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Pastimes : A CENTURY OF LIONS/THE 20TH CENTURY TOP 100
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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (805)10/28/1999 11:14:00 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (8) of 3246
 
A NEW IMPROVED REVISED TENTATIVE TOP 100--- AND THEN SOME:

1. Winston Churchill
2. Franklin Roosevelt
3. Dwight Eisenhower
4. Chester Nimitz
5. Douglas MacArthur
6. William Halsey
7. George Marshall
8. Harry Truman
9. Henry Kaiser
10. Ronald Reagan
11. Margaret Thatcher
12. Lech Walesa
13. John Paul II
14. Mikhail Gorbachev
15. Boris Yeltsin
16. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
17. Andrei Sakharov
18. Vaclav Havel
19. Konrad Adenauer
20. Charles DeGaulle
21. Helmut Kohl
22. George Bush
23. John XXIII
24. Mohandas Gandhi
25. Martin Luther King
26. Kemal Ataturk
27. George Orwell
28. Fred Hayek
29. Milton Friedman
30. Henry Ford
31. The Wright Brothers (in tandem)
32. Marconi/Tesla (acknowledging the dispute)
33. Vladimir Zworkin/Philo Farnsworth (both contributed crucially to television)
34. George Stibitz (more or less the father of the computer)
35. Goddard/Von Braun
36. Marie and Pierre Curie (in tandem)
37. Albert Einstein
38. Niels Bohr
39. Werner Heisenberg
40. Enrico Fermi
42. Watson & Crick (in tandem)
43. Bardeen/Shockley/Brattain (the transistor)
44. Hoff/Mazor/Faggin (the microprocessor)
45. Paul Erlich (chemotherapy)
46. Alexander Fleming (penicillin)
47. Gerhard Domagk (sulfa drugs)
48. Salk/Sabin (polio vaccine)
49. Watson & Crick (DNA model)
50. William Halsted (surgery)
51. Fred Albee (bone grafting)
52. The Mayo Brothers (surgery)
53. Christian Bernard (transplantation)
54. D.W. Griffith
55. Charles Chaplin
56. Frank Capra
57. John Ford
58. John Huston
59. Orson Welles
60. Alfred Hitchock
61. Jean Renoir
62. Federico Fellini
63. Ingmar Bergman
64. Akira Kurosawa
65. Francois Truffaut
66. Louis Armstrong
67. Duke Ellington
68. George & Ira Gershwin
69. Rogers and Hammerstein
70. Robert Johnson
71. Elvis Presley
72. The Beatles
73. Barry Gordy
74. Smokey Robinson
75. Bob Dylan
76. Joni Mitchell
77. Neil Young
78. The Rolling Stones
79. David Bowie
80. Pablo Picasso
81. Henri Matisse
82. Piet Mondrian
83. Wassily Kandinsky
84. Constantin Brancusi
85. Marcel Duchamp
86. Jackson Pollack
87. Willem De Kooning
88. Andy Warhol
89. Frank Lloyd Wright
90. Louis Kahn
91. Walter Gropius
92. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
93. Igor Stravinsky
94. Arnold Schoenberg
95. James Joyce
96. T.S. Eliot
97. D.H. Lawrence
98. G.B. Shaw
99. Eugene O'Neill
100. Albert Camus
101. Franz Kafka
102. Herman Hesse
103. Thomas Mann
104. Sigmund Freud
105. Carl Jung
106. Wallace Stevens
107. Tennessee Williams
109. Sinclair Lewis
110. Saul Bellow
111. Martin Heidegger
112. Karl Jaspers
113. Martin Buber
114. C.S. Lewis
115. G.K. Chesterton
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