Can you identitfy the woman shown in this ancient photograph? If you can, let us know using the Comment facility on this website. Be quick because this series of quizzes has proved most popular and the air waves are buzzing!
Clues:
She had a stage name.
Her real surname was Scottish though she was born in Amsterdam.
She died young.
She might have been invented by John le Carré but wasn’t.
The fifth in our series in which you must identify someone appearing in an usual and invariably ancient photograph.Please use the Comment facility to tell us whom you think it is.
Clues:
G.K. Chesterton once famously said that the subject was ‘full of piss and wind’.
Here he was acting as a war correspondent.
He lived to a great age, despite smoking.
We now start the second series of ‘Quis?’ Let us know using the Comments if you know who this is. 
Here are some clues:-
He was not a gangster.
He was not American.
He did not have a deep bass voice.
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo was born in Spain in 1828. He was Prime Minister (Presidente del Gobierno) thrice, in the periods 1875-81, I884-85 and 1895-7. It was a difficult and dangerous time to be in politics in Spain; revolutionaries & violent dissidents had sprung up everywhere,; there were uprisings; the highways were infested by murderous robbers; the famous Guardia Civil in their tricorne hats were having a hard time. (more…)
Please note the spelling. This site has many, many clever and bright bloggers, and the reaction to our first three mystery identities has been praiseworthy.
Quis One: Pablo Picasso, in a pic taken when the artist was well under twenty.
Quis Two: Prince Felix Youssoupoff, one of the two Russian aristos who assassinated Rasputin.
Quis Three: (good spelling is essential!) Nietzsche, philosopher and owner of one of the biggest moustaches on record.
This preamble to the United Nations has vanished without trace. It was one of the oddest disasters waiting to happen the world has ever seen. It appeared after the Treaty of Versailles (1918 – 25) had sealed the fate of this planet. Indeed its creation was the last and most important of President Woodrow Wilson of the United States’ famous ‘Fourteen Points’. Wilson insisted that it should appear in each one of the peace treaties, covering the Covenent or Constitution of the League. But then the United States itself refused to join. (more…)
Varus losing his legions / en.wikipedia.org
Varus was a Roman general and consul commanding a Roman army in Germany in 13 AD, during the long reign of Augustus Caesar (q.v.). He and his three legions fell into a trap laid by the cleverest of the Teutonic commanders, Arminius, in the middle of an almost boundless wood called the Teutoburg (near what is now Bielefeld) (more…)
‘Bring out your dead!’ / scienceclarified .com
The most atrocious epidemic of bubonic and pneumonic plague recorded, the Black Death started circa 1347 in Europe. The Tartar army, just arrived at the port of Caffa after campaigns in the Crimea, were shipped in boats swarming with rats carrying infectious fleas. In this way the plague was spread into Southern Europe. (more…)
The third in our popular quiz for friendly bloggers: Tell us who this man is, or rather was. Use the Comment section for your answer.
Clues:
He had a lot of facial hair, rather uncontrolled.
The title of one of his essays was used as a title by a well-known composer of music.
Be careful with the spelling.
Who indeed. Following great success in our first ‘Quis?’, here is the second personality from the past. If you know who he is, let us know through the Comment section on this website. The clues:- 
He was a noble,
He had a noble accomplice,
He committed a generally popular murder.
So, who was he?