***Geek Club History Draft***

[Voltaire 5,392]

Jiang Ziya - I don't know to put him as Talk Show Guest or as Adviser and move Phemonoe to TSG.

 

The most famous Prime Minister in ancient China, he offers hope to Prince Charles in that he didn't get a start at the most famous mission of his life until he was 72 years old.

 

A virtuous man of honor, he left the Shang court after serving for twenty years because he could not tollerate the cruelty, debauchary, and hedonism. For years he disappered. King Wen of Zhou, following a prophecy, discovered the unusual old man fishing. The old man was an all around gifted and brilliant strategist both militarily and capable both politically and militarily who advised King Wen and King Wu of Zhou in their successful overthrow of the corrupted and evil Shang dynasty and in establishing their own dynasty.

 

Jiang Ziya devised of the Six Secret Teachings, a classic of Chinese literature, regarding military tactics and statescraft.

 

He held that a country could become powerful only when the people prospered. If the officials enriched themselves while the people remained poor, the ruler would not last long. The major principle in ruling a country should be to love the people; and to love the people meant to reduce taxes and corvée labour. By following these ideas, King Wen is said to have made the Zhou state prosper very rapidly.

 

Jiang Ziya - Advisor

 

That means I move Phemonoe to Talk Show Guest. We know she founded one of the great, most highly respected advisorial talents in ancient Geece/Rome via the Oracle of Delphi, but we don't know what her own personal advice was in that role other than founding it. Jiang Ziya wrote his stuff down so we have more tangible evidence to work with on him.

[Voltaire 5,392]

Galen - Doctor

[Voltaire 5,392]

Mail from Bear...

 

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Sure he writes great fiction, but he is on the 100 Best Non-Fiction Writers of the Century of the National Review at #3 "Homage to Catalonia and #5 "Collected Essays.

 

George Orwell - Writer (non-fiction)

 

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To Vudu

[Voltaire 5,392]

Updated to 127.3

 

We're all caught up on picks too.

 

87 more names.

 

It's Vudu's turn.

[vuduchile 1,945]

Scientist Barbara McClintock won a Nobel Prize in 1983 for her study of corn chromosomes, which revolutionized the field of cytogenetics.

[iam90sbaby 2,720]

Stan Lee - Wildcard - popularly known as Stan Lee, is an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, media producer, television host, actor, and voice actor. He started out his career working as an office boy for the Marvel Comics––which meant fetching lunch, proof reading and refilling artist's ink jars, eventually proving his creative talent, escalated from the position of interim editor to the president of the entire company. He is known for creating superheroes like ‘Spider-Man’, ‘The Hulk’, ‘X-men’, ‘Iron Man’, ‘Thor’, ‘Doctor Strange’, etc. and gained nationwide popularity when he created the superhero series ‘The Fantastic Four’ in which he made his superheroes imperfect rather than selling the idea of a perfectly capable superhero. He created these superheroes in collaboration with his colleagues, Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko. He is said to have brought in revolution in the comic world through his satirical writing and bringing in the elements of the real world into the world of these superheroes, which is how he used to make these superheroes viable and responsible. It was Lee who made Marvel Comics a multimedia corporation from just a small division of a publishing house. Apart from creating superheroes and writing story plots for the comics, he also wrote weekly columns and produced many superhero based ventures through his production company.

 

Zsa Zsa Gabor - seductress - is a Hungarian born American actress and socialite. She was born in Budapest, Hungary in a rich family, with a staff of servants to cater to her needs. She was privileged enough to go on exquisite vacations and attend the most expensive boarding schools. She immigrated to the U.S in the 1940s, after the Nazi's invaded Budapest and pursued a career in the world of movies. She began her acting career with a supporting role in the musical 'Lovely to Look At'. She was also seen in the Academy Award winning film, 'Moulin Rouge'. Big screen apart, she appeared in television shows and Broadway. She soon became a glamor icon in social circles and was much recognised as a wily seductress who wooed some of the most prominent men in society. She was in the limelight less for her acting skills abilities and more for her innumerable affairs and marriages. This former beauty queen became tabloid fodder as all aspects of her life were covered in the tabloids.

