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Old 09-28-10, 01:08 PM   #5
Torvald Von Mansee
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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat View Post
here is my list.

17 political leaders who had the most significant impact, good or bad, in the age they lived in:

Mao
Stalin
Hitler
Napoleon
Frederick the Great
Peter the Great
Louis XIV
Akbar the Great
Charles V
Tamerlane
Genghis Khan
Charlemagne
Muhammad
Justinian I
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus
Alexander the Great
Ramses II the Great

yes, not one american, but it is hard to pick out of 40 centuries of recorded human history.
I thought about including Tamerlane on my list, but limited myself to 15. And what I could rattle off my head.

Personally, I think Thutmose III was a better Pharoah than Ramses II.

Indeed, he's laughing at you!!

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