On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Steve Bennett<stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: > Meanwhile, for the autodidacts among us, the 200 core biographies list > is a pretty interesting place to start reading.
Definitely. I can relate. I mean if I said everything I've ever remembered for more than a month I learned on my own time, it would be only a slight exaggeration. > There are quite a few entries on the list I've never heard of, but > seem to deserve their place. [[Shaka]], [[Laozi]], [[Thucydides]], > [[Margaret Sanger]] Well then, at least nobody tried to sneak Larry into it. :-) > (questionable...), [[Cai Lun]]... I should make a "book" of these > articles for the next long train trip... Steve, I might recommend to you [[The 100]] by Michael H. Hart, which is a sub-set of this "core biographies" list with few exceptions (Moses being the highest-ranked). Incidentally I wrote on this book elsewhere on the internet a few months ago (warning: BADSITE) though being blissfully unaware that WP had a similarly populated list: http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=23993&view=findpost&p=171401 —C.W. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l