Title: Persons of the Decade. Post by: afleitch on June 01, 2008, 06:06:01 PM Why not :) And I wouldn't be suprised if it has been done before.
1900's 1910's 1920's 1930's 1940's 1950's 1960's 1970's 1980's 1990's 2000's Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: Kaine for Senate '18 on June 01, 2008, 06:12:24 PM 1900's: Teddy Roosevelt
1910's: Woodrow Wilson 1920's: Henry Ford 1930's: Adolf Hitler 1940's: Adolf Hitler 1950's: Ho Chi Mihn 1960's: Martin Luther King Jr. 1970's: Richard Nixon 1980's: Ronald Reagan 1990's: Boris Yeltsin 2000's: George W. Bush Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: Хahar 🤔 on June 01, 2008, 06:33:25 PM 1900s: Roosevelt
1910s: Wilhelm II 1920s: Poincaré 1930s: Roosevelt 1940s: Hitler 1950s: Eisenhower 1960s: Khrushchev 1970s: Mao 1980s: Gorbachev 1990s: Clinton 2000s: Bush Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: The Mikado on June 01, 2008, 06:54:18 PM Why not :) And I wouldn't be suprised if it has been done before. 1900's 1910's 1920's 1930's 1940's 1950's 1960's 1970's 1980's 1990's 2000's 1900s: Orville and Wilbur Wright 1910s: Gavrilo Princip 1920s: Calvin Coolidge (Embodied the spirit of the era, not for anything he did) 1930s: John Manyard Keynes/Adolf Hitler 1940s: Mohandas K. Gandhi/Mao Zedong (Both, rightly or wrongly, represent the massive post WWII changes in the Third World) 1950s: Joseph McCarthy/Elvis Presley 1960s: John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khruschev, jointly, for averting the destruction of the human race 1970s: Henry Kissinger 1980s: Mikhail Gorbachev/Deng Xiaoping 1990s: Tony Blair...just kidding! Don't shoot! The Internet, though it isn't really a person. 2000s: Osama bin Laden Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: Flying Dog on June 01, 2008, 08:00:59 PM 1900's Teddy Roosevelt
1910's Kaiser Wilhelm 1920's Calvin Coolidge 1930's Hitler 1940's Hitler 1950's Joesph Stalin 1960's Lyndon Johnson 1970's Mao 1980's Gorbechev 1990's Boris Yeltsin 2000's Osama Bin Laden Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: J. J. on June 01, 2008, 08:12:09 PM 1860's Abraham Lincoln
1870's Otto von Bismarck 1880's William Gladstone 1890's Wilhelm II 1900's Theophile Delcasse (responsible for the Anglo-French Alliance) 1910's H. H. Asquith (Prime Minister, forced Lords reform, entered WWI) 1920's Henry Ford 1930's Adolph Hitler 1940's Mohandas Ghandi 1950's Dwight Eisenhower 1960's Mao Zedong 1970's Deng Xiaoping 1980's Ronald Reagan 1990's Saddam Hussein 2000's Osama bin Ladin Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: Robespierre's Jaw on June 01, 2008, 08:37:15 PM 1900's: Orville and Wilbur Wright
1910's: Woodrow Wilson 1920's: Henry Ford 1930's: Adolf Hitler 1940's: Joseph Stalin 1950's: Nikita Khruschev 1960's: Mao Zedong 1970's: Richard Nixon 1980's: Mikael Gorbachev 1990's: Saddam Hussein 2000's: Osama Bin Laden/George W. Bush Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: 12th Doctor on June 01, 2008, 09:05:47 PM 1900's - TR
1910's - Wilhelm II 1920's - Henry Ford 1930's - Adolf Hitler 1940's - Winston Churchill 1950's - Ike Eisenhower 1960's - Lyndon Johnson 1970's - tie; Richard Nixon & Ruhollah Khomeini 1980's - tie; John Paul II & Ronald Reagan (Gorbachev was a reaction to them, not a tone setter) 1990's - tie; Saddam Hussein, Newt Gingrich, Tony Blair, Slobodan Milošević 2000's - Osama Bin Laden (though if you ask me again in a few years, I might change my mind Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: Хahar 🤔 on June 01, 2008, 09:50:15 PM 1900's - TR 1910's - Wilhelm II 1920's - Henry Ford 1930's - Adolf Hitler 1940's - Winston Churchill 1950's - Ike Eisenhower 1960's - Lyndon Johnson 1970's - tie; Richard Nixon & Ruhollah Khomeini 1980's - tie; John Paul II & Ronald Reagan (Gorbachev was a reaction to them, not a tone setter) 1990's - tie; Saddam Hussein, Newt Gingrich, Tony Blair, Slobodan Miloević 2000's - Osama Bin Laden (though if you ask me again in a few years, I might change my mind Hilariously contradictory. Not that that's a bad thing. Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: 12th Doctor on June 01, 2008, 10:18:05 PM 1900's - TR 1910's - Wilhelm II 1920's - Henry Ford 1930's - Adolf Hitler 1940's - Winston Churchill 1950's - Ike Eisenhower 1960's - Lyndon Johnson 1970's - tie; Richard Nixon & Ruhollah Khomeini 1980's - tie; John Paul II & Ronald Reagan (Gorbachev was a reaction to them, not a tone setter) 1990's - tie; Saddam Hussein, Newt Gingrich, Tony Blair, Slobodan Milošević 2000's - Osama Bin Laden (though if you ask me again in a few years, I might change my mind Hilariously contradictory. Not that that's a bad thing. Not really, Churchill defined the problem of Nazism long before others even recognized it, and he did the same thing with communism. Gorby wasn't a leader in any true sense of the word. He was picked because the people were starting to demand perestroika, he merely granted them what they wanted. When the Soviet Union was collapsing, he did everything he could to try to hold it together, and failed. He wasn't opposed to communism. He did what he did because he hoped that, by loosening the restrictions of the old order, he could preserve it, because people would naturally see what was "good" about communism and disassociate it from the "bad". He wasn't prepared to accept the notion that communism was inherently bad, which was the conclusion that most Russian people had already reached. He only gets credit for anything because he is falsely perceived as a "peaceful" figure, as opposed to Reagan, who was a "terrible warmonger". Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: Beet on June 01, 2008, 10:20:34 PM 1900's - TR 1910's - Wilhelm II 1920's - Henry Ford 1930's - Adolf Hitler 1940's - Winston Churchill 1950's - Ike Eisenhower 1960's - Lyndon Johnson 1970's - tie; Richard Nixon & Ruhollah Khomeini 1980's - tie; John Paul II & Ronald Reagan (Gorbachev was a reaction to them, not a tone setter) 1990's - tie; Saddam Hussein, Newt Gingrich, Tony Blair, Slobodan Milošević 2000's - Osama Bin Laden (though if you ask me again in a few years, I might change my mind Hilariously contradictory. Not that that's a bad thing. Not really, Churchill defined the problem of Nazism long before others even recognized it, and he did the same thing with communism. Gorby wasn't a leader in any true sense of the word. He was picked because the people were starting to demand perestroika, he merely granted them what they wanted. When the Soviet Union was collapsing, he did everything he could to try to hold it together, and failed. He wasn't opposed to communism. He did what he did because he hoped that, by loosening the restrictions of the old order, he could preserve it, because people would naturally see what was "good" about communism and disassociate it from the "bad". He wasn't prepared to accept the notion that communism was inherently bad, which was the conclusion that most Russian people had already reached. He only gets credit for anything because he is falsely perceived as a "peaceful" figure, as opposed to Reagan, who was a "terrible warmonger". Gorbachev was (in part) reacting, but he was reacting to a lot more than just Reagan. If Reagan influenced the end of the Cold War (and he probably did), it is generally recognized; but that he was standing on the shoulders of metaphorical giants is only more dimly sensed. Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: 12th Doctor on June 01, 2008, 10:22:12 PM What makes Churchill and Gorby different in their "reactiveness" is that Churchill saw what was coming, bucked the trends of the time, and successfully set a new course for history. Gorby was put in place because of what had already happened, reacted to the trends of history, and unsuccessfully tried to hold back progress.
Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: Хahar 🤔 on June 01, 2008, 10:24:56 PM 1900's - TR 1910's - Wilhelm II 1920's - Henry Ford 1930's - Adolf Hitler 1940's - Winston Churchill 1950's - Ike Eisenhower 1960's - Lyndon Johnson 1970's - tie; Richard Nixon & Ruhollah Khomeini 1980's - tie; John Paul II & Ronald Reagan (Gorbachev was a reaction to them, not a tone setter) 1990's - tie; Saddam Hussein, Newt Gingrich, Tony Blair, Slobodan Milošević 2000's - Osama Bin Laden (though if you ask me again in a few years, I might change my mind Hilariously contradictory. Not that that's a bad thing. Not really, Churchill defined the problem of Nazism long before others even recognized it, and he did the same thing with communism. Gorby wasn't a leader in any true sense of the word. He was picked because the people were starting to demand perestroika, he merely granted them what they wanted. When the Soviet Union was collapsing, he did everything he could to try to hold it together, and failed. He wasn't opposed to communism. He did what he did because he hoped that, by loosening the restrictions of the old order, he could preserve it, because people would naturally see what was "good" about communism and disassociate it from the "bad". He wasn't prepared to accept the notion that communism was inherently bad, which was the conclusion that most Russian people had already reached. He only gets credit for anything because he is falsely perceived as a "peaceful" figure, as opposed to Reagan, who was a "terrible warmonger". But Chirchill would never have been anyone important (and I mean on a world scale) without Chamberlain and Hitler. I agree that a change was inevitable after Brezhnev and Andropov and Chernenko (the whole process has reminded me of a papal conclave), but Gorbachev was an important figure in his own right. Imagine if Volodymyr Schcherbytsky had been elevated. Things would have turned out very differently. And I bear too great an affinity for Gorbachevism for you to badmouth his work. ;) Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: 12th Doctor on June 01, 2008, 10:48:20 PM 1900's - TR 1910's - Wilhelm II 1920's - Henry Ford 1930's - Adolf Hitler 1940's - Winston Churchill 1950's - Ike Eisenhower 1960's - Lyndon Johnson 1970's - tie; Richard Nixon & Ruhollah Khomeini 1980's - tie; John Paul II & Ronald Reagan (Gorbachev was a reaction to them, not a tone setter) 1990's - tie; Saddam Hussein, Newt Gingrich, Tony Blair, Slobodan Milošević 2000's - Osama Bin Laden (though if you ask me again in a few years, I might change my mind Hilariously contradictory. Not that that's a bad thing. Not really, Churchill defined the problem of Nazism long before others even recognized it, and he did the same thing with communism. Gorby wasn't a leader in any true sense of the word. He was picked because the people were starting to demand perestroika, he merely granted them what they wanted. When the Soviet Union was collapsing, he did everything he could to try to hold it together, and failed. He wasn't opposed to communism. He did what he did because he hoped that, by loosening the restrictions of the old order, he could preserve it, because people would naturally see what was "good" about communism and disassociate it from the "bad". He wasn't prepared to accept the notion that communism was inherently bad, which was the conclusion that most Russian people had already reached. He only gets credit for anything because he is falsely perceived as a "peaceful" figure, as opposed to Reagan, who was a "terrible warmonger". But Chirchill would never have been anyone important (and I mean on a world scale) without Chamberlain and Hitler. I agree that a change was inevitable after Brezhnev and Andropov and Chernenko (the whole process has reminded me of a papal conclave), but Gorbachev was an important figure in his own right. Imagine if Volodymyr