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Norfolk born naval genius Lord Nelson

American: Abraham Lincoln
British: John Stuart Mill

I think if i could be some one for a time it would a man who died about 100 years ago, the white man called him "GERONIMO" love to spend time back in them days to see what life was like,

thank you monty your a star xx

sid viceous pankhurst woman nostrdamous marylin monroe james dean frank spencer lol xx

WELL THIS WILL DO FOR STARTERS.
1 Isaac Newton the Newtonian Revolution Anglican (rejected Trinitarianism, i.e., Athanasianism;
believed in the Arianism of the Primitive Church)
2 Albert Einstein Twentieth-Century Science Jewish
3 Neils Bohr the Atom Jewish Lutheran
4 Charles Darwin Evolution Anglican (nominal); Unitarian
5 Louis Pasteur the Germ Theory of Disease Catholic
6 Sigmund Freud Psychology of the Unconscious Jewish; Atheist; Freudian psychoanalysis (Freudianism)
7 Galileo Galilei the New Science Catholic
8 Antoine Laurent Lavoisier the Revolution in Chemistry Catholic
9 Johannes Kepler Motion of the Planets Lutheran
10 Nicolaus Copernicus the Heliocentric Universe Catholic (priest)
11 Michael Faraday the Classical Field Theory Sandemanian
12 James Clerk Maxwell the Electromagnetic Field Presbyterian; Anglican; Baptist
13 Claude Bernard the Founding of Modern Physiology
14 Franz Boas Modern Anthropology Jewish
15 Werner Heisenberg Quantum Theory Lutheran
16 Linus Pauling Twentieth-Century Chemistry Lutheran
17 Rudolf Virchow the Cell Doctrine
18 Erwin Schrodinger Wave Mechanics Catholic
19 Ernest Rutherford the Structure of the Atom
20 Paul Dirac Quantum Electrodynamics
21 Andreas Vesalius the New Anatomy Catholic
22 Tycho Brahe the New Astronomy Lutheran
23 Comte de Buffon l'Histoire Naturelle
24 Ludwig Boltzmann Thermodynamics
25 Max Planck the Quanta Protestant
26 Marie Curie Radioactivity Catholic (lapsed)
27 William Herschel the Discovery of the Heavens Jewish
28 Charles Lyell Modern Geology
29 Pierre Simon de Laplace Newtonian Mechanics atheist
30 Edwin Hubble the Modern Telescope
31 Joseph J. Thomson the Discovery of the Electron
32 Max Born Quantum Mechanics Jewish Lutheran
33 Francis Crick Molecular Biology atheist
34 Enrico Fermi Atomic Physics Catholic
35 Leonard Euler Eighteenth-Century Mathematics Calvinist
36 Justus Liebig Nineteenth-Century Chemistry
37 Arthur Eddington Modern Astronomy Quaker
38 William Harvey Circulation of the Blood Anglican (nominal)
39 Marcello Malpighi Microscopic Anatomy Catholic
40 Christiaan Huygens the Wave Theory of Light Calvinist
41 Carl Gauss (Karl Friedrich Gauss) Mathematical Genius Lutheran
42 Albrecht von Haller Eighteenth-Century Medicine
43 August Kekule Chemical Structure
44 Robert Koch Bacteriology
45 Murray Gell-Mann the Eightfold Way Jewish
46 Emil Fischer Organic Chemistry
47 Dmitri Mendeleev the Periodic Table of Elements
48 Sheldon Glashow the Discovery of Charm Jewish
49 James Watson the Structure of DNA atheist
50 John Bardeen Superconductivity
51 John von Neumann the Modern Computer Jewish Catholic
52 Richard Feynman Quantum Electrodynamics Jewish
53 Alfred Wegener Continental Drift
54 Stephen Hawking Quantum Cosmology atheist
55 Anton van Leeuwenhoek the Simple Microscope Dutch Reformed
56 Max von Laue X-ray Crystallography
57 Gustav Kirchhoff Spectroscopy
58 Hans Bethe the Energy of the Sun Jewish
59 Euclid the Foundations of Mathematics Platonism / Greek philosophy
60 Gregor Mendel the Laws of Inheritance Catholic (Augustinian monk)
61 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Superconductivity
62 Thomas Hunt Morgan the Chromosomal Theory of Heredity
63 Hermann von Helmholtz the Rise of German Science
64 Paul Ehrlich Chemotherapy Jewish
65 Ernst Mayr Evolutionary Theory atheist
66 Charles Sherrington Neurophysiology
67 Theodosius Dobzhansky the Modern Synthesis Russian Orthodox
68 Max Delbruck the Bacteriophage
69 Jean Baptiste Lamarck the Foundations of Biology
70 William Bayliss Modern Physiology
71 Noam Chomsky Twentieth-Century Linguistics Jewish atheist
72 Frederick Sanger the Genetic Code
73 Lucretius Scientific Thinking Epicurean; atheist
74 John Dalton the Theory of the Atom Quaker
75 Louis Victor de Broglie Wave/Particle Duality
76 Carl Linnaeus the Binomial Nomenclature Christianity
77 Jean Piaget Child Development
78 George Gaylord Simpson the Tempo of Evolution
79 Claude Levi-Strauss Structural Anthropology Jewish
80 Lynn Margulis Symbiosis Theory Jewish
81 Karl Landsteiner the Blood Groups Jewish
82 Konrad Lorenz Ethology
83 Edward O. Wilson Sociobiology
84 Frederick Gowland Hopkins Vitamins
85 Gertrude Belle Elion Pharmacology
86 Hans Selye the Stress Concept
87 J. Robert Oppenheimer the Atomic Era Jewish
88 Edward Teller the Bomb Jewish
89 Willard Libby Radioactive Dating
90 Ernst Haeckel the Biogenetic Principle
91 Jonas Salk Vaccination Jewish
92 Emil Kraepelin Twentieth-Century Psychiatry
93 Trofim Lysenko Soviet Genetics Russian Orthodox; Communist
94 Francis Galton Eugenics
95 Alfred Binet the I.Q. Test
96 Alfred Kinsey Human Sexuality atheist
97 Alexander Fleming Penicillin Catholic
98 B. F. Skinner Behaviorism atheist
99 Wilhelm Wundt the Founding of Psychology atheist
100 Archimedes the Beginning of Science Greek philosophy

