>Six degrees of separation is the theory that anyone on the planet can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances that has no more than five intermediaries. The theory was first proposed in 1929 by the Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy in a short story called "Chains." <
So what are yours? Tell how it works because that makes it more interesting. I'll start.
Julia Childs (2) I know my mother and my mother knew Julia because they shopped at the same grocery in Cambridge, Mass.
Buckminster Fuller (inventor of the geodesic dome) (2) I know my grandmother, who had tea with Mr. Fuller when he was the guest at her hotel in Connecticut
Winston Churchill (3) I know Merman, who knows his grandfather, who was the doorman at No. 10 Downing Street, who regularly saw the Prime Minister.
