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Re: Biography's top 100 list
Posted By: Procyon, on host 207.205.180.129
Date: Tuesday, October 12, 1999, at 15:11:08
In Reply To: Biography's top 100 list posted by Balanthalus on Tuesday, October 12, 1999, at 08:54:10:

It was an interesting show. I thought a lot of their positions were pretty good ones, like Darwin, Newton and Copernicus. Some of the choices were amazingly bad though. How can Princess Diana even be on the list, let alone lower (more influential) than Elizabeth I? Other people who shouldn've even been on it are Spielburg, Elvis, and the Beatles. Adam Smith, James Watt and Louis Pasteur should have been lower, while Shakespeare and Marx probably should've been higher. I was also dismayed at the exclusion of Edwin Hubble, the man who discovered the first non Milky Way galaxy and proved the universe was expanding. Genghis Khan was totally out of place too; he should've been number one.

That's my take. I'm sure it varies from person to person... but Elvis? Come on.

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