[vuduchile 1,945]

Seductress:

 

Violet Gordon-Woodhouse: This prim and proper English lady was a renowned harpsichordist…who also happened to live in in a ménage-à-cinq (yeah, that's four men plus Violet, all under one roof). Her four "husbands", only one of whom was legal, were apparently a happy bunch, not at all minding sharing one woman. According to William Barrington (one of the four) the one time any of them argued was over a cricket match.

[Voltaire 5,392]

Skip Bear...

 

To TBBOM

[BiPolarBear 495]

Skip Bear...

 

To TBBOM

 

Volty, You should have some info I sent you on January 18th.

 

Carry Nation - Reformer

[Voltaire 5,392]

 

Volty, You should have some info I sent you on January 18th.

 

Carry Nation - Reformer

Oh, yeah. I get lost sometimes. That's twice now.

 

She's lucky she never got shot.

[Voltaire 5,392]

She described herself as; "A bull dog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what he does not like."

 

She heard a voice from God telling her to go to a town in Kansas. Her interpretation of the instruction including picking up "smashers" and laying waste to a saloon. Her efforts were followed by a tornado that hit Kansas. Naturally she saw this as the had of God approving of her actions.

 

The was serious as hell about the evils of alcohol. She suspected that the President was a "secret drinker" and was glad he "got what he deserved" when he was assassinated.

 

The got arrested over 30 times for smashing up bars. Her husband suggested the move from rocks to a hatchet. She published a newsletter "the Smasher's Mail" and a newspaper "the Hatchet".

 

Saloons of the time put up signs inside that said "All Nations Welcome, Except Carrie".

 

Carrie Nation - Reformer

 

I would like to assure those wondering that something this stupid does have a tie to the State of Texas, and yes, her mother and daughter both died in the nut hatch.

[Voltaire 5,392]

Skipping TBBOM again...

 

Vātsyāyana - Talk Show Guest

 

This is the author of the Kama Sutra, developing the Hindu method of attaining spirituality through technically creative tantric sex methods.

 

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Pope Alexander VI - Talk Show Guest

 

A fwe weeks ago I was perplexed that 90sbaby took him... nope, phew, he took Alexander Pope. We've met his daughter Lucrecia Borgia, vudu took her as a seductress. these Borgia Popes are really unusual characters. Alexander didn't seem to take the vow of celebacy too seriously, he had many children through mistresses. Patron of much great art, was pope when Columbus discovered America and the Jubilee year of 1500.

 

Throughly corrupt, he bribed his way into office. At the time Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici (later Pope Leo X) is said to have warned after the election, "Now we are in the power of a wolf, the most rapacious perhaps that this world has ever seen. And if we do not flee, he will inevitably devour us all."

 

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Skip TBBOM... to Bear

[BiPolarBear 495]

The Japanese inventor, Shunrei Yamazaki, has far exceeded Thomas Edison for the number of U.S. patents held at 4,063 (Edison is in the 1,000's, U.S.) Unlike the greatest inventor who ever lived (Thomas Edison) and the most prolific inventor in history (Kia Silverbrook), Shunrei does not venture far and wide with his ideas. Almost all of his patents are related to computer display.

 

All three inventors listed above are now members of Team Green.

 

Shunrei Yamazaki - Inventor

 

 

 

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Volty, I sent you another pick in case I am away. I also have another pick written and waiting.

[iam90sbaby 2,720]

Malcom Purcell McLean - Wildcard - Born in 1913 in Maxton, North Carolina was an American transport entrepreneur who developed the modern intermodal shipping container, which revolutionized transport and international trade in the second half of the twentieth century. Containerization led to a significant reduction in the cost of freight transportation by eliminating the need for repeated handling of individual pieces of cargo, and also improved reliability, reduced cargo theft, and cut inventory costs by shortening transit time. Modern international supply chains are a consequence of the intermodal development McLean set in motion.

 

 

Marlon Brando - Wildcard - Marlon Brando was an American actor, considered to be one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time. The main male sex symbol in Hollywood during the mid-1950s, Brando was more than a film personality—he was a cultural icon and the heartthrob of generations of women across the globe. Strikingly handsome and talented, he almost became synonymous with the character of Stanley Kowalski which he portrayed in the much acclaimed movie, ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’. This role earned him an Academy Award nomination and established him as one of the foremost leading men in Hollywood. Later on he won an Academy Award for playing Terry Malloy in ‘On the Waterfront’, a performance regarded as one of his finest. Over the years, he appeared in several more films which were critical as well as commercial successes and cemented his reputation as one of the greatest ever stars in Hollywood. Brando was also an activist who supported many causes, including the African-American Civil Rights Movement and various American Indian Movements. Over the course of his career he had earned the reputation of being a “Bad Boy” due to his over-indulgence, excessive womanizing, and public outbursts.

