100 HISTORIC FIGURES - How Many Do You Know? (The results)

100 HISTORIC FIGURES THROUGHOUT HISTORY

HOW MANY DO YOU KNOW?

Answer: (by Rony Kamel)

1. Bill Gates, Microsoft founder
2. Homer, Greek poet
3. Cui Jian, Chinese singer
4. Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary
5. Pavel Korchagin, Russian artist
6. Bill Clinton, former U.S. President
7. Peter the Great, Russian leader
8. Margaret Thatcher
9. Bruce Lee, martial arts - actor
10. Winston Churchill
11. Henri Matisse, French artist
12. Genghis Khan, Mongolian warlord
13. Napoleon Bonaparte, French military leader
14. Che Guevara, Marxist revolutionary
15. Fidel Castro, former Cuban leader
16. Marlon Brando, actor
17. Yasser Arafat, former Palestinian leader
18. Julius Caesar, Roman emperor
19. Gen. Claire Lee Chennault, WW II U.S. aviator
20. Luciano Pavarotti, singer
21. George W. Bush, former U.S. President
22. The Prince of Wales
23. Liu Xiang, Chinese Olympic hurdler
24. Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General
25. Zhang An, the painter
26. Mikhail Gorbachev, former Russian leader
27. Li Tiezi, the painter
28. Dante Alighieri, Florentine poet
29. Dai Dudu, the painter
30. Pele, Brazilian footballer
31. Guan Yu, Chinese warlord
32. Ramses II, Egyptian pharaoh
33. Charles De Gaulle, French general
34. Albert Nobel, Swedish chemist who founded the Nobel prizes
35. Franklin Roosevelt, former U.S. President
36. Ernest Hemingway, American novelist
37. Elvis Presley, American singer
38. Robert Oppenheimer, U.S. physicist
39. William Shakespeare, playwright
40. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer
41. Steven Spielberg, U.S. film director
42. Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter
43. Marie Curie, physicist and pioneer of radioactivity
44. Zhou Enlai, first Premier of the People’s Republic of China
45. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German writer
46. Laozi, Chinese philosopher
47. Marilyn Monroe, American actress
48. Salvador Dali, Spanish painter
49. Dowager Cixi, former ruler of China
50. Ariel Sharon, former Israeli Prime Minister
51. Qi Baishi, Chinese painter
52. Qin Shi Huang, former Chinese Emperor
53. Mother Teresa, Roman Catholic missionary
54. Song Qingling, Chinese politician
55. Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet
56. Otto Von Bismarck, German statesman
57. Run Run Shaw, Chinese media mogul
58. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher
59. Audrey Hepburn, actress
60. Ludwig Van Beethoven, German composer
61. Adolf Hitler, Nazi leader
62. Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist leader
63. Saddam Hussein, former Iraq president
64. Maxim Gorky, Russian writer
65. Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary
66. Den Xiaoping, Chinese revolutionary
67. Alexander Pushkin, Russian author
68. Lu Xun, Chinese writer
69. Joseph Stalin, former Soviet Union leader
70. Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian painter
71. Karl Marx, German philosopher
72. Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
73. Abraham Lincoln, former U.S. President
74. Mao Zedong, Chinese dictator
75. Charlie Chaplin, British actor
76. Henry Ford, founder of Ford motor company
77. Lei Feng, Chinese soldier
78. Norman Bethune, Canadian physician
79. Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist
80. Juan Antonio Samaranch, former International Olympic Committee president
81. Chiang Kai Shek, Chinese general
83. Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist
84. Li Bai, Chinese poet
82. The Queen
85. Corneliu Baba, Romanian painter
86. Auguste Rodin, French artist
87. Dwight Eisenhower, former U.S. President
88. Michael Jordan, U.S. basketball player
89. Hideki Tojo, former Japanese Prime Minister
90. Michelangelo, Italian Renaissance painter
91. Yi Sun-Sin, Korean naval commander
92. Mike Tyson, American boxer
93. Vladimir Putin, Russian Prime Minister
94. Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author
95. Shirley Temple, American actress
96. Albert Einstein, German physicist
97. Moses, Hebrew religious leader
98. Confucius, Chinese philosopher
99. Ghandi, Indian spiritual leader
100. Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter
101. Toulouse Lautrec, French painter
102. Marcel Duchamp, French artist
(Osama bin Laden, founder of al Qaeda, is behind George W. Bush, no 21

