***Geek Club History Draft***

[Voltaire 5,392]

So let's see we're all caught up. We're at 58.2 Vudu then Bear.

[vuduchile 1,945]

Without his invention, many of the top musical performing artists of the last 70 years would have wound up as ditch diggers, waiters, teachers, and carpet salesmen.

 

Sure, The Beatles might have become a decent barbershop quartet and Eddie VH would at least have a gig playing stand up bass at the LA airport Holiday Inn. But they wouldn't be rock gods who changed music forever if not for this item.

 

They all like to thank God, Allah, thier fans, moms, producers and agents when they win their Grammys.

 

The man they should really be thanking is named Les Paul. - Inventor.

 

In 1941 the perfectionist Les Paul believed he could improve upon the common amplified guitar. To do so he attached strings and two pickups to what was essentially a wooden board with a guitar neck. Paul called it the "the log," and while it drew some early criticism, mainly for its look, it produced just the kind of sound its creator had been looking for.

 

"You could go out and eat and come back and the note would still be playing," he later described it.

 

It was the first solid-body guitar, and it changed music in unbelievable ways. In the 1960s, the rock world embraced and adored his instrument. By then, Paul had teamed up with the guitar manufacturer Gibson, which had hired him to design a Les Paul guitar. Musicians such as Keith Richards, Eric Clapton and Paul McCartney all used the guitar. Since its debut in 1952 the Gibson Les Paul was been one of the steadiest-selling guitars made.

[BiPolarBear 495]

This chain-smoking five foot nothing Parisian turned down the Nobel Prize for Literature. His contributed to our collective culture with plays, screen plays, novels, short stories, philosophical essays, critical essays, and as a political activist and biographer.

 

"If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company."

 

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre - Thinker

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Christopher Wren - visual artist

 

Sir Christopher Michael Wren /ˈrɛn/[1] PRS (20 October 1632 – 25 February 1723) is one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history.[2] He was accorded responsibility for rebuilding 52 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including his masterpiece, St. Paul's Cathedral, on Ludgate Hill, completed in 1710.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

James Cook - explorer

 

Captain James Cook, FRS, RN (7 November 1728[NB 1] – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.

 

Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager and joined the Royal Navy in 1755. He saw action in the Seven Years' War, and subsequently surveyed and mapped much of the entrance to the Saint Lawrence River during the siege of Quebec. This helped bring Cook to the attention of the Admiralty and Royal Society. This notice came at a crucial moment in both Cook's career and the direction of British overseas exploration, and led to his commission in 1766 as commander of HM Bark Endeavour for the first of three Pacific voyages.

 

In three voyages Cook sailed thousands of miles across largely uncharted areas of the globe. He mapped lands from New Zealand to Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean in greater detail and on a scale not previously achieved. As he progressed on his voyages of discovery he surveyed and named features, and recorded islands and coastlines on European maps for the first time. He displayed a combination of seamanship, superior surveying and cartographic skills, physical courage and an ability to lead men in adverse conditions.

 

Cook was killed in Hawaii in a fight with Hawaiians during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific in 1779. He left a legacy of scientific and geographical knowledge which was to influence his successors well into the 20th century and numerous memorials worldwide have been dedicated to him.

[Voltaire 5,392]

Peter the Great - Reformer

Russia's most notable czar. He went about an effort to modernize and expand Russia. He'd wanted a navy and got one on the Baltic and the Black Sea.

Orson Welles - Artist (Performing)

{Edit : stupid autocorrect it's Orson not Odin}

Revolutionized theater, radio, and film. Started out as a great Shakespearen actor, caused quite a stir with his radio broadcast of War of the Worlds, then broke into film with Citizan Cane, critically acclaimed as the top film ever made.

I ... I can't watch Citizen Cane. I fell asleep on and off the first time but did see the end to know the significance of 'Rosebud.' But the other two times it didn't work. I like much better to read about the film. Welles made so many innovations in it top to bottom - everything, that he permanently changed the industry.

Film experts love it. Me, like I said, not so much. The film didn't age well for a casual viewer. So many things he did in the movie were innovations being done for the first time. They've become common and better refined over the years so it's harder to notice or appreciate if you don't know film history. In viewing, it's hard for me to identify all the new techniques he was using and so when I watch the film, I cannot fully appreciate it. Reading about it is much better.

