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    Found this wonderful picture that's just chock full of figures from ancient history to modern times. Do you spot familiar ones in the crowd?
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    That's really funny.


    It looks like Putin is Mike Tyson's drinking buddy.

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    A little more than half, I think. The guys on the balcony, on the right, are a complete mystery to me.
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    Default Re: Faces of History - how many can you name?

    at George Bush in that pic, how did he even get there?

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    I didn't get too many.... a fair few were just educated guesses...

    Is the tall black guy Jordan ?

    Is the woman halfway across the picture Queen Victoria ?

    Who is the woman next to the piano ? some famous actress im assuming ? audrey hepburn ?

    The little girl ?

    and which ones supposed to be ceasar ? i did have one down until i noticed the other 2...

    Great picture!!

    Is it supposed to be clinton at the back holding something ?

    Edit: I can't find bush!
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    the little girl is shirley temple, i think
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    Default Re: Faces of History - how many can you name?

    To Little Griz:


    I didn't get too many.... a fair few were just educated guesses...

    Is the tall black guy Jordan ?
    Next to the Basketball, yes.

    Is the woman halfway across the picture Queen Victoria ?

    I think it's Elizabeth 2, Victoria had less squinty eyes


    Who is the woman next to the piano ? some famous actress im assuming ? audrey hepburn ?

    Yesh.

    The little girl ?

    Shirley Temple (as Hoohah guy said)

    and which ones supposed to be ceasar ? i did have one down until i noticed the other 2...

    Not sure, haven't found him

    Great picture!!

    Is it supposed to be clinton at the back holding something ?

    Me Thineth so.

    Edit: I can't find bush!

    Top row... under somebody else, and looking for him.




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    That's a great picture there, how did you find it?

    There's seems to be a lot of Chinese historical figures there... Any one knows who the balcony people are except Dante?

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    I like michael jordan just chillin out. And Osama marching off into th distance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LittleGrizzly View Post
    Is the woman halfway across the picture Queen Victoria ?

    Who is the woman next to the piano ? some famous actress im assuming ? audrey hepburn ?
    I recognised four women in the picture. The giraffe with a crown is Elizabeth II, the blonde is Marilyn Monroe, the one next to the piano is Audrey Hepburn from her Breakfast at Tiffany's poster, and the Mad Woman (aka Thatcher). There's a fifth, who I presume is Empress Dowager Ci Xi. Oh, almost forgot Mother Teresa.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KukriKhan View Post
    A little more than half, I think. The guys on the balcony, on the right, are a complete mystery to me.
    The guy in the bush is Dante, from Boticelli's portrait.

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    What is that monstrocity next to Putin? It's like some kind of octoman.
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    mike tyson
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    To the right of Putin.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KukriKhan View Post
    A little more than half, I think. The guys on the balcony, on the right, are a complete mystery to me.
    The guy with the laruel wreath and the red robe is Martin Luther.


    Quote Originally Posted by LittleGrizzly
    The little girl ?
    Shirely Temple-Black.

    Quote Originally Posted by LittleGrizzly
    and which ones supposed to be ceasar ? i did have one down until i noticed the other 2...
    The guy next Arafat is supposed to be Caesar I think.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KukriKhan View Post
    A little more than half, I think. The guys on the balcony, on the right, are a complete mystery to me.
    Besides Dante, the three men on the balcony are the Chinese artists, Dai Dudu, Li Tiezi, and Zhang An, that created this.
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    I'm somewhat disappointed that the artists didn't paint Waldo in there.
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    The man under the table beside Putin, who is he?
    I'm going to guess... Lewis Carroll
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    I'm going to reupdate the image when I get home tonight. He's a couple I'm not convinced on though:


    Quote Originally Posted by Quintus.JC View Post
    The following two finding I own to my mother:
    The fellow with glasses on the left side of Freud is Norman Bethune, a Canadian physicist famous for his contributions in the Spanish civil war and more famously the Sino-Japanese and Chinese civil war.
    I've never seen an image of Bethune wearing glasses, so that makes me believe it isn't him.


    Edit: Found one!


    Quote Originally Posted by Hosakawa Tito View Post
    I'm going to guess... Lewis Carroll
    Lewis Carroll always looks really really sad in ever photo of him I've ever seen.

    For some reason, I think that's an actor that I just can't place, possibly from the silent movie era... But I know I've seen that face before.
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    Is that Freud standing next to Tyson.

    Looks like Mussolini next to Saddam.

    If I'm not mistaken Henry Ford is next to Charlie Chaplin.

    I love how Marlon Brando is just chilling with Che and Fidel. Hehe.
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