Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 24, 2015 Hey I'm in! Amazing it finally worked. Who knows if it'll last. I've been having major access problems all and am talking to myself over at Ed's but these last 24 hours or so have been brutal. We've waited on Vudu long enough, 90sbaby can go. There's a problem in that TBBOM though it was his turn then told me it was mine so we both went. Between Vudu taking so long here and the makeup pick from last time where Bear picked after Vudu, it must have confused him. I didn't know anything, I can barely get in. So skip Vudu, go to 90sbaby x 2. If he goes, Bear can go. Then the four picks by TBBOM and I get locked in. Now I'm going to press post and probably wait a minute or two to exhale. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iam90sbaby 2,720 Posted November 24, 2015 Charles George Gordon (admin) - Charles George Gordon, better known as Gordon Pasha or Gordon of Khartoum, was an English army officer and administrator, best remembered for his expeditions in China and northern Africa. As a general of the British army, he served in the Crimean War and participated in the expedition to Kinburn, for which he was honored with the Crimean war medal and clasp from the British government and was made the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French government. However, his major recognition came after his appointment as the commander of the 3,500 Chinese soldiers, known as the ‘Ever Victorious Army’, following which he succeeded in suppressing the Taiping Rebellion and seizing its principal military base, Changzhou Fu. This heroic service earned him accolades from both the British and the Chinese government, apart from the nickname ‘Chinese Gordon’. He entered the Egyptian army under Khedive Ismail Pasha and served in Khartoum and Gondokoro, building stations along River Nile and making attempts to end slave trade. Eventually, his appointment as the Governor-General of Sudan took him to Khartoum to free British and Egyptian forces, due to the uprising of Sudanese rebels led by Muhammad Ahmad, who proclaimed himself Mahdi, against the Anglo-Egyptian rule, where he was captured and executed Bear Grylls (explorer) -Bear Grylls who is renowned for his reality show ‘Man vs. Wild’, is an adventurer, traveller and explorer. Adventure sports such mountaineering, sailing and sky diving interested him ever since he was a child. He got trained in these sports by his father who was associated with the ‘Royal Yacht Squadron’. He was keen to learn martial arts and at an early age earned a black belt and even became a cub scout when he was eight years old. Adventures are accompanied by risks and demand immense physical as well as mental strength. Bear too had to face many injuries and at one such occasion he even landed up injuring his spine. This courageous individual not only emerged of the bodily injury but also overcame his psychological hindrances. His determination to climb Mount Everest remained undeterred and with his intense determination he again ushered into his adventurous pursuits, when people were sceptical about his locomotive organs being functional. Since then he has been more zealous and has also established himself as a television presenter of reality shows where he embarks on adventures. To know more about his life and works read on Henry Kissinger (advisor) - Henry Kissinger is a German-born American political scientist, bureaucrat and diplomat who served America as National Security Advisor and later as Secretary of State under the presidency of Richard Nixon and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973. As National Security Advisor and Secretary of States, Kissinger adopted the policy of détente in foreign affairs which improved America's deteriorating relations with the world's two super powers - Soviet Union and China. However, his landmark achievement till this day is a ceasefire with Vietnam which brought an end to the long time war between the two countries for which he was awarded the honorary Nobel Peace Prize in 1973. He was one of the few officials of President Nixon to come out with a clean image from the widely condemned Watergate scandal and despite several accusations and impeachments, has continued to hold important positions in the American Government. In addition to the Nobel Peace Prize, he has been given the Wilson Award and the Hopkins-Nanjing Award in June 2007. Gunnar Myrdal (social) - Gunnar Myrdal, considered a leading economist and social scientist of his era, left an impression as a reformer, politician, fighter of inequality and developer of the Swedish welfare state. He was one of the leading theorists of international relations and developmental economics. Myrdal had the faith to pierce the roots of conflicts taking place between the American idealism and its racist relations. This Swede was given due respect in his career as a professor of political and international economy. His work on ‘An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem In Modern Democracy’ in 1944 wholly criticized the separate-but-equal philosophy and thus, ceased racial discriminations in schools. He made a mark with his classic book on sociology, titled as ‘An American Dilemma’. His was a name listed among Nobel Prize winners for economics in 1974, which was shared with Friedrich A. Hayek. Get to know more about this Swedish Nobel Laureate and his career and works in this biography. Grand Slam. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 24, 2015 Ok so let's make a picture of what's going on. 73.3a is Vudu with Ahmad as a makeup pick. The we get Bear at 73.4 with Christie. Vudu gets skipped. Gordon and Grylis go to 90sbaby. Vudu is skipped again. So now Bear goes and Vudu is owed two picks. When Bear picks, assuming he goes elsewhere, the four of mine and TBBOM fall... Dalton, Virgil, Fredrick and Arnold and he can go a second time. Then back to Vudu and freeze as he'd been skipped twice at this point. Then Kissinger and Myrdal who I think has a beach named after him somewhere. Then back to Vudu. I don't know if it makes sense to you but in my head, I see it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vuduchile 1,945 Posted November 24, 2015 In 1925, a woman addressed a newly formed service club at their convention in Cedar Point, Ohio. Her speech inspired the club to dedicate themselves to helping people like her. Since that time, the Lions Club has helped provide the gift of clear vision to millions worldwide.I'm proud to be a member of our local Lions Club, and am inspired by what this woman was able to accomplish, despite her disabilities.Below is a transcript of the speech made that day by one Helen Keller - Wild Card.Dear Lions,I suppose you have heard the poetic legend which represents Opportunity as a capricious lady who knocks at every door but once, and if the door isn't opened quickly, she passes on never to return. And that is as it should be. Lovely, desirable ladies won't wait, you have to go out and grab 'em. I am your Opportunity, clothed in visibility. I am knocking at your door. I want to be adopted. The legend doesn't say what you are to do when several beautiful Opportunities present themselves at the same door. I guess you are to choose the one you love the best. I hope you will choose me. I am the youngest, and the opportunity I offer you is full of splendid possibilities of service.The American Foundation for the Blind is only four years old. It grew out of the imperative needs of the blind and was called into being by the sightless themselves. It is national and international in scope and importance. It represents the best and most enlightened thought on our problems that has been reached so far. It embodies a new idea in our work, unity of effort, which is scientific and modern. It will render impartial assistance to all classes of the blind. It will make the efforts of local organizations more effective, more fruitful in results.The time has come to regard the work for the sightless as a whole, in which the kindergarten, the school, the library, the workshop, the home for the aged blind and prevention are seen to be parts of a great movement with one end in view, namely making life more worth living for the blind everywhere. Beside the young blind, for whom existing institutions are supposed to provide, there is a large class of men and women who lose their sight when it is too late for them to go to school. Those who are in the dark from childhood are hard pressed to find their place in the work of the world; but the man suddenly stricken blind is another Samson, bound, helpless, dependent, until a way is found to unchain him.Try to imagine how you would feel if you lost your sight tomorrow. Picture yourself stumbling and groping at noonday as in the night, your work, your independence gone! In that dark hour wouldn't your heart cry out for a friend to teach you how to live in the dark?That is just the kind of friend the American Foundation for the Blind will be to all the blind if people with sight will only give it the support it must have. Adequately financed, it will help the blind in every emergency of their lives.You have heard how I was taughthow a little word from the fingers of another, a ray of light from another soul touched the darkness of my mind, and I found myself, found the world, and found God! It is because my teacher cared about me and broke through the dark, silent imprisonment which held me that I am able to work for myself and for others. If you care, if we can make the people of this great country care, the blind will triumph over blindness.This is the opportunity I offer you, Lionsto foster and sponsor the work of the American Foundation for the Blind. Will you not help me hasten the day when there shall be no preventable blindness, no little deaf blind child untaught, no blind man or woman unaided? I appeal to you, Lionsyou who have your sight, your hearing, you who are strong and brave and kindwill you not constitute yourselves Knights of the Blind in my crusade against darkness? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vuduchile 1,945 Posted November 24, 2015 George Melies was a French actor, director, inventor, cinematographer, illusionist, toy maker and costume designer. In the earliest days of cinema. Méliès, a prolific innovator in the use of special effects, accidentally discovered the substitution stop trick in 1896, and was one of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his work. Because of his ability to seemingly manipulate and transform reality through cinematography, Méliès is sometimes referred to as the first "cine magician". But that's not why he's being drafted. In 1897 he directed a film titled "After The Ball". This film included the first ever nude scene. Thus porn was born. George Melies. Jack of All Trades. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BiPolarBear 495 Posted November 24, 2015 If you had a household in the U.S. in 1988, he sent you a letter. He won an Emmy and he was a Republican. He also received: The Presidential Medal of Freedom The Legion d' Honneur The Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism He championed the fight against tobacco and cigarette smoking declined 7% during his period of influence. He made a TV spot against abortion. He supported the rights of handicapped youth. The 1988 letter he sent to every U.S. household warned of the dangers of A.I.D.S. Easily the most influential Surgeon General of the United States in history: C. Everett Koop - Adviser Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vuduchile 1,945 Posted November 24, 2015 If you had a household in the U.S. in 1988, he sent you a letter. He won an Emmy and he was a Republican. He also received: The Presidential Medal of Freedom The Legion d' Honneur The Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism He championed the fight against tobacco and cigarette smoking declined 7% during his period of influence. He made a TV spot against abortion. He supported the rights of handicapped youth. The 1988 letter he sent to every U.S. household warned of the dangers of A.I.D.S. Easily the most influential Surgeon General of the United States in history: C. Everett Koop - Adviser Somebody should have advised him to let his stash grow in. That's some pretty bad facial hair strategy. http://stevesthoughtcrimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Koop1.jpg Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 24, 2015 Mine and TBBOM four fall. Bear again. Then Vudu for two (assuming 90sbaby's two hold) then we're cleaned up an Bear again. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 24, 2015 Somebody should have advised him to let his stash grow in. That's some pretty bad facial hair strategy. http://stevesthoughtcrimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Koop1.jpg It seemed normal back then. (So did Michael Jackson's crotch grabbing). I couldn't imagine him any other way. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BiPolarBear 495 Posted November 24, 2015 Holder of at least 25 patents for his inventions. He invented the geodesic dome. Buckminster Fuller - inventor Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 24, 2015 Almost clear. Vudu goes. Then 90sbaby's selections of Kissinger and Myrdal go. Then Vudu again. At that point, we're back on normal schedule with Bear and then TBBOM. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 25, 2015 Everything is updated through Buckyballs at Ed's. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 25, 2015 My gawd, what a breathe of fresh air. I'm having a great day browsing the Geek Club on my phone at the Tea Shop near where I work. Its all functioning normally here, unlike my home and work. The problems are gone. The pages load fully and in moments, the editing function works. I may have to take the laptop next time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745 Posted November 25, 2015 Bear chose Wallis Simpson - temptress this twice divorced American socialite seduced King Edward off his throne. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 25, 2015 Thanks, but you were supposed to wait until it was Bear's turn to post his pick since you were next and could then jump in and do yours. We're still on Vudu here. Vudu's two (assuming he didn't want 80sbaby's two he could immediately go again). Then Bear then you. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vuduchile 1,945 Posted November 25, 2015 Jack of All Trades: Story Musgrave. This write up is better than anything I could come up with. Musgrave was a United States marine serving as an aircraft mechanic and electronics technician. During this service he also learned to fly. Following his service he studied mathematics and statistics at Syracuse University. He then earned an MBA in operations analysis and computer programming from UCLA. He then received his Doctor of Medicine from Columbia, and began a surgical fellowship at the University of Kentucky Medical Center. He specialized in cardiovascular and exercise physiology, specifically concerning aviation.In 1967 he was selected by NASA to be among the first scientist-astronauts. Prior to then, most astronauts were air force test pilots. After training as an astronaut, he contributed to the design and development of Skylab and helped to design the space suits, life support systems, airlocks, and maneuvering units for space walks in space shuttle missions. While working at NASA, Musgrave worked as a trauma surgeon at Denver General Hospital. He also trained as a pilot and parachutist, earning his air force pilot wings and FAA ratings as a flight instructor, instrument instructor, glider instructor, and airline transport pilot. He has flown more than 160 types of aircraft and made over 800 free falls.Musgrave performed the first space walk out of the shuttle. He commanded the Endeavor mission in 1993 to repair the Hubble. He is one of only eight humans to make six space flights, and was the second to do so. He earned a total of seven graduate degrees, including master's degrees in literature and psychology. His interests not already mentioned include poetry, chess, gardening, photography, computers, running, and scuba diving. Today, he owns a palm farm in Orlando, Florida, a production company in Sydney, Australia, and a sculpture company in Burbank, California. In addition to his businesses, he practices landscape architecture and serves as a consultant with Walt Disney Imagineering and teaches at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.In summary, he is a skydiver, rocket scientist, cardiovascular doctor, trauma surgeon, programmer, poet, pilot, psychologist, marine, literary expert, engineer, astronaut, scuba diver, statistician, landscape architect, artist, producer, and palm tree farmer. Da Vinci, Franklin, Tesla, eat your hearts out.