***Geek Club History Draft***

[Voltaire 5,392]

Giuseppe Garibaldi - General (Tactical)

 

Unified the city-states of Italy and reduced Vatican holdings to the vicinity around St. Paul's Basilica. He has been called "The Hero of Two Worlds" due to his military successes in Brazil and Uruguay as well.

 

He'd spent time in the US and spoke English. Interestingly, Lincoln sent an ambassador to his home to invite him to take command of the Union side during the Civil War but he turned down the offer since (at that time) the war was being fought to preserve the Union while Garibaldi insisted his participation could only be had if Lincoln would eliminate slavery.

[Voltaire 5,392]

Carl von Clausewitz - Wildcard

 

Write up to come

[BiPolarBear 495]

You have to get up pretty early in the morning to beat out the Cleveland Browns when it comes to making an asinine football decision. THE Browns were in the catbird seat to make a player trade with the Dallas Cowboys. Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson decided to call more teams and make a better deal.

 

Jimmy Johnson told Minnesota Vikings GM, Mike Lynn, that he could get a star player, but he only had 'til 6:30pm that day and it was going to cost him Players, draft picks, conditional picks, and provisions."

 

Yes ladies and gentlemen, we are talking about the infamous Herschal Walker trade. It didn't look all that bad after the first game for the Vikes. Herschal ran for 148 yards. Of coarse, when he woke up the next morning thinking "why did I do that for?", he settled into an 81 yard average over the next 26 games.

 

To be brief, the Cowboys got Emmitt Smith, Darren Woodson, and Russell Maryland (14 Pro Bowls combined) and three Super Bowl wins. No NFL team will ever again promise so much for one star player. Unless you have the Cleveland Browns on speed dial.

 

Mike Lynn - Dumb F'ing Moron

[Voltaire 5,392]

Dung this up. Thought it was one of the funnies scenes ever.

 

Who is the person Bear picked here?

 

Also, I'm having trouble editing the first page, I'll have things updated at Ed's soon.

[Voltaire 5,392]

Dung this up. Thought it was one of the funnies scenes ever.

 

Who is the person Bear picked here?

 

Also, I'm having trouble editing the first page, I'll have things updated at Ed's soon.

[Voltaire 5,392]

Ed's site is updated. The first page here is not up to date. When it loads this slowly, I can't edit without risk of a disaster where I lose all my coloring.

 

http://nomoregfiafp.boards.net/thread/1016/second-home-geek-history-draft?page=1

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

I think that was a pick of woody Allen for bear. Not sure though.

[BiPolarBear 495]

Yo Volty, I don't see an entry on ed's site since December 10th.

 

Also, the vid is just showing my previous pick, Marshall McLuhan, not a pick of Woody Allan.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Yo Volty, I don't see an entry on ed's site since December 10th.

 

Also, the vid is just showing my previous pick, Marshall McLuhan, not a pick of Woody Allan.

Oh. Sorry, I missed that. I'm doped up on cold medicine.

[BiPolarBear 495]

Oh. Sorry, I missed that. I'm doped up on cold medicine.

 

No worries. I will go take some and we can bro trip.

[BiPolarBear 495]

Volty did update on ed's bored as he said.

 

Also, I would like to take:

 

Woody Allen - Wildcard (pick 100.3)

 

[porkbutt 897]

holy focking losers batman

[iam90sbaby 2,720]

Mahavira - religious leader - Mahavira was the 24th and last Tirthankara of Jainism. Also known as Vardhamana, he was an Indian ascetic philosopher and one of the principal figures of Jainism which is one of the major religions of the Indian subcontinent. Mahavira was a contemporary of Gautama Buddha, the primary figure in Buddhism on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. Mahavira was born into a royal family of Kshatriyas in present day Bihar, India. As the son of a king he had a privileged childhood and was raised in the lap of luxury. He grew up to be a brave lad and is once said to have controlled a fierce serpent. However, with time he realized that his luxurious life did not provide him any satisfaction and at the age of 30 he renounced all his worldly ties and embarked on a search for the ultimate spiritual truth. He underwent severe penance for twelve and a half years following which he finally attained ‘Kevala Jnana’, the highest stage of perception. He spent the next several years travelling all over India teaching his philosophy. He also established the rules of religious life for Jain monks and nuns.

 

 

​Pliny The Younger - nonfiction writer - Pliny the Younger was an ancient Roman author, lawyer and magistrate who left behind a collection of hundreds of letters which became an important source for Roman history. He was the nephew of Pliny the Elder, a famous author and natural philosopher. Pliny the Younger lost his father at an early age and was thus raised by his brilliant and well-known uncle Pliny the Elder who undoubtedly had a great influence on the young man. Pliny the Younger, born as either Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo, was later adopted by his uncle who left him his estate upon his death. Hailing from a wealthy aristocratic family, he started his career at the age of 18 and became very active in the Roman legal system. He became a very successful lawyer and was known to be an honest and hard working man. He also developed a love for writing at a young age and wrote a tragedy in Greek when he was 14. Over the years he composed poetry and wrote a collection of private letters which later on became a very important source of Roman history. He was also a notable orator known for his magnificent orations though much of his orations have been lost over the centuries.

