clearly. He may have been our first "hip" president, for his time.

[samson]

josephine baker!