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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 13.2387  Monday, 9 December 2002

From:           Al Magary <al@magary.com>
Date:           Fri, 6 Dec 2002 23:56:42 -0800
Subject:        Sorry Will, and Liz too, but Winnie and Di Top You

[Editor's Note: This is a once only message. I will not post responses
to it. –Hardy]

Here are the results of the BBC's "Great Britons" poll:

1.  Churchill           456,498 (28.1%)
2.  Brunel               398,526 (24.6%)
3.  Diana                 225,584 (13.9%)
4.  Darwin               112,496 (6.9%)
5.  Shakespeare      109,919 (6.8%)
6.  Newton              84,628 (5.2%)
7.  Elizabeth I         71,928 (4.4%)
8.  Lennon              68,445 (4.2%)
9.  Nelson                49,171 (3%)
10. Cromwell           45,053 (2.8%)

Long URLs follow; you may have to cut and paste them.  Otherwise just go
to http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ and find your way.

Program page:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/greatbritons/index_final.shtml

Shakespeare page:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/greatbritons/gb_shakespeare_william.shtml

His fans sound off at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/greatbritons/gb_shakespeare_william_messages.shtml

Fascinating Fact & Startling Statistic:  "Shakespeare invented 1700
words. Bandit, blanked, eyeball, elbow, laughable, lonely, madcap,
moonbeam--all these simple words we take for granted were actually
Shakespeare's inventions."

Al Magary

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