Great Britons - How many americans know these

[sexy-girl]

watched a really cool programme on the 100 top greatest britons ... i do think the programme was pretty fascist but it was good none the less and a good history lesson

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/greatbritons/


here is the top 10 in alphabetical order ... the idea is that there is going to be a programme about each person and then we vote on them to who is the best

here's the top 10

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Sir Winston Churchill

Oliver Cromwell

Charles Darwin

Diana, Princess of Wales

Elizabeth I

John Lennon

Viscount Horatio Nelson

Sir Isaac Newton

William Shakespeare


im not sure who to vote for ... maybe Elizabeth I or Darwin or Newton but i think most likely Shakespeare

who would you vote for ?


the full top 100 was very cool also and the top 10 misses a lot of truly amazing people regardless of them being british or not it was cool being refreshed on them with this programme i think there was only 1 or 2 i hadn't heard of

 

[Lancecastor]

Churchill.

"Man with lifelong struggle against chronic depression saves the world....twice, producing hundreds of highly memorable sound bites along the way."

It's a pretty good story.

 

[islandman]

I know everyone except for this fucker: Isambard Kingdom Brunel


I'm surprised Thatcher didn't make the Top 10, however.

 

[Ask For More]

You know them all personally?
wow...

 

[Guest]

 

[Ask For More]

I would vote for Shakespear because of my English Literature background though...

 

[sexy-girl]

I know everyone except for this fucker: Isambard Kingdom Brunel


I'm surprised Thatcher didn't make the Top 10, however.

brunel is probably the greatest ever engineer ... building transalantic ships railroads bridges and doing it just through sheer drive he just was a great engineering tycoon ... i messed up the link for him but i fixed it

thatcher was in the top 100 but shes scum ... shes the most hated person in briton ... only torys like her


churchill was great clearly but the way he tried to surpress the suffragettes after the war kinda stops me from thinking him the greatest ever

 

[hotNnasty]

Elizabeth l

hell of a strong woman.

 

[Ask For More]

thatcher was in the top 100 but shes scum ... shes the most hated person in briton ... only torys like her

I agree
What a fucking bitch!

 

[Guest]

 

[islandman]

I agree
What a fucking bitch!

bitch yes, but she did wonders for the British economy. Same as Reagan.

 

[70/30]

Willie Nelson.

 

[patient1]

I had no knowledge of Isambard before now.

I would say Newton, followed by Shakespeare are the greatest.

Speaking of the greatest, in the many centuries of British History, only one man has ever been named "The Great" who was he?


Maybe it's my wog perspective, but Princess Dianna was no Francis Crick.

 

[sexy-girl]

bitch yes, but she did wonders for the British economy. Same as Reagan.

she sent us into ressession for 10 years

 

[sexy-girl]

I had no knowledge of Isambard before now.

I would say Newton, followed by Shakespeare are the greatest.

Speaking of the greatest, in the many centuries of British History, only one man has ever been named "The Great" who was he?


Maybe it's my wog perspective, but Princess Dianna was no Francis Crick.

king alfred the guy that invented modern england according to churchill

its brunel thats how he is known anyway

 

[70/30]

What about Duke Ellington he played a crazy trombone

 

[islandman]

she sent us into ressession for 10 years

She also brought you out of recession and put in place the foundation for England to outperform every other European country except for Germany in terms of GDP.

 

[islandman]

What about Sir Edmund Hillary?

 

[sexy-girl]

She also brought you out of recession and put in place the foundation for England to outperform every other European country except for Germany in terms of GDP.

that was john major who i also hate

edmund hillary wasn't in there

but the guys that invented the computer though was and the jet engine and the world wide web the printing press the telephone and a few other cool guys and women

 

[Ask For More]

Um...ERM and that rather large crash in 1992(memory's a bit shaky...think it was 92)? If Thatcher and the rest of her cronies hasn't tied us to an artifically high exchange rate, then the subsequent recession could have been completely avoided.

I still remember the rubbish strike in the 80's *shudder*

 

[Guest]

that was john major who i also hate

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Major was the receipient of her work.

 

[patient1]

What about Sir Edmund Hillary?

I think he's a Kiwi.

 

[sexy-girl]

I still remember the rubbish strike in the 80's *shudder*

the miner strikes ... poll tax

 

[Ask For More]

the miner strikes ... poll tax

Shit...now I'm really getting depressed!

 

[sexy-girl]

Shit...now I'm really getting depressed!

well think Sir Alexander Fleming the man that has saved more lives then any other man in the history of the world

anyone know why ?