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Official Great Works Draft (3 Viewers)

oh #### sorry I got their picl right here.

For Team Genezai, writeup laters.

35.18 David Hume - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

 
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' said:
oh #### sorry I got their picl right here.

For Team Genezai, writeup laters.

35.18 David Hume - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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Something's wrong there. "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" is by John Locke and has been drafted. I'm guessing they want Hume's "#######."ETA: I have listed it as 35.18 - ####### - David Hume - Political/Philosophical Idea

Bonzai, LMK if this is correct when you get back to the thread.

ETA2: Took out spotlighting after guessing wrong.

 
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35.17--Some Like It Hot-Movie

One of the funniest and most poignent comedies of all time, Some Like It Hot had it all. Gangsters (St. Valentines Day Massacre) blonde bomshells (Marilyn Monroe at the height of her fame), cross dressing comedians (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in one of his greatest roles), mistaken identities and a great director in Billy Wilder. The story of two ordinary schmoes who witness a Mob hit in Chicago and go on the lam by hiding out in an All Girl orchestra heading to Florida on a train. Each schmoe falls for Marilyn but they're in drag, so they can't really woo her so one of them invents another identity and a rich show biz type falls for the other one. Then the gangsters arrive an hilarity ensues.

Nevertheless, the original Some Like It Hot was a great movie of the late 1950s. The AFI called it the greatest American film comedy of all time. So if you haven't seen it, you ought to. It pops up on TV from time to time.

 
I'll get my picks in in a minute. I was solving the California budget problems. did it in about 10 minutes. I should be governator.

 
Bonzai said:
Also, this should be our 5th Non Fiction selection.
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I've got this one making 6. Is something in the wrong category??The Old TestamentElements - EuclidSumma Theologica - St. Thomas AquinasNicomachean Ethics - AristotleThe UpanishadsAn Enquiry Concerninc Human Understanding
 
Let's round out round 35 with something quite necessary.

Invented at the University of Louisville Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, United States in 1911 and developed by surgeon Arnold Grishwold during the 1930s, this has become a staple in America, and the world. I'm guessing every single one of us has used one. My mother was a specialist for one. It's become such a requirement and staple of our culture that televisions shows center around it. And if your life is ever in danger, pray you are close to one.

I select, one of the greatest American inventions, The Emergency Room

 
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Two people makin' it rain today???

:rant: :pickle:

 
Ugh, I can't seem to make up any ground here. Currently about 18 pages behind still. Will try to catch up by tonight and get my picks in by then.

 
Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you. Just one word.

Benjamin: Yes, sir.

Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?

Benjamin: Yes, I am.

Mr. McGuire: Plastics.

Benjamin: Just how do you mean that, sir?

I select The Graduate one of the top 10 movies of all time.

Benjamin: Listen to me. What happened between Mrs. Robinson and me was nothing. It didn't mean anything. We might just as well have been shaking hands.

Mr. Robinson: Shaking hands? Well, that's not saying much for my wife, is it?

 
timschochet said:
I realize that I have allowed the invention rule to be stretched, because the original wording was too tight to encompass human achievement. The problem with the wheel as a selection is that I specifically mentioned it in the OP as not allowable: Probably I should not have, but I did. Therefore for you to take it now would be unfair to every other drafter who considered this choice and did not take it because of what I wrote. So I have to disallow this choice, and I'm really sorry about that; if anything, the fault is mine, not yours. You're welcome to appeal.
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If he appeals and wins, then I get the wheel, as I tried to take it and was turned down in the first round. I'm still getting caught up, obviously.
 
krista4 said:
I've never been able to make the distinction between stirrup or gunpowder on the one hand and wheel on the other.
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In reading back over this week's posts ... I ran across this, which has been brought up several times in this thread.I think people are not realizing how recent the stirrup and gunpowder really are in the grand scheme. They are not inventions that were known to Cro-Magnon men or something like that ... stirrups and gunpowder came about well into historical times. The Roman Empire predates stirrups, and Christianity predates gunpowder.Stirrups weren't around when people domesticated horses for riding -- it took millenia for stirrups to come about. Gunpowder wasn't around when people started flinging projectiles at one another -- it took tens of millenia (at best) for people to come up with gunpowder.The wheel, on the otherhand, predates recorded history -- just like farming. Very different time scales involved.
 
for team Genezai

The Stranger - Albert Camus novel.

"Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know. I had a telegram from the home: 'Mother passed away. Funeral tomorrow. Yours sincerely.' That doesn't mean anything. It may have been yesterday."

 
' said:
for team Genezai

The Stranger - Albert Camus novel.

"Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know. I had a telegram from the home: 'Mother passed away. Funeral tomorrow. Yours sincerely.' That doesn't mean anything. It may have been yesterday."
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:doh: Could've sworn that one was gone already. Guess I was just trippin'.Very nice.

 
DCThunder said:
35.17--Some Like It Hot-Movie

One of the funniest and most poignent comedies of all time, Some Like It Hot had it all. Gangsters (St. Valentines Day Massacre) blonde bomshells (Marilyn Monroe at the height of her fame), cross dressing comedians (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in one of his greatest roles), mistaken identities and a great director in Billy Wilder. The story of two ordinary schmoes who witness a Mob hit in Chicago and go on the lam by hiding out in an All Girl orchestra heading to Florida on a train. Each schmoe falls for Marilyn but they're in drag, so they can't really woo her so one of them invents another identity and a rich show biz type falls for the other one. Then the gangsters arrive an hilarity ensues.

Nevertheless, the original Some Like It Hot was a great movie of the late 1950s. The AFI called it the greatest American film comedy of all time. So if you haven't seen it, you ought to. It pops up on TV from time to time.
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$*&()@%^@*(%*(@%&(&%################### :doh: I specifically asked all of you NOT to take my next pick. I guess someone wasn't listening. :hot:

 
Tirnan said:
A couple that hit close to the heart and on my personal favorites list.

33.19 MOVIE Reservoir Dogs by Quentin Tarantino (1992)

Probably not a huge score in the category, but one of my favorite movies of all time.

The 1992 debut film of director and writer Quentin Tarantino. It portrays what happens before and after a botched jewel heist, but not the heist itself. Reservoir Dogs stars an ensemble cast with Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Quentin Tarantino, Eddie Bunker, Chris Penn and Lawrence Tierney. Tarantino has a minor role, as does criminal-turned-author Eddie Bunker. It incorporates many themes and aesthetics that have become Tarantino's hallmarks: violent crime, pop culture references, memorable dialogue, profuse profanity, and a nonlinear storyline.

The film has become a classic of independent film and a cult hit[1]. It was named "Greatest Independent Film of all Time" by Empire. Reservoir Dogs was generally well received and the cast was praised by many critics. Although it was never given much promotion upon release, the film was a modest success by grossing $2,832,029, which made its budget back. However, it did become a major hit in the United Kingdom; grossing nearly 6.5 million pounds, and it achieved higher popularity after the success of Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. It is often criticized for its high degree of violence and profanity, and audience members reportedly walked out during a torture scene.

34.02 ACTING PERFORMANCE Michael Madsen as Mr. Blonde in Reservoir Dogs (1992)

His real name is Vic Vega, also known as Toothpick Vic. He is a soft-spoken, sadistic psychopath who indiscriminately shot several civilians during the robbery, which angered Mr. White and Mr. Pink. He also gleefully tortures a policeman for his own pleasure—slashing the young officer's face, cutting off his ear and dousing him with gasoline—only to be stopped from burning him alive by Mr. Orange, when he shoots Mr. Blonde several times in the chest, killing him. Vic Vega is the brother of Vincent Vega from Tarantino's film Pulp Fiction.
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You suck. My favorite Tarantino film. Was to be one of my many makeup picks.
 
krista4 said:
DCThunder said:
35.17--Some Like It Hot-Movie

One of the funniest and most poignent comedies of all time, Some Like It Hot had it all. Gangsters (St. Valentines Day Massacre) blonde bomshells (Marilyn Monroe at the height of her fame), cross dressing comedians (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in one of his greatest roles), mistaken identities and a great director in Billy Wilder. The story of two ordinary schmoes who witness a Mob hit in Chicago and go on the lam by hiding out in an All Girl orchestra heading to Florida on a train. Each schmoe falls for Marilyn but they're in drag, so they can't really woo her so one of them invents another identity and a rich show biz type falls for the other one. Then the gangsters arrive an hilarity ensues.