*EDIT* He also apparently has six kids. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 25, 2015 Thank you sir, may I have another. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 25, 2015 Thank you sir, may I have another. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vuduchile 1,945 Posted November 25, 2015 How many war heroes fought for their country, became the most decorated soldier in U.S. history, wrote a book about the experience, and then starred in the movie based on that autobiography? I know of only one: Non Fiction Author and Badasss- Audie Murphy. If you don't know much about this guy, please take some time to read up on him. He's defines the term "Model American" . Here's a list of the medals he received: Congressional Medal of Honor Distinguished Service Cross Two Silver Stars Legion of Merit Two Bronze Stars Three Purple Hearts U.S. Army Outstanding Civilian Service Medal Good Conduct Medal Two Presidential Unit Citations American Campaign Medal European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with One Silver Star,Four Bronze Service Stars and one Bronze Arrowhead World War II Victory Medal Army of Occupation Medal Armed Forces Reserve Medal Combat Infantry Badge Marksman Badge with Rifle Bar Expert Badge with Bayonet Bar French Fourragere in Colors of the Croix de Guerre French Legion of Honor, Grade of Chevalier French Croix de Guerre With Silver Star French Croix de Guerre with Palm Medal of Liberated France Belgian Croix de Guerre 1940 Palm From the last lines of his book: " When I was a child, I was told that men were branded by war. Has the brand been put on me? Have the years of blood and ruin stripped me of all decency? Of all belief? Not of all belief. I believe in the force of a hand grenade, the power of artillery, the accuracy of a Garand. I believe in hitting before you get hit, and that dead men do not look noble."But I also believe in men like Brandon and Novak and Swope and Kerrigan; and all the men who stood up against the enemy, taking their beatings without whimper and their triumphs without boasting. The men who went and would go again to hell and back to preserve what our country thinks right and decent."My country. America! That is it. We have been so intent on death that we have forgotten life. And now suddenly life faces us. I swear to myself that I will measure up to it. I may be branded by war, but I will not be defeated by it."Gradually it becomes clear. I will go back. I will find the kind of girl of whom I once dreamed. I will learn to look at life through uncynical eyes, to have faith, to know love. I will learn to work in peace as in war. And finally - finally, like countless others, I will learn to live again." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 25, 2015 Sent Today, 09:03 AM BiPolarBear, on 25 Nov 2015 - 09:57 AM, said: Here you go; so there will be no waiting. Ever hear a King give up the throne for a woman? This thrice-married American socialite seduced a king away from his throne. When Simpson met Prince Edward VIII of England in the early 1930s, she was already married to her second husband. They became lovers in 1934, and his devotion to her was absolute. When Edward ascended to the throne in January of 1936, the clock began running on his reign. As he couldn't rule and be married to a twice-divorced woman, Edward chose to abdicate the throne in December of that same year. Edward abdicated after less than a year as king, and Wallis had her man. They became the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and Edward was succeeded by his brother George VI. Wallis Simpson - Seductress Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vuduchile 1,945 Posted November 25, 2015 Sent Today, 09:03 AM BiPolarBear, on 25 Nov 2015 - 09:57 AM, said: Here you go; so there will be no waiting. Ever hear a King give up the throne for a woman? This thrice-married American socialite seduced a king away from his throne. When Simpson met Prince Edward VIII of England in the early 1930s, she was already married to her second husband. They became lovers in 1934, and his devotion to her was absolute. When Edward ascended to the throne in January of 1936, the clock began running on his reign. As he couldn't rule and be married to a twice-divorced woman, Edward chose to abdicate the throne in December of that same year. Edward abdicated after less than a year as king, and Wallis had her man. They became the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and Edward was succeeded by his brother George VI. Wallis Simpson - Seductress Great pick. On a side note, The Duke of Windsor is the best dressed man in all of history. IMO, there is no comparison. http://www.thegentlemansjournal.com/style-icon-the-duke-of-windsor/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 25, 2015 I liked the pick a lot too. It slipped under my radar, I'd forgotten about her. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 25, 2015 If Prince Edward couldn't become King because he married a divorced woman, why can Charles? I'm sure it's been combed over a thousand times but I don't pay much attention and it just dawned on me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vuduchile 1,945 Posted November 25, 2015 If Prince Edward couldn't become King because he married a divorced woman, why can Charles? I'm sure it's been combed over a thousand times but I don't pay much attention and it just dawned on me. I think it was mostly due to another ridiculously antiquated religious doctrine. I'm no expert, but I think the King is supposed to be some sort of leader in the Church of England. Back then, the church wouldn't remarry divorced people, so he couldn't technically serve in that capacity. The church has since softened their stance on divorce, Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 25, 2015 Henry VIII started that church and was a divorce expert with a reputation for being a really lousy ex-husband. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vuduchile 1,945 Posted November 25, 2015 Henry VIII started that church and was a divorce expert with a reputation for being a really lousy ex-husband. A church founded by a hypocrite. Shocking. It's also been said that the church helped England dodge a bullet by giving them a convenient means to dethrone Edward the VIII. It was thought by some that he wasn't fit to be king. Both the Duke and the Duchess were believed to be Nazi sympathizers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BiPolarBear 495 Posted November 25, 2015 Here is King Edwards abdication speech; Regarding vuduchile's comment on his style: He wore a navy suit with a brown belt and shoes on a visit to the U.S. He literally changed the rules of fashion on that day. It has been considered acceptable ever since. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745 Posted November 26, 2015 Hong Xiuquan - religious leader This is one I've been sitting on for a while, and it's time to grab it. This guy believed he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ, and declared himself the king of the Kingdom of Heavenly Peace. This launched the taiping rebellion, one of the bloodiest wars in human history, with as many as 70 million dead over 14 years. Among his loony policies was forbidding marriage (and sexual congress) among the faithful, which obviously would present a population problem. Eventually the taiping were wiped out by the Qing dynasty forces under another pick of mine, the dowager empress cixi. If you don't know this story, read about it. It's some crazy sh!t. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745 Posted November 26, 2015 Publius Cornelius Scipio - tactical general Renowned as one of the greatest generals of Roman, and western, history, scipio arose at the darkest hour for Rome. The Carthaginians under Hannibal had just destroyed the roman army and were rampaging through Italy unchecked. The people of Rome were taking about capitulation. Scipio raised another army and, in a series of battles, ejected Hannibal from Italy, pursued him to Africa, and in the battle of zama, destroyed him for good. He allowed Carthage to be sacked for a number of days, sold he population into slavery, burned it, and salted the ground where it stood, so that she would never grow again. For this exploit, the Roman senate awarded him the right to the honorary surname Africanus, so he is commonly known as Scipio Africanus. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 26, 2015 Heinrich Hertz' work with electricity and detecting electromagnetic radiation really fascinated an Italian teenager. He started to play around with Hertzian waves by building contraptions in his attic, determined to find a practical use. The boy really amazed his dad, sing as how he could push the button across the room without any telegraph-type wiring. It wasn't a trick, he really could transmit a code through the air to push the button and the button would push. He could make a bell ring, he could detect lightning. His dad was a man of some means and was impressed and curious enough at just how well these thing could work such that he spotted his son some cash to fund his endevours. The boy wanted to figure out just how far they could transmit messages. That hill, two hills over, from out of sight, from across town. The transmitter got bigger and better. He wrote to the Italian Post and telegraph minster who never wrote back. His father had some connections in public life and the boy went off to England with his wireless telegraph machine when he was twenty years old. He had much better luck, got some funding and in some time had built a transmitter in Cornwall powerful enough to send messages that could be received in St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada, News from Europe could now be sent instantaniously across the ocean. Huge. He set off for the US and to inagurate the first transmission back across from west to east across the Atlantic, he lined up President Teddy Roosevelt to send a greeting to be received by King Edward VII in Britain. It was quite an exciting time these early days of radio