who are the men of achievement in this photo?

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I thought this was quite funny. I wouldn't have even known who the woman was a year +a few months ago (if you don't know who she is, don't waste your time finding out).

Some of them look familiar in the second row from the bottom.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 17 July 2014 21:43 (eleven years ago)

Second from top on left: Tesla?
Third from top on right: Albert Schweitzer?

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 17 July 2014 21:45 (eleven years ago)

i clearly am not studying photos of historical figures often enough

polyphonic, Thursday, 17 July 2014 21:51 (eleven years ago)

I know that Tesla looks like this, so clearly I'm not what's wrong with the world.

http://www.100xr.com/artists/T/Tesla/Tesla-band-2006.jpg

clemenza, Thursday, 17 July 2014 22:06 (eleven years ago)

all those people are completely made up

guwop (crüt), Thursday, 17 July 2014 22:07 (eleven years ago)

http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/If+you+don+t+know+who+this+is.+OC_94811d_3560797.jpg

soref, Thursday, 17 July 2014 22:14 (eleven years ago)

thread is Tuomasbait

Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 17 July 2014 22:33 (eleven years ago)

top right = kafka?

i always knew i'd end up part of the problem

building a desert (art), Thursday, 17 July 2014 22:40 (eleven years ago)

who is tuomasbait?

Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 July 2014 22:40 (eleven years ago)

why would anybody bother learning what any of those people look like

Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 July 2014 22:46 (eleven years ago)

I don't recognize any of them

Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 July 2014 22:47 (eleven years ago)

also lol only old white guys are important

Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 July 2014 22:50 (eleven years ago)

They are all magazine illustrators. Sweater guy is Bob Peak. Dude with the pipe is Norman Rockwell. NC Wyeth is the guy with specs who looks like a depressed philosopher.

everything, Thursday, 17 July 2014 23:07 (eleven years ago)

Eyebrows is Albert Dorne.

everything, Thursday, 17 July 2014 23:08 (eleven years ago)

soref those are awesome

balls, Thursday, 17 July 2014 23:10 (eleven years ago)

Not quite as lofty as I had imagined. I like Wyeth quite a bit and the others are impressive but I don't think they are gods or anything.

Probably part of a meme that started long before.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 17 July 2014 23:22 (eleven years ago)

tesla is the worst

caek, Thursday, 17 July 2014 23:23 (eleven years ago)

the tesla it is a cool SI unit though

caek, Thursday, 17 July 2014 23:24 (eleven years ago)

that's Woody Harrelson bottom right

Daphnis Celesta, Friday, 18 July 2014 00:43 (eleven years ago)

oh and Roy Castle 2nd row right

Daphnis Celesta, Friday, 18 July 2014 00:44 (eleven years ago)

you know we have a whole thread for this shit right?

Daphnis Celesta, Friday, 18 July 2014 00:45 (eleven years ago)

lol i would have spotted schrödinger and oppenheimer or maybe mahler instead of schrödinger, based on the butthurt giants-deserve-recognition attitude behind the post

but ok magazine illustrators

j., Friday, 18 July 2014 01:18 (eleven years ago)

wait Trotsky was a magazine illustrator?

Daphnis Celesta, Friday, 18 July 2014 01:21 (eleven years ago)


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