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The Monocled Cock: D&D's List of Greatest Historical Figures
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He's a real life Jay Gatsby!
@Pants: heh, I never caught the etymology of Charlemagne = Charles Magnus before.
Even more reason to haaaaaaaate him.
<nominate>Wernher Von Braun</nominate>
<nominate>Yuri Gagarin</nominate>
<nominate>Neil Armstrong</nominate>
Also I think we ought to use categories when it comes time to vote. Otherwise it'll just be a question of whether D&D contains more artistic, scientific, or political/military types.
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<nomination>John Stuart Mill<nomination>
An extremely influential proponent of Utilitarian philosophy, a child prodigy, and a champion of the rights of the poor, women, and animals. Not content to merely write about social reform, he also decided to go and become a liberal politician:
Plus, variations on his work dominated political philosophy up until Rawls shook up the scene in the seventies.
For the Melian Dialogue alone, one of the earliest and most important political and historical thinkers.
For some reason I didn't internalize this part of the OP.
<un-nominate>Sargon</un-nominate>
<un-nominate>Akhenaten</un-nominate>
<un-nominate>Moses</un-nominate>
<un-nominate>Paul</un-nominate>
<un-nominate>Muhammad</un-nominate>
Hammurabi can stay but only because his laws were probably better than what was around beforehand.
And all without leaving Wearmouth-Jarrow.
I'm doing Movember for Men's Health! Donate if you can - thanks.
[nominate]Galen[/nominate]
Basically one of the fathers of modern anatomy and the man whose work on anatomy would dominate the Western world for a millennium. Also I love his name.
Out of Japanese history, I saw Nobunaga but I would like to nominate [nominate]Tokugawa Ieyasu[/nominate].
Between him and his son he set up a governmental system that would last 250 years, bring peace to a wartorn country and lead to a period of internal cultural development that still affects the country to this day. Were Nobunaga was a conqueror, Ieyasu was a builder.
The last one I will nominate is [nominate] Pope Urban II [/nominate].
The man who started the Crusades. A movement that lead to the deaths of thousands, maybe millions of innocents but also lead to the end of the dark ages as the lost Greek classics, math and many other inventions spread from the Muslim world to Europe. Dieing two weeks before the fall of Jerusalem, this man never saw his dream realized but instead created a movement that ripples through today.
His popular image is so far from the truth, it is almost amusing.
Cause he was awesome
Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully
get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I
have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."
He was totally awesome. Choice quote from him:
"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." - Richard Feynman
[nominate]Pope Leo I[/nominate]
In signing the peace with Attilla, he started the Catholic church down the path of dominance it had until the reformation.
<nomination>James Clerk Maxwell</nomination>
<nomination>Michael Faraday</nomination>
I saw Armstrong in here already, but I'll also nominate
<nomination>Buzz Aldrin</nomination>
...as not only the second human being to walk on another goddamn world, but also the one who broke the lunar module, and then fixed it with a pen. Also probably the only one who punches moon truthers in the face.
Pros:
Established the Eastern Border between the US and Canada
Prevented Dartmouth College from being turned into a state school
Daniel Webster (Dartmouth College v. Woodward)
He helped hold the US together as long as possible through compromise leading up to the Civil War.
Cons:
Tried for Presidency 3 times and failed all three, the last one because of his compromises
Attempts to steer the country away from civil war ultimately failed
Noted Gambler and Alcoholic.
Julius Axelrod won the Nobel Prize for his work on the uptake and reuptake of catecholamine neurotransmitters, of which serotonin is the most notable.
His research is what made the development of Prozac, the first SSRI, possible.
Prozac arguably brought psychopharmacology into the mainstream. Psych drugs weren't just for creepy broken people anymore.
Furthermore, Prozac was not merely the first SSRI, but the first example of targeted drug development. Prior to the development of Prozac, drug discovery was largely trial-and-error. Eli Lilly was the first company to successfully develop a drug with a specific mechanism of action in mind, and that mechanism of action was first identified by Julius Axelrod.
<nomination>Albert Hoffman</nomination>
Albert Hoffman discovered - quite by accident - the hallucinogenic properties of LSD.
From art (acid flowed freely at Andy Warhol's Factory) to music (Beatles, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stones, and pretty much everybody else in the late 1960s was doing a lot of acid) to computers (Steve Jobs and Wozniak, and Douglas Englebart, inventor of the mouse have all credited LSD for some of their inspiration) to politics (Richard Nixon passed the Controlled Substances Act in 1970 largely in response to the perceived connection between hippie activism and LSD use, kicking off the start of the modern drug war)... the influence of LSD on modern western culture is pervasive and immeasurable.
<nomination>Werner Heisenberg</nomination>
Both for large contributions to quantum mechanics.
Also <nomination> Nicolaus Copernicus</nomination> as he hasn't been mentioned yet.
mm, I see we did
my unofficial autobio will be accompanied with tips on how to smile
cause I've found that when they don't see you frown, they never know that you're a threat
and they don't sweat you when you came around