This blog began in 2003 as Mrs. Rabbitt's Bookbag and continued as From the Library Director from 2005-2010. You can read my newspaper columns at FromtheLibraryColumn published Thursdays in the Norwood Transcript and Bulletin.

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Imagine Yourself There

This extraordinary painting by Taiwanese artists Dai Dudu, Li Tiezi and Zhang An (they are in the painting) can be seen here with a fancy zoom tool for you to see everyone listed below. First try to identify each of the 103 people in this painting. Then check the list.



Bill Gates, Microsoft founder; Homer, Greek poet; Cui Jian, Chinese singer; Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary; Pavel Korchagin, Russian artist; Bill Clinton, former U.S. President; Peter the Great, Russian leader; Margaret Thatcher; Bruce Lee, martial arts actor; Winston Churchill; Henri Matisse, French artist; Genghis Khan, Mongolian warlord; Bonaparte, French military leader; Che Guevara, Marxist revolutionary; Fidel Castro, former Cuban leader; Marlon Brando, actor; Yasser Arafat, former Palestinian leader; Julius Caesar, Roman emperor; Gen. Claire Lee Chennault, WW II U.S. aviator; Luciano Pavarotti, singer; George W. Bush, former U.S. President; The Prince of Wales; Liu Xiang, Chinese Olympic hurdler; Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General; Zhang An, the painter; Mikhail Gorbachev, former Russian leader; Li Tiezi, the painter; Dante Alighieri, Florentine poet; Dai Dudu, the painter; Pele, Brazilian footballer; Guan Yu, Chinese warlord; Ramses II, Egyptian pharaoh; Charles De Gaulle, French general; Albert Nobel, Swedish chemist who founded the Nobel prizes; Franklin Roosevelt, former U.S. President; Ernest Hemingway, American novelist; Elvis Presley, American singer; Robert Oppenheimer, U.S. physicist; William Shakespeare, playwright; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer; Steven Spielberg, U.S. film director; Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter; Marie Curie, physicist and pioneer of radioactivity; Zhou Enlai, first Premier of the People's Republic of China; Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German writer; Laozi, Chinese philosopher; Marilyn Monroe, American actress; Salvador Dali, Spanish painter; Dowager Cixi, former ruler of China; Ariel Sharon, former Israeli Prime Minister; Qi Baishi, Chinese painter; Qin Shi Huang, former Chinese Emperor; Mother Teresa, Roman Catholic missionary; Song Qingling, Chinese politician; Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet; Otto Von Bismarck, German statesman; Run Run Shaw, Chinese media mogul; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher; Audrey Hepburn, actress; Ludwig Van Beethoven, German composer; Adolf Hitler, Nazi leader; Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist leader; Saddam Hussein, former Iraq president; Maxim Gorky, Russian writer; Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary; Den Xiaoping, Chinese revolutionary; Alexander Pushkin, Russian author; Lu Xun, Chinese writer; Joseph Stalin, former Soviet Union leader; Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian painter; Karl Marx, German philosopher; Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher; Abraham Lincoln, former U.S. President; Mao Zedong, Chinese dictator; Charlie Chaplin, British actor; Henry Ford, founder of Ford motor company; Lei Feng, Chinese soldier; Norman Bethune, Canadian physician; Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist; Juan Antonio Samaranch, former International Olympic Committee president; Chiang Kai Shek, Chinese general; Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist; Li Bai, Chinese poet; The Queen; Corneliu Baba, Romanian painter; Auguste Rodin, French artist; Dwight Eisenhower, former U.S. President; Michael Jordan, U.S. basketball player; Hideki Tojo, former Japanese Prime Minister; Michelangelo, Italian Renaissance painter; Yi Sun-Sin, Korean naval commander; Mike Tyson, American boxer; Vladimir Putin, Russian Prime Minister; Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author; Shirley Temple, American actress; Albert Einstein, German physicist; Moses, Hebrew religious leader; Confucius, Chinese philosopher; Ghandi, Indian spiritual leader; Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter; Toulouse Lautrec, French painter; Marcel Duchamp, French artist; Osama bin Laden, founder of al Qaeda.