For Fun & Education:- UnderRepped.

[TeeDee]

Not sure how many people are familiar with the Company Underrepped but they produce T-shirt design with the USP that the people they feature tend to have flown under the radar of the Public Eye and consciousness in many ways in despite of giving us some the world greatest Inventions , Music , Literature , Scientific Breakthroughs etc.

"Everyone has a passion. Science, music, sports, technology and art… every field has their forgotten personalities. These people made a difference; they left their mark on history. Then they were forgotten. Until now!"

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http://underrepped.com/

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So open question and can be from any field , who do you feel is relatively unknown or Under repped for their contributions and achievements from the annals of history?
Have a particular favourite or respected person you wish to 'big up' or just make the world more aware of?

 

[TeeDee]

Clearly no-one inspiring.?



How about Bass Reeves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_Reeves

 

[bob_the_baker]

Richard Feynman: US physicist.

 

[Joonsy]

Alfred Russell Wallace - one of the greatest 19th century naturalist, scientist, and social activist, who fell into obscurity after his death. Wallace was the co-discoverer of ''natural selection'' and ''evolution'' along with Charles Darwin and Wallace's work prompted Darwin to publish the book ''The Origin of Species'', but while Darwin became world famous Wallace fell into obscurity, perhaps because of his socialist views which went against the establishment, which included support for the women suffrage, his opposition to wars, his support for land reform (he was the first president of the Land Nationalisation Society), and many others. He was also one of the first scientists to raise concerns over the environmental impact of human activity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace

 

[TeeDee]

Thank you both , Alfred Wallace I was unaware of - fascinating stuff!!!

 

[nic a char]

Calgary author saves British explorer, who found Canada's Northwest Passage, from obscurity
As did Ray Mears!

Dr John Rae found the explorer Franklin's ship & dead sailors,with evidence of cannibalism, then discovered the Northwest passage. He "had the audacity to suggest Royal Navy sailors had resorted to cannibalism, and for that, the man who should be counted among the greatest explorers of his age, was condemned to obscurity, and hounded out of British society."

For the Scot Dr. John Rae, the man who really found Canada’s fabled Northwest Passage, that permafrost may finally be thawing, thanks in no small measure to a Calgary author’s determination to give an overlooked legend his due - plus Ray Mears' research, and success in having a plaque erected to Rae in London. Sadly, the lies persist, as a statue to Franklin, crediting him with the Northwest passage discovery, STILL EXISTS...

“At last Rae is getting some recognition,” says Ken McGoogan, who wrote his award-winning book about Rae, Fatal Passages, while working as a journalist in Calgary.

 

[TeeDee]

Wiki Link always appreciated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rae_(explorer)

Calgary author saves British explorer, who found Canada's Northwest Passage, from obscurity
As did Ray Mears!

Dr John Rae found the explorer Franklin's ship & dead sailors,with evidence of cannibalism, then discovered the Northwest passage. He "had the audacity to suggest Royal Navy sailors had resorted to cannibalism, and for that, the man who should be counted among the greatest explorers of his age, was condemned to obscurity, and hounded out of British society."

For the Scot Dr. John Rae, the man who really found Canada’s fabled Northwest Passage, that permafrost may finally be thawing, thanks in no small measure to a Calgary author’s determination to give an overlooked legend his due - plus Ray Mears' research, and success in having a plaque erected to Rae in London. Sadly, the lies persist, as a statue to Franklin, crediting him with the Northwest passage discovery, STILL EXISTS...

“At last Rae is getting some recognition,” says Ken McGoogan, who wrote his award-winning book about Rae, Fatal Passages, while working as a journalist in Calgary.

 

[TeeDee]

This chap also brings a smile to my face.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill

Lieutenant-Colonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming "Jack" Churchill, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar (16 September 1906 – 8 March 1996) was a British Army officer who fought throughout the Second World War armed with a longbow, bagpipes, and a basket-hilted Scottish broadsword.
Nicknamed "Fighting Jack Churchill" and "Mad Jack", he is known for the motto: "Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed." It is claimed that Churchill also carried out the last recorded longbow and arrow killing in action, shooting a German NCO in 1940 in a French village during the Battle of France.[SUP][1][/SUP]

 

[Tengu]

Wallace definatley, as he allowed for spirituality unlike Darwin.

Rae, no, as he was probably wrong. Franklins men had plenty of food, -in lead tins.

A symptom of lead poisoning is lack of appetite so they likley died amid plenty.

My contribution is Mark Aurel Stein

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurel_Stein

A guy who filled entire rooms of the British Museum. He also dedicated his books to his mother. (he was that kind of person.)

 

[nic a char]

I prefer Mears' analysis to "Rae, no, as he was probably wrong. Franklins men had plenty of food, -in lead tins."

 

[nic a char]

William Rees - The Dangerous Disconnect Between Economics and Ecology

 

[Tengu]

Could it be they had no tin opener?

(Having recently suffered such a deficiency I deeply sympathise.)

 

[Blundstoned Love]

Rae, no, as he was probably wrong. Franklins men had plenty of food, -in lead tins.

I hope you're jesting as I think the cannibalism is now accepted.

http://www.livescience.com/51614-doomed-franklin-expedition-cannibalism.html

 

[Robson Valley]

It's both fun and educational. Down right enlightening. Those fine, upstanding folks at Mossack Fonseca in Panama.

 

[Macaroon]

William Rees - The Dangerous Disconnect Between Economics and Ecology

Bullseye!

 

[tracker1972]

May I offer up Mary Kingsley, who tried, very unfashionably to suggest that maybe Africa wasn't populated by savages after all... A fairly radical view in the late 1800's. She seemed fairly determined to break the shackles of a normal life for a woman of the time, albeit making the most of the privileges she was afforded.
Time makes many legends, but I would liked to have spent some time with her to see how many, if any, of the tales of daring-do were true.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kingsley
...and...
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/explorers/1.html

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