Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 12, 2015 It's 7AM in Texas and 9 PM in China. I think we can give Bear some time to wake up. TBBOM, make this pick around 11PM, so give Bear two more hours. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BiPolarBear 495 Posted November 12, 2015 I worked with a man who became my friend. He was severely dyslexic. To explain his condition he said he could not read a stop sign. This was not a joke. He could see the shape and color, and knew he needed to stop. He was always trying to help himself, but the efforts were not leading him anywhere. He told me that it was like feeling his way through a dark room and finding a door. He would open that door with hope and expectation, only to find another light-less room. He asked me to help him with his sales reports, which I did for years. You can imagine what a cluster fock they were. He didn't tell what he did; he praised other team members. He did plenty but he couldn't spit it out. I would go over his day planner and ask him about the meetings and visits to sales locations and write him a report. One day Chuck handed me his notes for a report and walked off. I knew what I would be doing for the evening. Then I got home and looked at his work. It was great. He didn't need any help at all. I called Chuck and asked him the Obvious question. "Who wrote your report?" "I did." was the answer I got. The weight of that statement stopped me in my tracks because I knew Chuck didn't lie about anything. I asked him what he did to be able to accomplish such a thing and he told me. "I read a book by a janitor." Naturally, the fact that Chuck read a book, eclipses any effort I ever put into anything, but he also seemed to grasp the core concept at a rare level. When the company sold, Chuck was not offered a job. He moved to Moro Bay and started a dog walking business, which he expanded to a mobile dog grooming business (the first one I ever heard about). The last time I spoke with Chuck he had employees in vans working for him. "Awaken the Giant Within" by Anthony Robbins is the book Chuck read. Anthony has helped a lot of people. In one singular act, he contributed to a charity with a donation that fed 50 million people. Anthony Robbins - Adviser Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745 Posted November 12, 2015 Frederick heigel- philosopher. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 12, 2015 Miguel de Cervantes - Writer (Fiction) James Joyce - Writer (Fiction) Off to bed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745 Posted November 12, 2015 Edward Gibbon - non fiction writer he History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1776) The first modern historian of the Roman Empire went back to ancient sources to argue that moral decay made downfall inevitable Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BiPolarBear 495 Posted November 12, 2015 From Wiki: Widely considered a military genius by historians, Thutmose III made 16 raids in 20 years. He was an active expansionist ruler, sometimes called Egypt's greatest conqueror or "the Napoleon of Egypt."[13] He is recorded to have captured 350 cities during his rule and conquered much of the Near East from the Euphrates to Nubia during seventeen known military campaigns. He was the first Pharaoh after Thutmose I to cross the Euphrates, doing so during his campaign against Mitanni. His campaign records were transcribed onto the walls of the temple of Amun at Karnak, and are now transcribed intoUrkunden IV. He is consistently regarded as one of the greatest of Egypt's warrior pharaohs, who transformed Egypt into an international superpower by creating an empire that stretched from southern Syria through to Canaan and Nubia.[14] In most of his campaigns his enemies were defeated town by town, until being beaten into submission. The preferred tactic was to subdue a much weaker city or state one at a time resulting in surrender of each fraction until complete domination was achieved. Pharaoh Thutmose III - Conqueror Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vuduchile 1,945 Posted November 12, 2015 Businessman: The Oracle of Omaha. Warren Buffet Buffet is the greatest and most successful investor and greatest business magnate of the 20th century. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. Warren Buffet Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. Warren Buffet It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price. Warren Buffet Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jerryskids 6,974 Posted November 12, 2015 I was thinking the same thing, each person should "win" a category it will be much easier to rank that way. I hope jerryskids puts in a vote, he seems to has the most interests of posters not actually in the draft. I appreciate it, but my schedule is very unpredictable these days. If I am around and available, and you want my input, let me know. