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These days, when cameras are everywhere, from our phones to security cams in public spaces, it’s easy to forget that the major part of history has passed without them. Only in 1888, when Kodak released the first commercial camera, did they slowly begin permeating our lives.
But long before thousands of snaps on our camera rolls, photographs were reserved for capturing precious and one-of-a-kind moments. These incredible visual monuments of history have resurfaced and brought a whole new meaning to events and lives of people in the past.
And today we’re about to get on board down memory lane full of raw emotions and unstaged realities captured in these rare historical photos. After you’re done, make sure to check out our part 1 right here.
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#1
100,000 Iranian Women March Against The Hijab Law, Tehran 1979
v 4 years ago
Google "pre taliban afghanistan". Even more of a kick in the gut. Afghanistan used to be a vacation destination. All the good that any organized religion has done or can do will never make up for or offset all the harm that they've inflicted and continue to inflict.
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Brandy Grote 4 years ago
Iran used to be so modern and advanced! In the 50s, women went to college, worked outside the home, drove cars.... What religion did to these women is horrific, and put Iran back into a more primitive place.
Doubleheader 4 years ago
It's not religion as much as it is politics and outside meddling. Though, religion makes it a whole lot easier to take control of the masses. See how states use evangelical christianity/catholicism to change women's rights in the states. It's why separation of church and state is absolutely necessary. When politicians use religion for control, they abuse the people and the religion as well by twisting its words to fit their agenda.
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Rod Egret 4 years ago
Looks like USA is going down the same path with bigots growing more and more powerful.
Doubleheader 4 years ago
Yep you're right. Women are starting to lose their rights (again), so now we're starting to regress. Notice how some of the poorest states do this kind of crap.
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Marshmello 4 years ago
Those fundamentalists who say that "Hijab is a choice" have never seen this pic..!!
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Usually the people who say the hijab is a choice are in countries where it IS a choice.
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Katie Morris 4 years ago
Shame these poor woman had to go back to living in the dark ages this was a very wrong way of life and should never have been bought back into play - woman should be respected not hidden away like we are dirty with men doing what they want to do
Miss Cris 4 years ago
That shows that things can change quickly so women and feminism must fight harder to get equity and agains violence to women. US could have live that, or worst, with Trump, just few months ago, for example.
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Meet The "Night Witches", Fearless Russian Female Pilots Who Bombed Nazis By Night, 1941
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 years ago
It's one of my favorite stories from the war.
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Yettichild 4 years ago
They were given rickety training planes to use. The engines were so loud they had to turn them off once they were near their target and glide in. This made the whooshing sound that gave them their name. Once the bombs were dropped, they'd fire the engine back up and roar away.
Val 4 years ago
These kinds of stories need to be told more! History makes us think that only men did heroic things.
Yettichild 4 years ago
Check out Rejected Princesses. It's a site and books written about histories female Heroines, Hellions and Heretics.
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A Native American Mother And Her Child - 1900s
“Photography historians are each different in how they approach studying the life of the medium: some are interested in its technical history, asking what camera improvements, and limitations, meant for the people who became photographers,” Gabrielle Moser told Bored Panda.
Gabrielle is a writer, book author, independent curator, and Assistant Professor of Aesthetics and Art Education at York University. She was happy to share some insights into the wondrous world of historical photography and what photography historians do to bring them back to life.
“What could you literally photograph—because of film speed, exposure times, and the ability or inability to print multiple copies of an image—and what did that mean for the kinds of images that were made?” These are the inquiries photography historians are looking for the answers to.
#4
In 1941, The Photo On The Left Was Taken Of Soviet Soldier Eugen Stepanovich Kobytev On The Day He Left To Go To War. The Photo On The Right Was Taken In 1945 After The End Of The War, Just 4 Years Apart
Raven Sheridan 4 years ago
It's not just his face, but his eyes. The innocence in them is gone.
Night Owl 4 years ago (edited)
Yeah, those eyes have seen things :( The life and light in them are gone
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Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
When someone says "a thousand yard stare", this is what they mean. :(
Call Me Mars 4 years ago
I've seen this picture before. It usually comes with the phrase: "One looks at you, the other looks through you." It couldn't be more true.
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Keshia Thomas Protects An Alleged Kkk Supporter From A Mob In Ann Arbor, Mi, 1996
Blamo Stramo 3 years ago
Hes got the SS tattoo. He at least deserves a little hittin
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Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
And years later a young man approached her and said "I want to thank you for what you did - that guy was my Dad."
kjorn 4 years ago
it's not by beating them you'll get result. he'll just be more determinat in his believing. but being protected by a woman of color could be the seed he needed
Jasmine Hufflepuff Henderson 4 years ago
@Clare E and I'm not saying that's right. This is pulled from an article "A news report stated that seven anti-Klansmen protesters were arrested at the event and a large group of protesters were tear gassed after they attempted to enter the police station where fifteen Klansmen were being kept for their safety. The police later reported that the man was not a Klan member." And this explains why Keisha decided to save him https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24653643.amp
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Leslie Burleson 4 years ago
We all need to try to be more like this woman . "Hate can not drive out hate. Only love can do that"- MLK Jr
Anita Pickle 4 years ago
This is a strong woman with nothing but love in her heart. Fight hate with love. It is hard to do, people always want their eye for an eye. But the real true way to change is by being who/how you want the world to be.
Jasmine Hufflepuff Henderson 4 years ago
It came out that he wasn't actually part of the KKK, so she saved an innocent man.
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A Red Cross Nurse Writing Down Last Words Of Mortally Wounded Soldier, Taken Around 1917
Hugo A-niro 4 years ago
Louisa May Alcott wrote about her time as a nurse during civil war . these scenes were frequent and heart breaking but these women fulfilled a duty for these men making sure their loved ones got their last message
Patti Smith 4 years ago
Remember nurses were never drafted. They all volunteered. And she is barely more than a girl.
wifeofweasley 4 years ago
I would die to know what his last words were. I bet it's either really sad and deep or really beautiful like something about his family or his wife
KC Lancaster 4 years ago
What a HUGE comfort she must have been to him! Not only being with him as he passed so he wouldn't be alone but by letting him know that his final words would be recorded by someone and probably sent onto his family. It makes me tear up just thinking about those who to this day still do not get such incredible kindnesses. Kudos to hospice workers and death counselors for all families everywhere!
“For instance,” Gabrielle continued, “war photography was incredibly difficult until the early 1900s since shutter speeds were so slow and exposure times were so long that any movement, like armed battle, wouldn’t be captured by the camera. That didn’t mean that photographers didn’t make images of wars, but that they had to be inventive, using staging, re-enactment, or capturing the aftermath of battle, as Roger Fenton, Mathew Brady, and Timothy O’Sullivan were all very skilled at.”
#7
Sir David Attenborough As A Young Man, Late 1950s
80 Van 4 years ago
Just think how excited he must have been when his brother resurrected dinosaurs.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago (edited)
Who, Ulysses Simpson Grant and his friend Richard Hammond, along with famous astronaut Adrian Shepard?
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AzKhaleesi 4 years ago
and depending on how old that amazing birdie is , the bird should still be alive.
Tee Witt 3 years ago
I very much doubt it, have you seen his appalling cage ?
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Aunt Messy 4 years ago
He was a handsome guy in his youth. He still looks amazing.
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Annette Kellerman Promotes Women's Right To Wear A Fitted One-Piece Bathing. She Was Arrested For Indecency (1907)
Katy McMouse 4 years ago
Have we, though? There's a high school in Arkansas(?) that edited out even the tiniest hint of cleavage in the girls' yearbook photos. However, they left in the images of the boys' swim team in all their Speedo'ed glory. That's just one example of girl shaming I've read about in the last month here in the U.S.
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Analyn Lahr 4 years ago
Indecent? Because she was showing her curves? Because men can't control themselves?
John Dilligaf 4 years ago
Well, no wonder she was arrested. I can see her elbows, the flagrant hussy.
Janet C 4 years ago
Men have no idea how demeaning these ridiculous laws on women actually are for men. All these laws through history just seem to indicate that men (who make these laws) are so weak they are incapable of controlling themselves unless they force women to hide.
