Your list, IMHO, is much too unbalanced, Neo! 4 American Presidents.4 American military men (not counting Eisenhower). 2 British Prime Ministers. 2 German Prime Ministers. 4 Russians in all (but no Lenin, no Stalin), including two Presidents (Gorbachev, Yeltsin); 1 dissident physicist (Sakharov); one dissident writer (Solzhenitsyn). And, finally, bringing up the rear, 1 Czech playwright+ President (Havel), and one French General +President (de Gaulle).
Not one African, not one Latin American, not one Asian!!
Not one person notable for creative achievements: Havel is there not because of his plays, but because of his political activities; Solzhenitsyn is there because of his descriptions of the Stalinist concentration camps, not because of his artistry. (Seems kind of odd, in a way, to say that the man who described the concentration camps was more influential than the man who built them! Oh, well...)
Not one person notable for revolutionary inventions, or for ideas that changed the world...
Politicians, politicians, politicians....
Tsk, tsk.
And those numbers -- are you really trying to rank these guys? If so, why is Chester Nimitz No. 3? How many people do you know who can actually tell you 1) who he was, not to speak of 2) what he did that was so influential.
Dukes up!
Joan |
