50 Of The Most Curiosity-Inducing Historical Photographs (New Pics)
In our times, most of humanity’s effort is set on exploring the future and the advancements that come with it, whether it’s technology or science. But delving into the past can be just as if not more entertaining.
Luckily, there’s a whole corner of Reddit dedicated to joining history aficionados together and sharing some of the most intriguing, rare and unique moments that happened a long time ago. Being home to a whopping 3.3M members, this subreddit is one of the biggest powerhouses on the platform!
Think of the moment Marlon Brando rejected his Oscar and gave the stage to Sacheen Littlefeather to protest Hollywood’s portrayal of Native Americans. Or the sunny afternoon when Che Guevara and Fidel Castro went fishing in 1960. Or a day in 1992 when Michelle and Barack Obama were giggling while getting married.
Thanks to photography, special moments like these were forever carved in our memories and so today, we invite you on a walk down memory lane. Scroll down and upvote your favorite ones!
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When They Realized Women Were Using Their Sacks To Make Clothes For Their Children, Flour Mills Of The 1930s Started Using Flowered Fabric For Their Sacks (1939)
That is a nice thought but more likely a marketing ploy that was low cost to implement.
Load More Replies...My grannie got chicken feed in printed sacks in the early 60s. She used them to make me dresses for school.
My grandmother would make my aunts dresses from sacks. This was in the 50s, and they lived on a farm. The fabrics were beautiful. The flour companies would have contests for best dress designs. I saw one winner that was an evening dress. It’s a cool story if you want to google it.
You can still buy these on ebay. Sugar companies, with much smaller bags, made doll patterns. 59d2484921...042d9b.jpg
Albert Einstein Defying The Prevailing Racial Climate At The Time By Visiting Lincoln University, Pennsylvania
The first degree-granting black college in the US - to teach a class. He was an outspoken civil rights advocate for black Americans. Photographed in 1946
Being a jewish refugee from nazi Germany he knew a thing or two about the matter.
This proves something I’ve believed for years. Intelligent people aren’t racist. It takes an idiot to care about color over content.
Even for Einstein, this was probably fairly dangerous at the time. Double kudos!
Because intelligent people understand that racism is horrific. Never met a smart racist in my life. And most of the time those yelling white power are the poorest specimens of their race in both intelligence and looks.
It doesn't matter if they yell white power or black, the description fits both.
Load More Replies...He was a forerunner both in science and ethics. Meanwhile, AmeriKKKa hasn't changed much. AmeriKKKa-...b943eb.jpg
Unfortunately I had to laugh at "AmeriKKKa" :-/
Load More Replies...We need more People who see everyone as humans instead of what color their skin is.
Johnny Depp Saved The Old Horse Goldeneye From Sleepy Hollow Who Played Crane’s Companion, Gunpowder
The one-eyed horse was originally set to be euthanized after production was completed. But Depp stepped in and adopted Goldeneye after finishing the movie - 1999
Why would you use a horse for a movie only to kill it afterwards? This is absolutely disgusting!
Welcome to the world of horses. Since they can live well into their 20's and 30's, many do not have a happy ending. I have two 20+ lawn ornaments (retired horses) that would have gone to slaughter. People tend to only be interested as long as a horse is useful.
Load More Replies...The beauty in this picture is absolutely astounding, this man and his horse are both very handsome
agreed, and even from a non-hormonal standpoint. As an artist, I'd like to paint this scene.
Load More Replies...Not unlike getting rid of racehorses after their last race, or greyhounds, guard dogs, etc.
Load More Replies...We all have our demons. Jonny has his but a huge heart may be his hardest. He trusts and gets burned. I can really relate.
I think his hardest demon is probably being an abuser. (To preemptively address the obvious response: yes, he was abused by Amber Heard, but he was also an abuser in his own right.)
Load More Replies...“Photographs bring history to life in an immediate and visceral way,” Lisa Yaszek, a Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech where she researches and teaches science fiction as a global language crossing centuries, continents, and cultures, told Bored Panda.
Yaszek explained how it’s different from exploring history through written sources. “When we read books, we get lots of detailed information about historical events: who was involved, where the event happened, what factors led to and resulted from it, and so on.”
"Happiest Man In China"
Taken in 1901 by British anthropologists after deciding to document the Chinese. The Chinese didn't know photos were a "serious matter" and decided to be goofy, hence the pose and smile
I love looking at old photos and BP often is a great source. I wish more care were taken, however, with the titles and the explanations. I know this is taken from other sites but please do some curating BP. To use phrases like ‘the Chinese didn’t know photos were a serious matter…’ is just inaccurate and misleading. Old photos of China will immediately prove this wrong.
He strikes me as a guy who would totally photo bomb the other peoples portraits
It seems strange in our day and age that photos were supposed to be a serious matter. This guy has it bang on.
Early social customs dictated that smiling and showing teeth in portraits was inappropriate. Some scholars say that bad teeth could be to blame since dental care was not nearly advanced as it is today. Other people attribute it to the long exposure time and how difficult it would have been to hold a toothy grin or pose that long. Still there are some hilarious Victorian photos of men and women letting lose a bit and laughing and smiling. I have a feeling that the man in the photo knew exactly what the photos were for.
Load More Replies...I love the sass and the fact that he managed to hold that pose perfectly long enough.
Tokyo Residents Mourning Hachiko
He would regularly meet his owner, professor Ueno, at Shibuya station after he returned from work. Sadly, Ueno died on May 21, 1925, & never returned. However, Hachiko would return to the station every day for 9 years, waiting for him to come back, 1935
This always breaks my heart whenever I hear about this loyal pup!
Same thing I said when I texted this to my hubby, we really don't
Load More Replies...Jesus, seeing the dead pup was a big enough blow, but now I know he truly suffered whatever happened to his owner - Jesus, it's too early for this!
You can visit this monument to Haichiko today: 8bcd9f752a...d7-png.jpg
In 1973, Marlon Brando Rejected His Oscar For The Godfather To Allow Sacheen Littlefeather To Protest Hollywood’s Portrayal Of Native Americans
I came here to say she's still alive, but then I googled it to make sure, and saw she died only 2 days ago! So sad! RIP Littlefeather. <3 So glad she got a formal apology while she was still with us.
Load More Replies...This is heartbreaking. She passed away two days ago at the age of 75 only two weeks after the Academy finally honoured her at at a ceremony and apologising for her treatment.
John Wayne, in any sane society, wouldn't even be known to anyone aside from his family and the town in which he'd been the village idiot...
Load More Replies...According to her sister, she wasn't a native american at all. Her father was from Mexico, so for modern terminogy she did have a native America's background, but she was not "indian" native american, a first nation's people. However we are supposed to differentiate the natives of current day US. It was a delusion she created and presented as fact her entire life and her family was deeply ashamed of it. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/sacheen-littlefather-not-native-american-sisters-say-marlon-brando-oscar-speech-actress/
https://variety.com/2022/film/columns/sacheen-littlefeather-who-gets-to-call-themselves-native-1235412067/amp/ A native's perspective.
Load More Replies...Moreover, “Sometimes such information can be vividly detailed and prompt us to imagine what historical events might have looked like in ways that make us feel more connected to them, but sometimes we are so overwhelmed with dry or technical details that we actually feel more removed from the event than ever before,” the professor explained.
On the other hand, photos rarely have this problem. “Even when shot by the most amateur of photographers, images of people living in and through various moments in history provide a sense of immediate emotional connection—we think, ‘wow, so that’s what it would feel like to experience that moment of history!’” Yaszek explained.
Six-Year-Old Austrian Boy “Werfel” Receiveing A New Pair Of Shoes At The Am Himmel Orphanage
Donated by the junior red cross in America (colorized). Published in The Life magazine in 1946
We take so much for granted. I'm happy for his joy. I hope it was onward and upward from there.
