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Lord Lambeth posted:I think Leni Riefenstahl was rather pretty. So did Hitler! Maybe. Man, I would love to see a romantic comedy about Leni Riefenstahl and Hitler.
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Hitler would have to be the maniac pixie girl or I ain't watching.
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Lord Lambeth posted:Hitler would have to be the maniac pixie girl or I ain't watching. Now I really need to see this. Everyone look at Leslie Howard; he is secretly my boyfriend. According to a friend of mine who's a historian, he may have been deliberately shot down during WWII because, as the Scarlet Pimpernel, he was too important a symbol of England's strength. No idea if this story is true, but either way, rrrrrr!   
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Feb 5, 2013 06:02
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I think a lot of guys were deliberately shot down during WWII since that's kind of what air warfare is all about.
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Jerry Cotton posted:I think a lot of guys were deliberately shot down during WWII since that's kind of what air warfare is all about. Well, I am terribly sorry.  EDIT: Looks like my friend wasn't exactly right, but she wasn't exactly wrong, either: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOAC_Flight_777#Theories_for_the_attack Here, look at this attractive person and don't grumble so much: 
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Feb 5, 2013 07:49
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No idea who this dude is, but he's pretty cute: And this is my great grandpa, who I think is super handsome   Carl H Lentz by Donrufie, on Flickr I'm also related to these sassy mutton chops:  John H Sweetser by Donrufie, on Flickr Who was also an original goon (once his neckbeard grew in):  John H Sweetser 2 by Donrufie, on Flickr It seems hard for folks to look unpleasant in antique pictures.
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Feb 8, 2013 03:50
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This is Zitkala-Sa, a Sioux writer, musician and political activist. And she was gorgeous in her spare time.    
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Feb 8, 2013 23:12
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Feb 9, 2013 00:40
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 Fabre d'Églantine. Revolutionary, poet, playwright, shoddy conman. And (in this portrait anyway) kind of a hottie.
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Feb 9, 2013 02:42
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bringmyfishback posted:Well, I am terribly sorry. Josephine Baker
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Feb 9, 2013 02:53
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Rickycat posted:Josephine Baker I went to an exhibition in DC maybe six years ago that was dedicated to her. So glorious. I am just obsessed with her smile! 
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Feb 9, 2013 06:42
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Some picture I stumbled across on imgur, ostensibly it's from the 1930s. He's clearly a Dapper Dan man.
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Feb 9, 2013 20:35
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KozmoNaut posted:Some picture I stumbled across on imgur, ostensibly it's from the 1930s. Is it just me or does the lady behind him look kind of like Meg White?
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Feb 9, 2013 21:04
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KozmoNaut posted:Some picture I stumbled across on imgur, ostensibly it's from the 1930s. that loving mustache so goddamn smooth
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Feb 9, 2013 21:27
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KozmoNaut posted:Some picture I stumbled across on imgur, ostensibly it's from the 1930s. I didn't know you could look that trim slouching shirtless in a tent city, but that's the Depression for you.
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Feb 9, 2013 22:01
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KozmoNaut posted:Some picture I stumbled across on imgur, ostensibly it's from the 1930s. I thought it was Margret Schroeder from Boardwalk Empire who eventually left Nucky Thompson and fell in love with this dapper vagrant when the Depression kicked in.
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Feb 10, 2013 11:54
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 This guy was a Baptist pastor from Hell's Kitchen in the 1800s
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Feb 11, 2013 00:31
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 Take a guess who this studly thing is! Albert Einstein.  That is supposedly a young Harry Reid, and from that angle he seems not to have been bad looking.  Plus the only portrait of Vlad Tepes I've ever seen that didn't make him look like a bug-eyed weirdo or.....uh, the kind of guy who would impale people alive.
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 That's quite the rod you have there, Phineas Gage.
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Feb 13, 2013 00:05
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 Alexandre Yersin who discovered Yersinia Pestis pathogen of the bubonic plague.
