Up early the day after New Years Day.
One of my (old fashioned??) pet hates is the Americanisation of our New Zealand (not British) English. We now seem to say New Years with an 's' in a situation where we never used to.
But ce'st la vie!
Watched the History Channel the other night which gave a listing of the top 100 people of the millenium. I have probably seen it before, but as we all know free to air TV around this holiday time is terrible. Naturally I didn't agree with all the placings, the top 20 of which are listed below. I thought Martin Luther, Columbus and Gandhi were overated but when thought through, Gutengberg was a good choice over my favourite Newton. Also it seemed a bit Euro/Amero-centric. In the top 100 list Princess Diana rated 73, above such as Jonas Salk (97) !! So as it got towards the end it slowly became less reliable - IMHO.
Johann Gutenberg
Isaac Newton
Martin Luther
Charles Darwin
William Shakespeare
Christopher Columbus
Karl Marx
Albert Einstein
Nicolaus Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
Leonardo Da Vinci
Sigmund Freud
Louis Pasteur
Thomas Edison
Thomas Jefferson
Adolf Hitler
Mahatma Gandhi
John Locke
Michelangelo
Adam Smith
Only 44 days to Super 14.
One of my (old fashioned??) pet hates is the Americanisation of our New Zealand (not British) English. We now seem to say New Years with an 's' in a situation where we never used to.
But ce'st la vie!
Watched the History Channel the other night which gave a listing of the top 100 people of the millenium. I have probably seen it before, but as we all know free to air TV around this holiday time is terrible. Naturally I didn't agree with all the placings, the top 20 of which are listed below. I thought Martin Luther, Columbus and Gandhi were overated but when thought through, Gutengberg was a good choice over my favourite Newton. Also it seemed a bit Euro/Amero-centric. In the top 100 list Princess Diana rated 73, above such as Jonas Salk (97) !! So as it got towards the end it slowly became less reliable - IMHO.
Johann Gutenberg
Isaac Newton
Martin Luther
Charles Darwin
William Shakespeare
Christopher Columbus
Karl Marx
Albert Einstein
Nicolaus Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
Leonardo Da Vinci
Sigmund Freud
Louis Pasteur
Thomas Edison
Thomas Jefferson
Adolf Hitler
Mahatma Gandhi
John Locke
Michelangelo
Adam Smith
Only 44 days to Super 14. 
