Just for the sake of interest, here are the ten greatest Britons, as voted in 2002 (which may explain the presence of No. 3 on the list) by the general public in a BBC poll:
1. Winston Churchill - 456,498 votes, 28.1%
2. Isambard Kingdom Brunel - 398,526 votes, 24.6%
3. Diana, Princess of Wales - 225,584 votes, 13.9%
4. Charles Darwin - 112,496 votes, 6.9%
5. William Shakespeare - 109,919 votes, 6.8%
6. Isaac Newton - 84,628 votes, 5.2%
7. Queen Elizabeth I - 71,928 votes 4.4%
8. John Lennon - 68,445 votes, 4.2%
9. Horatio Nelson - 49,171 votes, 3.0%
10. Oliver Cromwell - 45,053 votes, 2.8%
Here's a list of the most pointless posts today:
1) Originally posted by Howell123
Here is a list of the greatest Americans provided by AOL:
1.Ronald Reegan
2.Abraham Lincoln
3. Martin Luther King Jr.
4. George Washington
5. Benjamin Franklin
6. George W. Bush
7. Bill Clinton
8. Elvis Presley
9. Oprah Winfrey
10. Franklin D. Roosevelt
2) Nope, I can't be bothered, it's all so pointless...
Try this:
The generation that fought and won WWII
The current generation of troops that protect our freedoms
The N.Y. police and firemen who unselfishly went into the enflamed World Trade Centers to rescue survivors.
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Ronald Reagan
Rosa Parks
Theodore Roosevelt
Henry Ford
Anita Bryant
Originally posted by Howell123Who's Ronald Reegan?
Here is a list of the greatest Americans provided by AOL:
1.Ronald Reegan
2.Abraham Lincoln
3. Martin Luther King Jr.
4. George Washington
5. Benjamin Franklin
6. George W. Bush
7. Bill Clinton
8. Elvis Presley
9. Oprah Winfrey
10. Franklin D. Roosevelt
I think human greatness is pretty evenly distributed by nationality (although our notions of greatness are probably culturally informed enough so that in any person's opinion, human greatness is unlikely to be evenly distributed by culture). Given this, I wonder why AOL has compiled a list with fewer stupendous badasses of humanity than the BBC has.
Originally posted by der schwarze RitterToo easy 🙄 :
You're a Canadian. Can you offer up any greater Canadians than the three members of the rock band Rush?
Tommy Douglas (Premier of Saskatchewan, former New Democratic Party leader, Father of Medicare)
Terry Fox (athlete, activist)
Pierre Trudeau (Prime Minister)
Sir Frederick Banting (medical scientist, co-discoverer of insulin)
David Suzuki (geneticist, environmentalist, broadcaster, activist)
Lester Bowles Pearson (Prime Minister, former UN General Assembly President, Nobel Peace Prize Winner)
Don Cherry (ice hockey coach, commentator)
Sir John A. Macdonald (First post-Confederation Prime Minister)
Alexander Graham Bell (scientist, inventor, founder of the Bell telephone company)
Wayne Gretzky (professional ice hockey player)
Just in case you don't care to do the research, Don Cherry is Canada's answer to Ronald Reagan 😵