Is This the Most Interesting Opening Paragraph Wikipedia's Ever Published?

[torc]

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts...ikipedia_s_ever_published?wp_login_redirect=0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Carton_de_Wiart#Retirement

If you don't want to register, here's the paragraph,

Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart[SUP][1][/SUP] VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO (5 May 1880 – 5 June 1963), was a British Army officer of Belgian and Irish descent. He served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War, was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip and ear, survived a plane crash, tunneled out of a POW camp, and bit off his own fingers when a doctor wouldn't amputate them. He later said "frankly I had enjoyed the war."[SUP][2]

I've never heard of this man before but I call to friends in his final home town often and I'm going to search for his grave.
Happy tails...torc.
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[crosslandkelly]

What an interesting character. They sure made them tough in those day's. Funnily enough I know the graveyard where he is buried, my father is from Macroom.

 

[Macaroon]

Well spotted, that man! That certainly is a paragraph to stir the interest; surely a man you wouldn't meet every day, by the sounds of him.

 

[Goatboy]

Could Simo Häyhä's one be a close second?

Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart is certainly the man though.

 

[John Fenna]

Wow - what a life!

 

[Stringmaker]

You simply could not invent a life like that and expect anyone to believe you!

 

[mountainm]

Apparently this is the only man that scares Chuck Norris.

 

[abominable_scouse_monster]

Bugger me, that guy is... well scarier than a rabid chuck Norris!

Thing is I can't help but feel he should be indoctrinated into the Adeptus Astartes, because when he was born shurley the emperor parted the clouds pointed his finger at the new born and said "This one shall have ball's of pure adimantium".

 

[greensurfingbear]

Adeptes astrates indeed


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