[Voltaire 5,392]

Bear can go again as Vudu's been missing for a while.

[vuduchile 1,945]

Emporer Meiji - Reformer

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Meiji

[vuduchile 1,945]

General Tactical

 

 

http://www.britannica.com/biography/Minamoto-Yoritomo

 

Minamoto Yoritomo, (born 1147, Japandied Feb. 9, 1199, Kamakura), founder of the bakufu, or shogunate, a system whereby feudal lords ruled Japan for 700 years.

 

 

Defying the emperor, Yoritomo established shugo (constables) and jitō (district stewards) throughout the Japanese provinces, thus undermining the central governments local administrative power, and in 1192 he acquired the title of supreme commander (shogun) over the shugo and jitō.

[BiPolarBear 495]

So how do you like it?

 

S/M?

 

No problem. She made movie reels with mask and whips.

 

Cute girl at the beach?

 

She did wholesome great.

 

Like pin ups?

 

She is a defining figure in that culture.

 

Bettie Page - Seductress

 

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

My picks...

 

Henry Bessemer - Engineer

 

One of the most significant building advancements was the production of inexpensive steel. And the engineer who created the process for mass-producing steel was Henry Bessemer. Bessemer had been working on a process similar to American William Kelly’s process, and he bought the patent from Kelly. Today, steel is still made using process based on Bessemer’s method.

 

Thomas Robert Malthus - Social Scientist

 

English cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography.^[2] Malthus himself used only his middle name Robert.^[3]

His An Essay on the Principle of Population observed that sooner or later population will be checked by famine and disease, leading to what is known as a Malthusian catastrophe. He wrote in opposition to the popular view in 18th-century Europe that saw society as improving and in principle as perfectible.^[4] He thought that the dangers of population growth precluded progress towards a utopian society: "The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man".^[5] As an Anglican cleric, Malthus saw this situation as divinely imposed to teach virtuous behaviour.^[6] Malthus wrote:

That the increase of population is necessarily limited by the means of subsistence,
That population does invariably increase when the means of subsistence increase, and,
That the superior power of population is repressed, and the actual population kept equal to the means of subsistence, by misery and vice.^[7]

Malthus placed the longer-term stability of the economy above short-term expediency. He criticized the Poor Laws,^[8] and (alone among important contemporary economists) supported the Corn Laws, which introduced a system of taxes on British imports of wheat.^[9] His views became influential, and controversial, across economic, political, social and scientific thought. Pioneers of evolutionary biology read him, notably Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.^[10][11] He remains a much-debated writer.

[Voltaire 5,392]

That's one hell of a Social Scientist contingent there. Wow! Good Job.

[Voltaire 5,392]

From Bear. Forgot about this but it certainly was epic. Great pick

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So you have a giant fleet of ships and every time you hit a port for drinking water there are notes passed to certain ethnic members of your crew asking them to defect or at least fight badly. Wow. A note. All of a sudden you mistrust a portion of your crew and they feel persecuted. If you look up the earliest historical references to propaganda, this will not be the earliest reference, but it is close. This is just a minor set up for what many historians consider one of the most important battles in human history.

Now lets see...What does our enemy want? He wants a quick end to the war and victory? Let's tell him that our naval commanders are in-fighting and planning to disband. Let's send a slave with a message that the main commander doesn't want a fight and that the defecting ships could be blocked and taken in the straits.

The opposing fleet takes the bait and over-confidently sails forth, expecting no resistance, only to get a view of the enemy... Oh, they want to fight? We don't have much room to maneuver? Don't forget about our crew mates the Ionians getting those notes to fight poorly. Somebody keep an eye on them.

Welcome to the battle of Salamis...

About this time the Persians realize they have been the victims of the Greek, Themistocles. He used a cunning, a mix of subterfuge and misinformation, psychologically exploiting Xerxes's desire to finish the invasion. Although the actual invasion did not end, it ended for Xerxes, who took his ###### slapped ass back to Persian. His forces final defeat came sometime later.

Themistocles - General (Strategic)

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To Vudu.

 

Now when 90sbaby posted his picks last time, he used the top two from the list he gave me before his absence. So that tells me his list is still good. The thing is, one of the top two names is a criminal but his criminal category is already full. So I wouldn't feel comfortable plugging in the criminal from his list.

