Why didn't this new story make the news?
Engine shutdown caused Northwest collision By David Kaminski-Morrow US investigators have concluded that a Northwest Airlines crew's decision to shut down the left engine on a taxiing McDonnell Douglas DC-9, leaving it with no hydraulic pressure after the right-side system had failed, resulted in its colliding with an Airbus A319 at Minneapolis. The DC-9 (N763NC) had suffered a valve fracture that caused the loss of right-side hydraulic pressure, a situation that the crew noticed as the aircraft climbed out of Columbus on a domestic service to Northwest's Minneapolis/St Paul hub on 10 May 2005. While the pilots carried out in-flight procedures to deal with a loss of right-side pressure, the captain became increasingly convinced, later in the flight, that the apparent pressure loss was a false indication. This view was reinforced by the normal lowering of the landing gear. Emergency teams at Minneapolis were nevertheless put on standby as the aircraft approached. © Cyprus Cambata The Northwest Airlines DC-9 collided with an Airbus A319 on pushback The DC-9 touched down safely on runway 22 and the landing roll appeared to be normal, with brakes and reverse-thrust operating, and the aircraft exited the runway to taxi to gate G7. Just over 5min after touchdown the flight recorders detected the shutting down of the aircraft's left-hand Pratt & Whitney JT8D engine - a technique employed to save fuel during ground manoeuvring - although the National Transportation Safety Board says the captain "did not recall" doing so. The first officer later stated that he did not know that the engine had been stopped and that the captain had not mentioned it. Upon nearing the gate the crew discovered they were suddenly unable to steer or brake the DC-9, and they activated the thrust reversers, which also stopped functioning within a short time and the aircraft began rolling forward. The aircraft was travelling at around 14kt (25km/h) when it struck the wing of a Northwest A319 (N368NB) on pushback from gate G10. Both aircraft were subsequently evacuated, with eight occupants injured among the total of 145 on board the two. The DC-9 was transporting 94 passengers, the A319 had 39 on board.
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Good Question! I think it didn't beacause needed morke kick to it .
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funny...looks like a news report your quoting...why didn't it get wider coverage?...because it's no big deal...I'm really sorry for the 8 folks that received injuries...otherwise...so what?... little inconvience...nothing more...
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who knows, i would say that they might no of wanted to scare people, but that is not the case with the news these days! umm some news just doesn’t get out as fast... they might of though it wasn’t that big of a deal. it might just be the news stations you have... it could of also been asked to keep it quiet!...the news runs of people actually finding out about this stuff! so if they don’t hear about it in time to report it... it wont come on... same with newspapers...if its not written and edited read by the time its good to print, i wont make it on.... as i assume you got this info from the internet....its easy to update things on the internet! its always going
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Apparently, it did make the news. You seem to have found it twice.
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Sorry... but it seems you have copied a NEWS report... so it DID make the news !! Why not CNN ? Well SHUCKS, they can't cover EVERY car, train, or aircraft accident !! It isn't what the FAA calls a Class-A accident (loss of AC or life)... so it isn't national news. Heck, the US Navy ran a helicopter over a maintanece crewman in Atsugi Japan on 13 April 1990 and it never made the news other than in his home-town as a death-notice.
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I'll have to agree with other answers that it did make the news... You found at least two news reports on the incident. As for why it didn't make the 6 o'clock TV news... Does every local automobile accident make the national news? No one died, and only eight out of 145 passengers were even injured. What's newsworthy about that?
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Who is The Most Influential Man in History
Who is The Most Influential Man in History ?
