I've never been a fan of the works of fiction that depict super-muscular, the superhero feats and noble show of bravery and valor . Batman, Superman and Spiderman are perfect for stir the imagination of children in my opinion, but I do not really see the appeal for adults. It is not because I'm jealous or because they are so incredible, and it's not because I do not understand the therapeutic importance of being able to suspend disbelief for a while. It is because there are many real people who have accomplished many real acts so amazing that if they were written as fiction no one believed them.
There was a movie star back in the 50s and 60s called Audie Murphy. He made several war films and became very famous. But many people do not know why Audie Murphy became a movie star because he was the most decorated soldier of World War II America. In fact, he won all available medals for bravery during his service, including the highest award of the American Medal of Honor. He also received recognition for bravery in France and Belgium. Why has it received so many decorations? Well, it was to save the lives of his men in the Third Infantry Division alone by taking wave after wave of infantry and tanks German attacks only using a .50 caliber machine gun while standing au above a combustion M10 tank destroyer. Only when he ran out of ammunition he stop shooting. Seriously wounded in the leg, he then crawled to his men and rallied for a cons-attack, which pushed the Germans and won the battle.
In April 1969, the doctor Leonid Rogozov was a Soviet meteorological research station in Antarctica when he began to feel ill. Slowly, his condition deteriorated until he ended up with severe pain in her abdomen, which itself diagnosed as appendicitis. Untreated, the infection would cause severe swelling and possibly break the stomach lining causing peritonitis and certain death. In a fantastic field that any Hollywood could dream, Rogozov gave a crash course in surgery at three meteorological scientists working at the station and had them act as his assistants as he removed his own appendix. Even more surprising, he had to make it all back, watching the reflection of her gaping abdomen in a mirror held by one of the pilots of the station. He continued to make a full recovery without complications.
Then there is the incredible story of Sir Henry Head was, amazingly enough with a name like that, a neurologist. Sir Henry was extremely curious about the effect of various types of nerve damage can have on people's ability to feel pain after their wounds had healed.
Unfortunately, all the injured civilians he interviewed were unable to describe their feelings to their satisfaction and, with the help of his assistant Mr. Rivers, he spends his arms open in several places , allowed the injury to heal then described how he felt in himself.
a great sacrifice in the name of science, I hear you say, but wait. In an effort to make it more appropriate name, he decided he would then investigate the sensitivity of the male reproductive organ to heat and cold. For this purpose (childish laughter), he immersed his own body in water that had been heated to 40 degrees Celsius (I would have thought it was the turn of Mr. Rivers, but apparently Sir Henry pulled rank). He later recorded that when the tip of his penis touched the water, he felt no sensation of heat at all, only an "unpleasant sensation of pain." But the experience was not a waste of time because once Sir Henry pushed his old fella in a little deeper, he felt "a nice exquisite sensation of heat." Apparently, Sir Henry repeated the experience several times to check its conclusions, and the whole was scientifically written in the neurology journal brain by Dr. Russell brain, the brain First Baron (and no, the newspaper was not appointed to According to him).
I swear I'm not making it. If I do that, you would not believe you would do? (I wonder how many perfectly good cups of tea will be ruined after this story ...)