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Re: Best of British
« Reply #15 on: November 05, 2002, 04:37:06 PM »
thought i already said that... hes the guy who defeated the french navy in 1805 or something. pretty much prevented a french invasion of britain (which would have beem a major bummer). he died from a gunshot would at the end of the battle. hes got a statue on top of a way big column in trafalgar square (which is named after the battle BTW).
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Re: Best of British
« Reply #16 on: November 06, 2002, 12:40:37 PM »
Oh!  I'm quite familiar with the Nelson Monument in Trafalgar Square - I never made the connection.
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Re: Best of British
« Reply #17 on: November 06, 2002, 04:39:11 PM »
i remember that as a kid i always wondered whether it was named after nelson mandela ;)
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Re: Best of British
« Reply #18 on: November 07, 2002, 03:02:37 PM »
Or Ozzie & Harriet Nelson.
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Re: Best of British
« Reply #19 on: November 07, 2002, 03:36:04 PM »
just a little update. The votes are currently as follows.
in first place, Brunel
2nd, Diana
3rd, Churchill
4th, Darwin
5th, shakespeare
6th, nelson
7th, cromwell
8th, newton
9th, elizabeth
and finally, last and least, is lennon in 10th.
apparently diana was winning until a week ago, but then she got hit by the fallout from the burrel case, a trial against dianas butler, which ended with the queen collapsing the trial.
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Re: Best of British
« Reply #20 on: November 07, 2002, 05:55:15 PM »
Three cheers for Brunel!!!

Can anyone give a good reason why Diana even made the list?
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Re: Best of British
« Reply #21 on: November 07, 2002, 07:51:01 PM »
Because people like her, and they feel bad that she died. Sounds flippant, but its true.
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Re: Best of British
« Reply #22 on: November 19, 2002, 12:28:07 PM »
Only marginally off the subject, but I ran into an intriguing quote today:

Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances.... If Churchill had had a speech writer in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today.

---James C. Humes
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Re: Best of British
« Reply #23 on: November 19, 2002, 01:09:30 PM »
heard something else about churchill myself : a german newspaper and a german book is claiming he is a war criminal. Which is a bit rich if you ask me, but there you go.
take a look for yourself :
The Daily Telegraph
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Re: Best of British
« Reply #24 on: November 19, 2002, 04:52:43 PM »
Here's my favorite Churchill quote:  "The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter."
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Re: Best of British
« Reply #25 on: November 19, 2002, 10:32:21 PM »
Boy, that's the truth, Mustard.

I really don't think Diana nor Lennon should have been on that list.  They probably shouldn't have included anyone from the last fifty years as we have no idea of their historical impact.

Did Diana even leave a historical impact?  Other than being really popular and  being involved in many charities, did she really do anything?  Help me out if I'm wrong here, as I'm not well informed on this at all.
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