Interesting Picture: Albert Einstein Posing

I had to start a new segment when I saw this picture.

Albert Einstein Getting his Portrait PaintedFrom Sciencegeek100 at Imgur.com

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Einstein: His Life and Universe

by Walter Isaacson

Portrait Lives: Queen Victoria Part 2

It continues...

aged about 41

aged about 50.

aged about 64

aged about 68

aged about 70

aged 81

She died at 81 on 22 January 1901, she had the longest reign in English History (Elizabeth II should keep on living just to beat Victoria's record).

Check out more about

Queen Victoria: A Personal History

by Christopher Hibbert

Vicky is not amused, either you click the link or 

she will attack you with her fan.

The picture has inaccurate colors.

Source:
Timeline of the life Queen Victoria: https://www.royal.gov.uk/List%20Images/QV%20Education%20project/Timeline%20of%20the%20life%20of%20Queen%20Victoria%202.pdf
http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon58.html
Victoria: http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon58.html

Portrait Lives: Queen Victoria Part 1

If you gotta know something about me you gotta know I post late in the day. Yep, one of the bad things.

Frankly, many people know of Queen Victoria, but nothing about her (like me an hour ago). The only thing I really knew about her is that she loved her husband and was very powerful. Probably both true but that doesn't demonstrate a significant of an understanding of Victoria. She was actively involved in politics and extended over foreign and domestic innovations with her long reign of influence. She was a great monarch of her time.

Born on 24 May 1819.

aged 9

aged 4

aged 14

aged about 23

aged about 25

aged about 35

aged about 35

aged  about 40.

aged about 41

Part 2 tomorrow!

Portrait Lives: Adolf Hitler

It's Portrait Lives Saturday!
Every Saturday features a Portrait Lives, which is a weekly post showing the age progression in specific historical figures through contemporary portraits of them. 

He is always shown and thought of as worst person in history, most certainly one of the most insane political figures in history, and he was. He was responsible for over 4 million Jews being dehumanized and executed.

Here is a Portrait Lives about him:

He was born on April 20, 1889 in Austria.

Hitler as an infant, kinda cute but evil

aged about 11

Early twenties when he began serving in World War I.

Hitler in his late twenties during time
in army

in his early thirties

aged about 41. The year after this portrait he would run for
president...and lose.

Hitler aged about 38, this
is about when the Nazis
 came to power

Aged about 43, around this time he is appointed German Chancellor
 because who wants to be president (second in command)?
I bet the German people were thinking
"didn't he just lose the election
for president?"

about 44, was Chancellor now Dictator-Chancellor.
Concentration camps have
been opened, horrible large-scale
discriminating systematic war crimes.

about 47

aged about 48

A year before Hitler and Mussolini
 declared war on US, about 52.

about 56, the year he died

In 1945, he committed suicide by shooting himself in his mouth.

Sources:
Adolf Hitler: Table of Contents: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hitlertoc.html
A Madman: A sober look at Hitler's Health: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/medicating-a-madman-a-sober-look-at-hitler-s-health-a-675991.html

Extra Pictures:

British Army in Europe.

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: sheets with portraits of Hitler.

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Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography

by John Toland

Hitler at a window.

Portrait Lives are Moved to Saturdays!

From now on Portrait Lives Wednesday will be called Portrait Lives Saturday. You now can read a post while watching Saturday Night Live.  Next one is about Adolf Hitler, which should be interesting...no fascinating.

He is excited for the post.

All the Shocking Secrets of the Mona Lisa.

Gone are the days where you are fooled by false colors!
This is the true Mona Lisa.

Not only is the Mona Lisa the most secretive painting, it is also the most famous.
Who knew paintings could keep secrets?

Somehow Mona Lisa's mysterious smile is her most attractive feature. The stare of this painted woman is never the less creepy, though, people
have said  Mona Lisa follows them with her eyes.

This is what happens when you become a
famous painting

Throughout the centuries, daunting facts have been discovered about the Mona Lisa.

I have listed all
the discoveries I know of below:

She has no eyebrows.
I always thought they were invisible. They were actually worn down by time.

There is an earlier version.

The Other Earlier Version

This version may or may not have been created by da Vinci. It is a younger and way less detailed Mona Lisa.

Her smile used to be wider.
But time made her unhappy.

There is a code of numbers and letters in her eyes.
I don't what that means Leonardo was doing, but it freaks me out. Leonardo is not and was not James Bond., so why? 
Can you see the letters and numbers in the left picture? Actually you can't, they're microscopic. 

Sources:

'Solved: Why Mona Lisa doesn't have eyebrows' by Richard Holt: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3668700/Solved-Why-Mona-Lisa-doesnt-have-eyebrows.html
The real-life Da Vinci Code: Historians discover tiny numbers and letters in the eyes of the Mona Lisa: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1337976/Real-life-Da-Vinci-Code-Tiny-numbers-letters-discovered-Mona-Lisa.html

The Mona Lisa Foundation: http://monalisa.org
Contribute to them. I don't know them but I bet they would really appreciate it.

Digital scans reveal Mona Lisa secrets: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/oct/22/artnews.france

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Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered by Dianne Hales

She was really a man all along!

 Just kidding, click on the picture.

I couldn't resist putting this here