Genghis Khan!

(Someone non-white but equally dead!)

DNA evidence suggests at least 8 % of asians are descended from him!

What a man!


xxxx mick

Winston Churchill for me.

we have a good choice of people here
from lots of walks of life
well done everybody xx

If we're talking the minute bit of human history occupied by dead white people, I'll take Mary Wollstonecraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Wollstonecraft

Righteous genius does it for me every time. ;)

Dear Joy

Hello

Hope you are well and doing okay.

Good post. I have enjoyed reading this.

For me, there are several.

The pioneers from the 19th century who campaigned for improvements in public health, housing and water supplies, like Edwin Chadwick, John Snow, Joseph Lister and many more.

Their views were often unpopular but thank goodness they stuck to their
beliefs and kept going and by doing so, helped so many ordinary people.

Take gentle care
Very best wishes
xx

There are far too many that I admire and for different reasons.

The Pankhursts and Florence Nightingale are just some from history that have to be admired.

In todays world I think Bryn and Emma Parry deserve credit as outstanding figures. Sometimes it's not the names that have stood out but the achievements that they have done.


To save googling Bryn and Emma set up Help for Heroes.

Shakespeare...because his words have become part of everyday language whether we recognise them as his or not.

Because he is known worldwide, his works translated into so many ( all?) languages

because (if for nothing else) he said :

"The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown. "

Not just one but Emmeline Pankhurst and all Women of the Suffragete movement........who gave women a voice!
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ooh hope I've not broken the thread :O( ......ties a knot in it lol

Oliver Cromwell
...It is high time for me to put an end to you sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt of all virtue and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew and enemies to all good government; a pack of mercenary wretches and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage and like Judas betray your god for a few pieces of money.
Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you?
Is there one vice you do not possess?
Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your god; which of you has not barter'd your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you who has the least care for the good of the commonwealth?
Ye sordid prostitutes, have you not defiled this sacred place and turned the lords temple into a den of theives by your immoral principles and wicked practices?
Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you who were deputed here by the people to get grievences redressed are yourselves gone.

Oliver Cromwell to parliament 20th April 1653
As relevant to day as it ever was.

ohh yes pauline a worthy person for the vote

would nursing be today without her

well girls i to would of thought nelson come a close

but what his wife winnie did sort of blackens his name to me

but thats just my opinion

I think Nelson Mandela for me too.

Always Nelson Mandela for me.

But if I have to choose someone dead then Ghandi.

Gwynne

Winston Churchill.

xx