kezzela 2: New Thursday 13-historical figures considered very good looking in their day

Tolstoy as a young man in his 20's before War and Peace which he wrote at 39.

A royal family member, a social activist and one of the most prominent political figures in India during the 1960's, Gayatri Devi was also one of the fashion icons during her early adulthood, but this didn't stop her from pursuing a career in both art and politics. Gayatri Devi was even part of Vogue magazine's Ten Most Beautiful Women list in the 1940's.***

Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet, who was as celebrated for his good looks in various English poetry societies as he was for his sonnets dedicated to the horrors of the First World War. His handsome, boyish face served as the inspiration for both artists and poets. Unfortunately, the poet never managed to reach his full creative potential, as he suffered a sudden death from an infected mosquito bite during a sea voyage throughout the Mediterranean.***

Jack Kerouac- Kerouac is considered a literary iconoclast and a pioneer of the Beat Generation in literature. Unfortunately, the genius writer passed away at the all-too-young age of 47.He was always a term paper favorite with my students .

Oh my Charlie Chaplin - yes , yes

Fawzia Fuad was an Egyptian princess who became the Queen of Iran as the first wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. She was educated in Europe and was believed to be one of the most beautiful women in Egypt in the 1940's. Stories of her beauty spread far and wide, and she was often compared to iconic film stars like Hedy Lamarr and Vivien Leigh.

Wow, is this truly the photo of the world-famous Swiss psychoanalyst who developed the Rorschach test, in his mid-twenties? Because he really looks like Brad Pitt’s long-lost twin. The resemblance is uncanny!Hermann Rorschach1910

Elegant simple beauty Virginia Woolf-Apart from her role in inspiring feminism way before it was cool (Virginia lived and wrote during the end of the Victorian era), Virginia Woolf is a recognized modernist writer, who pioneered the use of the stream of consciousness technique as a narrative device. You likely know her from her novel Mrs Dalloway (1925) that gained world-acclaim.

....>>>>Be still my heart-Tenzing Norgay was one of the 2 first people along with Edmund Hillary to reach the top of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953, for which he was added to the list of 100 most influential people of the 20th century. On one of the trial expeditions leading up to the great Everest climb, he even saved Hillary's life: he prevented Hillary from falling into a crevasse by promptly securing his rope to an ice axe. Apart from all his heroism and outstanding mountaineering skills, Tenzing was quite handsome, too.(pantPant)

Young Winston Churchill

Vivien Thomas could have easily passed for a model, that’s how handsome he was. As many of you will know, however, he chose a career in medicine and became one of the most prominent surgeons of his time, raising above poverty and racism.

Nikola Tesla-Known as the pioneer of wireless communication, Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-born physicist and inventor. His contributions to electrical engineering were underappreciated in his lifetime, but his name became increasingly popular since the 1990's, as many of his futuristic inventions were featured in science fiction. Dated mustache aside, many would say that the ill-fortuned inventor was quite attractive.