Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4923787-20131006233702/@comment-4612798-20131007112452

a) trawl Wikipedia - I've got a whole stash of pictures just waiting for appropriate biographies. Lists of politicians tends to get results. Or 'portraits x century' just in a google search has worked for me on older stuff.

b) I think we've had this general conversation before... unless the butterfly effect prevents parents or grandparents meeting then sure, the person would probably exist in some form or another. But its more than just genes that make people great. If Gandhi hadn't spent time in South Africa lawyering-up then maybe he wouldn't have made the impact in India he did for instance.

c) Even if you remove the person i.e. Hitler, Germany is still going to go through the same motions up to say 1930. There would be others who would take advantage of the situation although it's unlikely their life would play out exactly the same.