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The Breakdown
Curie keeps rolling through this tournament after her second-round upset of Aristotle. Does the two-time Nobel winner have what it takes to take down the man who bought Louisiana and sent Lewis and Clark out on their famous expedition? Curie coined the word “radioactivity,” while Jefferson can claim the Earth-shattering “When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another…” that kicks off the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson may have been the greatest American president, but Curie was the first woman ever to have her ashes enshrined at Paris’ Pantheon on the strength of her own work. Both of these candidates are scholars for the ages, but which one’s the bigger genius?
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Schmoosh together Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin and you’d have my pick for number one!
posted by Karen on 4-2-2009 at 11:24 am
Karen-Throw in a nice heaping clump of Da Vinci to your schmooshed creation & I’m all with you!
posted by TC on 4-2-2009 at 2:32 pm
Go go old white men! Beat them all… At least Jefferson wasn’t a Scientist…
posted by Peedee on 4-2-2009 at 3:15 pm
Yeah…I’m all for schmooshing some DaVinci in there as well! LOL
posted by Karen on 4-3-2009 at 9:13 am
Yes, go Mr. Jefferson. He was an amateur scientist, in addition to having a dozen and more interests. Jefferson’s collection of 6000 books became the core around which the Library of Congress was built.
posted by Thomas Jefferson on 4-3-2009 at 4:42 pm