The following is from Michael Hart's book and lists Prophet Muhammad as the most influential man in History. A Citadel Press Book, published by Carol Publishing Group Ranking of the twenty from the list of 100: Prophet Muhammad Isaac Newton Jesus Christ Buddha Confucius St. Paul Ts'ai Lun Johann Gutenberg Christopher Columbus Albert Einstein Karl Marx Louis Pasteur Galileo Galilei Aristotle Lenin Moses Charles Darwin Shih Huang Ti Augustus Caesar Mao Tse-tung -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MUHAMMAD, No. 1 The 100, a Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History by Michael H. Hart 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. Of humble origins, Muhammad founded and promulgated one of the world's great religions, and became an immensely effective political leader. Today, thirteen centuries after his death, his influence is still powerful and pervasive. The majority of the persons in this book had the advantage of being born and raised in centers of civilization, highly cultured or politically pivotal nations. Muhammad, however, was born in the year 570, in the city of Mecca, in southern Arabia, at that time a backward area of the world, far from the centers of trade, art, and learning. Orphaned at age six, he was reared in modest surroundings. Islamic tradition tells us that he was illiterate. His economic position improved when, at age twenty-five, he married a wealthy widow. Nevertheless, as he approached forty, there was little outward indication that he was a remarkable person. Most Arabs at that time were pagans, who believed in many gods. There were, however, in Mecca, a small number of Jews and Christians; it was from them no doubt that Muhammad first learned of a single, omnipotent God who ruled the entire universe. When he was forty years old, Muhammad became convinced that this one true God (Allah) was speaking to him, and had chosen him to spread the true faith. For three years, Muhammad preached only to close friends and associates. Then, about 613, he began preaching in public. As he slowly gained converts, the Meccan authorities came to consider him a dangerous nuisance. In 622, fearing for his safety, Muhammad fled to Medina (a city some 200 miles north of Mecca), where he had been offered a position of considerable political power. This flight, called the Hegira, was the turning point of the Prophet's life. In Mecca, he had had few followers. In Medina, he had many more, and he soon acquired an influence that made him a virtual dictator. During the next few years, while Muhammad's following grew rapidly, a series of battles were fought between Medina and Mecca. This was ended in 630 with Muhammad's triumphant return to Mecca as conqueror. The remaining two and one-half years of his life witnessed the rapid conversion of the Arab tribes to the new religion. When Muhammad died, in 632, he was the effective ruler of all of southern Arabia. The Bedouin tribesmen of Arabia had a reputation as fierce warriors. But their number was small; and plagued by disunity and internecine warfare, they had been no match for the larger armies of the kingdoms in the settled agricultural areas to the north. However, unified by Muhammad for the first time in history, and inspired by their fervent belief in the one true God, these small Arab armies now embarked upon one of the most astonishing series of conquests in human history. To the northeast of Arabia lay the large Neo-Persian Empire of the Sassanids; to the northwest lay the Byzantine, or Eastern Roman Empire, centered in Constantinople. Numerically, the Arabs were no match for their opponents. On the field of battle, though, the inspired Arabs rapidly conquered all of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine. By 642, Egypt had been wrested from the Byzantine Empire, while the Persian armies had been crushed at the key battles of Qadisiya in 637, and Nehavend in 642. But even these enormous conquests, which were made under the leadership of Muhammad's close friends and immediate successors, Ali, Abu Bakr and 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, did not mark the end of the Arab advance. By 711, the Arab armies had swept completely across North Africa to the Atlantic Ocean There they turned north and, crossing the Strait of Gibraltar, overwhelmed the Visigothic kingdom in Spain. For a while, it must have seemed that the Moslems would overwhelm all of Christian Europe. However, in 732, at the famous Battle of Tours, a Moslem army, which had advanced into the center of France, was at last defeated by the Franks. Nevertheless, in a scant century of fighting, these Bedouin tribesmen, inspired by the word of the Prophet, had carved out an empire stretching from the borders of India to the Atlantic Ocean-the largest empire that the world had yet seen. And everywhere that the armies conquered, large-scale conversion to the new faith eventually followed. Now, not all of these conquests proved permanent. The Persians, though they have remained faithful to the religion of the Prophet, have since regained their independence from the Arabs. And in Spain, more than seven centuries of warfare, finally resulted in the Christians reconquering the entire peninsula. However, Mesopotamia and Egypt, the two cradles of ancient civilization, have remained Moslem, as has the entire coast of North Africa. The new religion, of course, continued to spread, in the intervening centuries, far beyond the borders of the original Moslem conquests. Currently it has tens of millions of adherents in Africa and Central Asia and even more in Pakistan and northern India, and in Indonesia. In Indonesia, the new faith has been a unifying factor. In the Indian subcontinent, however, the conflict between Moslems and Hindus is still a major obstacle to unity. How, then, is one to assess the overall impact of Muhammad on human history? Like all religions, Islam exerts an enormous influence upon the lives of its followers. It is for this reason that the founders of the world's great religions all figure prominently in this book. Since there are roughly twice as many Christians as Moslems in the world, it may initially seem strange that Muhammad has been ranked higher than Jesus. There are two principal reasons for that decision. First, Muhammad played a far more important role in the development of Islam than Jesus did in the development of Christianity. Although Jesus was responsible for the