Nice one Boa, that’s my three. Someone else can have a go now. 🙂
Hiya, Boadicea – Hpoe you are enjoying your sojourn in Blighty.
6. Geronimo. (By the way, what does he shout when he jumps oot of an aeroplane?)
10. Hermann Goering, WW1 fighter ace and future Reichsmarshall of the Luftwaffe the next time it all kicked off.
OZ
Sorry, Tocino (twice)
OZ
7 is Lord Byron – as in George Byron, I think.
4. Galileo Galilei does that count as two?
5. Ulysses S. Grant
If we are allowed three, Number 8 looks like a very young William Ewart Gladstone, but that is a guess.
Tocino
1. By the time of his death, Genghis Khan (1162-1267) had unified the Mongol people, organized a nearly invincible army of fearless nomadic warriors, and set into motion the first stage in the conquest of an enormous territory that would be completed by his sons and grandsons. With extraordinary speed and devastating ruthlessness the Mongols created the world’s largest empire, stretching at its greatest extent from Korea to Hungary. But the legacy of Genghis Khan extends well beyond the battlefield. The Mongols’ promotion of pan-Asian trade, their avid taste for luxury goods, and their practice of relocating artists combined to produce an unprecedented cross-fertilization of artistic ideas throughout Eurasia. Source
6. Geronimo (1829-1909) was a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who defended his people against the encroachment of the United States on their tribal lands for over 25 years. His name means ‘one who yawns’. Geronimo was born to the Bedonkohe band of the Apache, near Turkey Creek, a tributary of the Gila River in the modern-day state of Arizona, then part of Mexico, but which his family considered Bedonkohe land.
Geronimo said he was never a chief, he was a military leader. As a Chiricahua Apache, this meant he was also a spiritual leader. He consistently urged raids and war upon many Mexican and later U.S. groups. Geronimo and other warriors were sent as prisoners to Fort Pickens, Florida, and his family was sent to Fort Marion. They were reunited in May 1887, when they were transferred to Mount Vernon Barracks in Alabama for five years. In 1894, they were moved to Fort Sill, Oklahoma. In his old age, Geronimo became a celebrity. He appeared at fairs, including the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, and sold souvenirs and photographs of himself. However, he was not allowed to return to the land of his birth. He rode in President Theodore Roosevelt’s 1905 inaugural parade. He died of pneumonia at Fort Sill, Oklahoma in 1909 and was buried at the Apache Indian Prisoner of War Cemetery there. Source
OZ
10. Hermann Wilhelm Göring (1893-1946) was a German politician and military leader, a leading member of the Nazi Party, second in command of the Third Reich, and commander of the Luftwaffe. He was of aristocratic heritage and a war hero of World War I. Goering’s aristocratic background and his prestige as a war hero made him a prize recruit to the infant Nazi Party and Hitler appointed him to command the SA Brownshirts in December 1922. Nazism offered the swashbuckling Goering the promise of action, adventure, comradeship and an outlet for his unreflective, elemental hunger for power. He was tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945-1946 and sentenced to death by hanging. However, he escaped the hangman’s noose about two hours before his scheduled execution by committing suicide with potassium cyanide.
Claire
7. George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824), was among the most famous of the English ‘Romantic’ poets; his contemporaries included Percy Shelley and John Keats. He was also a satirist whose poetry and personality captured the imagination of Europe. His major works include Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812-18) and Don Juan (1819-24). He died of fever and exposure while engaged in the Greek struggle for independence. Source
LW
4. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism. Galileo has been called the “father of modern observational astronomy”, the “father of modern physics”, the “father of science”, and “the Father of Modern Science.”
Galileo’s championing of Copernicanism was controversial within his lifetime. The geocentric view had been dominant since the time of Aristotle, and the controversy engendered by Galileo’s presentation of heliocentrism as proven fact resulted in the Catholic Church’s prohibiting its advocacy as empirically proven fact because it was contrary to the literal meaning of Scripture. Galileo was eventually forced to recant his heliocentrism and spent the last years of his life under house arrest on orders of the Roman Inquisition. Source
LW – I’ll go with both of those. 🙂 For No.3, I was originally thinking Columbus, who had different names depending on which country he was in, and wobdering whether there was a Guiseppe in there somewhere. Apparently not.
OZ
5. Garibaldi
Ara, OZ: I didn’t know Garibaldi was U.S.Grant’s brother.
