In your opinion: who have been worlwide the most popular famous people in human history?
so famous politicians, thinkers, artists (incl. writers, musicians and actors/actresses)
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Great people - Leonardo Da Vinci, Wolfgang Mozart, Verdi, Beethoven, Madam Curie, Alan Turing, Chanakya, King Vikramaditya, Buddha, Churchill, Alexander the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, President Nelson Mandela,
Mother Teresa, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, Madhubala, Kishore Kumar, Aretha Franklin, Lata Mangeshkar, Einstein, Tesla, Newton, Galileo Galilei, Christopher Columbus, Van Gogh, Charles de Gaulle, Zellenskyy, Kennedy, President Carter, David Attenborough, Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Bob Hunter.
Mother Teresa, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, Madhubala, Kishore Kumar, Aretha Franklin, Lata Mangeshkar, Einstein, Tesla, Newton, Galileo Galilei, Christopher Columbus, Van Gogh, Charles de Gaulle, Zellenskyy, Kennedy, President Carter, David Attenborough, Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Bob Hunter.
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-Stanislav Petrov:
On Sept. 26, 1983, real-life Russian hero Stanislav Petrov singlehandedly prevented a worldwide nuclear war when he followed his gut and chose to ignore a missile alarm. He knew that the alarm systems were in their early stages and personally believed the warning to be false – though he later recalled that there was actually a 50-50 chance that they weren’t. Instead of reporting the missile attacks, Petrov turned the alarm off and told his supervisor that there had been a system malfunction.
Norman Borlaug:
In the early 20th century, the planet experienced a serious decline in agricultural production — and if things didn’t change, widespread famine would be the result with developing countries bearing the brunt of the damage. Within a few years of graduating, Borlaug had created a disease-resistant strain of wheat that yielded more plants and grew heartier than any other before. Better yet, when combined with modern agricultural techniques, the new strain could grow in developing nations.
*(Posthumous Award)
Henrietta Lacks:
In 1951, a poor black mother of five named Henrietta Lacks saved the world without even knowing it.
Lacks had visited Johns Hopkins Hospital for a checkup after noticing a lump near her cervix. Her doctor took a biopsy and regretfully informed Lacks that she had cervical cancer — the lump was a tumor. Treatment in the 50s was nowhere near what it is today and Lacks’s options were limited.
As Lacks’s condition worsened, her doctor noticed a strange thing while he was studying her tissue sample. The cells in the samples he had collected from other patients died off so quickly he was unable to study them but Lacks’s cells continued to multiply at an incredible rate.
Unfortunately, this abnormality also meant that the cancer cells were multiplying faster than the treatment could kill them. Seven months after seeking help at Johns Hopkins, Henrietta Lacks died.
Yet Henrietta Lacks’s cells lived on. To the shock of all the doctors at Johns Hopkins, Lacks’s cells seemed impossible to kill and were growing at an unprecedented rate.
The doctors sent samples to medical professionals all over the country, eager to get their input and see what the cells could do for them. One of those professionals was Jonas Salk and he used Lacks’s cells to create the polio vaccine.
With Henrietta Lacks’s cells, dozens of medical breakthroughs were made possible. Among them were the HPV and polio vaccines, an early-stage Zika virus vaccine, the Human Genome Project (which created a fine-tuned map of the human genome), discoveries about cell aging, and the creation of the field of virology.
In conclusion. I will never in my life, compare famous people (who matter), with rock stars, sports stars, actors and associated ne'er-do-well off shoots of those mediums. The aforementioned on my list will clearly illustrate that.
My hope is that, Depp/Heard will be that wake up call that clearly shows that the whole genre is nothing but an illusion, and that what lies behind it is so very tainted.....
And be aware.....if you really want to get down in the dirt and discuss real life people in human history down through the ages who matter, they will have received little, if any, notoriety, they'll certainly not be a household name. Perhaps it's better that way.
Rock on.
Freeranger
On Sept. 26, 1983, real-life Russian hero Stanislav Petrov singlehandedly prevented a worldwide nuclear war when he followed his gut and chose to ignore a missile alarm. He knew that the alarm systems were in their early stages and personally believed the warning to be false – though he later recalled that there was actually a 50-50 chance that they weren’t. Instead of reporting the missile attacks, Petrov turned the alarm off and told his supervisor that there had been a system malfunction.
Norman Borlaug:
In the early 20th century, the planet experienced a serious decline in agricultural production — and if things didn’t change, widespread famine would be the result with developing countries bearing the brunt of the damage. Within a few years of graduating, Borlaug had created a disease-resistant strain of wheat that yielded more plants and grew heartier than any other before. Better yet, when combined with modern agricultural techniques, the new strain could grow in developing nations.
*(Posthumous Award)
Henrietta Lacks:
In 1951, a poor black mother of five named Henrietta Lacks saved the world without even knowing it.
Lacks had visited Johns Hopkins Hospital for a checkup after noticing a lump near her cervix. Her doctor took a biopsy and regretfully informed Lacks that she had cervical cancer — the lump was a tumor. Treatment in the 50s was nowhere near what it is today and Lacks’s options were limited.
As Lacks’s condition worsened, her doctor noticed a strange thing while he was studying her tissue sample. The cells in the samples he had collected from other patients died off so quickly he was unable to study them but Lacks’s cells continued to multiply at an incredible rate.
Unfortunately, this abnormality also meant that the cancer cells were multiplying faster than the treatment could kill them. Seven months after seeking help at Johns Hopkins, Henrietta Lacks died.
Yet Henrietta Lacks’s cells lived on. To the shock of all the doctors at Johns Hopkins, Lacks’s cells seemed impossible to kill and were growing at an unprecedented rate.
The doctors sent samples to medical professionals all over the country, eager to get their input and see what the cells could do for them. One of those professionals was Jonas Salk and he used Lacks’s cells to create the polio vaccine.
With Henrietta Lacks’s cells, dozens of medical breakthroughs were made possible. Among them were the HPV and polio vaccines, an early-stage Zika virus vaccine, the Human Genome Project (which created a fine-tuned map of the human genome), discoveries about cell aging, and the creation of the field of virology.
In conclusion. I will never in my life, compare famous people (who matter), with rock stars, sports stars, actors and associated ne'er-do-well off shoots of those mediums. The aforementioned on my list will clearly illustrate that.
My hope is that, Depp/Heard will be that wake up call that clearly shows that the whole genre is nothing but an illusion, and that what lies behind it is so very tainted.....
And be aware.....if you really want to get down in the dirt and discuss real life people in human history down through the ages who matter, they will have received little, if any, notoriety, they'll certainly not be a household name. Perhaps it's better that way.
Rock on.
Freeranger