main ethical and moral precepts of Christianity (insofar as these differed from Judaism), St. Paul was the main developer of Christian theology, its principal proselytizer, and the author of a large portion of the New Testament. Muhammad, however, was responsible for both the theology of Islam and its main ethical and moral principles. In addition, he played the key role in proselytizing the new faith, and in establishing the religious practices of Islam. Moreover, he is the author of the Moslem holy scriptures, the Koran, a collection of certain of Muhammad's insights that he believed had been directly revealed to him by Allah. Most of these utterances were copied more or less faithfully during Muhammad's lifetime and were collected together in authoritative form not long after his death. The Koran therefore, closely represents Muhammad's ideas and teachings and to a considerable extent his exact words. No such detailed compilation of the teachings of Christ has survived. Since the Koran is at least as important to Moslems as the Bible is to Christians, the influence of Muhammad through the medium of the Koran has been enormous. It is probable that the relative influence of Muhammad on Islam has been larger than the combined influence of Jesus Christ and St. Paul on Christianity. On the purely religious level, then, it seems likely that Muhammad has been as influential in human history as Jesus. Furthermore, Muhammad (unlike Jesus) was a secular as well as a religious leader. In fact, as the driving force behind the Arab conquests, he may well rank as the most influential political leader of all time. Of many important historical events, one might say that they were inevitable and would have occurred even without the particular political leader who guided them. For example, the South American colonies would probably have won their independence from Spain even if Simon Bolivar had never lived. But this cannot be said of the Arab conquests. Nothing similar had occurred before Muhammad, and there is no reason to believe that the conquests would have been achieved without him. The only comparable conquests in human history are those of the Mongols in the thirteenth century, which were primarily due to the influence of Genghis Khan. These conquests, however, though more extensive than those of the Arabs, did not prove permanent, and today the only areas occupied by the Mongols are those that they held prior to the time of Genghis Khan. It is far different with the conquests of the Arabs. From Iraq to Morocco, there extends a whole chain of Moslem nations united not merely by their faith in Islam, but also by their Arabic language, history, and culture. The centrality of the Koran in the Moslem religion and the fact that it is written in Arabic have probably prevented the Arab language from breaking up into mutually unintelligible dialects, which might otherwise have occurred in the intervening thirteen centuries. Differences and divisions between these Arab states exist, of course, and they are considerable, but the partial disunity should not blind us to the important elements of unity that have continued to exist. For instance, neither Iran nor Indonesia, both oil-producing states and both Islamic in religion joined in the oil embargo of the winter of 1973-74. It is no coincidence that all of the Arab states, and only the Arab states, participated in the embargo. We see, then, that the Arab conquests of the seventh century have continued to play an important role in human history, down to the present day. It is this unparalleled combination of secular and religious influence which I feel entitles Muhammad to be considered the most influential single figure in human history. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following is from Michael Hart's book and lists Prophet Muhammad as the most influential man in History. A Citadel Press Book, published by Carol Publishing Group Ranking, list of 100 most influential persons in history: Prophet Muhammad Isaac Newton Jesus Christ Buddha Confucius St. Paul Ts'ai Lun Johann Gutenberg Christopher Columbus Albert Einstein Karl Marx Louis Pasteur Galileo Galilei Aristotle Lenin Moses Charles Darwin Shih Huang Ti Augustus Caesar Mao Tse-tung Genghis Khan Euclid Martin Luther Nicolaus Copernicus James Watt Constantine the Great George Washington Michael Faraday James Clerk Maxwell Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright Antoine Laurent Lavoisier Sigmund Freud Alexander the Great Napoleon Bonaparte Adolf Hitler William Shakespeare Adam Smith Thomas Edison Anthony van Leeuwenhoek Plato Guglielmo Marconi Ludwig van Beethoven Werner Heisenberb Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Fleming Simon Bolivar Oliver Cromwell John Locke Michelangelo Pope Urban II Umar ibn al-Khattab Asoka St. Augustine Max Planck John Calvin William T.G. Morton William Harvey Antoine Henri Becquerel Gregor Mendel Joseph Lister Nikolaus August Otto Louis Daguerre Joseph Stalin Rene Descartes Julius Caesar Francisco Pizarro Hernando Cortes Queen Isabella I William the Conqueror Thomas Jefferson Jean-Jacques Rousseau Edward Jenner Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen Hohann Sebastian Bach Lao Tzu Enrico Fermi Thomas Malthus Francis Bacon Voltaire John F. Kennedy Gregory Pincus Sui Wen Ti Mani Vasco da Gama Charlemagne Cyprus the Great Leonhard Euler Niccolo Machiavelli Zoroaster Menes Peter the Great Mencius John Dalton Homer Queen Elizabeth Justinian I fJohannes Kepler Pablo Picasso Mahavira Niels Bohr Honorable Mentions and Interesting Misses: St. Thomas Aquinas Archimedes Charles Babbage Cheops Marie Curie Benjamin Franklin Gandhi Abraham Lincoln Ferdinand Magellan Leonardo da Vinci -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The non-Muslim verdict on Muhammad (PBUH) If a man like Muhamed were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness. George Bernard Shaw People like Pasteur and Salk are leaders in the first sense. People like Gandhi and Confucius, on one hand, and Alexander, Caesar and Hitler on the other, are leaders in the second and perhaps the third sense. Jesus and Buddha belong in the third category alone. Perhaps the greatest leader of all times was Mohammed, who combined all three functions. To a lesser degree, Moses did the same. Professor Jules Masserman Head of the State as well as the Church, he was Caesar and Pope in one; but, he was Pope without the Pope's pretensions, and Caesar without the legions of Caesar, without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a police force, without a fixed revenue. If ever a man had the right to say that he ruled by a right divine, it was Muhummed, for he had all the powers without their supports. He cared not for the dressings of power. The simplicity of his private life was in keeping with his public life. Rev. R. Bosworth-Smith Muhammad was the soul of kindness, and his influence was felt and never forgotten by those around him. Diwan Chand Sharma, The Prophets of the East, Calcutta 1935, p. l 22. Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race . . . Mohammed . . . John William Draper, M.D., L.L.D., A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, London 1875, Vol. 1, pp. 329-330 In little more than a year he was actually the spiritual, nominal and temporal rule of Medina, with his hands on the lever that was to shake the world. John Austin, "Muhammad the Prophet of Allah," in T.P. 's and Cassel's Weekly for 24th September 1927. Philosopher, Orator, Apostle, Legislator, Warrior, Conqueror of ideas Restorer of rational beliefs, of a cult without images; the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he? Lamartine, Historie de la Turquie, Paris 1854, Vol. 11 pp. 276-2727 It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how he lived, to feel anything but reverence for that mighty Prophet, one of the great messengers of the Supreme. And although in what I put to you I shall say many things which may be familiar to many, yet I myself feel whenever I re-read them, a new way of admiration, a new of reverence for that mighty Arabian teacher. Annie Besant, The Life and Teachings of Muhammad, Madras 1932, p. 4 Muhummed is the most successful of all Prophets and religious personalities. Encyclopedia Britannica I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity. George Bernard Shaw in "The Genuine Islam" By a fortune absolutely unique in history, Mohammed is a threefold founder of a nation, of an empire, and of a religion. Rev. R. Bosworth-Smith in "Mohammed and Mohammedanism 1946."
History - 9 Answers
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EMPEROR CONSTANTINE THE GREAT.
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Aristotle was probably the most influential man in history followed by Jesus Christ and Charles Darwin.
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Jesus Christ
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I think I'd go with Jesus followed by Aristotle.
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God"Say: we believe in God and in what has been revealed to us, and what was revealed to Abraham, Isma'il: Isaac, Jacob and The Tribes, and in (the Books) given to Moses, Jesus and the Prophets, from their Lord: We make no distinction between one and another, among them, and to God do we bow our will (in Islam)." (Qur'an, Al-Imran 3:84)
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the most influential person in history to me would have to be Jesus the Christ. the reason being is ibelieve and know by faith that to save oneself is impossible. even to live a rightous life is not possible without being reborn. i don't believe mohammed taugt any doctrine including rebirth only that you must live rightously in Allah's eyes. being reborn is real. i was raised a seventh day adventist. i've studied oriental philosophy and i believe God speaks to people throughout history in ways they can understand Him. the bottom line to me is we cannot be saved or truly live a rightous life without being reborn thank you for the question. t5
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Grog of the Cave Bear Clan was dubbed "most influential man in history" by the elders of the Tribe in 56,563 BC for his creation of the concept of gods, goddesses, angels, devils, heaven and hell...to keep the members of his tribe in line......and the world has never been the same since.
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Your question contains in itself the right answer: Muhammad, the Holy Prophet, is the most influential person in history. May God bless him, and may God bless all of us, and may there be peace in the world--now and forever.
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Jesus Christ bestrides History like a Colossus. All of history is forever divided into "Before Christ" and "Anno Domini". His credentials as a Religious Leader are without equal - he went to his death willingly to die for humanity. The originality of his revelations are so extraordinary as to come close to proving their divine origin. No religion on the Planet at that time had the concept of the Creator as a loving father ready to be born as a man to die on our behalf. This was so radical the original name for the Bible was simply "the Good News". Mohammed probably belongs in the top three for the reasons noted above but by comparison, the Koran is plaigarised from Jewish and Christian scriptures. There is very little new material there, and arguably it was designed as propaganda to unite the Arab tribes into the Army of Conquest that he needed to carve out a temporal Empire in Arabia. It is the self-serving nature of his creed that makes it most likely that he just made it up as a justification for his position of Dictator, and for his tribe's pre-eminence in his new World order - Arabs replacing Jews as the chosen people. By stealing the central tenets of Judaism, more so than Christianity, he turned back the clock to a pre-Christian vision of worthless humans struggling to obey the Laws of God. It's no co-incidence that the precepts of Shariya law are almost identical to Talmudic law. Islam has many worthy features as a Religion, but all the best bits were stolen from earlier ones. For this reason Jesus Christ is in a league all by himself - unlike Mohammed, He told us things we did not already know, and he clearly had no hidden agenda for personal advancement. His life fulfilled the prophecies of the Old Testament Prphets in a convincing way. The only one who predicted Mohammed was Jesus Himself: "And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many." Islam's major effect on humanity has been as a conqueror and oppressor of formerly free peoples. Even today it is used to justify everything from oppression of Women to any act of murder of terror against non-muslims, or even against members of different muslim sects.