Schcherbytsky had been elevated. Things would have turned out very differently. And I bear too great an affinity for Gorbachevism for you to badmouth his work. ;) What does it matter that Churchill needed Hitler? Everyone needs somebody to be somebody. The real question is who set the course, and whose vision survived. Gorbachev's vision didn't last beyond 1991. Winston Churchill's vision lived on... through Reagan... and beyond. To prove my point, I invite you to watch this. It's part of Schama's A History of Britain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ0O8NAVzTo Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: Lief 🗽 on June 01, 2008, 11:33:26 PM 1900's: Theodore Roosevelt
1910's: Woodrow Wilson/Kaiser Wilhelm II (tie) 1920's: Eh... the 20s were boring. Coolidge, I suppose, those he's really just representative of them. 1930's: Franklin D. Roosevelt/Adolf Hitler (tie) 1940's: Winston Churchill 1950's: Nikita Khrushchev 1960's: Martin Luther King Jr. 1970's: Richard Nixon 1980's: Ronald Reagan/Mikhail Gorbachev (tie) 1990's: This is difficult... the computer or the internet or something, if that's allowed 2000's: George W. Bush 7 Presidents. Interesting. Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: Хahar 🤔 on June 01, 2008, 11:52:13 PM 1900's: Theodore Roosevelt 1910's: Woodrow Wilson/Kaiser Wilhelm II (tie) 1920's: Eh... the 20s were boring. Coolidge, I suppose, those he's really just representative of them. 1930's: Franklin D. Roosevelt/Adolf Hitler (tie) 1940's: Winston Churchill 1950's: Nikita Khrushchev 1960's: Martin Luther King Jr. 1970's: Richard Nixon 1980's: Ronald Reagan/Mikhail Gorbachev (tie) 1990's: This is difficult... the computer or the internet or something, if that's allowed 2000's: George W. Bush 7 Presidents. Interesting. Shows a lot about you: namely, Amerocentrism. I note that Poincaré is the only one of my choices that has not been also used by someone else. Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: The Mikado on June 02, 2008, 12:15:38 AM 1900's: Theodore Roosevelt 1910's: Woodrow Wilson/Kaiser Wilhelm II (tie) 1920's: Eh... the 20s were boring. Coolidge, I suppose, those he's really just representative of them. 1930's: Franklin D. Roosevelt/Adolf Hitler (tie) 1940's: Winston Churchill 1950's: Nikita Khrushchev 1960's: Martin Luther King Jr. 1970's: Richard Nixon 1980's: Ronald Reagan/Mikhail Gorbachev (tie) 1990's: This is difficult... the computer or the internet or something, if that's allowed 2000's: George W. Bush 7 Presidents. Interesting. Shows a lot about you: namely, Amerocentrism. I note that Poincaré is the only one of my choices that has not been also used by someone else. True... No one's stolen my Gavrilo Princip one yet. Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: Хahar 🤔 on June 02, 2008, 12:18:17 AM 1900's: Theodore Roosevelt 1910's: Woodrow Wilson/Kaiser Wilhelm II (tie) 1920's: Eh... the 20s were boring. Coolidge, I suppose, those he's really just representative of them. 1930's: Franklin D. Roosevelt/Adolf Hitler (tie) 1940's: Winston Churchill 1950's: Nikita Khrushchev 1960's: Martin Luther King Jr. 1970's: Richard Nixon 1980's: Ronald Reagan/Mikhail Gorbachev (tie) 1990's: This is difficult... the computer or the internet or something, if that's allowed 2000's: George W. Bush 7 Presidents. Interesting. Shows a lot about you: namely, Amerocentrism. I note that Poincaré is the only one of my choices that has not been also used by someone else. True... No one's stolen my Gavrilo Princip one yet. I was considering him, but I thought, if not him, then someone else. Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: Lief 🗽 on June 02, 2008, 12:28:43 AM 1900's: Theodore Roosevelt 1910's: Woodrow Wilson/Kaiser Wilhelm II (tie) 1920's: Eh... the 20s were boring. Coolidge, I suppose, those he's really just representative of them. 1930's: Franklin D. Roosevelt/Adolf Hitler (tie) 1940's: Winston Churchill 1950's: Nikita Khrushchev 1960's: Martin Luther King Jr. 1970's: Richard Nixon 1980's: Ronald Reagan/Mikhail Gorbachev (tie) 1990's: This is difficult... the computer or the internet or something, if that's allowed 2000's: George W. Bush 7 Presidents. Interesting. Shows a lot about you: namely, Amerocentrism. Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: Хahar 🤔 on June 02, 2008, 12:30:49 AM 1900's: Theodore Roosevelt 1910's: Woodrow Wilson/Kaiser Wilhelm II (tie) 1920's: Eh... the 20s were boring. Coolidge, I suppose, those he's really just representative of them. 1930's: Franklin D. Roosevelt/Adolf Hitler (tie) 1940's: Winston Churchill 1950's: Nikita Khrushchev 1960's: Martin Luther King Jr. 1970's: Richard Nixon 1980's: Ronald Reagan/Mikhail Gorbachev (tie) 1990's: This is difficult... the computer or the internet or something, if that's allowed 2000's: George W. Bush 7 Presidents. Interesting. Shows a lot about you: namely, Amerocentrism. But Coolidge? Over Poincaré or Kellogg or Briand or Stresemann or (Austen) Chamberlain? Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: Kaine for Senate '18 on June 02, 2008, 02:11:54 PM 7 of my 11 were Americans, and Hitler was on twice. America has been important this century.
Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: 12th Doctor on June 02, 2008, 02:41:00 PM 7 of my 11 were Americans, and Hitler was on twice. America has been important this century. AMERICA F**K YEAH!!! Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: Хahar 🤔 on June 02, 2008, 05:28:18 PM 1900s: Roosevelt 1910s: Wilhelm II 1920s: Poincaré 1930s: Roosevelt 1940s: Hitler 1950s: Eisenhower 1960s: Khrushchev 1970s: Mao 1980s: Gorbachev 1990s: Clinton 2000s: Bush 5 Americans, 2 Germans, 1 Frenchman, 2 Russians, and 1 Chinaman. Strange. Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: Verily on June 02, 2008, 08:47:26 PM 1900s Nicholas II
1910s Wilhelm II 1920s Sun Yat-sen (too many European choices of equal but lower levels of importance) 1930s Adolf Hitler 1940s Josef Stalin (mostly because I hate repeats, and Stalin has to go somewhere) 1950s Nikita Krushchev 1960s Mao Zedong 1970s Richard Nixon 1980s Mikhail Gorbachev 1990s Yitzhak Rabin 2000s George W. Bush Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: Јas on June 03, 2008, 07:34:53 AM 1900s: Wilbur Wright & Orville Wright
1910s: Albert Einstein 1920s: John Logie Baird 1930s: John Maynard Keynes 1940s: Josef Stalin & Adolf Hitler 1950s: Francis Crick & James Watson 1960s: Sergey Korolyov & Wernher von Braun 1970s: Norman Borlaug 1980s: Milton Friedman 1990s: Tim Berners-Lee 2000s: George W. Bush & Osama bin Ladin Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: JohnFKennedy on June 06, 2008, 08:04:41 AM To prove my point, I invite you to watch this. It's part of Schama's A History of Britain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ0O8NAVzTo I wouldn't really cite Schama to prop up a point on twentieth-century history, but then again I don't think I'd every really cite Schama except to argue with him. I'll give the topic some thought, the only one I am certain of at the moment is Keynes for the 1930s. Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: dead0man on June 06, 2008, 08:59:55 AM 1900's-Teddy
1910's- Georges Clemenceau 1920's-Al Capone 1930's-Hitler 1940's-Stalin 1950's-Krushchev 1960's-LBJ 1970's-Nixon 1980's-Gorbachev 1990's-Bill Gates 2000's-Osama bin Laden Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: Erc on June 06, 2008, 10:36:16 AM 1900's: T. Roosevelt
1910's: Lenin 1920's: Ataturk 1930's: Hitler 1940's: Stalin 1950's: Mao 1960's: de Gaulle 1970's: Khomeini (a bit late for the decade, but whatever) 1980's: Reagan 1990's: Bill Gates (?) 2000's: Putin Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: Tetro Kornbluth on June 09, 2008, 04:08:01 AM Roughly..
