6 People Who Almost Changed History

Image sources:

  • – William Walker:
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/William_Walker_by_Brady.jpg
  • – Lyman Cutlar:
    http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/7711/pig.png
  • – Sidney Reilly:
    http://www.brama.com/news/press/2003/thumbs/031203leliw_reilly200512.jpg
  • – Werner Heisenberg:
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Bundesarchiv_Bild183-R57262,_Werner_Heisenberg.jpg
  • – Leif Eriksson:
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Viking_at_MN_Capitol.jpg
  • – Heron of Alexandria:
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Heron.jpeg
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Aeolipile_illustration.JPG

Sources:

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_(soldier)
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Reilly
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Eriksson#Settlement_in_Vinland
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heron_of_alexandria

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    Comments

    • Aurell

      :U

      macarthur or whatever his name was nearly got us to drop another atomic bomb on korea/china(i forgot) during the korean war.

      but he got fired for publically criticizing truman, so…

    • Not You

      but he's on our textbooks and is almost notorious for that.

    • http://wetbarcabinets.org Paul Bar

      There are really so many ways in which history could have been different. In all likelihood, somebody in WW1 probably came close to killing Hitler whilst he was in the German trenches

    • GringoStarr

      Sidney Reilly was not the inspiration for James Bond, Sir William Stephenson was.

      Fleming's intelligence work provided the background for his spy novels. In 1953, he published his first novel, Casino Royale. In it he introduced secret agent James Bond. The character was based on Camp X's William Stephenson and what Fleming learned from him while at Camp X.

    • Jjwalker

      “But if that happened, the continent would probably not be called America at all. We are thinking something like “Erikssonia” is more probable. So maybe everything turned out fine in the end?” Turned out fine for all but the natives. Natives are cool with Eriksson, since he left this great land. It's the rest of you foreigners that we want to go home too.

    • tungata

      yeah Leifur Eiríksson found Greenland…. Greenland is in America…. Leifur Eiríksson found America !!

    • Arkard

      No, Eric The Red found Greenland. His son, Leif Ericson, went on further West and landed in Canada. Pretty sure Canada is in America.

    • Lofturoskar

      “Sidney Reilly was not the inspiration for James Bond, Sir William Stephenson was.”

      And just like Leif Eirikson, Sir William was Icelandic :)

    • PinoyPoAko

      Maybe if Sidney Reilly did SUCCEED on his attempt to assassinate Vlademir Lenin maybe the NAZI GERMANY would have successfully invaded the tsarist Russia…. the world you know now, would have been the NEW WORLD ORDER…. chilling Butterfly effect! :)

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