my wife
my son
my dog
my family
our family
above all else
and the rest dont matter
It is a hard choice (warts and all) and in no particular order but
Horatio Nelson
Jose Raoul Capablanca
Sir Edmund Hillary
Winston Churchill
Dimitri Mendeleev
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.
my wife
my son
my dog
my family
our family
above all else
and the rest dont matter
Bit like Charlotte Church publishing her biography age 15.Dimitri Mendeleev
Horatio Nelson,
Sir Edmund Hillary,
Neil Armstrong,
Louis Pasteur
Henry VIII, achieved something most men only dream.
Even if we find the light it will be surround by shadow.
Mr Thomson is the only person I can think of. He was great at the old teaching.
Now if you'd asked about achievers in Geography I could have listed at least three.
In fact. Kirsten Baxter. She got an "A"
My five would be:
Sir Winston Churchill
Muhammed ali
Margaret Thatcher
Rev Ian Paisley
Alexander graham bell
Florence Ninghtingale,
Emily Pankhurst,
The Wright Brothers....do they count as two?
Fred Dibnah and his history of the steam engine..............
Charles Darwin 1809-1882
Fred Dibnah 1938-2004
Isambard Kindom Brunnell 1806- 1859
Thomas Telford 1757-1834
Abraham Darby 1678-1717
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Thomas Telford
Winston Churchill
Apollo 11 crew
Richard Branson
Thanks for starting a good thread Rheghead.
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Only 1 achiever for me:
Charles Darwin
(No one else comes close)
Alexander the Great
Ibn Battuta
Sir Isaac Newton
Leonardo da Vinci
Eric Liddell
'Cause if my eyes don't deceive me,
There's something going wrong around here
This is a great thread Rheggers, I struggled with my 5, and have at least another 5 who could have made the original list:
Saladin
John Harrison
Albert Einstein
Ernesto Che Guevara
Dr James Murray
'Cause if my eyes don't deceive me,
There's something going wrong around here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/#
Charles Babbage -Victorian pioneer of computer science
Aneurin Bevan - post-war architect of the National Health Service
Alexander Fleming -20th century physician, discovered penicillin
Martin Luther King - 20th century US civil rights leader, assassinated
Caroline Norton Victorian campaigner for women's rights
I noticed that very few women were mentioned....bar Maggie Thatcher, Florence Nightingale & Emily Pankhurst,
Spring has sprung, the grass is ris', I wonder where the birdies is, the birdies is on d' wing, now thats absurd, everyone knows d' wing is on d' bird
Could you make it 6 people Rheghead? I'd like to add Alan Turing, designer of the 'Bombe', what could be argued as the first 'super-computer'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/
Shakespeare.
Alexander The Great.
Isenbard Kingdom Brunnel
Alexander Solzhenitsin
Mahatma Gandhi
Marie Curie
Edward Jenner
Alexander Fleming
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Robert Watson-Watt
John Logie-Baird
Some great answers here, keep 'em coming, some of which have me reaching for the wikipedia shortcut icon as well. And if you feel the need to say more then do so!
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.
Chris Hoy
Rebecca Adlington
Ben Ainslie
Bradley Wiggins
Nicole Cooke
A 1991 Gallup survey indicated that 49 percent of Americans didn't know that white bread is made from wheat.
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