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A & E's Ranking of the Top 100 Most Influential People of the Past Millennium

A careful look at the listings reveals much, such as can be found in the temporal plotting below...

- * = influentials rated 1-50
- * = influentials rated 51-100

- Century:

11th : *
12th : *
13rd : **
14th : ~
15th : *******
16th : ******
17th : ******
18th : ***************
19th : *******************
20th : ***************************

You see in the twentieth century there were a lot more people, so it kinda makes you wonder why we had to pad our influentials with the likes of Elvis, Princess Di, The Beatles, Patient Zero, etc.

And another thing, what about Marilyn Monroe and Gina Lollobrigida? And how about Brigitte...uh... what's her last name...you know, the french girl... uh... Her? I thought they were pretty influential.

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