[Voltaire 5,392]

Cook was a name you'd dropped long, long ago as an alternate. It's taken quite some time to finally getting around to taking him. I can understand fully how that goes.

 

Back to Bear.

 

I won't be updating page one for a while, Mondays I don't have an office or computer available. I use my phone exclusively until evening.

[BiPolarBear 495]

How strange for her that after refusing to live under the same roof with a husband she ends up in the same grave with a man. The same man that would have been her husband, but still. They remained friends and lovers for a lifetime. She and her lover welcomed another woman into their relationship as well. The husband continued his support of that lady for the rest of his life. Numerous other additions to their unofficial union are supposed.

Her book, Le deuxième sexe, was published in English as "the Second Sex." Get this: The English publisher had a man with only basic training in the French Language do the translation. The translator also knew squat about philosophy. How pissed would you be if that happened to your book? Know imagine that the publisher blocks a corrected translation for about 60 years. This book is considered the basis for contemporary feminism.

Simone was a writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist.

Simone de Beauvoir - Thinker

Her grave:

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQNNfje1zm_WcP-dSy7o7i7KsNCvoJFzQXCUjltVial52B10qEu5g

I picked her as thinker and "under" the same man in respect for her recurring theme.

[vuduchile 1,945]

Why should the chairman of The New Haven Clock Company be considered an important businessman and historical figure?

 

Because his side gig was "Father of American Football"

 

Businessman - Walter Camp

 

 

Walter Chauncey Camp (April 7, 1859 March 14, 1925) was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". He invented the sport's line of scrimmage and the system of downs.[1] With John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pop Warner, Fielding H. Yost, and George Halas, Camp was one of the most accomplished persons in the early history of American football. He played college football at Yale College from 1876 to 1882. He graduated from Yale in 1880,[2] and studied for three years at Yale School of Medicine.[1] Camp served as the head football coach at Yale from 1888 to 1892 before moving to Stanford University, where he coached in December 1892 and in 1894 and 1895. Camp's Yale teams of 1888, 1891, and 1892 have been recognized as national champions. Camp was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951

[iam90sbaby 2,720]

John Forbes Nash, Jr. (mathematician) (June 13, 1928 – May 23, 2015) was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and the study of partial differential equations.^[2][3] Nash's work has provided insight into the factors that govern chance and decision making inside complex systems found in daily life.

His theories are used in economics, computing, evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, accounting, computer science, games of skill, politics and military theory. Serving as a Senior Research Mathematician at Princeton University during the latter part of his life, he shared the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with game theorists Reinhard Seltenand John Harsanyi. In 2015, he was awarded the Abel Prize for his work on nonlinear partial differential equations.

In 1959, Nash began showing clear signs of mental illness, and spent several years at psychiatric hospitals being treated for paranoid schizophrenia. After 1970, his condition slowly improved, allowing him to return to academic work by the mid-1980s.^[4] His struggles with his illness and his recovery became the basis for Sylvia Nasar's biography, A Beautiful Mind, as well as a film of the same name starring Russell Crowe.^[5][6][7]

On May 23, 2015, Nash and his wife, Alicia Nash, were killed in a car crash while riding in a taxi on the New Jersey Turnpike.

By the way if anyone hasn't watched the movie A Beautiful Mind I highly recommend it.

Alan Turing (mathematician) - was a British pioneering computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer.^[2][3][4] Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.^[5]

During the Second World War, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre. For a time he led Hut 8, the section responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. He devised a number of techniques for breaking German ciphers, including improvements to the pre-war Polish bombemethod and an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine. Turing played a pivotal role in cracking intercepted coded messages that enabled the Allies to defeat the Nazis in many crucial engagements, including the Battle of the Atlantic; it has been estimated that this work shortened the war in Europe by as many as two to four years.^[6]

After the war, he worked at the National Physical Laboratory, where he designed the ACE, among the first designs for a stored-program computer. In 1948 Turing joined Max Newman's Computing Laboratory at the University of Manchester, where he helped develop the Manchester computers^[7] and became interested in mathematical biology. He wrote a paper on the chemical basis of morphogenesis, and predicted oscillating chemical reactions such as the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, first observed in the 1960s.

