Historys Greatest Moment/Achivement - Vote now

[Invader Zim]

Moment = Falling of the Berlin Wall

Achivement = I say Duke of Wellington defeating Napoleon

YOUR VOTE PLEASE

[Valkyrie]

Acheivement: Yuri Gagarin's space orbit.

http://www.abamedia.com/rao/gallery/gagarin/

Moment: Apollo Moon Landing.

haha. I think universally.
and, Yes, that means I think it really happened


(Edited by Paris at 6:57 pm on Mar. 12, 2003)

[Uhuru na Umoja]

Achievment: Hannibal defeating the Roman at Cannae

Moment: not sure of this one yet... I may still change my mind. From a primarily 20th Century perspective (it's getting late and I'm tired so I'm having trouble considering history as a whole) I think the 'Winds of Change' speech must rank high. For the first time Britain admitted clearly to the world that the time for white/European domination had ended.

[Socialsmo o Muerte]

MOMENT : "The Arrow In The Eye" at the Battle of Hastings, 1066

ACHIEVMENT : Of course it's Gandhi's conquest.

[hawarameen]

moment: the release of nelson mandela

achievment: moon landing

[CheViveToday]

MOMENT: Conclusion of Russian Revolution.
ACHIEVMENT: A successful communist Cuba for nearly half a century.

[Non-Sectarian Bastard!]

Achievement: A succesfull communist state, Cuba
Moment: Fall of the US embassy in Saigon/ Raising the CCCP's flag on the reichstag.

[redstar2000]

Moment: The Fall of the Bastille

Achievement: The Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

:cool:

[Just Joe]

Moment - Soviets raising flag in Berlin signaling the end of the Nazis.

Achievment - mandela/gandhi/moon landing. perm one from however many. but i'm still waiting on one achievment. Tiocfaidh Ar La, AK-47 :)

(Edited by Just Joe at 2:27 am on Mar. 14, 2003)

[KRAZYKILLA]

Low Moment- Hitler september 1st 1939.
High Moment- Thomas Aquinas, Augustine, Marx, Plato, Levinas, Nietzsche.
low Acheivement- Deaths of Stephen Biko, Ernesto Guevara, Puritan Rapage/Pillage, Roman barbarism (early roots of capitalism.)
High acheivement: Adam Smith's: Capital (Yes it was capitalism; however, created an economic revolution. Not a bad man, good idea, manipulated, proven capitalism sucked, had potential. If you read it you would be shocked with today's capitalism,) defeat of Hitler, defeat of Napoleon, death of Stalin.



I cant think of anymore due to my lack of current knowledge and poor memory.

[Reuben]

Moment: The entry of Castro and his comrades into Havana.

Achievement: The warsaw Ghetto uprising .

[Moskitto]

Moment: The Fall of the Bastille

True

Achievment: Jesse Owens winning 4 golds at the 1936 olympics is pretty high on my list

although reading other peoples posts confused me about the meanings of "achievement" and "moment"

[Umoja]

Side note, whats so bad about Napolean? I've struggled to find out if he was actually good or evil.

Achievment- The finding of the Nag Hammadi writtings/ Ghana becoming independent.
Moment- Was it the '68 Olympics, when those two guys did the black power thing? (I forget their names) That picture is deep as hell.

[canikickit]

those two guys did the black power thing? (I forget their names) That picture is deep as hell.

http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~hovland/RaisedFists.html
- I haven't read that. Someone might want to.

Tommie Smith and John Carlos

http://www.augustachronicle.com/images/headlines/052098/tommie_smith.jpg

I love it.

[KRAZYKILLA]

that was a cool picture.

[death b4 dishonour]

The picture is very moving. I actually felt like finding the coach of the Olympic team today and punching him, after what he said in the article.

[Pete]

Moving act of defiance. It is a wonder I have not heard of it until now.

Achievement: Publishing of Utopia
Moment: The Fall of the Bastile, I must agree. It set the stage for modern democracy.

[Invader Zim]

I change my mind now

Achivement=Steve Redgrave 5 times olympic champion, British Cox-less 4 rowing team.

