alt Hacker NewsNot obscure enough of a figure to necessitate a history degree. Well known for being one of the first to establish building codes.
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tharkun__ • last Wednesday at 11:45 PM
Yet many including myself have never heard of him.
Would it have been so much to ask to put a Wikipedia link and nerd-snipe some of us in the process?
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selimthegrim • today at 1:46 AM
Also the namesake of a board game.
nasmorn • yesterday at 12:17 PM
Just a degree in Sid Meiers Civilization
He’s in the curriculums lots and lots of US schools, as part of teaching about the rule of law and eventually the rise of modern liberal democracy. Maybe not so much in other countries?
For anyone who went through that, he’s another “the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell”-type answer form 6th grade tests or whatever.