Missy Moo Moo 4 years ago
Completely true! If they were able to control themselves we would be allowed to show our nipples on social media, just like men can.
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Giulia 4 years ago
i'm sorry what they wore then if this was indecent??? or women weren't allowed in the sea?
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Not true. She was a remarkable woman. She designed the swimwear in the picture and she was the inventor of synchronised swimming. But she never got arrested for indecency.
Alexander Kokkinos 4 years ago
Heterosexual men forcing women to hide their bodies makes as much sense as hungry people forcing tasty food to smell bad because it's tempting...
#9
British Soldiers (Interrupted During Drag Show Rehearsals By A German Raid) Manning A Bl 6-Inch Mk Vii Naval Gun At Shornemead Fort, England In 1940
Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago (edited)
In WW2, some British warships were disguised as cruise liners, and to make it convincing from the perspective of German warplanes, they had crew members dressed in civilian clothing, about half of them dressed as women. This isn't the same, obvs. And yes, they did drag shows a lot.
Annabelle 4 years ago
Hahahha luckily (for all us Europeans) he lives on a different continent.
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The professor explained that many important photography historians have also traced where these images circulated, who would have seen them, and in what context: “did they have captions? Were they shown in newspapers, or in more spectacular settings like lantern slide presentations, or through a stereoscope which produced a 3D effect for the viewer? Were they used by the government for the purposes of surveillance, or by activists to make claims for social change?”
#10
Grand Central Terminal, NYC, The Sun Can't Shine Through Like That Now Due To The Surrounding Tall Buildings. 1929
Otter 4 years ago
Yup, that's probably why the air is thick enough to have such strong sunbeams. Lovely to look at in a photo, probably reeked like stank in real life!
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Blamo Stramo 3 years ago
It was also foggy with cigarette smoke and s**t. Without the buildings, you still wouldnt see the sun beams
Dorothy Cloud 4 years ago
Goodness that building was so tall. I wonder why they thought it was necessary to build it so high. I guess now I just think of it as a waste of materials and manpower!
#11
Coal Miners Coming Up A Coal Mine Elevator After A Day Of Work In 1920's Belgium
Ihor Pona 4 years ago
They were called "cages". I know, I worked at a mine.
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Cupcake168 4 years ago (edited)
Kapitalism exploiting poor people. They worked so hard for little money and died from lung disease while others were sitting on their fat asses counting money. Heartbreaking and disgusting.
Andy Acceber 4 years ago
Yep, it still happens. We've just outsourced it to child labor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for cobalt for our electronics. It's still capitalism exploiting poor people.
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Dorothy Cloud 4 years ago
Not all "humans" are horrible. That would include those poor working men!
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Cory Tollman 4 years ago
The way they are packed in there makes me anxious and a bit claustrophobic. How much worse was it down in the mine?
Lyn Moffett 4 years ago
Jesus they are packed in like sardines in a time. Health and safety of today would go ballistic
Otter 4 years ago
The worst thing about that pic, is that letting the guys crowd together while standing up and more comfortable, would have been a more efficient use of the space. It's needless discomfort and humiliation!
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Today In 1945, The Auschwitz Death Camp Was Discovered And Liberated By The Red Army
Scagsy 4 years ago
A glorious day but the existence of such a hellish place is a stain on the history of humankind that will never fade. What those poor people must have seen and experienced.
Aski Markup 4 years ago
Unfortunately, such history is being repeated again.
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Dave P 4 years ago
The Soviet pics were actually taken 3 weeks later one they got the victims back to health, the US took the pics right away. I had family rescued by the Soviets at Auschwitz.
Prilsy 4 years ago
Yes these men look pretty healthy, not at all like the other pics
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rightofopinion 4 years ago
Those men are too well nourished to be in Auschwitz. When Auschwitz was liberated the prisoners couldn't hardly walk.
Patricia Kasprowski 4 years ago
A true example of man's inhumanity to man. There were heroes in these camps also. People who, at the risk of their own lives, protected prisoners, sometimes taking their places. Not nearly often enough, but not all of those who were forced into running these camps were evil. Some doctors and nurses protected as many as they could. My mother-in-law, and several of her co-prisoners, escaped thanks to the humanity of a prison camp guard who deliberately turned his back and allowed them to fade away into a forest near an allied border. That war was a stain on humanity. Those who risked their own lives to save those under their control were unsung heroes.
Shalini Pabreja 4 years ago
Nothing could take away from the smiles on their faces. This moment was theirs and they knew no one could take it from them. Stunning photo capturing a landmark moment of the war.
lara 4 years ago
Ok Auschwitz was not "JUST" a death camp. It was also a concentration camp AND several POW camps. These are not Jewish prisoners, they are Red Army POWs who have not been in the camp very long.
Dave P 4 years ago
it was also 3 different Camps with over 8 sections between them.
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DelvianBlue 4 years ago
I can see some of these have triangle badges (homosexuals). Anyone with one of those wasn't usually rescued. Often they went from the camp to jail to finish their sentences. Sad to see them look so happy knowing now what would happen to them.
Marsha Charnis-Colondres 4 years ago
Homosexuals were murdered by the Nazi's.
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“Other photography historians are curious about how photography was used as a fine art form and about how artists like Julia Margaret Cameron, F. Holland Day, and Berenice Abbott adapted the medium to make photographs that were taken as seriously as paintings and sculptures from the same period.”
More recently, there has been an interest among photography historians in the social life of photographs. “It focuses less on the artists who made the images and more on the people who are in them. These historians ask how photographs might be used to claim rights, like citizenship, or to protest social and political injustices,” the professor explained and named some important figures who used images for social justice: “Photographers like Lewis Hine, Raja Deen Dayal, James van der Zee, and later Roy DeCarava, Susan Meiselas, and Zanele Muholi.”
#13
A Boy's Reaction Staring At A TV Screen For The First Time (1948)
Rick 4 years ago
Everyone dressed nicely back then. Our ancestors would think we generally look like slobs these days.
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Katie Montgomery 4 years ago
That's how my kids look when I tell them TV hasn't always existed!
Beck(formerly Becca/Gizmo sq) 4 years ago
This really was not that long ago. That kid may still be alive. Look how far we have come.
Cécile V. 4 years ago
I remember people watching tv sitting in their chair on the sidewalk. Mostly men. Having a good time watching a football game. I was watching them, having a good time myself. They had snacks. Sometimes women were there. In the 70's in NYC. The shop owner was kind. He used to put the screens as nearly as possible to the window for the sound. Maybe for commercial reasons, but surely for better comfort for spectators. Couldn't zap football games!
#14
American Troops Treat A Wounded Dog On Orote Pennisula. W.Eugene Smith. 1944
Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
Dog is thinking, why hoomans killing hoomans? Why me in middle of it?
Ella Blackwood 4 years ago
Yes, interested. And so happy to hear that. Thank you!
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Brendan 4 years ago
I hate it when people refer to military animals as heroes or soldiers. They are slaves. They don't sign up for the army. They're forced to take part in human wars.
Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
yes, read up on the horses in the two wars. awful doesn't begin to describe it.
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Female Snipers Of The 3rd Shock Army, 1st Belorussian Front, 775 Confirmed Kills, Germany, May 1945
Mathias Karittke 4 years ago
We need more pictures of a peaceful world, where nobody needs to fight in any war, neither women nor men, or even children!
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John Dilligaf 4 years ago
that lady on the bottom right looks like she thoroughly enjoys her work.
Alex 4 years ago
The photo made in May 1945!!! It is the Victory Day!!! I'm sure they all knew that the War was over for them and they will be back their homes very soon.
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surprised pikachu 4 years ago
it's so crazy thinking that these smiling, happy girls were killing people before this
Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
The woman in the front low, far left, looks like me. That's kind of spooky.
When asked how photography historians determine the date, context, and the participants of the particular photograph if there are no apparent indications, Gabrielle said that most photography historians rely on their technical knowledge of photography to date images that are “orphaned" from their captions.
“We examine the photographic print—its dimensions, the quality of the image, its wear and tear—to determine what kind of camera or printing technique was used. Daguerreotypes produce a mirrored surface, a high level of detail and contrast, but could only be made at very small scales, for instance, while salt prints could be much larger, and printed on paper, but sacrificed a level of detail.”
