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Emmett O'Brian

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Emmett O'Brian • commented on 19 posts 3 years ago

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Some of my nerds were freaks and pot heads!

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Meaningless semantics. He could be THE pioneer for a specific region or THE pioneer because his work changed how everyone carried out their work afterwards. Sorry, your closed interpretation is incorrect on a number of levels. I hope you're able to conduct civil discourse in the future.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Some of my nerds were freaks and pot heads!

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

I used to wear a button down shirt and a sport coat when I was a teen. Old ladies loved it but most people just thought it was weird.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Yeah, what time zone are they from?

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

A pioneer doesn't have to refer to the first to take pictures from a plane. You can have pioneers of cinema, that aren't the first to make a movie.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

I love the outfit. I know only a little about period fashion, but is this an oriental inspired look? I've never seen a child dressed like this.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

I'm 47 and I remember having a slate for writing practice. My handwriting is still illegible though.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

My old neighbor's house was going to be demolished because a trolley line was being put in. They picked up the house that weekend and moved it a hundred feet forward. Old farm ingenuity. My neighbor was 97 when he died about 20 years ago. He saw the model t start to replace horse and buggy.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

The attempt was to make money.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Most important tools? Double barrel shotgun? Pistol? Keep the locals from stealing your production. Hopefully didn't need to use them on the lawman.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Look at the bow on the stone steps! It's astounding how many footfalls it took to slowly wear them down over how long? Modern structures just don't last that long. Not to mention those stairs are probably really dangerous because they're so uneven.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

I had an entirely different youth than suggested. Lot of bullying. No one I would consider a friend until middle school when I found the nerds.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Remember when you saw an encyclopedia and thought how valuable all that information would be? It's both great that there's easier access to information but sad that those old encyclopedias are almost worthless now.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

My father purchased an old building, it turned out to be the first grocery store in our region. Families would travel all day by horse and buggy, stay the night in the boarding rooms on the third floor and then drive home. The second floor was the owner's home. Sadly, there wasn't much of the store left aside from two really nice display shelves and an enormous rope operated lift (8ftx6ft) that went to storage on the second and third floor.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

70 years old and still swinging a hammer! I hope I'm still smithing at that age.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Five names and they had to add a nickname for a sixth? Edit: I can't count.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

My FIL talks about his father coming home from factory work, cleaning up, putting on a suit and then taking the family to the beach.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Oh yeah, there's a lot of it. If they're yellow bellies, I wonder if they're grinding steel or possibly brass from a crossguard or pins. Dust in the lungs isn't good, but I'm not aware of any particularly bad effects from exposure. (Would silica dust be just as bad I mean?)

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Adorable picture. Not quite true statement. Babies laughs have dialects that follow their parents language tones.

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Emmett O'Brian • upvoted 21 items 3 years ago

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Me too but freaks and potheads

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Me too but freaks and potheads

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Same

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

It doesn't say he was the first one. By saying "the pioneer of aerial photography" it just means he helped develop aerial photography into what it has become and paved the way for others to follow.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Nerds make good friends and tend to be very interesting.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

A pioneer doesn't have to refer to the first to take pictures from a plane. You can have pioneers of cinema, that aren't the first to make a movie.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

They are 2 kids, likely less than 8, alone in a place I don't think they chose to be!

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Please don't repeat media lies about Chicago. Cities like Rochester, NY and St. Louis, MO, have far more crime and gun violence, but Conservatives have been making Chicago out to be some urban hellscape since the early 2000s because 1) it's where Obama is from, and 2) black people. None of that is true. All large metropolitan areas have problems, because that is just what happens when you pack a lot of people and businesses into expensive close quarters, but no one is running around with handguns in the streets. Stop it.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Yeah, you didn't just throw one of these lingerie dresses in the wash! The skirts often had a lining or even a rope-like fringe layer underneath, where they dragged, so those pieces could be removed and washed. But mostly, you spot-treated the hems and the underarms when the dress was soiled, and that was pretty much it. One of the many reasons why so few of these garments survive.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Again, not a good caption!! They are in a war torn city!!

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

it pretty much is

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Secondfoot?

