Do you know a young person?

[sortius@beige.party]

@ColinTheMathmo I spend a lot of time talking to my kids about people from before 1950, so I think they're ok.

My son is doing a biography report on Sir Nigel Gressley, the designer of the Flying Scotsman, at school (year 3) so it naturally led on to Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Between school and home, I reckon they're across it

[eleanorrees@mas.to]

@ColinTheMathmo Anyone depicted in Horrible Histories. Especially if they've got a song and dance number.

[colinthemathmo@mathstodon.xyz]

@dougmerritt Interesting ... Are you one of today's 10 thousand?

I have another question that is easy to grasp once you get the idea, but I've found no easy way to describe it.

I might start another thread. It's about questions where the number of people who know the answer is mid range, but the reactions of everyone is astonishment that anyone else would or would not know the answer.

[colinthemathmo@mathstodon.xyz]

@dougmerritt But it's late here and I have an early start tomorrow. I might leave it for now.

[mpark@mathstodon.xyz]

@ColinTheMathmo (polling a 4th and a 6th grader) Dr. Seuss (Theodore something) . Milton Hershey. Galileo. Frida Kahlo. Plato. Socrates. Aristotle. Homer. Julius Ceasar. Nero. Commodus. Caligula. Augustus Caesar. Napolean. Blackbeard. Neil Armstrong. Shakespeare. Alexander Hamilton. Queen Elizabeth the 1st. Queen Elizabeth the 2nd. Adolf Hitler. George Washington. Abraham Lincoln. Theodore Roosevelt. Thomas Jefferson. Eliza Hamilton. Aaron Burr. Leonardo DaVinci. Lafayette. Lucille Ball. The Wright Brothers. Walt Disney. Nicola Tesla. Thomas Edison. Vincent Van Gogh. And they're bored now.

[bit101@mstdn.social]

@ColinTheMathmo From my daughter, who is 23. Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, C. Columbus, Henry VIII, Ada Lovelace, Hitler, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Jesus, Buddha, Ghengis Khan.

[colinthemathmo@mathstodon.xyz]

@mpark That's a fabulous list ... Thank you so much!!

And thank them so much!!

[colinthemathmo@mathstodon.xyz]

@eleanorrees Never seen or heard HH, and it would be interesting to know what had stuck for the kids.

[bit101@mstdn.social]

@ColinTheMathmo she wanted to keep going. She got way too into it.

[colinthemathmo@mathstodon.xyz]

@bit101 It can become a fun game to play ... then perhaps look at putting them in order.

Is be interested to know where it goes ...

[khleedril@cyberplace.social]

@ColinTheMathmo Does Edmund Blackadder count? King Arthur?

[dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz]

@ColinTheMathmo
> Are you one of today's 10 thousand?

I don't know what that means.

Edit: I guess it rings a bell; something about that there's *always* someone who doesn't know what you're talking about.

Looking up Fonteyn, perhaps she was discussed less internationally after her retirement than the other 4 dancers you listed (I'm not including Joan of Arc because I don't recall where you stand on absurdist humor).

> early start tomorrow.

G'night!

[ailbhe@mendeddrum.org]

@ColinTheMathmo "did Horrible Histories mention them?"

[skewray@mathstodon.xyz]

@ColinTheMathmo Many kids, including mine, know who Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raffaello were, because of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

[pauamma@mstdn.social]

@ColinTheMathmo @shapr Is that in years? Months? If years, I would qualify as young and I don't think you meant to include me, but 73.5 months (6 years and change) feels like limiting the sample too much.

[floricx@lipn.info]

@ColinTheMathmo My 9-yo daughter immediately answered Beethowen (she's taking piano lessons).

[artharg@mastodon.nl]

@TrueNorthSpice @ColinTheMathmo It’s just that “weary” has two meanings: “tired” and “being in a state of ‘WTF is *that*?!’”. The emoji is for the second meaning, but—as always happens—people started using it for the first too.

[tpfto@mathstodon.xyz]

@dougmerritt the "ten thousand" thingie is from xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1053/

[dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz]

@tpfto
Ah! Yes, I'd forgotten that one; thanks.

[icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz]

@ColinTheMathmo Bill (12yo): "David Attenborough" (brief conversation about what you probably mean) "I know some world war two leaders: Churchill, Hitler, the Italian one... Mussolini? Probably all the kings and queens back to William the Conqueror." (I suggest science and music). "Marie Curie. Beethoven. Mozart." I'm sure he would go on for hours once he got going, he's watched/read a LOT of Horrible Histories.