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Reforming College Hockey

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Since we've ruined this thread already, we can continue next with the 100 most influential figures in American history according to The Atlantic (2006)! :cool:
 
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unofan said:
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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not fair you added that guy :P

51 Edward Jenner

I still can't believe no one has gotten 71...
 
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MUhawks628 said:
I call cheats.
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Happened to watch the History channel last night.

No idea why I didn't think of her- she's well known in Detroit, since this was one of the ends of a underground railroad line (with Free Canada an easy cross river trip away)
 
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Maury Wills
Gary Sutherland
Rusty Staub
Mack Jones
Bob Bailey
John Bateman
Coco Laboy
Don Hahn
Mudcat Grant
 
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William Fox Talbot
Johann Heinrich Schultz
Nicéphore Niépce
Frederick Scott Archer
Gabriel Lippmann
John Logie Baird
Hugo Gernsback
Alan Blumlein

(have maybe heard of one of these guys...I'm going all out on wikipedia to get the last 8 now).

Georgia O'keefe
Willa Cather
Abagail Adams
Elizabeth Dole
Dorothy Day
Betty Friedan
Anne Hutchinson
 
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You guys didn't hit on any of them. These last 8 are tough. :p

I'll give you the centuries that they were born, should help out a little.

56. Female, Social Activist and abolitionist, from the US, born in the 1800's
59. Male, Philosopher, German, born in the 1700's
67. Male, Inventor and engineer, involved in inventing something we use everyday, Russian, born in the 1800's
69. Male, physician, English, born in the 1500's
75. Male, Biologist and researcher, Cornell Alum, from the US, born in the 1900's
86. Male, Writer and poet, Irish, born in the 1800's
90. Male, Chemist and artist, French, born in the 1800's
100. Male, Monarch and military leader, Ottoman, born in the 1400's

Some of these should be dead givaways now. ;)
 
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Apologizing if these have been suggested already.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Goethe
 
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Constantin Perskyi
Boris Rosing
Vladimir Zworykin
Mehmed the Conqueror
Abby Kelley Foster
Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree)
 
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bigblue_dl said:
You guys didn't hit on any of them. These last 8 are tough. :p

I'll give you the centuries that they were born, should help out a little.

56. Female, Social Activist and abolitionist, from the US, born in the 1800's
59. Male, Philosopher, German, born in the 1700's
67. Male, Inventor and engineer, involved in inventing something we use everyday, Russian, born in the 1800's
69. Male, physician, English, born in the 1500's
75. Male, Biologist and researcher, Cornell Alum, from the US, born in the 1900's
86. Male, Writer and poet, Irish, born in the 1800's
90. Male, Chemist and artist, French, born in the 1800's
100. Male, Monarch and military leader, Ottoman, born in the 1400's

Some of these should be dead givaways now. ;)
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Harriet Tubman
James Joyce
 
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bigblue_dl said:
You guys didn't hit on any of them. These last 8 are tough. :p


75. Male, Biologist and researcher, Cornell Alum, from the US, born in the 1900's


Some of these should be dead givaways now. ;)
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Robert C. Baker
Milislav Demerec
Keith Downey
Arthur Rose Eldred
Roger Morse
Philip Edward Smith
 
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Sorry, don't get to this thread much on weekends.
ShirtlessBob said:
Harriet Tubman
James Joyce
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86 James Joyce

Yes to Tubman as well, but she was already guessed.

jcarter: I take it those are distinguished Cornell alum? The one I'm looking for isn't on your list.

I will probably just post the rest of the names later today, since this seems to have run its course.
 
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56. Elizabeth Stanton
59. Immanuel Kant
69. William Harvey
75. Gregory Pincus
90. Louis Daguerre
100. Suleiman The Magnificent
 
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