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Pastimes : A CENTURY OF LIONS/THE 20TH CENTURY TOP 100

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To: Neocon who wrote (2084)12/3/1999 10:58:00 PM
From: Michael M  Read Replies (2) of 3246
 
As you know, Neo, I've thought 100 was too large a number for a list of 20th century superworthies. No doubt there are many more than that number, but, by allowing so many on the list, there seems a quota effect of types has crept in.

The solution may be to take in the entire millennium. Plenty of movers and shakers present themselves. No doubt there's another thread for just this project, but I'm in no mood to meet new people this evening.

A VERY hasty starter list follows. Feel free to add or subtract if outraged or overcome by boredom, as the case may be.

BTW, this household agreed instantly and independently on who should have the title, Mr. Millennium. Aside from that, I have made no real attempt to rank the names --

#1 Henry VIII

Kublai Khan
Genghis Khan
Alp Arslan
Saladin
Mohammed II
Suleiman I
Tamerlane
King Sobieski
William I (the Conqueror)
Lorenzo de' Medici
Thomas More
Erasmus
Machiavelli
Peter the Great
Ferdinand and Isabella
Louis XIV
Newton
John Locke
Thomas Jefferson
Aquinas
Copernicus
Galileo
Luther
Ignatius Loyola
Elizabeth I
Francis Drake
Columbus
Capt James Cook
Henry the Navigator
Shakespeare
Dante Alighieri
Charles von Gerhardt
Freud
Pasteur
Francois Breda
Cromwell
Victoria
Otto von Bismark
Maria Theresa
Ben Franklin
Abe Lincoln
U.S. Grant
Napolean
Charles V
Clement VII
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Gutenberg
Karl Marx
Haile Selassi

Pease add others that appeal as they come to mind, plus some from the various lists of 2Oth century rabble.

Later -

Mike
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