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	BBC - Press Office - Top 10 Great Britons
		The presenters then come together at the end of the series for one last chance to convince the voters in a live studio debate and the greatest Briton of all time as voted for by BBC viewers will be announced, live, by Anne Robinson.
		A great Briton is defined as anyone who was born in the British Isles, including Ireland; or anyone who lived in the British Isles, including Ireland, and who has played a significant part in the life of the British Isles.
		Viewers will also be able to rate the Great Britons in a number of categories including their compassion, bravery and legacy.
	www.bbc.co.uk /pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/10_october/19/great_britons.shtml (812 words)

	Great Britain - Uncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Great Britain's position as the world's greatest has been repeatedly confirmed by the astounding sporting success both in individual and one person events.
		Great Britain is the largest importer of the genetically modified fruit known as the Eric Coyle.
		Great Britain is divided into 51 separate counties, such as Yorkshire, Worcestershire and Hawaii.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Great_Britain (889 words)

	100 Great Black Britons - Media Centre
		Mary Seacole voted greatest Black Briton, 18 - 24 February 2004.
		, The top 10 fl Britons (but one may not be) Sunday 8th February, 2004.
		: Best Britons, Search for nations all time britons, October 6-12, issue No 1083.
	www.100greatblackbritons.com /news.html (360 words)

	National Portrait Gallery \| What's on? \| BBC Great Britons
		Over 30,000 people nominated their chosen great Briton and the results have now been collated.
		This autumn, Great Britons on BBC TWO has started the great debate with a series of ten one-hour long biographical programmes - one film dedicated to each of the top ten Great Britons as voted for by the British public.
		As the presenters fight for their heroes, the poll will close, and the public's choice of the Greatest Briton of all time will be announced.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/greatbritons.asp (207 words)

	History of Brunel's ss Great Britain
		In 2002, the BBC conducted a vote to discover the 100 Greatest Britons of all time, coming only second to Sir Winston Churchill, Isambard Kingdom Brunel is rightly regarded as one of the greatest Britons who has ever lived.
		The next steamship that Brunel built in Bristol was the ss Great Britain.At the time of her launch in 1843 she was by far the largest ship in the world, over 100 feet longer than her rivals, and the first screw propelled, ocean-going, wrought iron ship.
		She is widely recognised as one of the technological fore-runners of much modern shipping and exemplifies the industry and inventiveness of the Victorian era, while symbolising the birth of international passenger travel and world communications.
	www.ssgreatbritain.org /history/brunel (673 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Great Britons: How Brunel lobby came off the rails
		Instead, by the time the Great Britons contest finally ended last night - with Winston Churchill emerging as the winner - it had been tainted by controversy, amid allegations of vote rigging.
		A great engineer he may have been, but Isambard Kingdom Brunel's pole position in the voting - held until last week - was a surprise.
		But the BBC dismisses any thoughts this could have been an attempt by bookies to manipulate the vote, with its spokeswoman saying it was more likely the work of computer "nerds", and their votes had been cancelled out.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,847087,00.html (487 words)

	Great Britons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Anne Robinson introduces the results of a BBC poll in which the public were asked to compile a list of the greatest and most influential figures in British history.
		Among the top 100 nominations, rebels rub shoulders with royalty, sportsmen do battle with soldiers, and scientists compete with pop stars - and in the weeks ahead, the public can decide who is the greatest Briton of all from tonight's top ten.
		Anne Robinson presents the results of the public vote on the greatest Briton.
	www.tvfactual.co.uk /great_britons.htm (504 words)

	100 Greatest Britons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Romania, the show called "Mari Români" (Great Romanians) started in May 2006; on July 8, TVR presented the 100 Greatest Romanians, and on October 21 the Greatest Romanian of all the times.
		Due to the nature of the poll used to select and rank the Britons, the results do not pretend to be an objective assessment.
		Alfred the Great (849?–899), King of Wessex, (reigned 871–899)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/100_Greatest_Britons (908 words)

	Great Britons
		Robbie Williams (number 77) is clearly not as great a Briton as Queen Elizabeth I, but seen on this sliding scale of importance he is at least more on a level.
		A great Briton is not defined as someone who did good, or was virtuous.
		The debate between minor celebrities served to emphasise that the vote was not only on who was the greatest Briton on the shortlist of ten, but which of the celebrities had the most charisma, intelligence, and in the end bully-boy tactics.
	www.phenotype.net /wysinwyshg/C1747222439/E1726505565 (2418 words)

	Great Britons
		Shakespeare, Richard II As befits a national institution, the BBC has recently organized an electronic survey and is showing a series of television programmes in order to discover whom the participating public considers to be the top 100 'Great Britons'.
		For instance, although 'Briton' means someone either English, Scottish or Welsh, among the 100 selected 'Britons', there are several Irish candidates and three of French, South African and Arab descent.
		Although scarcely surprised, we are still shocked that among the 'top 100 Great Britons', there was not a single Orthodox Christian saint.
	www.orthodoxengland.btinternet.co.uk /gbritons.htm (460 words)