[Voltaire 5,392]

My picks are:

 

 

102.5 Volty - Georgy Zhukov - General (Strategic)

 

This is the Soviet Union's Supreme General in WWII. The one who captured Berlin. His long career began as an enlisted soldier in WWI and rose up the ranks. Unlike a lot of the generals going into WWII, he had plenty of command experience in real warfare rather than theoretical book learning of them since he'd honed his skills in successful border skirmishes against the Japanese in Mongolia a few years prior.

 

One thing that caught my eye in reading his wiki-entry what that a lot of the problems the Soviets had early in the war against the Germans were not on him. He'd warned Stalin what would happen, his advice wasn't followed, and he earned a demotion for his efforts. Essentially, one of those "well, if you don't like my plan, you can do it yourself" type things I pull on my wife every now and again when she gets grouchy.

 

It was only after things went sour that Stalin gave him back his job as Supreme General of Soviet forces.

 

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103.1 Volty - Charlotte de Sauve - Seductress

 

A French noblewoman and a mistress of King Henry of Navarre, who later ruled as King Henry IV of France. She was a member of Queen Mother Catherine de’ Medici’s notorious Flying Squadron (Escadron Volant in French), a group of beautiful female spies and informants recruited to seduce important men at Court, and thereby extract information to pass on to the Queen Mother. Charlotte de Sauve has been credited as a source of the information that led to the execution of Marguerite de Valois’s lover Joseph Boniface de La Môle and Annibal de Coconnas for conspiracy in 1574. In 1575, Catherine de’ Medici, abetted by her son Henry III, instructed Charlotte to seduce the king’s brother, her youngest son, François, Duke of Alençon, with the aim of provoking hostility between the two young men, so that they would not conspire together in the future.Charlotte subsequently became the duke’s mistress, creating a rift between the former close friends, as Navarre and Alençon became rivals over Charlotte. According to Marguerite’s memoirs: “Charlotte de Sauve treated both of them [Navarre and Alençon] in such a way that they became extremely jealous of each other, to such a point that they forgot their ambitions, their duties and their plans and thought of nothing but chasing after this woman”.

 

Asia Argento played her in the movie while she was still smoking hot, before all the ill-advised, horrible, gaudy, ugly tattoos ruined her.

 

Again... it's Vudu's turn then 90sbaby.

[Voltaire 5,392]

Page one updated to 103.3 in both sites.

 

Vudu to - 90sbx2 - to Vudu

[vuduchile 1,945]

Conqueror - James Polk

 

General - Tactical Zachary Taylor.

 

Working in tandem, this U.S. President and his General were responsible for victory in the U.S.- Mexico War that led to The Mexican Cession (529,000 sq. miles) It was the third largest acquisition of territory in US history, behind Louisiana and Alaska.

 

529,000 sq miles of territory conquered is nothing to sneeze at. In fact, it's a bigger chunk of land than Pizzaro acquired. (480,000 sq miles.)

 

Some people believe that President James K. Polk intentionally provoked the war with Mexico. What do you say about that?

What Polk wanted was to push Mexico into negotiating with the United States, and he was willing to create a threat of war to do this. If he had to fight, he wanted a short war and a quick victory. He never expected a long-drawn-out war. The Army was not ready for war and had never fought so far from home before. The country was divided. So Polk was taking a considerable risk in his bold stand toward Mexico.

Negotiations might have been possible if Polk had tried a different approach. Mexico had refused to recognize either the independence of Texas or its annexation by the United States, and when annexation occurred, broke relations and withdrew its minster from Washington. Polk rightly believed that he had to restore diplomatic relations, so he sent a special temporary envoy to Mexico. The Mexicans expected that envoy, John Slidell, would offer an indemnity to settle the Texas question, after which Mexico would receive him or someone else as permanent minister. Instead Polk made Slidell permanent minister and instructed him to open negotiations for the sale of California, ignoring Texas completely.

This did not suit the Mexicans at all. If they started by making a concession on Slidells status they would probably never get any settlement on Texas. Also Polk had backed up Slidell by sending troops to the Rio Grande, which Texans claimed was their proper boundary. The Mexican president, José Herrera, was newly in office and not very powerful. He did not dare receive Slidell for fear of being overthrown, as the opposition press was accusing him of planning to betray the country by selling Texas. Since he could not be received, Slidell left Mexico City for a town a few miles away, and Herrera sent troops to the Rio Grande to confront the Americans. Matters had reached an impasse.

Polk now needed an excuse to declare war, expecting at the most to fight a few skirmishes on the Rio Grande and then start negotiating. The Mexicans gave him the excuse he needed. The general commanding their troops on the Rio Grande sent a force across the river, and it ambushed a detachment of Americans and killed or captured all of them. The American general, Zachary Taylor, reported this action as a Mexican attack and concluded: "I presume this means the beginning of war." Polk and his cabinet prepared a declaration of war. Congress, badly divided between war and peace, had to support American soldiers under attack and voted to send supplies and reinforcements, whereupon Polks Democratic supporters convinced them that they might as well declare war altogether.