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Lockheed Martin Employee Sally Wadsworth Working On The Fuselage Of A P-38 Lightning In California In 1944
Andy Acceber 4 years ago
To think, women weren't allowed in these sorts of jobs before the war. She looks as skilled and focused as any other mechanic.
Skybolt727 4 years ago
Women were actually almost 100% of the mechanics in ww2 it’s what started women’s rights
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Marky Mark 4 years ago
Its a great part of history. Though this is a staged photo - they picked a lady who looks like a model and asked her to put a screwdriver on a rivet.
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
Strange isn't it, before and after the war women were not capable of doing this type of work, only for the men.
lara 4 years ago
I am not sure what she is supposed to be doing, but I can tell you she is NOT screwing in screws to the fuselage.
Troux 4 years ago (edited)
Yeah this looks very staged. Possibly propaganda to recruit women? Taking a screwdriver to a rivet isn't very convincing though. ;)
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Mark Brown 4 years ago
They were just called Lockheed at that time. They didn't become Lockheed Martin until they merged with Martin Marietta in 1995.
Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 4 years ago
I feel like this is the inspiration for the Goldie Hawn movie "Swing Shift" about women working on planes during WWII - worth a watch
David Dwyer 4 years ago
Couldn't be Lockheed martin, Lockheed and Marting were two different companies at the time.
#17
JFK & Bill Clinton Greeting At The White House, In 1963
Analyn Lahr 4 years ago
Wow. I wonder how often A president shakes the hand of a future president.
Cory Kent 4 years ago
Mr. President, guess what I'm going to do in the oval office in a few decades?
I'mNotARoboat 3 years ago
The same things as I did probably, but mine won't make it to the papers.
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Mel Jenkins 4 years ago
Bill : " Mr. President, is it true Marilyn Monroe slepped in the Lincoln bedroom ?" JFK: " Yes, I was there with her. I can assure you that. "
Sue M. H. R. 4 years ago
This was Boys' State, I believe. Interestingly, I know someone who shook Bill Clinton's hand at Girls' State
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Arikara Warrior 'Bear’s Belly' - North Dakota, USA - Photo By Edward Curtis (1909)
DforDory 4 years ago
I would put this on my wall. It just emits so much force and self confidence!❤
Vicki Perizzolo 4 years ago
such a dignified individual -- we treated/ continue to treat our indigenous peoples horribly
Turns out that “early Kodak cameras were the first widely available and cheap mass-produced cameras in North America, introduced in 1888,” Gabrielle said and added that they have particular prints that produce a circular image.
“Determining the context in which an image from the past circulated can be much trickier. Historians often have to look to archives of illustrated newspapers to see if photographs were reproduced there, and often with photographs made for press agencies, like Magnum or Black Star, stamps and captions are included on the back to indicate where the image was seen.”
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An Undercover Police Officer On Duty. New York, Brooklyn, 1 July 1969
Sergio Bicerra 4 years ago
Of course something's off, that bag with that coat?? Come on!
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Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
I'll be charitable and assume that all the female officers were off sick that day
Dave P 4 years ago
this was one of the undercover police officers from the 6th precinct that was used to infiltrate NYC's undergrounds LGBT scene. This pic was taken after the Stonewall Riots, as this officer was one of those undercover at the Stonewall Inn that night
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Well the NYPD has women detectives since the 1920s for undercover ops that required women. This is 1969 and this was one of the undercover police officers from the 6th precinct that was used to infiltrate NYC's undergrounds LGBT scene. This pic was taken after the Stonewall Riots, as this officer was one of those undercover at the Stonewall Inn that night
Viviane 4 years ago (edited)
It looks like he raided his grandmother's closet before raiding a bar. Yup, I'm sure he fooled everyone at the Stonewall Inn.
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Probably trying to catch a purse snatcher. That is the worst undercover outfit I've seen. Use a female officer ffs. Pretty sure the NYPD had them in 1969. Don't know what they were allowed to do though.
Dave P 4 years ago
this was one of the undercover police officers from the 6th precinct that was used to infiltrate NYC's undergrounds LGBT scene. This pic was taken after the Stonewall Riots, as this officer was one of those undercover in drag at the Stonewall Inn that night
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San Francisco's Iconic Cliff House, Shortly Before It Was Destroyed By Fire In 1907
Conor Gilmartin 4 years ago
There’s no such word as desajusted (or desadjusted, or disadjusted), so that bothers me. Misaligned, perhaps?
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Otter 4 years ago
There's a Cliff House restaurant there now, a smaller one that doesn't look like it's about to fall into the ocean.
Em Johnson 4 years ago
No more.. it’s all been shut down. Who ever built the concrete box jinxed the place.
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First Cliff House, 1863 - 1894. 2nd Cliff House, 1896 - 1907. Third Cliff House, with Camera Obscura, 1909 - 12/31/2020. The park service is working to renew the lease for this iconic place to reopen.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 4 years ago
That fire must have been quite the spectacle from this angle.
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Geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor And Meteorologist Charles Wright In The Entrance Of An Ice Grotto. Terra Nova Expedition, Ross Island, 5 January 1911. Photo Taken By Herbert Ponting
BingeFest1 4 years ago
There's a colorized version of this photo on the web and it is something to marvel at
However, in the case of private or domestic images, “like portraits, family photo albums, passport photographs, or class photographs,” the professor said that we might not ever know everything we want to know about who is in the photographs, or what context in which they were made. Having said that, she added that “we can use our imaginative capacities to speculate and make educated guesses.”
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Visiting Quarantined Family And Friends At Ullevål Hospital, Oslo - Photo By Anders Beer Wilse - 1905
Sarah Foster 4 years ago
Just like many people, myself included, who visited family in care centres during COVID. Heartbreaking.
#23
A U.S. Marine Rescues Two Vietnamese Children During A Gun Battle At The City Of Hue, During The Tet Offensive Of The Vietnam War - 1968
Dave P 4 years ago
Remember of the 11 massacres in Vietnam by Coalition forces, 1 was American, 7 were South Korean Troops (South Korea was one of several countries that joined the US and fought in Nam), and 3 were by South Vietnamese Troops. Though there were about 45 such massacres by North Vietnamese and VC Troops during the war.
స్టీఫెన్ ఆండ్రూ 4 years ago
During a gun battle in the war their country started... and lost miserably.
Norma jean Morrissey 3 years ago
I wonder the same thing! When I saw this picture I thought. "how dare anyone call U.S. soldiers baby killers"? Those men were there to help another country and it's people through a God awful time. It didn't work out as we hoped. After all we were a powerful nation who won its wars. When an army is up against a Communist power, it isn't a fair fight. I have friends who were there and they did their best. God bless them all. Norma Jean Morrissey R.N.
Marsha Charnis-Colondres 4 years ago
No one talks about how there were US soldiers who did things like saving children. The men & women who came home from this war were treated terribly. It's a stain on their memory & all the lives that were lost.
#24
A Woman Overlooking A Snowy Mountain Pass In The Pyrenees Mountains, France - 1956
Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
It's so infuriating when you go to the shops, realise you've forgotten something, and have to turn back
Badulesia 4 years ago
The car plate is not french. None were red. Back in that time the plates were like 1234 xx 56. The two latest digits stand for the distric ("département"). There is no "1X" district. No distric had enough cars in 1956 to reach TT as letters. This is a french Renault 4CV car, no doubt, but not probably registred in France.
Christine Walker 4 years ago
Could be Andorran plates of the time. A lot of french drivers around here (French side of Pyrenees) have Andorran plates because the tax on buying new cars is a lot less.
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According to Gabrielle, as digital photography has become accessible to almost everyone through smart phones, we have begun to value historical photographic processes, “especially ones that have been made obsolete, more highly. Especially the processes that resulted in one-of-a-kind images, like photograms, daguerreotypes, cyanotypes, and Polaroids, because they seem unique and irreproducible.”
