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The Harry Potter person
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I love Harry Potter And Twilight, and can not stand people who are fake.
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Beagle Puppy Cuddles Up To The Rescuer Who Saved Him From Euthanasia. Nice Dog Rescue Story Heard From Franklin County Shelter And Adoption Center In Ohio
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That there's a huge list of things that can be missing from the aircraft while still being allowed to fly.
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I'm still shocked there hasn't been a modern movie about the WASPs of wwii. These were the women who delivered airplanes to the theatre of war straight from the factory. Flying brand new airplanes off the production line, often with known issues that had to be corrected in the field (easier to have the mechanics fix stuff than constantly stop the assembly line). Fighting bad weather in the north Atlantic, dangerous landings, airplane issues, and of course being women. Seems like a gimme for a women's empowerment movie. Especially today with the shortage of pilots, it could be a very inspiring movie. Or... You know.... Completely f****d up with cgi and over the top b******t.
Hour_Department6738 reply
Deborah Sampson. Real life American Mulan - she disguised herself as a man in order to fight in the American Revolution. Not because of her father or anything. She just fervently believed in the cause. And she was friends with Paul Revere
SGum reply
Julie D'Aubigny was a 17th-century bisexual French opera singer and fencing master who killed or wounded at least ten men in life-or-death duels, performed nightly shows on the biggest and most highly-respected opera stage in the world, and once took the Holy Orders just so that she could sneak into a convent and bang a nun.
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Night witches ~ Russian female pilots that flew night bombing raids in world war 2. HalfPint1885 replied: This is what I came here to say! They were epically badass. They would fly in, in wooden planes, and cut their engine to get over their target so they wouldn't be heard. They were called Witches because all you could hear was the wooshing sound of the wind over their wooden planes. They'd drop their bomb and then restart it. Sometimes their bombs would stick and not drop from their location on the wing so they'd climb onto the wing in midair and release it. They didn't even have parachutes in their planes. The cockpits were open air so it was freezing cold. And of course they were treated like absolute sh** by everyone, especially the male fighters. I. Want. This. Story.
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The adventures of Simo Häyhä. Usually in Finland we don't put war heroes on a pedestal, but Häyhä has gotten so much attention thanks to YouTube that his story could be quite interesting. jicty replied: Yes! He is one of my favorite historical figures. Around 500 kills with only a sub machine gun and a sniper rifle with no scope because he didn't want glare on the lens to give his position away. Also he laid in the snow eating snow and ice to keep his mouth cold so he didn't breathe steam. Russians moved artillery just to try and kill this one man. He almost died by getting shot in the face with an exploding shell and woke up in the hospital with a permanently disfigured face and instantly requested to be sent back to the front lines! All this and he was just a farmer who volunteered for the war!
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In 1956 a man named Tommy Fitzpatrick stole a small plane from New Jersey for a bet and then landed it perfectly on the narrow street in front of the bar he had been drinking at in Manhattan. Two years later, he did it again after someone didn't believe he had done it the first time. I feel like it could make for a fun comedy movie.
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Unless it's been done already, the life story of Ching Shih. She was a Chinese prostitute that because the deadliest pirate of all time. At the height of her power, she commanded over 800 large ships, 1000 smaller vessels and over 70,000 pirate crew, comprised of both men and women.
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The Lioness of Brittany - medieval woman who led brutal attacks by land and sea against the French king in vengeance for the execution of her husband.
