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Subject: Little known weird facts.
Thomas    6/28/2004 9:41:32 AM
I'll try and start a thread here of apparently trivia on leaders (we can move on to tank, if there is any interest).

They might be of little consequence: Kemal Atatürk had blue eyes.

They might make your skin crawl: Reinhardt Heydrich had a high pitched, squeaky voice.

They might add a new side to your knowledge: President William Howard Taft was (beside being the fattest president of the USA) honourable president of the Rebild society - the Danish-American friendship society - George Bush sn. iis one know.

They may be of periphial importance: General DeMeza suffered from urin incontinence (he lost in 1864 2 Slesvian War).

Your input.

 
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mike_golf    RE:Little known weird facts - Sgt. Alvin York   7/5/2004 2:19:29 PM
The man was a roughneck bar fighter, then a religious pacifist, then a Medal of Honor winner without getting a scratch on him. Then a pacifist again, then changed once more to support the US entry into WW2. link
 
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doggtag    RE:Little known weird facts - Sgt. Alvin York   7/5/2004 2:41:25 PM
...crying shame the Army "honored" his memory by naming an ill-fated AA tank after him....
 
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bombard    RE:Little known weird facts - stalin   7/5/2004 4:45:00 PM
Stalin used to take english dunhill cigs, dismantle them and put them in his pipe.
 
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Thomas    RE:Little known weird facts - stalin   7/6/2004 7:32:34 AM
I didn't know that.
 
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AlbanyRifles    RE:Little known weird facts   7/6/2004 10:22:52 AM
US Grant's favorite breakfast was sliced cucumber covered in vinegar. And any meat served him had to be almost burnt because he grew nauseated at the sight of blood from rare beef. Dan Sickles, a New York politician who became a general in the Union Army, lost a leg at Gettysburg. The leg was kept at the Army's Pathology Labs at what is now Walter Reed Hospital. He used to go visit his leg every year. Johnny Clem, the Drummer Boy of Shiloh, was a 10 year old drummer at teh Battle of Shiloh. He received a commission in 1871 and retired in 1916 as a major general.
 
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OplotMira    RE:Little known weird facts - stalin To: bombard   7/18/2004 7:40:32 AM
"Stalin used to take english dunhill cigs, dismantle them and put them in his pipe." *** So what? He did the same with Herzegovina Flor papirosas. Sincerely OplotMira
 
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bombard    RE:Little known weird facts - stalin To: bombard   7/23/2004 4:07:39 AM
? Just a little known fact? What the thread was about? Another: Roosewelt never allowed himself to be photographed from above, or to have other leaders standing beside him, they were always asked to sit, his wheelchair was never shown in a photo. When he died, some people were surprised to know he had polio.
 
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vincent    RE:Little known weird facts -FRENCH OFFICERS   7/28/2004 12:44:07 PM
General De Lattre de Tassigny was a young cavalty lieutenant in 1914. He was wouded in 1914 during a fight in his his horse with a sabre (he killed his opponent, a german uhlan...) French general Juin (commander of french army in Italy in 1943) had lost a hand during first world war (in all photos he keeps his harm in his pocket)
 
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vincent    RE:Little known weird facts.   7/28/2004 1:09:08 PM
Captain DANJOU leader of the Foreign Company which fought the combat of Camerone (Alamo of the LEGION ETRANGERE) had a wooden hand. He was killed in the battle and his hand is kept as a relique in Aubagne, headquraters of the legion...
 
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bombard    RE:Little known weird facts.   7/30/2004 5:18:05 PM
Lends a new image to shaking the captains hand...
 
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Seth    RE:Little known weird facts.   7/31/2004 12:57:29 PM
Fact: Hitler did only have one ball - apparently the other got shot off in WW1. Audie Murphy may have gor to play himself in a film, another who came close was Richard Todd in the Longest Day. He payed Maj Ron Howard who captured Pegasus Bridge. On D-Day he was a Lieutenant with the 6th Airborne who went to relieve the bridge so in the film he ended up breifly talking to himself.
 
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Thomas    Seth   8/4/2004 5:25:52 AM
i thought the the one testicile issue originated from a bawdy song to the "Riwer Kwai March". Is there any substance to that allegation??
 
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bombard    RE:Seth   8/5/2004 9:12:33 AM
As far as I know, its fact: I'm not sure if he lost it in the war, or through a condition called 'monorchidism' ''itler has only one ball, goering has two but they're small and goeballs, has no balls at all"
 
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Seth    RE:Seth   8/7/2004 4:10:07 AM
As far as I'm aware the song was a case a a happpy coincidence
 
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bombard    RE:Seth   8/10/2004 6:39:41 AM
yeah, its probably coincidence. New one: Micheal collins spent five years as a post office clerk in London.
 
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