@fiedler:
I respect Bertrand Russell greatly, but his ability to misread and misunderstand Nietzsche is astounding; when the Mustache himself repeatedly put in his books time and again phrases like "the State is a poison" and "The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.”
NOT a proponent of the state-heavy facism, and, as much as Russell liked to trumpet that Nietzsche had no care for Christian love (which is an odd complaint as Russell himself was an atheist and even wrote a book called "Why I Am Not A Christian") he certainly did care about friendship, he thinks that's MORE important than love, more powerful and binding.
Tell me how that fits his Russell stereotype of merely lusting for power; while it's true that he traces everything back to the Will to Power, this isn't always meant in the "power, meaning I want to control all and destroy you!" sense, but rather the "power, namely the power to control my life and it's direction."
There are plenty of fair criticisms of Nietzsche and his work; Russell's horrendous misreading (one of the sole blips in hios otherwise-excellent "History of Wesern Philosophy") is not one of them.
Anarachist? Yes. Facist? No.
Promoted Christian/passionate love? No. Promoted uber-strong friendship? Yes.
And DAMN IT! We DID forget Louis Pasteur...we forgot a lot of folks...I hope all you math fiends are happy, now next time while you're solving math equations that would make my head explode and you catch the sniffles, don't come crying to me! :p
Hammurabi
Moses-11
Homer
Confucius
Sun Tzu
Buddha-11
Socrates-11
Plato-13
Aristotle-13
Alexander the Great-11
Archimedes
Euclid
Wu of Han
Caesar
Augustus
Jesus-11
Trajan
Mohammed
Umar
Xuanzong
Athelstan the Glorious
William the Conqueror
Richard I
Gengis Khan
Edward I
Geoffrey Chaucer
Ibn Battuta
Marco Polo
Edward III
Henry V
Tamerlane the Great
Babur
Leonardo Da Vinci-11
Michaelangelo
Copernicus
Martin Luther
Hernando Cortez
Johannes Gutenberg-11
Rene Descartes
Galileo Galilei
Elizabeth I
Shakespeare-14
Isaac Newton-11
Oliver Cromwell
Gottfried Leibniz
Thomas Savery
Leonhard Euler
William III
William Penn
Zumbi
Jonathan Swift
Rousseau
Robespierre
Adam Smith
Benjamin Franklin
Washington
John Marshall
Mozart
Napoleon Bonaparte-11
Evariste Galois
Carl Friedrich Gauss
James Clerk Maxwell
Arthur Schopenhauer
Shaka Zulu
Michael Faraday
Charles Darwin
Sitting Bull
Alexander Graham Bell
Friedrich Nietzsche-13
Sigmund Freud-11
Nikola Tesla
Robert Hutchings Goddard
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Henry Ford
Marie Curie
Mark Twain
Karl Marx-11
Fydor Dyostoevsky
Gandhi
Vladimir Lenin
Winston Churchill
Pablo Picasso
Richard Feynman
Albert Einstein-13
Alexander Fleming-11
Ernest Hemingway
Francisco Franco
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Adolph Hitler-11
Erwin Rommel
Josef Stalin
Salvador Dali
Augusto Pinochet
William Burroughs-11
Nelson Mandela
Pope John Paul II
Arthur C. Clarke
Ronald Reagan
Madonna
The rankings with the votes so far, including my own for the day:
-Shakespeare +4 (greatest writer, amybe artist ever, and who else will vote for him?)
-Plato +3 (obvious reasons)
-Nietzsche +1 (again, for me, obvious...)
-Freud +1 (ovious, and the only psychologist I sort of like or respect...)
-Moses +1 (obvious and well deserved, miracles or no, important task and leader)
The Wonderful 100: History's Greatest Persons
per day, and may vote as they please, with the maximum number of points per vote per day to a person being 9, so in outehr words, 10 
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