View Full Version : Name that Historically Influential Individual!
Lily Adams
07-22-2007, 08:06 PM
History lovers, people who are thirsting for knowledge, and anyone else who is interested, get ready to squirm in your seats!
Post a picture of a historically influential person, and somone guesses who that person is. The historically influential person can be from many time period or place. :D :D It's like the "Movie Scenes Game". Try and add hints so we can learn some new things/do research and find out who it is!
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa144/shesoutofsync/max.jpg
Hints:
1. Nickname: "The Incorruptible".
2. Leader of the French Revolution.
3. Arrested and excecuted by order of the National Convention by charges of tyranny and dictatorship. (How's that for irony? :D)
Okay, GO! Guess! :D
Pendragon
07-23-2007, 12:00 PM
Maximilien Robespierre
Niamh
07-23-2007, 01:41 PM
yep Pen you got it. Just saw this and thought the same but you posted before me!
Question- does the person who gets the qusetion right have to be the one to post the next pic?
Lily Adams
07-23-2007, 04:22 PM
Maximilien Robespierre
:banana:
Question- does the person who gets the qusetion right have to be the one to post the next pic?
Doesn't matter! :) Pretty unrestricted, I would say.
Now somebody else post a picture of someone!
Pendragon
07-24-2007, 12:05 PM
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/7_01.jpg
American author, printer, journalist, scientist, diplomat and statesman
RobinHood3000
07-24-2007, 03:43 PM
...Mr. $100 Bill?
Pendragon
07-25-2007, 03:12 PM
Yep. The ridiculous hat might throw people off, but it was another of old Ben's eccentric ways. Ladies and gentlemen, Benjamin Franklin. Had I added the word "father" to my discription, it might have thrown even Robin off, but yes, Ben had two sons, William and Francis. Francis died as a child of four. William did as much against American as Ben did for it, and Ben's will left him nothing.
Lily Adams
07-25-2007, 03:27 PM
Ahahahaha. I was going to say who it was, but I kind of want more people to get into this game...
Ben Franklin...that pervert. :lol: Him and his "fashionable" furry hat. Did you know women (I believe mostly in France) started wearing those things because of him?
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa144/shesoutofsync/bill.jpg
Hints:
1. Invaded England in 1066.
2. Won the Battle of Hastings to win England in 1066.
3. Died of having his stomach jammed into the horn of a horse's saddle because the horse stopped abruptly. It is said that later when the funeral procession was going on, his corpse was so bloated and full of pus that it exploded in the middle of the funeral and sent people rushing out of the church in agony.
:D :D :D
AimusSage
07-25-2007, 03:33 PM
William the Conquerer. :)
Lily Adams
07-25-2007, 03:38 PM
William the Conquerer. :)
Ahahaha. Too easy, huh? I had a feeling picking him would be. XD
Okay, anybody else wanna try? :D
Weisinheimer
07-25-2007, 03:41 PM
I've never heard of his corpse exploding before. That's pretty cool.
Lily Adams
07-25-2007, 03:51 PM
I've never heard of his corpse exploding before. That's pretty cool.
I know. Pretty wild.
I <3 history.
Pendragon
07-26-2007, 04:50 PM
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/AlexandraEngland.jpg
Royal lady, and lady indeed, she was, she called for the Kings mistress to come see him before he died.
One of her sons would go on to scandalize the country and throw everything away despite her warning.
Oh yes, and she was kind hearted to The Elephant Man, Joseph Merrick, and dined with him in his rooms at the hospital.
BlueSkyGB
07-26-2007, 05:05 PM
Mary of Teck aka Queen consort
Poetess
07-26-2007, 06:33 PM
I like the name!
http://www.utexas.edu/features/archive/2003/graphics/vampires3.jpg
1. Her uncle was King of Poland from 1575 to 1586, and her brother was the Prince of Transylvania
2. She killed more than 600 peasant girls and bathed in their blood
3. She slept with her bisexual aunt, and she has an illegitimate daughter, and three other legitimate children - she was called Countess Dracula
Elizabeth Báthory. I had to look on Wikipedia for this one.
http://geschichtsverein-koengen.de/Marius.jpg
Roman politicion, military reformer, known for his battle in Aix-en-Provence.