ABBEY ROAD meets CHARLIE BROWN

The Peanuts’ gang Charlie Brown, Lucy, Snoopy, Woodstock, & Marcie (by Vurdlak )

ABBEY ROAD meets THE BEATLES

It might be interesting to mention how to the left of the picture (parked next to the zebra crossing) is a white Volkswagen Beetle motor-car which belonged to one of the people living in the block of flats across from the recording studio. After the album was released, the number plate (LMW 281F) was stolen repeatedly from the car. The crossing is also a very popular destination for Beatles fans and there is even a webcam featuring it! (From "moillusions)

SINKING HOUSE ILLUSION



The first photo was taken under an angle, giving you impression the house is sinking, while infact the camera was tilted to the right. (By Vurdlak)

ILLUSION: 100 FAMOUS PEOPLE - How Many Do You Know?

ILLUSION: 100 FAMOUS PEOPLE THROUGHOUT HISTORY

(from "Mighty Optical Illusions")

HOW MANY DO YOU KNOW?

Check next posting for results.

How LENIN can score!

JUST A PILE OF GARBAGE:

Photo created by Shigeo Fukada

SWEET & SPOOKY:

Two Sisters in the Skull - by artist Karl Kwasny

SOME OF US CHANGE

by DeviantArt user MelloLover. 

TWO BOYS BACK TO BACK

by Karl Kwasny

YOUNG LADY-OLD CLEANER LADY

Top 10 Movie Trilogies

Top 10 Movie Trilogies

1. 

George Lucas’ 3D-ifying of “The Phantom Menace” raked in a surprising amount of money at the box office last week, prompting us to look back at the high-grossing movie trilogies of all times. Ground rules: Franchises with more than three films like "Mission Impossible" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" are not included. Rereleases are included in the box office totals, like last year's reissue of "Toy Story" and "Toy Story 2" in 3D. And box office totals are domestic grosses and are not adjusted for inflation. Click on the photo to see how the biggest trilogies ranked, and which movie in each series earned the most money.



ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS- $566,028,876
Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009) -- $219,614,612
Alvin And The Chipmunks (2007) -- $ 217,326,974
Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011) -- $129,087,240

ICE AGE - $568,080,573

1. 

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) - $196,363,405
Ice Age: The Meltdown(2006) - $195,329,763
Ice Age (2002) - $176,387,405

THE MATRIX - $592,135,491

The Matrix Reloaded (2003) - $281,492,479 The Matrix (1999) - $171,383,253 The Matrix Revolutions (2003) - $139,259,759

JURASSIC PARK - $766,989,054

1. 

Jurassic Park (1993) - $356,748,415
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) - $229,074,524 Jurassic Park III (2001) - $181,166,115

 TOY STORY - $883,194,478

1.  

Toy Story 3 (2010) - $415,004,880 Toy Story 2 (1999) - $245,823,397 Toy Story (1995) - $191,773,049
Toy Story/Toy Story 2 in 3D (2009) - $30,593,152 

THE LORD OF THE RINGS - $1,031,169,477 

1. 

The Return of the King (2003) - $376,853,002

The Two Towers (2002) - $340,478,898 The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) - $313,837,577

STAR WARS: EPISODES IV-VI - $1,060,476,463

1. 

A New Hope (1977) - $460,998,007
Return of the Jedi (1983) - $309,206,384
The Empire Strikes Back (1980) - $290,272,072 

*Includes the 1997 "Special Edition" releases.

TRANSFORMERS - $1,073,748,606

1. 

Tranformers: Revenge of The Fallen (2009) -- $402,111,870
Transformers: Dark Of The Moon (2011) -- $352,390,543
Transformers(2007) -- $319,246,193

SPIDER-MAN - $1,113,614,571 

1. 

Spider-Man (2002) - $403,706,375 Spider-Man 2 (2004) - $373,377,893 Spider-Man 3 (2007) - $336,530,303

STAR WARS: EPISODES I-III - $1,122,003,582

1.  

The Phantom Menace (1999) - $431,065,444
Revenge of the Sith (2005) - $380,262,555 Attack of the Clones (2002) - $310,675,583

*Includes IMAX re-releases.

http://ca.movies.yahoo.com/photos/top-10-movie-trilogies-1330630670-slideshow/