Simon Bolivar
Mohammed
Not sure which is the official thread right now, but I’ll participate in both until one is closed.
I’ll add a vote for Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, better known as Joe Stalin.
Mohammed.
Mohammed, buh-BYE.
No more lionizing of religious wackos, plz.
What with the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, and a bigger pool of proles to oppress, Mao killed quite a few more than Stalin. My vote goes to the Great Helmsman.
This joke was worth the price of admission. And as if starting the Trillion Dollar War wasn’t bad enough, Knorf had to insult him on other grounds:
I’ll go with
Muhammed ibn Abdullah, Prophet of Allah, Praise be unto Him
Nothing against the guy personally, but having voted for Messrs. Christ and Tarsus I want to demonstrate that I’m ecumenical.
Well, given Colbri’s post on the subject of American colonization, I guess I need to pick a new candidate.
So long, Chairman Mao
Paul of Tarsus, dude has a lot to answer for
Dude is also gone, having been eliminated in the first round.
Since I can see who the frontrunners for the next round are likely to be I’ll throw down Karl Marx, another one who had some interesting ideas that others took waaaaaaaaaay too far.
Mohammed
So far it’s:
Mohammed - 5 votes
Mao - 2 votes
Stalin - 2 votes
Bolivar - 1 vote
Marx - 1 vote
I vote Mao. Not that Mao ever required votes.
Karl Marx the person directly responsible for Stalin, Mao, and Lenin and indirectly responsible for Hitler!
Also I was not available on Wednesday because I had a lot of homework. If I’m available I’ll be the eliminator.
Stalin, Mao, and Lenin I agree with. But Hitler is a stretch. Saying Marx “caused” Hitler because Hitler was a reaction to Marx seems pretty broad. Was Marx also responsible for Joseph McCarthy and Lech Walesa and Ronald Reagan? They were all prominent for opposing communism.
Curtis is taking the “to bake a cake from scratch, the first thing you have to do is create the universe” approach; of course, only because it’s convenient at the moment.
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The Eliminator**! Change your name to that, Curtis. Hey how did the name change poll ever work out?
It died out I suppose with most people voting I should keep my username.
Sorry for being late but the results are:
Mohammed 5
Mao Zedong 3
Josef Stalin 2
Karl Marx 2
Simon Bolivar 1
Due to a third place tie Mohammed, Mao, Stalin, and Marx are all eliminated.
Round 3:
Isaac Newton - British Scientist, Theory of Universal Gravitation and Motion
Buddha - Founder of Buddhism
Confucius - Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Confucianism
Ts’ai Lun - Scientist, Inventor of Paper
Johann Gutenberg - Scientist, Inventor of Printing Press
Christopher Columbus - Explorer, Discoverer of America
Albert Einstein - Scientist, Physicist, Theory of Relativity
Louis Pasteur - Scientist, Pasteurization
Galileo Galilei - Scientist, Advocated Heliocentricity
Aristotle - Greek Philosopher
Euclid - Greek Mathematician
Moses - Jewish Prophet
Charles Darwin - British Scientist, Theory of Evolution
Shi Huang Di - Chinese Emperor, United China
Augustus Caesar - Roman Princep, Founded Roman Empire
Nicolas Copernicus - Scientist, Theory of Heliocentricity
Antonine Laurent Lavoisier - French Scientist, Advanced Chemistry
Constantine the Great - Roman Emperor, Promoted Christianity
James Watt - British Scientist, Invented Steam Engine
Michael Faraday - British Scientist, Discovered Magneto-Electricity
James Clerk Marxwell - Scientist, Electromagnetic Spectrum
Martin Luther - Theologian, Started Protestantism and Reformation
George Washington - American Statesman and General
