This picture of Martin Van Buren is amazing

cbrunny

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1. Ready to challenge you to a duel. His glove is in hand.
2. Giving you the People's Eyebrow, obviously inventing it.
3. His expression would turn Putin's army away.
4. Hair echoes and amplifies the face and People's Eyebrow as an embodiment of the fury within his face.
5. Say the wrong thing and he will literally throw his book at you.
6. Near-timeless coat (double breasted isn't popular anymore)

It's no wonder the Van Buren Boys respect the guy so much.
 

gorobei

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the hair isnt actually how he looked.

for photographs in the day, you had to stand still for 10-15 min. anyone standing would sway and shift ruining the pic, so they had to come up with tricks to fix them in one spot.

the hand resting on the book to take weight, leaning against the table to give the leg a reference point, and for the head they had giant pincers to hold it in place. the pincers went behind the head and touched near the ears, so to cover the pincer arms up the person got their hair poofed out to the sides, hence the angry hair flange.
 

Red Squirrel

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Looks like he got into a fight with Tesla, Westinghouse and Edison, and won. That hair is never going to get back to normal after that fight.
 

disappoint

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Sorry, if OP has more than two sentences I get tired and sleepy.

I hope you're not serious. If so your critical thinking factor checks out way too early. On the bright side (although not for you) you'd be a hypnotist's or clergyman's favorite subject.
 

MongGrel

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Andrew Jackson

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The guy would probably challenge you to a duel and kill you if you looked at him sideways.
 
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