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Who was Virginia Hall, and how did she give Wonder Woman a run for her money? Hit play to find out.
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Thank you We sneak in okay time for another little
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known history fact which you probably didn't know But now
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you will know because i'm helping you know Yeah the
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limping lady Have you ever heard of her If you
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haven't her name is virginia hall That old girl she
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was a be more native that's baltimore on dh She
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was known for serving in the ss or the office
- 00:28
of strategic services which was actually pretty cool because she
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was a pretty dope woman Not only was she served
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in the o s s but she knew times of
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different languages which is very impressive because i still struggle
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with english But beyond that you know she also served
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in the u s embassy in warsaw for a period
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of time and while she was in warsaw she had
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this tragic hunting accident that you know made her lose
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a leg but it didn't keep oh virginia down because
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she was able to get a replacement a prosthetic wooden
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leg that she also named cuff burt which is kind
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of weird because you know i'd name my cars but
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apparently some people gain their legs right So there's that
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call was this extremely bad type woman Like when i
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say bad i mean bad in a good way Not
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like evil Bad evil genius bad that that's Not what
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i'm talking about here but no virginia She was so
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awesome She you know was specialized in weapons training She
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had security training she had resistance training She was a
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part of a lot of organizations like the ambulance corps
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the special ops She helped form agent networks She helped
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develop safe houses for people to go to and even
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recruited people to work in the safehouses And she even
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rescued pows from war So she was like the female
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superhero of the day back in the day You know
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it was so awesome She was so bad that you
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know the gestapo wanted to capture her you know they
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wanted to lock her up put her away that she
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was becoming a huge thorn in their side But you
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know virginia ho couldn't keep her down She was always
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one step ahead literally so she would never get caught
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And she actually became the first civilian and the only
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civilian woman to get awarded the distinguished service cross which
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is a huge deal because apparently no civilians actually get
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that So she got that and she kept going and
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she decided she wanted to do more stuff And so
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she kept on an intelligence And then she went to
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work with the cia for a period of time and
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that's virginia hall And in that show so that's your
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little known history Fact that now you know that you 00:02:47.82 --> [endTime] didn't know and i helped you know very good
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