Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hadji Ali

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Original – Famed vaudeville performer Hadji Ali demonstrating his skills of controlled regurgitation in public at the Egyptian Legation, March 27, 1926
 
Edit – More of a touch up
Reason
High quality and good EV, pretty good framing. EV is best in the article for the person, but has good EV for the act as well
Articles in which this image appears
Hadji Ali, Professional regurgitator
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment
Creator
National Photo Company Collection, retouched by Centpacrr.

*Oppose White and black spots, lines on picture. Needs restoration first. Clegs (talk) 08:23, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

*Oppose per Clegs--Nanoman657 (talk) 16:27, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • According to his article, he spouted all sorts of stuff. In this case it looks like water:
  • "The mainstay of Ali's act was "water spouting." After swallowing large amounts of water, 60 to 100 glasses at a time, he spouted the water in a continuous stream for a sustained period of time, sometimes approaching one minute."
  • "Ali's most famous stunt, and the highlight of his act, was drinking copious amounts of water followed by kerosene, and then acting by turns as a human flamethrower and fire extinguisher as he expelled the two liquids onto a theatrical prop." MathewTownsend (talk) 15:00, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Also, he's regurgitating either kerosene or water, both of which were his specialties. Probably water. We're not sure (and the source doesn't say) so I didn't put it in the caption. Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:28, 17 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds good. =D Dusty777 (talk) 18:24, 17 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Hadji Ali demonstrating controlled regurgitation Crisco edit.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 11:12, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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