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Who Is The Most Badass Person In History That No One Knows About?
Short Answer: Medal of Honor recipient, Roy P. Benavidez flew into a gunfight to save 12 Special Forces soldiers with only a knife. He was shot multiple times and believed dead, until he spit in the face of the medic trying to put him in a body bag.
Early Life
Roy Benavidez was born in 1935 near Cuero, Texas, to impoverished sharecroppers of Mexican and Yaqui Indian ancestry. Both parents died of tuberculosis before his eighth birthday. He and his younger brother, Roger, along with eight cousins, were raised by their grandfather, an aunt and uncle, in El Campo.
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This man pulled 8 people out of a burning bus on Christmas Eve
A man is being hailed online after he saved eight people who were trapped on a burning bus in Mutare, Zimbabwe.
Photos shared online shows how the man, Sirizani Butau, sustained burns from his heroic actions.
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa praised the man for his selfless actions:
"Let me take this opportunity to appreciate Sirizani Butau who saved people from the Mutare Accident .As government we will honour him for his selfless sacrifice."
Some 66 others were injured on Christmas Eve when a bus they were travelling in burst into flames following a head-on collision with a fuel tanker.
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The Ultimate Best Books of 2021 List – Literay Hub
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Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters – The Hustle
The Dumping Grounds
How Did Helen Keller Learn How To Read, Write and Speak?
Learning to read and write
Annie Sullivan arrived at Helen Keller’s house on March 5, 1887, a day Keller would forever remember as ‘my soul’s birthday’.
Sullivan immediately began to teach Helen to communicate by spelling words into her hand, beginning with “d-o-l-l” for the doll that she had brought Keller as a present.
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Sarah Biffen (1784 – 1850) was a Victorian English painter born with no arms and only vestigial legs. She nevertheless taught herself to write, paint, sew, and use scissors with her mouth. This is a self- portrait she painted using her teeth.
Sarah Biffen was born in 1784 to a family of farmers in East Quantoxhead, Somerset, with no arms and undeveloped legs. Despite her handicap, Biffen learned to read, and later was able to write using her mouth.
Around the age of 13, her family apprenticed her to a man named Emmanuel Dukes, who exhibited her in fairs and sideshows throughout England.
At some point during the time, she learnt to paint holding the paint-brush in her mouth. During this period, she held exhibitions, sold her paintings and autographs, and took admission fees to let others see her sew, paint and draw.
She drew landscapes or painted portrait miniatures on ivory with contemporaries praising her skill. Her miniatures were sold for three guineas each, however, Biffen may have received as little as £5 a year while she was with Dukes.
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Someone Kept Track Of Everything That Happened Each Day In 2021 And It’s A Trip Down Memory Lane – Google Docs
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6 Causes of High Blood Pressure, and How to Lower It – Mens Health
Hands down one of the best minor uprades for your home is a keypad lock on the front door. No more carrying keys, no more dropping off a key so someone can get in. It’s fantastic – Amazon
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