A&E Biography of the Millennium Part 6, 70-63

One of my favorite programs made in 1999. Thanks A&E!

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[civwarfan]

Please watch all 25 parts. 3 hours total. Thank you.

[TheBanditKing2011]

My thoughts and "grades", continued:

#65: One of the most underrated scientists of all time. A+

#64: Had a very long and fruitful career, but he is still just an artist. A-

#63: Probably the most successful female author of all time, but does she truly deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Shakespeare and Chaucer? No.

C+

[TheBanditKing2011]

My thoughts and "grades" of each person in this part:

#70: Separated church and state, and brought the church back to where it needed to be. A-

#69: Good to see Harvey get some recognition for bringing medicine out of the dark ages. A+

#68: A true genius, and America's true renaissance man. A+

#67: Television has, for better or worse, changed the world. Blame Zworykin. :-D A+

#66: True, he was a cinematic visionary, but he was also a racist. Seriously...just watch "Birth of a Nation". B

[WillShakespeare2007]

I think people are taking position on the list too much to heart. You can not just say oh art is less important than medicine and put all of the artists at the start. It is who had most influence in the particular fields I think. Although it is rather self serving of them to pick an American Citizen for television rather than the non American inventor or television.

[Nonamearisto]

The only reason many of the women are on the list (princess Di, Jane Austen, probably Florence Nightingale) was to pad it out so that about 10 or 15 women could join the men on the list, for reasons of political correctness. Not that it demeans or lessens the importance of the few genuinely important women, though, such as Queen Elizabeth.

[ThePolkadotbikini]

@sbnewman hey, up there you got me all wrong. mandala was a great man and martyr for the cause, but picasso was around longer and influenced more people. you cant even look at one of his paintings and wonder, huh? he wasnt on the cutting edge, he was a forefather of the movement. and no we cant live a life worth living without art because art is so many things. we cant have humanity without it either.

[sbnewman]

@ThePolkadotbikini ... right.. because being on the cutting edge of art and sculpture is much more significant than changing the future of an entire nation and bringing apartheid to an end. you can have your art, I'll take humanity. people can live without art.

[ThePolkadotbikini]

@sbnewman easy. he was more influential.

[Animainiac85]

@skosurf I'd like to know myself.

Almost sounds like Satie.

[ExodusPessoa]

You can thank or blame Vladimir Zworykin lol lol lol.

[ExodusPessoa]

Benjamin Franklyn was the true Renaissance Man In todays day and age that word is used too much.