Nevertheless, the original Some Like It Hot was a great movie of the late 1950s. The AFI called it the greatest American film comedy of all time. So if you haven't seen it, you ought to. It pops up on TV from time to time.
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$*&()@%^@*(%*(@%&(&%################### :hot: I specifically asked all of you NOT to take my next pick. I guess someone wasn't listening. :hot:
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Sorry, krista, I guess I missed that memo. :doh:
 
thatguy said:
Ugh, I can't seem to make up any ground here. Currently about 18 pages behind still. Will try to catch up by tonight and get my picks in by then.
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Advice from someone who knows: don't try to read through the thread. Just hunker down and throw some $#*# out there. The gallery will let you know what to repick.
 
thatguy said:
timschochet said:
I realize that I have allowed the invention rule to be stretched, because the original wording was too tight to encompass human achievement. The problem with the wheel as a selection is that I specifically mentioned it in the OP as not allowable: Probably I should not have, but I did. Therefore for you to take it now would be unfair to every other drafter who considered this choice and did not take it because of what I wrote. So I have to disallow this choice, and I'm really sorry about that; if anything, the fault is mine, not yours. You're welcome to appeal.
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If he appeals and wins, then I get the wheel, as I tried to take it and was turned down in the first round. I'm still getting caught up, obviously.
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This one was strangled in the cradle, it appears. But it prompted me to have to make another defense of stirrups & gunpowder :confused:
 
Doug B said:
thatguy said:
Ugh, I can't seem to make up any ground here. Currently about 18 pages behind still. Will try to catch up by tonight and get my picks in by then.
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Advice from someone who knows: don't try to read through the thread. Just hunker down and throw some $#*# out there. The gallery will let you know what to repick.
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:confused: There's so much good stuff out there that probably 2/3 of what you want will be available anyway, and if you pick something already taken it makes the drafter of that feel good. :cry:
 
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28.11 - Thatguy (autoskip)

29.10 - thatguy (autoskip)

30.11 - thatguy (autoskip until further notice)

31.10 - Thatguy (autoskip)

32.11 - Thatguy (autoskip)

33.10 - Thatguy (autoskip)

34.11 - Thatguy (autoskip)

35.08 - Tides of War (autoskip)

35.10 - Thatguy (autoskip)

35.11 - El Floppo (autoskip if not here in first 15)

35.12 - Team CIA (autoskip)

35.19 - Tirnan (autoskip if not around)

36.02 - Tirnan (autoskip if not around)

36.04 - DC Thunder - OTC until :19

36.05 - Scott Norwood - On Deck

36.06 - Bob Lee Swagger - In The Hole

36.07 - MisfitBlondes

36.08 - Uncle Humuna

36.09 - Team CIA (autoskip)

36.10 - El Floppo (autoskip if not here in first 15)

36.11 - Thatguy (autoskip)

36.12 - Big Rocks

36.13 - Tides of War (autoskip today)

36.14 - BobbyLayne (autoskip today)

36.15 - Abrantes

36.16 - Doug B (autoskip)

36.17 - Timscochet

36.18 - Postradamus (autoskip if not here in first 15)

36.19 - Rodg

36.20 - Krista

 
BobbyLayne said:
rodg12 said:
BobbyLayne said:
Waiting on Abrantes while Doug B loads his high capacity Glock magazine...
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He times out at :54. Just in case you wanted to sweat it out some more.......
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:confused: Thanks, somehow forgot to consider that.

Oh well, someone/several will get sniped today, no reason I should be exempt. Same thing when thatguy comes back. I'm actually starting to favor sitting it out while I am in Vienna just so I can drop six when I get back.
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We all know I won't be sniping anyone. I suck at this. Almost caught up.
 
thatguy said:
BobbyLayne said:
rodg12 said:
BobbyLayne said:
Waiting on Abrantes while Doug B loads his high capacity Glock magazine...
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He times out at :54. Just in case you wanted to sweat it out some more.......
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:goodposting: Thanks, somehow forgot to consider that.

