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Subject: greatest american..personally, i think that we on this list should know every person listed...
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 23:25:31 -0500


greatest american..personally, i think that we on this list should
know every person listed...

and so this list would make a good listing for you to write perhaps
just one sentence for each for your very own recollections.....

Press Release Source: Discovery Channel
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050418/dcm023.html?.v=6

Top 100 Greatest Americans Unveiled Today and Featured in World
Premiere Discovery Channel Television Event
Monday April 18, 10:28 am ET
- New Primetime Seven Hour Series Begins Sunday, June 5 at 8 PM
(ET/PT) with 'Today' Show's Matt Lauer as Host -
- America Online to Offer Top 100 List and Biographical Content at
aol.com/greatestamerican and AOL(R) Keyword: Greatest American -

SILVER SPRING, Md., April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Who will be the Greatest
American? Political giant Abraham Lincoln or Bill Clinton? Sports
legend Babe Ruth or Tiger Woods? Media mogul Oprah Winfrey or Walt
Disney? These remarkable people, and many more, have been named by
America as some of the top 100 Greatest Americans.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050418/DCM023 )

After tallying more than half a million online nominations, Discovery
Channel and interactive partner America Online today unveiled the list
of the top 100 nominees. Ranging from inventors to athletes,
politicians to musicians, the list takes the pulse of the nation and
reveals the qualities we most admire. (The full list follows. The
list, nominee biographies, and additional information can be found on
aol.com/greatestamerican and Keyword: Greatest American)

Beginning Sunday, June 5 at 8 PM (ET/PT), and airing every Sunday in
June, GREATEST AMERICAN will premiere on Discovery Channel with Today
show's Matt Lauer presenting the top 100 nominees. At the end of the
premiere episode, Lauer will announce the top 25 Greatest American
nominees based on nominations held earlier this year. Viewers can then
cast votes at the AOL site listed above, via toll-free numbers or via
text messaging.

In the second episode, Matt Lauer and influentials (actors, comedians,
politicians, athletes, etc) will offer insights on the top 25 to aid
America in another round of voting that determines the top five. The
third episode pits celebrity advocates against one another, debating
the virtues of their "Greatest American." The seven-hour series
culminates in real-time election- style voting, as America selects one
person to be named the "Greatest American." The grand finale will be
televised live from New York City on Sunday, June 26, at 9 PM (ET).

Discovery Channel is partnering with America Online on this
extraordinary, interactive project to highlight Americans of
importance and the incredible contributions they made to our society.
Biographies of those on the Top 100 list are available for viewing at
aol.com/greatestamerican and Keyword: Greatest American and are
arranged alphabetically. This site will also offer "person on the
street" interviews with ordinary Americans who share their thoughts on
who the "Greatest American" is and why.

GREATEST AMERICAN is produced for Discovery Channel by NBC
Entertainment. Executive Producers for NBC are Sharon Scott and Jason
Raff. For Discovery Channel, Mark Finkelpearl is the executive
producer.

America Online, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc.
Based in Dulles, Virginia, America Online is the world's leader in
interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies and e-commerce
services.

Tide Coldwater is a proud partner of GREATEST AMERICAN.

Discovery Channel is the United States' largest cable television
network, serving 89.8 million households across the nation with the
finest in informative entertainment. Discovery Networks, U.S., a unit
of Discovery Communications, Inc., operates and manages Discovery
Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Travel Channel, Discovery Health Channel,
Discovery HD Theater, Discovery Kids Channel, Discovery Times Channel,
The Science Channel, Discovery Home Channel, Military Channel,
Discovery en Espanol and FitTV. The unit also distributes BBC AMERICA.
For more information, please log onto http://www.discovery.com.

The Top 100 Nominees
Abraham Lincoln
Albert Einstein
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Hamilton
Amelia Earhart
Andrew Carnegie
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Audie Murphy
Babe Ruth
Barack Obama
Barbara Bush
Benjamin Franklin
Bill Clinton
Bill Cosby (William Henry Cosby, Jr.)
Bill Gates
Billy Graham
Bob Hope
Brett Favre
Carl Sagan
Cesar Chavez
Charles Lindbergh
Christopher Reeve
Chuck Yeager
Clint Eastwood
Colin Powell
Condoleezza Rice
Donald Trump
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eleanor Roosevelt (Anna Eleanor Roosevelt)
Ellen DeGeneres
Elvis Presley
Frank Sinatra
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Frederick Douglass
George H. W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Lucas
George Patton
George Washington
George Washington Carver
Harriet Ross Tubman
Harry Truman
Helen Keller
Henry Ford
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Howard Hughes
Hugh Hefner
Jackie Robinson (Jack Roosevelt Robinson)
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jesse Owens
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Stewart
John Edwards
John Glenn
John F. Kennedy
John Wayne
Johnny Carson (John William Carson)
Jonas Edward Salk
Joseph Smith Jr.
Katharine Hepburn
Lance Armstrong
Laura Bush
Lucille Ball
Lyndon B. Johnson
Madonna (Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone)
Malcolm X (Malcolm Little)
Marilyn Monroe
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Martha Stewart
Martin Luther King Jr.
Maya Angelou
Mel Gibson
Michael Jackson
Michael Jordan
Michael Moore
Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.)
Neil Alden Armstrong
Nikola Tesla
Oprah Winfrey
Pat Tillman
Dr. Phil McGraw
Ray Charles
Richard Nixon
Robert Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
Rosa Parks
Rudolph W. Giuliani
Rush Limbaugh
Sam Walton
Steve Jobs
Steven Spielberg
Susan B. Anthony
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Edison
Thomas Jefferson
Tiger Woods
Tom Cruise
Tom Hanks
Walt Disney
Wrights Brothers (Orville & Wilbur Wright)

* The nomination period was open to Americans across the country for
nearly a month in early 2005
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Source: Discovery Channel

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