Sunday, September 9, 2012

Daily Trivia #576 Badass of the Week


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Answer: The only two heads of states in history to employ full-time all-female bodyguards. The famous Amazonian Guard of Gaddafi and the Vishkanya sqaudron of Chandragupta Maurya.

6 comments:

  1. both of them had a battalion female bodyguards!!

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  2. or to be more specific...both were paranoid to a point asymptotic to the phrase "barmy-craziness"...

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  3. Assasination??
    Chandragupta Maurya made use of assassinations against some of his enemies, including two of Alexander's generals Nicanor and Philip.
    there were several plots made to assasinate gaddafi

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  4. Both Gaddafi and chandragupta maurya had an entourage of female bodyguards... chandragupta had 700 female guards (source:badassoftheweek.com) while gaddafi had his amazonian army of female bodyguards...

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