[vuduchile 1,945]

Advisor - Yogi Berra

 

Unappreciated for his entertaining pearls of wisdom.

 

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/25/yogi-berra-the-greatest-financial-planner-ever.html

 

http://mobile.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/y/yogi_berra.html

[Voltaire 5,392]

Vudu gets another.

 

Then Bear's pick in my inbox. Meanwhile TBBOM's already owed two and will wind up back on the click. I can't text him for picks anymore, the magic has worn off lately.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Vudu gets another.

 

Then Bear's pick in my inbox. Meanwhile TBBOM's already owed two and will wind up back on the click. I can't text him for picks anymore, the magic has worn off lately.

 

Sorry Volty. When you texted me before, I was able to pull picks out of my head quickly. These days, making pics requires a bit of research, and I keep forgetting to do it.

 

Ok, I'll do four here.

 

Alexandre Grothendieck - Mathmetician

 

He has done brilliant work in several areas of mathematics including number theory, geometry, topology, and functional analysis, but especially in the fields of algebraic geometry and category theory, both of which he revolutionized. He is especially noted for his invention of the Theory of Schemes, and other methods to unify different branches of mathematics. He applied algebraic geometry to number theory; applied methods of topology to set theory; etc. Grothendieck is considered a master of abstraction, rigor and presentation. He has produced many important and deep results in homological algebra, most notably his etale cohomology. With these new methods, Grothendieck and his outstanding student Pierre Deligne were able to prove the Weil Conjectures. Grothendieck also developed the theory of sheafs, generalized the Riemann-Roch Theorem to revolutionize K-theory, developed Grothendieck categories, crystalline cohomology, infinity-stacks and more. The guiding principle behind much of Grothendieck's work has been Topos Theory, which he invented to harness the methods of topology. These methods and results have redirected several diverse branches of modern mathematics including number theory, algebraic topology, and representation theory. Among Grothendieck's famous results was his Fundamental Theorem in the Metric Theory of Tensor Products, which was inspired by Littlewood's proof of the 4/3 Inequality.

Grothendieck's radical religious and political philosophies led him to retire from public life while still in his prime, but he is widely regarded as the greatest mathematician of the 20th century, and indeed one of the greatest geniuses ever.

 

Neils Abel - Mathmetician

At an early age, Niels Abel studied the works of the greatest mathematicians, found flaws in their proofs, and resolved to reprove some of these theorems rigorously. He was the first to fully prove the general case of Newton's Binomial Theorem, one of the most widely applied theorems in mathematics. Several important theorems of analysis are named after Abel, including the (deceptively simple) Abel's Theorem of Convergence (published posthumously). Along with Galois, Abel is considered one of the two founders of group theory. Abel also made contributions in algebraic geometry and the theory of equations.

Inversion (replacing y = f(x) with x = f^-1(y)) is a key idea in mathematics (consider Newton's Fundamental Theorem of Calculus); Abel developed this insight. Legendre had spent much of his life studying elliptic integrals, but Abel inverted these to get elliptic functions, and was first to observe (but in a manuscript mislaid by Cauchy) that they were doubly periodic. Elliptic functions quickly became a productive field of mathematics, and led to more general complex-variable functions, which were important to the development of both abstract and applied mathematics.

Finding the roots of polynomials is a key mathematical problem: the general solution of the quadratic equation was known by ancients; the discovery of general methods for solving polynomials of degree three and four is usually treated as the major math achievement of the 16th century; so for over two centuries an algebraic solution for the general 5th-degree polynomial (quintic) was a Holy Grail sought by most of the greatest mathematicians. Abel proved that most quintics did not have such solutions. This discovery, at the age of only nineteen, would have quickly awed the world, but Abel was impoverished, had few contacts, and spoke no German. When Gauss received Abel's manuscript he discarded it unread, assuming the unfamiliar author was just another crackpot trying to square the circle or some such. His genius was too great for him to be ignored long, but, still impoverished, Abel died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-six. His fame lives on and even the lower-case word 'abelian' is applied to several concepts. Liouville said Abel was the greatest genius he ever met. Hermite said "Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years."

