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Coolest historical name?

Charlemagne
8 (11%)
Charles Martel (Charles the Hammer)
2
Richard the Lionheart
8 (11%)
William the Conqueror
1
Vercingetorix
6
Hannibal
4
Spartacus
18 (25%)
Wolf the Quarrelsome
8 (11%)
Genghis Khan
15 (20%)
Erik the Red
2
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Rasputin by AnonBCA

Dude, where is Rasputin…thats a cold blooded name. I like Nostradamus too…

  • Cleopatra – There were 7 Cleopatras in her line. Very cool name.
  • Artemisia – Queen of Halicarnassus Xerxes(also cool man’s name) against the Greeks, then helped talk Xerxes out of pursuing his conquest of Greece. Man, what a name!
  • Helen of Troy – C’mon, you saw Troy.
  • Enheduanna – the daughter of the great Mesopotamian king, Sargon of Akkad. Enheduanna helped her father solidify his political power and unite the Sumerian city-states by merging the worship of many local city goddesses into worship of the Sumerian goddess, Inanna(Talk about using religion as power).
  • Zenobia – was a third-century queen of Palmyra, a "warrior queen." Zenobia led her people in a war against Rome.
  • Semiramis – sounds a it like a communicable disease, but she was the legendary warrior queen of Assyria credited with building a new Babylon as well as conquest of neighboring states.
  • The Trung Sisters – Trung Trac and Trung Nhi – Vietnamese heroines who ruled briefly as co-queens.
  • Queen Dahia-Al Kahina – fought against the Arab incursion in North Africa where under her leadership Africans fought back fiercely and drove the Arab army northward into Tripolitania.
    http://womenshistory.about.com/od/ancientgreece/Ancient_Greece_Women.htm

I was tempted to say Genghis Khan (because of Wrath of Khan, I’m guessing), but I had to go with Wolf the Quarrelsome instead. I mean, for a guy who supposedly wound the entrails of his enemy around a tree, by his name, at least, Wolf the Quarrelsome doesn’t sound all that bad. Maybe he has a few cousins, like Alfred the Irritating, Brendan the Reasonably Annoying, and Clarence the Mildly Amusing.

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What about.. by ldsudduth

Vlad Å¢epeÅŸ—Vlad the Impaler?

Seriously..I chose William the Conqueror—but only because there is a slight possibility that he is in my family tree somewhere.

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Bunch of Wimps by Occams

How could you omit Vlad the Impaler

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