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This is the Albert Einstein you’re probably familiar with…
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And this is what a 3-year-old Albert Einstein looked like:
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You’re, of course, familiar with Mahatma Gandhi…
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And here’s Gandhi as a young man some time in the late 1800s:
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This is the Queen Elizabeth you’re probably familiar with…
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And this is what Queen Elizabeth II looked like when she was 18:
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This is the Joseph Stalin you are probably familiar with…
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And this is what a young Joseph Stalin looked like in his late 20s:
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This is the Bob Ross you’re probably familiar with…
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This is what Bob Ross looked like before he had his iconic hairdo:
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This is the Sean Connery you’re probably familiar with…
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And here’s Sean Connery before he was James Bond, competing in the Mr. Universe pageant in 1953:
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This is the Richard Nixon you’re probably familiar with…
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And this is a college-aged Richard Nixon playing on his football team:
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This is the Harriet Tubman you’re probably familiar with…
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And this is what Harriet Tubman looked like in old age:
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This is the Lucille Ball you’re probably familiar with…
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And this is what a 19 year old Lucille Ball looked like:
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This is the Charlie Chaplin you’re probably used to seeing…
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And this is what Charlie Chaplin looked like as a young man:
And just for good measure, here’s what an eightysomething Charlie Chaplin looked like:
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This is the Vincent van Gogh you’re probably familiar with…
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And this is one of the few known photos of Vincent van Gogh, shown here at age 20:
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This is the Franklin Delano Roosevelt you’re probably familiar with…
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And this is the last picture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt ever taken, snapped just one day before his death:
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Here’s another picture of FDR as a toddler, for good measure:
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This is the Marilyn Monroe you’re probably familiar with…
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And this is what a 20 year old Marilyn Monroe looked like, when she still went by Norma Jeane:
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This is the Teddy Roosevelt you’re probably familiar with…
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And here’s Teddy Roosevelt as a young, sideburned man:
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This is the Mother Teresa you’re probably familiar with…
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And here’s what Mother Teresa looked like as a young woman:
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This is the William Shakespeare you’re probably familiar with…
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And this is allegedly the death mask of William Shakespeare:
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This is the Abraham Lincoln you’re probably familiar with…
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And this is the earliest known picture of Abraham Lincoln, taken in 1846:
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Before he died, Abraham Lincoln had a “life mask” made of his face. This is what it looked like:
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This is the Ludwig van Beethoven you’re probably familiar with…
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And this is the death mask of Ludwig van Beethoven:
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This is the Ulysses S. Grant you’re probably familiar with…
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And this is the last picture ever taken of President Ulysses S. Grant, snapped days before his death at his home:
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This is the Andrew Jackson you’re probably with…
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And this is one of the only pictures of President Andrew Jackson, taken shortly before his death in 1845:
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This is the Napoleon Bonaparte you’re probably familiar with…
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And this is a bronze death mask that was made of Napoleon Bonaparte’s face in the hours after he died:
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This is the Harry Houdini you’re probably familiar with…
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And this is Houdini in 1908, entertaining huge crowds gathered in Boston to watch him jump off a bridge while tied up in chains:
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This is the Harry Truman you’re probably familiar with…
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And this is one of the last pictures taken of President Harry S. Truman, shortly before his death in 1972:
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This is the Adolf Hitler you’re probably familiar with…
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And these are some of several disguises that US Intelligence thought Adolph Hitler would use if he managed to go into hiding after World War II:
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