Neither did I, LW, but it looks like Garibaldi to me! 🙂
Araminta – Loved his biscuits. A claim to fame if ever there was one.
OZ
Well, I could be wrong of course, Oz, but has we waited for a clue; I reckon biscuit maker would have given the game away.;)
3. Vasco de Gama
Araminta – q.v. Low Wattage #17
🙂
How’s Eff or, more importantly, where’s Eff?
OZ
Er, well, Eff; um, hasn’t she arrived yet?
Oops yes, I didn’t notice LW had already sorted #3.
oh. Too late now but I knew Byron. Does that count? Not in the biblical sense. Good-looking but with a gammy leg. ok I’ll get my coat.
Who but the truly desperate could love a garibaldi biscuit? Flies squashed into thin dough and baked until hard enough to crack the fillings. oh yum.
Oh, I used to live on them Jan, but I have to confess that my daughters used to refer to them as squashed fly biscuits; but I reckon they were spoilt. 😉
Araminta @ #27 – My mobile phone has just exploded, so I suppose it’s time to head off to the witchbroomport. I’ll let you know how it goes.
OZ
Blimey, Oz good luck. I haven’t seen the the little pest since she stole one of the horses and headed for Badminton earlier this month. If she arrives with equine, could you keep Eff and sent the horse back. Ta!
LW
3. Vasco da Gama (1469-1524) is famous for his completion of the first all water trade route between Europe and India. Da Gama’s father, Estavao, had originally been chosen by King Joao II to make this historic voyage, but he died before he could complete the mission. It is also said that the opportunity was then given to da Gama’s brother, Paulo, who turned it down. The trip needed to be made, and as a last choice, King Emmanuel looked to da Gama to complete the mission. When Vasco da Gama set out on July 8, 1497 he and his crew planned and equipped four ships. Goncalo Alvares commanded the flagship Sao (Saint) Gabriel. Paulo, da Gama’s brother, commanded the Sao Rafael. The other two ships were the Berrio and the Starship. Most of the men working on the ship were convicts and were treated as expendable. On the voyage, da Gama set out from Lisbon, Portugal, rounded the Cape of Good Hope on November 22, and sailed north. Da Gama made various stops along the coast of Africa in trading centres such as Mombasa, Mozambique, Malindi, Kenya, and Quilmana. They arrived in Calicut (modern Kozhikode) on the southwest coast of India on 20 May 1498. Source
Araminta
5. Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) was an Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento. He personally led many of the military campaigns that brought about the formation of a unified Italy. He was called the “Hero of the Two Worlds,” in tribute to his military adventures in South America and Europe. Garibaldi’s popularity, his skill at rousing the masses, and his military exploits are all credited with making the unification of Italy possible. He died on Caprera, where he was interred. Source
2. Gutenberg?
8. It looks like a bit like young George Stephenson, but this is just a guess.
Boa: Maybe #2 “The Printer?”
#8 Boadicea seems to have a problem loading, or it may just be me.
I hope you are enjoying the glorious weather at the moment. It’s all going to go pear-shaped towards the end of the week, or so I have read.
Oops; correction, it’s #9, the politician!
Jaime
2. Johannes Gutenberg (c.1400-1468) was a German printer and pioneer in the use of movable type, he is sometimes identified as the first European to print with hand-set type cast in molds. Detailed records of Gutenberg’s life and work are scant; his name does not appear on any of the works attributed to him. He was probably born in Mainz, and trained as a goldsmith. His family later settled in Strasbourg. In 1438 Gutenberg entered into a partnership with Andreas Dritzehn to conduct experiments in printing. Returning to Mainz in about 1450, Gutenberg formed another partnership, with the German merchant and moneylender Johannes Fust, and set up a press on which he probably started printing the large Latin Bible associated with his name, as well as some smaller books and leaflets. The Bible, known variously as the Gutenberg Bible, Mazarin Bible, or 42-Line Bible, was apparently finished before the end of 1456. Gutenberg originated the technique of printing from movable type. Source
Araminta – I think the problem is yours
Loving the weather! I am not happy that it will not last – still I came better prepared for bad weather than good!
I protest!!!!!!! 😦
What about me? I carry a “G” in my name as well….
“Good” Simulatio…. “God” Simulatio ….. “Gee”, you’re so good looking, Simulatio”
Obviously an attempt to undermine my credibility, and outstanding community influence 😦
🙂
Absolutely right IS! 🙂
8. Charles Goodyear?
9. Charles Goodyear – the vulcanising chappie.
Pipped by mistaking the number again. 🙂
For an “intermittent attender” you’re doing pretty well, Boadicea.
