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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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Amorphous Blob    RE:Little known weird facts.   6/12/2006 5:30:31 PM
I read a book in High School, "Best, Worst, and Most Unusual", in which they mentioned a Union general during the US Civil War who would have episodes where he believed he was a bird and would sit in his tent making cheeping noises, accepting only birdseed for food. Sorry, I can't remember his name. (The same book mentioned the worst suicide - a guy decided to self-immolate on top of a cliff overlooking the sea in Italy, but then reconsidered after a short while. However, rolling around on the ground in an attempt to put the flames out, he rolled over the cliff. See, High School wasn't a complete waste of time for me.) Hitler's face can be seen in a photograph of a large crowd in Vienna during a rally at the start of WWI. Also, I believe that I remember reading that both Hitler and Stalin were "down and out" (ie, bums) in Vienna for a few months at the same time before WWI. Too weird if their paths ever crossed. I don't think that Hitler had any kind of physical relationship w/ his niece, but she did probably commit suicide because of him. Kinda weird that Napoleon was a Corsican, Hitler an Austrian, and Stalin a Georgian, any they all grew up to run their uber-countries. "German troops in WWI were easily detected by Franco/Brits in trenches due to the sound and smell of their excessive gass passing caused by the eating of so much kraut and sausage. German learship became aware of this after the first year of trench warfare and began changes to a milder German troop ration." -- I find this kind of hard to believe... how often were the trenches within 50m of each other (f@rt-hearing range), in which case you'd know they were there anyway.
 
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Spent Case    AB   6/12/2006 6:32:21 PM
I just so happen to have the 2 edition compendium of that book. It can keep me amused for hours... >>Most Unusual General: General Richard S. Ewell, who fought gallantly for the Confederacy at Winchester and Gettysburg, sometimes hallucinated that he was a bird. For hours at a time he would sit in his tent softly chriping to himself, and at mealtimes he would accept only sunflower seeds or a few grains of wheat.<< The Best, Worst & Most Unusual Bruce Felton & Mark Fowler Galahad Books ISBN: 0-88365-861-5 Best Heckler is one of my favorites. SC-
 
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Zerbrechen    RE:AB   6/13/2006 9:10:46 AM
At least he was a Reb
 
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