Who Most Influence History in the Last 500 Years?

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Originally posted by Donegeal
Which, again, was an inevitable event regardless of who did it.

There's an old Christopher Columbus movie -- probably out of the '40s -- which has a scene where a Spanish nobleman is poo-pooing Columbus's discovery of America, saying it was no big deal because it was inevitable.

Columbus points to the hardboiled egg in front of the noble and tells him to stand it on its end without anything else holding it up. The nobleman tries but of course the egg topples over again and again.

"Everyone try it," and the hole table of royalty and nobles tries balancing their eggs. They all topple over, much to the merriment of the women who are all giggling.

The nobleman glares at Columbus. "You do it," he growls.

Columbus takes his egg, shelters most of it in the hollow of his hand, but leaves one end sticking out. He slams that end down on the table, and smashing it into a pedestal of mush, which holds up the remainder of the egg.

"Why that's so simple," exclaims Queen Isabella. "I should have thought of it myself!"

"Majesty," explains Columbus, "everything is simple, once someone shows you how."

[Ned]

Elisabeth I

She transformed England and England the world.

[Colonâ„¢]

Napoleon.

[DAVOUT]

Montesquieu.

His theory of the separation of powers had an enormous impact on the building of democracy, and hopefully this impact will not desappear during the next 500 years.

[Ned]

Originally posted by DAVOUT
Montesquieu.

His theory of the separation of powers had an enormous impact on the building of democracy, and hopefully this impact will not desappear during the next 500 years.

Not bad at all.