Tocino
8. Charles Goodyear (1800-1860) was the inventor of vulcanization, a process that makes rubber harder, less soluble, and more durable. It is at the heart of rubber compounding, which played a key role at the onset of the Industrial Revolution. Goodyear obtained a patent for vulcanization in 1844, but died deep in debt in 1860. He had no official connection to the famous Goodyear Tire Company, which was founded after his death and named in his honour. Source
Sheona
I have a quizzes up to ‘L’ hidden away ready to publish when I think I can get back to them!
Thank heavens the weather is so good!
Boa: I really did think number 8 looked like a younger Gladstone and I did not think number 9 did. But, I will accept your clues and adjust my spectacles.
#9 A young William Ewart Gladstone?
This is all men
We should have a G spot for the women.
LW
9. William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) was a British Liberal Party statesman and four times Prime Minister. He was a champion of the Home Rule Bill which would have established self-government in Ireland.
Gladstone is also famous for his intense rivalry with the Conservative Party Leader Benjamin Disraeli. The rivalry was not only political, but also personal. When Disraeli died, Gladstone proposed a state funeral, but Disraeli’s will asked for him to be buried next to his wife, to which Gladstone replied, “As Disraeli lived, so he died — all display, without reality or genuineness.”
The British statesman was famously at odds with Queen Victoria for much of his career. She once complained, “He always addresses me as if I were a public meeting”. Gladstone was known affectionately by his supporters as the “GOM”, for “Grand Old Man” (or according to Disraeli actually stood for ‘God’s Only Mistake’, or “The People’s William”. He is still regarded as one of the greatest British prime ministers, with Winston Churchill and others citing Gladstone as their inspiration. Source
He’s much better looking than one woud expect from his later portraits!
Boadicea's Chariot 
. Ghengis Khan?
Oops that should be 1.
6. Geronimo?
Toc: just what I was going to say!
1. Hermann Wilhelm Göring
Nice one Boa, that’s my three. Someone else can have a go now. 🙂
Hiya, Boadicea – Hpoe you are enjoying your sojourn in Blighty.
6. Geronimo. (By the way, what does he shout when he jumps oot of an aeroplane?)
10. Hermann Goering, WW1 fighter ace and future Reichsmarshall of the Luftwaffe the next time it all kicked off.
OZ
Sorry, Tocino (twice)
OZ
7 is Lord Byron – as in George Byron, I think.
4. Galileo Galilei does that count as two?
5. Ulysses S. Grant
If we are allowed three, Number 8 looks like a very young William Ewart Gladstone, but that is a guess.
Tocino
1. By the time of his death, Genghis Khan (1162-1267) had unified the Mongol people, organized a nearly invincible army of fearless nomadic warriors, and set into motion the first stage in the conquest of an enormous territory that would be completed by his sons and grandsons. With extraordinary speed and devastating ruthlessness the Mongols created the world’s largest empire, stretching at its greatest extent from Korea to Hungary. But the legacy of Genghis Khan extends well beyond the battlefield. The Mongols’ promotion of pan-Asian trade, their avid taste for luxury goods, and their practice of relocating artists combined to produce an unprecedented cross-fertilization of artistic ideas throughout Eurasia.
Source
6. Geronimo (1829-1909) was a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who defended his people against the encroachment of the United States on their tribal lands for over 25 years. His name means ‘one who yawns’. Geronimo was born to the Bedonkohe band of the Apache, near Turkey Creek, a tributary of the Gila River in the modern-day state of Arizona, then part of Mexico, but which his family considered Bedonkohe land.
Geronimo said he was never a chief, he was a military leader. As a Chiricahua Apache, this meant he was also a spiritual leader. He consistently urged raids and war upon many Mexican and later U.S. groups. Geronimo and other warriors were sent as prisoners to Fort Pickens, Florida, and his family was sent to Fort Marion. They were reunited in May 1887, when they were transferred to Mount Vernon Barracks in Alabama for five years. In 1894, they were moved to Fort Sill, Oklahoma. In his old age, Geronimo became a celebrity. He appeared at fairs, including the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, and sold souvenirs and photographs of himself. However, he was not allowed to return to the land of his birth. He rode in President Theodore Roosevelt’s 1905 inaugural parade. He died of pneumonia at Fort Sill, Oklahoma in 1909 and was buried at the Apache Indian Prisoner of War Cemetery there.
