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Benedict Arnold's Body Lies in the Wall of a British Kindergarten
Author : bryanrasmussen
Score : 21 points
Date : 2022-04-26 11:16 UTC (11 hours ago)
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| balefrost wrote:
| I wanted to see pictures, and I found some here:
| https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/benedict-arnolds-cry...
|
| It looks surprisingly cozy.
| qiskit wrote:
| Three names no parent will name their sons - Benedict, Adolf,
| Judas. Poor bastard. Talk about choosing poorly. Sold his legacy
| for peanuts.
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| pella wrote:
| other:
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold_(congressman)
|
| _" Benedict Arnold (October 5, 1780 - March 3, 1849) was an
| American politician from New York, and a member of the House of
| Representatives."_
|
| _" He was named in honor of the famous Benedict Arnold at a
| time during the American Revolutionary War when he was still
| seen as a hero of the United States, stemming from the capture
| of Fort Ticonderoga."_
| drewcoo wrote:
| Benjamin Arnold was outed September 23rd, 1780 with the
| capture of his conspirator, Andres. Andres was hanged October
| 2nd, also in New York.
|
| Maybe the news didn't spread quickly enough? It seems
| suspicious, though, given how big a story it was. Maybe his
| parents were Tories?
|
| https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/benedict-
| accompl...
| qiskit wrote:
| That's interesting. Benedict Arnold's treason was exposed in
| late september and this guy was born early october before his
| parents found out about the treason. So news definitely
| spread slowly back then.
|
| It says he had 12 children. I wonder if he named any of his
| sons benedict.
| pella wrote:
| One of his children was also Benedict.
|
| _" They had twelve children, Hiram, Jane, William, Maria,
| James, Charlotte, Lorenzo, Benedict, Hasley, Sarah, Marion,
| and Adam"_
| smcl wrote:
| FWIW he's fairly anonymous outside the USA. It was in Mike
| Duncan's "Revolutions" podcast that I first encountered him
| properly (not counting a reference I didn't understand in
| "Scrubs" a decade or so earlier). When it comes down to it, he
| was a bit more of a complex Bad Guy than your Adolfs Hitler or
| your Judases Iscariot.
|
| What _is_ odd is the suggestion that "Benedict" is ill
| favoured due to the memory of Benedict Arnold, while more
| universally and unambiguously bad guys (from the perspective of
| the US state) like Robert E. Lee and David Duke don't have this
| JustLurking2022 wrote:
| More complicated in some ways but also surprisingly similar
| in that he would rather see his country burn than see someone
| else get credit for it's success.
| Veen wrote:
| No American parent perhaps. The name doesn't have negative
| connotations elsewhere. For me, it's more associated with the
| previous pope and the actor than with Arnold.
| er4hn wrote:
| As an example, the UK tech analyst Benedict Evans:
| https://www.ben-evans.com/
| throwyawayyyy wrote:
| Benedict Cumberbatch :)
| dole wrote:
| Dirk :/
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