But Polk still did not expect the Mexicans to put up much of a fight. When his brother in Europe learned of what had happened, he wanted to come home and enlist, but Polk told him not to, as the war would soon be over. How important was the Texan boundary controversy as a cause of the war?

For Polk it was more an excuse than a real cause. When he took office in 1845, the Texans occupied most of what is now east Texas, and San Antonio was only a frontier settlement. The Texans, like most American westerners, wanted to expand, and several years before Polk became president, they had sent a military expedition to take Santa Fe, to the west. The Mexicans beat them, so they had no claim to that part of the Rio Grande valley.

The Mexicans also tried to reconquer the rest of Texas but failed, so an uneasy balance remained. When the United States annexed Texas, Polk promised to protect the Texans from Mexicos wrath and sent troops under Taylor to Corpus Christi. When Slidell went to Mexico, Taylor moved to the Rio Grande and built a temporary fort. Obviously the Texan boundary dispute was a proper subject for negotiation with Mexico, but Polk made it part of his strong stand. Polk was negotiating with England at the same time over Oregon, wasnt he? How did this affect his relations with Mexico?

Years before the U.S. and Britain had agreed to occupy the Oregon territory (modern Oregon, Washington state, and British Columbia) jointly as a temporary settlement. When Polk became president, negotiations had been reopened, and the states of the Middle West were clamoring for the U.S. to annex the whole territory.

Polk wanted to work out a compromise settlement without alienating the Western Senators and Congressmen, whose votes he needed for the rest of his legislative program. His idea was to stall until England took the initiative in offering a settlement. About the time Slidell went to Mexico he succeeded, and England showed a disposition to negotiate some sort of compromise. Up to that point Polk had been reluctant to force matters with Mexico. Fortunately for him, the British government became involved in a cabinet crisis of their own and did not want a quarrel with the U.S. Their more moderate attitude toward Oregon, in a sense, freed Pok to press Mexico harder. (After the war began, the U.S. and England split the Oregon territory along the line of the present U.S.-Canadian border. The Western politicians were dissatisfied but eventually accepted the settlement.)

 

[BiPolarBear 495]

Wow Volty, That is POWER:

 

“Charlotte de Sauve treated both of them [Navarre and Alençon] in such a way that they became extremely jealous of each other, to such a point that they forgot their ambitions, their duties and their plans and thought of nothing but chasing after this woman”.

 

I found your source website, but can't find the movie title. Do tell.

[Voltaire 5,392]

Two things in my inbox... As you already know I have 90sbaby's cheat sheet. So the first thing I opened this morning was Bear's. Here's a cut and paste from him. 90sbaby's picks are coming in a couple of mins.

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BiPolarBear

Sent Yesterday, 02:58 PM

I woke up at 2:30 am with this idea. I knew he would be available.

 

There are four total picks left in the Athlete category. On a website dedicated to fantasy football and a history game based on a fantasy football no one has picked a quarterback. Who can believe this guy is available for a last pick?

 

Tom Brady - Athlete

 

"Which is my favorite ring? The next one."

 

"I just want to tell you, it's one of the best decisions you ever made; picking me."

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Actually, about no QBs being taken, that's not true. 90sbaby took Aaron Rodgers then put him in Wildcard rather than Athlete. Here are 90sbaby's next two...

[Voltaire 5,392]

Aurel Stodola - engineer

Garret Hobart - advisor

 

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Here are 90sbaby's two picks. I'm taking some liberties, as I've mentioned. These are the #s 1 and 3 on his cheat sheet. #2 is also availible but is a Criminal and if I take him, would be the 5th and have to get moved to Wildcard. I think it's best to skip and let James sort it out. It helps that the only person still in need of criminals is me, so he won't get swiped.

[Voltaire 5,392]

 

Aurel Boleslav Stodola (10 May 1859, Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia – 25 December 1942 Zürich, Switzerland) was a Slovak engineer, physicist, and inventor. He was a pioneer in the area of technical thermodynamics and its applications and published his book Die Dampfturbine (the steam turbine) in 1903. In addition to the thermodynamic issues involved in turbine design the book discussed aspects of fluid flow, vibration, stress analysis of plates, shells and rotating discs and stress concentrations at holes and fillets.^[1] Stodola was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Swiss Polytechnical Institute (now ETH) in Zurich. One of his students was Albert Einstein.^[2] In 1892, Stodola founded the Laboratory for Energy Conversion.

 

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Garret Augustus Hobart (June 3, 1844 – November 21, 1899) was the 24th Vice President of the United States (1897–1899), serving under President William McKinley. He was the sixth American vice president to die in office.

Hobart was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, on the Jersey Shore, and grew up in nearby Marlboro. After attending Rutgers College, Hobart read law with prominent Paterson attorney Socrates Tuttle. Hobart both studied with Tuttle, and married his daughter. Although he rarely set foot in a courtroom, Hobart became wealthy as a corporate lawyer.

