The Power of the Iron Hand

The image displays a historical iron prosthetic hand, identified as belonging to Götz von Berlichingen, a 16th-century knight and mercenary. The overlaid text provides a humorous summary of his life, including how he lost his arm to a cannon, continued fighting for decades, wrote poetry with his iron hand, was outlawed, and spent his later years drunk in a castle he bought with his spoils. The caption also notes his poetry contains the first known use of the phrase 'lick my ass'.

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