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Tycho Brahe
An astronomer in the mid-1500s, Brahe was stolen from his parents by his uncle when he was 2. Everything got stranger from there. When he was 20 years old, his nose was torn off in a violent fight with a fellow scholar over a mathematic formula. Brahe spent the rest of his life wearing a prosthetic nose made out of copper. (Eat your heart out, Humpty.) He was said to posses up to 1 percent of Denmark’s wealth and lived in a castle with a psychic dwarf and an elk who died prematurely after drinking too much. You read that right; the elk apparently had a drinking problem. Brahe’s death is shrouded in mystery, but most believe he was poisoned by the Prince of Denmark for having an affair with the queen.
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Birger Stromsheim
December 12 2012 at 11:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySomeone needs to get there story right, SOE was part of the British war effort. The US equivalent was known as the OSS.
You only have part of the story about Buck Compton. When he left his plane over Normandy on D Day, the prop blast broke the strap on his helmet and his leg bag, both of which disappeared into the early morning darkness with 99% of his gear. When he touched down, he said he was ready to fight the Huns with 2 grenades and a trench knife! It wasn't until hours later that he got a Thompson from an injured officer and took it into battle, unbeknownst to him that it had a broken firing pin which he promptly discovered at the Battle of Brecourt Manor in a German trench.
May 21 2012 at 9:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhen asked his greatest achievement in life, he answered "my family". He also was the type of man who could see the best in people and bring it out of them without even trying. He was my friend and a mentor and I miss him tremendously.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr died of a heart attack on July 12th and was buried on July 14th, which was also the 26th Anniversary of his younger brother Quentin's death, killed during WW1. TR Jr was buried at Normandy and Quentin's body was exhumed from his original grave site and interred next to his older brother.
May 21 2012 at 2:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyReally should have included Hunter S Thompson in this list!
May 07 2012 at 8:17 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply