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I suppose he was having the migrants rounded up and lassoed by cowboys on horses - but on balance I would have thought the Donald was a more capable president.
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Ronald McDonald.
As subjective a list as you can get, i suppose; but Charles Darwin has to be a contender. Although one or two other 19th century naturalists were on the trail his book challenged church orthodoxy and put the final nail in their domination of thought behind human origins. Despite the fact plenty of people are prepared to believe we're all descended from Adam and Eve, the evidence overwhelmingly supported his thesis and changed the way we think about our place in the world.
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The person who discovered that if you lay on your other arm before having a 5 knuckle shuffle it feels like someone else is doing it.
Obviously I've never tried this ...
Obviously I've never tried this ...
I suppose it depends what you consider to be important. If saving lives is more important than knowledge of the universe then Jenner, Pasteur, Fleming etc. would be more important than Einstein, Maxwell, Galileo etc. Personally I put Brunel high up the list because without him I'd have a much longer drive to get to Leigh Woods.
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I'd score Jesus Mohammed and Hitler equally, for showing us what happens when a bunch of nutters follows a tw@t.
The scientists are all milestones, but there were others working on the same stuff, so their findings would only have been delayed had they not been around.
Don't credit Fleming with penicillin. It was a foreigner, Florey (Oz), who produced the stuff, but the establishment wanted to laud a Brit.
The scientists are all milestones, but there were others working on the same stuff, so their findings would only have been delayed had they not been around.
Don't credit Fleming with penicillin. It was a foreigner, Florey (Oz), who produced the stuff, but the establishment wanted to laud a Brit.
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What, with your username do you expect us to believe that?
I do agree but I think Chain did most of the work and was the one that rediscovered Fleming's papers, sparking the whole thing off. Without Fleming neither Florey nor Chain would have known anything about penicillin. But he was a freeloader on the practical development of the stuff and the nobel prizes.
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