"Sir" before their name, an honorary knighthood is the only form that
can be given to someone who is not British.
Personally I don't agree with the whole thing and if by some miracle I
was ever offered an honour I would refuse it.
Still, the original post was funny.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Heald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 03 January 2004 01:07
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: Tim Berners-Lee to be knighted
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:
HYPERLINK
"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2000/12/31/nhon31.
xml"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2000/12/31/nhon
31.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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