The following is from Michael Hart's book and lists Prophet Muhammad as the most influential man in History. A Citadel Press Book, published by Carol Publishing Group Ranking of the twenty from the list of 100: Prophet Muhammad Isaac Newton Jesus Christ Buddha Confucius St. Paul Ts'ai Lun Johann Gutenberg Christopher Columbus Albert Einstein Karl Marx Louis Pasteur Galileo Galilei Aristotle Lenin Moses Charles Darwin Shih Huang Ti Augustus Caesar Mao Tse-tung -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MUHAMMAD, No. 1 The 100, a Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History by Michael H. Hart 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. Of humble origins, Muhammad founded and promulgated one of the world's great religions, and became an immensely effective political leader. Today, thirteen centuries after his death, his influence is still powerful and pervasive. The majority of the persons in this book had the advantage of being born and raised in centers of civilization, highly cultured or politically pivotal nations. Muhammad, however, was born in the year 570, in the city of Mecca, in southern Arabia, at that time a backward area of the world, far from the centers of trade, art, and learning. Orphaned at age six, he was reared in modest surroundings. Islamic tradition tells us that he was illiterate. His economic position improved when, at age twenty-five, he married a wealthy widow. Nevertheless, as he approached forty, there was little outward indication that he was a remarkable person. Most Arabs at that time were pagans, who believed in many gods. There were, however, in Mecca, a small number of Jews and Christians; it was from them no doubt that Muhammad first learned of a single, omnipotent God who ruled the entire universe. When he was forty years old, Muhammad became convinced that this one true God (Allah) was speaking to him, and had chosen him to spread the true faith. For three years, Muhammad preached only to close friends and associates. Then, about 613, he began preaching in public. As he slowly gained converts, the Meccan authorities came to consider him a dangerous nuisance. In 622, fearing for his safety, Muhammad fled to Medina (a city some 200 miles north of Mecca), where he had been offered a position of considerable political power. This flight, called the Hegira, was the turning point of the Prophet's life. In Mecca, he had had few followers. In Medina, he had many more, and he soon acquired an influence that made him a virtual dictator. During the next few years, while Muhammad's following grew rapidly, a series of battles were fought between Medina and Mecca. This was ended in 630 with Muhammad's triumphant return to Mecca as conqueror. The remaining two and one-half years of his life witnessed the rapid conversion of the Arab tribes to the new religion. When Muhammad died, in 632, he was the effective ruler of all of southern Arabia. The Bedouin tribesmen of Arabia had a reputation as fierce warriors. But their number was small; and plagued by disunity and internecine warfare, they had been no match for the larger armies of the kingdoms in the settled agricultural areas to the north. However, unified by Muhammad for the first time in history, and inspired by their fervent belief in the one true God, these small Arab armies now embarked upon one of the most astonishing series of conquests in human history. To the northeast of Arabia lay the large Neo-Persian Empire of the Sassanids; to the northwest lay the Byzantine, or Eastern Roman Empire, centered in Constantinople. Numerically, the Arabs were no match for their opponents. On the field of battle, though, the inspired Arabs rapidly conquered all of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine. By 642, Egypt had been wrested from the Byzantine Empire, while the Persian armies had been crushed at the key battles of Qadisiya in 637, and Nehavend in 642. But even these enormous conquests, which were made under the leadership of Muhammad's close friends and immediate successors, Ali, Abu Bakr and 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, did not mark the end of the Arab advance. By 711, the Arab armies had swept completely across North Africa to the Atlantic Ocean There they turned north and, crossing the Strait of Gibraltar, overwhelmed the Visigothic kingdom in Spain. For a while, it must have seemed that the Moslems would overwhelm all of Christian Europe. However, in 732, at the famous Battle of Tours, a Moslem army, which had advanced into the center of France, was at last defeated by the Franks. Nevertheless, in a scant century of fighting, these Bedouin tribesmen, inspired by the word of the Prophet, had carved out an empire stretching from the borders of India to the Atlantic Ocean-the largest empire that the world had yet seen. And everywhere that the armies conquered, large-scale conversion to the new faith eventually followed. Now, not all of these conquests proved permanent. The Persians, though they have remained faithful to the religion of the Prophet, have since regained their independence from the Arabs. And in Spain, more than seven centuries of warfare, finally resulted in the Christians reconquering the entire peninsula. However, Mesopotamia and Egypt, the two cradles of ancient civilization, have remained Moslem, as has the entire coast of North Africa. The new religion, of course, continued to spread, in the intervening centuries, far beyond the borders of the original Moslem conquests. Currently it has tens of millions of adherents in Africa and Central Asia and even more in Pakistan and northern India, and in Indonesia. In Indonesia, the new faith has been a unifying factor. In the Indian