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As the President of The United States Barack Obama is one of the most photographed people in the world. Every day photographers take snapshots of the POTUS in a variety of serious and funny moments. If your a fan or not, you may enjoy this gallery which has some of the best presidential faces from each day. I wonder what weird faces I would get caught making if someone took my picture constantly?
Flickr user WhateverJames (who calls himself a “manbroiderer” has created this cross-stitch masterpiece that mashes up Luke Skywalker with the iconic Barack Obama political poster designed by Shepard Fairey.
James’ “I’m a person and my name is Anakin” piece is another must-see. Not being a huge fan of Star Wars, my favorite piece is “In Case of Emergency, Break Dance.”
Via Geek Crafts
Two Brazilians who are known for their resemblances to other people met for an unusual photo opportunity -and a drink. Francisco Helder Braga Fernandes, who somewhat resembles Osama bin Laden, owns a bar in São Paulo. Ananias Rodrigues da Silva is a businessman and a pastor, and also became a Barack Obama look-alike a few years ago. When Silva visited Fernandes’ bar, they took the opportunity to pose for a series of pictures. They said, “our meeting is to seal world peace.” Link -via Dangerous Minds
A seventh-grader in California has collaborated with her grandfather to produce a genealogical chart demonstrating that Barack Obama is related to all previous United States presidents (except for Martin Van Buren). This happens because Obama and the other presidents have family trees that can be traced back to John “Lackland” Plantagenet, King of England at the beginning of the 13th century.
Van Buren (who incidentally was the first U.S. president to be born in the United States) is excluded from the group because his ancestors were Dutch rather than English.
This young lady’s accomplishment is remarkable in terms of the scholarship and genealogical research involved, but whether the result is important depends on one’s view of the “descent from antiquity” concept, which has been used to demonstrate that immense groups of persons living today are descended from Genghis Khan, Charlemagne, Marie Antoinette, and other historical figures. A diagram at Wolfram Alpha demonstrates the genetic distance between tenth cousins; from that viewpoint such “relationships” are genetically trivial. A Neatorama post last year discussed the relationship of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Brangelina. The most scholarly compilation in this regard is probably Mark Humphrys’ “Royal Descents of Famous People.”
The other point of view, of course, is that our relationship with all other humanity is not trivial, but rather a principle that should guide everything from personal ethics to foreign policy. An article in The Atlantic discussed this concept of “everyone” being related to “everyone else” and noted that it carried another implication:
The same process works going forward in time; in essence every one of us who has children and whose line does not go extinct is suspended at the center of an immense genetic hourglass. Just as we are descended from most of the people alive on the planet a few thousand years ago, several thousand years hence each of us will be an ancestor of the entire human race—or of no one at all.
Story via Reddit. Photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
You may like land line phones and going out to Blockbuster video to browse down their aisles, but by the time your great grandkids are old enough to start to figure out the world, there will be plenty of things that will just be a faint memory in their little minds.
Here’s a list of 10 things from I Heart Chaos that your grandkids will barely even know existed.
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