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"There are no rules here we're trying to accomplish something." ~ Thomas A. Edison

In 1999,LIFE magazine compiled a list of the 100 people of the Millennium, ranked in order of importance:

1 Thomas Edison 1847-1931
2 Christopher Columbus 1451-1506
3 Martin Luther 1483-1546
4 Galileo 1564-1642
5 Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519
6 Isaac Newton 1642-1727
7 Ferdinand Magellan 1480-1521
8 Louis Pasteur 1822-1895
9 Charles Darwin 1809-1882
10 Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826
11 William Shakespeare 1564-1616
12 Napoléon Bonaparte 1769-1821

13 ADOLF HITLER 1889-1945
14 ZHENG HE 1371-1435
15 Henry Ford 1863-1947
16 Sigmund Freud 1856-1939
17 RICHARD ARKWRIGHT 1732-1792
18 KARL MARX 1818-1883
19 COPERNICUS 1473-1543
20 Wright Brothers
21 Albert Einstein 1879-1955
22 Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948
23 KUBLAI KHAN 1215-1294
24 James Madison 1751-1836
25 SIMON BOLIVAR 1783-1830

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Martin Luther

Thomas Jefferson

Mahatma Gandhi

James Madison