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I need a Coen brothers movie of the 1904 Olympic marathon. Just keeps getting more bonkers. Fubo added: - Over half of the 32 entrants did not finish the marathon. - The marathon's first "winner" got his picture taken with the US President's daughter. Then it turned out that he cheated by hitching a ride in a car. - The second "winner" had been doped with rat poison, and was carried over the finish line by his friends. If he hadn't received immediate medical attention, he would have died on site. - Multiple runners, including the winners of the previous two years' Boston Marathons, got lung injuries from dust kicked up by the race officials' cars. - The fourth-place finisher got sick on the way, having stolen apples that turned out to be rotten from a nearby orchard. - The ninth-place finisher might have placed better if he hadn't been chased off course by wild dogs. - One of the organizers believed that "purposeful dehydration" would help the runners, and had deliberately limited the water sources available to the runners. BibleButterSandwich: Also keep in mind that the 4th place finisher was a 5 foot tall Cuban man who raised the money to get to the race by walking the entire length of his country, and then immediately blew all his funds gambling as soon as he landed in New Orleans, so he hitchhiked the rest of the way to St. Louis before running the marathon in dress shoes and formal pants that he had cut off the knee just before the race started.RubbrBabyBuggyBumprs reply
The Cold Case of who murdered Ken Rex McElroy. It is prime material for a dark comedy. This dude was such an unrelenting piece of s**t, buried beneath the prison type scumbags, and terrorized a small rural town his whole life. He'd get away with it everytime because he'd intimidate the f**k out of anyone who sought to press charges against him. Implicated in rape, arson, assault etc. So yeah no tears shed for that psychopath. Anyway there was a town meeting to discuss what to do with him because everyone was sick of his s**t. The Sheriff told them to just avoid him and set up a neighborhood watch to keep track of him. Right then they found out he was drinking at a bar. Sheriff told them to leave him alone and go home but he had other s**t to do so he left THE COUNTY. So what do these people do? They go to set up that neighborhood watch....neighborhood watch this man die. Over 60 people travel to the bar Ken is at where they crowded him as he drinks and slings insults. He goes to his truck where his underage wife is sitting in the passenger seat, talks some more s**t and reportedly was going to grab a gun. So over 60 people must subscribe to the theory that a bad guy assumes room temperature only when well ventilated because he then got lit up. Unknown the number of shooters but there were 2 separates calibers identified from the rounds found in his body and both were popular hunting rounds. To this day his murder is unsolved because all 60+ wont say s**t. The FBI showed up to help investigate and still everyone kept tight lipped. One person told them "thay boy needed a killin". So yeah, prime material.
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FedEx flight 705 TL:DR - Man tries to hijack plane to get insurance money to send kids to college, crew fight back, jet basically turns into weapon for them. The backstory of the hijacker ~~was a tragedy~~ ~~very unfortunate~~ never fell into his favor . Auburn Calloway was a Stanford graduate who loved his family, but couldn’t afford to send his kids to college. He used his experience as a navy pilot, and the location of Memphis to grab a job at FedEx. He was frustrated at the fact his life amounted to only flying airplanes, when he could have so much more potential. Calloway then devised a plan to die in a plane crash, so that he could send his insurance money to his ex wife, so that his kids can go to college. He was going to be the flight engineer for the same flight, but the day before he falsified flight hours by a single minute , so he was on the verge of unemployment. On April 7, 1994, he packed a spear gun and hammers to disguise the hijacking as an accident. His plan was to turn off the flight recorder, and then incapacitate the crew with blunt force trauma, since investigators would rule out that they died from the force of hitting the ground. He would use the spear gun as a last resort. He would put the weapons in a guitar case, to not arouse suspicion. This took place before 9/11, so he just walked through without looking suspicious. He boards the flight, gets acquainted with the crew to lower their guard, and waits. 19 minutes into the flight, he walks into the cockpit, and hits everyone with hammers. First Officer Jim Tucker, was rendered unconscious. The other two crew, Captain David Sanders and flight engineer Andre Peterson get off of their seats to stop Calloway, but he threatens them with the speargun he got from the back. Here’s the crazy part. Calloway f****d with the wrong crew. Peterson grabs the gun, and starts to wrangle it away. Sanders joins him in trying to stop Calloway. Tucker, still dizzy and disoriented, realizes the situation, and goes back to what he learned. Ex-Navy, Vietnam vet, he knows a thing or two about planes. He treats the jet like it’s a fighter aircraft. Turning it 140 degrees (basically) upside down, it pushed the bounds of what an DC-10 could do. There’s a fight in the cargo hold between two injured crew members and a man who had nothing to lose, and a half conscious pilot who is treating the jet like a fighter, flipping the plane upside down so that his crew could overtake the hijacker. They take a u-turn back to Memphis, emergency landing, about a mile above the ground. The problem is, is that the plane is too heavy, too fast, and too high. There’s a real chance adrenaline will impair their movements and overshoot the runway. They land, SWAT arrest Calloway, and everyone is sent to the hospital. The damage that Calloway has done to the crew unfortunately makes the crew not able to fly commercially again. The plane is still in service, but it was upgraded… without the flight engineer position. I learned about this in this plane investigation series on YouTube, and it astounds me how this literally has never been turned into a movie.