Hobart served in local governmental positions, and then successfully ran for office as a Republican, serving in both the New Jersey General Assembly and the New Jersey Senate. He became Speaker of the first, and president of the latter. Hobart was a longtime party official, and New Jersey delegates went to the 1896 Republican National Convention determined to nominate the popular lawyer for vice president. Hobart's political views were similar to those of McKinley, who was the presumptive Republican presidential candidate. With New Jersey a key state in the upcoming election, McKinley and his close adviser, future senator Mark Hanna, decided to have the convention select Hobart. The vice-presidential candidate emulated his running mate with a front porch campaign, though spending much time at the campaign's New York City office. McKinley and Hobart were elected.

As vice president, Hobart proved a popular figure in Washington and was a close adviser to McKinley. Hobart's tact and good humor were valuable to the President, as in mid-1899 when Secretary of War Russell Alger failed to understand that McKinley wanted him to leave office. Hobart invited Alger to his New Jersey summer home, and broke the news to the secretary, who submitted his resignation to McKinley on his return to Washington. Hobart died in November 1899 of heart disease at age 55; his place on the Republican ticket in 1900 was taken by New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Pierre de Fermat - mathmatician

 

Pierre de Fermat was the most brilliant mathematician of his era and, along with Descartes, one of the most influential. Although mathematics was just his hobby (Fermat was a government lawyer), Fermat practically founded Number Theory, and also played key roles in the discoveries of Analytic Geometry and Calculus. Lagrange considered Fermat, rather than Newton or Leibniz, to be the inventor of calculus. He was also an excellent geometer (e.g. discovering a triangle's Fermat point), and (in collaboration with Blaise Pascal) discovered probability theory. Fellow geniuses are the best judges of genius, and Blaise Pascal had this to say of Fermat: "For my part, I confess that [Fermat's researches about numbers] are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them." E.T. Bell wrote "it can be argued that Fermat was at least Newton's equal as a pure mathematician."

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Sir Walter Raleigh - JOAT

 

Lawyer. Poet. Explorer. Governor. Soldier. Pirate.

 

Synopsis

 

Sir Walter Raleigh was an English explorer, soldier and writer. At age 17, he fought with the French Huguenots and later studied at Oxford. He became a favorite of Queen Elizabeth after serving in her army in Ireland. He was knighted in 1585, and within two years became Captain of the Queen's Guard. Between 1584 and 1589, he helped establish a colony near Roanoke Island (present-day North Carolina), which he named Virginia. Accused of treason by King James I, Sir Walter Raleigh was imprisoned and eventually put to death.

 

Early Life

 

Historians believe Walter Raleigh was born in 1552, or possibly 1554, and grew up in a farmhouse near the village of East Budleigh in Devon. The youngest of five sons born to Catherine Champermowne in two successive marriages, his father, Walter Raleigh, was his mother’s second husband. Like young Walter, his relatives, Sir Richard Grenville and Sir Humphry Gilbert were prominent during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. Raised as a devout Protestant, Raleigh’s family faced persecution under Queen Mary I, a Catholic, and as a result, young Walter developed a life-long hatred of Roman Catholicism.

 

At the age of 17, Walter Raleigh left England for France to fight with the Huguenots (French Protestants) in the Wars of Religion. In 1572, he attended Oriel College, Oxford, and studied law at the Middle Temple law college. During this time, he began his life-long interest in writing poetry. In 1578, Raleigh set out with his half-brother, Sir Humphrey Gilbert on a voyage to North America to find the Northwest Passage. Never reaching its destination, the mission degenerated into a privateering foray against Spanish shipping. His brash actions were not well received by the Privy Council, the monarch’s advisors, and he was briefly imprisoned.

 

A Favorite of Queen Elizabeth I

 

Between 1579 and 1583, Raleigh fought in the service of Queen Elizabeth I in Ireland, distinguishing himself with his ruthlessness at the siege of Smerwick and establishing English and Scottish Protestants in Munster. Tall, handsome, and superbly self-confident, Raleigh rose rapidly at Elizabeth I’s court, upon his return, and quickly became a favorite. She rewarded him with a large estate in Ireland, monopolies, trade privileges, knighthood, and the right to colonize North America. In 1586, he was appointed captain of the Queen’s Guard, his highest office at court. Extravagant in his dress and conduct, the legend that he spread his expensive cloak over a puddle for the Queen has never been documented, but many historians believe him capable of such a gesture.