Orville and Wilbur Wright - Scientists, Inventor of Airplane
Genghis Khan - Mongol Ruler, Founded Mongol Empire
Adam Smith - Economist, Advocated Capitalism
William Shakespeare - English Playwright
John Dalton - Scientist, Atomic Theory
Alexander the Great, Macedonian Ruler, Formed Macedonian Empire
Napoleon Bonaparte - French Emperor, Waged Napoleonic Wars
Thomas Edison - American Scientist and inventor
Antony van Leeuwenhoek - Scientist, Inventor of Microscope
William TG Morton - Scientist, Invented Anaesthesia
Gugilemo Marconi - Scientist, Invented Radio
Plato - Greek Philosopher, Developed Platonism
Oliver Cromwell - British Ruler
Alexander Graham Bell - Scientist, Invented Telephone
Alexander Fleming - Scientist, Invented Penicillin
John Locke - British Philosopher, Developed Democratic Ideas
Ludwig von Beethoven - Composer
Werner Heisenberg - Scientist, Developed Quantum Physics
Louis Dagurre - Scientist, Invented Photography
Simon Bolivar - Latin American General and Statesman
Rene Descrates - French Philosopher
Michelangelo - Artist, Sculptor
Pope Urban II - Pope of Roman Catholic Church, Called For Crusades
‘Umar ibn al - Khattab - Muslim Caliph, Expanded the Caliphate
Asoka - Indian Emperor, Spread Buddhism
St. Augustine - Christian Theologian
William Harvey - Scientist, Developed Theories of Blood Circulation
Ernest Rutherford - Scientist, Developed Subatomic Physics
John Calvin - Christian Theologian, Developed Calvinism
Gregor Mendel - Priest and Scientist, Advanced Genetics
Max Planck - Scientist, Developed Therodynamics
Joseph Lister - Scientist, Developed Antiseptic Methods
Nikolaus August Otto - Scientist, Developed Internal Combustion Engine
Francisco Pizarro - Spanish Adventurer, Conquered Inca Empire
Hernando Cortes - Spanish Adventurer, Conquered Aztec Empire
Thomas Jefferson - American Statesman
Queen Isabella I - Queen of Spain, Sponsored Columbus’ Expeditions
Julius Caesar - Roman General, Ended Roman Civil Wars
William the Conquerer - Norman Duke and English King
Sigmund Freud - Psychologist, Developed Freudian Psychology
Edward Jenner - Scientist, Developed Vaccination for Smallpox
William Conrad Roentgen - Scientist, Invented X-Ray
Johann Sebastian Bach - Composer
Lao Tzu - Chinese Philosopher, Founded Taoism
Voltaire - French Philosopher
Johannes Kepler - Scientist, Developed Theories of Planetary Motion
Enrico Fermi - Scientist, Developed Atomic Bomb
Leonhard Euler - Mathematician
Jean - Jacques Rosseau - French Philosopher and Writer
Nicoli Machiavelli - Political Theorist
Thomas Malthus - Economist, Developed Malthusian Theory
John F. Kennedy - American President, Originated Manned Mission to Moon
Gregory Pincus - Scientist, Invented Birth-Control Pill
Mani - Founder of Manichaeism
V.I. Lenin - Russian Leader, Founded Communism in Russia
Sui Wen Ti - Chinese Emperor, Reunited China
Vasco de Gama - Explorer, Discovered Cape of Good Hope
Cyrus the Great - Persian Emperor, Founded Persian Emperor
Peter the Great - Russian Emperor, Modernized Russia
Francis Bacon - Philosopher, Developed Scientific Method
Henry Ford - American Industrialist, Developed Mass-Production Techniques
Mencius - Chinese Philosopher, Expanded Confucianism
Zoraster - Founder of Zorasterianism
Queen Elizabeth I - Queen of England, Made England a Naval Power
Mikhail Gorbachev - Soviet Leader, Liberalized and Helped Break Up USSR
Menes - Egyptian Pharaoh, United Egypt
Charlemagne - Frankish Monarch, Founder of Holy Roman Empire
Homer - Greek Poet, Writer of Epics
Justinian I - Byzantine Emperor, Recovered Much of Roman Empire
Mahavira - Founder of Jainism
Voting Genghis Khan.
I vote for Moses. That burning bush? Pure psychosis. BUH-bye.