Turing was prosecuted in 1952 for homosexual acts, when such behaviour was still a criminal act in the UK. He accepted treatment with oestrogen injections (chemical castration) as an alternative to prison. Turing died in 1954, 16 days before his 42nd birthday, from cyanide poisoning. An inquest determined his death as suicide, but it has been noted that the known evidence is equally consistent with accidental poisoning.^[8] In 2009, following an Internet campaign, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for "the appalling way he was treated". Queen Elizabeth II granted him a posthumous pardon in 2013.

[Voltaire 5,392]

Turing went at 22.3 to Bear. He's listed as Engineer rather than mathematician though so it's easier to miss. Also, I see I made a spelling mistake... Turning... it looks like an autocorrect special.

 

I did see A Beautiful Mind. Since Nash died earlier this year, I'd featured the movie for much of the offseason on the CCDL site ... until Christopher Lee died.

[iam90sbaby 2,720]

Jules Henri Poincaré (mathematician) - founded the theory of algebraic (combinatorial) topology, and is sometimes called the "Father of Topology" (a title also used for Euler and Brouwer). He also did brilliant work in several other areas of mathematics; he was one of the most creative mathematicians ever, and the greatest mathematician of the Constructivist ("intuitionist") style. He published hundreds of papers on a variety of topics and might have become the most prolific mathematician ever, but he died at the height of his powers. Poincaré was clumsy and absent-minded; like Galois, he was almost denied admission to French University, passing only because at age 17 he was already far too famous to flunk.

In addition to his topology, Poincaré laid the foundations of homology; he discovered automorphic functions (a unifying foundation for the trigonometric and elliptic functions), and essentially founded the theory of periodic orbits; he made major advances in the theory of differential equations. He is credited with partial solution of Hilbert's 22nd Problem. Several important results carry his name, for example the famous Poincaré Recurrence Theorem, which almost seems to contradict the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Poincaré is especially noted for effectively discovering chaos theory, and for posing Poincaré's Conjecture; that conjecture was one of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics for an entire century, and can be explained without equations to a layman. The Conjecture is that all "simply-connected" closed manifolds are topologically equivalent to "spheres"; it is directly relevant to the possible topology of our universe. Recently Grigori Perelman proved Poincaré's conjecture, and is eligible for the first Million Dollar math prize in history.

As were most of the greatest mathematicians, Poincaré was intensely interested in physics. He made revolutionary advances in fluid dynamics and celestial motions; he anticipated Minkowski space and much of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity (including the famous equation E = mc²). Poincaré also found time to become a famous popular writer of philosophy, writing, "Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things;" and "A [worthy] mathematician experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature;" and "If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living." With his fame, Poincaré helped the world recognize the importance of the new physical theories of Einstein and Planck.

Good thing I already had a back up plan incase one was picked.

A Beautiful Mind is a great movie, I never noticed it on the landing page. My favorite movies are true stories.

[vuduchile 1,945]

Engineer: Louis Reard

 

Is there any piece of clothing more sublime than the bikini? A woman is almost naked wearing the bikini, yet she can appear in public without fear of arrest or censure. The two tiny scraps of fabric cover the most tantalizing parts of her anatomy, teasing yet accentuating the hidden mysteries of the female charm.

 

It wasn't always this way. Early bathing suits bore a closer resemblance to the burka than to anything a woman might wear in the water. These early suits weren't even called swimsuits because they were so heavy, it was impossible to swim in them.

 

The modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Réard in 1946. He named it after the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, the site of the Operation Crossroads nuclear weapon test on July 1, 1946. Réard reasoned that the burst of excitement created by his new swimsuit would be like the explosion of the atom bomb. Since his contemporary, Jacques Heim, had called his bikini precursor the Atome in view of its size, Réard claimed to have "split the Atome" to make it even smaller. His innovation was largely based on exposing the navel, which was concealed by earlier two-piece bathing costumes.

[jerryskids 6,974]

Engineer: Louis Reard

 

Is there any piece of clothing more sublime than the bikini? A woman is almost naked wearing the bikini, yet she can appear in public without fear of arrest or censure. The two tiny scraps of fabric cover the most tantalizing parts of her anatomy, teasing yet accentuating the hidden mysteries of the female charm.

