Top 100 Most Influential People of the Last Millennium

 From the economicexpert.com

 On October 10, 1999, the American cable network A&E started counting down a list of the 100 most influential people of the millennium compiled by a staff of 360 journalists, scientists, theologians, historians, and scholars.
As many as 250 people were chosen to be on the list, but only 100 made it, these are the 100 people that did the most to shape the world we live in today.

1 The List

1. Johann Gutenberg
2. Isaac Newton
3. Martin Luther
4. Charles Darwin
5. William Shakespeare
6. Christopher Columbus
7. Karl Marx
8. Albert Einstein
9. Nicolaus Copernicus
10. Galileo Galilei
11. Leonardo da Vinci
12. Sigmund Freud
13. Louis Pasteur
14. Thomas Edison
15. Thomas Jefferson
16. Adolf Hitler
17. Mahatma Gandhi
18. John LockeJ
19. Michelangelo
20. Adam Smith
21. George Washington
22. Genghis Khan
23. Abraham Lincoln
24. St. Thomas Aquinas
25. James Watt
26. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
27. Napoleon Bonaparte
28. Johann Sebastian Bach
29. Henry Ford
30. Ludwig van Beethoven
31. James Watson & Francis Crick
32. René Descartes
33. Martin Luther King, Jr.
34. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
35. Vladimir Lenin
36. Alexander Fleming
37. Voltaire
38. Sir Francis Bacon
39. Dante Alighieri
40. The Wright brothers
41. Bill Gates
42. Gregor Mendel
43. Mao Zedong
44. Alexander Graham Bell
45. William the Conqueror
46. Niccolo Machiavelli
47. Charles Babbage
48. Mary Wollstonecraft
49. Mikhail Gorbachev
50. Margaret Sanger
51. Edward Jenner
52. Winston Churchill
53. Marie Curie
54. Marco Polo
55. Ferdinand Magellan
56. Elizabeth Stanton
57. Elvis Presley
58. Joan of Arc
59. Immanuel Kant
60. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
61. Michael Faraday
62. Walt Disney
63. Jane Austen
64. Pablo Picasso
65. Werner Heisenberg
66. D.W. Griffith
67. Vladimir Zworykin
68. Benjamin Franklin
69. William Harvey
70. Pope Gregory VII (the oldest person on the list)
71. Harriet Tubman
72. Simón Bolívar
73. Diana, Princess of Wales (youngest on the list)
74. Enrico Fermi
75. Gregory Pincus
76. The Beatles
77. Thomas Hobbes
78. Queen Isabella
79. Joseph Stalin
80. Queen Elizabeth I
81. Nelson Mandela
82. Niels Bohr
83. Peter the Great
84. Guglielmo Marconi
85. Ronald Reagan
86. James Joyce
87. Rachel Carson
88. J. Robert Oppenheimer
89. Susan B. Anthony
90. Louis Daguerre
91. Steven Spielberg
92. Florence Nightingale
93. Eleanor Roosevelt
94. Patient Zero
95. Charlie Chaplin
96. Enrico Caruso
97. Jonas Salk
98. Louis Armstrong
99. Vasco da Gama
100. Suleiman I

NASA Photo Archive

A great resource for historical images found on Flickr:     NASA on The Common photostream:

A Delta II rocket.

More images can be found here:  NASA Images

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