 

Jean-Baptiste Pierre Lamarck - Scientist, other

 

(/ləˈmɑːrk/;^[1]French: [lamaʁk]), was a French naturalist. He was a soldier, biologist, academic, and an early proponent of the idea that evolution occurred and proceeded in accordance with natural laws. He gave the term biology a broader meaning by coining the term for special sciences, chemistry, meteorology, geology, and botany-zoology.^[2]

Lamarck fought in the Pomeranian War (1757–62) with Prussia, and was awarded a commission for bravery on the battlefield.^[3] At his post in Monaco, Lamarck became interested in natural history and resolved to study medicine.^[4] He retired from the army after being injured in 1766, and returned to his medical studies.^[4] Lamarck developed a particular interest in botany, and later, after he published a three-volume work Flore françoise (1778), he gained membership of the French Academy of Sciences in 1779. Lamarck became involved in the Jardin des Plantes and was appointed to the Chair of Botany in 1788. When the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle was founded in 1793, Lamarck was appointed as a professor of zoology.

In 1801, he published Système des animaux sans vertèbres, a major work on the classification of invertebrates, a term he coined. In an 1802 publication, he became one of the first to use the term biology in its modern sense.^{[5][Note 1]} Lamarck continued his work as a premier authority on invertebrate zoology. He is remembered, at least in malacology, as a taxonomist of considerable stature.

In the modern era, Lamarck is widely remembered for a theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics, called soft inheritance, Lamarckism or use/disuse theory,^[6] which he described in his 1809 Philosophie Zoologique. However, his idea of soft inheritance was, perhaps, a reflection of the wisdom of the time accepted by many natural historians. Lamarck's contribution to evolutionary theory consisted of the first truly cohesive theory of evolution,^[7] in which an alchemical complexifying force drove organisms up a ladder of complexity, and a second environmental force adapted them to local environments through use and disuse of characteristics, differentiating them from other organisms.^[8] Scientists have debated whether advances in the field of transgenerational epigenetics mean that Lamarck was to an extent correct, or not.^[9]

 

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (scientist, physics)

 

was a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate. He exploited the Hampson-Linde cycle to investigate how materials behave when cooled to nearly absolute zero and later to liquefy helium for the first time. His production of extreme cryogenic temperatures led to his discovery of superconductivity in 1911: for certain materials, electrical resistance abruptly vanishes at very low temperatures.^[1]

[Voltaire 5,392]

A bit complicated... Still Vudu. Then Bear (in my inbox) and TBBOM's picks come in. I'll go, then Bear.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Sorry to be a doosh guys. Volty, keep texting me. I'll do better and see this thing to the finish line.

[Voltaire 5,392]

Updated to 130.1 + TBBOM's two.

 

72 more names.

[vuduchile 1,945]

His name and face are synonymous with evil in the 20th century.

 

For some reason, his brand of lunacy continues to fascinate, scare and intrigue us to this day. What a mutha fucka.

 

Born in Ohio in 1934, Charles Manson is notoriously connected to the brutal slayings of actress Sharon Tate and other Hollywood residents, but he was never actually found guilty of committing the murders himself. However, the famous Tate-La Bianca killings have immortalized him as a living embodiment of evil. Images of his staring "mad eyes" are still used today to illustrate countless serial-murder news stories. The Manson Family—including Charles Manson and his young, loyal dropout disciples of murder—is thought to have carried out some 35 killings. Most were never tried, either for lack of evidence or because the perpetrators were already sentenced to life for the Tate/La Bianca killings. In 2012, Manson was denied parole for the 12th time.

 

http://www.biography.com/people/charles-manson-9397912#synopsis

 

[vuduchile 1,945]

His name and face are synonymous with evil in the 20th century.

 

For some reason, his brand of lunacy continues to fascinate, scare and intrigue us to this day. What a mutha fucka.