This photograph speaks a thousand words. Look as his delighted little face.
Those orphanages have a very bad reputation and were essentially prisons. Children were experimented on, they were chastised, sexually assaulted, humiliated. https://internationaladoptionguide.co.uk/blog/views/orphans-infected-disease.html https://www.derstandard.at/story/1318726193227/wilhelminenberg-das-waren-eindeutig-kindergefaengnisse
Were? As an orphan who has spent time in a "home" all I can say is, your funny.
Load More Replies...What joy in the little boy's face! Makes you grateful for what we do have 💞 Also appears they forgot to colorize their left leg 😂
I'd guess his name was Werner,as Werfel is no name in Austria. "Am Himmel" translates to "next to heaven",
„Werfel“ is a Jewish surname and also dialect for „Würfel“ (dice).
Load More Replies...I felt sorry I had no shoes, till I met a blind, deaf and dumb man with no arms and no legs. Then I felt great!
Mass Demonstrations Against Soviet Union In Baku, The Capital Of Azerbaijan, 1989
These years were crazy, was a western Europe child, lived everything live on TV ( Berlin's Wall fall, the Ceaucescus been shot...) Big generational memories
These years were crazy, was an Eastern European kid, lived everything live on the streets...
Load More Replies...And if we don't pay attention, it's all coming back. After Ukraine, what is next??? Stop that man!
Thats where I currently live... We have the freedom day coming up on October 18th as well when Azerbaijan gained their independence.
(Former Soviet citizen): "The communist regime in my country was horrific !!! My husband and 3 children were taken away by secret police and i never saw them again....." (19 yr. old college student): "I know more about communism than you do !!!!"
That's because Stalin deviated extremely far from what Marx wrote in his original Manifesto. He called it "communism" so he could get the support of the workers. Marx (an open anti-statist) would probably be disgusted by what Stalin did with his ideology.
Load More Replies...It gives me anxiety. I don't do crowds. And this is extreme when it comes to crowds!
Load More Replies...City of angry ppl + one party dictatorship= explosion of riots
Nakano Takeko (Onna-Musha Of The Aizu Domain) In Imperial Japan
She and other women fought in the Battle of Aizu in October 1868 during the Boshin War, when on October 16th, she was killed in battle by a rifle shot. Shown in full samurai armour, c. 1860 - 1868
This is weird because I've just finished reading a book about this exact woman and other female samurai ..... An amazing part of history that's often overlooked( or hidden.)
The Mulan references are pretty cringe considering Mulan was Chinese, not Japanese
I don't think people are mistaking her ethnicity. It's more that the movie is fairly recent and is still in people's minds, about a female warrior in an all male warrior class. Both of whom were badass women! Kudos to them both. Would love to see a movie about Nakano Takeko.
Load More Replies...The professor pointed out that “as the comments from posters on the ‘Exploring the Past through Historical Photos’ Reddit indicates, images of people from the past connect us to history in another, related way as well.”
In this sense, we’re not just mere viewers. Yaszek explained that “once we feel an emotional bond with the people in historical photos and perhaps even begin to imaginatively empathize with them—we forge new intellectual connections to history itself, asking ourselves: ‘Why are the people in this photograph in this situation in the first place? What happened leading up to this photo—and what happened afterward?’”
For viewers like us, this can be an empowering moment. “We begin to actively research and share what they know about events and people represented in specific photos,” Yaszek told us.
African-American Boys On Easter Morning, Southside, Chicago, Illinois, April 1941 [colorized]
Perfectly shines shoes, very handsome hats and the best clothes the owned, "AKA, their Sunday best"!
A Group Of Samurai Went On A Tourist Tour In Egypt And Took A Photo In Front Of Sphinx, 1864
Ok, the clothes they are wearing look like they would be sweltering to be in.
True, but think about the European women of that era who used to travel the world in goodness knows how many layers. So uncomfortable.
Load More Replies...I'm surprised Hollywood has turned this into the next blockbuster action movie.
So, contrary to what some would have a person believe, the Sphinx's nose WASN'T lost in WWII.
Idk why anyone would have down voted your comment so I fixed it
Load More Replies...Arnie Supporting Disables Athletes In The Early 1990's
I read "Arnie Disables Athletes In The Early 1990's", had me worried for a bit!
you got downvoted, while this is a funny comment, have an upvote xD
Load More Replies...Not sure if this was a Special Olympics event, but Arnold was heavily involved back then (and is still very much an advocate). His MIL at the time, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, was credited with starting Special Olympics back in the '60s.
Arnie came to my high school in the early 90's to give out the "presidential physical fitness awards". (Which was a stupid series of tests we had to do in gym class. Like how many sit-ups you can do in a minute, how fast you can run, etc.) He landed a helicopter on our football field. I don't remember much else besides thinking how random it was that he was there. And no, I didn't receive an award. I was one of those kids who skipped gym class half the time and ended up with a bad grade. :)
As sweet as this picture is, I'm more concerned with the fact it's posted in a "historical photos" post and it is from the 90's. We had color photos! I'm an 80's baby...the 90's were 20 years ago, right? :)
He seems like a decent person who sadly, was a lousy husband to Maria.
All people have flaws. That doesn't make them bad people. (usually)
Load More Replies...Moreover, looking at historical photographs is an opportunity to both learn history from experts and to become an expert yourself, Yaszek argues. It’s because they give us an opportunity to “work with others to re-create the real story behind the image.”
“Sometimes, especially powerful photos can even prompt action in the real world, as we even begin to wonder, ‘how much does my own historical era have in common with this moment from the past?’ and ‘what can I do to make sure we do—or do not!—ever experience something like this again?’ And so by looking at historical photos, we can become agents of history!” the professor told us.
Shoemaker’s Lunch, 1944. By Bernard Cole
I love this photo. There is something so simple yet oddly joyful about it.
According to the original post, Germany or Austria.
Load More Replies...It just seems like people back then had to work harder. Now a days it seems like every kid wants to be a Tik Tok or YouTube star or influencer. This guy has no clue what any of that is or that people literally watching you do dumb stuff could even be a job. Our society just seems more superficial these days. I know that is a lot to assume from one photo. 🤪
Tons of kids from every generation wanted to be famous. Be it movies, tv, radio, athletics or whatever else. It's nothing new. The new thing is the means, like TikTok and YouTube. Before that they wanted to be famous on reality shows. Movies. Television. Before those it was fame on the stage or the radio. It's nothing new
Load More Replies...He looks like he's giggling on the inside! I want to laugh with him!
A Young Barack Obama Spending Time On The Beach With His Grandfather 1963
Amazing to think that neither one had any clue as to what was going to happen in about 40 years.
A former POTUS with CLASS and dignity. RESPECTED by the majority.
Kid in the back: if I throw this and run away quickly, they will never know who it was….
A Selfie Taken By Emperor Nicholas II (1868-1918)
Tragic what happened to him and his family. He was a clueless Tsar. But NO ONE deserves what happened. And those poor children.
He was an oppressive ruler, so it could be argued that he deserved it. But killing the children was a step too far- they didn't ask to be born into that family.
Load More Replies...This looks like a screenshot from some wildlife documentary like a Steve Irwin-esque type of thing.
Anne Frank And Her Sister Margot At The Beach, Zandvoort - August 1940
Heartbreaking knowing the pain that these young women would endure and their horribly tragic deaths.
I'm glad to know she had at least one moment of joy before the Nazi b**tards took everything.
wow 1st ive seen any other pics of her. tbh i dint think any others survived. cuz only 1 ive ever saw was the famous 1, thats usually on the cover of her book.
