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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: aladin who wrote (114227)	9/9/2003 12:43:23 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

:-) That wouldn't be foreign, nor would it be much of an affair, and I doubt you could get a group together for it- but you might be able to call it a "discussion"...maybe.

To: aladin who wrote (114227)	9/9/2003 1:08:30 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 281500

Nope, no interest in that......

To: aladin who wrote (114227)	9/9/2003 1:10:27 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 281500

Subject 31172 TENTATIVE TOP 100--- AND THEN SOME: 1. Winston Churchill 2. Ronald Reagan 3. Franklin Roosevelt 4. Margaret Thatcher 5. Harry Truman 6. George Marshall 7. Dwight Eisenhower 8. Chester Nimitz 9. Douglas McArthur 10. George Orwell 11. William F. Buckley, Jr. 12. Alexander Solzhenitsyn 13. Andrei Sakharov 14. Lech Walesa 15. Vaclav Havel 16. George Bush 17. Helmut Kohl 18. Konrad Adenauer 19. Charles DeGaulle 20. John Paul II 21. Milton Friedman 22. Fred Hayek 23. John XXIII 24. Martin Luther King 25. Mikhail Gorbachev 26. T.S. Eliot 27. D.H. Lawrence 28. James Joyce 29. G.B. Shaw 29. Albert Camus 30. Franz Kafka 31. Herman Hesse 32. Thomas Mann 33. Samuel Becket 34. Martin Heidegger 35. Karl Jaspers 36. Martin Buber 37. D.T. Suzuki 38. C.S. Lewis 39. G.K. Chesterton 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 47. Von Braun 48. Marie and Pierre Curie (in tandem) 49. Albert Einstein 50. Robert Watson- Watt (radar) 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. Niels Bohr 62. Werner Heisenberg 63. Carl Jung 64. H. G. Wells 65. Aldous Huxley 66. D.W. Griffith 67. Charles Chaplin 68. Frank Capra 69. Fritz Lang 70. John Huston 71. Orson Welles 72. Jean Renoir 73. Federico Fellini 74. Ingmar Bergman 75. Akira Kurosawa 76. Stanley Kubrick 77. Boris Yeltsin 78. Nelson Mandela 79. Agnes De Mille 80. Duke Ellington 81. George & Ira Gershwin 82. Irving Berlin 83. The Beatles 84. Barry Gordy 85. Bob Dylan 86. Louis Sullivan 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. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 97. Walter Gropius 98. Le Courbousier 99. Elvis Presley 100.Martha Graham