On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Steve Bennett<stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Meanwhile, for the autodidacts among us, the 200 core
biographies list
is a pretty interesting place to start reading.
Definitely. I can relate. I mean if I said everything I've ever
remembered for more than a month I learned on my own time, it would be
only a slight exaggeration.
There are quite a few entries on the list I've
never heard of, but
seem to deserve their place. [[Shaka]], [[Laozi]], [[Thucydides]],
[[Margaret Sanger]]
Well then, at least nobody tried to sneak Larry into it. :-)
(questionable...), [[Cai Lun]]... I should make a
"book" of these
articles for the next long train trip...
Steve, I might recommend to you [[The 100]] by Michael H. Hart, which
is a sub-set of this "core biographies" list with few exceptions
(Moses being the highest-ranked).
Incidentally I wrote on this book elsewhere on the internet a few
months ago (warning: BADSITE) though being blissfully unaware that WP
had a similarly populated list:
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=23993&view=findpost&…
—C.W.