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RubbrBabyBuggyBumprs reply
The Cold Case of who murdered Ken Rex McElroy. It is prime material for a dark comedy. This dude was such an unrelenting piece of s**t, buried beneath the prison type scumbags, and terrorized a small rural town his whole life. He'd get away with it everytime because he'd intimidate the f**k out of anyone who sought to press charges against him. Implicated in rape, arson, assault etc. So yeah no tears shed for that psychopath. Anyway there was a town meeting to discuss what to do with him because everyone was sick of his s**t. The Sheriff told them to just avoid him and set up a neighborhood watch to keep track of him. Right then they found out he was drinking at a bar. Sheriff told them to leave him alone and go home but he had other s**t to do so he left THE COUNTY. So what do these people do? They go to set up that neighborhood watch....neighborhood watch this man die. Over 60 people travel to the bar Ken is at where they crowded him as he drinks and slings insults. He goes to his truck where his underage wife is sitting in the passenger seat, talks some more s**t and reportedly was going to grab a gun. So over 60 people must subscribe to the theory that a bad guy assumes room temperature only when well ventilated because he then got lit up. Unknown the number of shooters but there were 2 separates calibers identified from the rounds found in his body and both were popular hunting rounds. To this day his murder is unsolved because all 60+ wont say s**t. The FBI showed up to help investigate and still everyone kept tight lipped. One person told them "thay boy needed a killin". So yeah, prime material.mustang__1 reply
I'm still shocked there hasn't been a modern movie about the WASPs of wwii. These were the women who delivered airplanes to the theatre of war straight from the factory. Flying brand new airplanes off the production line, often with known issues that had to be corrected in the field (easier to have the mechanics fix stuff than constantly stop the assembly line). Fighting bad weather in the north Atlantic, dangerous landings, airplane issues, and of course being women. Seems like a gimme for a women's empowerment movie. Especially today with the shortage of pilots, it could be a very inspiring movie. Or... You know.... Completely f****d up with cgi and over the top b******t.-eDgAR- reply
In 1956 a man named Tommy Fitzpatrick stole a small plane from New Jersey for a bet and then landed it perfectly on the narrow street in front of the bar he had been drinking at in Manhattan. Two years later, he did it again after someone didn't believe he had done it the first time. I feel like it could make for a fun comedy movie.LizHylton reply
The Lioness of Brittany - medieval woman who led brutal attacks by land and sea against the French king in vengeance for the execution of her husband.Hour_Department6738 reply
Deborah Sampson. Real life American Mulan - she disguised herself as a man in order to fight in the American Revolution. Not because of her father or anything. She just fervently believed in the cause. And she was friends with Paul RevereOk_Kinda_Guy reply
FedEx flight 705 TL:DR - Man tries to hijack plane to get insurance money to send kids to college, crew fight back, jet basically turns into weapon for them. The backstory of the hijacker ~~was a tragedy~~ ~~very unfortunate~~ never fell into his favor . Auburn Calloway was a Stanford graduate who loved his family, but couldn’t afford to send his kids to college. He used his experience as a navy pilot, and the location of Memphis to grab a job at FedEx. He was frustrated at the fact his life amounted to only flying airplanes, when he could have so much more potential. Calloway then devised a plan to die in a plane crash, so that he could send his insurance money to his ex wife, so that his kids can go to college. He was going to be the flight engineer for the same flight, but the day before he falsified flight hours by a single minute , so he was on the verge of unemployment. On April 7, 1994, he packed a spear gun and hammers to disguise the hijacking as an accident. His plan was to turn off the flight recorder, and then incapacitate the crew with blunt force trauma, since investigators would rule out that they died from the force of hitting the ground. He would use the spear gun as a last resort. He would put the weapons in a guitar case, to not arouse suspicion. This took place before 9/11, so he just walked through without looking suspicious. He boards the flight, gets acquainted with the crew to lower their guard, and waits. 