Wednesday, 22 December 2010

Serendipity for December 22nd

1. Gula, of Afghan (Pashtun) ethnicity, was orphaned during the Soviet Union's bombing of Afghanistan and sent to the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in Pakistan in 1984. Gula was one of the students in an informal school within the refugee camp when she met Steve McCurry.

2.
"a photograph that inspired countless young men to hunch their shoulders, look distant, and let the girl do the clinging"


3. Lois Gibson, a forensic artist with the Houston Police Department, is claiming that she has conclusively determined that __ is Glenn McDuffie, 80, a North Carolina native who played semiprofessional baseball and worked in construction and for the Postal Service. “She measured his ears, facial bones, hairline, wrist, knuckles and hand, and compared those to enlargements __,” The A.P. reported. Alas, Ms. Gibson’s claims will probably not settle the matter. In 1980, Life Magazine counted 11 men — not including Mr. McDuffie — who said they were ___. As of 1995, three women had stepped forward saying they were the ___.

Connect the three clues above and also identify them all.

4 comments:

Ankur said...

Famous photos to appear in magazines

1. The Afghan Girl (National Geographic)
2.
3. V-J Day in Times Square (Life)

Nikhil said...

These are the iconic photos of the 20th century.

1. Afghan girl
2. Mr Freewheelin is Bob Dylan. I didn't know that one was that famous a photo
3. Sailor kissing a girl after WWII photo?

Angelus said...

They are all famous pictures with unidentified people.

1)The green eyed afghan girl
2)The cover from album - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
3) The Sailor kissing the girl at Times Square the day WWII ended.

I wonder if they were also on the cover of Time magazine?

The Answer said...

The clues were- Afgan girl from National geographic, cover of the album Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (featuring Dylan's on-again and off-again girlfriend Suze Rotolo) and The VJ day kiss by Eisenhardt on Life Magazine's cover.

The connect is people whose main claim to fame is from serendipitously starring in popular cover pictures/famous photographs.

Congrats Angelus for the closest answer and Ankur and Nikhil for getting most of it right.