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Historical Hotties

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CharliesAngles · 13/09/2023 18:23

Who floats your boat?

I think Nathaniel Hawthorne (19th century American novelist) is a bit of a dish.

And if we’re going back even further, like a few millennia, then Alexander the Great gets my vote too 😆

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JuicyFroot · 14/09/2023 07:53

That is a lovely story @AntsMarching
Very pleasing to hear a first hand account that he was indeed a really nice guy to go with his drop dead good looks!

Supercat100 · 14/09/2023 07:57

CardamomGarden · 14/09/2023 04:28

I know Julius Caesar was very successful with women, but he doesn’t look very appealing from his statues. Augustus, on the other hand… And said to have been very good looking into his old age.

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Totally. Caesar Augustus/Octavius. Massive hottie.

EscapeTheCastle · 14/09/2023 08:04

A young Richard Nixon.
He would offer to buy you a coke in the college canteen and then read poetry to you on the quad lawn.

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StElwicks · 14/09/2023 08:13

Oooh Dirk Bogarde in A Tale of Two Cities is pretty hot… not really a historical figure but is in historical dress??

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RomaniIteDomum · 14/09/2023 08:17

Harry Houdini too

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HerVagestyTheQueef · 14/09/2023 08:20

I also came on to say Nikola Tesla! Apparently he found it annoying that people were attracted to him because he wasn't interested in that sort of thing!
My other suggestion is Gustav Mahler. Swoon.

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AnImaginaryCat · 14/09/2023 08:41

KillingMeDeftly · 13/09/2023 23:04

Are we talking old-time film stars or historical figures. Because hello Rupert of the Rhine...

Not sure @KillingMeDeftly - I'd believe it means the actual person.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder for certain. Well more that there's a wide range of features that people find attractive.

Considering about 80% of the those listed so far I wouldn't ever consider good looking. Some I would even think aren't in any shape or form attractive.

BrummieNC · 14/09/2023 08:54

Interesting thread ... they should write a book and make a film about this guy ...

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Murpe · 14/09/2023 09:00

I've always thought Beethoven was quite attractive, in the red scarf portrait especially. In a scowling, intense kind of way.

AgnestaVipers · 14/09/2023 09:55

Lugwig Wittgenstein was attractive.

Gurthnamuckla · 14/09/2023 10:28

Silent pictures actor Sessue Hayakawa and the explorer Richard Burton.

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Gurthnamuckla · 14/09/2023 10:30

Though Sessue Hayakawa was in Bridge on the River Kwai much later in life was got a Best Supporting Actor Oscar.

Lessstressedhemum · 14/09/2023 10:49

Che Guevara

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EscapeTheCastle · 14/09/2023 10:50

Here is a young Alfred Lord Tennyson.
In this portrait as a young man at Cambridge you can just imagine knocking about with him and his creative pals and blushing as he passes you yet another deeply passionate poem he has written just for you.

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Alstroemeria123 · 14/09/2023 11:05

Where did it all go wrong?

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HerVagestyTheQueef · 14/09/2023 13:29

Eww, way to spoil the thread @Alstroemeria123 😅

Paisley19 · 14/09/2023 16:21

James Barry, Irish painter

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CharliesAngles · 14/09/2023 18:41

KillingMeDeftly · 13/09/2023 23:04

Are we talking old-time film stars or historical figures. Because hello Rupert of the Rhine...

It seems old Rupert has quite a fan club on here!

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AlwaysGinPlease · 14/09/2023 18:55

scrivette · 14/09/2023 03:53

No one has mentioned Elvis yet - so good looking when he was young.

Oh yes he was so beautiful to look at!

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CharliesAngles · 14/09/2023 18:58

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - how he saw himself (self portrait)…

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HumanBurrito · 14/09/2023 18:58

Young Schubert was a total hottie.

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AgnestaVipers · 14/09/2023 18:59

^Lead singer of a Scandi 80s band called Oh-ho, or something similar...

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CharliesAngles · 14/09/2023 19:01

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - how his pal, fellow PRB founding member, William Holman Hunt, painted him…

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Plump82 · 14/09/2023 19:04

AgnestaVipers · 14/09/2023 18:59

^Lead singer of a Scandi 80s band called Oh-ho, or something similar...

A-ha???

😂

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CharliesAngles · 14/09/2023 19:04

AgnestaVipers · 14/09/2023 18:59

^Lead singer of a Scandi 80s band called Oh-ho, or something similar...

😂 @AgnestaVipers that made me laugh more than necessary! Morten Harket from A-ha?

And yes, definitely!

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