The Hero!, good person, cool and neat stuff, all around good stuff thread.

Not sure if this has been posted, or if anyone knew about this.

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http://www.welikela.com/richard-ankrom-guerilla-public-service/
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8257153.stm

Malawi teenager built windmills out of junk to bring electricity and water to his village. He never saw a windmill but learned about them from library books.

"Mr Kamkwamba, who is now 22 years old, knocked together a turbine from spare bicycle parts, a tractor fan blade and an old shock absorber, and fashioned blades from plastic pipes, flattened by being held over a fire."

"Meanwhile, he installed a solar-powered mechanical pump, donated by well-wishers, above a borehole, adding water storage tanks and bringing the first potable water source to the entire region around his village. He upgraded his original windmill to 48-volts and anchored it in concrete after its wooden base was chewed away by termites. Then he built a new windmill, dubbed the Green Machine, which turned a water pump to irrigate his family's field. "

"He is now on a scholarship at the elite African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Mr Kamkwamba - who has been flown to conferences around the globe to recount his life-story - has the world at his feet, but is determined to return home after his studies.
The home-grown hero aims to finish bringing power, not just to the rest of his village, but to all Malawians, only 2% of whom have electricity.
"I want to help my country and apply the knowledge I've learned," he says. "I feel there's lots of work to be done."
 
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Albert Battel

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Max Liedtke



As a fifty-one-year-old reserve officer, Battel was stationed in Przemyśl in southern Poland as the adjutant to the local military commander, Major Max Liedtke. When the SS prepared to launch their first large-scale “resettlement” (liquidation) action against the Jews of Przemyśl on July 26, 1942, Battel, in consort with his superior, ordered the bridge over the River San, the only access into theJewish ghetto, to be blocked. As the SS commando attempted to cross to the other side, the sergeant-major in charge of the bridge threatened to open fire unless they withdrew. All this happened in broad daylight, to the amazement of the local inhabitants. Still later that same afternoon, an army detachment under the command of Oberleutnant Battel broke into the cordoned-off area of the ghetto and used army trucks to evacuate up to 100 Jews and their families to the barracks of the local military command. These Jews were placed under the protection of the Wehrmacht and were thus sheltered from deportation to the Belzec extermination camp.
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Battel’s stand against the SS came to be recognised only a long time after his death; most notably, through the tenacious efforts of the Israeli researcher and lawyer Dr. Zeev Goshen. On January 22, 1981, almost 30 years after his death, Yad Vashem recognised Albert Battel as Righteous among the Nations.

On 24 June 1993 Yad Vashem officially recognized Max Liedtke as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.
 
Kings Provisional said:
Last I heard the kid who stepped in to defend the blind kid got suspended and booted off the football team because of the school's "zero tolerance" policy on fighting.

That is profoundly stupid. Don't get me started................

Actually, this is worth a discussion. Beerman, perhaps start a thread on this incident.
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Shame on Huntington Beach High School, this kid stuck his neck out to defend one of their handicapped students that was repeatedly getting punched in the face and this hero loses his right to play football for his high school. Sad times in California. 20 years ago, the kid would have been honored.
 
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