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DarkCrawler posted:Saying this as a completely straight dude, Stalin may have been a mass murdering sociopath, but he was pretty loving stunning looking too. All the way to the old age too (looking at you Tito, Castro, and Mao...wait, no Mao was always ugly). Keep in mind that most of the photos that exist of him after the revolution were very heavily doctored to remove his personal blemish's and his nasty smallpox scars, they were so prominent that he was known as "the pockmarked one" while he was operating in the Georgian underground. He was also short!
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khwarezm posted:Keep in mind that most of the photos that exist of him after the revolution were very heavily doctored to remove his personal blemish's and his nasty smallpox scars, they were so prominent that he was known as "the pockmarked one" while he was operating in the Georgian underground. C'mon dude. Stop killin' my Stalin Boner
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Mata Hari. Dancer, courtesan, and suspected German spy during the First World War. I would have loved to have watched her perform. Hell, I might even have been willing to surrender valuable state secrets to her.   After the war, when she was captured and tried by the French, she refused a blindfold when facing her firing squad, promising the French soldiers that they would see a "beautiful execution."
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khwarezm posted:Keep in mind that most of the photos that exist of him after the revolution were very heavily doctored to remove his personal blemish's and his nasty smallpox scars, they were so prominent that he was known as "the pockmarked one" while he was operating in the Georgian underground. Yeah, well, Edward James Olmos, so there.  Also, shortness doesn't stop people from looking good. Actually surprisingly common with revolutionaries too:     (Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Josip Broz Tito and Ho Chi Minh)
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DarkCrawler posted:Saying this as a completely straight dude, Stalin may have been a mass murdering sociopath, but he was pretty loving stunning looking too. All the way to the old age too (looking at you Tito, Castro, and Mao...wait, no Mao was always ugly). You're being a bit harsh on the Great Helmsman, he wasn't that ugly:  Speaking of attractive communists, young Nicolae Ceaucescu, age 18:  Rough Lobster posted:Came here to post this! What a good looking motherfucker. That's Lyudmilla Pavlichenko, one of the greatest snipers and the greatest female snipers. She had 309 kills. Also, Woody Guthrie wrote a song about her: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHKjOl9ocR0
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I posted her in the "Good Lookin'" thread but Josephine Baker. Very regal.  
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Rasler posted:By the way, here's Kaiser Wilhelm, the "other" cousin: He had to pay for his good looks with a deformed little flipper left hand. I don't think there is a single photo of him where he isn't hiding his left hand somehow. Usually he's holding a sword in a way that makes it seem normal, or he's holding his left hand inside his right.
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Young Napoleon was pretty much as pretty as Josephine, but for someone other people might not be aware of... Zapata was loving intense:  And then North of the border we had Ruth Etting, who is my ideal woman.   Mary Pickford was also a dainty thing (she was like, four and a half feet tall):  
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Franz Liszt His daughter married the talented but hideous Richard Wagner with his freakishly large head so I guess the gene pool evened out in the end.
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 Alan Turing I've always found him attractive. Considered the father of modern computer science and artificial intelligence. He helped the Allies win World War II by developing techniques for breaking German ciphers, including Enigma. He suffered criminal prosecution for being gay, which was illegal in the UK at the time. He died in 1954 of cyanide poisoning, by eating a poisoned apple. In 2009, the British Prime Minister apologized on behalf of the British government for the treatment he received after the war, but the British government still refuses to pardon him.
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Leslie Nielson Goddamn.
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My own nomination for "Sexiest Computer Scientist":  Ada Lovelace.
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Pre-Raphaelite Artists when they were younger Dante Gabriel Rossetti  Arthur Hughes  And Phillip Otto Runge, who was a German Romantic painter.
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Rakugoon posted:Young Napoleon was pretty much as pretty as Josephine, but for someone other people might not be aware of... Oh,my...he indeed was:  More Mexican hotties: Hola senoritas   Leona Vicario before turning in a good looking fatty:  Vicente Guerrero was our African-Mexican President:  Edit:  I love his hair. Maria Felix, meow:  And finally Tin-Tan  He was a good looker, had a great charisma and was the best pachuco ever:
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whale hunter posted:I bet all of these people smelled horrible. And just imagine what their teeth would be like. Eesh
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You want great facial hair? Antonio Maceo Grajales, the Bronze Titan, is your man. Born a slave, died a Lt General and second in command of the Cuban Army of Independence. 
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 William Walker American Fillibuster and Dictator of Nicaragua, universally the most hated person in Nicaragua even today.  Richard Davis The guy who wrote a book about the dude above, also pretty much responsible for the style of writing and politically fueled psuedo journalism that created the modern news magazine.
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Anna May Wong The first Chinese-American Hollywood movie star and first Asian-American international movie star.    drat. 