 

It wasn't always this way. Early bathing suits bore a closer resemblance to the burka than to anything a woman might wear in the water. These early suits weren't even called swimsuits because they were so heavy, it was impossible to swim in them.

 

The modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Réard in 1946. He named it after the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, the site of the Operation Crossroads nuclear weapon test on July 1, 1946. Réard reasoned that the burst of excitement created by his new swimsuit would be like the explosion of the atom bomb. Since his contemporary, Jacques Heim, had called his bikini precursor the Atome in view of its size, Réard claimed to have "split the Atome" to make it even smaller. His innovation was largely based on exposing the navel, which was concealed by earlier two-piece bathing costumes.

 

Awesome.

[Voltaire 5,392]

These post-WWII French intellectuals that Bear has been picking lately can be such downers. Then Vudu comes along and reminds us that not everything associated with post-WWII French culture is so depressing.

[vuduchile 1,945]

Cleisthenes - Reformer

 

 

 

Who is the father of democracy? Not Thomas Jefferson, as many people oddly seem to think. It was, in fact, the little known Cleisthenes. He first introduced democracy to the Greek city states (undoubtedly following some of the principles previously set forth by Solon) in 508 BC, after he gained political power in Athens. From 508 to 502 BC, he began to develop a series of major reforms, leading to the formation of Athenian Democracy. He made all free men living in Athens and Attica citizens, giving them the right to vote as part of a democratic society. He also established a council (boule). All citizens over the age of thirty were eligible to sit on the council, encouraging public involvement in the government. While the format may not be the same as the many democracies around the world today, there is no doubt that this was the first step.

[Voltaire 5,392]

We'll keep this one on ice, there are six more names to drop before Cleisthenes falls...

[vuduchile 1,945]

We'll keep this one on ice, there are six more names to drop before Cleisthenes falls...

I've completely lost track of who's turn it is. Who's up and in which direction are we going?

[Voltaire 5,392]

It's Bear's turn. He's on the clock for another 7 hours or so. If he doesn't show up, this'll zoom through me and TBBOM, Cleisthenes goes, and we get to 90sbaby this evening. If he picks, he goes again after TBBOM.

[Voltaire 5,392]

Another 50 mins or so then TBBOM can go.

[Voltaire 5,392]

OK here we go

 

TBBOM takes :

 

60.3 Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Writer (Fiction)

 

 

 

 

I'm rolling with

 

60.4 James Clerk Maxwell - Mathematician

 

He's been waiting the longest of all my people. I wanted him a long, long time ago but I didn't need another physicist. Then I figured fock it, I'll put him in mathematician. Depending how things shake out, I'll move him to physics later.

 

61.1 Franz Schubert - Composer

 

I wish I could say more, It's not really my category and don't have an ear to appreciate these guys but I know he's got a good reputation and has earned a lot of high praise online in clasical music circles

 

 

 

James Clerk Maxwell FRS FRSE (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish[2][3] scientist in the field of mathematical physics.[4] His most notable achievement was to formulate the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, bringing together for the first time electricity, magnetism, and light as manifestations of the same phenomenon. Maxwell's equations for electromagnetism have been called the "second great unification in physics"[5] after the first one realised by Isaac Newton.

 

With the publication of A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field in 1865, Maxwell demonstrated that electric and magnetic fields travel through space as waves moving at the speed of light. Maxwell proposed that light is an undulation in the same medium that is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena.[6] The unification of light and electrical phenomena led to the prediction of the existence of radio waves.

 

Maxwell helped develop the Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution, a statistical means of describing aspects of the kinetic theory of gases. He is also known for presenting the first durable colour photograph in 1861 and for his foundational work on analysing the rigidity of rod-and-joint frameworks (trusses) like those in many bridges.

