Margaret Killjoy
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There's documentaries. And I really hope I'm thinking of the right person or else I sound dumb. She was like really short, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.
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As somebody who definitely can't reach things on the top shelf, I'm very excited to hear more about Violet.
As somebody who definitely can't reach things on the top shelf, I'm very excited to hear more about Violet.
As somebody who definitely can't reach things on the top shelf, I'm very excited to hear more about Violet.
Also, the only person who I'm going to talk about today who successfully shot the man
Also, the only person who I'm going to talk about today who successfully shot the man
Also, the only person who I'm going to talk about today who successfully shot the man
So Violet Gibson was a 49-year-old Irish woman from Dublin who lived in a convent in Rome and shot Mussolini in the face on April 7th, 1926. What's not to like? Oh, God. Ireland stays winning. Yeah, you know? I know. Yeah. Mostly, the part to not like about the story is that he turned his head at the last minute. Yeah, he didn't die. And she only grazed his nose.
So Violet Gibson was a 49-year-old Irish woman from Dublin who lived in a convent in Rome and shot Mussolini in the face on April 7th, 1926. What's not to like? Oh, God. Ireland stays winning. Yeah, you know? I know. Yeah. Mostly, the part to not like about the story is that he turned his head at the last minute. Yeah, he didn't die. And she only grazed his nose.
So Violet Gibson was a 49-year-old Irish woman from Dublin who lived in a convent in Rome and shot Mussolini in the face on April 7th, 1926. What's not to like? Oh, God. Ireland stays winning. Yeah, you know? I know. Yeah. Mostly, the part to not like about the story is that he turned his head at the last minute. Yeah, he didn't die. And she only grazed his nose.
But there are good pictures of him with the bandage on his nose or whatever. There's no comparisons that can be made now to the modern world. No.
But there are good pictures of him with the bandage on his nose or whatever. There's no comparisons that can be made now to the modern world. No.
But there are good pictures of him with the bandage on his nose or whatever. There's no comparisons that can be made now to the modern world. No.
About people turning their heads?
About people turning their heads?
About people turning their heads?
Yeah, and getting grazed. Yep. The world would have been a very different place if he had not turned his head. Yep. Violet Gibson was a thin woman, about five foot one. Her father was the Lord Chancellor of Ireland. She grew up... She's Anglo-Irish, right? And she grew up like... Oh, wow.