Current Events > Italians who could take Columbus' place in having a day named after them

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Mario
Tony Soprano
Uhhh
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fabio cannavaro

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chongo dongo

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Rocky Balboa
Sylvester Stallone
Judge Dredd
John Rambo

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Luigi

Julius Caesar

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Happy Ezio Auditore Day, CE

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FursonaNonGrata posted...

okay now i'm glad you haven't taken my advice and blocked me because zesty newman is a sexy motherfucker who will retire you to his countryside villa in torino where the implication is strong whereas familia newman is wholesome and would serenade you on a gondola ride

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Al Pacino Day
Robert De Niro Day
Joe Pesci Day
Chazz Palmentieri Day
Martin Scorcese Day
Francis Ford Coppola Day
Monica Belluci Day

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Mario already has a day. It's March 10 aka Mar10 day.

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Luigi

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Frank Sinatra

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I feel like Amerigo Vespucci could use a little more love and recognition. Because, you know, having half the globe named after you isn't already enough.

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Madonna

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The Situation

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FursonaNonGrata posted...

Wtf bro my culture isn't yours to turn into salad dressing how dare you

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Snooki

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Why bother with a replacement?
There's no good reason for banks to mysteriously be closed in the middle of October.

Gungarino

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I'm on board with Joe Pesci Day

Chef Boyardee day

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Italian-Americans claiming Christopher Columbus is the fucking weirdest shit. The guy didn't do fucking shit for them and in fact multiple Italian states told him to fuck off which is why he ended up in Spain in the first place.
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We should celebrate Giuseppe Peano's day, honestly

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Little Caesar
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Antifar posted...

Tony Soprano

Let me ask you a question, all the good things you got in your life did they come to you because you're Calabrese? I'll tell you the answer: the answer is no...Did you get all dat shit because you're Italian? No, you got it because you're you, because you're smaht because you're whaddeva the fuck! Where da fuck is our self esteem? That shit doesn't come from Columbus or The Godfather, or Chef fuckin Boyardee!

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Chef Boyardee

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Luigi Mario

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Bruno Sanmartino

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DD Divine posted...

Bruno Sanmartino

Oooh, I second this.

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DD Divine posted...

Bruno Sanmartino

You gotta believe this is the obvious choice. But not just Bruno, also his mother Emilia. Who had 7 children at the time the German Soldiers invaded her small village in Italy. Forcing her and her neighbors to go into hiding in the mountains with no food, no decent shelter and only the bare minimal of possessions.

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Then as her children began to starve and became deeply ill, she would routinely sneak back into her now occupied village, stealthily avoid the army of patrolling soldiers who would kill her without a second thought and retake her food and items from her home to return to the mountains.

One time she was spotted carrying a bundle of goods while trying to leave the village, and was shot by a horde of angry soldiers. She fell to the ground and dropped her belongings but she knew that if she stayed down she would die, and her children along with her. So with bullets whizzing past her head and pints of blood spurting out her body in every direction, she somehow, someway, got back to her feet and miraculously out-ran the trained soldiers, fleeing back to the mountains.

At the time young Bruno was suffering from rheumatic fever. And it was hard for him to helplessly watch his mother routinely walk into mortal danger. And this sense of fear was redoubled the night his brave mother returned, half-crawling with a bullet-wound covering her body with sticky red blood that was still pouring as she literally had none of the supplies they needed to survive in her hands.

Yet miraculously with no solid food supply, no clean water, no medicine and only partial movement left in her body from her wound. Emilia was able to nurse little Bruno back to health using what little blankets they had left and leeches they found literally on the floor.

Both Bruno and Emilia fought on, valiantly in the darkest of days with no hope. Just out of passion, love and determination. And merely a few years after the war was over, "Little Bruno" the starving malnourished urchin boy with severe rheumatic fever was now over 200 pounds, resembled a shaved bear and could carry a tree-trunk on his back.

The Italian Superman moved to America and quickly became one of biggest and most unstoppable superstars of all time. Dominating everything his path and becoming a millionaire in the 1960s. The man held the WWE Championship twice, for a combined total of 11 years. His 7 year Championship reign still holds the record for the longest WWE Championship reign in all history.

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But as successful and amazing as Bruno was. He never ever forgot that time where he was a little boy hiding in a mountain, dying of starvation, fiercely ill, with nothing to his name and no promise of a decent future, surrounded by Nazi enemies, being barely kept alive and repeatedly rescued by a small woman with no apparent skills or abilities of note. Just because she was a hero with the heart and determination to do what was unthinkable.

It just goes to show anyone is capable of anything if they put their hearts and mind to it. You have to wonder if there is anyone on this Earth more deserving of having a day celebrating their determination and ability than the Sammartinos, Italian or otherwise.

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