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 Sylvia Plath was brilliant with words. And cute in a tragic sort of way.  As was James Dean. (There's a reason he has a porn star named after him)  Hedy Lamarr was Beautiful and brilliant. QuickbreathFinisher posted:I think he's been posted here before, but, while not a poet, Nikola Tesla is a gorgeous science man and I hope to meet his modern-day equivalent. I have a thing for Eastern Europeans. It's such a shame that Tesla was abstinent. He was a SEXY man of science, who could have had a plethora of brilliant beautiful babies. Alas,
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Feb 13, 2013 20:00
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Quentin Aanenson, WWII pilot and my favorite part of Ken Burns' The War 
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Feb 13, 2013 21:23
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Shaman Ooglaboogla posted:
And also pretty clearly Levon Helm's great-grandfather. 
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Feb 13, 2013 21:39
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KozmoNaut posted:Some picture I stumbled across on imgur, ostensibly it's from the 1930s. That's a Social Security Number tattooed on his arm, something done under some of FDR's programs. A bit of Googling led me to this "A public records search shows that 535-07-5248 belonged to one Thomas Cave, born July 1912, died in 1980 in Portland."
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Elim Garak posted:And also pretty clearly Levon Helm's great-grandfather. poo poo, thanks for making me sad. I'd managed to forget Levon had croaked. Time to fire up The Last Waltz.
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bringmyfishback posted:So did Hitler! Speaking of women Hitler found pretty, I've always thought Eva Braun was super pretty. She did stand by one of history's worst men though, and supposedly like to kick dogs, so that kind of detracts. The prettiest of pretty people though may in fact be Lilian Gish. 
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This thread is so drat cool.
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 George Antheil, the self-described "Bad Boy of Music." One legend has it that he was jealous of the riot that happened at the premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. He wanted there to be a riot at one of his concerts so badly that, while he was on stage, he had the ushers very obviously lock all the doors and then placed a gun on the piano. Also, he and Hedy Lamarr co-developed a "secret communications system" that is still used in telecommunication. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Antheil edit: vvv I didn't notice that. That's hilarious and fantastic. ZoeDomingo has a new favorite as of 17:19 on Feb 14, 2013 |
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If I'm reading this right, they designed a frequency hopping communications system that the Navy used to communicate from a conversation that started out as "How can I make my tits bigger". quote:
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I have loved Antheil ever since I learned about him in my 20th-century music course. His most famous work, the Ballet Mécanique, was composed to go along with a film of the same name by Fernand Léger. Léger ended up not using the score as the soundtrack, but back in the 1990s someone put the two together. You can see the result here.
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Beardless posted:This is Zitkala-Sa, a Sioux writer, musician and political activist. And she was gorgeous in her spare time.
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bringmyfishback posted:So did Hitler! Maybe. Man, I would love to see a romantic comedy about Leni Riefenstahl and Hitler. That'd be a boring movie considering they never ended up doing anything together.  KozmoNaut posted:Some picture I stumbled across on imgur, ostensibly it's from the 1930s. holy moly I don't recall if he was posted earlier, but a man I always found attractive for some odd reason was George Washington.  
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Vaginal Reward posted:That'd be a boring movie considering they never ended up doing anything together. Well, obviously when I envisioned a romantic comedy about Leni Riefenstahl and Hitler, I thought it would be very historically accurate. 
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I don't know who she was -- or if she was even real or multiple people -- but this favorite model of John William Waterhouse has always stunned me. Even allowing for some artistic license, just... wow.    I know the Pre-Raphaelites had some models they shared, but I don't think I remember seeing this one outside of JWW. dupersaurus has a new favorite as of 03:13 on Feb 16, 2013 |
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 Claus von Stauffenberg came close to blowing up Hitler, and right on the spot at blowing up my heart.  His wife Nina was almost as pretty as he was.
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Jiang Qing needs more love.  
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Gen. Ripper posted:Jiang Qing needs more love. It's a shame she didn't keep her looks as she aged, though. The pictures of her on trial during the Gang of Four days are not flattering. 
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Archer2338 posted:It's a shame she didn't keep her looks as she aged, though. The pictures of her on trial during the Gang of Four days are not flattering. I'm thinking of that part in America: The Book where it's remarked that young Russian women are super-hot, but old Russian women are super-ugly. Asians seem to have a similar thing going on.
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Everyone says that but I never see anyone want to gently caress grandmas.
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