Both Anne and and her sister Margot tragically did not survive. They were captured and taken to Concentration Camps and perished from disease, mistreatment and starvation. Anne's father survived and kept her dairy as a testament to the world of the innocence of his daughter who was able to find beauty and joy in the world despite the horrors of war. Her dairy is read by millions of people around the world.
Load More Replies...It should be pointed out that it's Margot, the elder sister, on the left. It's a shame her diary didn't make it out of the camp too.
im reading her diary in my language arts class, i have cried multiple times. I feel so awful for them.
Like Baku, now a setting for disgustingly elite but highly entertaining motor race.
Tiananmen Square Just Before The Massacre, June 4, 1989
It's so scary that the most populous country on earth has such a repressive government and so sad the people living there have been taught that it's normal to have a government like that.
Yes and Chinese govt won’t allow any mention of this day in history.
Load More Replies...According to the Chinese government. The Chinese people didn't ask for a regime that censors information.
Load More Replies...I was there with my husband and our guide and I started asking questions and he shut me off (more gently that I would thought) and told me they had cameras, could read lips, etc. Do not talk about that, especially not there. I think the guide was scared and I got scared too. Lesson learned.
This Boy’s Photo Was Taken In Los Angeles, California, Circa 1920s. A Stately Pose. From My Glass Negative Collection
Omg I thought one leg was wood leg!! Oh someone said that🤨🤔 ehh oh well lol
112 Year-Old Teimruz Vanacha (Left), Veteran Of WWI And The Russian Civil War, With His Son Ivan, A Veteran Of WWII, In 1980
From the Russian Wikipedia: Temuraz Vanacha (1868-1984), participant in the First World War, rider of the 4th (Abkhazian) hundred of the Circassian cavalry regiment, holder of the St. George Cross of the 4th degree. He took part in the civil war (Soviet Revolution) , and after the start of the Great Patriotic War (WW2) at the age of 73 he asked to be enlisted in the army, but was refused (!!!!) . In 1977, together with other centenarians, Temuraz Vanacha became known to American television viewers thanks to his participation in an advertisement for the Dannon company, filmed in the USSR as part of the campaign called "In Soviet Georgia”, which talked about the properties of yogurt and stated that it was thanks to its use that Temuraz Vanacha lived to be 105 years old. His son Ivan served with distinction in WW2, more than earning those decoration he's wearing above.
Salvador Dali Painting "The Face Of War", 1940
I love his stuff. Maybe even him? A bit of course. He was a weirdo through and through, in many regards even exaggerating the public appearance of weirdity above the actual, for the sake of fun, and maybe to promote him being a genius lunatic, thereby increasing value of his works.
I wouldn’t say weirdo per say, more like eccentric. He marched to the beat of his own drum and basically enjoyed his life as he saw fit. This is a man who could care less about how others viewed him.
Load More Replies...I live near the Dali Museum in St. Pete, FL. I've always wanted to go.
Load More Replies...The Ethiopian Negus Menelik II Who Defeated The Italians In The Battle Of Adawa And Thus Saving His Nation From Colonisation. 1913
Yes, and the defeat at Adwa was a wake up call for the Italian army, who reorganized and updated their faltering leadership, antiquate equipment, spotty training and lacking organization. Only 40 years later, a much more efficient and better geared army went on to trample Ethiopia and march into the capital after a few months of hostilities. Without the defeat at Adwa the Italian Army could have come to the later deployments in Spain and in WWII on a much worse state.
Load More Replies...Colonization. We need a better word for the subjugation of a sovereign nation for profit and power.
... No, I think colonization is a good word. Everyone with some education knows exactly what that means and what it did to the cultures and people in Africa and India and the island-nations.
Load More Replies...Cannabis Rights Activist Ben Masel Smoking A Joint While Voting In The 1976 Presidential Election. Taking Advantage Of An Apparent Law That Prohibits Arrest While Voting
"Masel holds the world's record for political arrests: 46. And he's only 21." Right on, brother!
If this practice was wide-spread, it would explain a lot of election results.
You go, baby! Awesome. Only 21 at the time (with 46 arrests!), Ben died far too young (56) in 2011 from lung cancer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Masel). By then, he'd been arrested 137 times. He had the distinction of being the youngest person on Nixon's infamous Enemies List and was a lifelong cannabis champion and advocate (https://hightimes.com/culture/from-the-archives-hemp-tour-90-1990/), bless him.
I’m sure him being a “lifelong cannabis champion” had nothing to do with the lung cancer
Load More Replies..."She was living in a single room with three other individuals. One of them was a male, and the other two? Well, the other two were females. God only knows what they were up to in there. And furthermore, Susan, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that all four of them habitually smoked marijuana cigarettes...REEFERS." I smoke two joints in the morning I smoke two joints at night I smoke two joints in the afternoon It makes me feel all right I smoke two joints in time of peace And two in time of war I smoke two joints before I smoke two joints And then I smoke two more
Night Fishing In Hawaii, 1948
Rarely Did Photographers Make It To Frontier Families But When They Did Families Wanted To Show How Well They Were Doing Out West By Stripping The House & Pose For The Camera
This family would like you to see their big melons are & a cow that appears to be able to climb your house! The 1870s
The house is a dugout, "dig out" mostly into the side of that hill. The cow isn't standing on the roof of their house, but rather grazing on the hill. The dugout home had several advantages, but mainly it was inexpensive and it wasn't exposed to severe weather the same way a clapboard house would be.
This photograph once got a friend and I sent out into the hall. It was in our Social Studies book, and we were working on one of those group into pairs projects, well flipping though we saw this and our 14 year old brains imploded. I think it was more the fact that we were supposed to be quiet, you know how everything is funnier when you can't laugh? Well we couldn't laugh and there was a cow on the roof.
Same thing happened to me and my friend Lauren in 9th grade Global Studies. She sat behind me and I have no idea why Mr. Copelli allowed it because we were constantly giggling. Anyway we were on the India section and our textbook had a photo of Ravi Shankar seated on the floor playing his sitar except that the look on his face gave the impression of "I just sharted". To the hallway, both of us.
Load More Replies...Houses quit often were built partially into hillsides for insulation thus allowing critters to simple walk onto the roof. Hope you built your roof strong.
Light inside these homes wasn't great for photography. As well, in good weather the family would "move outside" for clean air, light, etc anyhow. The photos could also be used to show family/friends back home (ie, not on the "frontier") that they were doing well. So - not that they aren't flexing, but the context is more complex.
A Mob Pours Sugar, Ketchup And Mustard Over The Heads Of John Salter, Joan Trumpauer And Anne Moody
During a sit-in demonstration at a Woolworth's ‘whites only’ lunch counter in Jackson, Miss - May 28, 1963
1963. Think about it. NINETEEN SIXTY THREE. It's conceivable that many of the people in this photograph are still alive. And yet the American right seems to want to deny that the legacy of this period of hatred cannot possibly be manifest in today's society. How could it NOT be??? It's basically yesterday.
I wonder how they (the perpetrators in the picture) would honestly feel looking at this picture now, and what they would say to their descendants on the matter.
Load More Replies...And now they're scared their great grandchildren are gonna find out how racist they were at school, and probably still are. .......... " A different time", indeed.
And here we sit today with the right wing Republicans FURIOUS that a black woman played a flute they didn't know existed.
I hope the people in that mob have endured ten thousand nights of sleepless shame and guilt for their part in that disgraceful act.
honestly i hope these people if they are still alive see this photo and their actions and hold their head in shame
As mentioned above, the right is running on platform to ban teaching this history of Jim Crowe laws in the South. As it would offend white children. History we are doomed to repeat, apparently.
Load More Replies...Three courageous, brave, admirable people sitting at a counter and a bunch of forgettable cowards in the back.
