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He's the fervently anti-evolution Southern Baptist minister with the "celebrity" support of Chuck Norris isn't he?
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Chuck Norris? Lord Byron could 'ave him with one arm tied behind his back. The big wuss.
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Lord Byron's fame rests not only on his writings but also on his life, which featured extravagant living, numerous love affairs, debts, separation, and allegations of incest and sodomy. He was famously described by Lady Caroline Lamb as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know." Byron served as a regional leader of Italy's revolutionary organization the Carbonari in its struggle against Austria, and later travelled to fight against the Turks in the Greek War of Independence, for which the Greeks consider him a national hero. He died from a febrile illness in Messolonghi.
His daughter Ada Lovelace, notable in her own right, collaborated with Charles Babbage on the analytical engine, a predecessor to modern computers.
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Did anyone else hear the recent Burger King advert that tried to claim Byron was in some way effete and unmanly and start swearing at the radio?