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Reforming College Hockey

Re: Reforming College Hockey

Shirtless Guy said:
How many of those remaining do you even know? I'm down to 1 without looking them up.
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Sometimes it's useful being an old phart.

I'm guessing he was influential because he helped popularize the phonograph. A lot of early recordings were of him.
 
Re: Reforming College Hockey

Shirtless Guy said:
How many of those remaining do you even know? I'm down to 1 without looking them up.
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I know a couple of them without looking them up, namely #51, #71, and #100. I'd heard of a couple others #67 and #59, but had to look them up to see what they actually did. There are a couple that I just don't think anyone will get.
 
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Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mary Cartwright
Edgar Allen Poe
Charles Babbage
Isaac Asimov
Vladimir Nabokov
Bobby Fischer
Barbarossa
 
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unofan said:
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mary Cartwright
Edgar Allen Poe
Charles Babbage
Isaac Asimov
Vladimir Nabokov
Bobby Fischer
Barbarossa
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47 Charles Babbage

1 Johannes Gutenberg
2 Isaac Newton
3 Martin Luther
4 Charles Darwin
5 William Shakespeare
6 Christopher Columbus
7 Karl Marx
8 Albert Einstein
9 Nicolaus Copernicus
10 Galileo Galilei
11 Leonardo Da Vinci
12 Sigmund Freud
13 Louis Pasteur
14 Thomas Edison
15 Thomas Jefferson
16 Adolph Hitler
17 Mahatma Gandhi
18 John Locke
19 Michelangelo
20 Adam Smith
21 George Washington
22 Genghis Khan
23 Abraham Lincoln
24 Saint Thomas Aquinas
25 James Watt
26 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
27 Napoleon Bonaparte
28 J.S. Bach
29 Henry Ford
30 Ludwig Van Beethoven
31 Watson & Crick
32 Rene Descartes
33 Martin Luther King Jr
34 Jean-Jacques Rosseau
35 Vladimir Lenin
36 Alexander Fleming
37 Voltaire
38 Francis Bacon
39 Dante Aligheri
40 Wright Brothers
41 Bill Gates
42 Gregor Mendel
43 Mao Zedong
44 Alexander Graham Bell
45 William The Conqueror
46 Niccolo Machiavelli
47 Charles Babbage
48 Mary Wallstonecraft
49 Mikhail Gorbachev
52 Winston Churchill
53 Marie Curie
54 Marco Polo
55 Ferdinand Magellan
57 Elvis Presley
58 Joan of Arc
60 Franklin D. Roosevelt
61 Michael Faraday
62 Walt Disney
63 Jane Austen
64 Pablo Picasso
65 Werner Heisenberg
66 D. W. Griffith
68 Benjamin Franklin
70 Pope Gregory VII
72 Simon Bolivar
73 Princess Diana
74 Enrico Fermi
76 The Beatles
77 Thomas Hobbes
78 Isabella I
79 Joseph Stalin
80 Elizabeth I
81 Nelson Mandela
82 Niels Bohr
83 Peter The Great
85 Ronald Reagan
87 Rachel Carson
88 Robert Oppenheimer
89 Susan B. Anthony
91 Steven Spielberg
92 Florence Nightingale
93 Eleanor Roosevelt
94 Patient Zero
95 Charlie Chaplin
96 Enrico Caruso
97 Jonas Salk
98 Louis Armstrong
99 Vasco da Gama
 
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Robert Jarvik
Erno Rubik
Ralph H. Baer
John W. Backus
Ted Hoff
Edward Teller
Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin
Rudolf Diesel
Gottlieb Daimler
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

(yeah, I'm stretching on a lot of these, pulling some from wikipedia...only so many inventors left that haven't been named)
 
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also, any hints for the activists/humanitarians at 50, 56, 71? and the writer/poet at 86? (someone more influential than Twain or Dickens...hmm)..

oh, couple more names:
Carl Sagan
William Penn
William Pitt
William Wilberforce
Lord Mansfield
Desiderius Erasmus
Harriet Beecher Stowe
 
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Re: Reforming College Hockey

unofan said:
Robert Jarvik
Erno Rubik
Ralph H. Baer
John W. Backus
Ted Hoff
Edward Teller
Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin
Rudolf Diesel
Gottlieb Daimler
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

(yeah, I'm stretching on a lot of these, pulling some from wikipedia...only so many inventors left that haven't been named)
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unofan said:
also, any hints for the activists/humanitarians at 50, 56, 71? and the writer/poet at 86? (someone more influential than Twain or Dickens...hmm)..

oh, couple more names:
Carl Sagan
William Penn
William Pitt
William Wilberforce
Lord Mansfield
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0 for X on these 2 posts...the activists are all women. Everyone else left is a man. I'm just going to drop some words that I won't attach to any specific person o the list.
radio, photography, television, the pill, vaccine and the circulatory system.
 
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Shirtless Guy said:
0 for X on these 2 posts...the activists are all women. Everyone else left is a man. I'm just going to drop some words that I won't attach to any specific person o the list.
radio, photography, television, the pill, vaccine and the circulatory system.
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****it, I thought I mentioned Eastman before. I know I definitely thought of him at some point.
Radio was Tesla, I thought. Hmm...
Guglielmo Marconi
Bose
 
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Desiderius Erasmus
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Margaret Sanger
Fox Talbot
 
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Karl Landsteiner
Robin Coombs (had to wikipedia these...both involve blood-typing)
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
Philo Farnsworth (and suddenly Prof. Farnsworth on Futurama makes more sense, too)
Edward Jenner - (smallpox vaccine - heard of him, but not enough to immediately connect the two)
 
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