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To: BenLurkin
Ernest Shackleton

IMHO probably the greatest leader of men the modern world has ever known, Churchill, Patton and Mac Arthur notwithstanding.

4 posted on 08/20/2016 10:49:47 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: Don Corleone

And for another NW Passage attempt, examine Sir John Franklin (1786-1847).


25 posted on 08/20/2016 11:49:55 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (As always, /s is implicitly assumed. Unless explicitly labled /not s. Saves keystrokes.)
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To: Don Corleone

Shackleton and Scott got stuck the Discovery in the ice in the Antarctic in the summer of 1903 through their own stupidity...

had to be rescued...

not exactly leadership material...


42 posted on 08/20/2016 2:36:46 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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