 

Born in Ohio in 1934, Charles Manson is notoriously connected to the brutal slayings of actress Sharon Tate and other Hollywood residents, but he was never actually found guilty of committing the murders himself. However, the famous Tate-La Bianca killings have immortalized him as a living embodiment of evil. Images of his staring "mad eyes" are still used today to illustrate countless serial-murder news stories. The Manson Family—including Charles Manson and his young, loyal dropout disciples of murder—is thought to have carried out some 35 killings. Most were never tried, either for lack of evidence or because the perpetrators were already sentenced to life for the Tate/La Bianca killings. In 2012, Manson was denied parole for the 12th time.

 

http://www.biography.com/people/charles-manson-9397912#synopsis

 

[Voltaire 5,392]

From Bear

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When one of my relatives experienced some facial paralysis, she went to a neurologist. She received minimal help and proceeded to an acupuncturist. At her next visit to the neurologist, the doctor immediately noticed great improvement. When she mentioned the name of the acupuncturist, the doctor said:

 

"Hey, that's who I see!" Thanks, doc.

 

Acupuncture has been around so long that its begins have been traced to widely different periods. Two sources I viewed dated its beginnings at 8,000 and 4,000 years ago. That's a big difference. The early masters are hard to separate from mythical figures, that may or may not have even existed as actual humans.

 

Here is a master that did exist during the Song Dynasty (960AD- 1279AD). He wrote the book Tongren Shuxue Zhen Jiu Yujing (Illustrated Manual of the Bronze Man Showing Acupuncture and Moxibustion). The book detailed 657 points and was accompanied by two bronze statues marked for teaching. The text for this book was also carved into two stone tablets, two meters high and seven meters in width.

 

I found three different translations for the book title, btw.

 

Wang Weiyi - Doctor

 

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It's my turn. It's also 3:47 AM. I've got three I'm looking at here, only remember one name: Bertrand Russell as JoaT. Go with him.

 

One of the other is a Seductress from India, forget her name, she was a contemporary of Buddha, met him and converted. She has a story similar to Helen of Troy in that her beauty caused nations to go to war.

 

I'll edit this for her name.

 

It's Bear's turn.

[BiPolarBear 495]

One nanometer is one billionth of a meter. The difference in size of one nanometer to a meter is about the same as the difference between a marble and the size of the Earth.

A leader in the field of non-biological nanotechnology is Dr. Alex Zettl. He is a Professor of Physics and a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. One of his projects involves creating nano motors. He and his team have already produced a mechanical bearing that produces so little friction that they have no way to measure it. The bearing would never show wear. Don't think of a steel ball bearing; think of a tube of graphite molecules with smaller tubes placed inside of larger tubes. The efficiency of an electric engine based on these principles has the potential of producing an engine the size of your thumb that could power a train.

The video below gets into this at about 12:00.

Dr. Alex Zettl - Scientist (other)

[Voltaire 5,392]

Funny. I have a marble in my pocket that I'd just dropped on the floor before reading your post. I'd found it yesterday and was going to give it to one of my kids but forgot, so there it sits for me to fidget with.

 

The name I was looking for last night was

 

Amrapali - Seductress

[Voltaire 5,392]

Updated to 131.3

 

67 more names 13/14 each.

 

Vudu's turn.

[vuduchile 1,945]

Mathemetician? I need one but I really don't know anything about this category. Wanna throw one in for me Volty?

[edjr 6,745]

did I get drafted yet?

[Voltaire 5,392]

Mathematicians to consider:

 

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

Critical for computer animation and graphics

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

Real old-time Indian founder of Math

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

Also my runner up for my last JoaT spot before I took Russell

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

I can't rightly tell you what he contributed since I don't understand what I'm reading but it sounds hugely important

[Voltaire 5,392]

did I get drafted yet?

Not yet, no. Time is getting short too. I know I'm making frustrating decisions on who to leave off.

[vuduchile 1,945]

Mathematicians to consider:

 

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

Critical for computer animation and graphics

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

Real old-time Indian founder of Math

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

Also my runner up for JoaT before I took Russell

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

I can't rightly tell you what he contributed since I don't understand what I'm reading but it sounds hugely important

Ok. Gimme the guy named Omar.