Source
OZ
10. Hermann Wilhelm Göring (1893-1946) was a German politician and military leader, a leading member of the Nazi Party, second in command of the Third Reich, and commander of the Luftwaffe. He was of aristocratic heritage and a war hero of World War I. Goering’s aristocratic background and his prestige as a war hero made him a prize recruit to the infant Nazi Party and Hitler appointed him to command the SA Brownshirts in December 1922. Nazism offered the swashbuckling Goering the promise of action, adventure, comradeship and an outlet for his unreflective, elemental hunger for power. He was tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945-1946 and sentenced to death by hanging. However, he escaped the hangman’s noose about two hours before his scheduled execution by committing suicide with potassium cyanide.
Source
Claire
7. George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824), was among the most famous of the English ‘Romantic’ poets; his contemporaries included Percy Shelley and John Keats. He was also a satirist whose poetry and personality captured the imagination of Europe. His major works include Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812-18) and Don Juan (1819-24). He died of fever and exposure while engaged in the Greek struggle for independence.
Source
LW
4. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism. Galileo has been called the “father of modern observational astronomy”, the “father of modern physics”, the “father of science”, and “the Father of Modern Science.”
Galileo’s championing of Copernicanism was controversial within his lifetime. The geocentric view had been dominant since the time of Aristotle, and the controversy engendered by Galileo’s presentation of heliocentrism as proven fact resulted in the Catholic Church’s prohibiting its advocacy as empirically proven fact because it was contrary to the literal meaning of Scripture. Galileo was eventually forced to recant his heliocentrism and spent the last years of his life under house arrest on orders of the Roman Inquisition.
Source
No prob’s OZ. A missing 0 is what it is all about. 🙂
OZ: Number 3 looks very like Vasco da Gama but I think he left Portugal before you got there.
If 5 isn’t Grant it must be his brother.
2. With all that hair and not only on his face, this has to be an early image of King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Camp_Gillette
Really big ironic smiley thing.
OZ
LW – I’ll go with both of those. 🙂 For No.3, I was originally thinking Columbus, who had different names depending on which country he was in, and wobdering whether there was a Guiseppe in there somewhere. Apparently not.
OZ
5. Garibaldi
Ara, OZ: I didn’t know Garibaldi was U.S.Grant’s brother.
Neither did I, LW, but it looks like Garibaldi to me! 🙂
Araminta – Loved his biscuits. A claim to fame if ever there was one.
OZ
Well, I could be wrong of course, Oz, but has we waited for a clue; I reckon biscuit maker would have given the game away.;)
3. Vasco de Gama
Araminta – q.v. Low Wattage #17
🙂
How’s Eff or, more importantly, where’s Eff?
OZ
Er, well, Eff; um, hasn’t she arrived yet?
Oops yes, I didn’t notice LW had already sorted #3.
oh. Too late now but I knew Byron. Does that count? Not in the biblical sense. Good-looking but with a gammy leg. ok I’ll get my coat.
Who but the truly desperate could love a garibaldi biscuit? Flies squashed into thin dough and baked until hard enough to crack the fillings. oh yum.
Oh, I used to live on them Jan, but I have to confess that my daughters used to refer to them as squashed fly biscuits; but I reckon they were spoilt. 😉
Araminta @ #27 – My mobile phone has just exploded, so I suppose it’s time to head off to the witchbroomport. I’ll let you know how it goes.
OZ
Blimey, Oz good luck. I haven’t seen the the little pest since she stole one of the horses and headed for Badminton earlier this month. If she arrives with equine, could you keep Eff and sent the horse back. Ta!
LW
3. Vasco da Gama (1469-1524) is famous for his completion of the first all water trade route between Europe and India. Da Gama’s father, Estavao, had originally been chosen by King Joao II to make this historic voyage, but he died before he could complete the mission. It is also said that the opportunity was then given to da Gama’s brother, Paulo, who turned it down. The trip needed to be made, and as a last choice, King Emmanuel looked to da Gama to complete the mission. When Vasco da Gama set out on July 8, 1497 he and his crew planned and equipped four ships. Goncalo Alvares commanded the flagship Sao (Saint) Gabriel. Paulo, da Gama’s brother, commanded the Sao Rafael. The other two ships were the Berrio and the Starship. Most of the men working on the ship were convicts and were treated as expendable. On the voyage, da Gama set out from Lisbon, Portugal, rounded the Cape of Good Hope on November 22, and sailed north. Da Gama made various stops along the coast of Africa in trading centres such as Mombasa, Mozambique, Malindi, Kenya, and Quilmana. They arrived in Calicut (modern Kozhikode) on the southwest coast of India on 20 May 1498.
