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I thought Burke's first and second book and TV show on connections were wonderfull too, but by the time i was reading his column in Sci Am, the connections seemed way to tenuous.
there is a real connections between Jaquards loom with its punch cards, and the punch cards used in the analytical engine, and the first tabulating machines, that move right on in to the early IBM computers with punch cards.. but some of his connections.... seemed a bit far fetched!
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Bertrand Russell > Russell Crowe Russell Crowe > John Forbes Nash Jr. John Forbes Nash Jr. > Forbes Magazine Forbes Magazine > publishes annual list of world's wealthiest individuals annual list > Scrooge McDuck Mr. Duck previously was listed and was the wealthiest individual in the world, but has now been surpassed by Bill Gates. I have that on the indisputable authority of the web: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Den/3001/dofferings/gates.htmlPost-edit: improving on the first pair of links: Bertrand Russell > John Forbes Nash Jr. (each a mathematician who won a Nobel Prize; 1950 and 1994 respectively)
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Ok, lemme clarify. Y'all are just listing names of people who might have appeared in the same movie or both won the same award. I'm thinking more along historical lines. Connect the people through historical or cultural events, and at least give us a creative paragraph with it. Geez. 
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OK Mr. MC Jazz-o, we'll try to do better, you don't have to be so harsh. So Jazz-o, what pairing are we working on now? I forget.
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Much as I hate to admit it, jazzo was completely correct about my post.
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Hey, Jazzo? How about you do the next and show us how it's done? Is this also known as the "Kevin Bacon Game"?
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Or anyone else can take a crack at Russell < MacDuck, which is still on the table. (again, apologies)
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>Y'all are just listing names of people who might have appeared in the same movie...
hmmph. Ron Howard directed Parenthood, and Pol Pot links historically to the Killing Fields. but I withdraw Russell/McDuck, since the missing link I had in mind was Donald Duck to Daffy Duck, and Chuck Jones is related to Bertrand Russell by biographer. perhaps a new thread is in order....
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Ok, this is more than 6 steps, but oh well. Bertrand Russell was one of the world's most influencial mathematicians and liberal philosophers. At one point, he traveled to Russia in support of Vladmir Lenin and the Bolsheviks. Lenin, after Marx, was the leader of the socialist movement. The movement inspired many novels, including Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, which takes place in Chicago. One of the most important events in Chicago history is the Chicago Fire, which occured in 1871. In that same year, Germany unified and became the German Empire. In 1914, the United States joined World War I fighting against the Germans. One man who left his home in America to volunteer as an ambulance driver was a young Walt Disney, whose company would later invent the character of Scrooge McDuck. Beat that. 
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Beat that.
Can't JazzO! Well done... 
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