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The poll resulted in nominees including Guy Fawkes, who was executed because of his role in the plot to blow up the Parliament of England; Oliver Cromwell, who created a republican British state (the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland); Richard III, suspected of murdering his nephews; James Connolly, an Irish nationalist and socialist who was executed by the Crown due to his part ...
The BBC television programme The Daily Politics asked viewers in 2007 to select their favourite prime minister out of a list of ten who served between 1945 and 2007 (excluding Churchill). [11] In 2008, BBC Newsnight held a poll of 27,000 people, to decide the UK's greatest and worst post-war prime minister.
The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, a 1978 book; 100 Greatest Britons, a BBC series about historical figures from the United Kingdom; Great South Africans, a South African TV series to determine the "100 Greatest South Africans" Time 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the American world
The Greatest Story Ever Told: Nominated Shared with Richard Day, William Creber, Ray Moyer, Fred M. Maclean, and Norman Rockett. John Box Terence Marsh: Doctor Zhivago: Won Shared with Dario Simoni. 1966 John Sturtevant: The Sand Pebbles: Nominated Shared with Boris Leven, Walter M. Scott, and William Kiernan. 1967 Elven Webb The Taming of the ...
100 greatest may refer to: 100 Greatest, a Channel 4 TV strand in the United Kingdom; 100 Greatest African Americans, a biographical dictionary; 100 Greatest Artists of Rock & Roll, a television special that aired on VH1 in 1998; 100 Greatest of All Time, a TV series ranking the greatest tennis players; 100 Greatest Britons, a BBC TV programme
This is list of the programmes or the copycat versions of the programme 100 Greatest Britons. 100 Worst Britons and Os Piores Portugueses are parodies of the show. Pages in category "Greatest Nationals"
The whole format of the show is made up of three parts. The first part consisted of a voting procedure, which began on 16 April 2008 and lasted until 7 May 2008, in order to choose the 100 predominant personalities. The second part launched with a couple of two-hour-long episodes, which presented the top 100 and revealed the 10 nominees.
He was voted the 92 nd greatest Briton in the 2002 poll of 100 Greatest Britons. Edward was born at the Palace of Westminster on the evening of 17 June 1239. He was an older brother of Beatrice of England, Margaret of England and Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster. He was named after Edward the Confessor.