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Themistocles. The unsung hero of the battle of Thermopylae. He was a brilliant strategist of both land and sea, and when confronted with a vision from the Oracle, he interprets the vision given to him in a way that saved the population of Sparta.

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Whoever was the god child who invented tampons. That person deserves a golden statue made of...gold and jewels and chocolate and kittens and joy.

BEST. THING. EVER.
I can't help but laugh at this one!
 

ElephantGuts

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Yeah, Hitler was pretty clever. He accomplished some amazing feats. They may have been bad, but they were still very big.
 

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xmetatr0nx said:
Adolf Hitler, he had every country running around trying to appease him all the way up to the point he drove tanks through them. Horrible misguided man but amazing political manipulator.
But terrible military stategist, you have to admit that. I mean, he was barreling through Europe easily in the early years, but once the Allies wised up to him, he just dropped the ball.

Switching from military targets to civilian ones in Britain, just when you were about to wipe out their entire defenses? Really?

Invading the Soviet Union, populated with vast millions of men and commanded by a ruthless ruler who would obviously show no mercy? Great going, there, man!

Declaring war on the U.S., when you could've just left the Japanese and Americans to duke it out themselves? What could go wrong?

Seeing the Allied invasion as a good thing? Face it, Hitler, you were already long gone by then.
Hitler really dropped the ball when he went into Russia.

If only he had learned from Napoleons mistake.

Wait, it would have been very bad if he did.
Fortunately, the Russians taught him a lesson he would never forget. URAAAAA!

So yes, he was social-political genius, a racialist madman, and a profoundly incompetent military tactician.
 

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Caeser was actually a terrible stratagist, he just knew who to blame and who he could steal victories from
 

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Bill Gates and how he somehow managed to turn a 15 man company into it's own world superpower.
 

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RebelRising said:
xmetatr0nx said:
Adolf Hitler, he had every country running around trying to appease him all the way up to the point he drove tanks through them. Horrible misguided man but amazing political manipulator.
But terrible military stategist, you have to admit that. I mean, he was barreling through Europe easily in the early years, but once the Allies wised up to him, he just dropped the ball.

Switching from military targets to civilian ones in Britain, just when you were about to wipe out their entire defenses? Really?

Invading the Soviet Union, populated with vast millions of men and commanded by a ruthless ruler who would obviously show no mercy? Great going, there, man!

Declaring war on the U.S., when you could've just left the Japanese and Americans to duke it out themselves? What could go wrong?

Seeing the Allied invasion as a good thing? Face it, Hitler, you were already long gone by then.

Cleverest person I think would be Chuko Liang, a Chinese strategist. How many other people can claim to have scared off an army by just playing the lute?
Can't forget he gave priority to cars holding and transporting people to concentration camps over military supply and relief.
 

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MaxTheReaper said:
I wanted to say "Hitler," just to piss off that dude in that other thread.

Curses, foiled again.
*peaking around corner as you say that* *clenches hands*
 

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Einstein, half of his theories are still only being proved now and he came up with them all with no actual experiments

Leslie Morshead, first man to beat the Desert Fox Rommel and needed balls of steel to pull it off

L. Ron Hubbard, a science fiction writer managed to create a religion based on his books and people actually believed it, or maybe thats just in comparison to his followers
 

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xmetatr0nx said:
RebelRising said:
xmetatr0nx said:
Adolf Hitler, he had every country running around trying to appease him all the way up to the point he drove tanks through them. Horrible misguided man but amazing political manipulator.
But terrible military stategist, you have to admit that. I mean, he was barreling through Europe easily in the early years, but once the Allies wised up to him, he just dropped the ball.

Switching from military targets to civilian ones in Britain, just when you were about to wipe out their entire defenses? Really?

Invading the Soviet Union, populated with vast millions of men and commanded by a ruthless ruler who would obviously show no mercy? Great going, there, man!

Declaring war on the U.S., when you could've just left the Japanese and Americans to duke it out themselves? What could go wrong?
I dont think he wanted to declare war on the US either, but he had signed a pact with japan without knowing they would attack the US, one which he was forced to keep. Yea he was rather shit at military strategy, his stupid stubborn decision to not give the retreat order when the sixth army was encircled early enough ultimately cost him the eastern front.
Well, he signed a treaty with Russia before Barbarossa, and look what happened there. Between that and the whole Holocaust thing, he wasn't really one for following the rules, was he? So why didn't he just break that pact as well? Damned if you do, damned you don't, except in this case, way more damned if you do.
 

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1.sun tzu
2.richard dawkins
3.isaac newton
4.Aristotle
not an acctual order but how they poped in to my head