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

To: Edwarda who wrote (1422)11/11/1999 7:56:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 3246
 
Edwarda, surely you jest...



To: Edwarda who wrote (1422)11/12/1999 1:07:00 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 3246
 
The newly revised TENTATIVE TOP 100--- AND THEN SOME:

1. Winston Churchill
2. Franklin Roosevelt
3. Ronald Reagan
4. Margaret Thatcher
5. Harry Truman
6. George Marshall
7. Douglas MacArthur
8. Dwight Eisenhower
9. Chester Nimitz
10. George Orwell
11. Fred Hayek
12. Milton Friedman
13. John Paul II
14. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
15. Andrei Sakharov
16. George Bush
17. Helmut Kohl
18. Konrad Adenauer
19. Charles DeGaulle
20. Lech Walesa
21. Vaclav Havel
22. John XXIII
23. Martin Luther King
24. T.S. Eliot
25. D.H. Lawrence
26. James Joyce
27. G.B. Shaw
28. Albert Camus
29. Franz Kafka
30. Herman Hesse
31. Thomas Mann
32. Mikhail Gorbachev
33. Sigmund Freud
34. Martin Heidegger
35. Karl Jaspers
36. Martin Buber
37. C.S. Lewis
38. G.K. Chesterton
39. Kemal Ataturk
40. Henry Ford
41. The Wright Brothers (in tandem)
42. Marconi/Tesla (acknowledging the dispute)
43. Vladimir Zworkin/Philo Farnsworth (both contributed crucially to television)
44. Alan Turing (computer)
45. George Stibitz (more or less the father of the computer)
46. Goddard/Von Braun
47. Marie and Pierre Curie (in tandem)
48. Albert Einstein
49. Niels Bohr
50. Werner Heisenberg
51. Gordon Moore/Bob Metcalfe (Ethernet)
52. Bardeen/Shockley/Brattain (the transistor)
53. Hoff/Mazor/Faggin (the microprocessor)
54. Paul Erlich (chemotherapy)
55. Alexander Fleming (penicillin)
56. Gerhard Domagk (sulfa drugs)
57. Salk/Sabin (polio vaccine)
58. Watson & Crick (DNA model)
59. William Halsted (surgery)
60. The Mayo Brothers (surgery)
61. Mother Teresa
62. Mohandas Gandhi
63. Theodore Roosevelt
64. D.W. Griffith
65. Charles Chaplin
66. Frank Capra
67. John Ford
68. John Huston
69. Orson Welles
70. Jean Renoir
71. Federico Fellini
72. Ingmar Bergman
73. Walt Disney
74. Boris Yeltsin
75. Louis Armstrong
76. Duke Ellington
77. George & Ira Gershwin
78. Rogers and Hammerstein
79. Robert Johnson
80. Frank Sinatra
81. Elvis Presley
82. The Beatles
83. Barry Gordy
84. Bob Dylan
85. David Bowie
86. Igor Stravinsky
87. Pablo Picasso
88. Henri Matisse
89. Piet Mondrian
90. Wassily Kandinsky
91. Constantin Brancusi
92. Marcel Duchamp
93. Jackson Pollack
94. Willem De Kooning
95. Frank Lloyd Wright
96. Louis Sullivan
97. Walter Gropius
98. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
99. Carl Jung
100.Karen Horney



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