Look back at the 'babelians' of 2009
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From presidents to satirists via musicians and thinkers. Portraits of the people who dotted our citizen media landscape over the past year - follow the links to re-read the articles. Happy holidays!
Prague: Czech sculptor David Cerny (Image: ©Lam Thuy Vo)
Paris: Swedish singer Lykke Li (Image: ©Atlantics Records)
French burlesque star Miss Marion (Image: ©Cindy Gravelat)
Berlin: Israeli singer Aviv Geffen (Image: ©myspace.com/avivgeffen)
German font designer Verena Gerlach (Image: ©Soili Semkina)
US president Barack Obama's first visit to Europe since his inauguration was in Prague in April. This campaign image dates from November 2008 (Image: ©Fabien Campoverde)
Brussels: German green politician Cem Özdemir (Image: ©oezdemir.de)
Brussels: French-German green politician Daniel Cohn-Bendit is renowned for his role in the May '68 student riots (Image: ©Presse-Papier/ http://presse-papier.over-blog.com/)
Spanish losers in love even had a term coined for them: pagafantas (eternally buying fantas for the chicks they're in love with who will never love them back) (Illustration: ©Henning Studte/ studte-cartoon.de/)
Stockholm: Swedish pirate party politician Christian Engstroem (Image: ©Cédric Audinot)
Istanbul: Turkish band Kim Ki O (Image: ©kimkio.org)
Berlin: German FDP politician Guido Westerwelle entered our hearts after the German elections, by blowing a fuse here (Image: ©Dirk Vorderstrasses/ Wikimedia)
Berlin: Italian activist and documentary maker Lorella Zanardo (Image: ©ilcorpodelledonne.net/)
Paris: French student and politician Jean Sarkozy (Image: GSBear/ Wikimedia)
Clermont-Ferrand: French singer Magyd Cherfi (Image: ©Dominique Jouvet/ myspace.com/f1rwb)
The Virgin Mary reappeared in Ireland... (Image: ©drp/ Flickr)
Switzerland and elsewhere: then again, religion in general got a bashing in Europe... (Image: ©Cuba far away/ Flickr)