subcontinent, however, the conflict between Moslems and Hindus is still a major obstacle to unity. How, then, is one to assess the overall impact of Muhammad on human history? Like all religions, Islam exerts an enormous influence upon the lives of its followers. It is for this reason that the founders of the world's great religions all figure prominently in this book. Since there are roughly twice as many Christians as Moslems in the world, it may initially seem strange that Muhammad has been ranked higher than Jesus. There are two principal reasons for that decision. First, Muhammad played a far more important role in the development of Islam than Jesus did in the development of Christianity. Although Jesus was responsible for the main ethical and moral precepts of Christianity (insofar as these differed from Judaism), St. Paul was the main developer of Christian theology, its principal proselytizer, and the author of a large portion of the New Testament. Muhammad, however, was responsible for both the theology of Islam and its main ethical and moral principles. In addition, he played the key role in proselytizing the new faith, and in establishing the religious practices of Islam. Moreover, he is the author of the Moslem holy scriptures, the Koran, a collection of certain of Muhammad's insights that he believed had been directly revealed to him by Allah. Most of these utterances were copied more or less faithfully during Muhammad's lifetime and were collected together in authoritative form not long after his death. The Koran therefore, closely represents Muhammad's ideas and teachings and to a considerable extent his exact words. No such detailed compilation of the teachings of Christ has survived. Since the Koran is at least as important to Moslems as the Bible is to Christians, the influence of Muhammad through the medium of the Koran has been enormous. It is probable that the relative influence of Muhammad on Islam has been larger than the combined influence of Jesus Christ and St. Paul on Christianity. On the purely religious level, then, it seems likely that Muhammad has been as influential in human history as Jesus. Furthermore, Muhammad (unlike Jesus) was a secular as well as a religious leader. In fact, as the driving force behind the Arab conquests, he may well rank as the most influential political leader of all time. Of many important historical events, one might say that they were inevitable and would have occurred even without the particular political leader who guided them. For example, the South American colonies would probably have won their independence from Spain even if Simon Bolivar had never lived. But this cannot be said of the Arab conquests. Nothing similar had occurred before Muhammad, and there is no reason to believe that the conquests would have been achieved without him. The only comparable conquests in human history are those of the Mongols in the thirteenth century, which were primarily due to the influence of Genghis Khan. These conquests, however, though more extensive than those of the Arabs, did not prove permanent, and today the only areas occupied by the Mongols are those that they held prior to the time of Genghis Khan. It is far different with the conquests of the Arabs. From Iraq to Morocco, there extends a whole chain of Moslem nations united not merely by their faith in Islam, but also by their Arabic language, history, and culture. The centrality of the Koran in the Moslem religion and the fact that it is written in Arabic have probably prevented the Arab language from breaking up into mutually unintelligible dialects, which might otherwise have occurred in the intervening thirteen centuries. Differences and divisions between these Arab states exist, of course, and they are considerable, but the partial disunity should not blind us to the important elements of unity that have continued to exist. For instance, neither Iran nor Indonesia, both oil-producing states and both Islamic in religion joined in the oil embargo of the winter of 1973-74. It is no coincidence that all of the Arab states, and only the Arab states, participated in the embargo. We see, then, that the Arab conquests of the seventh century have continued to play an important role in human history, down to the present day. It is this unparalleled combination of secular and religious influence which I feel entitles Muhammad to be considered the most influential single figure in human history. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following is from Michael Hart's book and lists Prophet Muhammad as the most influential man in History. A Citadel Press Book, published by Carol Publishing Group Ranking, list of 100 most influential persons in history: Prophet Muhammad Isaac Newton Jesus Christ Buddha Confucius St. Paul Ts'ai Lun Johann Gutenberg Christopher Columbus Albert Einstein Karl Marx Louis Pasteur Galileo Galilei Aristotle Lenin Moses Charles Darwin Shih Huang Ti Augustus Caesar Mao Tse-tung Genghis Khan Euclid Martin Luther Nicolaus Copernicus James Watt Constantine the Great George Washington Michael Faraday James Clerk Maxwell Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright Antoine Laurent Lavoisier Sigmund Freud Alexander the Great Napoleon Bonaparte Adolf Hitler William Shakespeare Adam Smith Thomas Edison Anthony van Leeuwenhoek Plato Guglielmo Marconi Ludwig van Beethoven Werner Heisenberb Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Fleming Simon Bolivar Oliver Cromwell John Locke Michelangelo Pope Urban II Umar ibn al-Khattab Asoka St. Augustine Max Planck John Calvin William T.G. Morton William Harvey Antoine Henri Becquerel Gregor Mendel Joseph Lister Nikolaus August Otto Louis Daguerre Joseph