Who are these people?

[Slytherin]

Flying frogs ?? Did he discover them ? hmmm..

[Red_A]

Flying frogs ?? Did he discover them ? hmmm..

Not all of them just this one!

[MikeL]

Got it!  What a great clue (once I paid attention)!  Flying frogs?  Red_ A mentioned them several times.  I did a Google search.  Found several sites such as Wikipedia and finally came across a National Geographic article about the flying frog discovered by Alfred Russel Wallace, 19th-century British naturalist, who first described the species in 1869.  He discovered it in the Malay Archipelago (not quite as far from England as Australia and New Zealand are).

 

Flying through the air with a semblance of ease, the Wallace's flying frog is one of few aerial amphibians.

 

A search for Alfred Russel Wallace yielded these pictures:

 

         

                                  1848                                                       1878                                                           1902

 

I'm ready for another.

[Slytherin]

grumpy now lol

 

Congrats MikeL

[Zombie]

Got it!  What a great clue (once I paid attention)!  Flying frogs?  Red_ A mentioned them several times.  I did a Google search.  Found several sites such as Wikipedia and finally came across a National Geographic article about the flying frog discovered by Alfred Russel Wallace, 19th-century British naturalist, who first described the species in 1869.  He discovered it in the Malay Archipelago (not quite as far from England as Australia and New Zealand are).

 

Well done Mike.

 

Just a point of correction - Wallace is far more important than a mere frog discoverer He deserves equal credit with Charles Darwin for the idea of evoluton by natural selection and it was a joint presentation of their work that was presented to the Linnean Society in 1858. History gives all the credit to Darwin whereas in fact it is "Darwin and Wallace" that should be remembered

[Red_A]

Well done Mike.

 

Just a point of correction - Wallace is far more important than a mere frog discoverer He deserves equal credit with Charles Darwin for the idea of evoluton by natural selection and it was a joint presentation of their work that was presented to the Linnean Society in 1858. History gives all the credit to Darwin whereas in fact it is "Darwin and Wallace" that should be remembered

 Just a small correction, it should be Wallace and Darwin.  As it was Wallace trying to publish his paper that forced Darwin to come out of the religious closet.

Congratulations MIKE

Alfred Russel Wallace was a self taught sureyor who earned a poor wage surveying small farmers land, in South Wales.  He  then turned to professional animal and plant hunter in South America, got ship wrecked, and came back to UK.  Quite he was collecting specimens for sale, he also study the animals and plants scienticaly.  After a while,(when the money ran out) he went to the South East Asia islands.  Malay and the islands between there and australia, and did more collecting, studying and plotting of his captures.  It resulted in frog being named after him, and the momentus work(s) describing  the fauna and flora of the islands.  The main reson has remembers him is that he showed where asia wild stopped and australian wild life started. This is called the Wallace line, and places the beginning of Australian wild life at the tip of Malay. The island between Australia proper and the Wallace line is called Wallacea.  Also coming out of his study was a parrallel theory to Darwin's. In later life Wallace became a professional writer on science etc to earn money.

 

The difference between Wallace and Darwin was that Darwin was a clergyman first and amanteur scientist second.  Wallace turned himself into a professional scientist and author

[Yettie One]

Ok sorry to butt in gang, but been no action for a few days so I thought I'd give ya one to ponder.

 

Who is this Obi One Kenobi and what's he up to in his time?

 

[Daddydavek]

King Cyrus mentioned in the Old Testament for freeing the Jews on his taking of Babylon?

[Yettie One]

Well done Daddy.

I used an not so common pic of him so thought I'd been shifty, but hard to pull the wool over your eyes!

[Daddydavek]

No, it was a lucky guess!

[MikeL]

Since this photo is not very sharp, don't try to name the people in it.  Just identify the photo itself.

 

Edited March 9, 2013 by MikeL

[Yettie One]

Um wow.

Is that a concentration camp maybe?

[Red_A]

I will take a punt. It is  "The First Photograph"

But it cannot be Fox Talbot (Bay Window) or Daguarre(His had more detail)

[MikeL]

Red_A is close enough.  Congratualtions!

 

The First Photograph [France, 1826] 

 

Officially known as View from the Window at Le Gras.

 

Taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, this is the first photograph ever taken which still exists. He called his method heliography (sun writing) and this photograph took 8 hours of exposure time (hence sunlight on both sides of the building).

 

What first appeared to me to be two people (left center of the photo) is probably a tree in the distance seen between two wings of the building in the foreground.

 

OK, who's next?

Edited March 9, 2013 by MikeL

[joann414]

Fascinating MikeL and I did indeed think that it was two people standing, but now I can see it as being a tree farther away. hmmm

[MikeL]

OK.  Who are these people?

 

 

 

Edited March 10, 2013 by MikeL

[Red_A]

@Ghostboy after extensive searching

This is Albert Femur Walters, great uncle of T-bone Slim,  one of the most talented hobo's the world has ever known.

 

 

He had another name what is it?
 

[paya]

@Ghostboy after extensive searching

This is Albert Femur Walters, great uncle of T-bone Slim,  one of the most talented hobo's the world has ever known.

 

 

He had another name what is it?

 

That looks like Billy the Kid. I googled his real name and it was apparently William H. Bonney... IDK MikeL's people though

[MikeL]

OK.  Who are these people?

 

[C J]

These people are tobacco farmers,  Andrew Lyman and his wife Anna.   Neither of them used tobacco.

[MikeL]

These people are tobacco farmers,  Andrew Lyman and his wife Anna.   Neither of them used tobacco.

 

OK.  Tell us how you got that.

[Slytherin]

OK.  Tell us how you got that.

I am curious too

[C J]

OK.  Tell us how you got that.

Well, I cheated, how else was I gonna get it? 

[MikeL]

You should be ashamed.  Just for that you are required to present the next challenge.  Do it soon.

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

Here's more info on the photo:

 

     Subjects:  Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Lyman, Polish tobacco farmers near Windsor Locks, Connecticut

 

     Date:  September, 1940

 

     Photographer:  Jack Delano

 

     From the collection of the Library of Congress.

[Finn]

And I thought I was shamelessly moral-less.