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October 28, 2016

Badass of the Week: Douglas Munro

The only United States Coast Guardsman to ever receive the Medal of Honor.
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Published on October 28, 2016 16:00

October 21, 2016

Badass of the Week: Nikola Zrinski

The "Slavic Leonidas", the national hero of Croatia led 3000 men in a desperate last stand against the seemingly-endless forces of Suleiman the Magnificent.
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Published on October 21, 2016 16:45

October 14, 2016

Badass of the Week: Felix Von Luckner

World War I German commerce raider who sank 64,000 tons of British shipping and destroyed 14 vessels. With a three-masted old-school sailing ship. And without killing a single person.
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Published on October 14, 2016 16:15

October 7, 2016

Badass of the Week: Virginia Hall

30 year CIA and OSS veteran who spent all of WWII working behind German lines with the French Resistance. She's the most-decorated female spy in American history, and she did it all with a wooden leg.
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Published on October 07, 2016 17:15

September 30, 2016

Badass of the Week: William McBryar

Buffalo soldier and twenty-year U.S. Army veteran, he received a Medal of Honor fighting the Apache and was one of the first black officers in the history of the U.S. military.
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Published on September 30, 2016 15:30

September 23, 2016

Badass of the Week: Klondike Joe Boyle

Yukon gold-mining Secret Agent who managed a Stanley Cup hockey team, outfitted a WWI machine gun company, stole the Romanian crown jewels from a vault in Moscow, one fought a shark with a knife..
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Published on September 23, 2016 14:35

July 25, 2016

Badass of the Week: Flavius Stilicho

The last great hero of the Western Roman Empire, this Visigoth-slaying general defended Rome from barbarian invasion not once but twice.
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Published on July 25, 2016 12:15

July 14, 2016

Badass of the Week: Charlemagne

The military genius who crushed the enemies of Christendom, united Europe under one ruler, and brought the continent out of the Dark Ages.
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Published on July 14, 2016 11:15

May 16, 2016

Badass of the Week: Edward Longshanks

The Hammer of the Scots.
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Published on May 16, 2016 11:30

May 6, 2016

Badass of the Week: Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

Elected President of Mexico eleven times (and deposed twelve times), the villain of the Alamo rocked a prosthetic leg, brought bubble gum to the United States, has a sea shanty named after him, once led a military coup against himself.
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Published on May 06, 2016 13:30