Oh yes, what a proud thing to be a part of: 25 young men making themselves feel all strong and manly by harassing a couple of women and a bloke who are minding their own business.
On This Day 59 Years Ago, Soviet Space Mission Vostok 6 Was Launched With Valentina Tereshkova Onboard, Who Became The 1st Woman In Space
This is her during the fifth earth orbit on June 16, 1963
Unfortunately, that accomplishment is shadowed by the fact she's now a tireless Putin supporter, even going as far as to propose to the State Duma he be allowed to stay president until 2036... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-putin-lawmaker-idUSKBN21021H
A Smiling Girl In A Kimono On New Year's Day. Japan, 1914
Proof that wearing socks with sandals and be beautiful... uncomfortable but beautiful!!
The tabi is specifically designed to have a split in the front. It's not uncomfortable at all.
Load More Replies...She looks to be Maiko, a young apprentice Geisha/Geiko (Geiko being the Kyoto word for Geisha).
Yep, and I'm thinking she's likely in her first or second year of apprenticeship as well! I'm no expert, but that specific hairstyle and the ornateness of the kimono definitely lead me to believe so.
Load More Replies...Greenpeace Tries To Stop Radioactive Waste From Being Dumped In The Ocean, 1982
i think they recently put massive boulders in common fishing spots to rip up any nets to deter overfishing and pollution :)
... whenever the abscence of sufficient law and/or enforcement meet greedy carelessness, we are shown a prime example of how caring and considerate capitalism truly is...
Load More Replies...Nice place to remind that there were actually plenty of people who opposed Greenpeace from fighting against the waste. We need progressive fighters - isn’t it sad that we call no dumping poisonous trash progressive?
As if not actively doing harmful things was any more than the bare minimum you'd rightfully expect from everybody and anybody. Yes, it is among the saddest things defining not only then's society, but now's, too.
Load More Replies...Their ways are pretty radical, but they do make a point about the way we handle waste and life in the oceans.
Russian Conscript With His Family Before Being Deployed To The Front, Karachev, Bryansk, Russia, 1943
Just like what Putin is doing to his people right now. Not all Russians want his war. Some of them even leave the country to avoid being deployed.
Load More Replies...And now, almost 80 years later, conscription is being used again in Russia. Putin is using his people up like meat through a grinder, and for what? An international pissing contest?
It's the third mass conscript in our entire history (both empire and Soviet eras), first two being for the World Wars... I have no words 😶
Load More Replies...I really feel for those being conscripted right now. Hope they can escape safely and hasten Russia’s brain drain in the process. Putin is going to make serious enemies of Russian mothers and, if he loses that support, he’s in trouble.
Yes it was. If the Germans didn't kill your, the NKVD (the Soviet secret police) would. There's a amazing book named "Ivan's War" about the horrendous treatment of the Soviet army by their OWN side.
Load More Replies...No it's not. What is happening today has nothing to do with WWII and the war of annihilation waged by Hitler and Nazi Germany to clear the Soviet Union for their "living space." They either fought to live or faced certain death. Conscription didn't matter then. What is happening today is a war of aggression waged by an genocidal maniac (Putin) who is acting out because he's dying and probably impotent. Your failure to recognize the difference will only alienate the Russian people who are uninformed or been kept from the truth of the Ukraine invasion. It does nothing to set the stage or frame the dialog necessary for peace when Ukraine ultimately expels the invaders and retakes the territory that is rightfully theirs. Slava Ukraine!
Load More Replies...So sad. Just shows that humankind is all the same, with the same emotions, wherever we come from.
Võ Thi Thang Smiling After Being Sentenced To 20 Years Hard Labour In A Prison Camp By The South Vietnamese Govt - 1968
Additional context (slight paraphrasing): After sentencing she said "20 years? Your government won't last that long". She was released six years later.
In far east smiles mean something else than in the west. There are differences between a happy and a sad smile.
In The 1890s, The Congo State (Controlled By Belgian Settlers) Allowed The Companies To Maneuver Almost Entirely Freely
Which resulted in various atrocities, including the amputation of hands as punishment for those who refused to collect rubber
Usually it is white men who are most awful, and they feel entitled to be so.
Load More Replies...Amputations were also punishment for failing to collect *enough* rubber. A slight correction: Congo was not merely controlled by Belgian settlers, it was owned personally by King Leopold II of Belgium. He bears ultimate and personal blame for the atrocities committed there.
A very dark page in my country's history. Only recently statues of the king of that time are being torn down.
Probably the greatest act of genocide of the 1800~-1900s. I hope Leopold II will never be forgotten as being one of the greatest monsters in the history of mankind.
King Leo owned Congo. After plundering its resources, Leo sold it to Belgium
Load More Replies...In all the atrocities committed by Europeans on the African continent, Belgium (and King Leopold personally) actually were the worst. And that is stiff competition, so ... yikes!
Load More Replies...This is horrifying and sickening. Some humans can truly be inhuman and awful.
My Grandfather. 1933. In A Cornfield He Planted That Was Destroyed By Locusts
boll weevil 1927, pine bark beetle started in 1922 decimating the entire pine lumber crops in the south, stock market crash 1929. Drought and Dust bowl 1930-36. Locusts 1933. Early 20th century was hard on AMerica and most of the world. over 19" of top soil was lost across America then.
Chinese-American War Worker In Los Angeles
Wore a handwritten sign in his back to avoid being mistaken for Japanese 1942
This is actually so sad. I recently watched a Cold Case episode about life for American Japanese after Pearl Harbor. Heartbreaking.
It really is sad. And oh wow. I haven't seen that show in years and years. But I remember that episode. Great show but it did make me cry often.
Load More Replies...What breaks my heart more is at that time his country would be the target of truly unspeakable atrocities by the Japanese military. Imagine feeling that sorrow for your countrymen then being accused of their attacker? (Note: this is merely about the time. Growing up I had a best friend from who was from Japan and our other best friend was from China. My Chinese friends mom flipped and started crying when she learned of it, but eventually conceded that we were just children and the world had moved on. This was the ‘90s)
everyone thinks that just because we're all asian it means we're friends. no. China and korea doesnt like japan and japan doesnt like us either. (i'm chinese so i know)
Not just China and Korea, my hubby is Thai and despite high Chinese population (hell half of Bangkok is Chinese lol) Thai people are often very unfavourable to Chinese
Load More Replies...It's so sweet he would think that racist scum would care about the difference
This is when the American government rounded up Japanese-Americans and put them into concentration camps (Roosevelt’s words). So yeah, it did matter.
Load More Replies...My husband who was born in Japan to a white US GI and a Japanese national, was hated by his father's family and his mother was spat on by them - in the late '50's.
Yet no white men had to write "hey English here not German" for being mistaken !!!
My former father in law was Japanese, but was born in Hawaii thus making him a US citizen. He was drafted by the Army during WWII, as his wife and the rest of her family were sent to the Internment Camp in Puyallup, WA
Commuters In New York On The Evening Of November 22, 1963
Really? Is an assassinated President normal thing now where you live?
Load More Replies...I was in 7th Grade, science class when this came over the school address loudspeakers. It was a truly strange time for the country for the entire country.
Except for the sound of the train you could probably heard a pin drop. My school bus on that day was completely silent until the neighborhood bully said, "Good. Glad he's dead." I demanded he take it back and when he refused took a swing at him (that didn't land) and got my a$$ kicked.
My mother had told me about hearing the announcement of his assassination over the PA system at school. How much everyone cried.
A Boy And His Owl, 1933
Not a shoe between them walking on dat rubble road and still plenty of smiles and happy faces
Not positive, but based on the face shape and marks, I think this is a great horned owl!
