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Richard Feynman is my favourite dude. He's adorable, but you need to see him in motion to get the full effect. It's the excitement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXtnYnoutKk   And on the theme of science, I always love me some Carl Sagan    Now in motion! JULIAN ASSANGE has a new favorite as of 07:27 on Apr 16, 2013 |
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Hello everyone! Dunno if you remember me from pages back, I did some acrylics of photos posted from this page. Well, I'm going to enter one into a local competition and I'm not sure which one to enter....I am also offering a prize of a print of your choosing to one person  Please help me! The entry date is Friday...Help me Goons! ^Links to my Facebook site^ Sorry if this is spam, I'll get rid of it if it is considered such. edit--Thank you! VVVV Rondette has a new favorite as of 12:44 on Apr 24, 2013 |
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I can't recall if I said it before but they're absolutely stunning! Here's to hoping you win Posted on it but I vote for #3.
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Feynman is awesome as hell and was one hell of a character. I would have loved to have chill out with him, same with Carl Sagan. Speaking of Sagan and much, much more recent of a physicist, Brian Cox reminds me a lot of him and is also dreamy to boot.   Rondette posted:Hello everyone! Dunno if you remember me from pages back, I did some acrylics of photos posted from this page. Holy moly, these are amazing. I hope you win and I will definitely vote for you!
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Vanderdeath posted:Speaking of Sagan and much, much more recent of a physicist, Brian Cox reminds me a lot of him and is also dreamy to boot. He's also great on QI whenever he's on.
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 A young Imam Homeini  Rachel, a famous Israeli poet
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wild child of Theodore Roosevelt and just as non-conformist. "She was known as a rule-breaker in an era when women were under great pressure to conform. The American public noticed many of her exploits. She smoked cigarettes in public, rode in cars with men, stayed out late partying, kept a pet snake named Emily Spinach (Emily as in her spinster aunt and Spinach for its green color) in the White House, and was seen placing bets with a bookie."  "Once, a White House visitor commented on Longworth's frequent interruptions to the Oval Office, often because of her political advice. The exhausted president commented to his friend, author Owen Wister, after the third interruption to their conversation and after threatening to throw Longworth 'out the window', "I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both."
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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krystyna_Skarbek Polish WWII heroine and SOE agent Krystyna Skarbek, AKA "Christine Granville". Known as a possible inspiration for the character of Vesper in the James Bond novel Casino Royale. The details of her exploits during the war are incredible. Here is one example: "On 13 August 1944, at Digne, two days before the Allied Operation Dragoon landings in southern France, Cammaerts, Xan Fielding—another SOE agent, who had previously operated in Crete—and a French officer, Christian Sorensen, were arrested at a roadblock by the Gestapo. Skarbek, learning that they were to be executed, managed to meet with Capt. Albert Schenck, an Alsatian who acted as liaison officer between the local French prefecture and the Gestapo. She introduced herself as a niece of British General Bernard Montgomery and threatened Schenck with terrible retribution if harm came to the prisoners. She reinforced the threat with a mercenary appeal—an offer of two million francs for the men's release. Schenck in turn introduced her to a Gestapo officer, a Belgian named Max Waem. For three hours Christine argued and bargained with him and, having turned the full force of her magnetic personality on him... told him that the Allies would be arriving at any moment and that she, a British parachutist, was in constant wireless contact with the British forces. To make her point, she produced some broken... useless W/T crystals.... 'If I were you,' said Christine, 'I should give careful thought to the proposition I have made you. As I told Capitaine Schenck, if anything should happen to my husband [as she falsely described Cammaerts] or to his friends, the reprisals would be swift and terrible, for I don't have to tell you that both you and the Capitaine have an infamous reputation among the locals.' Increasingly alarmed by the thought of what might befall him when the Allies and the Resistance decided to avenge the many murders he had committed, Waem struck the butt end of his revolver on the table and said, 'If I do get them out of prison, what will you do to protect me?'" The agents were released and the event fromed the core of her legend. Sadly she died an untimely and tragic death, murdered by a jilted suitor shortly after the war. With her homeland occupied by the Soviets, it was only fairly she recieved some recognition there.
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I'd like to thank this thread for showing me how handsome young Stalin was and inspiring this cover:
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Apparently someone neglected to show you guys Lucille Ball before I Love Lucy;   And of course the controversial "Lucy's Tits" which rabid fans claim is not a picture of her but I think that we all know the truth...
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 Young man Jefferson Davis!  Just look at that chin.
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Woah, get that Booth family crap out of here. The king of the antebellum American stage was Edwin Forrest: Beloved by Bowery Boys and Ned Buntline alike, he was the first popular American actor, playing everywhere from the camps of San Francisco to the great theaters of New York. Nationalists lauded his "naturalistic" acting style as compared to the "sissified" posturing of classically trained actors like William Macready. His performances were hallmarked by his booming voice and feats of physical prowess. He would eventually travel the world, even going to Russia (where, according to his journal, he had a lot of sex). Of course there is some downside. He was partly responsible for the Astor Place Riot, and unfairly accused his wife of adultery, fighting a court battle against her for, basically, the latter part of his life. And on poets:  John Berryman "Life, friends, is boring/We must not say so/After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns/ we ourselves flash and yearn..."
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Rides Naked posted:Nationalists lauded his "naturalistic" acting style as compared to the "sissified" posturing of classically trained actors like William Macready. So he was a 19th century Marlon Brando?
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 Going to have to go with Madame Nhu, the pseudo-first lady of South Vietnam.
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You would prefer another target, a military target? Then name the system! I grow tired of asking this so it will be the last time: *Where* is the rebel base?
