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Tables of Contents for Gurps Who's Who 2
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
3
1
About the Compiler
3
1
About GURPS
3
1
The Character Conversion Process
4
2
Selection Criteria
4
1
Realism
4
1
Game Mechanics
4
2
The Ancient World And The Dark Ages
6
22
Who Might Have Been?
7
1
Sargon II (Sharru-kin) (mid-8th century B.C.-705 B.C.)
Usurper of Assyria, mighty in war and stern in government
8
2
Nebuchadrezzar II (Nabu-kudurri-usur) (late 7th century B.C.-562 B.C.)
Last of the great kings of Babylon
10
2
Pythagoras (c.570 B.C.-c.480 B.C.)
Brilliant early mathematician-and mystic prophet of number
12
2
Archimedes (287 B.C.-212 B.C.)
Absent-minded engineering genius of the ancient world
14
2
Hannibal (247 B.C.-183 B.C.)
Superb Carthaginian general, rightly feared by Rome
16
2
Cleopatra (69 B.C.-30 B.C.)
The Serpent of the Nile and Queen of Kings
18
2
St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
Bishop and controversialist, father of medieval Christian thought
20
2
Attila the Hun (400-453)
``Scourge of God,'' or overblown bandit chief?
22
2
Shield Jaguar Lord (It's in Balam Ahau) (647-742)
Taboo-twisting Mayan lord, great in war, peace, and lifespan
24
2
Li Po (701-762)
Noted Chinese poet and individualist
26
2
The Middle Ages and Renaissance
28
26
Who Might Have Been?
29
1
Rodrigo Diaz (El Cid) (1043-1099)
Hero of the Spanish defense against the conquering Moors
30
2
Maimonides (1135-1204)
Doctor, philosopher, jurist, theologian
32
2
Chinggis [Genghis] Khan (1162-1227)
Quantitatively greatest of all world conquerors
34
2
Marco Polo (1254-1323)
The traveler who brought the East back to Europe
36
2
Roger de Flor (1260-1305)
Ruthless mercenary and would-be ruler
38
2
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Poet of undying love, Inferno, and Paradise
40
2
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
In fourteen hundred and ninety-two
42
2
Richard III (1452-1485)
Brutally usurped king, or Shakespearean monster?
44
2
Suleyman (Suleiman) the Magnificent (1494-1566)
Greatest of the great Ottoman sultans
46
2
Granuaile (Grace O'Malley of Connaught) (1530-1603)
``Grace the Gambler,'' pirate queen of Connaught
48
2
Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582)
The fiery soldier who began the unification of Japan
50
2
Matteo Ricci (1552-1610)
Jesuit scholar, master of the memory palace, and missionary to China
52
2
Enlightenment and Industry
54
40
Who Might Have Been?
55
1
Samuel de Champlain (1570-1635)
Noted French explorer and Father of Canada
56
2
Nzinga (1582-1663)
African queen, mistress of ritual and politics
58
2
Charles I (1600-1649)
Romantic loser of the English Civil War
60
2
Ninon de Lanclos (1623-1705)
Courtesan, intellectual, and patroness of the arts
62
2
Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
Spy turned first female professional English author
64
2
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Gravity, calculus-and much more
66
2
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)
Innovative scientific artist and traveler
68
2
Le Comte de Saint-Germain (1710-1784)
Brilliant confidence trickster (or master of the uncanny?)
70
2
James Cook (1728-1779)
Master navigator, perfectionist explorer
72
2
Goethe (1749-1832)
Widely-admired intellectual-a romantic polymath
74
2
Horatio Nelson (1758-1805)
The Royal Navy's presiding genius, victor of Trafalgar
76
2
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte (1763-1844)
Talented, unreliable Napoleonic general-and opportunist
78
2
Napoleon (1769-1821)
Charismatic conqueror, shaper of his age
80
2
Cheng Shih (1775-1844)
Mistress of the China Seas-history's greatest pirate?
82
2
Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884)
Pioneering private detective and spymaster
84
2
Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)
Iron-willed victor of the American Civil War
86
2
William Walker (1824-1860)
``Gray-Eyed Man of Destiny'' scoundrel or ``friend to the oppressed''?
88
2
George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876)
Much-admired glory hound and menace to his own troops
90
2
John Wesley Hardin (1853-1895)
Possibly the fastest gun in the West, with a body-count to match
92
2
The Twentieth Century
94
32
Who Might Have Been?
95
1
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
America's most energetic president?
96
2
E.W. Barton-Wright (1865-?)
The get-rich-quick schemer who brought Judo to Europe
98
2
Harry Houdini (1874-1926)
History's greatest escape artist
100
2
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Soldier, writer-and Britain's wartime leader
102
2
Josef Stalin (1879-1953)
``Man of Steel'' with a crushing grip on Russia
104
2
Robert Goddard (1882-1945)
Pioneer of rocketry
106
2
Richard E. Byrd (1888-1957)
Polar explorer and pioneer aviator
108
2
Adolph Hitler (1889-1945)
Presiding dark genius of the Nazi regime
110
2
Erwin Rommel (1891-1944)
Germany's WWII master of tactics and strategy
112
2
Manfred von Richthofen (1892-1918)
The Red Baron, Ace of Aces
114
2
Charles ``Lucky'' Luciano (1897-1962)
Shaper of the Syndicate, capo a tutti capo
116
2
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Man of action and honored author
118
2
John von Neumann (1903-1957)
Mathematical genius of unparalleled breadth
120
2
Robert E. Howard (1906-1936)
Master of pulp fantasy, creator of Conan
122
2
Sid Vicious (1957-1979)
Archetypal punk, doomed by living the lifestyle
124
2
Appendices
126
2
Other Significant Figures
126
2
Index
128