Stalin Rene Descartes Julius Caesar Francisco Pizarro Hernando Cortes Queen Isabella I William the Conqueror Thomas Jefferson Jean-Jacques Rousseau Edward Jenner Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen Hohann Sebastian Bach Lao Tzu Enrico Fermi Thomas Malthus Francis Bacon Voltaire John F. Kennedy Gregory Pincus Sui Wen Ti Mani Vasco da Gama Charlemagne Cyprus the Great Leonhard Euler Niccolo Machiavelli Zoroaster Menes Peter the Great Mencius John Dalton Homer Queen Elizabeth Justinian I fJohannes Kepler Pablo Picasso Mahavira Niels Bohr Honorable Mentions and Interesting Misses: St. Thomas Aquinas Archimedes Charles Babbage Cheops Marie Curie Benjamin Franklin Gandhi Abraham Lincoln Ferdinand Magellan Leonardo da Vinci -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The non-Muslim verdict on Muhammad (PBUH) If a man like Muhamed were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness. George Bernard Shaw People like Pasteur and Salk are leaders in the first sense. People like Gandhi and Confucius, on one hand, and Alexander, Caesar and Hitler on the other, are leaders in the second and perhaps the third sense. Jesus and Buddha belong in the third category alone. Perhaps the greatest leader of all times was Mohammed, who combined all three functions. To a lesser degree, Moses did the same. Professor Jules Masserman Head of the State as well as the Church, he was Caesar and Pope in one; but, he was Pope without the Pope's pretensions, and Caesar without the legions of Caesar, without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a police force, without a fixed revenue. If ever a man had the right to say that he ruled by a right divine, it was Muhummed, for he had all the powers without their supports. He cared not for the dressings of power. The simplicity of his private life was in keeping with his public life. Rev. R. Bosworth-Smith Muhammad was the soul of kindness, and his influence was felt and never forgotten by those around him. Diwan Chand Sharma, The Prophets of the East, Calcutta 1935, p. l 22. Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race . . . Mohammed . . . John William Draper, M.D., L.L.D., A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, London 1875, Vol. 1, pp. 329-330 In little more than a year he was actually the spiritual, nominal and temporal rule of Medina, with his hands on the lever that was to shake the world. John Austin, "Muhammad the Prophet of Allah," in T.P. 's and Cassel's Weekly for 24th September 1927. Philosopher, Orator, Apostle, Legislator, Warrior, Conqueror of ideas Restorer of rational beliefs, of a cult without images; the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he? Lamartine, Historie de la Turquie, Paris 1854, Vol. 11 pp. 276-2727 It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how he lived, to feel anything but reverence for that mighty Prophet, one of the great messengers of the Supreme. And although in what I put to you I shall say many things which may be familiar to many, yet I myself feel whenever I re-read them, a new way of admiration, a new of reverence for that mighty Arabian teacher. Annie Besant, The Life and Teachings of Muhammad, Madras 1932, p. 4 Muhummed is the most successful of all Prophets and religious personalities. Encyclopedia Britannica I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity. George Bernard Shaw in "The Genuine Islam" By a fortune absolutely unique in history, Mohammed is a threefold founder of a nation, of an empire, and of a religion. Rev. R. Bosworth-Smith in "Mohammed and Mohammedanism 1946."
History - 9 Answers
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EMPEROR CONSTANTINE THE GREAT.
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Aristotle was probably the most influential man in history followed by Jesus Christ and Charles Darwin.
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Jesus Christ
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I think I'd go with Jesus followed by Aristotle.
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God"Say: we believe in God and in what has been revealed to us, and what was revealed to Abraham, Isma'il: Isaac, Jacob and The Tribes, and in (the Books) given to Moses, Jesus and the Prophets, from their Lord: We make no distinction between one and another, among them, and to God do we bow our will (in Islam)." (Qur'an, Al-Imran 3:84)
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the most influential person in history to me would have to be Jesus the Christ. the reason being is ibelieve and know by faith that to save oneself is impossible. even to live a rightous life is not possible without being reborn. i don't believe mohammed taugt any doctrine including rebirth only that you must live rightously in Allah's eyes. being reborn is real. i was raised a seventh day adventist. i've studied oriental philosophy and i believe God speaks to people throughout history in ways they can understand Him. the bottom line to me is we cannot be saved or truly live a rightous life without being reborn thank you for the question. t5
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Grog of the Cave Bear Clan was dubbed "most influential man in history" by the elders of the Tribe in 56,563 BC for his creation of the concept of gods, goddesses, angels, devils, heaven and hell...to keep the members of his tribe in line......and the world has never been the same since.
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Your question contains in itself the right answer: Muhammad, the Holy Prophet, is the most influential person in history. May God bless him, and may God bless all of us, and may there be peace in the world--now and forever.
