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From AD 1000 until now, who do you believe has had the biggest impact on history and why?

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hitler (and his minions)...they changed the face of the world. and destroyed generations of families. evil incarnate decided lives.





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I was reading something about Hitler and his interest in the occult just last night.  One of Hitler's inner circle gave a interview at Nurnberg and said that Hitler had "the most evil stare he had ever seen" he went on to say that he was sure Hitler was possessed by demons.  Interesting reading, but of course he did not explain why he followed Hitler.
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this belongs in the religious forums, where i don't participate. but i have asked all my life why he was allowed to live and prosper for any length of time.

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I would have to choose someone from the Renaisance or Enlightenment periods. I'm not completely sure who. Maybe Samuel Adams, firebrand of the American Revolution. Maybe Adam Smith, expounder of free-market capitalism.
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All right, I've settled on someone: John Locke for his contributions in philosophy that set in motion the ideals of the Enlightenment revolutions and the reevaluation of human rights that they embody.
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construct wrote: All right, I've settled on someone: John Locke for his contributions in philosophy that set in motion the ideals of the Enlightenment revolutions and the reevaluation of human rights that they embody.
Interesting choice!
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Robert Hooke

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/hooke.html

He led off the discoveries which led to

Antony Leeuwenhoek

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/leeuwenhoek.html

 

Hans and Zacharias Jansenn

http://inventorofmicroscope.com/inventor-of-microscope/dutchmen-hans-and-zacharias-jansenn-early-microscopists/

 

 

Their discoveries not only revolutionised the entire direction that medicine and health were to head --

-- but also led to a lot of added understanding in many areas of science, which led to industrial understandings

(much of industry today relies on things learned from the world, much of which was only possible with the knowledge of these two men)

 

The "ability to observe" that the




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Tough to pick a historic figure that stands above all others!

My first impulse would be Guttenberg.  On the other hand, it just might be J. C. R. Licklider, founder of the ARPAnet, which would eventually become the Internet.  He was a computer pioneer, visionary, and all-around freakin' genius.

On the other hand, if you're talking about who history will actually remember, Licklider would be way down on the list, I suppose...

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Actually, I was thinking of someone maybe from the sciences, like Jonas Salk?  Maybe someone else can come up with a different science person.

We're looking for the biggest impact so I was thinking someone who affected many, many people and I figured someone like Salk would be at least a good place to start?

Good answers so far though. 

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Karl Marx has to be in the top 10. Millions died in the name of communism via Stalin, Mao, et al.
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Here are several people I would consider contenders:

William the Conqueror
Martin Luther
Johann Guttenberg
Isaac Newton
Thomas Jefferson
Charles Darwin
Winston Churchill

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i would say that history will show...

The Bab

Baha'u'llah

Abdu'l-Baha

& Shoghi Effendi

 

were the most influencial figures of the past 1000 years.  :bigwink:

 

Big surprise huh?  :littleangel:

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