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Old 27-12-2006, 06:56 PM #1
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Today the Tories release 'key Britons' list:-

1. Saint Columba (521-597) - Christianity in Britain
2. Alfred the Great (849-899) - The Kingdom of England
3. Henry II (1133-1189) - The common law
4. Simon de Montfort (1208-1265) - Parliament
5. James IV of Scotland (1473-1517) - The Kingdom of Scotland
6. Thomas Gresham (1519-1579) - The stock market
7. Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) - The British Army
8. Isaac Newton (1643-1727) - The Royal Society
9. Robert Clive (1725-1774) - The British Empire
10. Sir Robert Peel (1778-1850) - The police
11. Millicent Fawcett (1847-1929) - Universal suffrage
12. Nye Bevan (1897-1960) - The National Health Service

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Who would be in your top 12 Briton list of modern times or of all time?
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Here's some off the top-of-my head, mostly...

Charles Darwin
Shakespeare

John Logie Baird (for TV)
Alan Turing (computer scientist)

James Watt
Michael Faraday
Peter Sellers

Tim Berners-Lee I guess also for web hypertext which makes sites like this possible.

Most of them are scientists but I think their discoveries are more difficult to come up with.
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No Katie Price then?
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Frank Whittle (inventor of jet engine)
Robert and George Stephenson(Locomotive engine)
Joseph Swan Electric light)
Henry Besimer (blast furnace inventor)

I will add more later
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inventor of the boob
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Speaking of which have you heard the Peter Andre / Jordan song with the allegedly original Jordan vocal - before they altered it? Allegedly.

Possibly fake but still funny - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGbMZ...elated&search=
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Speaking of which have you heard the Peter Andre / Jordan song with the allegedly original Jordan vocal - before they altered it? Allegedly.

Possibly fake but still funny - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGbMZ...elated&search=
Ohh thats classic!!!!! I'd take a bet it is her!!!!
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sounded like her to me
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It does a bit scooby.

I'm waiting for someone to put Leona in their top 12 modern day Britons.... lol
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1. William Caxton (Brought Printing Press to UK)
2. William Tyndale (Transmission to English Bible)
3. Oliver Cromwell (British Army)
4. Simon De Montfort (Parliament)
5. John Logie Baird (TV)
6. James Watt (Watts)
7. Shakespeare (For inventing many words and phrases used today)
8. Frank Whittle
9. Florence Nightingale (Crimean War health effort)


Can't think of anymore
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1. Leona Lewis

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Well I'm not actually British so I have no idea about people who actual did proper stuff so I'll go with

1.Take That/Samuel and Chantelle Preston

Good choice Chris!
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Princess Diana
She was an amazing person
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Why are there only men on that list
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yes forgot about princess diana
what about the queen ?
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Yes, as said before, Princess Diana should be there
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Speaking of which have you heard the Peter Andre / Jordan song with the allegedly original Jordan vocal - before they altered it? Allegedly.

Possibly fake but still funny - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGbMZ...elated&search=
Ohh thats classic!!!!! I'd take a bet it is her!!!!
Ill wager it is her.
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Why are there only men on that list
Most of it is 19th century and before, and during that time women had no place in society.
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