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Another for Mexico, Katy Jurado. I have the hugest crush on her from High Noon: And two from American illustration. An early Rosie the Riveter (the figure you usually think of by that name wasn't actually called "Rosie the Riveter" until the 80s, says Wikipedia). I dislike Norman Rockwell, but this gal rocks:  Aaaand the Arrow Collar Man. Modeled on artist JC Leyendecker's boyfriend, Charles Beach, he shows up in many of the Arrow Collar ads.    SUBTEXT, WHAT SUBTEXT
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Andrias Scheuchzeri posted:
You're right. His wife is kind of a dog. 
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I had a crush on this Ancient Egyptian herder as a 13-year old when looking through a picture book for history class. Looks so youthful.
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Philosopher Søren Kierkegaard was all kinds of good looking:
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It's all in the eyes Pola Negri  Maude Adams   Angela Davis  Eartha Kitt  
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Rakugoon posted:Young Napoleon was pretty much as pretty as Josephine, but for someone other people might not be aware of... Which reminds me, Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleons unbelievably vain and shallow sister was also unbelievably hot:   Yes, she literally had a statue built of herself as Venus.
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RAF (Red Army Faction) - was one of post–World War II Germany's most violent and prominent left-wing terror groups. From the left: Jan-Carl Raspe, Gudrun Ensslin (founder) und Andreas Baader (founder)  From the left: Irmgard Möller and Ulrike Meinhof (founder) They were responsible for several bombings and deaths - all 5 commited suicides (supposedly) in their cells in a high-security prison during their trial. Only Möller survived after stabbing herself 4 times in the chest - she still lives today. The whole story is pretty insane and was made into a pretty good movie - Der Baader Meinhof Komplex. I gotta admit it was a good looking group. Palpek has a new favorite as of 14:02 on Apr 13, 2012 |
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khwarezm posted:
 This was a groundbreaking painting in Modernism because it played on the academic conventions of the Venus, Olympia and Odalisque nudes that preceded it. Here the viewer is confronted by the subject directly (she is looking right at you, and rather bored at that) in a way that was unprecedented in the genre. The gritty realism of the painting is striking to me. Olympia is a hottie, not because of her flawless classical beauty, but in her confrontational honesty.
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Palpatine MD posted:That reminds me of another beauty from the arts, Edouard Manet's Olympia. Quite interestingly, the model there went on to be a pretty good artist in her own right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorine_Meurent
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Guy who's mask was on Pharaoh Tutankhamen's face This guy probably isn't King Tut. Odds are it was created for someone else, then co-opted for Tut when he died suddenly. Tut was one ugly motherfucker due to all the in-breeding and such, wouldn't really want that advertised for all future generations.
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MA-Horus posted:Guy who's mask was on Pharaoh Tutankhamen's face Speaking of attractive mummies: http://lastdaysoftheincas.com/wordpress/?p=194 (linked for really well preserved 500 year old dead girl) I'm not saying she's hot in a sexy way because that would be hosed up and gross, I'm just saying I am amazed at how perfectly preserved this beautiful young woman is. It creeps me out a little as she looks so alive, like she could open her eyes at any moment.
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MA-Horus posted:Guy who's mask was on Pharaoh Tutankhamen's face To be fair this mask wasn't based on anybody - it was created according to the strict Egyptian aesthetic canon. The artist learned scultping from real models but the mask wasn't based on a particular person. It's not anathomically correct. Still a beautiful sculpture of course.
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Simón Bolívar, I love men in uniforms. I'm not even kidding: And Dalí, crazy geniuses can be hot as gently caress: 
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Eugene Bullard. An American from Georgia, the first African-American military combat pilot, and the only African-American aviator in WWI, although he never flew for the US. He had kind of a hard-knock life, ran away from home at the age of 11, stowed away on a ship to Europe, ended up in London doing boxing and slapstick with a troupe called "Belle Davis's Freedman Pickaninnies", moved to Paris, and ended up joining the French Foreign Legion when the war broke out in '14. He got injured at Verdun, and while he was recuperating he bet a buddy a cool two grand that he could join the flying corps even though he was black. He was right - got his wings with the Aéronautique Militaire in '17. The insignia on his airplane was a heart with a dagger through it and the words "All Blood Runs Red." He got the nickname "The Black Swallow of Death." Look at that picture. He's so cool.
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Empress Elisabeth "Sissi" of Austria: Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia, born Elisabeth of Hesse:  Princess Louise, one of Queen Victoria's daughters - the only attractive one of her daughters, IMO: 
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Aidan_702 posted:And just imagine what their teeth would be like. Eesh Apparently, the underwear model/Lincoln assassination conspirator guy from pg 1 eating only apples posted:Lewis Powell really did have some fuckin' awful teeth. Photo of a dude holding what is supposed to be Powell's skull on this page.
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InediblePenguin posted:Eugene Bullard. That's one of the most badass things/pictures I've seen in months.
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