The NAME THAT HISTORICAL EVENT game

[Nugog]

Cheater!!!!!!!!

But yes.



Guess I'll have to rename the pic next time?

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by nugog
Cheater!!!!!!!!

But yes.



Guess I'll have to rename the pic next time?

not really cheating, being resourceful.same as when you looked up a picture you were not there so you had to find what someone date the picture

Someone else can have a go if they like

[Buck Birdseed]

Okay then. Who's the woman in the picture, and why is she being led into court?

[Nugog]

Damn - she looks like the NZ PM - Helen Clark - I wish someone would lock her up!

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
Okay then. Who's the woman in the picture, and why is she being led into court?

It's Valerie Solanas, author of 'The SCUM Manifesto' and she's been arrested for shooting Andy Warhol.


A sample of her 'thought':

Although completely physical, the male is unfit even for stud service. Even assuming mechanical proficiency, which few men have, he is, first of all, incapable of zestfully, lustfully, tearing off a piece, but is instead eaten up with guilt, shame, fear and insecurity, feelings rooted in male nature, which the most enlightened training can only minimize; second, the physical feeling he attains is next to nothing; and third, he is not empathizing with his partner, but is obsessed with how he's doing, turning in an A performance, doing a good plumbing job. To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo. It's often said that men use women. Use them for what? Surely not pleasure.

http://www.theabsolute.net/misogyny/chance.html

[Buck Birdseed]

Well, she was nuts but you've got to admire her twisted sense of humour.

Next time I get one of these again I'll try to do something else from the history of art or the history of ideas, or both like in this case.

[molly bloom]

Okeechokee.


What is this, and what or whose journey does it commemorate ?

[MOBIUS]

Looks like it could be an Eleanor Cross to me.

Thus it would commemorate the journey of Queen Eleanor's body from Lincolnshire to Westminster Abbey. Each place the procession rested for the night, Edward I had a cross built. Seven were built in total, the most famous being at 'Chere Reine' Cross in London on The Strand....

A beautiful tale of love, and proving that even the dreaded Edward Longshanks himself had a romantic side...

[MOBIUS]

Indeed, it is an Eleanor Cross.

The one at Geddington perhaps...?

[MOBIUS]

What precisely does this famous painting portray, with an extra brownie point for the artist?

[lord of the mark]

The tragic death of an Eminent Victorian, which led to Lord Kitcheners expedition, and the rise to fame of Winston Churchill.

Anyone for Chinese?

[MOBIUS]

Give the man a cigar!

[lord of the mark]

for special points, who's the old white guy with the beard on the right?

[Addled Platypus]

Martin Luther King in the middle

Peace march for equal rights

Is that Colonel Sanders ? aka Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC in the USA)

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Platypus Rex
Martin Luther King in the middle

Peace march for equal rights

Is that Colonel Sanders ? aka Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC in the USA)

It is MLK, but be a bit more specific about the place - its pretty famous. Naming the bearded guy wont be needed to win, but no, its not Col Sanders. (Hint - he would never have eaten at KFC)