broadcasting. Work crews were coming back and forth. Now ships didn't yet have radios at this time but fortunatly, onboard the disaster we know as the Titanic were two men from one of his work crew. What survivors were rescued from that tragedy were taken aboard the RMS Carpathia, another ship with no radio but one that also luckily had a team of his workers who then alerted the captain and thus they were able to respond. Their boss, himself had been offerd free passage abord the Titanic but fortunatly had taken the Lusintania three days earlier. Britain's Postmaster-General summed up the Titanic disaster with these words... "Those who have been saved have been saved through one man, Mr. Guglielmo Marconi" - Inventor Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 26, 2015 Johannes Kepler - Scientist (Astronomy) IMO, the Physics/Astronomy scientist category has some really good Physists in it yet so, since I'd like two and two of each, I'm plucking the guy who seems to me the best Astronomer left and will round out the category with a physics guy later. ----- Johannes Kepler (German: [ˈkɛplɐ]; December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630) was a German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution, he is best known for his laws of planetary motion, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican Astronomy. These works also provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation. During his career, Kepler was a mathematics teacher at a seminary school in Graz, Austria, where he became an associate of Prince Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg. Later he became an assistant to astronomer Tycho Brahe, and eventually the imperial mathematician to Emperor Rudolf II and his two successors Matthias and Ferdinand II. He was also a mathematics teacher in Linz, Austria, and an adviser to General Wallenstein. Additionally, he did fundamental work in the field of optics, invented an improved version of the refracting telescope (the Keplerian Telescope), and mentioned the telescopic discoveries of his contemporary Galileo Galilei. Kepler lived in an era when there was no clear distinction between astronomy and astrology, but there was a strong division between astronomy (a branch of mathematics within the liberal arts) and physics (a branch of natural philosophy). Kepler also incorporated religious arguments and reasoning into his work, motivated by the religious conviction and belief that God had created the world according to an intelligible plan that is accessible through the natural light of reason.[1] Kepler described his new astronomy as "celestial physics",[2] as "an excursion into Aristotle's Metaphysics",[3] and as "a supplement to Aristotle's On the Heavens",[4] transforming the ancient tradition of physical cosmology by treating astronomy as part of a universal mathematical physics.[5] Beyond his role in the historical development of astronomy and natural philosophy, Kepler has loomed large in the philosophy and historiography of science. Kepler and his laws of motion were central to early histories of astronomy such as Jean Etienne Montucla's 1758 Histoire des mathématiques and Jean-Baptiste Delambre's 1821 Histoire de l'astronomie moderne. These and other histories written from an Enlightenment perspective treated Kepler's metaphysical and religious arguments with skepticism and disapproval, but later Romantic-era natural philosophers viewed these elements as central to his success. William Whewell, in his influential History of the Inductive Sciences of 1837, found Kepler to be the archetype of the inductive scientific genius; in his Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences of 1840, Whewell held Kepler up as the embodiment of the most advanced forms of scientific method. Similarly, Ernst Friedrich Apelt—the first to extensively study Kepler's manuscripts, after their purchase by Catherine the Great—identified Kepler as a key to the "Revolution of the sciences". Apelt, who saw Kepler's mathematics, aesthetic sensibility, physical ideas, and theology as part of a unified system of thought, produced the first extended analysis of Kepler's life and work.[83] Alexandre Koyré's work on Kepler was, after Apelt, the first major milestone in historical interpretations of Kepler's cosmology and its influence. In the 1930s and 1940s, Koyré, and a number of others in the first generation of professional historians of science, described the "Scientific Revolution" as the central event in the history of science, and Kepler as a (perhaps the) central figure in the revolution. Koyré placed Kepler's theorization, rather than his empirical work, at the center of the intellectual transformation from ancient to modern world-views. Since the 1960s, the volume of historical Kepler scholarship has expanded greatly, including studies of his astrology and meteorology, his geometrical methods, the role of his religious views in his work, his literary and rhetorical methods, his interaction with the broader cultural and philosophical currents of his time, and even his role as an historian of science.[84] Philosophers of science—such as Charles Sanders Peirce, Norwood Russell Hanson, Stephen Toulmin, and Karl Popper—have repeatedly turned to Kepler: examples of incommensurability, analogical reasoning, falsification, and many other philosophical concepts have been found in Kepler's work. Physicist Wolfgang Pauli even used Kepler's priority dispute with Robert Fludd to explore the implications of analytical psychology on scientific investigation.