Oh well, someone/several will get sniped today, no reason I should be exempt. Same thing when thatguy comes back. I'm actually starting to favor sitting it out while I am in Vienna just so I can drop six when I get back.
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We all know I won't be sniping anyone. I suck at this. Almost caught up.
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You take a lot of stuff I like. :shrug:
 
36.04--The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince)- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry-Novel

Bigger write-up later. But this is the story of a Little Prince who lives on a planet with three volcanos and a rose. Written in French (and most French students have had to read a little of it en francaise, it has been translated into over 180 languages and is one of the best selling novels in history.

Though ostensibly a children's book, The Little Prince makes several profound and idealistic points about life and human nature. Saint-Exupéry tells of meeting a young prince in the middle of the Sahara. The essence of the book is contained in the great and famous lines uttered by the fox to the Little Prince: "On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." ("It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.") Other key thematic messages are articulated by the fox, such as: "You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed" and "It is the time you have spent with your rose that makes your rose so important."

The Little Prince

 
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Two people makin' it rain today???

:goodposting: :goodposting:
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A much more relaxed, easy going version of thatguy should be making it rain.
 
DCThunder said:
36.04--The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince)- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry-Novel

Bigger write-up later. But this is the story of a Little Prince who lives on a planet with three volcanos and a rose. Written in French (and most French students have had to read a little of it en francaise, it has been translated into over 180 languages and is one of the best selling novels in history.

Though ostensibly a children's book, The Little Prince makes several profound and idealistic points about life and human nature. Saint-Exupéry tells of meeting a young prince in the middle of the Sahara. The essence of the book is contained in the great and famous lines uttered by the fox to the Little Prince: "On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." ("It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.") Other key thematic messages are articulated by the fox, such as: "You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed" and "It is the time you have spent with your rose that makes your rose so important."

The Little Prince
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WOW! was hoping to get this later. read it in french back in school (even have a copy in french now)... excellent book. great pick
 
Team Norwood/Anborn picks...



36.05 - the Moai (1250-1500) - sculpture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai

Having seen one of the few of these off Easter island (at a museum in Chile)... its pretty damned impressive. Could only imagine what seeing multiples of them on Easter Island would look like.

The moai are monolithic statues, their minimalist style related to forms found throughout Polynesia. Moai are carved in relatively flat planes, the faces bearing proud but enigmatic expressions. The over-large heads (a three to five ratio between the head and the body, a sculptural trait which demonstrates the Polynesian belief in the sanctity of the chiefly head) have heavy brows, elongated noses with a distinctive fish-hook shaped curl of the nostrils. The lips protrude in a thin pout. Like the nose, the ears are elongated, and oblong in form. The jaw lines stand out against the truncated neck. The torsos are heavy, and sometimes the clavicles are subtly outlined in stone. The arms are carved in bas relief and rest against the body in various positions, hands and long slender fingers resting along the crests of the hips, meeting at the hami (loincloth), with the thumbs sometimes pointing towards the navel. Generally, the anatomical details of the backs are not detailed, but sometimes bear a ring and girdle motif on the buttocks and lower back. Except for one kneeling moai, the statues do not have legs.
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anborn said:
Team Norwood/Anborn picks...



36.05 - the Moai (1250-1500) - sculpture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai

Having seen one of the few of these off Easter island (at a museum in Chile)... its pretty damned impressive. Could only imagine what seeing multiples of them on Easter Island would look like.

The moai are monolithic statues, their minimalist style related to forms found throughout Polynesia. Moai are carved in relatively flat planes, the faces bearing proud but enigmatic expressions. The over-large heads (a three to five ratio between the head and the body, a sculptural trait which demonstrates the Polynesian belief in the sanctity of the chiefly head) have heavy brows, elongated noses with a distinctive fish-hook shaped curl of the nostrils. The lips protrude in a thin pout. Like the nose, the ears are elongated, and oblong in form. The jaw lines stand out against the truncated neck. The torsos are heavy, and sometimes the clavicles are subtly outlined in stone. The arms are carved in bas relief and rest against the body in various positions, hands and long slender fingers resting along the crests of the hips, meeting at the hami (loincloth), with the thumbs sometimes pointing towards the navel. Generally, the anatomical details of the backs are not detailed, but sometimes bear a ring and girdle motif on the buttocks and lower back. Except for one kneeling moai, the statues do not have legs.
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Was wondering when these were going to go. Batted around the idea of taking these a couple rounds ago as a wildcard. Nice pick.
 
anborn said:
Team Norwood/Anborn picks...



