Interested in your thoughts. I will keep a running tally, which we shall determine Volconvo's people of the century. Here's how the voting works, first place your first choice worth 3 points. Then your second choice worth 2 points. And your third choice worth one. Whoever has the most points at the end wins.
1st: T.E. Lawrence
2nd: Mustafa Ataturk
3rd: Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Current Tally
Che 1
Ataturk 2
Lawrence 3
1. Mahatma Ghandi
2. Alan Turing
3. Alfred P. Sloan
1. Albert Einstein
2. Ludwig Wittgenstein
3. Elvis Presley
"I really like this jacket, but the sleeves are much too long..."
insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results...
Just get everybody to throw out some names of great people, than create a poll listing them off. It'll make things alot easier.
It's nearly impossible, as there are alot.
1) Mahatma Ghandi
2) Nelson Mandela
3) Martin Luther King, Jr.
. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
(1st)Eleanor Roosevelt
(2nd)Jimmy Carter
(3rd)Mother Theresa
1)Mother Theresa
2)Mahatma Ghandi
3)Franklin D. Roosevelt
my list is so typical.. :)
So it goes
I was wondering how long it would take for women to get on the list...
. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
My list is typical for me, all fighters, most fighting to liberate a country from oppressive rule.
FDR actually mad my worst presidents list.
Only three? Ah man I hate limiting this.
1) Che Guevara
2) John Lennon
3) Gerry Adams (and the rest of the IRA reformers)
This is a personal list, it has nothing to do with really being greatest of the 20th century, more the the people who have had the greatest impact on me from the 20th century. Che and John Lennon are heroes to me, and while Gerry isn't his shifting of the Irish cause in Northern Ireland has probably saved half my family, for which I am obviously grateful. I also took his name for the ranting boards I use, but that was to be ironic, though I don't know why now...
(formerly G.Adams)
"You can avoid reality but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" ~ Ayn Rand
"worst presidents' list"? what earth were YOU born on?
. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
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