[Dirty Jersey]

achievement: how about pablo escobar going from a petty thug to a drug kingpin making a half million dollars a day. it may not be pretty but fuck thats alot of cash man.
moment: hmmmmm.......dotdotdot......im a boxing fan so i gotta say muhammed ali lighting the olympic torch in atlanta in 96.

[canikickit]

fuck thats alot of cash man

Not the greatest fans of mooney, round these parts.

[Dirty Jersey]

sorry man just my opinion. the man offered to pay his countrys entire national debt. whether youre about money or not at least recognize that he achieved quite a bit.
on a side note to umoja i think napoleon was just power hungry. he did instill alot of good things that are still in france today. so he was kind of in between good and evil i think.

[Reuben]

Quote: from AK47 on 11:01 pm on Mar. 15, 2003
I change my mind now

Achivement=Steve Redgrave 5 times olympic champion, British Cox-less 4 rowing team.


If you think that is the greatest achievement in history your obviously completely thick

[Invader Zim]

Quote: from Reuben on 6:37 am on Mar. 27, 2003

Quote: from AK47 on 11:01 pm on Mar. 15, 2003
I change my mind now

Achivement=Steve Redgrave 5 times olympic champion, British Cox-less 4 rowing team.


If you think that is the greatest achievement in history your obviously completely thick


Whats wrong with it... Can you think of a champion who has lasted more than 25 years of being the best... Quite an achivement i think. Yes i could go on about the duke of Wellington or Alexander the Great, but they were mearly better than every one they faced, they were not the best for 25 years in a sport where the younger excel and the older fade away.

But its just an opinion...

[Moskitto]

it's not really a historical achievement, more of a sporting achievment.

There was a Hungarian fencer who won 6 gold medals in a row (1928, 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952) but that wasn't an endurance event, and Brigit Fiescher won 2 golds at the 80, 88, 92, 96 and 2000 games and probably would have at 84 as well if East German hadn't refused to compete, which would have made her 2 golds, every games for 6 games.

Olympics are crap as far as minority sports go anyway, so I don't see why i care about this.

[Just Joe]

AK, are you serious?

you not only try to claim Steve Redgrave being a good rower is the greatest achievement of all time, but your back ups, are acts of imperialism?

note i am NOT trying to start another flaming contest here. but i am going to give my opinion.

(Edited by Just Joe at 10:15 pm on Mar. 27, 2003)

[Invader Zim]

Quote: from Just Joe on 10:14 pm on Mar. 27, 2003
AK, are you serious?

but your back ups, are acts of imperialism?

(Edited by Just Joe at 10:15 pm on Mar. 27, 2003)


I agree thats why they are not there and steve redgrave is.

[Anonymous]

moment: bullet passing through hitlers brain/ Vassili Zaitsef killing his first nazi in battle

achievment: every aniversary of the communist manifesto is a great achievement, it reminds me that after all this years of suffering, hatred, fear, and fights we are still here, fighting for communism...

[Conghaileach]

Moment: The British embassy in Dublin being burned to the ground on the 2nd of February 1972 - straight after Bloody Sunday.

Achievement: Every uprising against an unjust authority from the Easter Rising and October Revolution, to the Chartists and the Sandinistas and Zapatistas. All those who took a stand against what was wrong, whether they failed or succeeded.

(Edited by CiaranB at 1:40 am on Mar. 29, 2003)

[Wolfie]

Moment: Seeing US soldiers RETREATING after bieng DEFEATED in Siagon.

Acheivement: Any nation who after bloody revolution returned the soveregnty to the people.

[Anonymous]

moment: a vietnamese peasent-soldier shooting a american jact with his rifle

acheivement: the october revolution

[YerbaMateJ]

Moment: Any moment on the streets of Havana the first week of January, 1959.

Achievement: Helen Keller

[lostsoul]

moment: It always changes for me, but lately i keep watching a video of mao's speech when declaring the people's republic of china.

achievement: China's revolution, and vietnam's revolution, it seems like all the odds were against them but they still came out victorious.