#25
Homecoming, A British Soldier With His 8 Month Old Daughter As He Arrives At The Docks From Overseas 1945
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A German World War II Prisoner Is Released By The Soviet Union And Reunited With His 12-Year-Old Daughter, Who Has Not Seen Him Since Infancy. 1956
Ray Heap 4 years ago
Over three million Germans were taken into the Soviet Union as prisoners of war, two million returned. Adenauer went to Moskau and begged for the remaining Prisoners in 1955, he brought 55.000 back to Germany.
Robert Bois le Duc 4 years ago
Many were killed or worked to death by the vengeful Stalin. He even kept American & British POWs that they freed from the Germans.
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Matthew Rasanen 4 years ago
She's not afraid. She wouldn't be reaching for his face if she was. She had lived her entire life in the decrepit post-war conditions of Germany, so she had heard all her life, from her mother, how things would be different if only he was back. All (or a lot) of her suffering and misery is being released by seeing him for the first time. Whether or not what followed was that good had yet to be seen.
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Mother And Baby Of Family Of Nine Living In Field On U.S. Route 70 Near The Tennessee River, March 1936
Miss Cris 4 years ago
I hope the photograph give them some aid, not only take pics for his profit.
Cori 4 years ago
It was the height of the Great Depression. He likely didn't have any aid to give.
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Kendra Miller 4 years ago
During the great depression flour mills started to notice people were making clothes out of their bags, so they switched to using nice patterns. For many it was the only new clothes they would get.
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Leslie Burleson 4 years ago
What a good mama. The look her son is giving her tells me what an amazing job she'd done
Oskar vanZandt 4 years ago
And yet the child on the right can still manage a smile... most of us in the west today have no idea about living in poverty.
juztme 4 years ago
My oldest uncle was born in the 2ww. He said he was happy because he diddent know better. He never felt his childhood was bad because of the war. The bombs where scary sometimes but he had fun with the other kids in the shelter. It really hit him when he got his own kids and dad feelings. Made him only proud of his parents that they managed to keep a home.
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Joe Reaves 4 years ago
Flour sack manufacturers discovered that people were using them for clothing (usually for children) and started making them in colours and patterns.
Mary Hurst 4 years ago
So sad. Women had to bare so many children, some once a year whether or not there was a means to care for them.
littlebuggy_82 4 years ago
Her skirt looks like it was probably a bag of grain or something like that
Dave P 4 years ago (edited)
Poor rural whites still are very poverty stricken today, with less access to resources and programs than Urban poor. This is how Trump swung them from decades of Democrat Voting, by taking comments from critical race theory writings on the left, and telling them that Democrats view them as oppressor's and privledged while people like Oprah were victims and disadvantaged. It worked and it gave him his 2016 victory in swinging over 300 counties that votes straight Democrat for decades, including both times for Obama. Remember Poverty exists in many forms, and politicians only focus on Urban, making the rural populations ripe for politicians to pander to them like that.
Blondhorsecrazy 4 years ago
Dear gawd you are a sad person who knows absolutely not a damn thing.
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#28
Cetshwayo, King Of The Zulu Who Defeated The British At The Battle Of Isandlwana, 1878
Hec L 4 years ago
Amazing to see that not all was lost with the British Invasion of the world.
Marilyn Holt 4 years ago
But the Zulu paid for that victory over and over and over again in the following years.
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Linus Nilsson 4 years ago
Six months later, the British had destroyed the Zulu. Colonialism was, and is, a curse on the worlds minorities
Pervinca 4 years ago
Quite sure that Zulu people are the biggest ethnics group of South Africa, not a minority.
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Nicole Blakeway 4 years ago
Yes, I went to this battleground, it is extremely interesting. The song Impi by Jonny Clegg is based on the battle. No English soldiers survived and they had guns vs the Zulu's spears and shields.
Raizy Smith 4 years ago
Shows how narrow our perception of a healthy body is. People will talk about "dad bods" and make fun of them, but this guy could beat any of us up. The "sexy" male leads in movies have to diet in unhealthy ways to make their abs so defined.
HighNMightyBigshotBossOfWorld 1 year ago
He was a king, kings usually do no fighting.
Load More Replies... Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
Isandlawana was an extraordinary battle. There are a number of books about it, but a lot of them are from the white European perspective, so I don't know how well they represent what happened.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
I'm not sure 'Defeated' is the right word. The British force was only 1,800 strong and the Zulu force was 20,000 strong! The British lost around 1,300 and the Zulu lost between 2,000 - 3,000 with another 2,000 wounded. The result was that the British did what they do best, 'No Negotiation, just complete submission'. During the second wave the British sent 25,000 men to go up against the 35,000 Zulu. Cetshwayo knew he was out matched and sued for peace, the British refused and advanced, destroying the Zulu army, deposing the king ( and burning his village) ,dividing the now 'Conquered' land amongst the more "compliant" chiefs.
Viv Hart 4 years ago
Could never understand that the British explorers had the idea that because they 'discovered' a country, they had the right to annex it. I live in South Africa, like many other lands of the 'Empire', we have a grubby history.
Tee Witt 3 years ago
South Africa was/is rules by the Boers, not the British
Load More Replies... JJ Buddhabrot 4 years ago
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#29
Shepherds Listening To Music Records, Azerbaijan 1939
Cupcake168 4 years ago (edited)
What an atmospheric picture. I wonder what they were listening to.
Call Me Mars 4 years ago
I LIVE IN AZERBAIJAN RN!!!! Sheep herders are still around today. Sheep dogs are scary though.
Aroha 4 years ago (edited)
When I see old photos of dogs, I always feel a bit sad, because the dog has already died. Like this one has passed probably around 70 years ago 💔...
Elizabeth Butler 4 years ago
My grandparents had a windup record player in a suitcase just like this one and I was allowed to play with it.
#30
The World's Last Commercial Ocean-Going Sailing Ship - The Pamir - Rounding Cape Horn, 1949
Chrissie M. 4 years ago
Wasn't this the ship that sank with almost everybody on board drowning, with a lot of young cadets-in-training? I remember visiting the church in Lübeck where a corner is reserved as a memorial for the victims of the Pamir.
Fred L. 4 years ago
Yep. Apparently sailing straight into a hurricane is a bad idea.
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#31
Navajo Riders In The Canyon De Chelly, Arizona. 1904, Photo Taken By Edward Curtis
Hec L 4 years ago
Sad to see them disappear by force encampment or death. Never we will see again natives riding in the open plains.
Blondhorsecrazy 4 years ago
Because we are a civilized society with cars & roads. Many native americans still ride horses in many areas as recreation, much like rest of society. Stop romanizing that they would still be living like this in 2021, thats very naive. Yes, I'm native American.
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Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
As far as i know, the Navajo still hold ownership over Canyon de Chelly. You need permission to enter it from them at least.
#32
A Native American Man Looking Over The Newly Completed Transcontinental Railroad In Nevada, 1869
Vorknkx 4 years ago
Imagine witnessing the end of your world... because that's what it ultimately meant for the natives.
Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
It was already ending. This was like the nail in the coffin
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Kevin Donegan 4 years ago
He's contemplating the destruction of his culture with the coming of the railroad.
Dave P 4 years ago
Depending which rail line this was can mean different things. Some railroad builders like Hill, paid the native tribes to use their land and leased it from them and hired native laborers to build those sections. Others, however, used the US govt to seize those lands and give it to them for their railroads. If this is one of Hill's or people like him, then this man may have been involved in building it.
#33
One Of The Many Selfies That Emperor Nicholas II Took Throughout His Life, (1868-1918)
Brandy Grote 4 years ago (edited)
The entire family loved photography, just as their great grandmother Victoria did.
Barbara Vandewalle 4 years ago
His English cousin, the king, was more worried about how it would look politically if the family had sanctuary. So he left them to the Russian anarchist. Saving his family was not happening.
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#34
Frozen Niagara Falls, 1911
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
Any pictures from the '90's would have not been a lovely s this one, too much building et.
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Ella Blackwood 4 years ago
That is just stunning! It would still freak me out to be where those people are standing. Just a little too close to the edge.
Ari Trionfo 4 years ago
I just watched a mini documentary today about this, 100 years ago they would let people walk out on it when it was frozen, but then 3 people died so we can't anymore
Teri Campisi 4 years ago
I have been living in my home since 2000 and remember Niagara froze once since then. Can't remember which year though!
