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Pastimes : A CENTURY OF LIONS/THE 20TH CENTURY TOP 100 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Druss who wrote (738)	10/27/1999 9:22:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 3246

Now that you mention it, I think you may be right, and I will think hard about fitting him in....

To: Druss who wrote (738)	10/27/1999 10:55:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 3246

A 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. Erwin Schroedinger 41. Enrico Fermi 42. Watson & Crick (in tandem) 43. Bardeen/Shockley/Brattain (the transistor) 44. Hoff/Mazor/Faggin (the microprocessor) 45. Elkjman/Hopkins (vitamins) 46. Paul Erlich (chemotherapy) 47. Alexander Fleming (penicillin) 48. Gerhard Domagk (sulfa drugs) 49. Salk/Sabin (polio vaccine) 50. Watson & Crick (DNA model) 51. William Halsted (surgery) 52. Fred Albee (bone grafting) 53. The Mayo Brothers (surgery) 54. Christian Bernard (transplantation) 55. D.W. Griffith 56. Charles Chaplin 57. Frank Capra 58. John Ford 59. John Huston 60. Orson Welles 61. Alfred Hitchock 62. Jean Renoir 63. Federico Fellini 64. Ingmar Bergman 65. Akira Kurosawa 66. Francois Truffaut 67. Louis Armstrong 68. Duke Ellington 69. George & Ira Gershwin 70. Rogers and Hammerstein 71.. Robert Johnson 72. Elvis Presley 73. The Beatles 74. Barry Gordy 75. Smokey Robinson 76. Bob Dylan 77. Joni Mitchell 78. Neil Young 79. The Rolling Stones 80. David Bowie 81. Pablo Picasso 82. Henri Matisse 83. Piet Mondrian 84. Wassily Kandinsky 85. Constantin Brancusi 86. Marcel Duchamp 87. Jackson Pollack 88. Willem De Kooning 89. Jasper Johns 90. Robert Rauschenberg 91. Andy Warhol 92. Roy Lichtenstein 93. Frank Lloyd Wright 94. Louis Kahn 95. Walter Gropius 96. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 97. Igor Stravinsky 98. Arnold Schoenberg 99. Anton Webern 100. Elliot Carter 101. Benjamin Britten 102. James Joyce 103. T.S. Eliot 104. Ezra Pound 105. D.H. Lawrence 106. E.M. Forster 107. G.B. Shaw 108. Eugene O'Neill 109. Albert Camus 110. Franz Kafka 111. Herman Hesse 120. Thomas Mann 121. Sigmund Freud 122. Carl Jung 123. Max Weber 124. Wallace Stevens 125. Bertold Brecht 126. Tennessee Williams 127. Arnold Toynbee 128. Will and Ariel Durant 129. Sinclair Lewis 130. Saul Bellow 131. Martin Heidegger 132. Karl Jaspers 133. Martin Buber 134. Jean- Paul Sartre 135. G.K. Chesterton One can see the difficulty. I am glad to have help, and have changed some things already due to suggestions. I need to pare things down, and also to make sure I am not missing anyone essential. I also have to tighten the ranking. However, at least I have finished a "raw list".......