Frank, is that you? I hate our new offense as much as anyone, and think Callahan could be the equivalent of OU's Schnellenberger, but even I admit that we need to give Bill at least 1-2 more years to prove himself.
Wait a second -- Clement Atlee, who presided over the collapse of the British economy in the post WW-2 era? The classification of him as #1 makes me think Blair should be cheered at not being mentioned in this poll.
A thousand pardons, but this conclusion is politicized and nonsensical. The Turks are a central Asian people from the steppes, who displaced from that region in the 8th-9th centuries AD. Following their victory over the Byzantine Emperor at Manzikert in 1071 (which forever broke the Greeks' power), they moved into Asia Minor over the following two centuries and established themselves there for what appears to be perpetuity. I make no normative judgments on this history, which has been well documented by primary documents and by Greek and Arab historians, but linking the current Turkish people with the ancient peoples of Asia Minor is a luaghable conclusion.
I've seen this comment about the lack of Greek in the Passion a few times, and thought I would address it.
While it is true that after AD 100 the soldiers and administrators of the eastern Empire increasingly spoke Greek as their primary language, in the Julio-Claudian era about 90% of the legionnaires were still recruited from Italy (this would drop to a tiny percentage by the 2nd century; by the time of the events in the movie Gladiator, for example, most of the troops were recruited from Gaul, Illyria, Moesia, Anatolia and Syria).
So although Pilate and other equestrians serving in the East would certainly be able to speak Greek, which was the lingua franca of the Hellenized areas of the Empire, both he and his legionnaires generally would speak in Latin, as the movie reflects.