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Post by leonardo on Mar 11, 2005 19:56:16 GMT
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ruffashlar
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Post by ruffashlar on Mar 12, 2005 5:12:08 GMT
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Post by taylorsman on Mar 12, 2005 7:58:08 GMT
Well, interesting as these people may have been, I would not have chosen any of them as my Famous Victorians. The possibilities are really too wide but I would have chosen Joseph Lister, Cecil Rhodes, James Clerk Maxwell, and The Author Of Oliver Twist (this moronic censorship software won't let me put D-I-C-K-E-N-S , Lee can't you get the nonsense switched off?) for their varied and lasting contributions and as exemplars of that age but there are so many to chose that such a task is near impossible. Some would say that Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ought to be included as he so greatly influenced the eponymous Victoria. Then there were the likes of Joseph Whitworth who standarised the system of screw threads used in Engineering, and finally Keir Hardie Founder of the Labour Party, ( though I doubt he would recognise its Blairite successor). Lytton Strachey is not I have to say on my usual reading list.
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Post by ruffashlar on Mar 14, 2005 9:42:19 GMT
Indeed, I'd be quite disturbed to find him anywhere near your bedside, although not entirely surprised.
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