[Voltaire 5,392]

Skip 90sbaby, back to Vudu

[vuduchile 1,945]

Doctor: Robert Spetzler

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Spetzler

 

[iam90sbaby 2,720]

F.H. Bradley - Wildcard - Francis Herbert Bradley, OM was one of the most influential British idealistic philosophers. Bradley after a number of attempts to gain a fellowship finally got into University College of Oxford University in 1865. His work showered a great impact on the British philosophy and society. He was considered the most original, decisive and theoretically vigorous idealistic amongst all. In his work “Ethical Studies”, he attempted to disclose confusions in utilitarianism. In his another work “The Principles of Logic”, he criticized the psychology of the empiricists. In his most desirous work, “Appearance and Reality”, he explained that although reality is spiritual, the thesis cannot be displayed because of the fatally concepts nature related to human thought. In his lifetime, he was honored with several awards including, Order of Merit and became the first British to receive the same.

 

 

Lord Kelvin - Wildcard - William Thomson is popularly known as 1st Baron Kelvin, the creator of ‘absolute zero’ which are low limit temperature units now represented in units of ‘Kelvin’ in his honour. Lord Kelvin, as he is popularly known, is remembered for his outstanding works and achievements in the field of physics and mechanics. Kelvin propounded the first and second Laws of Thermodynamics and brought revolutionary changes in physics to make it emerge as a prominent field of study and research in the modern times. Lord Kelvin became the very first scientist who joined the House of Lords in England. Lord Kelvin was a scientist and a great marine engineering enthusiast. Kelvin’s series of lectures at American Johns Hopkins University gave out the initial formulations of a physical model for the ether. Several physical elements and phenomena are linked with Lord Kelvin – Kelvin wave, Kelvin (temperature), Kelvin sensing, Kelvin bridge and several others.

[Voltaire 5,392]

Bear then TBBOM

[BiPolarBear 495]

I am overwhelmed in an attempt to describe this man. I have no idea where to begin or end.

 

Poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, teacher of Greek, Latin, history sociology and economics, first Black person to earn a doctorate from Harvard, and co-founder of the N.A.A.C.P.

He would be a strong contender in our GHD Jack-of-All-Trades category but, his main work and focus was race. He was a Social Scientist.

 

Back to the overwhelmed part; I am just going to link to a page and let the readers see the (partial) listing of the books he wrote on Black people and race.

 

http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history-w.e.b.-dubois

 

Please note that this list, lifted from Wiki is titled "Selected works":

 

Selected works Non-fiction books

• The Study of the Negro Problems (1898)
• The Philadelphia Negro (1899)
• The Negro in Business (1899)
• The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
• The Talented Tenth, second chapter of The Negro Problem, a collection of articles by African Americans (September 1903).
• Voice of the Negro II (September 1905)
• John Brown: A Biography (1909)
• Efforts for Social Betterment among Negro Americans (1909)
• Atlanta University's Studies of the Negro Problem (1897–1910)
• The Negro (1915)
• The Gift of Black Folk (1924)
• Africa, Its Geography, People and Products (1930)
• Africa: Its Place in Modern History (1930)
• Black Reconstruction in America (1935)
• What the Negro Has Done for the United States and Texas (1936)
• Black Folk, Then and Now (1939)
• Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace (1945)
• The Encyclopedia of the Negro (1946)
• The World and Africa (1946)
• The World and Africa, an Inquiry into the Part Which Africa Has Played in World History (1947)
• Peace Is Dangerous (1951)
• I Take My Stand for Peace (1951)
• In Battle for Peace (1952)
• Africa in Battle Against Colonialism, Racialism, Imperialism (1960)

Articles

• "An Essay Toward a History of the Black Man in the Great War," The Crisis, vol. 18, no. 2 (June 1919), pp. 63–87.

Autobiographies

• Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil (1920)
• Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept (1940)
• The Autobiography of W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, (1968)

Novels

• The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911)
• Dark Princess: A Romance (1928)
• The Black Flame Trilogy:
  • The Ordeal of Mansart (1957)
  • Mansart Builds a School (1959)
  • Worlds of Color (1961)

Archives of The Crisis Du Bois edited The Crisis from 1910 to 1933, and it contains many of his important polemics.