 

An early supporter of colonizing North America, Sir Walter Raleigh sought to establish a colony, but the queen forbid him to leave her service. Between 1585 and 1588, he invested in a number of expeditions across the Atlantic, attempting to establish a colony near Roanoke, on the coast of what is now North Carolina, and name it “Virginia” in honor of the virgin queen, Elizabeth. Delays, quarrels, disorganization, and hostile Indians forced some of the colonists to eventually return to England. However, they brought with them potatoes and tobacco, two things unknown in Europe at the time. A second voyage was sent in 1590, only to find no trace of the colony. The settlement is now remembered as the "Lost Colony of Roanoke Island."

 

Fall from Grace

 

Sir Walter Raleigh forfeited Elizabeth's favor with his courtship of and subsequent marriage to one of her maids-of-honor, Bessy Throckmorton, in 1592. The discovery threw the queen into a jealous rage and the couple were briefly imprisoned in the Tower of London. Upon his release, Raleigh hoped to recover his position with the queen and in 1594, led an unsuccessful expedition to Guiana (now Venezuela) to search for “El Dorado”, the legendary land of gold. The expedition produced a little gold, but subsequent forays to Cadiz and the Azores reinstated him with the queen.

 

Later Life and Death

 

Sir Walter Raleigh’s aggressive actions toward the Spanish did not sit well with the pacifist King James I, Elizabeth's successor. Raleigh’s enemies worked to taint his reputation with the new king and he was soon charged with treason and condemned to death. However, the sentence was commuted to imprisonment in the Tower in 1603. There Raleigh lived with his wife and servants and wrote his History of the World in 1614. He was released in 1616 to search for gold in South America. Against the king's approval, he invaded and pillaged Spanish territory, was forced to return to England without booty, and was arrested on the orders of the king. His original death sentence for treason was invoked, and he was executed at Westminster.

[Voltaire 5,392]

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Thinker

 

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (/ˈvɪtɡənˌstaɪn/;^[4]German: [ˈvɪtgənˌʃtaɪn]; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.^[5] From 1929 to 1947, Wittgenstein taught at the University of Cambridge.^[6] During his lifetime he published just one slim book, the 75-page Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921), one article, one book review and a children's dictionary.^[7] His voluminous manuscripts were edited and published posthumously. Philosophical Investigations appeared as a book in 1953, and by the end of the century it was considered an important modern classic.^[8] His teacher Bertrand Russell described Wittgenstein as "the most perfect example I have ever known of genius as traditionally conceived; passionate, profound, intense, and dominating."^[9]

 

Born in Vienna into one of Europe's richest families, he inherited a large fortune from his father in 1913. He gave some considerable sums to poor artists. In a period of severe personal depression after the first World War, he then gave away his entire fortune to his brothers and sisters.^[10][11] Three of his brothers committed suicide, with Wittgenstein contemplating it too.^[12] He left academia several times—serving as an officer on the front line during World War I, where he was decorated a number of times for his courage; teaching in schools in remote Austrian villages where he encountered controversy for hitting children when they made mistakes in mathematics; and working as a hospital porter during World War II in London where he told patients not to take the drugs they were prescribed while largely managing to keep secret the fact that he was one of the world's most famous philosophers.^[13] He described philosophy, however, as "the only work that gives me real satisfaction."^[14]

 

His philosophy is often divided into an early period, exemplified by the Tractatus, and a later period, articulated in the Philosophical Investigations. The early Wittgenstein was concerned with the logical relationship between propositions and the world and believed that by providing an account of the logic underlying this relationship, he had solved all philosophical problems. The later Wittgenstein rejected many of the assumptions of the Tractatus, arguing that the meaning of words is best understood as their use within a given language-game.^[15]

 

Wittgenstein's influence has been felt in nearly every field of the humanities and social sciences, yet there are diverging interpretations of his thought. In the words of his friend and colleague Georg Henrik von Wright:

He was of the opinion... that his ideas were generally misunderstood and distorted even by those who professed to be his disciples. He doubted he would be better understood in the future. He once said he felt as though he was writing for people who would think in a different way, breathe a different air of life, from that of present-day men.

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[Voltaire 5,392]

Franz Boas- Social Scientist

 

Franz Uri Boas (/ˈfrɑːnz ˈboʊ.æz/; German: [ˈboːas]; July 9, 1858 – December 21, 1942)[2] was a German-American[3] anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology".[4][5]

 

Studying in Germany, Boas was awarded a doctorate in 1881 in physics while also studying geography. He then participated in a geographical expedition to northern Canada where he became fascinated with the culture and language of the Baffin Island Inuit. He went on to do field work with the indigenous cultures and languages of the Pacific Northwest. In 1887 he emigrated to the United States where he first worked as a museum curator at the Smithsonian, and in 1899 became professor of anthropology at Columbia University where he remained for the rest of his career. Through his students, many of whom went on to found anthropology departments and research programmes inspired by their mentor, Boas profoundly influenced the development of American anthropology. Among his most significant students were Manuel Gamio, A. L. Kroeber, Ruth Benedict, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Zora Neale Hurston.[6]

 