Jaques Biederer, The First Photographer In History Specializing In Erotic Photos. This Photo Was Taken In Paris In 1928
Right? I'm curious as well! Unless maybe there's a second camera? 🤔
Load More Replies...There were actually two of them, Jacques and Charles, Jewish brothers from Czech Republic. The word “bieder” is German for „staid“ which makes „biederer“ mean „staider“ . Perfect family name for someone taking such pictures in the 1920s and 1930s.
An Enthusiast For Men's Dress Reform Walking Down The Strand In London. The Mdrp (Men’s Dress Reform Party) Was Formed In The Interwar Years In Britain, 1930
I just had to Google men's dress reform. After looking at several images, I have to say, these men were ahead of their time.
There's more fabric there than there was on women's tennis outfits 20 years earlier.
Load More Replies...Santa Claus With The Children During Croatian War Of Independence. Vukovar, 1992 (Colorized)
I had no idea that Santa used a TANK for transportation instead of a sleigh with reindeer... f*ck yeahhhh!!
I've been to Vukovar in 2017, the bulletholes were still visible in some buildings.
In parts of Bosnia too, honestly couldn't believe it when I first saw it.
Load More Replies...Because sadly Santa is walking through a war zone.
Load More Replies...[colorized] Three Scout Girls Collect Peach Pits, Which Will Later Be Processed To Make Gas Mask Filters During World War I. Washington, 1917-1918
When the fruit seeds were burned and charcoal was extracted, it could be used in the creation of the masks' charcoal filters which neutralized the poisonous gases. Two hundred peach stones or seven pounds of nut shells made enough carbon for one mask.
Well, were. They are so over regulated now, a girl can't start her own fire or bring her jackknife to camp. Used to be better
UPS Worker Delivers Packages In New York City During The Attacks Of 9/11 2001
There was a ups guy out delivering packages during the hurricane last week
He looks so blissfully unaware... just mere moments before the horror and realization.
Probably longer. In 2001 there was no mobile internet, may have taken some time before he realised what happened
Load More Replies...The UPS, FEDEX and USPS guys just do their job no matter what.... I commend them all. Thank you.
Largely because they get harshly penalized if they don't deliver their quota. This isn't heroic "through rain and snow", this is "I gotta get these things delivered or the boss is gonna chew my A**".
Load More Replies...Work still needs to get done and you just know someone would complain that their package was late.
Memorial Day 1945: French Teen Helene Chapelle And Her Mother Kneel At The Grave Of James Simonian Who Was Killed During The Normandy Invasion
She is reading a letter from Simonian’s mother who asked that it be read at her son’s grave. La Cambe Cemetery, France
The American (and British and Canadian) cemeteries of Normandy and Brittany are such sad but beautiful places. All so young.
I presume you mean American and ‘Commonwealth’ cemeteries.
Load More Replies...Queen Elizabeth; The Queen Mother, Princess Margaret And A Bored Prince Charles Watching The Coronation Ceremony Of Queen Elizabeth II. Westminster Abbey, 1953
i donno, those things are pretty darn long and boring.. it's just the way it is haha
Load More Replies...me too. some of them are relly funny. so i upvoted them for u
Load More Replies...Reminds me of Prince Louis at the recent Trooping of the Colours.
Load More Replies...And this was just an afternoon. Think how fidgety he's become waiting all these years.
I wonder how it felt, as a mother, to watch your young daughter be crowed queen of a major world power. I suspect it was more than a little bit surreal.
Charles adored his granny more than his mother. Granny always made a fuss of him, whereas his mother didn't really show him her love.
Dr. Erich Salomon Faked A Broken Arm So He Could Hide A Camera In His Cast To Photograph The Us Supreme Court - 1932
wouldn't necessarily need a flash, just a long enough exposure. The fact that he was able to get the film out argues that his act went unnoticed. I believe this is one of the very few, if not the only , photograph of an acutal SCOTUS hearing in progress
Load More Replies...Why are you being downvoted? It's not like you're lying
Load More Replies...No idea what you wrote but probably something that US people can't stomach, so take my upload. ❤️
Load More Replies...He was only one of two people to take a picture of the Supreme Court. I don't know who the other one was. More importantly, he was a German Jew, who'd studied law, engineering and zoology before WWI. He picked up a camera for the first time when he was 41, and used all sorts of methods to get candid shots, including hiding a camera in his bowler hat, with a small, virtually invisible, hole in the hat. When Hitler came to power, he and his wife fled to Holland. Life Magazine offered to move him to the U.S., but he declined. When the Nazis invaded, he was deported, and died in Auschwitz in 1944. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Salomon
FDR couldn't get the five member conservative court to approve all his new deal progressive legislation, so he packed the court with four new liberal judges. And they say SCOTUS is non-political! The US constitution does not specify how many judges are required. One more omission by Madison & friends who authored the Constitution. It is up to Congress.
this is false. The court was 9 members when FDR became president. He didn't even make any SCOTUS appointments in his 1st year in office
Load More Replies...Captain Lewis Nixon Of The 101st Airborne Wakes Up After A Night Of Celebrating Courtesy Of Goerings Private Liquor, Wine And Champagne Collection, Austria May 4th 1945
At Hitler's Eagles Nest in Berchtesgaden. Adolf was a teetotaler, unlike Göring but the latter looted wine cellars across Europe. Nixon was portrayed in "Band of Brothers." Excellent bio here https://allthatsinteresting.com/lewis-nixon
Glad you mentioned this. He is described very well, as is this incident, in the book, "Band of Brothers" by Stephen Ambrose, on which the movie was based. Highly recommended, as is almost everything Ambrose wrote.
Load More Replies...J. Robert Oppenheimer And Albert Einstein, 1947
That's always the first thing I think when I think of Oppenheimer.
Load More Replies...IIRC there we concerns that an atomic blast would start a chain reaction that would destroy the planet.
Didn't stop the military from experimenting, though...
Load More Replies...Anton Dostler, Nazi General Moments Before Being Executed For War Crimes. Aversa, Italy. 1 December, 1945
I have a feeling that we will be returning to this, but with Russian officers.
Dostler ordered the execution of 15 American prisoners of war. He was the first at the Nuremburg Trials to use the "I was just following orders defense", which the court did not accept. He was one of only two Nazi war criminals to die by firing squad. The rest were hung.
Thanks for the info. I remember a story about one soldier who helped kids get out by holding the barbed wire so they could escape. He later got shot when he was found out by his superior. Sad.
Load More Replies...The "oh, s**t" look on his face fills me with rage. He knew EXACTLY what he was doing that led up to this point, but probably thought he wouldn't have to suffer the consequences. He wasn't "just following orders." He was a general, a high rank. He MADE some of those orders. Pathetic. Putin take note. Hopefully soon, you will belong to Zelensky, then may God have mercy on whatever you have instead of a soul.
The look on his face.... I'm sure he'd seen that face many many times and didn't give one single f**k! Neither do I a*****e!!!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬
I know he was evil, but...he looks so young, and scared...I cannot help but feel sorry for him. He was led wrong, and followed the wrong leader, and unfortunately, was unable to stop going down the wrong path.
Young? He's in his forties here, isn't he? Old enough to know right from wrong.
Load More Replies...Dostler had 15 American prisoners of war executed, over the objections of the colonel tasked to do so, who delayed the executions at least twice. The colonel,Colonel Almers, who knew it violated the Geneva Conventions. At his trial, he claimed that he was acting under orders from his superiors, which was rejected as a defense, and in fact, that principle, that citing superior orders did not relieve soldiers or officers of responsibility for carrying out war crimes, was codified as Principle IV of the Nuremberg Principles. Incidentally, he was one of only two war criminals who was executed by a firing squad.