Poetess
07-28-2007, 08:38 PM
True Dori!
Gaius Marius?
Correct! I tried to make my hints more vague...didn't seem to work though (Aix-en-Provence = Aquae Sextae).
Poetess
07-30-2007, 08:31 PM
http://faculty.cua.edu/Pennington/Naples/LectureOne/SapphoPompeii.jpg
A lesbian ancient Greek lyric poet
Her birth was sometime between 630 BC and 612 BC
born on the island of Lesbos into an aristocratic family
One of her poems are found in the thread "neglected poets"
Sappho, if I'm not mistaken. I believe the poem was posted by quasimodo1 in the thread 'neglected poets'. This one, right?
Sappho (c.610 - c.580 BC)
Translated by William Bowles (17th century)
Sapho's Ode out of Longinus.
By the same.
I.
THE Gods are not more blest than he,
Who fixing his glad Eyes on thee,
With thy bright Rays his Senses chears,
And drinks with ever thirsty ears.
The charming Musick of thy Tongue,
Does ever hear, and ever long;
That sees with more than humane Grace,
Sweet smiles adorn thy Angel Face.
II.
But when with kinder beams you shine,
And so appear much more divine,
My feeble sense and dazl'd sight,
No more support the glorious light,
And the fierce Torrent of Delight.
Oh! then I feel my Life decay,
My ravish'd Soul then flies away,
Then Faintness does my Limbs surprize,
And Darkness swims before my Eyes.
III.
Then my Tongue fails, and from my Brow
The liquid drops in silence flow,
Then wand'ring Fires run through my Blood,
And Cold binds up the stupid Flood,
All pale, and breathless then I lye,
I sigh, I tremble, and I dye.
Poetess
07-31-2007, 07:10 PM
true Dori :D
now someone else chooses a historically influential individual.
Niamh
08-01-2007, 03:02 PM
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q268/niamhking/rossellini.jpg
He was an Itatian Neo Realist Film maker, famous for documentary footage of the fascist regeme ending in italy, which he used in one of his films shot at the end of the Italian involvement in ww2.
He married a famous scandinavian Actress.
His daughter is also a famous actress.
Granny5
08-01-2007, 03:30 PM
Roberto Rossellini?
Niamh
08-01-2007, 05:21 PM
Roberto Rossellini?
correct!
Granny5
08-01-2007, 09:01 PM
American Revolutionary War Veteran
New York Senator
U.S. Vice President
Duelist
http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1601/1926551/3720863/269188667.jpg
Lily Adams
08-03-2007, 07:30 PM
Aaron Burr (Right?)
This one is oh so easy:
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa144/shesoutofsync/chairman.jpg
Chinese Marxist military and political leader
Launched the "Great Leap Foward"
Died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Granny5
08-03-2007, 07:35 PM
right you are!
rabid reader
08-03-2007, 07:41 PM
Mao, the man who responcible for the most deaths in history (60 million) beating out Stalin (40 million) and Hitler (20 million)
rabid reader
08-03-2007, 07:44 PM
http://home.student.uva.nl/khadija.almourabit/John_Locke.jpg
Note able Philosopher
said that the most important human freedom was the one to rebel against an opressor
Spent most of his life on the run
littlewing53
08-03-2007, 07:56 PM
..wow great post LA!!!...
rabid reader
08-03-2007, 08:03 PM
John Locke.
yeppers
rabid reader
08-12-2007, 11:09 AM
Since no one posted another picture I'll do a real easy one:
http://www.fbuch.com/images/LeonTrotsky1897.JPG
3 hints
Travelled around the world a lot after the raise of Stalin
Was Killed in Mexico with from an ice pick into the back of his skull.
Famous writings mostly revovle around the idea of free art and critizm in a communist state.
(tried to be vague since this guy is so easy to get)
mattieog
08-12-2007, 11:13 AM
Bob Dylan
rabid reader
08-12-2007, 11:14 AM
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is still a live and therefore never killed in mexico
Niamh
08-13-2007, 05:46 AM
Is that trotsky?
rabid reader
08-13-2007, 11:43 AM
yeppers
Niamh
08-13-2007, 01:40 PM
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q268/niamhking/walterraleigh.jpgthis ones easy
Named the state of Virginia
Introduced the potato and tobacco to britain and ireland.
