And you are the first one done!

you sound like my wife

I think it's a little unfortunate that you made joke picks with your final two picks, though

I think it's unfortunate you take this so seriously.

It's like when I took all guys with the sex symbol draft, some people liked my out of the box thinking.

14.2-Rocky Mountains-Geographic location (Canada)- 20th Century

Oh you're out of the box all right...

do we need to fight?

or should I send Bono to mediate?

The 14 different counties I used for my picks (part of my strategy)

Saudi Arabia
India
Greece
Germany
Poland
Unites States
Japan
Canada
Austria
Netherlands
Brazil
Italy
France
Uzbekistan

My turn? Just woke up

Great pick this late. I almost thought about him myself.

Torgo and then me.

Okay cool. If DT shows up and picks, we can go boom-boom-boom, he, you, me.

oh i'm up?

sorry - just got a backup laptop situation setup guys

14.6 - The Swiss Alps, Geographic Location, Swizterland, Pre-20th

Both a strategic location, providing a natural defensive terrain for the country, an extremely picturesque locale, as well as providing great tourism revenue for all.

Izulde picks:

14.7 - Gerald Gardner - Religious Figure - England - 20th Century

The father of Wicca, the world's largest neopagan denomination.

14.8 Taylor Wang - Air Chief - China - 20th Century

First Chinese person in space.

1st post updated. We're almost at the finish line.

14.9 International Space Station Manmade Structure Russia 20th Century
My country will be represented not only on earth, but also in the heavens.

I choose Russia as the country because along with the US they are the main country responsible for its construction and operation.

wasn't the international space station already chosen? for that matter i believe 'manmade object + russia" was already chosen - it forced me to change my pick of manmade object

Yeah, Russia has already been picked in that category.

My bad. I missed it when I was looking over the picks. Let me get a new choice up.

Large Hardon Collider Switzerland 20th Century Manmade Structure
Marie Curie has a great place to work now.

good one BK

Thanks

hehehehehehehe (/childish laugh at a misspelling)

14.10 Sir Arthur Lewis, Economist, St. Lucia, 20th

First black person to win an academic Nobel, one of only three people outside of western Europe and the US to ever win a Nobel in Economics. Groundbreaking work in developing world economies and their transition to modern economies. His economic models were adopted as policy by countries from Hong Kong (at the time it was in a city-state phase), Singapore, Jamaica and more.

Heh, I was considering taking the LHC myself if I needed a 20th century structure.

nice pick abe!

Thanks

He's a no name guy, but I like the fact that I have a nobel winning economist who actually was the first President of the Caribbean Development Bank and turned it into a major financial institution with a mission statement of helping infrastructure and development of Carribbean countries. He was successful, not just in theory, but in practice as well. I like that, even if no one will notice.

14.11 Vinko Bogataj, Athlete, Slovenia, Post-20

"...and the agony of defeat."

One more pick left!

hmmm Mr (or Mrs or It ) Irellevant...gimme a few to figure out.. I just went back to work and have been slammed with reams upon reams of paper to fill out..
Guess 10 months of medical will do that..


okee..dokee.. I cant figure this one out... So I will take the damnest easy way out

Justice minister David Koepsell USA 20th century none of you know him..hes a lawyer,writer, big time into ethics and a high school buddy.. sorta fits into the justice position..I disagree with most of his politics so he'd be perfect...Better than my original choice of Heinie Himmler.....

Once the pick is made, I'm going to open a new thread and we'll do something a little different before the voting starts.

Sorry Apathetic US Justice Minister has been off the board for a good long while.

I pm'd Apathetic to repick.

The best thing about this draft is that Izulde will not finish in his usual last place. :)

hmm and someone took his new residence in the Netherlands..so im screwed

I dont see a Polish Justice here..

So for my Justice Minister, giving a little love to my Nationality I chose:
Felix Dzerzinsky, Poland, Justice Minister, 20th C.. I like my justice not to be burdened by silly notions of law and justice

:D I'm shocked. A draft where Bucc doesn't have me last.

i'd bitch about Dzerhinzinsky being barely-Polish (born into a Polish noble family in present day Minsk (Belarus). I think you'd do better to clarify him as from Belarus or from Russia (think that's still available in Justice Minister) but whatever, I'm not really complaining. Not like you're trying to get around a blocked situation.

They probably have me, the draft newb taking your place....

He was Polish.. Noble born even. My dad was born in Pinsk(modern Belarus) in 1932 in what was then Poland. Tell him he's Belarussian and you will be fighting... He is 100% Polish.. So no..just because he was born in what is present day Belarus does not make Felix Belarussian or Russian

lol ok

You do have three outstanding picks, so that should count for something. :)

..and yet William Wallace is a member of the UK

Those are just the breaks in this draft. :)

However, I know noting about this guy, and I assume he had an official position with the Polish government, so that seems fine.

I didn;t realize until just now, this is Iron Felix, right? Wow. The guy who founded the Secret Police as Justice Minister.