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iam90sbaby 2,720 Posted November 13, 2015 For my final pick in the the "Jack of All Trades" I give you.... Paul Revere - was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and a Patriot in the American Revolution. He is best known for alerting the Colonial militia to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "Paul Revere's Ride". Revere was a prosperous and prominent Boston silversmith, who helped organize an intelligence and alarm system to keep watch on the Britishmilitary. Revere later served as a Massachusetts militia officer, though his service culminated after the Penobscot Expedition, one of the most disastrous campaigns of the American Revolutionary War, for which he was absolved of blame. Following the war, Revere returned to his silversmith trade and used the profits from his expanding business to finance his work in iron casting, bronze bell and cannon casting, and the forging of copper bolts and spikes. Finally in 1800 he became the first American to successfully roll copper into sheets for use as sheathing on naval vessels. Like his father, Revere was a silversmith by trade, who dutifully took over the family shop for several years before handing it down to his own son in the 1780s. Yet even working with precious metals wasn’t enough to fully insulate him from economic hardships. During the early 1760s, an English “dental surgeon” named John Baker arrived in the colonies. Smelling opportunity, Revere began eagerly studying under Baker, who taught him how to create and insert false teeth (usually made of ivory) for those whose real ones had decayed (Baker himself eventually wound up building a few of George Washington’sdentures). In 1768, the silversmith ran an advertisement in the Boston Gazette to promote his fledgling dentistry practice, which was followed up by a second ad in 1770. “Paul Revere…,” boasted the latter, “can fix [teeth] as well as any surgeon dentist who ever came from London, he fixes them in such a manner that they are not only an ornament but of real use in speaking and eating.” After the Revolutionary War broke out, Revere summoned his newfound knowledge to locate the body of a colonial soldier who’d been slain at the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775. The victim was Massachusetts Major General Joseph Warren, who’d sent Revere on his famous “midnight ride” to Lexington earlier that year. Warren had been buried by the British in a mass grave with several of his comrades after the fray. Naturally, his loved ones wanted to search for the body to give it a proper funeral, which was made possible after the rebels took control of the area in 1776. But by then, the pile of corpses had decayed, making them almost impossible to tell apart—until Revere spotted one that was wearing a dental prosthetic he’d built to replace two of Warren’s teeth a few years earlier. According to the National Museum of Health and Medicine, “Revere’s confirmation of General Warren’s identity was the first instance in this country of an identification of a military service member using dental remains.” February 4, 2014 - 11:42am Ram Mohan Roy (reformer) - Fondly called the “Maker of Modern India”, social and educational reformer Raja Ram Mohan Roy was a visionary who lived during one of India’s darkest social phases but strived his best to make his motherland a better place for the future generations to come. Born into a Bengali family in British India, he joined hands with other prominent Bengalis like Dwarkanath Tagore to form the socio-religious organization Brahmo Samaj, the renaissance movement of the Hindu religion which set the pace for Bengali enlightenment. Given the fact that Ram Mohan Roy was born into a family which displayed religious diversity which was unusual in Bengal at the time, it comes as no surprise that the young Ram Mohan Roy was disturbed by the problems stemming in the society due to religious and social malpractices. He was especially concerned about the practice of “sati” which required a widow to immolate herself at the pyre of her husband. Along with other reformers and visionaries he fought against the evil practices prevalent in the Indian society at that time and helped to eradicate several of them. He also left a deep impact in the fields of politics and education. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vuduchile 1,945 Posted November 13, 2015 Scientist: Other Nicéphore Niépce Could be classified as a jack of all trades or an inventor, but I need a strong player in the Scientist category. Nicéphore Niépce (born Joseph Niépce; 7 March 1765 – 5 July 1833)[1] was a French inventor, now usually credited as the inventor of photography and a pioneer in that field.[2] Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process: a print made from a photoengraved printing plate in 1825.