People Are Sharing ‘Alternate Angles’ Of Iconic Events And Places In History, Here Are 30 Of The Best

Where most tails are LOL, just kidding

In the UK, Pin the tail on the Sphinx is a popular children's party game.

Where did you expect a tail to be?

Attached to its backside, like everyone other tail in the world.

At the tail end. Heehee

attached to the behind usually.

Lolol

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emotions or shock wave?

Oh, I thought that was a woman

That's a lass lad

Why did you assume it was a man? It's clearly a woman. Her name is Suzanne Christiansen.

Thought it looks like like a woman. And hiker doesn't seem like an adequate name..

I remember. Such a terrible, terrifying day.

I remember it too. I was in the gym where it was on tv... took me a few seconds to realise it wasn't a movie (I live in Belgium, Europe)

I was at School at the time. I think we did not get around to much learning.... it really was a shock all over the world. (Germany for me)

I remember specifically it was the first day of the school season in my country! I came back early of course and the first tower had already collapsed! My parents were shocked when i came in and had no idea what had happened until i saw the shocking moment on tv!

Lord, me too. Ninth grade, I hear my mom in the living room (west coast time zone) say "what the..." "OH MY GOD!!!"

It was late evening in Australia, and I was up feeding my newborn at the time. I just remember sinking back into the chair after the second hit, and thinking, "This is no accident, this is an act of war. What kind of world have a just brought life into?". Dramatic? Probably, but it was my first child. I was a solo parent, and I had no idea what our future would be. I just knew that if the US went to war, Australia would follow.

This year marks 20 years. There are a lot of twenty-somethings and younger who have no clue.

I wasn’t alive then, I live in the UK but my mom was born and raised in the US so I have American family and I always hear them talking about it

I was living in Spain, just coming out of the shower when my husband told me what happened, I thought he was kidding. It was surreal when we put on the news.

Exactly, ALL over the world.

Yep I was in middle school in gym locker room when I found out

I remember. I was on a train, going to work from Brooklyn to Manhattan. The train stopped when the first tower fell as no one knew what was happening and did not know if it was safe to go into the tunnel. Police officer told everyone on the train to "go home and stay home" but instead my husband and I walked over to the East River and saw lower Manhattan engulfed in smoke and people walking over Brooklyn bridge, all covered in ash.

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ALMOST (20 years). *On 11 September 2021.

Really? That was your take-away from that scene? Many Americans at that time had cable access to CNN, BBC, and other sources of world news. THAT event in the US that day changed everything for them, for you, for countries all around the world! I am shocked that you didn’t get that....what did you want them to do that day? Rush off to see the changing of the Guard, again?

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Another opportunity to post a negative reaction about the US. Consider the population and size of the United States compared to other nations, except China and India. The US has approximately 331 million people in 50 states. All those states have their own government, in addition to the Federal government. The UK has about 67 million, Italy 61 million. Try to do the math. The US is also known as "the melting pot" because dating back to the 1600s, immigrants have been settling here. It is truly a splendid part of this country, but it can create dissension and a great deal of news. Huge population, vast number of news stories. And by the way, we do learn of international events on national news shows, not local news.

The Germans withdrew from Rome and Paris (thank God!) but Italy and France, like much of Europe was devastated. Many towns in Italy, for example, suffered aerial bombardment for the flimsiest of reasons. Destruction of bridges and other infrastructure has been a tactic since time immemorial - for example at the end of WWII the Germans tried to destroy all bridges that crossed the Rhine to stop Allied forces getting in to Germany.

It wasn't deemed important enough from a military tactical stand point as it would never have borne the weight of tanks and armoured vehicles.

Still common today. In 2006, Israel bombed all bridges in Lebanon and every single infrastructure. Plunged the country backwards many years and we never recovered. Today the country is in its worst economic crisis ever (also due to very corrupt politicians).

So now they Google before burning bridges?

Many upper level officers were devout Catholics.

How many drugs did you do? ;)