Who Am I? The ATU History game

This is how Constance set the ball rolling:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3zFrUIC702UJ:acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/t4920-who-am-i-an-history-game+acrosstheuniverse+%2B+history+game&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&source=www.google.co.uk

Who'd like to pick it up and run with it?

An easy one:

??

That's young Winston, that is, innit.

pinhedz wrote:

felix wrote:That's young Winston, that is, innit.

Bingo--I knew he looked familiar--and English.

He was half American.

So glad you resurrected the games threads, Eddie!

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She was the companion to a famous writer and she wrote a cookbook.

New person:

Spaghetti Junction wrote:Alice B. Toklas

Yes! I wondered if she would be recognizable without the clues. Would you have known her from just the picture?

felix wrote:

pinhedz wrote:

felix wrote:That's young Winston, that is, innit.

Bingo--I knew he looked familiar--and English.

He was half American.

I always loved that quote

"M'lord, your butler's had a terrible accident. He's been cut in half."

"Well, send me the half that's got my keys."

Constance wrote:New person:

Mary Pickford.

hal jones wrote:

Constance wrote:New person:

Mary Pickford.

Mary Pickford is right!

Another decorated Brit:

Mountbatten?

Lord Mountbatten - just a hunch from the picture - he was extremely good-looking before he was blown up

I hope two rights don't make a wrong

It is Lord Mountbatten!

Three pictures of the same man.

He founded a printing press with his wife.

Simon and/or Schuster?

The long-suffering Leonard Woolf.

A famous couple.

This fine gentleman?

I recognise him - Archduke Ferdinand......probably one of the most familiar faces in history..........

it's hard to find a picture that doesn't have the name in the properties file thingy...heheheh



I'll keep looking as it's my turn

Catherine wrote: it's hard to find a picture that doesn't have the name in the properties file thingy...heheheh

Catherine

Copy the URL (the properties file thingy) into tinyurl, press send and bingo! the name's gone

Here's Archie Duke ---

that sounds like a very newfangled thing to do......very technical.........

I should have mastery of the technique in a couple of weeks......

thanks, Felix......I'll try that......

it worked!!!

hallelujah

that is such a great discovery - thanks Felix

He reminds me of Stephen Crane, but that can't be right.

Can we have a clue?