[3] In 1826 or 1827, he used aprimitive camera to produce the oldest surviving photograph of a real-world scene. Among Niépce's other inventions was thePyréolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine, which he conceived, created, and developed with his older brotherClaude.[4] Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BiPolarBear 495 Posted November 13, 2015 Lord Vishnu sent his avatar to be born in prison to a devote couple. The baby was taken from a prison in a storm. A river parted during the journey to the infants new home. The infant grew up and was known as Sri Krishna. Krishna lived in the material world for 125 years. The birth date was midnight and is listed as July 19/20, 3228 BC with leaving the physical world on February 18, 3102. BC. The end of Krishna's physical life took place at the hands of Jara, a hunter, who mistook Krishna for a deer. The Lord Krishna holds Jara blameless in the action as it was a fulfillment of Karma from a past life. Here is a list of 10 of Lord Krishna's teachings. http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/03/top-10-teaching-of-lord-krishna-2928384.html Sri Krishna - Religious Leader Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 13, 2015 I don't mind pre-history legendary people like TBBOM's Helen of Troy pick. But they have to be human. This is a deity, no? Like Zeus or Ra or Thor? Off to read. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 13, 2015 Both Sri Krisna's father and mother appear to be from human tribes. If so, it may work. Sri Krishna is supposed to be the avatar of Vishnu which I would say no, but then Jesus has the same thing going on and I have no problem with that. Yes to Jesus, no to Sri Krishna? That would be contradictory. I can't go there. I think it's OK. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745 Posted November 13, 2015 Brian May - jack of all trades Queen's lead guitarist originally had degrees in math and physics, and was working on his Ph. D when Queen finally took off, so he left his astrophysics to go embark on a musical career that would eventually get him named the 39th best guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone. He went on to complete that Ph. D in 2007, publishing a thesis whose abstract -- in its very first sentence -- uses the phrases "pressure-scanned Fabry-Perot Spectrometer," "photomultiplier and pulse-counting electronics" and "high-resolution spectra of the Zodiacal Light." Oh, and he's currently the chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745 Posted November 13, 2015 I'm gonna be kind of busy today, so I'm going to take a chance and go ahead and skip volty. Volty, if you intended to take this guy, say so and I'll pick again. Deng Xiaoping - Reformer This guy was, in spite of never holding supreme office of head of state, government, Or the communist party, the supreme leader of China from 1978-1992. He took over a country ravaged by the batsh!t crazy policies of Mao (the Great Leap Forward, the cultural revolution, the sparrow massacre famine) which literally left hundreds of millions dead. The intellectuals were all dead. The country was firmly a second rate power, and was extremely poor per capita. He began normalizing relations with China's neighbors to the southeast, and the United States, which he visited in 1979. Deng preached the mantra "capitalism with Chinese characteristics" and proceeded to transform China's economy from a rural agrarian economy to what it is today. China is, in my opinion, the second power in the world, and this guy made it happen. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 14, 2015 Umar ibn al Khattab - Religious Leader Other the Muhammad himself, this is the guy that's most responsible for the rapid spread of Islam in the years after Muhammad died. He'd make for a good Conqurer actually but I need him here. In his time as Caliph, he conquered Persia and shaved 2/3 off the Byzantine Empire pushing the spread of Islam west to Libya and east to Pakistan. Despite the violence that accompanied the expansion though, there was a great justice, piety, and compassion with the man. When Israel was taken from the Christians, the Jews there were treated much better. So he was doing the winning over hearts and minds thing that Paul had been doing for Christianity except he also had an Army. Umar didn't look the part of a world conquerer. He had no use for worldly goods, wearing a threadbare gown unadorned with jewelry or such. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 14, 2015 Franz Liszt - Artist (Performing) I found this guy when I was doing my research on composers. He's a great composer in his own right but he's recognized as the greatest pianist that ever lived. This bit regarding his tours was too cool to pass up: --/ For the next eight years Liszt continued to tour Europe, spending holidays with the countess and their children on the island of Nonnenwerth on the Rhine in summers 1841 and 1843. In spring 1844 the couple finally separated. This was Liszt's most brilliant period as a concert pianist. Honours were showered on him and he met with adulation wherever he went.