Source
Araminta
5. Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) was an Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento. He personally led many of the military campaigns that brought about the formation of a unified Italy. He was called the “Hero of the Two Worlds,” in tribute to his military adventures in South America and Europe. Garibaldi’s popularity, his skill at rousing the masses, and his military exploits are all credited with making the unification of Italy possible. He died on Caprera, where he was interred.
Source
2. Gutenberg?
8. It looks like a bit like young George Stephenson, but this is just a guess.
Boa: Maybe #2 “The Printer?”
#8 Boadicea seems to have a problem loading, or it may just be me.
I hope you are enjoying the glorious weather at the moment. It’s all going to go pear-shaped towards the end of the week, or so I have read.
Oops; correction, it’s #9, the politician!
Jaime
2. Johannes Gutenberg (c.1400-1468) was a German printer and pioneer in the use of movable type, he is sometimes identified as the first European to print with hand-set type cast in molds. Detailed records of Gutenberg’s life and work are scant; his name does not appear on any of the works attributed to him. He was probably born in Mainz, and trained as a goldsmith. His family later settled in Strasbourg. In 1438 Gutenberg entered into a partnership with Andreas Dritzehn to conduct experiments in printing. Returning to Mainz in about 1450, Gutenberg formed another partnership, with the German merchant and moneylender Johannes Fust, and set up a press on which he probably started printing the large Latin Bible associated with his name, as well as some smaller books and leaflets. The Bible, known variously as the Gutenberg Bible, Mazarin Bible, or 42-Line Bible, was apparently finished before the end of 1456. Gutenberg originated the technique of printing from movable type.
Source
Araminta – I think the problem is yours
Loving the weather! I am not happy that it will not last – still I came better prepared for bad weather than good!
I protest!!!!!!! 😦
What about me? I carry a “G” in my name as well….
“Good” Simulatio…. “God” Simulatio ….. “Gee”, you’re so good looking, Simulatio”
Obviously an attempt to undermine my credibility, and outstanding community influence 😦
🙂
Absolutely right IS! 🙂
8. Charles Goodyear?
9. Charles Goodyear – the vulcanising chappie.
Pipped by mistaking the number again. 🙂
For an “intermittent attender” you’re doing pretty well, Boadicea.
Tocino
8. Charles Goodyear (1800-1860) was the inventor of vulcanization, a process that makes rubber harder, less soluble, and more durable. It is at the heart of rubber compounding, which played a key role at the onset of the Industrial Revolution. Goodyear obtained a patent for vulcanization in 1844, but died deep in debt in 1860. He had no official connection to the famous Goodyear Tire Company, which was founded after his death and named in his honour.
Source
Sheona
I have a quizzes up to ‘L’ hidden away ready to publish when I think I can get back to them!
Thank heavens the weather is so good!
Boa: I really did think number 8 looked like a younger Gladstone and I did not think number 9 did. But, I will accept your clues and adjust my spectacles.
#9 A young William Ewart Gladstone?
This is all men
We should have a G spot for the women.
LW
9. William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) was a British Liberal Party statesman and four times Prime Minister. He was a champion of the Home Rule Bill which would have established self-government in Ireland.
Gladstone is also famous for his intense rivalry with the Conservative Party Leader Benjamin Disraeli. The rivalry was not only political, but also personal. When Disraeli died, Gladstone proposed a state funeral, but Disraeli’s will asked for him to be buried next to his wife, to which Gladstone replied, “As Disraeli lived, so he died — all display, without reality or genuineness.”
The British statesman was famously at odds with Queen Victoria for much of his career. She once complained, “He always addresses me as if I were a public meeting”. Gladstone was known affectionately by his supporters as the “GOM”, for “Grand Old Man” (or according to Disraeli actually stood for ‘God’s Only Mistake’, or “The People’s William”. He is still regarded as one of the greatest British prime ministers, with Winston Churchill and others citing Gladstone as their inspiration.
Source
He’s much better looking than one woud expect from his later portraits!
Pseu: That would be too easy.
🙂