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Regarding the age of the current "Hunk of The Week", I am opting for Duke Johann Georg III, Elector of Saxony, as the next one.
In September 1683 in the face of the siege of Vienna, Saxony, had answered the call for a European Alliance, supported by Pope Innocent XI, as well. The devout Protestant Johann Georg led himself a 10,400 man army against the Turks. Called "an honourable man of straight heart" by Polish King Jan Sobieski, the Elector of Saxony, at whose request the battle call had been changed from "Mary Help" to "Jesus and Mary Help", showed extraordinary personal courage on the left wing in the Battle of Vienna, for which neither the Catholic Emperor nor his own Protestant estates ever thanked him.
The entire story is here.
So does he qualify? ;-)
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Historic Hunk of The Week
Regarding the age of the current "Hunk of The Week", I am opting for Duke Johann Georg III, Elector of Saxony, as the next one.
In September 1683 in the face of the siege of Vienna, Saxony, had answered the call for a European Alliance, supported by Pope Innocent XI, as well. The devout Protestant Johann Georg led himself a 10,400 man army against the Turks. Called "an honourable man of straight heart" by Polish King Jan Sobieski, the Elector of Saxony, at whose request the battle call had been changed from "Mary Help" to "Jesus and Mary Help", showed extraordinary personal courage on the left wing in the Battle of Vienna, for which neither the Catholic Emperor nor his own Protestant estates ever thanked him.
The entire story is here.
So does he qualify? ;-)
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- Infidel Hunk Of The Week
I'm going to celebrate some Israeli fighting spirit with this one. I have heard from women who were old enough during the wars in which Moshe Dayan fought that he was rather CELEBRATED instead of maligned here, and was actually something of a sex...
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Poland's striker Maciej Zurawski. Amazingly, I keep discovering the odd positive note buried under all this World Cup brouhaha. Tonight, a friend and Polish patriot told me that the logo on the Polish team's jerseys stands for Poland's mighty...
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OK, here's a man I definitely think qualifies as a hunk. And a devoted Infidel Hunk at that. We read his words, whether in his books or in his columns, and many end up quoting him as well. I know I have. Compared to the pic of the Babes of the Week,...