Posted on 11/22/2006 7:51:12 AM PST by Borges
1 Abraham Lincoln 2 George Washington 3 Thomas Jefferson 4 Franklin D. Roosevelt 5 Alexander Hamilton 6 Benjamin Franklin 7 John Marshall 8 Martin Luther King Jr. 9 Thomas Edison 10 Woodrow Wilson 11 John D. Rockefeller 12 Ulysses Grant 13 James Madison 14 Henry Ford 15 Theodore Roosevelt 16 Mark Twain 17 Ronald Reagan 18 Andrew Jackson 19 Thomas Paine 20 Andrew Carnegie 21 Harry Truman 22 Walt Whitman 23 Wright Brothers 24 Alexander Graham Bell 25 John Adams 26 Walt Disney 27 Eli Whitney 28 Dwight D. Eisenhower 29 Earl Warren 30 Elizabeth Cady Stanton 31 Henry Clay 32 Albert Einstein 33 Ralph Waldo Emerson 34 Jonas Salk 35 Jackie Robinson 36 William Jennings Bryan 37 J.P. Morgan 38 Susan B. Anthony 39 Rachel Carson 40 John Dewey 41 Harriet Beecher Stowe 42 Eleanor Roosevelt 43 W.E.B. DuBois 44 Lyndon Baines Johnson 45 Samuel F.B. Morse 46 William Lloyd Garrison 47 Frederick Douglass 48 Robert Oppenheimer 49 Frederick Law Olmsted 50 James K. Polk 51 Margaret Sanger 52 Joseph Smith 53 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 54 Bill Gates 55 John Quincy Adams 56 Horace Mann 57 Robert E. Lee 58 John C. Calhoun 59 Louis Sullivan 60 William Faulkner 61 Samuel Gompers 62 William James 63 George Marshall 64 Jane Addams 65 Henry David Thoreau 66 Elvis Presley 67 P.T. Barnum 68 James D. Watson 69 James Gordon Bennett 70 Lewis and Clark 71 Noah Webster 72 Sam Walton 73 Cyrus McCormick 74 Brigham Young 75 George Herman "Babe" Ruth 76 Frank Lloyd Wright 77 Betty Friedan 78 John Brown 79 Louis Armstrong 80 William Randolph Hearst 81 Margaret Mead 82 George Gallup 83 James Fenimore Cooper 84 Thurgood Marshall 85 Ernest Hemingway 86 Mary Baker Eddy 87 Benjamin Spock 88 Enrico Fermi 89 Walter Lippmann 90 Jonathan Edwards 91 Lyman Beecher 92 John Steinbeck 93 Nat Turner 94 George Eastman 95 Sam Goldwyn 96 Ralph Nader 97 Stephen Foster 98 Booker T. Washington 99 Richard Nixon 100 Herman Melville
> What about Buddy Holly? <
When he makes, the list, well ... that'll be the day!
LOL
AND....jESUS cHRIST. jake
Theodore Roosevelt is a little low on the list. I know Jackie Robinson is acclaimed for breaking the racial barrier in baseball, but that isn't like having been JQ Adams, viz a great president. The list is a little skewed based on PC</p>
> Not really. The war was already over when the battle was fought. It was a moot point. <
I guess you're referring to the Battle of New Orleans? Nope, it wasn't a moot point at all. Read some history. The recent biography of Andrew Jackson by H. W. Brands would be an excellent place to start.
The Treaty of Ghent indeed had been signed a few weeks before the Battle of N.O. took place. But it hadn't been ratified by either side. And the virtually unanimous verdict of historians has been that the Battle of N.O. was the most important single event of the entire War of 1812. It was critical not only in insuring that the Treaty be ratified, but also in showing the European powers that the USA was a permanent and strong force with which they must reckon.
(And in retrospect, it seems fortunate that the U. S. Army didn't have a commander with Jackson's super-human willpower to fight on the northern frontier during the War of 1812. With somebody like him up there, we'd probably have taken the whole of Canada long before the British made their ill-fated landing in the swamps of Louisiana. And then we'd find ourselves burdened today with administering the Canadian healthcare system!)
So we'd be listening to different music if Elvis had never lived. Big deal.
Every single neighborhood does not have a house trailer. All non-wilderness green spaces in the US derive from Olmstead.
This is not my logic, it is my interpretation of the thinking of those who put him on the list. Your argument is with them, unless you think I am mistaken, and have a better explanation of their decision.
When this survey was being made Friedman was ineligible, being alive.
I'm just teasin' ya!
Get thee hence to Mozilla.com. Download Firefox, install it, and fire that bad boy up. Click on "Tools" then "Add-ons". On the extensions menu, click "Get extensions". Scroll down on the page that appears and type "Xinha" in the search window. Install that add on. You now have a great little WYSIWYG editor for composing HTML formatted text. Right-click in any text box and your get Xinha here! as an option. Type whatever you want, click "OK" and the HTML code will be inserted into the box. Also, the latest version of Firefox includes spell checking.
And of course, preview is your friend.
Hefner is ineligible -- he is breathing!
I would have put Nixon a little higher, IMHO.
Is not a person!
Nope the court eventually sided with DeForest over the regeneration circuit that Armstrong claimed to patent first...look it up on wikipedia if you don't believe me.
Amen to George Washington as number one and for the very reasons you stated.
I note that there's a bag full of hucksters, frauds and knaves on that list.
And where the hell is Samuel Colt?
From Wiki:
"Armstrong was one of the most prolific inventors of the radio era, with a vision that was ahead of his time. He invented the Regenerative circuit (invented while he was a junior in college at Columbia, and patented 1914), the Super-regenerative circuit (patented 1922), and the Superheterodyne receiver (patented 1918). The latter was developed when Armstrong was in the Army during World War I. Stationed in France, he rose to the rank of major. For the rest of his life his friends informally addressed him by that title."
Also:
"his patent lawsuit was the longest ever litigated to its date, at 12 years. Armstrong won the first round of the lawsuit, lost the second, and stalemated in a third. Before the United States Supreme Court, De Forest was granted the regeneration patent in what is today widely believed to be a misunderstanding of the technical facts by the Supreme Court."
Not the first person to get screwed in court, and he won't be the last.
And what do you have against that great American - Warren Harding.
eisenhower was impressed with the autobahn system in nazi germany and how much it helped them move troops around quickly -- being able to concentrate forces has a force multiplier effect, and remember in the mid-fifties the cold war cast a long shadow over every decision made by a US president.
he is in fact revered in Arkansas...
> When this survey was being made Friedman was ineligible, being alive <
I'll bet they wouldn't have included him in any event.
No, there's two more: The Wright Brothers (#23). So he's # 103.
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