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Originally Posted by theking
Name some of those great people please...and why would they have been lost?
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srsly???
http://www.angelfire.com/stars4/lists/dropouts.html
http://www.education-reform.net/dropouts.htm (names taken from first link)
some stats from first link:
Total Names: 756
Billionaires: 25
Millionaires: uncounted
U.S. Presidents: 8
Astronauts: 1 (Valentina Tereshkova)
Nobel Prize Winners: 10 (6 Literature, 2 Peace, 1 Physics, 1 Chemistry)
Olympic Medal Winners: 8 (7 Gold Medalists, one Silver Medalist)
Oscar Winners: 63
Oscar Nominees: 105 (includes above)
Other Award Winners: uncounted
Best-Selling Authors: 55
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients (U.S.'s highest civilian honor): 14
Congressional Gold Medal recipients (U.S.): 12
United Nations Goodwill Ambassadors: 2 (Roger Moore, Angelina Jolie)
Knighthoods: 28
Damehoods: 3
few names for those too lazy to click....
Albert Einstein, John D. Rockefeller Sr, Henry Ford, Walt Disney, Dave Thomas (Wendys) "Colonel" Harlan Sanders (KFC) Thomas Edison.
and the list goes on and on
-Loki-