The person to guess the most number of people in this picture gets a SvPH cookie. We haven't given out too many cookies in a while, so its high time!



Edit: Click on the black bar to enlarge...took me a while to figure that out

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Az

Lenin, Hitler, Bruce Lee, Pele, Albert Einstein, Charlie Chaplin, Saddam Hussein, Mao Zedong or Chairman Mao...

Edit: Mahatma Gandhi, Fidel Castro, Yasser Arafat, Elvis Presley, Genghis Khan

John Lennon, Pele, Genghis Khan, John Lennon, Bruce Lee, Bill Clinton, Charlie Chaplin, Mike Tyson, Steve McQueen, Einstein, Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Micheal Jordan, Mother Theresa, Pavarotti, Prince Charles, Kofi Annan, George Bush, Dr Phil, Queen Elizabeth, Marlon Brando, Shakespeare, Marilyn Monroe, Yasser Arafat, Socrates, Yao Ming, Lewis, Clark, Margeret Thatcher, Julius Ceaser, Salvador Dali, Kim Jong Il, , Zeus and I recognise the little girl near at the bottom but forgot her name. She was an old child actress or something.

All for now

I recognise most of em from Bill and Ted

Yao Ming? Where is Yao Ming? Same for Moses, Anyways I'll give it a shot..

Lennon, Socrates, Jimmy Page, Lenin, Clinton, Pele, Genghis Khan, Hitler, Beethoven, Audrey Hephburn, Charlie Chaplin, Ali/Lennon/Tyson, Putin?, Elizabeth II, Einstein, Saddam, Newton, Bruce Lee, Alfred Hitchcock, Elvis, Shakespeare, Stalin, Lincoln, Mao Zedong (I can't spell his name), Yaser Arafat, Fidel Castro, Godfather (Brando), Marylin Monroe, Alexander/Caeser?, Nostradamus, Gandhi, Picasso, MJ (Jordan), Bush, Prince Charles, Mother Teresa, Bill Gates, Napolean, Bin Laden, Che Guerra, etc etc.

Okay, from now on, lets put each name in order where found.

Then we can debate. It would be awesome if we solved this whole picture. Come on SvPH.

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Az

its tyson

I am editing this post to add a higher resolution picture. It helps a lot more. This is an amazing piece of work.

Lets do this in order now. I'll start counting the heads.

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Az

The hi res one made me notice, Winston Churchill, Fidel Castro, Che Guevera, Osama Bin Laden, Bill Gates and Mozart. (You might have already noticed them but I'm trying not to cheat by reading others)

Is the dude by Elvis, Hunter S Thompson?

Im trying to figure out the people on the balcony

1 Bill Gates
2 Audrey Hephburn
3 Charlie Chaplin
4
5 Pele
6 Henry Ford
7 Jimmy Page
8 Adolf Hitler
9 Fredric Chopin
10
11 Lenin
12 Guan Yu
13
14 Sun Yat-Sen
15
16 Saddam Hussein
17
18 Bill Clinton
19 Charles De Gaulle
20 Maxim Gorky
21 Sigmund Freud
22 Mike Tyson
23 Peter The Great
24
25
26 Vladimir Putin
27 Eleanor Roosevelt
28 Deng Xiaoping
29 Bruce Lee
30
31 George Washington
32 Chiang Kai-Shek
33 Hans Christian Andersen
34 Winston Churchill
35 Ernest Hemingway
36 Stalin
37
38 Shirley Temple
39
40
41 Elvis Presley
42 Leo Tolstoy
43 Archduke Ferdinand
44 Shakespeare
45 Leonardo Da Vinci
46 Albert Einstien
47 Mozart
48 Karl Marx
49 Nietzsche
50
51 Genghis Khan
52
53
54 Napolean Bonaparte
55
56 Abe Lincoln
57 Mao Ze-Dong
58
59 Che Guevara
60
61 Charles Darwin
62 Fidel Castro
63
64
65 Marlon Brando (Vito Corleone)
66 Marylin Monroe
67
68 Mahatma Gandhi
69
70
71
72
73 Salvador Dali
74
75 Pavarotti
76
77 Bush Jr.
78
79 Michael Jordan
80 Pablo Picasso
81 Osama Bin Laden
82 Liu Xiang
83 Prince Charles
84 Ariel Sharon
85 Kofi Annan
86
87
88
89 Mikail Gorbachev
90 Mother Teresa
91
92
93
94
95
96 Otto Von Bismarck
97 Dante Alighieri
98
99
100
101 Johann Wolfgang Goethe
102
103 Yasser Arafat

Im pretty certain 28 is Hunter S Thompson.I think the beggin guy (66) is a World War II leader or something.And your right about Bill Gates

I was right bout Shirley Temple Im chuffed

Could 65 be Vlad the Impaler?

