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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
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) saw the study of figures such as Muhammad, William Shakespeare and Oliver Cromwell as key to understanding history. Herbert Spencer (1820–1903), an early believer in evolution and in the universality of natural law, felt that historical individuals were of little importance.
The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History is a 1978 book by the American white nationalist author Michael H. Hart. Published by his father's publishing house, it was his first book and was reprinted in 1992 with revisions. It is a ranking of the 100 people who, according to Hart, most influenced human history.
Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century is a compilation of the 20th century's 100 most influential people, published in Time magazine across five issues in 1998 and 1999. The idea for such a list started on February 1, 1998, with a debate at a symposium in Hanoi , Vietnam.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister from Atlanta who became one of the most important political figures of the 20th century. What did Martin Luther King Jr. accomplish?
List of people associated with the California Gold Rush Name Image Birth, death Birthplace Profession Notes John "Grizzly" Adams: 1812–1860 Medway, Massachusetts, U.S. mountain man, trainer of grizzly bears [1] Elihu Anthony: 1818–1905 Greenfield, New York, U.S. alcalde, blacksmith, industrialist, abolitionist, postmaster, Methodist minister
Charles Babbage in 1843 and Percy Ludgate in 1909 designed the first two Analytical Engines in history. Ludgate's engine used multiplication as its basis (using his own discrete Irish logarithms ), had the first multiplier-accumulator (MAC), was first to exploit a MAC to perform division, stored numbers as displacements of rods in shuttles, and ...
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002.