You can be knighted if your not British, just not that high of a rank.  You
cannot however be knighted if you're an American as the constitution
forbids.  There are however honorary American Knights such as Eisenhower.
Norman Schwarzkopf is a Knight of the Order of Bath, and Regan was knighted
at some point.  Here's an article about Spielberg getting an honorary
knighthood:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2000/12/31/nhon31.xml

Tim
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Wayne Putterill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 5:55 PM
  To: CF-Community
  Subject: RE: Tim Berners-Lee to be knighted

  He is British - you can't be knighted unless you are.

  I remember coding for Lynx and Mosaic/Cello back in 95/6, great fun at
  the time, then I got Netscape 0.9 and my surfing (and coding) life
  changed forever...

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Chunshen (Don) Li [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: 02 January 2004 20:55
  To: CF-Community
  Subject: Tim Berners-Lee to be knighted

  According to Yahoo news, Tim Berners-Lee to be knighted,
  URL, HYPERLINK
  "http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=77&e=20&u=/mc/w3cheadbe
  rnersleetobeknighted"http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=77&
  e=20&u=/mc/w3cheadbernersleetobeknighted

  Those of us would remember the days of using 'lynx', and later became
  excited with Mosaic.

  If freedom of thoughts is the cradle of creativity, where's European
  continent's Berners-Lee?  Of course, I'm not blind to great French like
  Voltaire and Hugo etc. etc....

  Don Li
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