Shelley doesn't appear on the following list of one hundred influential people of the millennium, but Mary beat him out:

Really now, all she did was write one book about the dangers of playing God. How much influence did she actually have? The industrial revolution still took over. What about Mark Twain or Charles Dickens?

And, though I'm not defending Reagan's politics or nuclear defense plan, he did play a significant role in ending the Cold War. Even though he's a recent president, politics shouldn't enter into something like this. Gorbachev is on the list too.

And what about King George III? He certainly had a lot to do with provoking the American revolution.

Elvis?!?