#35
All Of Them Pick Shrimp At The Peerless Oyster Co. Photo Was Taken While Bosses Were At Dinner As They Refused To Permit The Children To Be In Photos. Out Of 60 Workers, 15 Were Apparently Under 12 Yrs Old. Bay St. Louis, Miss, March 1911
MiniMaus 4 years ago
In some cases it was work or die. During the depression for example, you either worked to help the family or you all died. Those of us born on a farm and were not wealthy, worked on said farm from age 7 onwards. We didn't get summer vacation either. It's all a matter of survival so don't be so quick to judge. We are lucky in this day and age, but there are still situations such as the ones I've listed. Rich people tend to be holier-than-thou
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Mary Hilton 4 years ago
My grandmother, the oldest of nine children, went to work in England in a fabric mill at age 9.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Or were orphans and this was still better conditions than the workhouses.
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Ray Martin 4 years ago
Pick shrimp? No, these poor kids were probably shucking oysters, using sharp knives. It was almost inevitable that they would badly cut themselves, and would get infected wounds due to the non-existence of antibiotics at the time. They faced anything from losing fingers and hands to gangrene, or death.
Jane Alexander 4 years ago
Children having everything done for them and handed to them isn't right either. There's a balance to be sought here. One mom said "I hate to 'dangle a carrot'. I said "life's a carrot, you don't do the wash? You don't have a clean shirt.
Candy Chitty 4 years ago
It wasn't/isn't just the blacks that suffer from slavery. Humans are the worst thing to happen to this planet.
#36
Oldest Austrian Soldier Of Ww1, A 79-Year-Old Gaspar Wallnöfer, Veteran Of Habsburg Campaigns In Italy In 1848 And 1866, September 1917
Aunt Messy 4 years ago
You really wouldn't. Those wars were nightmare fuel.
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#37
Last Sword Duel In History In France, 1967 Between The Mayor Of Marseille And The Socialist Party Candidate For Presidency
Stephanie IV 4 years ago
..wasn’t it Albert Einstein who said he didn’t know what weapons were going to be used in the third WW - but in the fourth it would be sticks and stones..
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Pascal Oudot 4 years ago
The day before, during a heated debate, when he was constantly interrupted during his speech, Gaston Defferre apostrophe his most virulent colleague: "Shut up, asshole! Later Ribière asks his offender for an apology, but the fiery Marseillais refuses. The offended sends him two witnesses again to demand redress. Having a choice of weapons, he chooses the sword. Three assaults and two slashes later, referee stops the fight, Ribière has two minor injuries. Ribière had apparently never touched a sword. It was not the same for his opponent, an old veteran used to fighting. Reporters attended the event. The duel was even filmed. This "masquerade", as one journalist wrote, was not to the liking of General de Gaulle, who sent emissaries to have it canceled. Without success. Later, the facetious Defferre did not fail to recall that he had aimed at his opponent's crotch to spoil his wedding night, the latter getting married the next day.
Curry on... 4 years ago
All these politicians who want to wage war should have to duel each other.
François Carré 4 years ago
It was not the socialist party candidate. It was René Ribière, a right-wing member of Parliament. He asked for the duel after Gaston Defferre, socialist Mayor of Marseille, had insulted him in public. But Defferre happened to be a much better duellist and he easily wounded Ribière who just had to admit his defeat.
Leslie Burleson 4 years ago
I wish they would do this in the US , I'd be a lot more interested in voting lol
Raven Sheridan 4 years ago
The last time a person was executed by guillotine in France, the original first Star Wars film was playing in the cinemas. Let that sink in!
#38
A Rare Photo Of A Traffic Accident In The Netherlands More Than 100 Years Ago. The Photo Was Taken In 1914
Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
Cyclists: "These things are death traps!" "Don't worry, they're just a passing fad"
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Remember that they didn't have safety belts, airbags or crumple zones and the windows were made of plain glass.
Chris Hill 4 years ago
A witness saw a white haired man in a silver "strange automobile" run them off the road.
Lara Verne 4 years ago
Remind me of the Buster Keaton's movie, where his car suddenly fell apart.
#39
An Outdoor Hockey Game In Sweden Is Cut Short, 1959
Mihai Mara 4 years ago
Players to goalkeeper: "Yo, we are losing, do something, play better!" The goalkeeper: "I've got a crazy idea!" Starts hitting the ice underneath him until it breaks
#40
Acrobats Balance On Top Of The Empire State Building (1934)
Patsy 4 years ago
Weak knees? Heavy arms? How's your sweater? Who's spaghetti?
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Lance d'Boyle 4 years ago
Interesting fact: the guy holding up the other two farted during the shoot and the guy with his head between his legs never spoke to him again after.
#41
A Babushka Keeps The Ears Of Her Grandson Warm As He Takes An Oath Of Enlistment For The Russian Army. Volgograd, 1994. Photo Taken By Nikolai Ignatiev
Sergio Bicerra 4 years ago
No. Someone cursed and she coverd his ears. A grandma's duties don't end just because her child are old enought to carry a gun.
Jo Choto 4 years ago
Grandmothers everywhere, all the same. She probably has a snack for him somewhere.
#42
Anti British Propaganda, Japan 1941
Downunderdude 4 years ago
[in gruff voice] sticks and stones may break my bones but japanese women holding their noses can never hurt me
Iggy 4 years ago
W.C. stands for Winston Churchill but W.C. also used to mean a toilet (water closet).
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#43
Rome When It Became The Capital Of The Kingdom Of Italy (1871)
Giulia 4 years ago
we have say here "eh una volta qui era tutta campagna" = "once here it was only open land" aaand this picture is absolutely on point since near the Colosseo now there are so many buildings (mostly are offices) and considered that the 90% of us lives so far away from the center... man this city is huge lmao and in the 1871 it was barely what it is now
Brandy Grote 4 years ago
Here in Southern California we say "I remember when all of this was fields..." We say it more and more now, sadly...
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Rabbit Carrot 4 years ago
Looks almost serene. Nowadays the traffic is horrendous round there and some of the worst in the world.
Giulia 4 years ago
hell yeah now to go like 10 km you have to stay in a 50 minutes traffic jam (not always but like often)
Load More Replies... Oskar vanZandt 4 years ago
Bizarre... in my mind I always pictured Rome much as it is now (from ancient times).
ispeak catanese 4 years ago
In Florida we say "I remember when this was all citrus, " now it's all asphalt and walmarts.
Terran 4 years ago
There was no Italian nation before. The italian states and city states were united by Vittorio Emanuele, who became the first king of Italy.
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Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards Soars Above A Roaring Crowd At The 1988 Winter Olympics. He Finished Last
Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
And sadly, they changed the rules so that people like Eddie will never again be able to compete.
Load More Replies... Raven Sheridan 4 years ago
Anyone else remember Eric the Eel? Atlanta Olympics I think. Same deal. Came last, but the crowd cheered him on. He was already a winner. Go Eric, Eddie and all the underdogs!
Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
He was Britain's only ski jumper, and they were so embarrassed by his poor performance that they started an actual team. (The rest of the world adored him, though!)
Joe Laberge 4 years ago
Just. Go. Big! Yes, I was alive and aware back then. Now, hard to tell. His story was amazing and inspiring and FUN
Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago
Calgary Olympics '88--people were also roasting hot dogs over the Olympic Flame--it was lovely.
#45
Survivors Of 1972 Of The Infamous Andes Plane Crash. The Passengers Resorted To Cannibalism To Survive 72 Days In The Snow
Lynn Donovan 4 years ago
Look at the right, right next to the chair. You can see human remains on the floor... Caitlin Doughty did a great episode on this story.
Grant Barke 4 years ago
OMG, you're right, had to find the uncensored version. Damn, the things you do to survive.
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Christie Schmitz 4 years ago
The movie Alive, that is based on their story, makes me cry every time I watch it.
Jacqui Dunn 4 years ago
Reminds me of tales of the fate of cabin boys on sailing ships if they ran out of food.
#46
FDR Using Help To Get Out Of His Car, One Of The Few Photos That Show His Paralytic Illness, Journalists And Photographers Avoided Showing The President In This Weak State Especially During WWII, Taken In The 24th Of September 1932
Aaron W 4 years ago
Can you imagine today's media showing this courtesy to a US president? If Biden trips on a step, FOX screams to the world that USA is weak and vulnerable.
BusLady 4 years ago
I'm ashamed to admit that I lived in Texas for about 6 months before I realized that Governor Abbot was in a wheel chair. He is always photographed in a way that you never see his chair.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
It's the sort of thing that I wouldn't expect to be hidden. I can't see how it would change people's opinions on whether to vote for someone, but then maybe I'm too idealistic.
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Niall Mac Iomera 4 years ago
Wouldn't it be a sign of strength that he ran a country despite having a paralysing illness though?
Aeon Flux 4 years ago
They're probably happy and excited to see him. He was an immensely popular president.
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I, being Australian, did not know a huge amount about FDR until I saw the brilliant tv series Atlantic Crossing. I also learnt a lot about both America and Norway's reactions during WW2.
#47
Iron Workers Pose For A Photo Atop The North Tower Of The World Trade Center, 1973
Hugo A-niro 4 years ago
This was an amazing job having met some who worked on it I know how much courage it took
Ella Blackwood 4 years ago
Another photo to add to my fear-of-heights nausea. I honestly don't know how people can do this. I would be in a full-blown panic attack if I was up that high in an enclosed space, let alone outside, and in contraption like that.
Bob Connely 4 years ago
Stop and think... both the Crane Operator and the photographer were higher up than these two buffoons.
#48
Conrad O'brien-Ffrench Greets A Bear. Having Spent His Youth As A Mountie, Surviving The First World War And Serving As An Mi6 Agent In The Second World War, He Was Known To Welcome Danger. Banff National Park, 1950. Photo Taken By Rosalie French
Celtic Pirate Queen 4 years ago
He may have been brave, but he was also - apparently - an idiot.
#49
The Airship Le Jaune Flying Past The Eiffel Tower, In Paris, France. (11/20/1903)
Miss Cris 4 years ago
Wooow, even today it looks as sci-fi, not real. My mind sees a whale underwater.
fuggnuggins 4 years ago
My mind sees the kind of inflatable pillow that is barely held together at the seems by glue and seems like it might tear apart as you rest your head on it. Impressive in its own way, but pretty comical in another.
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Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
I think the Eiffel Tower was designed to be an airship dock, but I'm not sure.
#50
Las Vegas Police Facing Mike Tyson After He'd Just Bitten Holyfield's Ear Off (1996)
Pink Floydian Panda 4 years ago
Twice, if you can believe that. Tyson bit both of Evander Holyfield's ears in their 2nd fight on 06/28/97. Holyfield had upset Tyson and beat him badly in their 1st fight on 11/09/96. Tyson was getting beaten badly in the second fight when incident happened. The first bite was bad enough to rip a chunk of Holyfield's ear off, that I believe is still missing to this day. I saw it on Pay-Per-View and can still remember the initial disbelief & then horror when everyone realized what had happened. All you could see on TV was Tyson clinching Holyfield and bending his head towards his mouth. Then Holyfield pushed him off and jumped up and started screaming "He bit my ear" and you could see the blood & piece of ear. UGH. Just mass confusion but THEY STILL LET THE FIGHT GO ON. Then Tyson DID IT AGAIN and they had to stop the fight. Worst thing I have ever seen at a sporting event and I loved Tyson before that. But it all fell apart and I was ashamed of being a fan and defending him after that.
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#51
Young Punks In Communist Hungary - Budapest, 1982
Sandra Charlot 4 years ago
Well Ariana Grande and Nicky Minaj wear the same now ... When you're poor it's ridiculous, when you're rich, it's fashion :)
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Vorknkx 4 years ago
Most people can't understand how dangerous this was - you could get sent to prison for doing this, and your parents would get in big trouble as well. You'd definitely have your head shaved and would never be able to apply to universities or get a decent job.
Hec L 4 years ago
That is why he did it. Welcome to being a teenager. It was a statement to authorities. Any generation will have the teens who rebel against their “oppressors” and be independent.
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Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
And this is how you do it, lads. The USSR fell seven years later; these kids are just the tip of the iceberg.
#52
A Ukrainian-American Family Celebrates The Death Of Stalin, 1953
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
When people celebrate your death by dancing in the street and giving out free food, that's when you know you really were the worst.
Simzabandz 4 years ago
this sounds a lot like a Trump funeral lol in the future
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Kevin Donegan 4 years ago
I bet this will happen in the USA the moment the morbidly obese pathological lying vindictive narcissistic imbecile with the emotional maturity of a toddler and now, biggest loser, tRump, takes his last breath. I know I'll be celebrating in the streets.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
They'll be playing that song about dancing in the streets.
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#53
Soviet Tanks Interrupt Young Couple Wedding. Soviet Invasion To Czechoslovakia
Miss Cris 4 years ago (edited)
What is the other woman wearing on his arm? At first I thought she was walking and reading.
Paizleypie 4 years ago
It looks like she might be trying to shield her face from the camera with her clutch purse??
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Colleen Rogers 4 years ago
The freedom before Communism. Any children born to this couple would never know the freedoms that their parents had.
#54
A Romanian Soldier Giving A Sign Of Victory After The 1989 Revolution, Having Removed The Communist Insignia From His Headwear
Daria B 4 years ago
Seeing this picture, it looks like such a far history, but it was the year I was born.
Anne 4 years ago
I remember the fall of communism well. I was 13. My boyfriend is Romanian, he lived there during the revolution, he was young, but he remembers a lot. The stories he tells.. unimaginable for westerners
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#55
Berlin, 1923. Less Than Five Years After The End Of The Great War, Germany Economy Lies In Ruins. A Disabled War Veteran Begs In The Street Dressed In His Pre-War Dunkelblau Waffenrock
J. F. 4 years ago (edited)
One of the things that led to World War 2 - insane demands from France and Great Britain that ruined the economy completely. The US didn't sign the Treat of Versailes for that exact reason
Misha Erementchouk 4 years ago
The US, represented by Wilson, did sign the treaty. Congress did not ratify it because of a bunch of disagreements with respect to the forming League of Nations, not because of concerns about Germany's well-being.
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Must have been a huge blow for his dignity. No war vet, (regardless of who they fought for) should have to resort to begging after serving their country.
#56
Sir Richard Owen Standing Next To A Moa Skeleton And Holding The First Bone Fragment Belonging To A Moa Ever Found. 1879
Alastor the radio demon 4 years ago
I googled it and now I can't stop thinking about how this looks like Kevin from up
#57
Photograph Entitled "Wait For Me, Daddy". It Shows A Child Running To His Father, A Canadian Soldier, Before Being Deployed During The Second World War. Behind You Can See His Mother. October 1, 1940
MadameLeota 4 years ago
I work right where this was taken. There is a statue commemorating this.
PandaMonium 4 years ago
Apparently this photo became famous during the war. Soldier/ Dad Jack Bernard made it home. The photographer who took this photo was on hand to get a picture of their reunion. Wait-For-M...24-png.jpg 
Broken Angel 4 years ago
It's so heartbreaking, the way the other soldiers are watching like they don't think the father will come back :( at least, that's the way it looks to me
#58
Little John F. Kennedy Jr. Waiting For His Dad, President John F. Kennedy To Land At Camp David, Maryland In October 1963. Jfk Was Assassinated The Very Next Month
4 years ago
Many people do it. We didn’t have 14 leaders named Louis did we?
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#59
Soviet Soldier Carrying The Head Of A Statue Of Hitler, Berlin 1945
Linus Nilsson 4 years ago
Not only the soviets, don't fool yourself. The allied forces committed tens of thousands of rapes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Germany This is probably going to be downvoted to heck, but I can't stay silent in such matters.
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Cathelijne Van 4 years ago
As this post is becoming a who did what to women, please read this page to freshen up your history (thx @linus nilsson I thought this should be higher up) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Germany
#60
Firefighters Battle A Blaze In Montreal, 1889
Marky Mark 4 years ago
Its Montreal. "Cold" is the only type of winter there.
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Burial At Sea On The Uss Intrepid, November 1944
Call Me Mars 4 years ago (edited)
That's cool! If he is still with us today, does he have any cool stories he would like to share?
Load More Replies... Amy Dodds 4 years ago
Sailors were sewn into their hammocks for burial. The last stitch always always went through the nose because, if they were still alive their eyes would water.
V Martinez 4 years ago
Could be Navy, but I think they are Marines, mainly bcuz of the rifles), and they are wearing a khaki uniform.
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Ethnic Cambodian Guerilla Fighter Danh Son Huol Is Carried To An Improvised Operating Room In A Mangrove Swamp After He Was Wounded By American Bombing. Ca Mau Peninsula, 15 September 1970. Photo Taken By Vo Anh Khanh
#63
Mounted Cop Flies Down Tremont Street, Boston 1920s - Photo By Leslie Jones
RadiatorAnkleSpider 4 years ago
Mounted Police in Boston got disbanded in 2011. It was such an amazing site to see them patrolling the parks.
#64
A Family Of Migratory Fruit Workers From Texas During Cherry-Picking Season. Berrien County, Michigan, July 1940
#65
A Young Private Waits On The Beach During The Marine Landing At Da Nang, 1965
Louise B 4 years ago
I bet he's too young to buy a beer, but old enough to kill someone he's never met. War is horrific. Terrified young people killing each other because some older people tell them to.
Hec L 4 years ago
Forget about the killings, see how many “vets” came back mentally destroyed and addict to whatever they were given to keep up with the demands of the war.
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Nomadus Aureus 4 years ago
I want to hug him and tell him it's going to be alright. I hope he made it back home.
JK 4 years ago
My son is 17 years old and he looks older than this kid. My boy can't even wake himself up to get to school on time and the child in the picture was expected to participate in the war? I cannot imagine what the mothers felt, sending their children to Vietnam, much less being a boy, fighting.
#66
A Student Protester Gives The V For Victory Sign In Front Of Chinese Soldiers Of The Pla. Tiananmen Square, 1 June 1989. Photo Taken By Peter Charlesworth
Louise B 4 years ago
The look on those soldiers faces just cry out that they don't want to do what they're going to be made to do. They're about the same age as that brave, probably naiive protester. I hope there was a good outcome, but I doubt it.
Marykay Klim 4 years ago
this is a few days before the Tianiaman Square massacre, 32 yrs. ago.
Load More Replies... Brandy Grote 4 years ago
We don't know the exact death toll from this time. Hundreds, possibly thousands of protesters, civilians, and troops killed, thousands injured.
Dodo 4 years ago
The peace sign and the victory sign are the same. British swearing is the back of your hand
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Children Eating The Half A Liter Of Supplementary Food Per Day Received From The Interkerkelijk Bureau Voor Noodvoedselvoorziening En Kinderuitzending During The Hunger Winter, The Hague, Netherlands, 1944/45, Photo By Menno Huizinga
Brandy Grote 4 years ago
Babies shouldn't be so skinny. I'm glad they had SOMETHING. Famine and war together are horrid.
#68
Police Officer Wearing A Face Mask During The London Smog In 1952
Paizleypie 4 years ago
The Great Smog of London is interesting to read about if you are unfamiliar with it.
Katinka Min 4 years ago
The London smog killed thousands, possibly even millions of people. I was shocked when I read up on it. It's incredible just how many people had to die before the Clean Air Act was passed.
#69
John Meintz, An American Farmer Tarred And Feathered By A Mob For His German Heritage And Allegedly Not Supporting War Bond Drives, 1918
Raven Sheridan 4 years ago
People are stupid. Unfortunately we seem to be getting dumber and meaner every year.
Load More Replies... Brandy Grote 4 years ago
He got off easy. Usually there was a lot more tar, and people would die from it.
Alastor the radio demon 4 years ago
Tarring and feathering is the worst punishment I could ever see it rips off your skin and you cry out of pain and the salt in your tears hurts the muscles more and that gives you a never ending cycle of pain
#70
Bob Dylan & Muhammad Ali, Madison Square Gardens, New York, 1975
#71
An Aerial Photo Of The Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong Taken In 1989
Ali H M Salehuddin 4 years ago
Here's a series of photos on the life there. Pretty enlightening. https://www.businessinsider.com/kowloon-walled-city-photos-2015-2
Kenny Kulbiski 4 years ago
Some shipmates and I "accidentally" wandered into there in the early sixties because it was off limits and therefore must be full of forbidden good stuff . Couldn't get out fast enough it was like a human compost pile.
Tiny Dancer 4 years ago
Spent some time there in 1969 when my parents' band had a gig at the Playboy club. I love sharing this pic of me and a bunny. I'm on the right ;-) Rhonda-at-...d7b1bc.jpg 
#72
A British Army Bomb Disposal Specialist Approaches A Suspect Vehicle In Belfast, 1970s
#73
Czechoslovak Man Posing With Half Loaf Of Bread In Front Of Banner "The Meaning Of The Policy Of The Communist Party Of Czechoslovakia - Paradise For Humans" Communist Czechoslovakia, Probably 1960
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Or Eric Steward pissing on the service industry?
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#74
The Guards Of Maharajah Ram Singh III In The Royal Palace Of Jaipur. India, 1858
#75
Survivors Of Hmas Armidale On A Raft After Their Ship Was Sunk By Japanese Air Attack, December 1942. A Catalina Flying Boat Later Took This Photo But Was Unable To Assist Due To Rough Seas. The Survivors Were Never Found Again
wifeofweasley 4 years ago
just a question... If they took a pic of them (assuming from a plane) why didn't they save them?
#76
Israeli Soldier Taking A Glass Of Water From The Jordan River After The Six Day War, On His Left Arm Is A Serial Number From The Holocaust. July 1967
Nicky 4 years ago
It's sad that Holocaust survivors engage in cultural genocide against the Palestinians.
Vorknkx 4 years ago
Don't oversimplify this conflict, you are not doing either side a favor. There are no clearly defined "good" and "bad" guys here. It's not all black-and-white.
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#77
The Result Of Firefighting In Extreme Winter Conditions. The Remains Of The Eureka Building In Chicago. 1920
#78
Dog Being Posed By A German Soldier, 1940
Curry on... 4 years ago
Then and now, dogs in costumes have that same exasperated look, "oh lucky me."
wifeofweasley 4 years ago
Look at the smile... this good boy has made traumatised soldiers smile
#79
The Beatles Pose With “The Greatest”, Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali), At The Fifth Street Gym On Miami Beach, 1964
Matthew Smith 4 years ago
Just one of many "Silly bugger" moments from The Beatles, they really had some laughs!
#80
A Woman Is Humiliated For Having Had Personal Relations With The Germans. In The Montelimar Area, France, French Civilians Shave Her Head As Punishment. August 29, 1944
Vorknkx 4 years ago
I've heard about this. The French were pretty harsh with anyone who collaborated or was in some way close to the Germans. The German occupation of France was pretty brutal.
Zazou 4 years ago
The accusations weren’t even true in many cases, and there were no trials, it was simple misogynist revenge against women neighbors who had maybe gotten some advantages through their jobs /shops. Police and civil officers also used these mobbing events to redeem their image to the public after the liberation. Whereas they had been nicely quiet during the whole occupation.
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StrawberryParfait 4 years ago
Woman forced into prostitution for her survival during wartime further humiliated by her own countrymen, it should read.
Gin Marie 4 years ago
They never shaved the head of any soldier who raped the women of defeated cities.
Load More Replies... Brandy Grote 4 years ago
Imagine doing that to get food, or info for the Underground, and then having this happen. Humans really are the worst.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
Because, doing whatever you have to in order to survive, is not an acceptable thing to some people.
HighNMightyBigshotBossOfWorld 1 year ago
Especially women, the guy holding her chin is especially infuriating.
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Nicolas Schirvel 4 years ago
Humiliated for loving the wrong personn... Some things don't change, just the victims...
#81
Soldier Stands Besides His M60 Machine Gun, Which Is Mounted On The Steps Of The U.S. Capitol To Deter Rioters From Entering The Building During The Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination Riots In Washington D.C. (April 1968)
#82
A Chechen Man Prays During The First Battle Of Grozny, January 1995. The Flame In The Background Is Coming From A Gas Pipeline Which Was Hit By Shrapnel
Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
Extraordinary. He's got such a look of peace on his face, despite what's going on around him.
#83
American Wwi Veterans At A Reunion, 1978
Keith Pedersen 4 years ago
Strange, I never saw my dad's unit, the 54th Signal Battalion, wearing their uniforms. Every Labor Day weekend families were gathered up for their annual reunion.
sofacushionfort 4 years ago
Those uniforms probably hadn’t fit at the 20 year reunion, but did here at 60th.
Turnip and a Frog 4 years ago
The soldier in the middle of the first row looks like grumpy Jack Lemmon. He’s very serious, yet he is the one who gives the picture lightness, more than his jolly fellows.
#84
Korean Children Play Near A Church In North Pyongan Province, Japanese Korea (Present-Day North Korea) - 1930s
Benjamin Thor Collier V 4 years ago
Kinda looks like two of them are warding off N Korean vampires...
#85
Lee Harvey Oswald, The Assassin Of John F. Kennedy, Being Shot By Jack Ruby On November 24, 1963 While Being Escorted By Dallas Police
Paizleypie 4 years ago
I'm sure this image is seared into the minds of Americans who watched it happen on live television.
BusLady 4 years ago
My mom was just talking about this the other day. She saw it live. We lived in Dallas at the time.
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Jouni Hakkarainen 4 years ago
Who believes that L.H.Oswald really did assassine JFK? I mean really believes?
Dodo 4 years ago
I believe he did. Whether he did it of his own volition is another question.
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StormWolf 4 years ago
No disrespect intended, but he looks like he's just been given a purple-nurple, not shot 😆
Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
The man in the white suit is guarding Oswald, who is doubling over in pain.
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1858 Picture Of The Last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah II. Fun Fact: Persian Word For Mongol Is “Mughal”, It’s Often Overlooked That India Fell Under Mongol Rule. First Emperor Was A Direct Descendant Of Genghis Khan
sofacushionfort 4 years ago
Their Empire had been in decline for generations, even before the British achieved domination. Even so, his son was summarily executed as a show of force and vengeance.
agnivesh mishra 4 years ago
Not so long ago in a newspaper I saw a picture of his descendant living in slums of Kolkata!
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George H.w. Bush Takes A Toboggan Ride With Arnold Schwarzenegger At Camp David. 1991
#88
"The Weightless Cat"-Experiment, Performed Inside The Cockpit Of An F-94c To Test The Effect Of Sub-Gravity Forces On The Body, 8 February 1958
Marky Mark 4 years ago
The weightlessness lasts only a few seconds. Once the cat lands back in his lap - its "poor pilot".
Load More Replies... Andy Acceber 4 years ago
Really? They chose a cat for this experiment? An animal with multiple razor blades attached to each limb?
Ray Martin 4 years ago
Fun fact: It's almost impossible to get the smell of cat piss out of an F-94c cockpit.
Pat Tamarin 4 years ago
The pilot is on oxygen, and jets are incredibly loud. This cat is being tortured in multiple ways.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago
That's one confused cat...and probably very pissed too. Wonder if the pilot got some scratches for his trouble...
#89
American Soldier Wearing The Crown Of The Holy Roman Empire In A Cave In Siegen, Germany, On April 3, 1945
Lexi Stoffel 3 years ago
Me: laughs out loud My cat: scratches the hell out of my legs trying to get away Me: OW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Load More Replies... Stephanie IV 4 years ago
I don’t think he had even the slightest idea what that crown is. Never mind. Harmless fun.
kjorn 4 years ago
who cares? as long as he didn't break it. it's just an object
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#90
The Weathered Face Of Norwegian Polar Explorer Tryggve Gran - 1923
#91
Fidel Castro Visiting The Great Wall Of China, 1995
Gerard Neaux 4 years ago
The density of totalitarian government in this image is so high it might collapse into a black hole
Terran 4 years ago
Ask yourself if your country's president would seek out a rioting croud protesting against him to just talk to them, stand there basically unguarded, and adress their concerns. Fidel did so on multiple occasions.
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Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Sms Kaiser Friedrich III Leads The German Home Fleet, 1901
#93
President John F. Kennedy And Ivory Coast President Felix Houphouet-Boigny In Bubble-Top Limousine, 22nd Of May 1962
#94
U.S. Soldier: Sgt. Ronald Payne, 21, Of Atlanta, Georgia, Emerges From A Viet Cong Tunnel While Holding A Silencer-Equipped Revolver (January 21, 1967)
sofacushionfort 4 years ago
something were were taught in military journalism school: always add their home towns as well as their names.
Marky Mark 4 years ago
Muzzle flash will blind you in those dark tunnels. He needed it for follow up shots.
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Imperial Japanese Soldiers Climb The Great Wall Of China, 1937
Nicky 4 years ago
The Japanese treatment of Nanking was so brutal even a Nazi officer decried the atrocities.
Gringo Quevedo 4 years ago
I'm a history teacher. Out of all the schooling and research I have done, I can't think of an event in history that upsets me like the Rape of Nanking...
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Emperor Of Japan Hirohito And Empress Nagako With Their Children And Grandchildren - 1970s
Turnip and a Frog 4 years ago
Empress Nagano seems to be suffering from lymphoedema or even lipoedema, judging by Her arms. Painful and incurable at the time. I’m sorry.
Kat Humble 4 years ago
Lymphoedema still is painful and incurable. I have it in my right arm as a result of breast cancer treatment (lymph node clearance). I wear a compression sleeve every day and every three months I go in every day for a week to get really uncomfortable bandages put on. The extra weight in my arm drags my shoulder out of alignment. However, the other choice was die of cancer, so I'm good with it.
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A Red Army Soldier Firing From A Bathtub During The Battle Of Stalingrad, 1942
#98
"Kombat" Heroic Image Of A Soviet Political Commissar Of The 220th Infantry Regiment Calling Soldiers To An Assault, Eastern Front, In Soviet Ukraine, 12 July 1942. It Has Been Said That The Subject Of This Photo Died Minutes After It Was Taken
#99
American Deserters Being Publicly Humiliated In Florient, France On November 5, 1918. During Wwi, 2,657 U.S. Servicemen Were Convicted Of Desertion, With 24 Being Sentenced To Death; All Of The Condemned Were Instead Commuted To Prison Terms By President Woodrow Wilson
Scagsy 4 years ago
Another heading might read: American teenagers publicly abused for being scared of dying.
Margaret Carradus 2 months ago
And yet you support the mess in the Ukraine...
Load More Replies... Analyn Lahr 4 years ago
They were probably just scared too young men who never should have been there and they had PTSD. I think they called it battle fatigue back then.
sofacushionfort 4 years ago
US killed in WWI were over twice the number from Vietnam, despite Vietnam’s ten years vs the doughboys fighting for only six fierce months.
#101
Red Army Infantry Marching Through The Main Street Of Kiev, Ukraine, Following The Liberation Of The City From German Forces - 1943
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Ari Trionfo 4 years ago
I absolutely loved this, the photo stories about historical stuff is always so interesting to me
Ian Simpson 4 years ago
I remember when we got our first colour telly and also when channel 4 started, f**k me I feel older writing that than I am and that's old enough!!!!!!
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
My dad talks about getting his first tv, but it was in a country town in Australia, so they were quite behind the times. Australia introduced tvs just in time for the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. My dad was born that year, but his family didn't get a tv until years later.
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Ari Trionfo 4 years ago
I absolutely loved this, the photo stories about historical stuff is always so interesting to me
Ian Simpson 4 years ago
I remember when we got our first colour telly and also when channel 4 started, f**k me I feel older writing that than I am and that's old enough!!!!!!
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
My dad talks about getting his first tv, but it was in a country town in Australia, so they were quite behind the times. Australia introduced tvs just in time for the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. My dad was born that year, but his family didn't get a tv until years later.
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