[11] Since he often appeared three or four times a week in concert, it could be safe to assume that he appeared in public well over a thousand times during this eight-year period. Moreover, his great fame as a pianist, which he would continue to enjoy long after he had officially retired from the concert stage, was based mainly on his accomplishments during this time.[19] After 1842, "Lisztomania" swept across Europe. The reception that Liszt enjoyed as a result can be described only as hysterical. Women fought over his silk handkerchiefs and velvet gloves, which they ripped to shreds as souvenirs. This atmosphere was fuelled in great part by the artist's mesmeric personality and stage presence. Many witnesses later testified that Liszt's playing raised the mood of audiences to a level of mystical ecstasy.[20] Adding to his reputation was the fact that Liszt gave away much of his proceeds to charity and humanitarian causes. In fact, Liszt had made so much money by his mid-forties that virtually all his performing fees after 1857 went to charity. While his work for the Beethoven monument and the Hungarian National School of Music are well known, he also gave generously to the building fund of Cologne Cathedral, the establishment of a Gymnasium at Dortmund, and the construction of the Leopold Church in Pest. There were also private donations to hospitals, schools and charitable organizations such as the Leipzig Musicians Pension Fund. When he found out about the Great Fire of Hamburg, which raged for three weeks during May 1842 and destroyed much of the city, he gave concerts in aid of the thousands of homeless there.[21] ---- So his piano playing served as panty peeler for rich upper class chicks much like my posts in the Geek Club do. Really, as always, I'm surrounded by by dozens of them right now amazed at my brilliance and shrieking in joy and exctecy as I press 'post' right now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 14, 2015 TBBOM went already so it's to Bear. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BiPolarBear 495 Posted November 14, 2015 Some of the categories are getting real tough for me and we are not even half way through. I really do think somebody is going to have to pick the Popeye's Chicken lady or maybe Depeche Mode. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that my struggles in math have followed me here. I am forced to pick a mathematician with literally nothing to offer. He came up with the concept of zero (nothing) in math. Brahmagupta - Mathematician An Indian born in 598 AD, he was also an astronomer and calculated Solar and lunar eclipses. He knew the Earth wasn't flat and noticed how objects fell towards the Earth (gravity). He missed the the length a tad. He figured 365 days, 5 minutes and 19 seconds. With our modern methods we get 365 days, 5 hours and 19 seconds. Here are some of his math accomplishments: One of the most significant input of Brahmagupta to mathematics was the introduction of ‘zero’ to the number system which stood for ‘nothing’. His work the ‘Brahmasphutasiddhanta’ contained many mathematical findings written in verse form. It had many rules of arithmetic which is part of the mathematical solutions now. These are ‘A positive number multiplied by a positive number is positive.’, ‘A positive number multiplied by a negative number is negative’, ‘A negative number multiplied by a positive number is negative’ and ‘A negative number multiplied by a negative number is positive’. The book also consisted of many geometrical theories like the ‘Pythagorean Theorem’ for a right angle triangle. Brahmagupta was the one to give the area of a triangle and the important rules of trigonometry such as values of the sin function. He introduced the formula for cyclic quadrilaterals. He also gave the value of ‘Pi’ as square root ten to be accurate and 3 as the practical value. Additionally he introduced the concept of negative numbers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 14, 2015 Some of the categories are getting real tough for me and we are not even half way through. I really do think somebody is going to have to pick the Popeye's Chicken lady or maybe Depeche Mode. I hope it's not a problem. I'm still backed up to my eyeballs in each category and am going to have names to burn so if you need help just skip the category and save it for the end. By that point I'll have names that I'm p*ssed off aren't going to get drafted that I think should be. Once my roster is full in a category and I've decided that I'm not going to use a guy in Wildcard or Talk Show guest, I don't mind