1900s: Five Way between Einstein, Freud, Marconi and the Wright Brothers. I think I was going to throw Nelson Rockefeller and Thomas Edison in as well, but he would be more 1880s-90s. Probably the toughest. 1910s: Vladimir Illich Lenin (The only one of which I'm sure of) 1920s: Henry Ford, Edward Bernays, Walter Gropius.. Another toughie. 1930s: Joseph Goebbels, John Maynard Keynes 1940s: Robert Oppenheimer 1950s: Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, Crick & Watson 1960s: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. (This is also very hard) 1970s: 1980s: Milton Friedman 1990s: Tim Berners Lee 2000s: Osama Bin Laden (Will probably change once the long lasting fashions separate from the fads and a clear historical perspective begins to emerge.) I'm stuck on the 70s (and I really don't want to pick Nixon or Kissinger, though I have no US president in there and if I was pick one it would probably be Nixon - or Wilson but Lenin is already taken.).. I'm trying to think of cultural stuff, but that was never embodied by one person (where to begin would be another problem.. the 70s was a bonzanza of cultural icons but not one 'big one') , don't know lots about the science of this period.. Other problems aswell. And yes I know I didn't pick Hitler or Stalin I must be the only one. Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: The Mikado on June 09, 2008, 02:22:13 PM Glad to see I'm not the only one sticking up for John Manyard Keynes.
Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: Orser67 on June 12, 2008, 09:15:33 AM 00's: Wilhelm II (navy buildup in this decade precipitated war in the next)
10's: Lenin (changed a country's and a continent's future) 20's: Yat-Sen (may have prevented fragmentation of China, laid groundwork for Communists) 30's: Hitler (no explanation needed) 40's: FDR (helped get America into the war, and managed the war effort well) 50's: Nehru (led India into becoming a unified non-aligned, democratic socialist country) 60's: Mao (Set China back for years with failed programs, split with USSR) 70's: Nixon (Vietnam and a lot of little things, plus weak competitors) 80's: Gorbachev (no story bigger than the attempted reform and demise of the USSR on his watch) 90's: Mandela (showed how a revolution should be done, gave freedom to millions) 00's: Bush (I can't wait for the backlash against his policies) Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: Јas on June 19, 2008, 08:04:59 AM Atlas Persons of the Decade Results
1900s (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=77496.0): Albert Einstein, Theodore Roosevelt & the Wright Brothers [33% each] 1910s (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=77498.0): Vladamir Ilich Lenin [40%] 1920s (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=77536.0): Henry Ford [33%] 1930s (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=77537.0): Adolf Hitler [61%] 1940s (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=77563.0): Josef Stalin [48%] 1950s (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=77598.0): Francis Crick & James Watson [25%] 1960s (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=77673.0): Martin Luther King Jr. [24%] 1970s (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=77688.0): Richard Nixon [37%] 1980s (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=77748.0): Mikhail Gorbachev & Ronald Reagan [38.5% each] 1990s (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=77797.0): Bill Gates [39.1%] 2000s (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=77858.0): George W. Bush [66.7%] Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: DownWithTheLeft on June 19, 2008, 09:56:09 AM With 2000s remaining, I vote for the guys who started YouTube (idk their names)
Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: Wakie on June 19, 2008, 12:34:16 PM I think to be person of the decade you really should have to do something that had dramatic impact that no one else would have been able to do. I'm always shocked to see Hitler get votes. He just happened to be the right psycho in the right place. If it hadn't been him it would have been another Nazi psychopath.
Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: Хahar 🤔 on June 19, 2008, 01:28:19 PM With 2000s remaining, I vote for the guys who started YouTube (idk their names) No nominations for that, so too bad. Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: Јas on June 23, 2008, 03:45:23 AM Atlas Persons of the Decade Results 1900s (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=77496.0): Albert Einstein, Theodore Roosevelt & the Wright Brothers [33% each] 1910s (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=77498.0): Vladamir Ilich Lenin [40%] 1920s (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=77536.0): Henry Ford [33%] 1930s (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=77537.0): Adolf Hitler [61%] 1940s (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=77563.0): Josef Stalin [48%] 1950s (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=77598.0): Francis Crick & James Watson [25%] 1960s (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=77673.0): Martin Luther King Jr. [24%] 1970s (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=77688.0): Richard Nixon [37%] 1980s (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=77748.0): Mikhail Gorbachev & Ronald Reagan [38.5% each] 1990s (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=77797.0): Bill Gates [39.1%] 2000s (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=77858.0): George W. Bush [66.7%] All done! I agree with the first half of the list more than the latter half, which seems too Amero-centric (10 Americans overall, incl. 4 Presidents) which I suppose though is to be expected here. A heavy focus on political leaders (again, I suppose to be expected here) rather than scientists, economists, philosophers or other thinkers. Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: UpcomingYouthvoter on May 26, 2011, 07:49:33 PM 1900s: Albert Einstein, Theodore Roosevelt, John D Rockefeller and Wright Brothers 1910s: Vladamir Lenin 1920s: Al Capone and Henry Ford 1930s: Adolf Hitler and FDR 1940s: Adolf Hitler, FDR, Joseph Stalin and Churchill 1950s: Francis Crick & James Watson, Joe McCarthy, Ike, Khrushchev, and Elvis 1960s: Hippies, Beatles, Apollo 11 crew( Neil Armstrong,Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin) Martin Luther King Jr. and the entire civil right movement, John F Kennedy, Lyndon B Johnson and Mao Zedong 1970s: Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Ruhollah Khomeini, Anwar Sadat, Pinochet and disco 1980s: Mikhail Gorbachev, Milton Friedman, Michael Jackson, Margaret Thacher, Deng Xiaoping and Ronald Reagan 1990s: Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, the internet and Nelson Mandela 2000s: Bush 43, Osama Bib Laden, Myspace/Facebook, Itunes and Barack Obama Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: Phony Moderate on July 20, 2011, 07:18:24 AM 1900's - Theodore Roosevelt
1910's - Vladamir Lenin 1920's - Henry Ford 1930's - Adolf Hitler 1940's - Winston Churchill 1950's - Joesph McCarthy 1960's - Martin Luther King 1970's - Richard Nixon 1980's - Mikhail Gorbachev 1990's - Nelson Mandela 2000's - George W. Bush Title: Re: Persons of the Decade. Post by: allnjhaugh on July 26, 2011, 09:22:13 PM 1900-1910: JP Morgan
1910-1920: Henry Ford 1920-1930: Albert Einstein 1930-1940: Adolf Hitler vs. FDR 1940-1950: Mao Zedong 1950-1960: Douglas MacArthur 1960-1970: JFK vs. The Beatles 1970-1980: Richard Nixon 1980-1990: Reagan/ Gorbachev 1990-2000: Tim Berners-Lee 2000-2010: George Bush vs. Steve Jobs 2010-2020: John Boehner (For the moment) This list is terrible. :P |