P.t. Barnum & Bailey's Combined Circus Performers, New York 1924
So this is the one that had the albino twins who where told their mother was dead and then they saw her in the crowd?
I have no idea why you where down voted. This is correct to the best of my knowledge.
Load More Replies...Please don't downvote We-Are-Watching-You. It's a normal comment and should be answered in a kind way like Katja and others are doing... I don't want a Panda to be banned :)
I agree. I was banned for having ten downvotes for a non-offensive comment. I still don't get it!
Load More Replies...I love the Greatest Showman. Best movie in my opinion, but the real P.T. Barnum was not the nicest person. He was so horrible to the People (let's not say 'Freaks') performing in his show
Yeah, the movie is great, the guy it was based off of sucks
Load More Replies...The "mannequin" is called Antonia Matt. Her stage name was Mademoiselle Gabrielle, or "the half woman". She had a very interesting life. Starting with the fact that she wasn't allowed to go to a special school because she wasn't disabled enough and wasn't supposed to have an advantage over other children. She worked as a live mannequin, in the theater and in the circus. She was reportedly married twice. Citation: "Women don't need legs. I never missed her. I can enjoy life and do everything without her. In any case, they're not always particularly beautiful, and I don't envy women for that."
Load More Replies...The Doll Family, the three little people to the right of Jack Earle, the giant, were featured in the 1932 film "Freaks", and the young man was one of the Lollipop Guild in "The Wizard of Oz".
Load More Replies...Photo Of A British Man Wearing A Chain Around The Neck Of Aborigines, Who Are Natives Of Australia. 1900's
Yeah politicians think saying sorry once removes all responsibility of action
Load More Replies...We call them savages? No we don't, if you or people around you do then shame on you
Load More Replies...England sent its criminals to Australia. Ironically, he's the one not in chains.
Mohawk Warrior Attacks Canadian Soldiers During Oka Crisis July-Sep 1990
Which began when the Canadian government approved the seizure of Mohawk land for a private golf course - a 14 yr old Mohawk teen was bayoneted in the chest and almost died
A Gross exaggeration of what happened. A municipal government gave approval for construction on a disputed property and the Mohawks reacted. A police officer was shot and killed and then he ensuing standoff was resolved after a lot of time passing, by the army who were filmed and showed immense tolerance. I never heard about any bayoneting, perhaps it happened but was overshadowed by the police officer being murdered. No one was found responsible. Don't attempt to rewrite history while some us of lived it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka_Crisis 'During the surrender, as the military began arresting land defenders and some began to flee, 14-year-old Waneek Horn-Miller was stabbed near the heart by a Canadian bayonet, and nearly died.'
Load More Replies...This is the picture everyone remembers from the Oka standoff. Powerful. More here (https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/reflections-of-oka-stories-of-the-mohawk-standoff-25-years-later-1.3232368/one-photograph-shaped-how-everyone-saw-the-oka-crisis-1.3232786) Oka-Stando...69be8f.jpg
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/reflections-of-oka-stories-of-the-mohawk-standoff-25-years-later-1.3232368/sisters-recall-the-brutal-last-day-of-oka-crisis-1.3234550
Ms. Lee Merlin, The Winner Of The “Miss Atomic Bomb” Pageant In Las Vegas, 1950s
Am I the only one to think this pageant was in extremely poor taste? "Miss Atomic Bomb"? Damn.
Why on earth would they make a pageant based of the atomic bomb?! Did nobody think for even a second that a pageant based off of an explosion killing thousands at once and hundreds more in the future, leaving some survivors to basically melt would be "fun" to watch?!
Well I'm assuming because in 1950 people weren't told a whole lot about the effects of the bomb, they just knew it ended the war.
Load More Replies...People in Vegas at the time were able to see the above ground tests being conducted.
August 23, 1902, Providence, Rhode Island. U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt Delivers His "Trust Speech" And Warns Of Prosperity Being Concentrated In The Hands Of The Few, Particulary Large Corporations
Both Roosevelt cousins (fifth cousins, but still cousins) were probably amid the best presidents the USA ever had. One bought trust busting and the other the New Deal. Sadly all that progress was negated by some actor from Tampico, Illinois who decided to go into politics...
Teddy wouldn’t be turnin, he’d be digging his way out of the ground to leap out with a ‘okay, I see I got to beat some sense into you all, again!’
Load More Replies...So some presidents used to be against that? How the times have changed.
Nancy Pelosi With U.s President John F. Kennedy, During Kennedy’s Inauguration As President - 1961
It is a sad commentary on the USA government that someone who was at JFK"s inauguration is still working in government today.
Drive-In Car Hops In Shorts And Cowboy Boots At The Log Lodge Tavern Near Love Field Airport In Dallas, Texas, 1940
Can we just for a second appreciate those ingenious tablets that apparently attach to your car door?
They had them when I was a kid in the 60s just got to have a little bit of window so one side hooks onto it
Load More Replies...Well, hello, cowboy! Excellent article on the back story of this pic. Women were just getting a little tired of seeing women's legs, so a couple of local restaurants did something about it. Highly amusing. https://flashbackdallas.com/2015/02/20/
Simple Bridge Made From Two Chains In China, Circa 1930
You have to become the bridge if you want to cross the bridge.
Load More Replies...That looks painful. What if the chains get hot? I guess you cross the bridge faster.
Good grief. I wouldn't last five minutes on that bad boy. I can't do the ones at Landmark! haha.
The 101st Airborne Division’s “Filthy Thirteen”volunteer Pathfinders Preparing To Parachute Into France Just After Midnight On June 6, 1944
They were among the first allied troops to set foot on French soil on d-day; their mission was to mark drop zones for the airborne assault
It's the first mission of the very first Call of Duty game (released in 2003), and it's appropriately called "Pathfinder."
I would prefer "101st: Airborne in Normandy" - the whole game is about them.
Load More Replies...Temporary Nypd Headquarters At A Burger King Near The World Trade Center, September 11, 2001
Not a situation you should be flippant about, Rod.
Load More Replies...The Liquidators Worked In The Immediate Vicinity Of The Damaged Reactor. Tschernobyl 1986
Trying to construct the sarcophagus around the reactor. That was a very dangerous job done as a race against time. Additionally they also tried to build tunnels under the reactor and fill them with liquid nitrogen to stop any danger of the molten fuel hitting the water table. (That btw didn’t work as it wasn’t needed, the fuel had solidified). Sorry, I’m a nuclear incidents history nerd.
Don't apologize for having a cool interest and providing interesting facts to all of us! These tidbits that fellow BPers leave are the main reason I come here to read, rather than reading the simplified version on the Chive or something.
Load More Replies...Sir Winston Churchill, In 1895, Age 20
He's so cute I almost forgot he started an entire famine in Bengal. Almost.
Not another one!!! Do you have any idea what was happening in the world in 1943? There is not enough comment space to fully explain all the evidence surrounding the cause of the famine but I can assure you that the research carried out by 1 Indian journalist that started this whole "Churchill had a secret war on India and minorities", was not extensive enough and deliberately selective in the data used as evidence. The simple fact is that Churchill was not likely to have even been aware of the problem until it was full swing. From Aug 1943 until Dec 1944 more than a million tons of grains were transported by the Australians, who braved the Japanese submarine infested waters to help, under Churchill orders. The Indian Archives and British military records both show that Churchill supplied all the aid he could without damaging the war effort, stopped/diverted aid that would have taken too long. There were a LOT of factors that caused the Famine, but Churchill was not one of them.
