"Identify these people"

In all honesty, I would have gotten only the Shah.

Would have been fun

Luckily there's plenty more to go around!

but in my youth, looking at picture books, these guys would all have seemed so old to me; now, they look like youngsters.

OK...random musing associated with confrontation with reality over.

Thanks for posting these.

All are rough, since I don't know the months (in one case year) of the photos.

Gandhi about 37

Stalin about 32

Hitler about 26 (I think the photo was 1915-1916)

Mao about 33

Bismarck about 21

Mohammed Reza about 21

Of course, I remember as an elementary school kid thinking high school kids were venerable adults. Oh how times change

Top pic Sarah Palin.

Next one down Barbara Streisand.

Guy with chops and glasses Elton John.

That's all I got

A bit off on Streisand

Rodney Dangerfield?

No idea on the woman in the tub or the little girl

and the little girl grew into an American icon when she became first lady. She was as beautiful as a child as an adult.

Julia Child and Jackie O.

Good game!

And Julia is just a gem.

That leaves 2 unidentified

Al and Tipper

H-Dub and Babs

RFK and uhh . . . Mrs. RFK

You're 3 for 3 on that bunch! And its Bobby and Ethel-she was such an incredible lady. One of the best of a really fine crew.

I like the idea of quizzes. I should have made this OP I quiz. Thanks!

to come up with some flawless photographs. We could really have some fun with it.

Here's an easy one....



I saw the original a few years ago

In his cowboy persona, 'The Arkansas Kid'

a couple of years ago. The Big Dawg had a real serious "cowboy thang" working. He was "all that" as a five year old.

Looks like Ho Chi Minh, at Treaty of Versaille

Fidel Castro

Arafat

Ahmadinejad

Close, but no cigar.

The nose is a bit of a giveaway, to me at least.

Oswego "I sure can pick 'em, though" Atheist

During judo practice in Riyadh in the early 80s.

Aloha!

About Hitler's little toothbrush moustache.

During WW1 both German and allied soldiers were issued with gas masks. Those with long, lush or upstanding mo's were instructed to trim them down to ensure the masks created a good, tight seal on the face; thus the toothbrush moustache was born.

The story goes that in the years between the wars many men on both sides retained the 'toothbrush' moustache as a badge of honour; they had served in the trenches.

This story is debunked in many places on the net with the reason that the toothbrush moustache was nothing more than a fashion of it's era. Fashions, however, have been known to emerge from a practical application such as sailor's bellbottom trousers and it seems quite feasible to me that the toothbrush moustache fashion did arise for this reason.

Could be true, could be untrue. I don't know. But you're right that some fashion trends do emerge from odd places.

I remember hearing once that bikers' penchant for leather jackets came from the fact that many bikers in the US had served in the Army Air Corps in Europe during WWII and thus had a special attachment to leather jackets.

Heard something similar about baggy jeans and 'sagging.' Allegedly it originated in prison garb. Sometimes people were issued prison clothing that was too big and would appear baggy or sag down past the waist. Why that would catch on I don't know, but there you are