Greatest [insert your nationality] Person

[Andemagne]

Originally posted by Agathon

Of course, like the rest of Greek culture, no one worth mentioning for the last 2500 years.

Who cares when you would probably have 4 of the top three.

Plato, Aristotle and Homer are the core of the western literary, political and scientific tradition. No one else even compares.

YEAH! Ancient Greeks rule supreme.

Originally posted by Agathon

There were obviously people who Aristotle and Plato depended on, who started their traditions. We just have no record of them

Uh... no. You seem to forget that I spend most of my time thinking about this stuff.

may I ask where do you work/study? or what do you do?



BTW, has anybody read Michael H. Hart's book: Mankinds 100 Greatest?

[Andemagne]

Originally posted by Stefu
Now, now. Everyone knows that the greatest Norwegian ever was



BLACK METAAAAAAL

what about Euronymous, True King Of Black Metalers?

[Ned]

Originally posted by DanS


Scotch/Canadian. He spent a lot of time in the US, though.

Dan, we learn something every day.

Well it seems we have discovered the most important Canadian to have ever breathed: Alexander Graham Bell.

[Stefu]

Here's the final order for the Finns:

1. C.G.E. Mannerheim (president of Finland, 1944-1946, and Marshal of Finland)
2. Risto Ryti (president of Finland, 1940-1944)
3. Urho Kekkonen (president of Finland, 1956-1981)
4. Adolf Ehrnrooth (infantry general, a figurehead for the Finnish veteran community)
5. Tarja Halonen (current president of Finland, 2000- )
6. Arvo Ylppö (famed pediatrician)
7. Mikael Agricola (protestant reformer and creator of the written Finnish language)
8. Jean Sibelius (world-famous composer)
9. Aleksis Kivi (author of the first significant Finnish novel, Seitsemän veljestä / Seven Brothers)
10. Elias Lönnrot (creator of the Finnish national epic Kalevala)

Incidentally, the 34. greatest Dutchman was apparently someone named 'Multatuli'. , as in Finnish spoken language, that can mean, among other things, "I came" (in the porn movie sense)

[Pekka]

Halonen wins Agricola, Sibelius and Lönnrot? What did she do to win these guys? These guys are actually important. While it's the president.. well, and one who has not failed significantly and all, but she hasn't done anything greater than these guys did.

The femmo block is ever growing.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Stefu
Here's the final order for the Finns:

1. C.G.E. Mannerheim (president of Finland, 1944-1946, and Marshal of Finland)
2. Risto Ryti (president of Finland, 1940-1944)
3. Urho Kekkonen (president of Finland, 1956-1981)
4. Adolf Ehrnrooth (infantry general, a figurehead for the Finnish veteran community)
5. Tarja Halonen (current president of Finland, 2000- )
6. Arvo Ylppö (famed pediatrician)
7. Mikael Agricola (protestant reformer and creator of the written Finnish language)
8. Jean Sibelius (world-famous composer)
9. Aleksis Kivi (author of the first significant Finnish novel, Seitsemän veljestä / Seven Brothers)
10. Elias Lönnrot (creator of the Finnish national epic Kalevala)

Incidentally, the 34. greatest Dutchman was apparently someone named 'Multatuli'. , as in Finnish spoken language, that can mean, among other things, "I came" (in the porn movie sense)

No architects? You jest, surely.