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Date is wrong, it's from 1939. She was 3 years old & from Shetland where one of the primary incomes was from knitting so they taught it from as early as possible and even in school. She's using a knitting belt that assists her. There were a quite a few shots of her; school photos, "rowing" a bot with her father, etc. Source: https://photos.shetlandmuseumandarchives.org.uk/index.php?a=QuickSearch&q=Chrissie%20Cheyne&WINID=1655305487822

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Those steps have been there many years and seen many feet

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

look how worn those steps are.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

I had a slate when I started school too!!

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

👆Um it's June 😁

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Getting down the stairs when drunk is super easy! It's being able to stand up again at the bottom that's the hard part.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Women had to shop almost every day. Can't keep too much in one of those 1940s iceboxes.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

They didn't have a vaccine for the flu back then. Edit: I got a downvote so here is more info: The search for an influenza vaccine continued after 1918, but not until 1933 did scientists isolate the influenza A virus in ferrets. Other work in 1936 revealed that the virus could be grown inside embryonated chicken eggs, another important step. In 1938, Jonas Salk and Thomas Francis developed a vaccine using a fertilized chicken egg and successfully inactivated influenza A.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

They would have considered themselves to be girls. I'll never understand why it is demeaning to be called a girl. And why shouldn't we call an actress an actress rather than an actor? Is actress a pejorative term? Are words that indicate whether one is female pejorative? If so - why is being a girl or a woman seen as being negative? I don't understand it. In Ireland all ages of females are often referred to as girls . . . . . and all ages of men are referred to as boys. Wassaproblem with that?

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Emmett O'Brian • submitted a new post 3 years ago

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Emmett O'Brian • commented on 20 posts 3 years ago

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Some of my nerds were freaks and pot heads!

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

I used to wear a button down shirt and a sport coat when I was a teen. Old ladies loved it but most people just thought it was weird.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Yeah, what time zone are they from?

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

A pioneer doesn't have to refer to the first to take pictures from a plane. You can have pioneers of cinema, that aren't the first to make a movie.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

I love the outfit. I know only a little about period fashion, but is this an oriental inspired look? I've never seen a child dressed like this.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

I'm 47 and I remember having a slate for writing practice. My handwriting is still illegible though.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

The attempt was to make money.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Most important tools? Double barrel shotgun? Pistol? Keep the locals from stealing your production. Hopefully didn't need to use them on the lawman.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

I had an entirely different youth than suggested. Lot of bullying. No one I would consider a friend until middle school when I found the nerds.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

70 years old and still swinging a hammer! I hope I'm still smithing at that age.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Five names and they had to add a nickname for a sixth? Edit: I can't count.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

My FIL talks about his father coming home from factory work, cleaning up, putting on a suit and then taking the family to the beach.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Adorable picture. Not quite true statement. Babies laughs have dialects that follow their parents language tones.

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As for the age gap, xkcd had a really good algorithm to check an age gap. The older person shouldn't date anyone that is their age/2+7. Anyone younger than that is creepy. So did this one pass that test? You tell me.

Emmett O'Brian • upvoted 20 items 3 years ago

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Me too but freaks and potheads

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Same

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Nerds make good friends and tend to be very interesting.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

A pioneer doesn't have to refer to the first to take pictures from a plane. You can have pioneers of cinema, that aren't the first to make a movie.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

It doesn't say he was the first one. By saying "the pioneer of aerial photography" it just means he helped develop aerial photography into what it has become and paved the way for others to follow.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Women had to shop almost every day. Can't keep too much in one of those 1940s iceboxes.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

👆Um it's June 😁

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Secondfoot?

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

I had a slate when I started school too!!

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

it pretty much is

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Those steps have been there many years and seen many feet

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

The steps of the stairs are so worn

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

look how worn those steps are.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Getting down the stairs when drunk is super easy! It's being able to stand up again at the bottom that's the hard part.

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

They are 2 kids, likely less than 8, alone in a place I don't think they chose to be!

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Again, not a good caption!! They are in a war torn city!!

50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Facebook Page

Good thing she's plugged in and recharging

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