Was given something like 22000 acres of land during the plantations of munster, which covered most of cork and waterford.
hedbanger
08-14-2007, 03:45 AM
Sir Walter Raleigh?
:F
Niamh
08-19-2007, 03:34 PM
yes it is!
rabid reader
08-26-2007, 02:41 PM
since this thread died again I will post another guy:
http://www.historycomesalive.ca/canadians/images/wlyonmac2.jpg
1) Famous Canadian Revolutionary in the 1800s
2) Grandfather of a Canadian Prime Minister who considered his dead mother a confident advisor.
3) Fell to the United States when his revolution failed.
Whifflingpin
08-27-2007, 02:03 PM
Could be William Lyon Mackenzie, Mayor of Toronto, leader of the 1837 Upper Canada Rebellion. He was maternal grandfather of William Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada through most of the 1920s, 30s and 40s.
rabid reader
08-28-2007, 06:05 PM
yeppers
dramasnot6
08-29-2007, 05:23 AM
Let's have another Whifflingpin!
Lily Adams
11-04-2007, 04:21 PM
*breathes life back into own thread*
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa144/shesoutofsync/johnadams.jpg
Hints:
It was his birthday a few days ago.
Nickname: "The Architect of the Revolution".
AdoreroDio claims to be related to him.
He was a really groovy guy.
Granny5
11-04-2007, 07:05 PM
John Adams?
packersfan
11-04-2007, 07:08 PM
John Adams?
no, i bet it would be someone more recent since he was "groovy"
but i truthfully have no idea
Lily Adams
11-04-2007, 08:04 PM
no, i bet it would be someone more recent since he was "groovy"
but i truthfully have no idea
:lol: No, Granny's right. :D I'm an Adams fan. Hence my pen name.
Now someone else!
packersfan
11-04-2007, 08:21 PM
He just wrote a best seller.
He just tried to go for democratic president candidate, but South Carolina didnt accept him.
He runs his own TV show.
(This does fit this thread because-he is part of history, he is influential, and he is an individual, but im not sure if this is what you mean by an "historical, influential invidual")
BulletproofDork
11-21-2007, 03:44 PM
I really have no idea, but I asked my dad and he said maybe Stephen Colbert? Was he right?
Say, I've been dying to see if anyone knows who this is:
1. He ruled Rome from A.D. 37 to 41
2. He is remembered for having gone mad to the point of selecting his favorite horse as a member of the Roman Senate.
3. His own bodyguards murdered him.
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/rosenstein1/REmpclass/lect09/Caligula.jpg
One thing, though. This guy wasn't exactly influential. Just crazy. ;)
Caligula. The fact that he was mad was a big hint.
http://www.visitingdc.com/images/andrew-jackson-picture.jpg
Need I give any hints?
LadyWentworth
11-21-2007, 06:19 PM
I'm an Adams fan. Hence my pen name.
No way!!! I am seriously a big fan of his!!! :D
Anyway, the above pictured is Andrew Jackson. Too easy for me. :p
The one below is a graduate of Harvard and eventually became an American president. Not too bad-looking here either. ;)
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd52/110678/300px-Tr_nyc_police_commissioner.jpg
Lily Adams
11-21-2007, 07:13 PM
No way!!! I am seriously a big fan of his!!! :D
The one below is a graduate of Harvard and eventually became an American president. Not too bad-looking here either. ;)
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd52/110678/300px-Tr_nyc_police_commissioner.jpg
:D :D :D He's a hero of mine. Great man. I have a print of the picture I posted in my room. All framed and and everything.
*weeps* I can't see the picture! But from what you said it sounds like Mr. Adams...:D
LadyWentworth
11-21-2007, 07:20 PM
:D :D :D He's a hero of mine. Great man. I have a print of the picture I posted in my room. All framed and and everything.
*weeps* I can't see the picture! But from what you said it sounds like Mr. Adams...:D
A picture! That's great!! I love it! :D Hey! Have you ever heard of the musical "1776", by the way?
Really? You can't see the picture? Hmmm... I don't know. I logged out, just in case, to see if, for some reason, it was only showing up when I was logged on. No, it is definitely there. I don't understand that!