 

His discoveries helped usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics. Many physicists regard Maxwell as the 19th-century scientist having the greatest influence on 20th-century physics. His contributions to the science are considered by many to be of the same magnitude as those of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.[7] In the millennium poll—a survey of the 100 most prominent physicists—Maxwell was voted the third greatest physicist of all time, behind only Newton and Einstein.[8] On the centenary of Maxwell's birthday, Einstein described Maxwell's work as the "most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton"

 

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.Franz Peter Schubert (German pronunciation: [ˈfʁant͡s ˈʃuːbɐt]; 31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) was an Austrian composer. Schubert died at 31 but was extremely prolific during his lifetime. His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works (mainly Lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and piano music. Appreciation of his music while he was alive was limited to a relatively small circle of admirers in Vienna, but interest in his work increased significantly in the decades following his death. Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and other 19th-century composers discovered and championed his works. Today, Schubert is ranked among the greatest composers of the late Classical era and early Romantic era and is one of the most frequently performed composers of the early nineteenth century.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

A brief writeup of my picks...

 

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment are easily two of the top 25 novels ever written in any language, so I was thrilled to realize that this guy was still around to pair with Tolstoy for the Russian novelist bloc. Among his other works, his half-novel, half autobiogaphical House of the Dead detailed life in a Tsarist siberian exile camp, which had historical importance as well as literary. And finally, Notes from the Underground is considered one of the first examples of existentialist literature and was heavily infuential on modern literature.

 

And for my next pick...

 

Frederick Sanger - Scientist, other

 

A chemist and biologist, Sanger won two nobel prizes. One for study of protein structure, but it was the other that earns him my pick. He developed tequniques for the sequencing of DNA, which would later be used by the Human Genome Project.

 

I believe that when it is fully complete and understood, the Human Genome Project may well be the most significant scientific endeavor in history. It has the potential to end genetic disease and defect. No more downs syndrome. No more genetic heart abnormalities. The possibilites for good are endless.

[jerryskids 6,974]

Love the Maxwell pick. As an electrical engineer, his four equations for electromagnetism were basically the foundation for everything we studied.

[Voltaire 5,392]

Cleisthenes now becomes locked in for Vudu and we go to 90sbaby for two. Bear's been skipped twice now and can also jump in any time for two as well. If it comes to it, he won't get skipped again we'll pause and et him make three.

[Voltaire 5,392]

Love the Maxwell pick. As an electrical engineer, his four equations for electromagnetism were basically the foundation for everything we studied.

I'll keep him in mind for Engineer too then. The guy is hugely important but since I've got lots and lots of physics guys -so many, it's one of my deepest categories- I kept him on the backburner a lot longer than I should have.

[BiPolarBear 495]

This Hong Kong cha-cha dance champion is who Chuck Norris looks for in the closet before he goes to sleep.

 

Bruce Lee - Athlete

 

[Voltaire 5,392]

You get another Bear, you were skipped twice. 90sbaby also can go with two.

[iam90sbaby 2,720]

Ptolemy (Jack-of-All-Trades) - was a Greco-Egyptian writer of Alexandria, known as a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology.^[2][3] He lived in the city of Alexandria in the Roman province of Egypt, wrote in Koine Greek, and held Roman citizenship.^[4]Beyond that, few reliable details of his life are known. His birthplace has been given as Ptolemais Hermiou in the Thebaid in an uncorroborated statement by the 14th-century astronomer Theodore Meliteniotes.^[5] This is a very late attestation, however, and there is no other reason to suppose that he ever lived anywhere else than Alexandria,^[5] where he died around AD 168.^[6]

Ptolemy was the author of several scientific treatises, three of which were of continuing importance to later Islamic, Byzantine and Europeanscience. The first is the astronomical treatise now known as the Almagest, although it was originally entitled the "Mathematical Treatise" (Μαθηματικὴ Σύνταξις, Mathēmatikē Syntaxis) and then known as the "Great Treatise" (Ἡ Μεγάλη Σύνταξις, Ē Megálē Syntaxis). The second is the Geography, which is a thorough discussion of the geographic knowledge of the Greco-Roman world. This manuscript was used by Christopher Columbus as the map for his westward-bound path to Asia, in which he discovered the hitherto unknown lands of the Americas. The third is the astrological treatise in which he attempted to adapt horoscopic astrology to the Aristotelian natural philosophy of his day. This is sometimes known as the Apotelesmatika (Ἀποτελεσματικά) but more commonly known as the Tetrabiblos from the Greek (Τετράβιβλος) meaning "Four Books" or by the Latin Quadripartitum.

