People Are Sharing ‘Alternate Angles’ Of Iconic Events And Places In History, Here Are 30 Of The Best
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Close your eyes, and imagine the Statue of Liberty. You’ll probably picture its gigantic size, powerful posture, its intense face, the seven spikes of its crown, the way she’s holding a torch… Even if you’ve never seen it in real life, your mind most likely has a common image of it that most people have.
Thanks to the media, popular culture and instant access to virtually any information, we all have developed common perspectives of things, places and historical events. But what if we take a look at the Statue of Liberty from a completely different angle, let’s say, the very back of its head?
Well, one excellent corner of Reddit named “Alternate Angles” may have an answer or many answers to things we see at their face value. In fact, this relatively new online community created in 2019 is dedicated to showing a whole new viewpoint of “iconic events and places in history beyond the traditional well-known photos and videos.”
The result is fresh perspectives and never-before-seen angles that prove there’s so much more than what meets the eye! Plus, scroll down for the interview with the awesome moderator team behind the Alternate Angles subreddit.
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Aa Of The Sphinx - It Has A Tail!
Photo Of A Hiker Watching The Eruption Of Mt. St. Helens From Mt. Adams, About 37 Miles To The East.
Onlookers In Horror And Disbelief As They Watch The Twin Towers Collapse On 9/11
Wow... powerful photo.... so many people were doing this all over the world....clearly remember that morning...
These days, when there’s so much content being shared on Reddit, it’s becoming hard to stand out from the rest of the subreddits. But the Alternate Angles subreddit proves that the internet can be an incredible place where we can all learn something new every day and expand our horizons.
With 132k members, Alternate Angles has been sharing a bunch of very interesting pics that show various objects, places, and events from unusual angles. It comes as a breath of fresh air where the dedicated and professional moderator team stands at the core of it.
The David Statue Protected By Bricks During Ww2
Without googling, it was common to literally burn bridges during WW2 (to inhibit the advance of enemy troops). However, the Ponte Vecchio was deliberately not destroyed by the Germans.
Charles Ebbets Photographing “Lunch On A Skyscraper”, The Famous Picture Of Workers In NY Eating Their Lunch On A Hanging Steel Beam
Onlookers Reacting To The Explosion Of The Challenger Space Shuttle
It is the father, the mother and the sister of Christa McAuliffe, first 'ordinary' person that was supposed to become an astronaut. She was a teacher who won the national competition, chosen between 11.000 other teachers, candidates to join the astronauts on the mission.
The teacher was the second choice. The first choice (I kid you not) was Big Bird, but the idea was pulled after they realised that the costume was too tall. Can you imagine telling children that Big Bird died?
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Still remember my 6th grade math teacher's scream. Some wonder why Gen X seems kinda paralyzed at times.... As children we were all brought in around TV to watch our teachers scream out crying as we felt unsafe because we didn't totally understand at first what happened. I know our nation hurt deeply for those seven souls. Then in our twenties as singles, newly married and/or young parents we got to watch 9/11 live. I did while my 18 mth old played and I just cried for not just the victims but I knew his life as I had hoped was forever changed. It drove me to leave my abusive marriage and give him a childhood of peace and safety in his home. Which we happily accomplished. Our home is full of laughter and love but my heart still yearns sometimes over what could have been had the Challenger launched safely into the cocoon of space and 911 meant the emergency services number.
All that on top of the constant threat of nuclear war during the Cold War always sort of thrumming in the background during the Cold War.
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I remember being off school when this happened. I was adamant they would have survived and my mum had to tell me no. The innocence of being a kid. The space shuttle memorial at cape Kennedy is truly humbling.
I was home too. It was a teacher's day. I watched the launch in my parents' room. I ran to tell my mother the "spaceship blew up". She didn't believe me.
