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  • Now it's too easy. Given the age of the subject and date of the photo (from clothing style) there are only two possibilities: Russell/Whitehead and Cantor. I know what Russell and Whitehead look like. By process of elimination, Georg Cantor (inventor of set theory).
    12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
    Stadtluft Macht Frei
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    • ...and confirmed through wikipedia
      12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
      Stadtluft Macht Frei
      Killing it is the new killing it
      Ultima Ratio Regum

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      • I suppose it could also have been David Hilbert, but he is less solely responsible for the development of functional analysis...
        12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
        Stadtluft Macht Frei
        Killing it is the new killing it
        Ultima Ratio Regum

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        • Cantor. Good job for a non-descript guy with a beard.

          Tom P.

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          • I only got it because of your clues.

            If you'd just said "mathematician" I would still have been stumped.

            Inventing a branch of mathematics is what did it...
            12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
            Stadtluft Macht Frei
            Killing it is the new killing it
            Ultima Ratio Regum

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            • Originally posted by padillah
              Mine made a very important dcontribution to early mathematics. He discovered a branch of mathematics.

              Tom P.
              well geez, he sure looked alot like Chaim Weizmann. Fooled me.
              "A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber

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              • Who's the unfortunate man pictured here?
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                12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
                Stadtluft Macht Frei
                Killing it is the new killing it
                Ultima Ratio Regum

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                • Originally posted by KrazyHorse
                  Who's the unfortunate man pictured here?
                  Wat Tyler and Richard II, Peasants' Revolt?
                  The Apolytoner formerly known as Alexander01
                  "God has given no greater spur to victory than contempt of death." - Hannibal Barca, c. 218 B.C.
                  "We can legislate until doomsday but that will not make men righteous." - George Albert Smith, A.D. 1949
                  The Kingdom of Jerusalem: Chronicles of the Golden Cross - a Crusader Kings After Action Report

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                  • got it in one
                    12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
                    Stadtluft Macht Frei
                    Killing it is the new killing it
                    Ultima Ratio Regum

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                    • Here's an easy one. What's this event, and who are the two main players in it?
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                      The Apolytoner formerly known as Alexander01
                      "God has given no greater spur to victory than contempt of death." - Hannibal Barca, c. 218 B.C.
                      "We can legislate until doomsday but that will not make men righteous." - George Albert Smith, A.D. 1949
                      The Kingdom of Jerusalem: Chronicles of the Golden Cross - a Crusader Kings After Action Report

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                      • Vercingetorix (sp?) surrenders to Julius Caesar after the Battle of Alesia. I know my Asterix
                        Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
                        And notifying the next of kin
                        Once again...

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                        • Originally posted by Hueij
                          Vercingetorix (sp?) surrenders to Julius Caesar after the Battle of Alesia. I know my Asterix
                          Good job! Told you it was an easy one.
                          The Apolytoner formerly known as Alexander01
                          "God has given no greater spur to victory than contempt of death." - Hannibal Barca, c. 218 B.C.
                          "We can legislate until doomsday but that will not make men righteous." - George Albert Smith, A.D. 1949
                          The Kingdom of Jerusalem: Chronicles of the Golden Cross - a Crusader Kings After Action Report

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                          • Okay, another easy one...

                            Who killed who?
                            Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
                            And notifying the next of kin
                            Once again...

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                            • Stupid...
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                              Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
                              And notifying the next of kin
                              Once again...

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                              • Some Frenchman assassinating William the Silent aka William of Orange

                                I don't know the name of the assassin.
                                12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
                                Stadtluft Macht Frei
                                Killing it is the new killing it
                                Ultima Ratio Regum

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