 

Edwin Hubble (scientist - astronomy) - was an American astronomer who played a crucial role in establishing the field of extragalactic astronomy and is generally regarded as one of the most important observational cosmologists of the 20th century. Hubble is known for showing that the recessional velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from the earth, implying the universe is expanding,^[2] known as "Hubble's law" although this relation had been discovered previously by Georges Lemaître, who published his work in a less visible journal.

Edwin Hubble is also known for providing substantial evidence that many objects then classified as "nebulae" were actually galaxies beyond the Milky Way.

Edwin Hubble was born to Virginia Lee James (1864–1934)^[4] and John Powell Hubble, an insurance executive, in Marshfield, Missouri, and moved to Wheaton, Illinois, in 1900.^[5] In his younger days, he was noted more for his athletic prowess than his intellectual abilities, although he did earn good grades in every subject except for spelling. Edwin was a gifted athlete playing baseball, football, basketball, and he ran track in both high school and college. He played a variety of positions on the basketball court from center to shooting guard. In fact Hubble even led the University of Chicago's basketball team to their first conference title in 1907.^[6] He won seven first places and a third place in a single high school track and field meet in 1906.

His studies at the University of Chicago were concentrated on mathematics and astronomy, which led to a bachelor of science degree in 1910. Hubble also became a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. He spent the three years at The Queen's College, Oxford after earning his bachelors as one of the university's first Rhodes Scholars, initially studying jurisprudence instead of science (as a promise to his dying father),^[7]and later added literature and Spanish,^[7] and earning his master's degree.^[8]

In 1909, Hubble's father moved his family from Chicago to Shelbyville, Kentucky, so that the family could live in a small town, ultimately settling in nearby Louisville. His father died in the winter of 1913, while Edwin was still in England, and in the summer of 1913, Edwin returned to care for his mother, two sisters, and younger brother, as did his brother William. The family moved once more to Everett Avenue, in Louisville's Highlands neighborhood, to accommodate Edwin and William.^[9]

Hubble was also a dutiful son, who despite his intense interest in astronomy since boyhood, surrendered to his father's request to study law, first at the University of Chicago and later at Oxford, though he managed to take a few math and science courses. After the death of his father in 1913, Edwin returned to the Midwest from Oxford, but did not have the motivation to practice law. So he taught Spanish, physics, and mathematics at the New Albany High School in New Albany, Indiana for a year before he resolved to start over, at the age of 25, to become a professional astronomer.

He also coached the boys' basketball team there. After a year of high-school teaching, he entered graduate school with the help of his former professor from the University of Chicago to study astronomy at the Yerkes Observatory of the University, where he received his PhD in 1917. His dissertation was titled Photographic Investigations of Faint Nebulae.

After the United States declared war on Germany in 1917, Hubble rushed to complete his PhD dissertation so he could join the military. Hubble volunteered for the United States Army and was assigned to the newly created 86th Division. He rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel,^[10] and was found fit for overseas duty on July 9, 1918, but the 86th Division never saw combat. After the end of World War I, Hubble spent a year in Cambridge, where he renewed his studies of Astronomy.^[11] In 1919, Hubble was offered a staff position at the Carnegie Institution's Mount Wilson Observatory, near Pasadena, California, by George Ellery Hale, the founder and director of the observatory. Hubble remained on staff at Mount Wilson until his death in 1953. Shortly before his death, Hubble became the first astronomer to use the newly completed giant 200-inch (5.1 m) reflector Hale Telescope at the Mount Palomar Observatory near San Diego, California.

Hubble also served in the U.S. Army at the Aberdeen Proving Ground during World War II. For his work there, he received the Legion of Merit award.

Although Hubble was raised as a Christian, he later became an agnostic.^[12][13]

Hubble had a heart attack in July 1949 while on vacation in Colorado. He was taken care of by his wife, Grace Hubble, and continued on a modified diet and work schedule. He died of cerebral thrombosis (a spontaneous blood clot in his brain) on September 28, 1953, in San Marino, California. No funeral was held for him, and his wife never revealed his burial site.

[Voltaire 5,392]

Two more outstanding choices. I'm glad 90sbaby has internet access in Kentucky because he's been nailing the picks in this draft while he's been there.

 

To Vudu. Bear is still owed that one as well.

[Voltaire 5,392]

Uh oh... problem. Vudu's last pick of Cleisthenes is invalid since he already went to 90sbaby at 48.1 as a Wildcard.