Yes, it does sound like Johhny, doesn't it? But, no, it is NOT John Adams!!! :)
A picture! That's great!! I love it! :D Hey! Have you ever heard of the musical "1776", by the way?
Really? You can't see the picture? Hmmm... I don't know. I logged out, just in case, to see if, for some reason, it was only showing up when I was logged on. No, it is definitely there. I don't understand that!
Yes, it does sound like Johhny, doesn't it? But, no, it is NOT John Adams!!! :)
I can't see the picture either. I might as well guess (I have 1/43 chance): John F. Kennedy?
Lily Adams
11-22-2007, 01:28 AM
Have you ever heard of the musical "1776", by the way?
:0 Are you KIDDING me?! I LOVE "1776"!!!!!!! :D I would say it was a major contribution to who I am, namely because it got me into history...more. :D
AdoreroDio
11-22-2007, 01:37 PM
*breathes life back into own thread*
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa144/shesoutofsync/johnadams.jpg
Hints:
It was his birthday a few days ago.
Nickname: "The Architect of the Revolution".
AdoreroDio claims to be related to him.
He was a really groovy guy.
I don't just claim to be related to him, I am related to him! bah humbug! My grandfather is really big into the whole family tree thing and he is something like by 12th cousin 5 times removed or something ridicules like that, but I am related to him!
LadyWentworth
11-24-2007, 02:15 AM
I can't see the picture either. I might as well guess (I have 1/43 chance): John F. Kennedy?
No, sorry. You're incorrect. I don't know why the picture didn't show up for you guys. I will try to attach it again at the bottom of this.
:0 Are you KIDDING me?! I LOVE "1776"!!!!!!! :D I would say it was a major contribution to who I am, namely because it got me into history...more. :D
All I have to mention is John saying "Good God, what in hell are they waiting for?"....Followed by Congress replying "Sit Down, John. Sit Down, John. For God's sake, John, sit down!". :D :D :D "1776" is in my top 5 of greatest musicals of ALL time!! :p We MUST discuss this someday! I would absolutely LOVE to! :D
Anyway, here's the picture: ***fingers crossed tightly***
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd52/110678/300px-Tr_nyc_police_commissioner.jpg
Lily Adams
11-25-2007, 12:05 AM
All I have to mention is John saying "Good God, what in hell are they waiting for?"....Followed by Congress replying "Sit Down, John. Sit Down, John. For God's sake, John, sit down!". :D :D :D "1776" is in my top 5 of greatest musicals of ALL time!! :p We MUST discuss this someday! I would absolutely LOVE to! :D
Anyway, here's the picture: ***fingers crossed tightly***
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd52/110678/300px-Tr_nyc_police_commissioner.jpg
"I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, two are called a law-firm, and that three or more become a congress!"
Yeah, I can quote that movie so much...it really got me interested in Mr. Adams. And William Daniels is pretty cool, too. Classic.
Teddy Roosevelt!!! I like him, too!
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa144/shesoutofsync/puyi.jpg
Last Emperor of China.
12 Emperor of the Quing Dynasty.
This is what Wikipedia gave me: Xuantong Emperor.
LadyWentworth
11-25-2007, 01:16 AM
"I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, two are called a law-firm, and that three or more become a congress!"
Yeah, I can quote that movie so much...it really got me interested in Mr. Adams. And William Daniels is pretty cool, too. Classic.
Teddy Roosevelt!!! I like him, too!
I love William Daniels! :) He's so classic!
Yes, you are correct!! Please tell me that you got that by seeing his photo and not by looking up all former presidents that went to Harvard! ;) I just want to know that my picture actually showed up! :)
By the way, I LOVE Teddy in this photo!! He looks GOOD!
Anyway, ignore all of this and let Dori know if the guess is correct! :D
Lily Adams
11-25-2007, 01:54 AM
I love William Daniels! :) He's so classic!
Yes, you are correct!! Please tell me that you got that by seeing his photo and not by looking up all former presidents that went to Harvard! ;) I just want to know that my picture actually showed up! :)
By the way, I LOVE Teddy in this photo!! He looks GOOD!
Anyway, ignore all of this and let Dori know if her guess is correct! :D
Mmm-hmmm! I love his voice!
Nope, I just looked at the picture and knew it was him! :D
You're right, Dori! :D He's also known as Henry Puyi.
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