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Worse is that this was completely preventable, but the ones in charge didn't want to listen to the engineers and fix the o-rings before takeoff
I saw it on the news the day it happened. During the TV coverage, the crowds cheered as the shuttle left the launch pad - just as they always had done with previous launches. In the mid-90s, I actually got to be at Kennedy Space Center to watch a shuttle launch for real: Even after lift off, the crowds were silent - well, it was so loud, you couldn't make any real noise if you tried! But you could see no one was cheering. It wasn't until they announced the separation of the solid fuel rocket boosters that the crowd gave a relieved cheer.
challenger was a totally avoidable disaster. the engineers said not to launch because it was too cold but the executives launched it anyways
Those are not her parents or her sister in the photo, although they were there. Such a terrible event.
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i remember that. i lived in melboure fl at the time. my father and i watched from our front yard. so sad
These are possibly family members, hopefully their grief isnt being used as entertainment.
Even tho it's on a light hearted entertainment page like BP its more about learning about these terrible, historical moments. This happend in 1986, me being born in 2001 wanting to learn about historical events - there's no other way than learning it with posted pic on the internet
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The stupid thing is that it was preventable if those that considered some of the imperfections had more say in the development
Oh man I can feel the pain, I was heartbroken and kinda traumatic when Kalpana Chawla died that way too.
Remember watching this in school. I'll never forget the shriek my teacher let out. I was in 1st grade. I still remember.
My mom was 10 then, she was sick and spent the day at home and she says she remembered watching it on the TV. I watched the documentary on Netflix, and I was horrified
Did you know big bird was supposed to be on this flight! That would have been terrible. You couldn’t put that on pbs kids!
So sad. These were probably family members or people very close to them.
I was a flight attendant flying past Cape Canaveral/Kennedy that beautiful morning and watched the Challenger explode. Heartbreaking to say the least.
When I first heard about this I did not believe it, until I actually saw the film. Completely stunned.
I remember that, I was recovering in hospital , watching the take off. I came unglued. still feel like crying when I think of that day
Should have seen the faces…we made as small children as we bawled cried and screamed .. in school watching.. as we’re we’re scarred and traumatized for life!
I was in my car, on my way to work, when I heard the news on the radio.
Disrespectful would be a picture of the crowd not really reacting, or smiling. This picture, however, shows the appropriate amount of reverence and accurately depicts the feelings of all those who witnessed it and those than learned of it later. Preserving memories of such a traumatic events helps validate the people who were personally terrorized by them. Recalling the past is not a condemnation of the present, even when it is critical of it. If anything, recalling the horrible events make us aware of human fragility and the never-ending ways we can fail our future selves.
Load More Replies...“The origins are really quite simple,” the mod team told Bored Panda and continued: “A comment in another subreddit of famous pictures suggested that someone should create a sub of different views of famous pictures, which led to the creation of r/AlternateAngles by u/Murkon and another Redditor who decided to step down and is no longer a moderator.”
Most importantly, we asked the moderators to explain the very concept of Alternate Angles. They said that “it can be summed up by a rule: Limit all submissions to alternate views, or unique perspectives, of well-known locations, items, people, and events. An alternate angle of your kitchen does not qualify but Gordon Ramsay's kitchen does."
Having said that, the moderators added that determining what is "well known" is subjective. Hence, “the occasional post of an obviously non-well-known picture slips through, but we strive to keep with the original objective.”
Bob Ross Before His Perm + Beard
Neil Armstrong’s Family Watching His Launch To The Moon-1969
One small step for man. A giant leap for mankind. Funny how humans haven't been on the moon in almost 50 years.
The Statue Of Liberty At The 1878 Paris World Fair Before Being Fully Assembled And Shipped To The United States
Turns out that much harder posts to moderate are those that are fakes or photoshopped. For this reason, the team relies on "the fantastic and active user base to help out with those."
When asked to share some of their own personal Alternate Angles posts, the moderator team said they “could have spent hours culling through thousands and thousands of posts to pick out more.” However, they picked a couple ones for our readers to enjoy: the Lincoln Memorial before the reflecting pool, recording Leo the Lion (the MGM's iconic mascot), this alternate angle of one of the biggest tragedies in US history, and this rare view of the back panel of Mona Lisa.
Backside Of Tutankhamuns Mask
Prince William Giving “Middle Finger” After Prince Louis’ Birth
The Tank Man Photo From The Day Of The Tiananmen Square Massacre In 1989, Uncropped
The Beatles Lining Up For The Abbey Road Album Cover Photo
Paul McCartney: Okay guys, who took my shoes? Lennon: *sniggers*. Harrison: Wha? I’m smoking a joint, exactly what are we doing here? Ringo: Yay, they let me sing a couple of songs!
A More Depressing View Of The Taj Mahal
Been there. The Taj Mahal is beautiful, but it is right next to a plastic, effluent filled river.
Queen Filming The Iconic Bohemian Rhapsody Music Video In 1975
Different View Of The Pyramids
Lincoln Memorial Before The Reflecting Pool
Sydney Opera House From Top
I Have A Dream
The Leaning Tower Of Pisa Is Empty On The Inside
The Nevermind Baby Getting Out Of The Pool
Lady Liberty
On the one hand, it is an amazing photo. On the other hand, the compulsive in me is bothered that the platform/enclosure wasn't constructed with top/bottom symmetry when it is so nearly geometrically satisfying.
Star Wars Episode Iv Opening Crawl
North Korean Founder Kim-Il Sung Had A Baseball Sized Tumor On The Back Of His Head. North Korean Propaganda Officials Had All Photos Taken Of Him From The Left Side. This Is One Of The Few Candid Photos Of The Tumor
Wow! That was huge! Wikipedia says it was a calcium deposit tumor and his death was from a heart attack.
Tiananmen Square Before The Infamous Picture, The Guy Is In The Top Left, 1989
Behind The Price Is Right Wheel
Alternate Angle Of The Phantom Menace
Not The Typical View Of The Tiananmen Square Protests...
The Position Of The Camera Man Who Took The Picture Of The Dallas Shooter
Soldiers At A Port In England Waiting To Leave For Normandy On D Day
Note: this post originally had 43 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
Every image that I was alive for brought back the emotions I felt at the time. Some missing ones not mentioned here but that also sprang to mind, not as photos as they were happening but as news reports quickly afterwards: Chernoble, Boxing Day Tsunami, Columbia, Wako. Why is it mostly the bad ones we remember? Why not the Berlin Wall? End of apartheid or the fall of the USSR? The Good Friday Agreement? The closing of the Ozone hole?
I think this photo fits here https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRJ85QZnQGH1SwdjJGI54SW1DzE-CtfEkntw2OAdZz3Fd0012DTvpP1nXM&s=10
Those were fantastic photos. Amazing what a different view can show!!
These are awesome!!! Not your average photos. Cudos to the photographer
Flashback from a time when bp was all about this stuff.Nowadays it is mostly woke bs.But i guess people rather want to see "social issues" than things that we all can admire without dividing people
Everything has a time and place. If you're a marginalized person, you have no choice but to see unjust "social issues", as that is their reality.
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Every image that I was alive for brought back the emotions I felt at the time. Some missing ones not mentioned here but that also sprang to mind, not as photos as they were happening but as news reports quickly afterwards: Chernoble, Boxing Day Tsunami, Columbia, Wako. Why is it mostly the bad ones we remember? Why not the Berlin Wall? End of apartheid or the fall of the USSR? The Good Friday Agreement? The closing of the Ozone hole?
I think this photo fits here https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRJ85QZnQGH1SwdjJGI54SW1DzE-CtfEkntw2OAdZz3Fd0012DTvpP1nXM&s=10
Those were fantastic photos. Amazing what a different view can show!!
These are awesome!!! Not your average photos. Cudos to the photographer
Flashback from a time when bp was all about this stuff.Nowadays it is mostly woke bs.But i guess people rather want to see "social issues" than things that we all can admire without dividing people
Everything has a time and place. If you're a marginalized person, you have no choice but to see unjust "social issues", as that is their reality.
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