This week I'd like to bring you some of the most bizarre doppelgängers in history.
You're bound to have seen posts like these floating around the internet in your time, and they're always entertaining.
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In modern days, the word doppelgänger is assumed to be more like a 'clone' or 'look-alike'. Of course, there have always been identical twins in the world which are about as naturally similar as humans can get. (Though, it is worth noting, they are not technically clones of one another down at a deep genetic level due to differences in cell replication etc). We have even been manually creating clones through science for over a century! In 1885 through human interaction Sea urchin embryos were split , but it took until 1996 for Dolly the sheep to be created from non-embryonic cells. In 2013 it was believed that Shoukhrat Mitalipov and Colleagues created embryoinc stem cells from the non-embryonic skin cells of a human baby with a rare genetic disorder. Potentially, there is nothing to stop humans from being cloned in the near future.
While much of the superstition and sinister stories of dopplegangers have drifted away from our culture, there are still remnants remaining. Identical twins are often used as a shorthand for the creepiness of the doppelgänger and the idea of 'mirror doubles' of evil still persist in science fiction.
In the end, there is still something equally parts unsettling and fascinating about seeing a look-alike. Below are a whole series of celebrities and their historical dopplegangers...
Tom Cruise and Earnest Hemmingway in 1918
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Eddie Murphy and an old photograph
Sylvester Stallone and Pope Gregory 9th
Jay Z and 1939 Harlem Man
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Rupert Grint and Sir David Wilkie
Ellen Degeneres and Henry David Thoreau
Natalie Cassidy and Catherine of Aragon
George Carlin and Charles Darwin
Peter Dinklage and 'Dwarf Sitting on the Floor'
Justin Timberlake and an old photograph
David Schwimmer and an 1890s gentleman
Glenn Close and George Washington
Leonardo Dicaprio and A Vintage Housewife
Stephen Fry and Oscar Wilde
...alright, well admittedly this isn't fair. he did play the writer after all.
Alexander Serverus and Eminem
Barack Obama and Malcolm X
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Micheal Phelps and Civil War Soldier
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Roser Wilder Lane
Keaneu Reeve, a
Hank Azaria and Rudolf Steiner
Jack Black and the Barber of Seville
John Travolta and 1860s Man
Bruce Willis and General Douglas MacArthur
Queen Latifah and Zoe Neale Hurston
Bill Nye and Abraham Lincoln
Philip 4th and Mark Zuckerberg
Nicholas Cage and...Everyone
Nicholas Cage has become a whole meme unto himself and, as a result, he seems to have a small army of doppelgängers in his arsenal.
Civil-War Era Tenessee Man
The Virgin Mary
George Chandler
An old baseball player
I hope this goofy post set you up for enjoying your bank holiday. Have a good one :)
Sources
history of cloning
Findmydoppleganger
humorsharing
jinxdragon
mirrorspockimage
Huffington Post
Tom cruise doppleganger
Totallylookslike
Memebase
zerowoes
Hunted history of the tri star state
buzzfed
the daily mail morph
boredmbash
The daily beast
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