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Who ever invented the history channel is great. Also R. Lee Ermey from mail-call

This thread is for all the funny things that have happened through out history. -Like how the US spent millions inventing a pen that could write in space and the russians just used pencils. -Benito Mussolini's favorite characters were Laurel and Hardy. -Russians spent millions of...

The Battle of Salamis, end of discussion. saved western civilization, ensured survival of democracy, allowed Rome to exist, possibly allowed Jesus to exist, possibly allowed Islam to exist, saved persia from possibly ruling the world, allowed greece to exist,

True Kamikazes had very little effect in general on the outcome of the war, but they did alow the Japs to use untrained civilians quickly teach them to fly and send them against us in operation ten-go when Japan had lost all of their trained pilots. This is also very significant to history...

I believe the American Revolution should be noted that it revolutionized tactics, but perhaps is not a modern war. It saw the first use of "hittitng below the belt" as the americans would not follow classic rules of engagement as walking in straight lines or making formal annoucements of your...

I suggest people read this book before you speak too criticaly of his rankings. I at first wondered why people like Benjamin Franklin, the most talented all-around man in history, and DaVinci, an artist who imagined and designed many modern machines hundreds of years ahead of their time, were...

I beleive that JFK is on there because had he been too rash and started the apocolypse the world could be gone or humans extinct. Also I believe the reason for the europe bias is that thats where 1 we know more about as they kept better records then some. 2 Most major events happened in...

1. Robert E. Lee Great general that constantly mauled the union with inferior numbers, but I admire even more his character. He (like Jackson) had a very strong ethical code and was in my opinion one of the greatest men who ever lived. 2. George S. Patton Not necessarily one of the best...

I beleive that his thinking is that military acheivements are won and lost and nothing really changes that much exept for massive loss of life though i seriously disagree with many of his picks.

The top ten are: 1. Muhammad 2. Isaac Newton 3. Jesus Christ 4. Budda 5. Confusious 6. St. Paul 7.Ts'ai Lun 8. Johan Guttenburg 9. Christopher Columbus 10. Albert Einstein

The book has some analysis on what categories the 100 come from. Scientists and Inventors: 36 Political and Military leaders: 31 Secular Philosophers 14 Religious leaders: 11 Artistic and literary figures 5 Explorers 2 Industrialists: 1 *Pizzaro and Cortez are military...

Has anybody read "The 100 most Influential People"? The author compiled a list of who he thinks are the 100 most influential people in history. What did people think?

Right away I build as many settlers as possible to expand and link my cities with roads. I have very thin defences at first and hope I can get by with diplomacy. once I have sufficiently expanded I begin to build up defences and attack units to scout and fend off invaders. I also put science at...

In civ 2 the game is designed that attack units are stronger then defensive units. Thus it is very difficult to "defend" from an enemy attack so the only defensive option is either seek out the enemys attack units and destroy them or attack your enemy to keep them on the defensive before they...

I think that the galaxy should not be under one rule or a united ruling party because it doesn't work very well. I beleive in several independant states will be better. I'm for every planet for themselves but for a large powerfull planet to step in to end wars.