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  • #46
    Originally posted by SlowwHand
    Adam Smith. Here, we hang any traders. Benedict Arnold; any like him or Adam Smith.
    There, you put them on a list of Most Influential.
    Leave it to texas to kill the best minds they could ever aspire to offer the world. loyalty doesnt trump brilliance.

    or given the typo you made, any people who would work with equities
    "I hope I get to punch you in the face one day" - MRT144, Imran Siddiqui
    'I'm fairly certain that a ban on me punching you in the face is not a "right" worth respecting." - loinburger

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    • #47
      Originally posted by One_more_turn
      Isaac Newton should be number 1. Imagine a world without physics...
      A world without nerds!

      "I hope I get to punch you in the face one day" - MRT144, Imran Siddiqui
      'I'm fairly certain that a ban on me punching you in the face is not a "right" worth respecting." - loinburger

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      • #48
        Sarah Young.
        In da butt.
        "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
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        • #49
          Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough. The world needs more French-pwners than Nelson and Wellesley
          Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
          Originally posted by Ted Striker:Go Serb !
          Originally posted by Pekka:If it was possible to capture the essentials of Sepultura in a dildo, I'd attach it to a bicycle and ride it up your azzes.

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          • #50
            and not to forget, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough what a family
            Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
            Originally posted by Ted Striker:Go Serb !
            Originally posted by Pekka:If it was possible to capture the essentials of Sepultura in a dildo, I'd attach it to a bicycle and ride it up your azzes.

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            • #51
              Bentham and Mill. Although, thanks to the efforts of the SNP and the Daily Mail, there won't be a Britain much longer.

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              • #52
                Cromwell was quite influential because he really trashed the divine right of Kings business and following him the King had to be responsible to the people not GOD. Without Cromwell the US and French revolutions may not have happened.

                He was a right git though
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                • #53
                  "put your trust in God but keep your powder dry"
                  Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
                  Originally posted by Ted Striker:Go Serb !
                  Originally posted by Pekka:If it was possible to capture the essentials of Sepultura in a dildo, I'd attach it to a bicycle and ride it up your azzes.

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                  • #54
                    Originally posted by Sn00py

                    Rutherford was born in New Zealand, but he was still British.
                    So people, the question is, if you were born under British rule, can you be in the Top 10 most influential British or not? (If you were influential )
                    Most of his more important work was done during the 30's. We didn't gain full political independence from the mother country until '47 IIRC hence the Brits should have the right to claim him for anything prior to that date..

                    Similarly they should also be able to claim Chandrasekhar for his early work but probably not for the whole Nobel prize.

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                    • #55
                      Removed Cobat
                      Added 3 more

                      Wasn't there a British guy who was the first to discover dinosaur bones and began archeology? Not very influentual, but we still have another 37 names to fulfill.

                      Hey don't forget, if under british rule at the time, and influenced by british culture, then I think it qualifies.

                      I wonder, in that case, if Ghandi would make the list?
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                      • #56
                        Added John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham.
                        be free

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                        • #57
                          Edward Heath took the UK into the EEC
                          Alfred Hitchcock- one of the greatest directors
                          Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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                          • #58
                            Are we concentrating more in influence as in how they influenced others, or influence as in how much they changed Britain/the world? If the latter, really you have to look at the effect:

                            Without Churchill we may have ended up German
                            Without Henry VIII we'd have been Catholic
                            Without Sir Francis Drake/Elizabeth I we'd be Spanish
                            Without Lord Nelson we'd be French
                            Without King Harold (losing) we'd have remained Saxon
                            Without Columbus the course of the US may have been very different
                            Without Cromwell we'd have remained a proper Monarchy (and perhaps changed the course of the French and American Revolution)

                            However without Newton, we'd wait a bit longer before discovering gravity. My point is to me, having an impact isn't about discovering something that others would have discovered, it isn't about being brilliant, it's about something time-critical, where you had to be there at that time to make that difference.
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                            But he would think of something

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                            • #59
                              Without 1st Marlborough Europe would have been French/Spanish
                              Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
                              Originally posted by Ted Striker:Go Serb !
                              Originally posted by Pekka:If it was possible to capture the essentials of Sepultura in a dildo, I'd attach it to a bicycle and ride it up your azzes.

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                              • #60
                                Originally posted by Sandman
                                Bentham and Mill. Although, thanks to the efforts of the SNP and the Daily Mail, there won't be a Britain much longer.
                                The Daily Mail is campaigning to abolish the union?

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