[85] Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 26, 2015 In my inbox, a message from Bear tha fortunatly doesn't read Marconi or Kepler... ---- O.K., I really need to be looking for my next pick, and I need an Administrator in a big way. But first, I think I will look at the Drudge Report. Hey look! President O. gave Babs and some other schmucks the Medal of Freedom. What's this! One of them had a title with the word "Administrator" in it! The word "administrator and a Medal of Freedom is a good start what else did that guy do? Well he is currently sitting or has sat on the boards of the following corporations. Monsanto (stop your hating and feel the power), Cummins Engine Company, Pharmacia Corporation, Solutia, Coinstar, Nordstrom, and Weyerhaeuser Company. He was an acting director of the FBI. He is a lawyer. Drum roll, please... He was also the First (and fifth) Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, appointed by Richard Nixon. While serving as Deputy Attorney General of the United States he was ordered by Pres. Nixon to fire the Chief Watergate Prosecutor, Archibald Cox. He chose to resign instead. This act gained him the nick name of "Mr. Clean". I love that about him. William Doyle Ruckelshaus - Administrator Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 26, 2015 The first page of this thread is not up to date. The one at Ed's board is through yesterday and in a few hours, I'll update it again for today's picks. In the mean time, it's Vudu's turn. I'll try here as well, I'm burnt out and havent tried since Sunday. Link to Ed's: http://nomoregfiafp.boards.net/thread/1016/second-home-geek-history-draft?page=7#scrollTo=19277 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 26, 2015 There it is.... page one of this thread is all updated through 77.3 I'd had a bad internet connection. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vuduchile 1,945 Posted November 26, 2015 There have been many great ideas and inventions since 1917, but which one is really the greatest thing since sliced bread? Otto Frederick Rohwedder - Engineer. Otto invented the first loaf-at-a-time bread-slicing machine. A prototype he built in 1917 was destroyed in a fire, and it was not until 1928 that Rohwedder had a fully working machine ready. The first commercial use of the machine was by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri, which produced their first slices on July 7, 1928. [1] Their product, "Kleen Maid Sliced Bread", proved a success. Battle Creek, Michigan has a competing claim as the first city to sell bread presliced by Rohwedder's machine; historians have produced no documentation backing up Battle Creek's claim. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 26, 2015 In China the bread stores have an annoying habit of slicing the bread 85%. Seriously. The bottom of the entire loaf stays intact. Then you have to cut it yourself or else the slice rips off and you get 85% of slice one one piece, the next one has a big fat wad of bread stuck together on the bottom. As a customer I take this as a personal insult and always check. Whenever I come across it at the bakery when I go to buy bread, I make them unwind the tin strip, open the plastic bag, and finish the job before I buy it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745 Posted November 27, 2015 In China the bread stores have an annoying habit of slicing the bread 85%. Seriously. The bottom of the entire loaf stays intact. Then you have to cut it yourself or else the slice rips off and you get 85% of slice one one piece, the next one has a big fat wad of bread stuck together on the bottom. As a customer I take this as a personal insult and always check. Whenever I come across it at the bakery when I go to buy bread, I make them unwind the tin strip, open the plastic bag, and finish the job before I buy it. They really don't get the art of cutting things into pieces here. They will prepare a beautiful dish, perfectly seasoned, magnificent flavor... That is ruined because it is full of shards of bone from where they hacked the chicken into bite sized bits with a cleaver. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 27, 2015 They really don't get the art of cutting things into pieces here. They will prepare a beautiful dish, perfectly seasoned, magnificent flavor... That is ruined because it is full of shards of bone from where they hacked the chicken into bite sized bits with a cleaver. Bone shards, gristle, skin... They leave it all in there for you to deal with. You can't just enjoy the meal, you eat with warning flags up because you have to pull out/off the inedible parts constantly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltaire 5,392 Posted November 27, 2015 Apparently, 90sbaby was hiding in the closet so that crazy uncle couldn't discuss politics with him again this Thanksgiving. While there he passed out on spiked apple cider while also trying to deal with the shock of losing at home to the Bears. He should be good to go in a few hours since there's a special on the Squatty Pottys that Mmm...Beer was raving about over at Target, hopefully he picks before he leaves the house. In the mean time, Vudu can go. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites