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Most Overrated Historic Figure(s)

Posted on 04/20/2013 7:55:55 PM PDT by MNDude

There are probably many people in history who have received more credit than they deserved. Excluding any US Presidents in the past century (that would be too easy), what three historic figures do you think are the most overrated?


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To: reaganaut

*Don’t forget Joseph Smith!*

Justin Bieber, Joseph Smith - eh, close enough.


221 posted on 04/22/2013 10:26:52 AM PDT by mrreaganaut (Coolidge 2016!)
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To: nkronos; MNDude; reaganaut

Gandhi is another good choice (as would be Nelson Mandela in the minor leagues), but I have to disagree about Mao. Anyone who killed more of his countrymen than Hitler and Stalin cannot be considered overrated as an historic figure. As a writer, yes, Mao is very much overrated.

In religious figures, one might say that Mohammed had too much military/historical influence to be overrated, leaving Mormonism’s Joseph Smith near the top of that heap. Still, Freud’s nearly successful attempt to replace Judaism with psychology might edge Smith from the top spot.


222 posted on 04/22/2013 10:44:22 AM PDT by mrreaganaut (Coolidge 2016!)
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To: rlmorel
It is amazing...

My apologies. I forgot to mention about your dad and the picture you posted. Tremendous. He sounded like one heck of a father. I know you are as proud of your father as I am of mine.

Cheers to these great men. They served with honor, distinction and humility. We were blessed to have such fathers.

223 posted on 04/23/2013 3:22:05 AM PDT by Northern Yankee (Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country. - Benjamin Franklin)
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Jim Horne, a Familiar Face in Ads From the 1950s, Dies at 91

224 posted on 04/23/2013 4:41:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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