# Bakers Dozen **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173 "2010-08-04T17:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3153
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63047 "2018-12-04T15:44:59Z")
Tycoons 1. Andrew Carnegie 2. Cornelius Vanderbilt 3. Andrew Mellon 4. Aristotle Onassis 5. J.P. Morgan 6. Richard B. Mellon 7. John D. Rockefeller 8. Thomas Mellon 9. Charles Crocker 10. Richard Beatty Mellon 11. Oprah Winfrey ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63048 "2018-12-04T15:49:20Z")
Tycoons 1. Andrew Carnegie 2. Cornelius Vanderbilt 3. Andrew Mellon 4. Aristotle Onassis 5. J.P. Morgan 6. Richard B. Mellon 7. John D. Rockefeller 8. Thomas Mellon 9. Charles Crocker 10. Richard Beatty Mellon 11. Oprah Winfrey 12. John Jacob Astor ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63049 "2018-12-04T18:18:06Z")
Tycoons 1. Andrew Carnegie 2. Cornelius Vanderbilt 3. Andrew Mellon 4. Aristotle Onassis 5. J.P. Morgan 6. Richard B. Mellon 7. John D. Rockefeller 8. Thomas Mellon 9. Charles Crocker 10. Richard Beatty Mellon 11. Oprah Winfrey 12. John Jacob Astor 13. Jay Cooke I’ll pass. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63050 "2018-12-04T18:21:37Z")
Tyrants 1. Josef Stalin ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63051 "2018-12-04T18:35:52Z")
Tyrants 1. Josef Stalin 2. Kim Il-Sung ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63052 "2018-12-04T18:38:33Z")
Tyrants 1. Josef Stalin 2. Kim Il-Sung 3. Adolf Hitler ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63053 "2018-12-04T18:54:10Z")
Tyrants 1. Josef Stalin 2. Kim Il-Sung 3. Adolf Hitler 4. Genghis Khan ---
**Author:** ![EscAlaMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/escalamike/32/4177_2.png) [@EscAlaMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EscAlaMike)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63054 "2018-12-04T18:54:24Z")
Tyrants 1. Josef Stalin 2. Kim Il-Sung 3. Adolf Hitler 4. Genghis Khan 5. Alfredo Stroessner ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63055 "2018-12-04T18:57:23Z")
Tyrants 1. Josef Stalin 2. Kim Il-Sung 3. Adolf Hitler 4. Genghis Khan 5. Alfredo Stroessner 6. Ivan the Terrible ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63056 "2018-12-04T19:50:16Z")
Tyrants 1. Josef Stalin 2. Kim Il-Sung 3. Adolf Hitler 4. Genghis Khan 5. Alfredo Stroessner 6. Ivan the Terrible 7. Idi Amin ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63057 "2018-12-04T20:07:11Z")
Tyrants 1. Josef Stalin 2. Kim Il-Sung 3. Adolf Hitler 4. Genghis Khan 5. Alfredo Stroessner 6. Ivan the Terrible 7. Idi Amin 8. Francisco Solano López A democratically-elected president of Paraguay, but he executed hundreds once in office and ordered his own 70-year-old mother flogged after she revealed to him that he’d been born out of wedlock. He also got his country into a ruinous war that nearly destroyed it: [Paraguayan War - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguayan_War) ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63058 "2018-12-04T20:09:12Z")
Tyrants 1. Josef Stalin 2. Kim Il-Sung 3. Adolf Hitler 4. Genghis Khan 5. Alfredo Stroessner 6. Ivan the Terrible 7. Idi Amin 8. Francisco Solano López 9. Mao Zedong Or, if you prefer the older Wade-Giles romanization, Mao Tse-tung I’d never heard of Francisco Solano López, what a story! Wikipedia says that he even ordered his mother’s execution?! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63059 "2018-12-04T20:13:16Z")
Yes, the Paraguayan War should get more attention than it does. Tyrants 1. Josef Stalin 2. Kim Il-Sung 3. Adolf Hitler 4. Genghis Khan 5. Alfredo Stroessner 6. Ivan the Terrible 7. Idi Amin 8. Francisco Solano López 9. Mao Zedong 10. Benito Mussolini ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63060 "2018-12-04T20:16:11Z")
Tyrants 1. Josef Stalin 2. Kim Il-Sung 3. Adolf Hitler 4. Genghis Khan 5. Alfredo Stroessner 6. Ivan the Terrible 7. Idi Amin 8. Francisco Solano López 9. Mao Zedong 10. Benito Mussolini 11. Pol Pot ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63061 "2018-12-04T20:18:26Z")
Tyrants 1. Josef Stalin 2. Kim Il-Sung 3. Adolf Hitler 4. Genghis Khan 5. Alfredo Stroessner 6. Ivan the Terrible 7. Idi Amin 8. Francisco Solano López 9. Mao Zedong 10. Benito Mussolini 11. Pol Pot 12. Hernan Cortes In his ruling of the conquered Aztecs. ---
**Author:** ![EscAlaMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/escalamike/32/4177_2.png) [@EscAlaMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EscAlaMike)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63062 "2018-12-04T20:43:50Z")
Tyrants 1. Josef Stalin 2. Kim Il-Sung 3. Adolf Hitler 4. Genghis Khan 5. Alfredo Stroessner 6. Ivan the Terrible 7. Idi Amin 8. Francisco Solano López 9. Mao Zedong 10. Benito Mussolini 11. Pol Pot 12. Hernan Cortes 13. Moctezuma II Pass ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63063 "2018-12-04T20:45:47Z")
Heroes and Heroines 1. Rear Adm. Grace Hopper > **[Grace Hopper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper)** > > Grace Brewster Hopper (née Murray; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and the FLOW-MATIC programming language she created using this theory was later extended to create COBOL, an ---
**Author:** ![EscAlaMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/escalamike/32/4177_2.png) [@EscAlaMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EscAlaMike)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63064 "2018-12-04T20:52:29Z")
Heroes and Heroines 1. Rear Adm. Grace Hopper 2. Maximilian Kolbe [Bio](https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=370) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63065 "2018-12-04T21:07:43Z")
Heroes and Heroines 1. Rear Adm. Grace Hopper 2. Maximilian Kolbe 3. Martin Luther King, Jr. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63066 "2018-12-04T21:17:11Z")
Heroes and Heroines 1. Grace Hopper 2. Maximilian Kolbe 3. Martin Luther King, Jr. 4. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain > **[Joshua Chamberlain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Chamberlain)** > > Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (born Lawrence Joshua Chamberlain, September 8, 1828 – February 24, 1914) was an American college professor from Maine who volunteered during the American Civil War to join the Union Army. He became a highly respected and decorated Union officer, reaching the rank of brigadier general (and brevet major general). He is best known for his gallantry at the Battle of Gettysburg, for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor. > Chamberlain was commissioned a lieutenant colonel... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=3152) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=3154)