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Thomas Paine
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Gen. George Marshall
Abraham Lincoln

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George Washington -- if for no other reason that turning down the crown when his men offered to make him King..

John Marshall -- for his decision in Marberry v. Madison, declaring the Supreme Court to be the final arbiter of what the Constitution means.

Ben Franklin -- for talking the French into intervening in the Revolution; for his many inventions; for his rags to riches rise.

Mark Twain -- his writing crystalized the American way of thinking -- individualistic, anti-government, gloriously unsophisticated.

Dr. Martin Luther King -- led the modern push for not only equality but non-violence. The ideas of his Southern Christian Leadership Conference, were seized upon by Latinos, by women, by oldster, by gays, etc., in their own demands for equality.

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Thomas Jefferson
Frederick Douglass
Susan B. Anthony
Betty Friedan
Martin Luther King Jr.

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Hmm... yes... was fourty-three when he moved to the colonies...

He's about as American as blitzkreig.

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My list is electricity-heavy.

The Wright Brothers
Edison
Tesla
Fermi
Franklin

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Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Edison
Gen. George Marshall
Duke Elllington


Dissident:
Edison's company became General Electric. Perhaps you have heard of them?

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I have only one vote, everyone else pales in comparison:

Norman Borlaug

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My list is electricity-heavy.

The Wright Brothers
Edison
Tesla
Fermi
Franklin


Then why don't you have Westinghouse

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Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Edison
Gen. George Marshall
Duke Elllington


Dissident:
Edison's company became General Electric. Perhaps you have heard of them?


bah! Westinghouse had better equipment.

edit: I deleted that last bit as that might be classified information.

And GE only came into prominence after they ditched Edison's silly DC plans.

Yes I'm biased as Westinghouse did manufacture most of the equipment on the Enterprise. Granted that ship was a piece of ****. But that's to be expected for a prototype design. They really didn't know how to designe a reactor for a carrier. So our reactors were only slightly larger than S5W reactos times 8 of them.

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Abe Lincoln
MLK Jr.
Thomas Edison
Andrew WK
Mr. T

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Abe Lincoln
Bob Dylan (many don't understand his cultural impact)
Ben Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
MLK Jr

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Bob Dylan had no impact. He didn't impact me or the music I listen to at all.

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Bob Dylan had no impact. He didn't impact me or the music I listen to at all.


That's a great big lump of bullsh*t, if you listen to music he impacted it

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britney spears
chirstina aqualiara (or how ever you spell it)
Jennifer Lopez
Beyonce Knowles
Jessica Simpson

and the answer to your question is: yes i havent seen a real life girl in a long time

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Well while we're at it don't forget Gatling. I think that Maxim was an American too, wasn't he?


Maxim was an American citizen, though IIRC he was of Polish extraction and was born in Russia.

Whatever happens we have got,
the Maxim gun, and they have not.

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George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ronald Reagan
and The Enterprise

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at the ignorant fools who had Reagan on thier lists.


Ben Franklin - greatest scientist of the 1700's, great diplomat

Thomas Jefferson - Declaration of Independence, great scholor, Lousiana Purchase

MLK Jr. - civil rights, nonviolent protest

Abraham Lincoln - led country through darkest hour, whupped southern ass

FDR- New Deal, WW2, longest presidency, all while being a paraplegic

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My list is electricity-heavy.

The Wright Brothers
Edison
Tesla
Fermi
Franklin


Then why don't you have Westinghouse


I do, dufus. Tesla's company was Westinghouse.

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Kato Kaelin
Jerry Springer
Judge Judy
Verne Troyer (Mini Me!)
Eric Estrada

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Pols:

John Adams
James Madison
Harry Truman
Hubert Humphrey
Henry Clay


Others:
Herman Melville
Eli Whitney
Chester Nimitz
Walt Whitman
Jackson Pollack

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Michael Jackson
Rodney King
Drew Carrey
Angelina Jolie
Mel Gibson

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-Homer Simpson
-Eric Cartman
-Charles Manson
-Mr.T
-Jared from Subway.

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- Jim Morrison
- Jimi Hendrix
- Janis Joplin
- Jurt Kobain
- Jrank Black

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FDR
Thomas Jefferson
Ben Franklin
Thomas Edison
Homer Simpson

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Lincoln
Jefferson
MLK
Ben Franklin
Eugene Debbs

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Benjamin Franklin
Enrico Fermi
Richard P. Feynman
Homer Simpson
Albert Einstein

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Then why don't you have Westinghouse

I do, dufus. Tesla's company was Westinghouse.


he was an actual person as well who created the air brake and shocks for automobiles. And as I said before, responsible for creating rotary steam turbines for civilian and naval use. (Parsans is credited with the patent though).

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this list has gone to hell. All modern day celebrities and fictional characters should be disqualified.

 
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