A tip from our favorite reader, also known as Kelly's Aunt Colette, brought my attention to a massive, astounding historical painting done in oil by Dai Dudu, Li Tiezi, and Zhang An -- featuring many of history's most important figures. Also neat: in case you don't recognize someone, they've not only tagged each figure with a pop-up layover of their name, but if you click you'll get sent straight to a Wikipedia article so you can brush up on your history. (Hey, not everyone knows what Lewis Carroll actually looked like!)

After playing an extremely fun (yet time consuming) guessing game with all of the figures in the painting, I came to see some strange and somewhat comical choices the artists made in people placement. I totally get it though, because really: where is it ever OK to put Hitler?

Click here to see the full painting in its glory and see below for some of my favorite celebrity spottings.


  • Best night ever! BFFs bad guys Hitler, Mussolini and Hussein hang out and jam out to some live Ludwig van Beethoven.


  • Move over Backstreet Boys! The next boy band of heartthrobs is here and features comedy's Charlie Chaplin, vehicle's Henry Ford, and (sorry-I-didn't-know-who-you-were) Chinese soldier Lei Feng. Hold back Lou Perlman!



  • The original bromance: Plato and Bill Gates.



  • Don't forget Bill and his trusty sax! What is that he's holding? Oh well, history!