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Gorilla Salad posted:You would prefer another target, a military target? Then name the system! I grow tired of asking this so it will be the last time: *Where* is the rebel base? drat you now I'll never be able to unsee that.
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Militia women in the Spanish Civil War     
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ChlamydiaJones posted:Apparently someone neglected to show you guys Lucille Ball before I Love Lucy; Actresses in this era always make me feel so much better about my nose. For years and years I was so bummed that I didn't inherit my mom's cute little nose, but once I saw photos of Hedy Lamarr and Lucille Ball's profiles, it made me feel heaps better. Even more awesome, was when I realized I got my nose from my grandma, who was drop dead gorgeous when she was young. (I always fawn over a young picture of her when I visit their house. Ever since I was in middle school.)
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This man is 45. It boggles the mind.
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Lookidatfukkinchin. LOOK.
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Came across this website and it made me think of this thread instantly, so here's a treasure trove of pics from around 1850-1920 of mostly young men, half of them famous. http://mydaguerreotypeboyfriend.tumblr.com
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Looks different without the 'tache... but drat that's a handsome young man 
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 Vladimir Ilych Lenin in disguise circa the February Revolution. Sadly that's not his real hair.
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Good lord, I came here to post Lenin too. Here he is looking hotter than Stalin:  His fan-art:  Looking all statesman-like:  Enigmatic, cute and smiley:  "Taxi back to my (publicly owned) place!  " edit: And a sexy communist who applied Marxist philosophy far, far better than the USSR, Thomas Sankara: 
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Stottie Kyek posted:edit: And a sexy communist who applied Marxist philosophy far, far better than the USSR, Thomas Sankara:
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Feeble posted:I'd never heard of him before now but having read his wiki page goddamn. I might not personally think he's handsome but a man like that deserves to have women throwing themselves at him. I'm not sure the man himself would have agreed he deserved that  http://newwavefeminism.tumblr.com/post/10401292500/fyeahblackhistory-womens-liberation-and
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Stottie Kyek posted:edit: And a sexy communist who applied Marxist philosophy far, far better than the USSR, Thomas Sankara: Also goddrat his successor was a piece of poo poo: Wikipedia posted:On October 15, 1987 Sankara was killed by an armed gang with twelve other officials in a coup d'état organised by his former colleague, Blaise Compaoré  Did I mention Compaoré's been in power for 32 straight years ever since? 
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Speaking of Communist hotties: Zhou Enlai, the man who spent his entire life trying to fix everything Mao broke and the 20th century's best diplomat (according to Kissinger). If I had a time machine, I'd make sure Mao "mysteriously vanished" in 1949 so this dreamboat could set things straight.  Aww yeah. 
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 Can't believe I haven't yet seen the wonderful Clara Bow, Hollywood's first "It Girl." (No really, they put her in a movie called, quite unsubtly, "It.") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5vgMWGe444 She seems downright modern when compared with a lot of other silent film-era actresses. She's just enchanting. And, Gary Cooper, who came to represent a certain sort of earthy, unfussy, do-the-right-thing manliness, began his career in the 20s as a totally glammed-out gorgeous young thing.  (Pictured with Lupe Velez, an equally hot historical hottie.)
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H-h-has Hoh-hot-hot Hillary been posted?
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Okay, that pout is adorable  I don't think I'd be able to say no to her no matter what she asked.
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Eegah! posted:
Unfortunately she (allegedly) said some horrible things and was married to a pretty reprehensible man. Not trying to say he was much worse than Uncle Ho however. Speaking of Leftists, Nestor Makhno had a certain kind of smoulder only a romanticized anarchist revolutionary could. His band found itself at war with Bolsheviks (who were sometimes allies), Russian Whites, Hetmanate supporters, Cossacks, German and Austro-Hungarian encroachers and Ukrainian nationalists, which they did pretty successfully before being directly targeted by the victorious Bolshevik party. They were famous for mounting machine guns onto horse-drawn carriages, which fit their lack of heavy equipment and soldiers. He died in exile in France in his mid-40s, which is pretty good for a leftists revolutionary.  (Centre) 
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Douche Wolf 89 posted:They were famous for mounting machine guns onto horse-drawn carriages, which fit their lack of heavy equipment and soldiers. quote:He died in exile in France in his mid-40s, which is pretty good for a leftists revolutionary. (Hell, Trotsky died in exile at age 60.)
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Mr. Mambold posted:H-h-has Hoh-hot-hot Hillary been posted? This is a crosspost from the Idiots on Social Media thread, so pardon the stupid political meme-ing.  I wouldn't mind being bossed around by early 70's Hillary.
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Maxfield Parrish Not only being an exceptional talent in painting and creating colour depth, he had the square jaw masculine look rocking. An absolute stud. Apparently, he was an art-hottie too. He had these amazing techniques. Wikipedia posted:Parrish's art features dazzlingly luminous colors; the color Parrish blue was named in acknowledgement. He achieved the results by means of a technique called glazing where bright layers of oil color separated by varnish are applied alternately over a base rendering (Parrish usually used a blue and white monochromatic underpainting).
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Rough Lobster posted:Have this instead:   The woman from your post is Roza Shanina, who was killed in action right at the end of the war, age 21. Her nickname was supposedly "Horny", she sounded like a bit of a party girl    Apparently these two are Lyudmila Trosky and Nina Slonova, part of a partisan group in Ukraine:  Red Army snipers William Bear posted:The man in charge of UN peacekeepers in Srebrenica in 1995, Lt col Thomas Karremans, failed to prevent a genocide (though it wasn't all his fault: He had restrictive ROEs) rossmum has a new favorite as of 12:01 on Oct 16, 2013 |
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Alain Delon, still the purtiest boy I ever laid eyes on:
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