Who were the world's most influential people in history?

?Proud Mus

What do you think of this author who rated Muhammad (PBUH) as the top?

"MICHAEL H. HART in his recently published book on ratings of men who contributed towards the benefit and upliftment of mankind writes:


"My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular levels."
(M.H. Hart, THE 100: A RANKING OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PERSONS IN HISTORY, New York, 1978, p. 33)"

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What a coincidence.

i was reading through that book this morning...waiting to go and read more after....very interesting book.

he has plainly laid out his reasons for ranking Muhammed(PBUH).

Who has more books written about them: Napoleon or Hitler?

Gerry

I am of the mind that to this day Napoleon is out written over Hitler by a 2 to 1 margin. I am looking for opposing view points and/or quantifiable data to either prove or disprove this theory of mine.

I am hoping some good European Yahoo Answer members will weigh in on this question as well.

I will thumb no person down; though I may not thumb every person up by the way.

Have a good day!

Gerry D.
YeaOrNay: This is VERY insightful and by the statistics you provided I would think my "gutt feeling" is correct; that Napoleon still outweighs the WW I Corporal by a 2 to 1 margin. Thank you so much for the input.

Laredo: Good seeing you hear and thanks for weighing in your thoughts on this. I would tend to agree with you that there seems to be something "evil" in reading about Hitler too much; whereas Napoleon is an entirely different matter. As you know reading on the Second World War its impossible to escape the madman. VERY interesting thought I must admit.
Napoleon Bonaparte started for Moscow on June 24, 1812. Adolf Hitler started on June 22, 1941. Napoleon, whose fastest unit was the horse, reached Moscow on Sept. 14. This week, on Sept. 14, Hitler, whose fastest unit is the plane, was fighting Russian counter-attacks some 200 miles from Moscow. Napoleon stayed in Moscow for nearly six weeks, suffered cold and defeat in the frigid Russian winter, was back in Paris by Dec. 18. Later Napoleon said:

"I made a mistake in attacking Russia. I thought the whole world would be with me. Everybody turned against me. . . . One shudders when one thinks of such a mass as Russia that one cannot attack either from the side or from the rear. . . . She overflows on you if you lose; she retires into the middle of the ice banks if you win, and suddenly comes out again like the head of the Hydra. ... It is not in our province to attempt such a Herculean task, and I tried it stupidly. That I must admit."

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Last week Adolf Hitler ordered the requisitioning of all skis, ski poles and snowshoes in Germany, all furs suitable for military wear.

Here is the link to the above 22 September, 1941 TIME Magazine article: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,795479,00.html

I wished I could of awarded you both points.

All the best! Gerry D.

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WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. They have a shared catalog, which probably represents most books every written since many univeristy and large public libraries upload their collections.

Using a title search for hitler versus napoleon shows their are 32,491 books with hitler in the title and 71,100 with napoleon. There could be books on either, that don;t have the word in the title, but those would have to have almost 40k more on hitler---I can;t see that the ratio would be different at all.

if you do a subject word search. hitler has only 16650 versus 35439 for napoleon.

I'd say that there are about twice the number of books on napoleon.

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