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How many of these famous people can you recognize?

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Chai
 
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Reply Wed 2 Apr, 2008 02:33 pm
Francis wrote:
Anybody's seen Aristotle...?



No fair with Aristotle, Moses, or some of the others...we don't know really what they looked like.

Oh yeah, Shirley Temple, forgot her.

I get Ghengis and somebody else mixed up.



Jesus, Mother Theresa sure looked like death eatin' a ham sandwich.
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sozobe
 
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Reply Wed 2 Apr, 2008 02:38 pm
Francis wrote:
Good list, Sozobe.

Where's Netanyahu?

Not near Sharon I guess...


<bonks self on forehead>

No, I meant Sharon.

Thanks for the Dante pic!
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sozobe
 
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Reply Wed 2 Apr, 2008 02:40 pm
Elvis
Churchill

Who's the young Chinese (?) guy in the red t-shirt? Not Yao Ming?
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Francis
 
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Reply Wed 2 Apr, 2008 02:44 pm
Chai wrote:
No fair with Aristotle, Moses, or some of the others...we don't know really what they looked like.


At least we know for Aristotle, as there is a bust by the Greek sculptor Lysippe:


http://www.histomobile.com/histomob/internet/techniqu/15901.jpg
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sozobe
 
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Reply Wed 2 Apr, 2008 02:49 pm
Shakespeare
Stonehenge
Easter Island
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Francis
 
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Reply Wed 2 Apr, 2008 02:51 pm
sozobe wrote:
Who's the young Chinese (?) guy in the red t-shirt? Not Yao Ming?


Yes, it really looks like him..
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Green Witch
 
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Reply Wed 2 Apr, 2008 02:55 pm
cyphercat wrote:
Oh-ho, I take it back--I didn't see Audrey before! That makes a grand total of five women...


You can't see more women because the men are holding them down.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Wed 2 Apr, 2008 02:58 pm
Dante, I tried to make him into the Duke de Montefeltro...
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Francis
 
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Reply Wed 2 Apr, 2008 03:01 pm
Have you spotted a Giuseppe there, Osso?
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sozobe
 
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Reply Wed 2 Apr, 2008 03:05 pm
Pyramids
Great Wall of China
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Francis
 
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Reply Thu 3 Apr, 2008 06:23 am
No more guesses?

There's still people waiting to be named....
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sozobe
 
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Reply Thu 3 Apr, 2008 06:28 am
I got curious about the painting, and tried to find it, and did, with pretty complete lists of who's in it (not totally complete), so I'm stopping the guessing.

I did find a version with numbers on it though that might make it easier to say who's who (as in, "34" instead of "towards the middle, kind of to the right, between that one guy and the grumpy-looking bearded guy"), if you'd like me to post that. (Just numbers, no identifications.)
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sozobe
 
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Reply Thu 3 Apr, 2008 06:37 am
I was trying to find that back and found something even better (though I can still get the numbers-but-no-IDs one if you'd like) -- just scroll over the person's face in the image and the name pops up! I can post that when we think it's wrapped up, it's very cool.

One thing I'll say is that the three young guys around Dante, up on the balcony, are the painters.
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Francis
 
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Reply Thu 3 Apr, 2008 07:01 am
Fine, Soz, I'd like to see the pic with identifications later.

I guessed almost everybody but I'm not sure though...
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Bi-Polar Bear
 
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Reply Thu 3 Apr, 2008 07:17 am
Trigger in the upper right.
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Noddy24
 
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Reply Thu 3 Apr, 2008 02:18 pm
Green Witch--

Quote:
You can't see more women because the men are holding them down.




Thank you.
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cyphercat
 
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Reply Thu 3 Apr, 2008 02:53 pm
Yeah, I was going to thank Green Witch for that too...nicely put Wink
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Thu 3 Apr, 2008 09:04 pm
Verdi, Francis? Probably there, but I didn't nab him.
Or maybe Garibaldi..
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Kratos
 
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Reply Sat 5 Apr, 2008 07:52 pm
Guan Yu, Empress Dowager CiXi, Sun Yat Sen
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Francis
 
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Reply Sun 6 Apr, 2008 05:51 am
ossobuco wrote:
Verdi, Francis? Probably there, but I didn't nab him.
Or maybe Garibaldi..


I thought it was Garibaldi, but it turns out it's Maxim Gorki.
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