dropping names to help anybody out. I'm determined to see this through, Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745 Posted November 14, 2015 I hope it's not a problem. I'm still backed up to my eyeballs in each category and am going to have names to burn so if you need help just skip the category and save it for the end. By that point I'll have names that I'm p*ssed off aren't going to get drafted that I think should be. Once my roster is full in a category and I've decided that I'm not going to use a guy in Wildcard or Talk Show guest, I don't mind dropping names to help anybody out. I'm determined to see this through, Some categories I could pick forever. Others I am already relying on Google. Engineers, doctors, and mathematicians are not really my historical milieu. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BiPolarBear 495 Posted November 14, 2015 Guys; I'm just kidding. It was part of my set up for my pick having nothing to offer. I never let anybody down, Volty; don't worry about me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 14, 2015 90sbaby can go. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iam90sbaby 2,720 Posted November 15, 2015 Adolf Von Henselt (composer) -Adolf von Henselt was a German composer and pianist, considered to be one of the greatest virtuosos of his time. He retired early from the stage and left a promising career as a composer, but later emerged as the leading teacher of piano in St. Petersburg in the mid-19 century, with a huge influence on generations of Russian pianists. Henselt had a knack for music since childhood and began to learn music at the age of three. He continued his studies in Vienna with Simon Schechter, and then spent two years in isolation, further developing his rich melodic playing style. Later, he suffered a nervous breakdown, possibly as a result of the intense stage-fright he experienced while performing in public. Thereafter, while recovering in Weimar, he caught the attention of the Grand Duchess Maria-Pavlovna, a daughter of the Tsar, and was invited to perform in Russia. He then moved permanently to St. Petersburg, where he was appointed as a court pianist. He remained in the city for the rest of his life, working as an inspector of schools and a teacher to the royal family. Due to stage fright, Henselt ceased his compositions and retired from the stage at the age of 33. He is best remembered as a teacher and considered as a key figure in the establishment of the Russian school of piano playing Alfred Schnittke (composer) - Alfred Schnittke was a Russian composer famous for his unique approach of composing music known as ‘polystylism’. He was a genius at producing scores using his newly developed polystylistic technique. He fell in love with music during his early years living in Vienna, where music is a part of history and culture. Eventually, he pursued music composition as his profession and produced various symphonies and string quartets along with numerous violin, piano, cello and viola concerts. During his lifetime, he composed nine symphonies, six concerti grossi, four violin concertos, two cello concertos, concertos for piano and a triple concerto for violin, viola and cello, as well as four string quartets and many other chamber music scores, ballet scores, choral and vocal works. He was a creative and confident composer with a keen sense of contemporary music through which he exemplified a unique genre of music in a stylized manner. He was a talented composer who created everlasting tunes. His forte was not just creating the compositions; instead, it was also the way how he incorporated different, often contradictory, music styles to develop dark-toned musical works in accordance with his artistic imagination. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 15, 2015 To Bear. Vudu can jump in with two at any time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BiPolarBear 495 Posted November 15, 2015 The Shunzhi Emperor was the third Qing emperor of China and ascended the throne at the age of six. Manshu prince Dorgon became a principle adviser with the title of "Emperor's Uncle and Prince Regent". Dorgon was more emperor than the actual emperor. From wiki, here is a taste of his power: Under the reign of Dorgon––whom historians have variously called "the mastermind of the Qing conquest" and "the principal architect of the great Manchu enterprise"––the Qing subdued almost all of China and pushed loyalist "Southern Ming" resistance into the far southwestern reaches of China. Prince Dorgon - Administrator Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745 Posted November 15, 2015 I want this guy on my team, but am having trouble putting him into k e category. So I'm taking him as a wild card. Louis Bourbon, aka Louis the Great, aka Louis XIV, aka la soleil de roi (the sun King) Louis XIV (French pronunciation: [lwi katɔʁz]; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi-Soleil [lə ʁwa sɔlɛj]), was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France from 1643 until his death.