Post your three favourite historical figures

More Than Mortal · September 10, 2014, 02:33:03 PM

The catch? You can only post their pictures/portraits, and the rest of us have to see if we know who they are. They can be anyone from philosophers to celebrities to statesmen or presidents. They don't have to be necessarily descriptively historic, but they can be people alive today or recently dead who will probably be remembered years down the line.

Mine:

Juuzou · September 10, 2014, 02:35:36 PM

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More Than Mortal · September 10, 2014, 02:36:27 PM

Quote from: Lady Noelle on September 10, 2014, 02:35:36 PM

Mine are all easy.

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The first two are obvious.

Can't say I recognise the third.

Juuzou · September 10, 2014, 02:37:58 PM

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Reciffo_Smmoc · September 10, 2014, 02:39:55 PM

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Juuzou · September 10, 2014, 02:40:22 PM

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Zizzy · September 10, 2014, 02:40:25 PM

I knew Adam Smith, partially because I studied Economics but also because I knew you'd post him.

More Than Mortal · September 10, 2014, 02:41:21 PM

Quote from: Zizzy on September 10, 2014, 02:40:25 PM

I knew Adam Smith, partially because I studied Economics but also because I knew you'd post him.

dis nigger

Verbatim · September 10, 2014, 02:42:45 PM

Third one of OP's is Schopenhauer, of course...
I also know Adam Smith, but, I'm not familiar with his image.

I figure in order to have "favorite" historical figures, I'd have to agree with their philosophies to an extreme level, so I can't say I have any. If a fellow's philosophy sings logically to my ears, I'll take it up, but I've never agreed with a person 90% or higher on anything of substance, as far as my knowledge of these people goes.

Ásgeirr · September 10, 2014, 02:43:39 PM

I cant name any favorites. I dont really know many.

Einstein maybe?

Reciffo_Smmoc · September 10, 2014, 02:45:20 PM

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Juuzou · September 10, 2014, 02:46:13 PM

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DAS B00T x2 · September 10, 2014, 02:51:36 PM

Do marble busts count?

I don't expect anyone to recognize number three. He was a very important yet widely unaccredited person in the success of the first powered flight of a heaver-than-air aircraft.

w/e · September 10, 2014, 03:21:47 PM

Not sure if I should post Hitler on this one, but I'll come back to it some other time.

cxfhvxgkcf-56:7 · September 10, 2014, 03:25:46 PM

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cxfhvxgkcf-56:7 · September 10, 2014, 03:27:22 PM

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More Than Mortal · September 10, 2014, 04:00:48 PM

Quote from: SoporificSlash on September 10, 2014, 03:27:22 PM

I have to agree with OP on all except Adam Smith. I'd replace him with Nietzsche.

Get the fuck out of this thread, heathen.

Jocephalopod · September 10, 2014, 04:05:18 PM

i'm actually related to the first one

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SecondClass · September 10, 2014, 04:18:29 PM

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All of mine are relatively easy.

cxfhvxgkcf-56:7 · September 10, 2014, 04:20:41 PM

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cxfhvxgkcf-56:7 · September 10, 2014, 04:20:57 PM

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More Than Mortal · September 10, 2014, 04:26:40 PM

Quote from: SoporificSlash on September 10, 2014, 04:20:57 PM

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I have to agree with OP on all except Adam Smith. I'd replace him with Nietzsche.
Get the fuck out of this thread, heathen.
I couldn't stand his writing style.

I've got to be honest. The analytical introduction was awful to read through - by Andrew Skinner.

Smith's writing itself, though, I find fantastically intuitive and easy to follow.

SecondClass · September 10, 2014, 04:30:44 PM

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All of mine are relatively easy.
I'm pretty torn on my opinion of Debs, there are things I like about him and things I don't like about him.

I just admire him for being the first to start a widespread labor union, and actually having the balls to run for President as a socialist in that day and age.

cxfhvxgkcf-56:7 · September 10, 2014, 04:31:16 PM

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Kinder Graham · September 10, 2014, 04:37:48 PM

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb

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Zoraster

More Than Mortal · September 10, 2014, 04:40:17 PM

Quote from: Kinder_ on September 10, 2014, 04:37:48 PM

>not calling zoroaster "zarathustra"

Kinder Graham · September 10, 2014, 04:56:12 PM

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>not calling zoroaster "zarathustra"

u w0t m8?

As if not even half of the people here even know who he is

DAS B00T x2 · September 10, 2014, 05:00:07 PM

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>not calling zoroaster "zarathustra"
u w0t m8?

As if not even half of the people here even know who he is

Isn't Zoroastrianism well known to anyone who has even a slight interest in ancient mythologies?
Why's he in your list though?

Kinder Graham · September 10, 2014, 05:11:28 PM

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>not calling zoroaster "zarathustra"
u w0t m8?

As if not even half of the people here even know who he is
Isn't Zoroastrianism well known to anyone who has even a slight interest in ancient mythologies?
Why's he in your list though?

His philosophies, especially just the simple concept of the individual's freedom to choose right from wrong

challengerX · September 10, 2014, 05:15:20 PM

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