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Jesus Christ bestrides History like a Colossus. All of history is forever divided into "Before Christ" and "Anno Domini". His credentials as a Religious Leader are without equal - he went to his death willingly to die for humanity. The originality of his revelations are so extraordinary as to come close to proving their divine origin. No religion on the Planet at that time had the concept of the Creator as a loving father ready to be born as a man to die on our behalf. This was so radical the original name for the Bible was simply "the Good News". Mohammed probably belongs in the top three for the reasons noted above but by comparison, the Koran is plaigarised from Jewish and Christian scriptures. There is very little new material there, and arguably it was designed as propaganda to unite the Arab tribes into the Army of Conquest that he needed to carve out a temporal Empire in Arabia. It is the self-serving nature of his creed that makes it most likely that he just made it up as a justification for his position of Dictator, and for his tribe's pre-eminence in his new World order - Arabs replacing Jews as the chosen people. By stealing the central tenets of Judaism, more so than Christianity, he turned back the clock to a pre-Christian vision of worthless humans struggling to obey the Laws of God. It's no co-incidence that the precepts of Shariya law are almost identical to Talmudic law. Islam has many worthy features as a Religion, but all the best bits were stolen from earlier ones. For this reason Jesus Christ is in a league all by himself - unlike Mohammed, He told us things we did not already know, and he clearly had no hidden agenda for personal advancement. His life fulfilled the prophecies of the Old Testament Prphets in a convincing way. The only one who predicted Mohammed was Jesus Himself: "And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many." Islam's major effect on humanity has been as a conqueror and oppressor of formerly free peoples. Even today it is used to justify everything from oppression of Women to any act of murder of terror against non-muslims, or even against members of different muslim sects.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Do they show movies on Southwest Airlines flights
Do they show movies on Southwest Airlines flights?
I'm flying from Columbus to Las Vegas nonstop and didn't know if I should plan on bringing a book along with me.
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no. southwest is crappy anyway.
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When does the movie start? The airline doesn't offer inflight movies. On Southwest Airlines, we encourage our young travelers to bring onboard any Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved portable electronic device such as a portable DVD player and enjoy the movie of their choice through the comfort of their personal headphones. The flight attendants will make an announcement during the flight about when it's okay to bring out the device and begin the movie!
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No, there are no movies or any other inflight entertainment onboard other then a Skymall or Spirit magazine to read. They don't spend big bucks on amenities like that so they can keep fares low and customers pocketbooks happy.
I'm flying from Columbus to Las Vegas nonstop and didn't know if I should plan on bringing a book along with me.
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no. southwest is crappy anyway.
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When does the movie start? The airline doesn't offer inflight movies. On Southwest Airlines, we encourage our young travelers to bring onboard any Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved portable electronic device such as a portable DVD player and enjoy the movie of their choice through the comfort of their personal headphones. The flight attendants will make an announcement during the flight about when it's okay to bring out the device and begin the movie!
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No, there are no movies or any other inflight entertainment onboard other then a Skymall or Spirit magazine to read. They don't spend big bucks on amenities like that so they can keep fares low and customers pocketbooks happy.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
American Airline from Europe to US
American Airline from Europe to US?
Okay, so, in August I am going to fly from London to the US and back. Now I found that American Airlines is pretty much the best way to go and I looked online for a flight. I found one, but there is this one thing that I don't understand. Since I can't post the link to show you, how my flight back looks like, I am going to try to write it: From Columbus to London 1. Flight: Monday 31. August 2009 Departure: 06:10 PM Columbus Arrival: 06:35 PM Chicago 2. Flight: Monday 31. August 2009 Departure: 08:15 PM Chicago Arrival: 10:00 AM [i] London So, my question is for the 2. flight, where I posted the [i], it states that I am going to be arriving one day later. So does that mean, that I am going to arrive in London on 10:00 AM on the 1st of September??
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When any airline shows their flight details, it is always given in that country's or area's local time zone. So What you are saying is right, your flight back from the states to the UK will arrive at 1000 am on the 1st of September. Kind Regards
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You definitely will arrive on Sept. 1. London is 6 hrs. ahead of Chicago time, so when you depart Chicago at 8:15 PM it will already be 2:15 AM on the 1st in London and it looks like your flight will take 7 hrs. and 45 min..
Okay, so, in August I am going to fly from London to the US and back. Now I found that American Airlines is pretty much the best way to go and I looked online for a flight. I found one, but there is this one thing that I don't understand. Since I can't post the link to show you, how my flight back looks like, I am going to try to write it: From Columbus to London 1. Flight: Monday 31. August 2009 Departure: 06:10 PM Columbus Arrival: 06:35 PM Chicago 2. Flight: Monday 31. August 2009 Departure: 08:15 PM Chicago Arrival: 10:00 AM [i] London So, my question is for the 2. flight, where I posted the [i], it states that I am going to be arriving one day later. So does that mean, that I am going to arrive in London on 10:00 AM on the 1st of September??
Air Travel - 2 Answers
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When any airline shows their flight details, it is always given in that country's or area's local time zone. So What you are saying is right, your flight back from the states to the UK will arrive at 1000 am on the 1st of September. Kind Regards
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You definitely will arrive on Sept. 1. London is 6 hrs. ahead of Chicago time, so when you depart Chicago at 8:15 PM it will already be 2:15 AM on the 1st in London and it looks like your flight will take 7 hrs. and 45 min..
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