[1] His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any monarch of a major country in European history.[2] Louis began his personal rule of France in 1661 after the death of his chief minister, the Italian Cardinal Mazarin.[3] An adherent of the concept of the divine right of kings, which advocates the divine origin of monarchical rule, Louis continued his predecessors' work of creating a centralized state governed from the capital. He sought to eliminate the remnants of feudalism persisting in parts of France and, by compelling many members of the nobility to inhabit his lavish Palace of Versailles (formerly a hunting lodge belonging to Louis's father), succeeded in pacifying the aristocracy, many members of which had participated in the Fronde rebellion during Louis's minority. By these means he became one of the most powerful French monarchs and consolidated a system of absolute monarchical rule in France that endured until the French Revolution. During Louis's reign, France was the leading European power and it fought three major wars: the Franco-Dutch War, the War of the League of Augsburg, and the War of the Spanish Succession. There were also two lesser conflicts: the War of Devolution and the War of the Reunions. Louis encouraged and benefited from the work of prominent political, military, and cultural figures such as Mazarin, Colbert, the Grand Condé, Turenne and Vauban, as well as Molière, Racine, Boileau, La Fontaine, Lully, Marais, Le Brun, Rigaud, Bossuet, Le Vau, Mansart, Charles and Claude Perrault, and Le Nôtre. Upon his death just days before his seventy-seventh birthday, Louis was succeeded by his five-year-old great-grandson, Louis XV. All of his intermediate heirs predeceased him: his son Louis, le Grand Dauphin; the Dauphin's eldest son Louis, Duke of Burgundy; and Burgundy's eldest son Louis, Duke of Brittany (the elder brother of Louis XV). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 15, 2015 Yeah, I don't know where to put him either. Marcus Vitruvius Pollio - Engineer Roman civil and military engineer from the time of Julius Caesar who wrote a multi-volume book describing the construction of military seige equipment, aqueducts, architecture, and construction of tools and equipment needed for the projects. His books were recovered during the Renaissance and caused quite a stir. Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man was inspired by him. ----- Nader Shah - General (Strategic) Nāder Shāh Afshār or Nadir Shah (Persian: نادر شاه افشار; also known as Nāder Qoli Beg - نادر قلی بیگ or Tahmāsp Qoli Khān - تهماسپ قلی خان) (November, 1688[1] or August 6, 1698[2] June 19, 1747) ruled as Shah of Persia (173647) and was one of the most powerful rulers in Iranian history. Because of his military genius as evidenced in numerous martial encounters throughout the Naderian Wars, such as the battles of Herat, Mihmandust, Murche-Khort, Kirkuk, Yeghevard, Kheibar pass, Karnal and Kars, some historians have described him as the Napoleon of Persia[6] or the Second Alexander. Nader Shah was a member of the Turkic Afshar tribe of northern Persia,[7] which had supplied military power to the Safavid state since the time of Shah Ismail I.[8] Nader rose to power during a period of anarchy in Iran after a rebellion by the Hotaki Afghans had overthrown the weak Shah Sultan Husayn, and both the arch enemy of the Safavids, the Ottomans, and the Russians had seized Persian territory for themselves. Nader reunited the Persian realm and removed the invaders. He became so powerful that he decided to depose the last members of the Safavid dynasty, which had ruled Iran for over 200 years, and become shah himself in 1736. His numerous campaigns created a great empire that briefly encompassed what is now part of or includes Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, the North Caucasus, Iraq, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, North India, Oman and the Persian Gulf, but his military spending had a ruinous effect on the Persian economy.[1] Nader idolized Genghis Khan and Timur, the previous conquerors from Central Asia. He imitated their military prowess and especially later in his reign their cruelty. His victories during the Naderian Wars briefly made him West Asia's most powerful sovereign and possessing over what was arguably the most powerful empire in the world, but his empire and the Afsharid dynasty he founded quickly disintegrated after he was assassinated in 1747.[9] The turning point in his military career started from his second and third campaigns against the by then revolting Lezgians, as well as other ethnic groups of Dagestan in the northwestern parts of his domain. Nader Shah has been described as "the last great Asian military conqueror".