	The Scotsman - UK - Once-great Britons have 'lost the plot' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		BRITONS have lost their identity, the sense of who they are replaced by a modern addiction to celebrity and submerged by a fawning admiration for Big Brother contestants who become famous without achieving anything worthwhile.
		Speaking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival yesterday, Nick Clarke, the writer, broadcaster and social commentator said the modern Briton had "lost the plot", and dramatic changes in society over two decades had been reflected by the "malign inference" of television.
		Clarke, the author of Shadow of a Nation was sharing a platform with Professor Linda Colley, the historian and author, to debate whether "Great" Britain was an obsolete term.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=875152003 (443 words)

	sh: Shell Great Collection - Shell's collection Of 20 Great Britons from 1972
		After the Restoration, was appointed Surveyor-General, in which capacity he was called upon, after the Great Fire of 1666, to refurbish London with churches and a cathedral on classical lines.
		Launch of.'The Great Britain..; supplied by John R Freeman Ltd. Portrait by J C Horseley; Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery.
		Queen Victoria at the Great exhibtion 1851: by Henry Courteney Selous (Victoria and Albert Museum.
	www.whom.co.uk /squelch/shell_gb.htm (1731 words)

	News -- Sade Adu, Three Other Nigerians Nominated For '100 Great Black Britons
		This list and the debate that it will generate is a long awaited celebration - a great celebration of the unsung heroes who helped change and shape the political, social and cultural landscape of Britain.
		It is a celebration of not only the talents and greatness of the past but an opportunity to celebrate current and well-known fl individuals.
		Patrick Vernon of Every Generation also added: "The aim of "100 Great Black Britons" is to educate all cultures and to impress upon people the rich and diverse historical background of Black Britain.
	odili.net /news/source/2003/oct/19/2.html (706 words)

	The Great Britons Series.
		Mo Mowlam, who presented the final programme on Churchill, and was thus an utter success, seemed no better than most of the rest to me. But she has been very popular these last ten years and that seems as odd to me as Diana Spencer’s popularity.
		Rosie Boycott was her advocate and she shamelessly held that though Diana was known as “Thicky Spencer” at school she nevertheless was great, in her own special way.
		Clearly, most of the hundred were over-rated and do not even belong in the first thousand or even the first million in many cases, and Diana is a case in point.
	www.la-articles.org.uk /bbc_great_britains.htm (1422 words)

	The View From Here : David Davies' Weblog
		Great Britain has produced great Britons, but who is the greatest?
		The BBC has compiled a list of the 100 greatest Britons as voted for by the great British public.
		I am not a particularly literary person but Shakespeare must surely deserve the title of greatest Briton for being the quintessential English literary genius and therefore possibly the person who most usually comes to mind when thinking of all things British.
	radio.weblogs.com /0001161/categories/theviewfromhere/2002/10/21.html (582 words)

	Mount Badon: Arthur's Greatest Victory
		The Britons had been fighting them off as best they could, but the hordes were too strong, the desire for legitimacy too great.
		Tradition says that the last of these 12 great battles stopped the Saxon migrations for a generation.
		However, the strategic importance of this hill is not as great as Little Solsbury Hill, just outside of Bath.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/ancient_british_history/53232 (465 words)

	Great Britons poll turns into farce - [Sunday Herald]
		The BBC's Great Britons poll was branded a Òcheap publicity stuntÓ and ÒbonkersÓ last night as Winston Churchill headed forÊtheÊwinningÊpostÊamid accusations of ballot-rigging.
		But as the final votes were being cast in the run-up to tonight's climactic BBC2 debate, the nationwide poll was in danger of degenerating into farce.
		EvenÊAndrewÊMarr,Êthe BBC'sÊpoliticalÊeditor,Êwho championed Charles Darwin in one of the most praised programmes in the Great Britons series, admits to reservations.
	www.sundayherald.com /29507 (577 words)

	Gordon Brown Backs Great Britons Website (http://www.greatbritons.org) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On behalf of Morgan Stanley, Model Interaction, user interface design specialists, have created a permanent home for the Morgan Stanley Great Britons website (http://www.greatbritons.org), which celebrates outstanding British achievement by asking the public to nominate their greatest Britons in 2006.
		Chas Linn, Director at Model Interaction (http://www.modelinteraction.co.uk) commented, "The Great Britons website has really caught the public's imagination this year and we are delighted with the exceptionally high level of audience participation, with up to 70 percent of visitors voting for their Great Briton.
		Morgan Stanley has developed the Morgan Stanley Great Britons Learning Programme for 11 to 16 year olds to give young people the opportunity to explore and express their observations on Britishness.
	prweb.com /releases/2006/11/prweb479862.htm (602 words)