19 minutes into the flight, he walks into the cockpit, and hits everyone with hammers. First Officer Jim Tucker, was rendered unconscious. The other two crew, Captain David Sanders and flight engineer Andre Peterson get off of their seats to stop Calloway, but he threatens them with the speargun he got from the back. Here’s the crazy part. Calloway f****d with the wrong crew. Peterson grabs the gun, and starts to wrangle it away. Sanders joins him in trying to stop Calloway. Tucker, still dizzy and disoriented, realizes the situation, and goes back to what he learned. Ex-Navy, Vietnam vet, he knows a thing or two about planes. He treats the jet like it’s a fighter aircraft. Turning it 140 degrees (basically) upside down, it pushed the bounds of what an DC-10 could do. There’s a fight in the cargo hold between two injured crew members and a man who had nothing to lose, and a half conscious pilot who is treating the jet like a fighter, flipping the plane upside down so that his crew could overtake the hijacker. They take a u-turn back to Memphis, emergency landing, about a mile above the ground. The problem is, is that the plane is too heavy, too fast, and too high. There’s a real chance adrenaline will impair their movements and overshoot the runway. They land, SWAT arrest Calloway, and everyone is sent to the hospital. The damage that Calloway has done to the crew unfortunately makes the crew not able to fly commercially again. The plane is still in service, but it was upgraded… without the flight engineer position. I learned about this in this plane investigation series on YouTube, and it astounds me how this literally has never been turned into a movie.jaz1919 reply
The adventures of Simo Häyhä. Usually in Finland we don't put war heroes on a pedestal, but Häyhä has gotten so much attention thanks to YouTube that his story could be quite interesting. jicty replied: Yes! He is one of my favorite historical figures. Around 500 kills with only a sub machine gun and a sniper rifle with no scope because he didn't want glare on the lens to give his position away. Also he laid in the snow eating snow and ice to keep his mouth cold so he didn't breathe steam. Russians moved artillery just to try and kill this one man. He almost died by getting shot in the face with an exploding shell and woke up in the hospital with a permanently disfigured face and instantly requested to be sent back to the front lines! All this and he was just a farmer who volunteered for the war!randomguy987654321 reply
Unless it's been done already, the life story of Ching Shih. She was a Chinese prostitute that because the deadliest pirate of all time. At the height of her power, she commanded over 800 large ships, 1000 smaller vessels and over 70,000 pirate crew, comprised of both men and women.Hititwitharock reply
I need a Coen brothers movie of the 1904 Olympic marathon. Just keeps getting more bonkers. Fubo added: - Over half of the 32 entrants did not finish the marathon. - The marathon's first "winner" got his picture taken with the US President's daughter. Then it turned out that he cheated by hitching a ride in a car. - The second "winner" had been doped with rat poison, and was carried over the finish line by his friends. If he hadn't received immediate medical attention, he would have died on site. - Multiple runners, including the winners of the previous two years' Boston Marathons, got lung injuries from dust kicked up by the race officials' cars. - The fourth-place finisher got sick on the way, having stolen apples that turned out to be rotten from a nearby orchard. - The ninth-place finisher might have placed better if he hadn't been chased off course by wild dogs. - One of the organizers believed that "purposeful dehydration" would help the runners, and had deliberately limited the water sources available to the runners. BibleButterSandwich: Also keep in mind that the 4th place finisher was a 5 foot tall Cuban man who raised the money to get to the race by walking the entire length of his country, and then immediately blew all his funds gambling as soon as he landed in New Orleans, so he hitchhiked the rest of the way to St. Louis before running the marathon in dress shoes and formal pants that he had cut off the knee just before the race started.Mr_Frible reply
Night witches ~ Russian female pilots that flew night bombing raids in world war 2. HalfPint1885 replied: This is what I came here to say! They were epically badass. They would fly in, in wooden planes, and cut their engine to get over their target so they wouldn't be heard. They were called Witches because all you could hear was the wooshing sound of the wind over their wooden planes. They'd drop their bomb and then restart it. Sometimes their bombs would stick and not drop from their location on the wing so they'd climb onto the wing in midair and release it. They didn't even have parachutes in their planes. The cockpits were open air so it was freezing cold. And of course they were treated like absolute sh** by everyone, especially the male fighters. I. Want. This. Story.SGum reply
Julie D'Aubigny was a 17th-century bisexual French opera singer and fencing master who killed or wounded at least ten men in life-or-death duels, performed nightly shows on the biggest and most highly-respected opera stage in the world, and once took the Holy Orders just so that she could sneak into a convent and bang a nun. The Harry Potter person • is following 3 people
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