blktour

Can anyone really find out who are all these people in this picture?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/famous-faces.jpg

I can only name about 10 of them or so. Boy am I a newb.

inBOIL

Lenin, Pele, Hitler, Clinton, Audrey Hepburn, Charlie Chaplin, Mike Tyson, Putin, Shirley Temple, Einstein, Mandela?, Freud?, Van Gogh?, Shakespeare, Churchill, Bruce Lee, Elvis, Stalin, Marx, Mozart?, Lincoln, Mao, Napoleon, Genghis Khan?, Che, Yasser Arafat, Marilyn Monroe?, Mother Teresa, Bismarck?, Gandhi.

I'd need higher resolution to figure out some of the others, and some I have no clue about.

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Xerxys

I counted 20-23 people give or take some who I know their names but can't think of right now, some who like napoleon or Lenin I think I might be guessing.

blktour

Naming some that inBoil didnt:

Sadam, Tony Blair to the left of Einstien I think, The god father, Fidel Casto, George Bush, Osama, Michael Jordan,

The_Jazz

Bill Gates, Moses, Pele, Lenin, Bill Clinton, Gengis Khan, Peter the Great, Bruce Lee, Churchill, de Gualle, Margaret Thatcher, Elvis, Shakespeare, Saddam, Aubrey Hepburn, Beethoven, Mussolini, Chaing Ki Shek, Ghandi, Charlie Chaplin, Mike Tyson, Shirley Temple, Stalin, QE II and I'm bored.

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"There ought to be limits to freedom." - George W. Bush
"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo

ngdawg

I got 36....some of those are pretty bad interpretations.

Chaplin, Mao, Ghandi, Mike Tyson, SHirley Temple, Einstein, Nehru, Picasso, Toulous latrec (sp), Eisenhower, Michael, Jordan, Newton, Ghengis Khan, Prince Charles, Pavarotti, Mother Teresa, Dali, Caesar, Arafat, Marilyn Monroe, Brando, Castro, Che Guevera, Napoleon, Lincoln, Frederick DOuglass, Chiang Chi Shek, Stalin, Audrey Hepburn, Pele, Hitler, Margaret Thatcher, Bruce Lee, Shakespeare, Elvis and Winston Churchill.

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Don't blame me. I didn't vote for either of'em.

JumpinJesus

George Michael, Bernie Goetz, Linda Lavin, Gavin McLeod, Eric B. Rakim, Lars Thorwald, Archie Leach, Nena Hagen, Sugar Ray Leonard, Kristy McNichol, Floyd the Barber, Abe Vigoda, Tyler Durden, Debbie Gibson, Nelly Furtado, Nell Carter, Dana Plato, Wendy O Williams, Corky Thatcher, Paulie Walnuts, Baby Spice, and some guys with beards - probably the Doobie Brothers.

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gardens

I can name some of them
what gets me is why some of the "lesser/unimportant" people are mixed in there with the biggies

any other similar paintings? I know I've seen at least one other that was just people of the European Middles ages (I'll see if I can't find it again)

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Cynosure

Heh. You might want to take another look at those faces, once you sober up.

little_tippler

Article on this painting 103 Famous Faces

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918

blktour

little_tippler, Thanks!

MSD

I think I have about 40, with 15 or 20 more I recognize but can't put a name to the face. I'll stop back during lunch and try to label them.

SSJTWIZTA

poor parakeet gets no recognition.

neither does the horse. oh wait, thats prince charles.

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Then they came for the communists and I did not speak out because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for me And there was no one left to speak out for me.
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