Your Last Supper - who would you invite & why?

[topace]

Top - are you in danger of derailing the thread? You said 'let's not derail the thread' so I went with you on that and deliberately didn't post a long winded response rebutting (at least in my mind) each of your arguments.

But now you seem to want to carry on the discourse.

Happy to do so but that's more for PM country no?

I agree with that, or it's own thread.

I will just post about this at WhiteEagle's Aerie on Monday... feel free to register and reply via comment there.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Prolly my dogs. I dont care much for people, so why ruin the end?

 

[Exquisition]

Prolly my dogs. I dont care much for people, so why ruin the end?

Siegmund Freud - would have to ask him whether he ever tried it on with some of his patients....

 

[MatthewVett]

Actually, Roger Williams founded a settlement he called Providence (Providence Plantations.) Aquidneck Island was later purchased from the Narragansett amerinds by William Coddington and others. Later the inhabitants renamed Aquidneck Island to Rhode Island. Roger Williams was then instrumental in joining together several settlements in what is properly called Providence Plantations and Rhode Island. However, Roger Williams did not found Rhode Island.

But he did, in fact, found the earliest of the settlements that later comprised Rhode Island, so it's fair to call him the founder of Rhode Island.

You can take it up with the National Park Service http://www.nps.gov/rowi/index.htm and the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations http://sos.ri.gov/library/history/famous/rogerwilliams/memorial/ among others, if you like.

 

[lovecraft68]

But he did, in fact, found the earliest of the settlements that later comprised Rhode Island, so it's fair to call him the founder of Rhode Island.

You can take it up with the National Park Service http://www.nps.gov/rowi/index.htm and the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations http://sos.ri.gov/library/history/famous/rogerwilliams/memorial/ among others, if you like.

Damn straight, and he's got a damn fine park named after him because of it

 

[Exquisition]

Damn straight, and he's got a damn fine park named after him because of it

Who has? Liquid Matthew?

I'd have to bring along Alan Turing. The grandfather of computer science. We might be an entire generation ahead in terms of computing if he hadnt taken his own life in the 50s.