I think 22 is an Egyptian pharaoh, but I don't know which yet

And I'm sure Confucius is on here somewhere too.

Okay, added Darwin, Dante and Nietzsche

wow, we might finish this by today. Good going people. More ideas, now! Macker, you're good bro...

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Az

Is the person leading the animals Noah? Or maybe Moses?

I'm thinking the guy with the painting tools is Vincent Van Gogh

Fixed a lot of them. I bet this was painted by an asian guy, coz all of my asian friends are guessing weird names like Sun Yat Sen etc etc.

Will keep editing stuff. Continue giving your ideas.

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Az

I think I agree with Confucius and Aristotle, although I'll have to look 'em up more. The others I don't think so. I think I have the woman's name, I wrote it on another computer. Elizabeth is already in the picture.

As for Moses. No one had a picture of Moses so I don't think it could be him. Here are two things, the guy sitting at the table with his hand on his chin, who I said was Darwin, could be Leonardo Da Vinci and the guy leading the camels and stuff could be Darwin. Look them up the resemblence is there, and let me know.

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Az

a camel that has Yassar Arafat sitting on it. So does that mean Arafat was led across the Red Sea? It's just abuncha people incorporated into the picture. I wouldn't take the camel/sheep thing as it meaning that it must be Moses. Last I checked, the Bible mentions nothing about Moses leading camels. The sheep sure, but then the sheep is also standing next to Ghandi so that's kinda a moot point. His appearance could be associated with Noah, Methuselah, Elijah, Samuel, Eli, and various other bible characters. It's kinda strange how all of the people are obviously within the last few centuries, and then you have a guy who could very well be "Moses" or somebody when nobody knows what Moses looks like. Speaking of the Moses stick, it could be Aaron even because it was Aaron who actually did the tricks with the "Moses" stick.

Every time I came to look through the picture, I had to leave... now I see a character and I'm like I know who that is!.. and then I find out that a majority have been found by you brilliant SVPH'ers. so I feel stupid now. lol

Socrates was sorta chubby, so your call

that's cuz he was a fan of fried chicken. mmmm fried chicken

Here are some pictures to show a little support for my suggestion about Darwin. Compare the following picture with the guy leading the camels. The eyebrows, the side hair etc etc. Also, Moses was never portrayed as being bald.

--- Darwin

Now the person at the centre of the table. Peering at the picture. I say it's Leonardo Da Vinci. The painting he's staring at is a hint.



I've added Maxim Gorky to the picture. Thanks to a friend.

EDIT: Someone added a numbered picture, so I am uploading that instead. Note, I am getting this from another forum, so its not like I know where the answers or the source of this image is.

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Az

hey Az, is this a homework assignment of some sort?

lol @ tarrow, no thank god not. it's just a challenge of sorts now. More like wasting time at work

But I'm trying to see if we all can solve this together. It would be awesome! Unless I find the true source of this painting, which really is amazing. I'm about 90% sure its done by an asian (chinese) person.

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Az

I have no doubts about the clothes. But the painter has digressed wherever he feels like. Look at Bush. Does he wear those clothes? I think the painter has done quite well on the faces so any "errors" can be assumed as intentional. And besides, these are random historical figures, so I don't know if Moses fits in. We don't exactly have a picture of Moses to draw from. The ones you've posted are all artistic renditions.

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Az

I would think Jesus would be more likely to show up in the picture than Moses.

I'm pretty sure that isn't Darwin...look at the way he's positioned. He's a leader figure. Looking up to the skies. Even if it isn't Moses (which I think is), I don't think it was meant to be Darwin at all. It seems like the painter wanted people to look at the painting and automatically be able to point out familiar faces and Moses automatically pops in my head when I look at that guy too. Everyone's positioned in a way that they're often portrayed: Audrey Hepburn with her hands like that, Abraham Lincoln sitting in that chair. So it makes sense that it's Moses cuz even if there's never been an actual picture of him, all the representations so far have kinda given him the same look.

oh btw, why is 102 in pink? Is that the only one we're missing now?

It doesn't matter. Moses would not be leading a camel with Yasser Arafat on it. I really don't think he would've painted Moses to be honest. Because religion has been excepted from this painting. I don't think I see any religious figures here, except for that one old guy with a key. These are just some people who have affected history in a way. I know all prophets have affected history, but there is a lot of faith there. I think everyone in this picture is all fact. Which is why I'd leave out Moses.

By the face it clearly is Darwin. The garbs and stuff can be excepted.

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Az