Load More Replies...At the time of the photo, he was participating in the War of Cuban Independence as a war correspondent and English spy, and was soon to be transferred to India before a brief study period in the USA. The guy had a very interesting life well before being a prime minister, with his fair share of heroic actions, wartime distress, prison time and unpopular political campaigns (he was -surprisingly- a bit too liberal for the times)
Sikh Soldier Of The Indian Red Eagle Division Showing A Captured German Flag After Taking Over Monte Cassino, Italy In May, 1944
Monte Cassino... that's where my grand-uncle finished his war effort :(
My Grandfather Interviewing Muhammad Ali In The Weeks After Changing His Name - July 1967
Prague Residents Throwing Molotov Cocktails At A Soviet Tank In Prague, August 21, 1968
Sumo Wrestling. Yokohama - Japan, 1887
Not really. This is probably one of the early matches in the day, which are usually fought by younger men and trainees that are just starting out. Sumo matches generally start in the morning and continue through the evening with championship fights (bigger, more experienced wrestlers) happening in the evening. I ran into a few of the bigger guys when I ducked out of the main stadium for a minute to get a snack - those are BIG men. They're well over six feet tall and covered in massive slabs of solid muscle.
Load More Replies...“I Fear All We Have Done Is To Awaken A Sleeping Giant And Fill Him With A Terrible Resolve”- The U.S. Pacific Fleet Getting Ready For Battle During The Marshall Islands Campaign, 1944
And the thing is, Americans weren't getting along with each other then either. You had isolationists, communists and others all going after each other. So if anyone thinks America would just roll over today, think again.
No, that was communism in the Korean Peninsula.
Load More Replies...Egyptian Men Watch As The Graf Zeppelin Floats Over The Great Pyramids Of Giza, Egypt, While Atop The Great Pyramid Of Khufu. 1931
Queen Elizabeth II Addresses A Vast Gathering Of More Than A Quarter Of A Million In India, 1961
Meanwhile, I would start to stutter from having to read out my homework in class.
1 Of The 11 Surviving Pictures Taken By Life Magazine Photographer Robert Capa On D-Day, June 6, 1944
Quite the story to read of his landing and experiences. A darkroom assistant sadly ruined almost all of his photos. https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/conflict/robert-capa-d-day-omaha-beach/
Turns out that story is probably a myth, and the eleven known exposures were the only pics that Capra actually took. See https://medium.com/exposure-magazine/alternate-history-robert-capa-on-d-day-2657f9af914
Load More Replies...Two Students Hanging Out In Their College Dorm Room At The University Of Illinois, 1910
*although this is probably incorrect* Historians: They were roommates. :) Everyone else: Suuure....
Guys have been the same since the dawn of time. :) I bet bachelor cavemen had pictures of naked women carved in to the walls of their cave!
An Unidentified Soldier Of The 25th Infantry Division Pauses For A Cigarette. Vietnam War, 1969 [colorized]
He's in Vietnam, let him smoke what he likes man
Load More Replies...1956: Young "Teddy Boys" Somewhere In England
The "young" boy on the right looks like he's definitely seen some sh!t?! To see a 12 year old boy with the face of a 40 year old man makes me want to cry!
Too young, really. Teddy boys styled their hair into huge quiffs, wore "drape" jackets, boot lace ties and suede "creepers" on their feet.
Anyone have a copy of this Ernest Ryman book "Teddy Boy" that I can borrow?
A Police Officer Fires Into A Group Of Demonstrators Attempting To Prohibit Access To The Wto During The "Battle Of Seattle." Nov 30, 1999
It's an Abrams Airborne Manufacturing MGL-LTL, classed (quite optimistically) as a launcher for "less-lethal ammunition", in this case a tear gas cartridge. A tear gas cartridge weighs half a pound and can be shot up to 120 meters, meaning this gun and cartridge can develop over 300 J of energy. The US Army defines the lethal force threshold for ammunition at 80 joule. This kind of ammunition is defined as "less-lethal" only because it is supposed to be shot either in very high arches or to be bounced off the ground, something the Police forces never do, as they prefer a safe good ol'straight shot to the chest (or in this photo, to the head). That's why the actual injury or death ratio for this kind of shots is much, much higher than anything the manufacturer advertises.
In the 1980s the US Government published a spec for a "less than lethal" gas cartridge for police, where the requirement for acceptance was being able to penetrate a wall made of two half inches plywood or plasterboard panels, plus insulation inbetween, at 50 meters of distance and at a 60 degrees angle. Imagine what it can do to a human head at close range and direct line of fire, like the cop in the picture.
Load More Replies..." Protesting is so unamerican", yeah...no it's not. It'd be unamerican to NOT protest.
Yeah. We literally became a country through protest.
Load More Replies...Yeah, I was there; got shot in the neck with a rubber bullet. Oh, what memories...
ive never heard of this before. what was this abt? what happened? what where they protesting abt?
Protesting the policies of the World Trade Organization.
Load More Replies...The Scene On The Highway Near Palermo After A Bomb Killed Anti-Mafia Judge Giovanni Falcone, His Wife, And Three Police Escort Agents On 23rd May 1992. The Bombing Was A Terror Attack By The Sicilian Mafia Who Placed 400 Kg Of Explosives Under The Highway (Sicily, Italy 1992)
I am from Palermo, they were terrible years. Borsellino was killed with a similar method inside the city. If you are not from Sicily and want to understand a little bit more about the Mafia, watch "Mafia kills only in Summer".
Terror attack, but also aimed at eliminating one of the fiercest and more experienced judges taking an unfaltering stance against the mob threat. At the time the Mafia was embedded well within the state. A Prime Minister, Giulio Andreotti, later turned out to be a Mafia man, something that surprised no-one but the inquiry went on for too long and the crime could not be prosecuted anymore. Falcone, Borsellino and a few others were trying to investigate the top of the pyramid by turning henchmen informers and by threatening them with incredibly harsh sentences. This photo marks a turning point in the fight against the mob. After this, lot of people who was unbothered by the Mafia really understood the danger and took position.
I am italian and I was 11 at that time and I rimember that as it was happened yesterday
Rare Photo Of Kim Il-Sung's Tumor On His Neck, 1984
The guy he's facing is asking for the banana for size comparison...
"Is the tumor noticeable" ..... " Noticeable! No, I amost didn't notice it"
From rarehistoricalphotos.com: As he aged, starting in the late 1970s, Kim developed a calcium deposit growth on the right side of the back of his neck. Its close proximity to his brain and spinal cord made it inoperable.
U.S. Helicopters Pour Machine-Gun Fire Into The Tree Line To Cover The Advance Of South Vietnamese Troops Ca, 1965
My uncles, with covering suppression fire from a helicopter built by their mothers. I hate war.
Press Photographers And Police Snipers Lie Side By Side On A Roof Opposite The Kreditbanken Bank On Norrmalmstorg Square In Stockholm. A Misfired Robbery Turned Into A Six-Day Standoff That Gave Birth To The Phrase "Stockholm Syndrome", Stockholm, Sweden 1973
Circus Performer Jimmy Armstrong Having A Smoke Break, 1958
Lyndon B. Johnson Yelling At The Pilots Of A Nearby Plane To Cut Their Engines So That John F. Kennedy Could Speak As Kennedy Is Seen Trying To Calm Him Down. Taken During The 1960 Presidential Campaign In Amarillo, Texas
A peacemaker and a warmonger who led America into Vietnam. Guess which is which?
JFK escalated tensions in Vietnam enough to practically set things in place for war, short of sending troops.
Load More Replies...George Harrison Of The Beatles Taking A Selfie At The Taj Mahal In 1966
It's a self-portrait, these days also known as a selfie. The equipment, which he is hand holding, isn't important, the result is a selfie.
Load More Replies...Hitler Justifies The Invasion Of Poland. Hitler Speech Of September 1, 1939
Seriously, he should have gone to art school. Could have helped us all
A Firefighter Looks Towards The Heavily Damaged Belgrade's Tallest Building, Nato Bombing, April 1999
During the 90s, Serbia started a series of wars in the Balkans (trying to occupy Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina). They lost all of them, but after that, they concentrated to bring misery to Kosovo. Finally, NATO reacted to give them some "reality check". After the bombing, they are a bit more peaceful, but even today, they are the only country besides Belarus which support the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The neighbours from hell.
Load More Replies...it looks like a freaking volcano. i hope no one got hurt :'(
Teddy Roosevelt's 1907 Hunting Guide Ben Lilly
I hate how shooting our beautiful animals was/is considered a “sport”. Hardly a “sport” when you’re the only side playing? Cowardly.
What about the wild pigs that are becoming a menace?
Load More Replies...TR's 1907 expedition was not a sport hunt, he was collecting specimens for the Smithsonian. In those days there was little concern about endangered species, because most of the African megafauna was still pretty abundant.
An Atlanta Boy’s High School Basketball Player Shooting A Free Throw Against Tech High School In 1921
A British Soldier Gives A V-For-Victory Sign To German Prisoners Captured At El Alamein, 26 October 1942
I don't think that's what happening. His hand is the wrong way round to be a victory sign. In the UK giving a V sign with your hand that way basically means 'f*** off.' It's a way of swearing without actually saying anything. This is the British equivalent of what Americans would call 'flipping the bird.' Which makes this photo even more poignant as this British solider was most likely insulting those German prisoners, and they didn't even realise.
Am Brit can confirm. Palm facing out = peace sign. Palm facing in = start of a fight.
Load More Replies...It’s comes from the days when the English were know for their skill with the long bow. The French use to cut those fingers off prisoners to negate them being able to draw a bow in the future. Showing those fingers was a way to basically say F*ck you, haven’t got us yet!
Sadly that's an apocryphal story, first evidence of it is in 1901.
Load More Replies...I'm British. This gesture is not the V for peace. It mean's F##k off..
I'm British and that is definitely not V for Victory. That's a massive up yours.
Miners Light Up Reused Cigarettes At The End Of An Eight-Hour Shift Underground At The Zhdanovskaya Coal Mine, All For $30 A Month. Donbass, Ukraine. February 1992 - By Shepard Sherbell
Soviet Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev Stuck In Space During The Collapse Of The Soviet Union, 1991
Yup, spending a long time in micro gravity without a couple of hours of exercise a day would mean he would lose bone mass aswell as muscle mass.
Load More Replies...He is still alive. With the Baikonur Cosmodrome and the landing area both being located in the newly independent Kazakhstan, there was a great deal of uncertainty about the fate of his mission. He remained in space twice as long as originally planned, spending a total of 311 days in space. He returned to Earth on March 25 and is sometimes referred to as the "last Soviet citizen"
Load More Replies...Yukio Mishima Addresses Members Of The Self-Defense Forces In Tokyo Shortly Before Committing Seppuku On Nov. 25, 1970
For all my sensitive honeys out there, seppuku is self-unaliving. Hopefully this kept someone from being triggered after looking it up. Hugs to all of you. :)
The act itself is horrible however it is / was considered to be an act of Honor. There were rituals to same in the case of men. Should a woman have performed this act it is known as Hara-kiri and there were no rituals followed. Seppuku / Hara-kiri was committed by a Samurai as either atonement for crimes, to regain lost honour or to avoid disgraceful capture and when done correctly was considered to be the most noblest way for a Samurai to pass away.
Load More Replies...Cars And Girls, 1942 [colorized]
Shame they didn't have credit cards or bank accounts to buy them themselves
Listening To Copies Of The Beatles “Rubber Soul” In The Quality Control Room At The Emi Pressing Plant In London, England, 1965
Random samples from the press run, just like most quality checks.
Load More Replies...The Undertaker Looks Down At Medical Staff Checking On Mankind After He Fell, Unscripted, Through The Top Of Hell In A Cell Into The Ring 16ft Below. June 28, 1998
Naw, that spot was totally scripted. Foley says so in his book. What wasn't scripted was the chair that hit him in the face after he landed. Knocked one of his teeth out that later in the match came out his nose.
Yes and no. He was going to go through the roof, just not at that point. The Undertaker was due to do another move, that would have been safer for Mankind. They had cable ties holding the roof panel in place. They snapped too early. Whilst lots of dangerous spots were planned, they basically went wrong.
Load More Replies...Walt Disney With The Original Mickey Mouse Club Lineup. 1955
No doubt some of them went on to become pop stars and one or two did porn.
Wow! There's Annette! and Karen and Cubby! and Spin and Marty! and Roy and Jimmy!
did'nt he produced propaganda shorts against the nazis ?
Load More Replies...Tommy Kirk wasn't actually a Mousekteer. He guested several times but he wasn't a member of the cast.
Load More Replies...Former President Ronald Reagan Doffs His Baseball Cap, Exposing His Partially Shaved Head
Before the applause of well-wishers who saw him off at the airport in Rochester, Minn., Sept. 15, 1989
From Google: "In September of 1989, President Reagan underwent brain surgery at Mayo when after a routine checkup physicians determined that a pool of blood had accumulated in his skull from an earlier fall from a horse"
Dunno how he was as an actor, never bothered to see his movies but as president he was caca.
we are living his created world economy now and suffering for it.
Load More Replies...An Assembly Worker In Front Of A Weight And Size Model Of The First Soviet Atomic Bomb. Ussr, 1949
Battalion Courier Adolf Hitler In May 1915, With His Rifle Slung Over His Shoulder, On His Way To Deliver A Message During WWI
All someone had to do at this point was bludgeon him with a trench spade. would of saved us all a lot of pain.
so the schmuck worked in intelligence since then...well, well, well, the things weren't as random as they seemed.
German Soldiers March Triumphantly Past The French Wwi Victory Monument In Verdun During The Fall Of France, 1940
They wanted payback for the humiliating terms of the Treaty of Versailles, not the war itself.
Load More Replies...It's surreal for me to see this, because we paraded in WW1 uniforms through the same spot in 2016 for the centenary of the battle in front of then President of France Francois Hollande and German chancellor Angela Merkel. We were Romanians in Austro-Hungarian uniforms, representing the roughly 2000 Romanians who fought for the Austro-Hungarian empire on the Western Front and are still buried in cemeteries around the Verdun area. Shows how far Europe has gone since the 40s...
Mary Anne Macleod Was A Poor Scottish Immigrant Who Arrived In America In 1930. She Eventually Married An Up-And-Coming Businessman Named Frederick Trump And Became The Mother Of Businessman And Future President. Donald Trump
How can such beauty produce such bile. It's " make a sows ear into a silk purse," not the other way around
He probably got the arsehole-ness from his dad.
Load More Replies...Oh, for a time machine for just the minute it would take to give this woman a condom!
After seeing photos of her later in life, I'm wondering what the hell happened?! She was so pretty!
I love these too. But we should avoid putting our modern mentality in their place and judge them. We haven't a clue the hardships and difficulties living at those times brought. Life was hard and you did what you could or had to do.
I agree with you. Sometimes it's what they've been taught. Some came out of it better - like slave owning or hunting for fun - but some didn't. Also, these things didn't happen everywhere but we still generalize.
Load More Replies...Yeah! Why don't the links to see more work? I thought it was just me but it apparently is YOU!
I love these too. But we should avoid putting our modern mentality in their place and judge them. We haven't a clue the hardships and difficulties living at those times brought. Life was hard and you did what you could or had to do.
I agree with you. Sometimes it's what they've been taught. Some came out of it better - like slave owning or hunting for fun - but some didn't. Also, these things didn't happen everywhere but we still generalize.
Load More Replies...Yeah! Why don't the links to see more work? I thought it was just me but it apparently is YOU!
