Okay, I recognized the last two pics…call me blonde if you like (I am a honey blonde) but someone please tell me who all the other unnamed pictures are! 
The guy with the beret was Ernesto (Che) Guevara, before the CIA murdered him. The dog used to teach statistics at MIT. Didn’t get tenure, gone now…
Rich Mullins is a much loved and uncommonly good Christian musician, killed in car accident. The very first picture (Dale’s) is Randy Newman, who sold his soul to Disney for a fair price.
There is a picture of Lucille Ball (used to be Jim Shatner’s boss when he wasn’t singing). The young guy in the mug photo is Bill Gates, i hope! The guy playing a Bb Burke whistle on the deck is… Donald Rumsfeld?
Oh, by the way, i’d like to take this opportunity to say that this is my post #666! 
I found a site at City](http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/virtual/portrait.htm%3ECity) University New York. with a number of folks that, for me, fall in the genius catagory from history. Here are
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thomas Paine
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Benjamin Franklin
Francis Bacon
Issac Newton
And of course William Shakespear.
http://www.burkewhistles.com/TableOfContents.asp
http://www.uilleann.net/
michael burke&marc van daal
I’m not sure that I can agree with all of those.
Caj
It just so happens that one of the most brilliant song writers and most talented singers ever is also the most beautiful.
I 100% agree with Rachmaninoff as genius (I originally wanted to post him together with Berlioz, then interpreted Dale’s thread title as posting ONE mug shot, no more).
So, who’s the other, younger but apparently more decrepit one, under the well known TATAR composer/pianist?
Edit: it’s Patrick Olwell.
The two saxophone players. If that’s Lennie Tristano on piano, him too.
Here’s a little something for Dale’s last genius.
http://www.fly.co.uk/church.htm
Steve
For some reason, I couldn’t get it to work - but thanks!!!
Beth
Any and all Viking ship builders.
The viking longboat: “The best engineered boat ever.”
Seriously… Norsemen are amazing. And I am not just saying that…
I was going to post my favorite genius and whistleplayer, Benjamin Franklin, but someone beat me to it.
Does any of the other geniouses play the tin whistle. I wonder?