• Archives of The Crisis at the University of Tulsa: Modernist Journals Collection
• Archives of The Crisis at Brown University
• Issues of The Crisis at Google Books

Recordings

• Socialism and the American Negro (1960)
• W. E. B. Du Bois A Recorded Autobiography, Interview with Moses Asch (1961)

Dissertations

• The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America: 1638–1870, (Ph.D. dissertation), Harvard Historical Studies, Longmans, Green, and Co. (1896)

 

William Edward Burghardt du Bois - Social Sicentist

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Dumb focking moron

 

Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, KCB (16 October 1797 – 28 March 1868), was an officer in the British Army who commanded the Light Brigade during the Crimean War. He led the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava.[1]

 

Throughout his life in politics and his long military career he characterised the arrogant and extravagant aristocrat of the period. His progression through the Army was marked by many episodes of extraordinary incompetence, but this can be measured against his generosity to the men under his command and genuine bravery. As a member of the landed aristocracy he had actively and steadfastly opposed any political reform in Britain, but in the last year of his life he relented and came to acknowledge that such reform would bring benefit to all classes of society.

[Voltaire 5,392]

Norman Borlaug - Wildcard

 

"The man who saved a billion lives" Winner of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize

 

TBBOM took Malthus, the first guy who 180 or so years ago warned us that overpopulation would cause all sits of starvation and famine.

 

Biologist Paul R. Ehrlich wrote in his 1968 bestseller The Population Bomb, "The battle to feed all of humanity is over ... In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now." Ehrlich said, "I have yet to meet anyone familiar with the situation who thinks India will be self-sufficient in food by 1971," and "India couldn't possibly feed two hundred million more people by 1980.

 

Well, that didn't happen. Maybe it yet will but not yet, Borlaug is the guy who put those calamities on pause for the modern era and he's not gotten enough credit for it. Why?

 

He was the founder of something called 'The Green Revolution' and it's biggest proponent. He genetically engineered crops... oh you see where this is going ... genetically engineered crops may have prevented world famine and starvation but are a big boogeyman in the well fed west. He'd not have won that Nobel Prize today.

 

Personally, I find the controversy overblown anyway. I don't mind eating GMOs, they're safe.

 

In Mexico, India, Africa, Pakistan, SE Asia, they don't have the luxury of growing enough organic food to feed the population... so Borlaug while a hero in the developing world, is less heralded in the west.

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Lei Zu - Great Woman

 

I don't know if I believe the story I'm about to tell you. It's a legend that dates to Chinese pre-history passed down as oral tradition. The archeological evidence does support it however. China didn't always have silk and then it exploded onto the scene and the timeline for carbon dating points at the same timeframe that history indicates Lei Zu was Empress of China. Before that no silk.

 

Lei Zu is credited with the discovery of silk, invention of the first silk wheel and silk loom, and for developing sericulture.

 

According to legend Lei Zu was a brilliant, capable woman, the top adviser to her husband and given authority as the regent of China when her husband was out fighting his wars. A popular and beloved Empress.

 

As the story goes, she was out in her garden, curious about the cocoons in the mulberry trees and had collected some to study. As she was was sitting down for tea, she accidentally dropped one into her teacup. The cocoon dissolved into strands of fabric that stretched many yards, she could wrap the filaments around her finger and wondered if these strands could be used to make a dress, succeeded in making one, and then commissioned from her husband a garden of mulberry trees and cocoons to spark a new industry.

 

Like I said, this is a legend from pre-history. It could as easily have been a peasant wondering how these cocoons would taste in soup that discovered silk filaments, figured out how to make fabric, realized the mind boggling importance of what he was doing, knew instinctively who the first and best customer would be -even better than the Emperor- and set off to the capital with the first silk dress.

 

History credits Lei Zu with with the discovery of silk, a brilliant woman, she was certainly capable of it. If she was instead the first customer for the discoverer of silk whose name has been lost, either way, once the secret was in her capable hands, she knew what to do with it and took it from there. This, of course, was a huge trade secret for China and their most precious export, they maintained a monopoly on silk for the next 2500 years, until another Chinese princess, who couldn't bear to be away from it, smuggled some silkworms out with her when she was married off to an Indian prince.

 

No other society developed sericulture on their own. It was discovered once and spread elsewhere only because it was copied and re-copied.

 

This may not be my last Great Woman pick. I'm really torn on moving Jane Austen to writer and taking another. Of course the male writer I want, I really like too. One of these won't get drafted.

 

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