 

So Vudu gets two picks then.

[iam90sbaby 2,720]

Ah I meant to do this earlier glad you pointed it out. Can I have NWA moved to wildcard and Cleisthenes moved to reformer?

[Voltaire 5,392]

NWA and Cleisthenes are swapped to/from reformer and wildcard.

 

Vudu is on the clock and gets two picks. Bear is still owed one and can jump in any time. After Vudu, Bear goes again -either once or twice-depending on who get here first.

[Voltaire 5,392]

90sbaby wanted to do something with halftime grades. The halfway mark is Round 72, We're in Round 62 now. Are you guys interested in something like that?

[vuduchile 1,945]

Take a quick look at your immediate surroundings. Now take a mental inventory of how many items in your proximity contain some sort of plastic. Perhaps then, you'll have an appreciation for Alexander Parkes - Inventor of plastics.

 

 

The son of a metallurgist, Parkes first started experimenting with metals before going onto his creation of plastic and, sadly, even then his business crumbled due to financial issues and a product that wasn’t durable enough. His work was later improved upon by others into the various plastics we see all around us today. Parkes never lived to see the success of his creation.

 

 

Great Woman: Clara Barton

 

Not only did she serve and survive the Civil War, but Ms. Barton went on to create the Red Cross, which today enlists over a million volunteers in the U.S. to fulfill healthcare needs to those who need it most. Ms. Barton used her experiences caring for soldiers while at war to convince President Chester Arthur in 1873 for the need of a U.S. Red Cross group. The Red Cross provides natural disaster relief, medical attention to military services and is the largest provider of blood to hospitals nationwide. Ms. Barton’s decision to lead the Red Cross in the 1800s today saves millions of lives in hospitals across the country. You can thank Ms. Barton next time you know someone receiving blood for their care.

 

[vuduchile 1,945]

90sbaby wanted to do something with halftime grades. The halfway mark is Round 72, We're in Round 62 now. Are you guys interested in something like that?

Sure

[BiPolarBear 495]

This baseball player did not come from a scrub team; his family had money.

Although his country was not recognized by the U.S.. they did have diplomatic offices inside the Swiss Embassy in Washington D.C. I visited those offices with my employer, who had gone to Cuba and started a children's book program there. During his visit to Cuba, he met the man himself; Fidel Castro. My employer was told that he would always have friends when he was in town and to please consider the Cuban Diplomatic offices a home. The furniture was real nice, btw. It was like French furniture, but with a little added color such as flowers and leaves painted on table legs. They had the most impressive white marble double staircase that I have ever seen. When we exited the building, I am sure I got my picture taken. I hope I have a skinny file.

Under his leadership, Cuba attained 98% literacy and has universal healthcare. He parlayed his geographical location into many years of economic subsides by the U.S.S.R. Naturally, the U.S. was not pleased. The C.I.A. attempted numerous plots on his life including exploding cigars and a fungus infected wet suit. Some estimates of the C.I.A. assassination attempts go as high as 638. Castro jokes that if slipping C.I.A. plots was an Olympic event, he would have gold medals.

Although he stepped down from political office, he is still alive and his country has a bright future.

Fidel Castro - Statesman

[BiPolarBear 495]

Sure

 

+1

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

 

+1

Sure. Who is th judge? Can we drum up a peanut gallery?

[Voltaire 5,392]

Bear, still your turn, you get another one. You're caught up on skipped picks, this is your regular one.

 

I'm thinking we can go to each category and rank the other four people but not ourselves. Look at the Conqurer category, ignore your picks, decide which of the other four you like best to worst in order. Then go on to Administer and continue on down.

 

Any lurker that wants can do so as well, they'd rank all five of us.

[iam90sbaby 2,720]

Bear, still your turn, you get another one. You're caught up on skipped picks, this is your regular one.

 

I'm thinking we can go to each category and rank the other four people but not ourselves. Look at the Conqurer category, ignore your picks, decide which of the other four you like best to worst in order. Then go on to Administer and continue on down.

 

Any lurker that wants can do so as well, they'd rank all five of us.

 

 

I was thinking the same thing, each person should "win" a category it will be much easier to rank that way. I hope jerryskids puts in a vote, he seems to has the most interests of posters not actually in the draft.