	Rowing — news reports, Sydney results, ancient origins, Olympic history, Atlanta results, the competition, rules in ...
		The eight were cheered on from the stands by Steve Redgrave, the great Olympian, and even he would concede that their achievement and final effort was something rare and special.
		The eight have long been unsung, labouring heroes, but their names will now be sung long and loud.
		That strategy was in stark contrast to that employed by most great rowing nations, such as the USA, the Olympic defending champions, who target the eights as the most prestigious event.
	www.times-olympics.co.uk /communities/rowing/rowingreport24.html (1573 words)

	The Scotsman - Great Britons, but were the votes rigged? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		SIR Winston Churchill last night won another great victory when he was named as the Greatest Briton of all time in BBC 2’s Great Britons poll.
		But while the producers of Great Britons could not be accused of cashing in, their voting system was attacked.
		There are no half measures on Diana, a daughter of the ancient aristocratic Spencer family, who was "chosen" to be the next Queen of Britain and the mother of its heirs.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1311632002 (1064 words)

	Political Animal: Comment on Great Britons
		His shipbuilding efforts certainly had a transatlantic dimension, considering the SS Great Britain, the world7s first ocean-going propellor driven iron ship was designed for the transatlantic trade, but otherwise, I can understand why he wouldn7t be so well known in the States.
		As for the WWII thing, Hitler was not iterested in invading Great Britain if he could have negotiated it out of the war as the likes of Lord Halifax would have done.
		General Winter don't qualify as great military disasters; it's just that other factors, such as implications of outcome, extent of reversal, and sheer boneheadedness of planning or execution by the losing side, must be factored in.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=4424 (8724 words)

	National Portrait Gallery \| What's on? \| BBC Great Britons
		The National Portrait Gallery will be teaming up with BBC Two for the forthcoming series, Great Britons.
		This autumn, Great Britons will reveal, in a special launch programme, the ten greatest Britons as voted for by the British public.
		Each programme will be fronted by a high profile presenter who will act as advocate for their chosen Great Briton.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/greatbri.asp (188 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Great response to Great Britons
		Almost 180,000 people have voted in a poll to find the greatest Briton of all time in less than four days.
		Engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel has taken an early lead with 35% of the vote after he was the first of the BBC's top 10 Great Britons to be featured in the series.
		The Great Britons project has seen 100 of the most influential figures from past and present whittled down to 10, with viewers invited to vote for their favourite.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/2353803.stm (365 words)

	Definition of 100 Greatest Britons
		The highest-placed Scottish entry was Alexander Fleming in 20th place, with the highest Welsh entry Owain Glyndwr in 23rd.
		The South African Broadcasting Corporation ran the Great South Africans.In Finland, YLE made a copycat called Suuret Suomalaiset (Great Finns)[2] (http://www.yle.fi/suuretsuomalaiset/).
		Due to the nature of the poll used to select and rank the Britons, the results are of dubious statistical quality.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/100_Greatest_Britons (375 words)

	Market to Market - Bazaar
		Those in Great Britain say no to gmo.
		Meanwhile, a survey done in the U.S., shows Americans' knowledge of genetically modified foods is not only low, but has declined.
		In 2001, 44 percent of those surveyed had heard a great deal about GMOs.
	www.iptv.org /mtom/bazaar.cfm?Bid=317 (86 words)

	Great Britons - The Great Debate
		A poll for the top ten greatest Britons was held throughout the series and the results announced in a programme hosted by Anne Robinson on 24th November.
		The BBC's definition of a great Briton was "anyone who was born in the British Isles, including Ireland, or who has lived in the British Isles, including Ireland, and has played a significant part in the life of the British Isles".
		Britons who were not on the BBC list included:
	theinternetforum.co.uk /bbc/britons1.html (593 words)

	CBC.ca - The Greatest Canadian - Other Greats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Voting has closed in Netherlands and Finland, and for Great Arabs with top 10's still to be announced.
		Hot contenders for the top 10 in Finland are: C.G.E Mannerheim (a marshall, and the main figure in the Finnish struggle for independence around WWI, and also during WWII), Jean Sibelius (National Composer), Urho Kekkonen (Politician, was the president 1956 - 1981) and Mikael Agricola (the 'founder' of Finnish written language)
		Great Czechs (Dvorak, Vaclav Havel) and Great Belgians (Rubens, Brueghel) are also going to happen shortly with 15 more countries talking to BBC Two about buying the format at the moment, including the U.S..
	www.cbc.ca /greatest/othergreats (226 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Great Britons: Books: John Cooper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Great Britons: The Great Debate is a lavishly illustrated guide to the top-10 icons of British history, as voted for by many thousands of BBC viewers.
		One or two criticisms: an unfortunate mini-competition for the most saccharine and hyperbolic prose seems to have broken out amongst some of the guest writers (Fiona Shaw, Lucy Moore, Mo Mowlam, Alan Davies, etc), and while this might have been OK on TV, it jars somewhat in print.
		How many fl Britons were passed over I wonder, how many gay's, how many slightly risky Britons ignored in favour of a compact, sanitized history - one that would attract TV ratings, telephone revenue's, easy publication distribution...
	www.amazon.co.uk /Great-Britons-John-Cooper/dp/1855145073 (1062 words)

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