Who are these people?

[Zombie]

Nope. But your TARDIS is def in the right area

[W_L]

Found him in my European history books,....It's bloody Churchill (John Churchill, ancestor to Winston Churchill)

 

Famed British statesman, general, and overall power broker for 5 British rulers during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. He was made Duke of Marlborough (not the smoking brand)

 

I remember him and the picture as I have an edition of Winston Churchill's biography on his ancestor with a few pictures.

[Zombie]

Found him in my European history books,....It's bloody Churchill (John Churchill, ancestor to Winston Churchill)

 

Famed British statesman, general, and overall power broker for 5 British rulers during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. He was made Duke of Marlborough (not the smoking brand)

 

I remember him and the picture as I have an edition of Winston Churchill's biography on his ancestor with a few pictures.

 

Wow, that's a four volume set - 1m words. Nice bedtime reading

And, yes, you're correct

This guy had an important role in changing British history in his lifetime, and again over 200 years later  - without a TARDIS He betrayed a King - James II - and his treasonous actions resulted in the king fleeing abroad and being replaced by a Dutch King, William of Orange which led Britain to war against the French under the tyrannical Louis XIV who was busy conquering Europe. He was a brilliant military commander and his leadership effectively ended Louis' plans to dominate Europe. A grateful country paid him £250,000 to build a swanky new home

 

 

Not bad for someone who started off as a page boy and got caught in flagrante with the King's favourite mistress.

 

Two hundred and thirty years later his descendant, Winston Churchill was a largely forgotten politician earning his living as a writer, who researched and wrote the biography of his ancestor, using the threat that French military expansion posed then as a parallel for the threat from Nazi Germany which no-one in Britain wanted to believe. Published in the early 1930s the biography was very influential in changing opinion about Germany and, equally important, about Churchill not being a washed up has been but someone who was relevant and needed.

 

Your turn

Edited April 2, 2013 by Zombie

[W_L]

Who is this man:

 

[Celethiel]

well when you break up and sell off the british crown jewels, you can afford a skanky new home...

that guy I don't know who he is...

Openhiemer?

[W_L]

Nope, but he was a polish refugee and is famed for a "discovery" that Arthur c. Clarke thought was one of the most important in human history.

[A.J.]

Benoit Mandelbrot

 

For those of us who used to tax our CPU making fractal images, he is the man who came up with the term fractal and is considered the father of fractal geometry.

 

Although he looks like he could be David Letterman's father.

[MikeL]

For those who are wondering, here's a Mandelbrot fractal:

 

 

OK, AJ, your turn.

Edited April 2, 2013 by MikeL

[A.J.]

Ok, who is this man?  He is an author and I am reading one of his books right now.

 

 

[Zombie]

Squinting into the sun, no indication of the date, it could be a younger Michael Cunningham, or ....

Is this a current pic?

[A.J.]

I think it is within the last 5 years.

[hh5]

I figured out an easy way to find out but I'm going to keep my mouth shut

Its more fun for those who are into literature

he is cute

[A.J.]

The photo I posted is of Brian Greene, a theoretical physicist and author.  Since no one seemed to know him, we should just move on to someone else.  How about you hh5?  Why don't you pick the next photo?

[Zombie]

While hh5's flicking through his pic list here's one

 

 

[Daddydavek]

Well it does't look like any of the photos that I've seen of Bill Tilden.....hmmm.

[Zombie]

You're absolutely right Bill ..................

 

 

 

 

............... it isn't

[Toast]

Rudolph Valentino, cause those look like ballet slippers.

[Zombie]

Nope

[Toast]

Woops, its Nijinsky, but I still like him.

[Zombie]

The very same, the legendary Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, gay lover of Diaghilev until his marriage, when Diaghilev threw him out of the Ballets Russes in a fit of jealous pique. The tennis racket pose was intended to put players off the scent but your beady eyes spotted the ballet shoes - well done

Your turn to puzzle us
 

[Celethiel]

well at least he didn't kill him

[MikeL]

Who are these people?

 

 

[W_L]

Looks like there are a lot of cops, it's obviously a famous couple and case. The guy looks familiar to me and the first word that came into my head was that he's a Nazi ( not even joking, the rumor has been around for 80 years that he was sympathetic to Germany).

 

Ann and Charles Lindbergh Sr.

 

My bet is this picture was taken after their baby, Charles Lindbergh jr., was kidnapped and it became the first big case for the newly formed FBI.

Edited April 10, 2013 by W_L

[MikeL]

You are fast, WL.  It is Charles Lindberg and Ann Morrow Lindberg leaving a church in Washington, DC.  The exact date of the photo is not known, but probably was in the late 1920s.  The kidnapping was March 1, 1932.  Lindberg's famous trans-Atlantic flight was May 20–21, 1927.  He had police escorts everywhere he went for many years after that.

 

Now, it's your turn to challenge us.

[W_L]

 

Famous man