This amazing picture of the Broadway Tower in Cotswolds England is the winner of the Wikimedia Commons picture of the year award for 2007. Stunning picture isn’t it 
Here is another picture of this amazing tower:
Picture of the year finalists are here.
Comments rssI saw this picture on a couple of blogs (first here, then here), so i tried to identify some of the characters portrayed. So i decided to tag them and see if i can identify them with the help of the community. Here is a scaled down version of the picture, click it to see it full scale (~750 KB in size). The original untagged picture can be found here. High resolution versions of the original picture here and here (thanks Isam). Qwaider also applied the numbered tags to the higher resolution version, many thanks!
A hi-res tagged version can be found here. (~1.1 MB)
Here is a list of the people that i have figured out so far, if you know of more, please let me know and i will add them to this list.
| The list of who’s who … well at least in the picture above | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1: Jacques Verges | 2: Dante Allghieri | 3: Deng Xiaoping? | 4: Mother Teresa |
| 5: Yul Brynner? | 6: Mikhail Gorbachev | 7: Ferdinand Marcos? | 8: Kofi Annan |
| 9: Liu Xiang** | 10: Prince Charles | 11: Empress Dowager Cixi | 12: Osama Bin Laden |
| 13: George W. Bush? | 14: Luciano Pavarotti | 15: Salvador Dali?* | 16: Gregory Peck? / John Wayne? |
| 17: Spartacus? / Julius Caesar?* | 18: Yasser Arafat | 19: Marilyn Monroe | 20: Marlon Brando |
| 21: Fidel Castro | 22: Laozi* | 23: Chi Guevara | 24: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| 25: Zhou Enlai | 26: Napoléon Bonaparte | 27: Mao Zedong | 28: |
| 29: Abraham Lincoln | 30: Genghis Khan | 31: Pablo Picasso | 32: Steven Spielberg?* |
| 33: Friedrich Nietzsche | 34: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 35: Karl Marx | 36: William Shakespeare |
| 37: Leonardo da Vinci* | 38: Robert Oppenheimer | 39: Henri Matisse? | 40: Joseph Stalin |
| 41: Elvis Presley | 42: Franklin D. Roosevelt* / Jorge Luis Borges | 43: Winston Churchill | 44: Bruce Lee |
| 45: James Garfield? | 46: Margert Thatcher* | 47: Peter the Great?* | 48: Charles de Gaulle |
| 49: Bill Clinton | 50: Maxim Gorky* | 51: Lin Biao | 52: Solomon? |
| 53: Vladimir Lenin | 54: Guan Yu | 55: Cui Jian | 56: Aristotle / Plato?** / Homer / Socrates |
| 57: | 58: Pelé | 59: Adolf Hitler | 60: Saddam Hussein |
| 61: Ludwig van Beethoven | 62: Audrey Hepburn | 63: Benito Mussolini | 64: Rudyard Kipling? |
| 65: Lei Feng* | 66: Henry Ford* | 67: Charlie Chaplin | 68: Ernest Hemingway?* |
| 69: Sun Yat-sen** | 70: Deng Xiaoping? | 71: Sigmund Freud | 72: Mike Tyson |
| 73: B. F. Skinner* | 74: Chiang Kai-shek* | 75: | 76: Vladimir Putin |
| 77: Lu Xun?* | 78: Lewis Carroll* / Hans Christian Andersen | 79: Queen Elizabeth II | 80: Shirley Temple |
| 81: Charles Darwin?* / Leo Tolstoy | 82: Albert Einstein | 83: Li Bai / Mozi* | 84: Moses** |
| 85: Confucius?* | 86: | 87: Mahatma Gandhi | 88: Claude Monet? |
| 89: Dwight Eisenhower?* / Thomas Lipton? | 90: Vincent van Gogh | 91: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | 92: Marcel Duchamp |
| 93: Michael Jordan | 94: Ariel Sharon | 95: Hideki Tojo* | 96: |
| 97: Yue Fei* | 98: | 99: Qin Shi Huang?* | 100: Run Run Shaw? |
| 101: Samuel Adams? | 102: Rabindranath Tagore / Saint Peter?* | 103: Otto von Bismarck* / Moltke the Younger? | 104: Jacob |
| Names with question marks? need further verification | |||
| Coloured stars* denote supporting people | |||
If you recognize somebody that is not included in the table above, or if you believe there is a mistake somewhere, please leave me a comment, and i will add him/her to the list. … tell your friends to jump in on that too
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Comments rssJust a couple of videos of Street Jumping and Parkour, as seen in the movie District 13 (which i haven’t seen yet 
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This infamous video is from District 13, and all the stunts were real! No wires, or CGI … all real !!
This second video gets really interesting after the second minute mark.
Comments rssThis is pretty funny 
Comments rssIt seriously is nothing short of that!! The “Magnum Burger” at Chili Chili (rather an odd name if you ask me) is seriously one thick, juicy, delicious burger. I’ve tried burgers from various places ranging from the big chains (McD, BK, Hardee’s/Carl Jr, Wendy’s ..etc) to the more obscure places … but this one does win the challenge (IMHO).
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