Boas was one of the most prominent opponents of the then popular ideologies of scientific racism, the idea that race is a biological concept and that human behavior is best understood through the typology of biological characteristics.[7] In a series of groundbreaking studies of skeletal anatomy he showed that cranial shape and size was highly malleable depending on environmental factors such as health and nutrition, in contrast to the claims by racial anthropologists of the day that held head shape to be a stable racial trait. Boas also worked to demonstrate that differences in human behavior are not primarily determined by innate biological dispositions, but are largely the result of cultural differences acquired through social learning. In this way, Boas introduced culture as the primary concept for describing differences in behavior between human groups, and as the central analytical concept of anthropology.[6]

 

Among Boas's main contributions to anthropological thought was his rejection of the then popular evolutionary approaches to the study of culture, which saw all societies progressing through a set of hierarchic technological and cultural stages, with Western-European culture at the summit. Boas argued that culture developed historically through the interactions of groups of people and the diffusion of ideas, and that consequently there was no process towards continuously "higher" cultural forms. This insight led Boas to reject the "stage"-based organization of ethnological museums, instead preferring to order items on display based on the affinity and proximity of the cultural groups in question. Boas also introduced the ideology of cultural relativism which holds that cultures cannot be objectively ranked as higher or lower, or better or more correct, but that all humans see the world through the lens of their own culture, and judge it according to their own culturally acquired norms. For Boas the object of anthropology was to understand the way in which culture conditioned people to understand and interact with the world in different ways, and to do this it was necessary to gain an understanding of the language and cultural practices of the people studied. By uniting the disciplines of archaeology, the study of material culture and history, and physical anthropology, the study of variation in human anatomy, with ethnology, the study of cultural variation of customs, and descriptive linguistics, the study of unwritten indigenous languages, Boas created the four field subdivision of anthropology which became prominent in American anthropology in the 20th century.[6]

 

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Good thing he found his way to the US early, he'd have made a really lousy Nazi. Also, he's been of great help ever since he arrived, it's only his first day and he's already taught Tlacaelel how to play a variation of Duck Duck Goose that doesn't involve killing any children.

[Voltaire 5,392]

TBBOM's two are in... to Bear. Updates at both sites to 105.2

[Voltaire 5,392]

Wow Volty, That is POWER:

 

“Charlotte de Sauve treated both of them [Navarre and Alençon] in such a way that they became extremely jealous of each other, to such a point that they forgot their ambitions, their duties and their plans and thought of nothing but chasing after this woman”.

 

I found your source website, but can't find the movie title. Do tell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Reine_Margot_%281994_film%29

 

The movie's title character is Margaret of Valois, the woman who made the quote you noted above.

[JTB 52]

You are all impressive. Dorky as hell but impressive.

 

Clap clap

[BiPolarBear 495]

He is the forth recipient of the Robert Frost Award for American Poetry. This is not your annual cattle call for purveyors of tired verse, my gentle readers. Indeed the award was only bestowed 11 times in 53 years. Besides this rare (and in this case ironic) award this poet also received four Pulitzer Prizes for poetry and the Congressional Gold Medal.

Are you starting to figure you may have heard of this guy? You have.

Robert Frost - Poet

Here is a spoken performance of a work by Robert Frost. I consider it humbling to see what he could bring to 61 seconds of time.

[iam90sbaby 2,720]

Going to take a chance since I am going a bit early.. if anyone wants my picks thats fine but I am going to be at the bar with friends for todays games so I figured I wouldn't slow down the draft.

 

Aurel Stodola - engineer - Aurel Stodola was a Slovak engineer and inventor. He originated the study of thermodynamics and produced significant work in a number of scientific fields. He was a professor at the Institute of Technology in Zurich for nearly half of his lifetime and was consulted for input on developing the gas turbine. During his tenure, he educated and influenced hundreds of engineers, including some of the greatest scientific minds of our age. During the First World War, he came across a surgeon that he collaborated with to help the injured soldiers returning from war. In 1928, he invented the first heat pump which still serves as the primary source of heat generation for Geneva, Switzerland's city hall. As the father of steam turbines, he published a highly regarded manual that was eventually translated into several languages and is still used as a resource today. He constantly pursued new knowledge in a vast array of technical sciences, was given honorary doctorates by four universities, earned many awards and was an adviser to the Academy of Sciences in France. The Institute of Technology in Zurich declared 2009 the "Year of Aurel Stodola" and asteroid ‘3981 Stodola’ was named in his honor.

