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| + | ''[[The Great Global Warming Swindle]]'' (2007) asserts that the view that [[global warming]] is [[man-made]] was promoted by the British [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]] as a means of promoting [[nuclear power]] and reducing the impact of strike action in the state-owned coal industry by the [[National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain)|National Union of Mineworkers]]. | ||
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| + | "If it was true that [[Margaret Thatcher]] carried about with her for a time a copy of Hayek’s magnum opus, ''[[The Constitution of Liberty]]'' (1960), she cannot have read its postscript, “[[Why I Am Not a Conservative |Why I am not a Conservative]]”, in which Hayek explains that he rejects conservatism because it lacks a vision of human progress. A case can be made that Thatcher was no conservative, either – at least if being conservative includes an aversion to policies that impose deep changes on inherited social institutions. But this is a view that goes only so far. Unlike Hayek, Thatcher understood and accepted the political limits of market economics." --[[John Gray (philosopher)|John Gray]], [http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/07/john-gray-friedrich-hayek-i-knew-and-what-he-got-right-and-wrong "The Friedrich Hayek I knew, and what he got right - and wrong"] (30 July 2015) | ||
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| - | ''[[Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante]]'' is a painting by [[Dai Dudu]], [[Li Tiezi]], and [[Zhang An]] depicting 103 [[cultural icon]]s. It was released without credits on the internet in [[2006]] as a kind of [[literary mystification]] and became an [[internet phenomenon]] in early [[2009]]. | ||
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| - | 51. [[Michael Angelo]] | ||
| - | 52. [[Hideki Tojo]] or [[Hiro Hito]] | ||
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| - | 54. [[Dwight Eisenhower]] or [[John Calvin Coolidge]] | ||
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| - | 56. [[Claude Monet]] | ||
| - | 57. [[Mahatma Ghandi]] | ||
| - | 58. [[Vincent Van Gogh]] | ||
| - | 59. [[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]] | ||
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| - | 70. [[Steven Spielberg]] | ||
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| - | 72. [[Karl Marx]] | ||
| - | 73. [[Leonardo Da Vinci]] | ||
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| - | 78. [[Deng Xiaoping]] | ||
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| - | 80. [[Theodore Roosevelt]] or [[George Custer]] or [[Maxim Gorky]] or [[Philippe Pétain]] | ||
| - | 81. [[Saddam Hussein]] | ||
| - | 82. [[Benito Mussolini]] | ||
| - | 83. [[Adolf Hitler]] | ||
| - | 84. [[Guan Yu]] | ||
| - | 85. [[Pele]] | ||
| - | 86. [[Bill Gates]] | ||
| - | 87. [[Audrey Hepburn]] | ||
| - | 88. [[Ludwig Van Beethoven]] or [[Chopin]] | ||
| - | 89. [[Charlie Chaplin]] | ||
| - | 90. [[Henry Ford]] | ||
| - | 91. [[Lei Feng]] | ||
| - | 92. [[Victor Babes]] or [[Norman Bethun]] | ||
| - | 93. [[Mike Tyson]] | ||
| - | 94. [[Sigmund Freud]] | ||
| - | 95. [[Erich Honecker]] | ||
| - | 96. [[Vladimir Putin]] | ||
| - | 97. [[Charles Dodgson]] (aka [[Lewis Caroll]]) | ||
| - | 98. [[Shirley Temple]] | ||
| - | 99. [[Chang Kai Chek]] | ||
| - | 100. [[Leo Tolstoy]] | ||
| - | 101. [[Albert Einstein]] | ||
| - | 102. [[Ernest Hemingway]] | ||
| - | 103. [[Franklin Roosevelt]] | ||
| - | 104. Woman from photograph by [[Cartier Bresson]] or [[Mother Teresa]] | ||
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| + | '''Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher''' (née '''Roberts''' (13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013), was a British politician, the longest-serving (1979–1990) [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] of the 20th century, and the only woman to have held the post. A [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] journalist called her the "[[Iron Lady]]", a nickname which became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As Prime Minister, she implemented Conservative policies that have come to be known as [[Thatcherism]]. | ||
| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | *[[The Age of Extremes]] | ||
| + | *[[There is no alternative]] | ||
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The Great Global Warming Swindle (2007) asserts that the view that global warming is man-made was promoted by the British Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as a means of promoting nuclear power and reducing the impact of strike action in the state-owned coal industry by the National Union of Mineworkers. "If it was true that Margaret Thatcher carried about with her for a time a copy of Hayek’s magnum opus, The Constitution of Liberty (1960), she cannot have read its postscript, “Why I am not a Conservative”, in which Hayek explains that he rejects conservatism because it lacks a vision of human progress. A case can be made that Thatcher was no conservative, either – at least if being conservative includes an aversion to policies that impose deep changes on inherited social institutions. But this is a view that goes only so far. Unlike Hayek, Thatcher understood and accepted the political limits of market economics." --John Gray, "The Friedrich Hayek I knew, and what he got right - and wrong" (30 July 2015) |
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (née Roberts (13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013), was a British politician, the longest-serving (1979–1990) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of the 20th century, and the only woman to have held the post. A Soviet journalist called her the "Iron Lady", a nickname which became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As Prime Minister, she implemented Conservative policies that have come to be known as Thatcherism.
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