36.05 - the Moai (1250-1500) - sculpture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai

Having seen one of the few of these off Easter island (at a museum in Chile)... its pretty damned impressive. Could only imagine what seeing multiples of them on Easter Island would look like.

The moai are monolithic statues, their minimalist style related to forms found throughout Polynesia. Moai are carved in relatively flat planes, the faces bearing proud but enigmatic expressions. The over-large heads (a three to five ratio between the head and the body, a sculptural trait which demonstrates the Polynesian belief in the sanctity of the chiefly head) have heavy brows, elongated noses with a distinctive fish-hook shaped curl of the nostrils. The lips protrude in a thin pout. Like the nose, the ears are elongated, and oblong in form. The jaw lines stand out against the truncated neck. The torsos are heavy, and sometimes the clavicles are subtly outlined in stone. The arms are carved in bas relief and rest against the body in various positions, hands and long slender fingers resting along the crests of the hips, meeting at the hami (loincloth), with the thumbs sometimes pointing towards the navel. Generally, the anatomical details of the backs are not detailed, but sometimes bear a ring and girdle motif on the buttocks and lower back. Except for one kneeling moai, the statues do not have legs.
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:unsure: And there goes my Some Like It Hot backup. Today has been brutal. :lmao:
 
anborn said:
Team Norwood/Anborn picks...



36.05 - the Moai (1250-1500) - sculpture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai

Having seen one of the few of these off Easter island (at a museum in Chile)... its pretty damned impressive. Could only imagine what seeing multiples of them on Easter Island would look like.

The moai are monolithic statues, their minimalist style related to forms found throughout Polynesia. Moai are carved in relatively flat planes, the faces bearing proud but enigmatic expressions. The over-large heads (a three to five ratio between the head and the body, a sculptural trait which demonstrates the Polynesian belief in the sanctity of the chiefly head) have heavy brows, elongated noses with a distinctive fish-hook shaped curl of the nostrils. The lips protrude in a thin pout. Like the nose, the ears are elongated, and oblong in form. The jaw lines stand out against the truncated neck. The torsos are heavy, and sometimes the clavicles are subtly outlined in stone. The arms are carved in bas relief and rest against the body in various positions, hands and long slender fingers resting along the crests of the hips, meeting at the hami (loincloth), with the thumbs sometimes pointing towards the navel. Generally, the anatomical details of the backs are not detailed, but sometimes bear a ring and girdle motif on the buttocks and lower back. Except for one kneeling moai, the statues do not have legs.
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Damn it, Team Fennis was going to take it as a WC. :unsure: After all, I posed for them.

 
rodg12 said:
Fennis said:
anborn said:
' said:
anborn said:
Team Norwood/Anborn picks...



36.05 - the Moai (1250-1500) - sculpture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai
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I heard fennis posed for these.
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:lmao: also IN before someone tells me I have to pick just one.
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good point, they are a series.
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Nah, not needed. Precedent was set 30 rounds ago when I took the Chinese Terracotta Army.
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:shrug: sculpture rulings != painting rulings

now if only my next 2 will fall to me... :lmao:

 
I wanted to commend Doug's first wildcard pick- the rescue of the Apollo astronauts. In this draft, I am going to give a higher priority to those wildcard picks which don't belong in any other category but still are a great human achievement, over those picks that really belonged in another category but were put in WC because you're full up elsewhere.

 
timschochet said:
I wanted to commend Doug's first wildcard pick- the rescue of the Apollo astronauts. In this draft, I am going to give a higher priority to those wildcard picks which don't belong in any other category but still are a great human achievement, over those picks that really belonged in another category but were put in WC because you're full up elsewhere.
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:shrug:
 
timschochet said:
I wanted to commend Doug's first wildcard pick- the rescue of the Apollo astronauts. In this draft, I am going to give a higher priority to those wildcard picks which don't belong in any other category but still are a great human achievement, over those picks that really belonged in another category but were put in WC because you're full up elsewhere.
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:rolleyes:
 
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