 

 

Sir Charles Trevelyan - administrator - Charles Trevelyan was a British colonial administrator and civil servant who became renowned as the father of modern British civil service. Born to a clergyman father, Trevelyan grew up to become a highly educated and qualified adult. It was for his proficiency in learning Asian language and dialect that Trevelyan, soon after his studies, earned an appointment as a writer for the East India government in India. During his stint in India, he occupied important influential position and earned quick promotions. In 1840, he returned to England to take up the position of the assistant secretary to Her Majesty’s Treasury. He served in the position until 1859. During his term, Ireland and Scotland went through a period of famine. Instead of hastening famine relief works, Trevelyan introduced laissez-faire attitude and encouraged the government for minimal intervention. Trevelyan also served as the Governor of Madras. His career’s high point came when he counselled for competitive admission examinations for civil services that secured selection of qualified and educated people as civil servants and administrators.

[vuduchile 1,945]

The recent talk about football players makes me think it's finally time to select this guy.

 

Marshall Faulk - The greatest fantasy football player of all time.

 

Finished no worse than 17th at the position from 1995-2003. Finished in the top seven from 1997-2001, with No. 1 overall finishes in 2000 and 2001, seasons where he averaged 1,371 rushing yards, 798 receiving yards.

 

If you were able to draft him in a PPR league, you were an automatic championship contender.

[vuduchile 1,945]

General - Strategic

 

 

Jan Žižka z Trocnova a Kalicha (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈʒɪʃka]; German: Johann Ziska; English: John Zizka of Trocnov and the Chalice) (c. 13601424), Czech general and Hussite leader, follower of Jan Hus, was born in the small village of Trocnov (now part of Borovany) in Bohemia, into a gentried family. He was nicknamed "One-eyed Žižka." From his youth, he was attached to the royal court and held the office of Chamberlain to Queen Sophia.[1]

 

He fought in the Battle of Grunwald (July 15, 1410), where he defended Radzyń against the Teutonic Order. Later he played a prominent role in the civil wars in Bohemia during the reign of Wenceslas IV. Žižka's tactics were unorthodox and innovative. In addition to training and equipping his army according to their abilities, he used armored wagons armed with small cannons and muskets, presaging the tank of five hundred years later. He was also a master at using geography to full advantage as well as managing the discipline of his troops.

 

 

In the Battle of Kutná Hora (1421) he conquered the army of the Holy Roman Empire and Hungary. The battle was the first case of recorded use of field artillery (previously, artillery was used only during sieges of towns).[2] Originally employed as a measure of last resort, its effectiveness against the royal cavalry turned field artillery into firm part of Hussite armies. Žižka is considered to be among the greatest military leaders and innovators of all time and is one of several commanders in history who never lost a battle

[Voltaire 5,392]

Going to take a chance since I am going a bit early.. if anyone wants my picks thats fine but I am going to be at the bar with friends for todays games so I figured I wouldn't slow down the draft.

 

Aurel Stodola - engineer - Aurel Stodola was a Slovak engineer and inventor. He originated the study of thermodynamics and produced significant work in a number of scientific fields. He was a professor at the Institute of Technology in Zurich for nearly half of his lifetime and was consulted for input on developing the gas turbine. During his tenure, he educated and influenced hundreds of engineers, including some of the greatest scientific minds of our age. During the First World War, he came across a surgeon that he collaborated with to help the injured soldiers returning from war. In 1928, he invented the first heat pump which still serves as the primary source of heat generation for Geneva, Switzerland's city hall. As the father of steam turbines, he published a highly regarded manual that was eventually translated into several languages and is still used as a resource today. He constantly pursued new knowledge in a vast array of technical sciences, was given honorary doctorates by four universities, earned many awards and was an adviser to the Academy of Sciences in France. The Institute of Technology in Zurich declared 2009 the "Year of Aurel Stodola" and asteroid ‘3981 Stodola’ was named in his honor.

 

 

Sir Charles Trevelyan - administrator - Charles Trevelyan was a British colonial administrator and civil servant who became renowned as the father of modern British civil service. Born to a clergyman father, Trevelyan grew up to become a highly educated and qualified adult. It was for his proficiency in learning Asian language and dialect that Trevelyan, soon after his studies, earned an appointment as a writer for the East India government in India. During his stint in India, he occupied important influential position and earned quick promotions. In 1840, he returned to England to take up the position of the assistant secretary to Her Majesty’s Treasury. He served in the position until 1859. During his term, Ireland and Scotland went through a period of famine. Instead of hastening famine relief works, Trevelyan introduced laissez-faire attitude and encouraged the government for minimal intervention. Trevelyan also served as the Governor of Madras. His career’s high point came when he counselled for competitive admission examinations for civil services that secured selection of qualified and educated people as civil servants and administrators.

 

90sbaby already has Strodola from last round and is following his cheatheet so I'm giving him the last name* on his list:

 

Arne Duncan - Administrator

 

You know him, he's currently the Secretary of Education. It's Bear's turn at 106.3.

 

* minus the skipped one

[BiPolarBear 495]

Apple

Google

Facebook

 

What's missing? Oh, I know!

 

Jeff Bezos - Businessman (net worth $55B)

 

Amazon closes out my Businessman picks.