[10] Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745 Posted November 15, 2015 Jezebel - seductress Her name means Harlot to this very day. Numerous lines of lingere and whatnot bear her name. According to the Hebrew Bible, Jezebel incited her husband King Ahab to abandon the worship of Yahweh and encourage worship of the deities Baal and Asherah instead. Jezebel persecuted the prophets of Yahweh, and fabricated false evidence of blasphemy against an innocent landowner who refused to sell his property to King Ahab, causing the landowner to be put to death. For these transgressions against the God and people of Israel, Jezebel met a gruesome death - thrown out of a window by members of her own court retinue, and the flesh of her corpse eaten by stray dogs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 15, 2015 Bear has one or Vudu has two. If Bear goes first, then we wait for Vudu to have three. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vuduchile 1,945 Posted November 15, 2015 This guy got more from from booze and cigars than Bonds and ARod did from steroids Can you imagine a MLB pitcher who also happens to be the greatest slugger of all time? 2× All-Star (1933, 1934) 7× World Series champion (1915, 1916, 1918, 1923, 1927, 1928, 1932 1923 AL MVP 12× AL home run champion (1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931) 6× AL RBI champion (1919, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1926, 1928) AL batting champion (1924) AL ERA champion (1916) Major League Baseball All-Century Team Major League Baseball All-Time Team National Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 1936 (inaugural) George Herman (Babe) Ruth. Athlete 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iam90sbaby 2,720 Posted November 15, 2015 This guy got more from from booze and cigars than Bonds and ARod did from steroids Can you imagine a MLB pitcher who also happens to be the greatest slugger of all time? 2× All-Star (1933, 1934) 7× World Series champion (1915, 1916, 1918, 1923, 1927, 1928, 1932 1923 AL MVP 12× AL home run champion (1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931) 6× AL RBI champion (1919, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1926, 1928) AL batting champion (1924) AL ERA champion (1916) Major League Baseball All-Century Team Major League Baseball All-Time Team National Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 1936 (inaugural) George Herman (Babe) Ruth. Athlete Overrated. I was going to pick him but there is a reason he fell this far on a forum that is focused on sports...and i think we all know why Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vuduchile 1,945 Posted November 15, 2015 Born in Brooklyn, NY in 1899, he became the most notorious gangster of all time. During the 1920's prohibition era, his illegal bootlegging, prostitution and gambling enterprises dominated the organized crime scene. He was brutal, ruthless and extremely cunning. In 1929, he had 7 of his rival wannabes whacked in what is now known as the St Valentines Day Massacre. Eventually brought down for income tax evasion, he spent time in the federal pen in Atlanta and at Alcatraz. Eventually released after serving 6 1/2 years of an 11 year sentence, he retired to Miami where he spent the rest of his days. Psycho, killer, lunatic, a$$hole and all around bad guy. Alphonse Gabriel Capone. - Criminal. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vuduchile 1,945 Posted November 15, 2015 Overrated. I was going to pick him but there is a reason he fell this far on a forum that is focused on sports...and i think we all know why Maybe. But that doesn't change the fact that Babe Ruth is THE iconic baseball player. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iam90sbaby 2,720 Posted November 15, 2015 Meh. Willie Mays disagrees. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 15, 2015 All caught up. Bear goes then Vudu again. Regarding Ruth, his HR records have been broken career by Aaron and season by Maris*, massively eclipsed by juicers, he's not baseball clear cut #1 but yet in my book, yes, he still is baseball's #1. Also Vudu's Athlete category is now complete and looks fantastic. Good job. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BiPolarBear 495 Posted November 15, 2015 Imagine if the classical composers had an orchestra full of righteous cats laying down the god-head groove while featuring a bevy of soloist tinkling the celestial mandalas, deftly and with a sense of purpose. These diamonds on my windshield are tears from heaven, Tom Waits might say. Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was born in 1899 to a well-to-do family in Washington D.C. He received 12 Grammy's and a medal from a President. If he didn't have a piano handy , he would compose on the back of an envelope, while he rode the bus. Duke Ellington - Composer Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vuduchile 1,945 Posted November 16, 2015 In 1936-37, a dirt poor juke joint guitarist laid down 29 tracks that would become the basic framework for every rock and roll song ever recorded. Nobody knows for sure who actually invented the 3 chord Blues, but there is no debate about who perfected the sound, wrapped it up and presented it to the musical universe on a platter spinning at 78 rpm His songs have been covered and turned into hits by Clapton, the Rolling Stones, Dylan, The Allman Bros and even the Blues Brothers. Offstage, his womanizing and colorful lifestyle are the stuff of legend. Details are sketchy, but it's believed that all caught up with him when he was murdered at the age of 27 via a poisoned bottle of whiskey. His legendary status has reached mythical proportions, but the tallest tale of all puts him at a crossroads way out in the Mississippi Delta where he meets up with Satan himself. The story says he sold his soul in return for masterful guitar skills. It's easy for non musicians to listen to those 29 recordings and wonder what all the fuss was about. True enough, they don't sound impressive by today's standards. But they absolutely launched a musical revolution and everyone from Chuck Berry to Metallica and Taylor Swift owe him a tremendous debt of gratitude. He could be my last pick in the performer category, but since his music has such widespread influence, I'll take him as Composer: Robert Johnson. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vuduchile 1,945 Posted November 16, 2015 Imagine if the classical composers had an orchestra full of righteous cats laying down the god-head groove while featuring a bevy of soloist tinkling the celestial mandalas, deftly and with a sense of purpose. These diamonds on my windshield are tears from heaven, Tom Waits might say. Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was born in 1899 to a well-to-do family in Washington D.C. He received 12 Grammy's and a medal from a President. If he didn't have a piano handy , he would compose on the back of an envelope, while he rode the bus. Duke Ellington - Composer Nice. You and I were thinking along similar lines this round. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iam90sbaby 2,720 Posted November 16, 2015 I was going to put Walt in the artist category but then I figured I'd pair him with Henry Ford and Sam Walton in the businessman category. Walt Disney (businessman) - Walt Disney was a showman in the truest sense of the word. A pioneering force in the world of animation, he transformed the entertainment industry completely, with his innovative ideas and creative visions. In his over four-decade long career, he changed the way the world looked at animation and was solely responsible for ushering the golden age of animation. Starting off as a mere animator, he soon turned into a business magnate, eventually becoming a major figure in the American animation industry. He co-founded the Walt Disney Production, along with his brother, which went on to become one of the best motion picture producers of the world. The cartoon characters that we love to see today, such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, are all the brainchild of this artistic inventor. In addition to his contribution in the field of animation, he was the mastermind behind the conceptualization and final formulation of Disneyland, an innovative theme park for children and adults alike. Till date, no other person has singularly contributed to the animation industry as Walt Disney has. Sam Walton (businessman) - Sam Walton was an American businessman who founded the Wal-Mart Stores Inc. which grew to be the world’s largest corporation by revenue as well as the biggest private employer in the world. Founded in 1962, today the company has thousands of stores all over the world. Sam Walton had spent years in the retail management business before opening the first Wal-Mart store. Born into a humble farming family in the late 1910s, he grew up during the Great Depression when not just his own family, but everyone else around him struggled to make ends meet. Still a young boy, he took up a variety of jobs in order to contribute to his family’s income and this taught him the value of hard work and determination at a young age. He attended the University of Missouri and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics. After working for a while at J. C. Penney, he went on to serve in the army during the war years before venturing into the retail management business. He took over management of his first variety store when he purchased a Ben Franklin variety store in Newport, Arkansas. Eventually he opened the first Wal-Mart store in 1962 which has now grown to include over 11,000 stores in 28 countries. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites