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Time changes everything; at least it feels like it. Fleeting years turn people, landscapes, and architecture into different versions of themselves. But it is only when you compare a photo taken several decades ago with one from the present-day that you can truly see the contrast between the two.
This X (formerly known as Twitter) page called “Then vs. Now” is full of interesting examples from all areas of the world. From images of ancient pyramids and famous cities to swimming pools and street alleys, they beautifully capture the essence of the changing times. The world continues to evolve, but for now, we invite you to take a glimpse at what has already happened.
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#1
Sitting On Their 1947 Chevrolet Olin Front Of A Diner, And Then 63 Years Later
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#2
Kim Landfather 2 years ago
I LOVE this before and after. The complete lack of change is amazingly refreshing.
CanadianDimes 2 years ago
As someone who travels through Oxford regularly, there is a distinct lack of people and traffic in the 2022 picture. Usually it is HELLA crowded!
Lady Miss Pie 2 years ago
Omg I can see my dorm window at University College (on the left). I love Oxford. It is so beautiful. Bath is even prettier, I lived there a while.
#3
Beatles264@aol.com 2 years ago
They look the same. And he still has that full head of hair, wow!
Joshua David 1 year ago
As a barber I would love to give that man a new style. He'd look years younger!
Dr. Skulhamr (Skulhamr) 2 years ago
Those were the days my friend. We thought they'd never end ...
Kurichfield 2 years ago
the second fire should either still be burned...or maybe it's being rekindled
The images seen in this list are called rephotographs, pictures that represent two different moments in time. The goal here is to compare and observe the changes in a specific object over the years which are reflected when two photos are placed side by side, just like “Then vs. Now” image pairs.
The technique has been around for over a century and was first used to document the modifications in the landscape during the Industrial Revolution. The early rephotography focused on urban scenery, such as the expansion of cities and the rise of skyscrapers.
During this process, the photographer locates the original picture and finds the exact location where it was taken. This can be challenging, as some urban areas might have changed so much that it becomes difficult to retake the photo from the same point of view.
#4
The Arctic 103 Years Ago Compared To Today
Skid Marks 2 years ago
I mean..... getting hit in the face never feels good. And yes this is so disgusting and heartbreaking.
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drew p 2 years ago
Even with this evidence you'll still hear people claim global warming is a hoax.
Laura Deckers 2 years ago
They say the top picture was taken in winter, and the bottom picture taken in summer...
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Nitka Tsar 2 years ago
I tried to reverse image search this. I don‘t know the site I found, so I can‘t say if it is trustworthy or not, but it refers to an instagram post from the photographer, who took the second pic. He said he took it at the same time of the year, when the first one was taken. https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/photographer-recreates-a-1918-photo-to-show-100-years-of-glacier-retreat-3068933/amp/1
Piet Zwanenburg 2 years ago
Look how beautiful those mountains are without all that ice blocking the view!
Snakeloverforever 2 years ago
This is just sad and it's all our faults even if we don't want to except it 😔
#5
Bike Ride In Berlin Kreuzberg ( 1985 / 2018 )
TheAmericanAmerican 2 years ago
I've met a few Germans from both the former East AND West saying that the wall should have never come down... proof that there's stupid people everywhere I guess 😝
Stefaan De Clerck 2 years ago
It's a shame that a cycle path could not be constructed now that there is more space than in 1985. The footpath is apparently still in the same condition as in 1985.
#6
ScallyVampy 2 years ago
Mega sweet gud c magic ain't deed btween em 🥰 love ow waddin ootfit still fits shows was ment tae b 🙏
From the beginning of the 19th century to today, photography has been inseparably linked to time. A photo needs a time and place to exist, just as time needs imagery to become concrete and preserved. A large number of images can tell stories that span over long periods of time. Photos have the ability to take us back into the past by looking at captured things and events in the past.
#7
Bottle Opener 2 years ago
We still have the same 1982 Honda Passport that looks exactly the same as this one. It runs great, and we still use it.
#8
PandaGoPanda 2 years ago
This is Elsie Alcock. She has lived in this house for her entire life - 105 years so far.
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
more info on this image since I've seen it a few times: Her name is Elsie Allcock, born 1918, and she had lived in this house all her life (105 years), her father had previously rented it in 1902 for seven shillings and six pence , but she purchased it as her own for just £250 in 1960.
#9
Then vs. Now
Alex McGregor 2 years ago
When I was a child I got into so much trouble for interrupting my dad as reading the papers at the breakfast table. Too many people blame the younger generations for getting hooked on social media but I think previous generations would have been no better.
Auntriarch 2 years ago
Grandad used to read it in the loo. Heaven help you if you needed to go before he'd finished reading. Or whatever.
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DrBronxx 2 years ago
"EVERYONE'S ALWAYS ON THEIR PHONES THESE DAYS!!" - Yes, they are. They're reading the news, talking with loved ones, having discussions about films, arguing about sports, enjoying themselves. What they aren't doing is talking to strangers because, well, you don't talk to strangers in most situations.
#10
Best Friends Since Ww2
Panda Kicki 2 years ago
Wasnt this the one that was debunked in a earlier post to not be the same ladies?
Zobi123 2 years ago
That would make sense. The photos they are holding don't look like the the photo of the young women.
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A picture stops time and turns the intangible into something we can hold onto for a lifetime. Photos of lost loved ones celebrate their existence and allow us to look back at memories with them. Pictures of your childhood home or the town in which you grew up preserve memories of those carefree days when all you had to do was keep your room clean and finish your homework. It makes you aware of the changes and growth that took place when you were too busy to notice.
#11
Same Place And Memory Size.. The Difference Is 58 Years
Marcellus II 2 years ago
Terabyte? The total world yearly production may even have been only in the low megabyte numbers then.
Load More Replies... Kira Okah 2 years ago
NOT the same memory size! The top one is likely an Elliott 405, so around 16KB. The bottom is a Raspberry Pi Zero, around 512MB.
David Crisford 2 years ago
And to think I was 13 years old at that time! If only our Humanity could have progressed as much as our Technology we'd be so much further ahead.
David Paterson 2 years ago
Our humanity has progressed. That was at the height of the cold war. 20 minutes to doomsday.
Load More Replies... SM 2 years ago (edited)
By the looks of it that would be an Elliott 803. It had 16K core (actual donut magnetic cores with coils through them) store units (8192 words of 40 bits). Modern computer memory is stated in "8-bit bytes). So doing the math, 8192 * 40 / 8 = 40,960 bytes or 40KB. Cost £29,000 in 1960 [2] (roughly equivalent to £710,000 in 2021 [3] ). The computer that the person is holding looks to be the Raspberry Pi Zero, 512MB (1/2 Gig) memory, cost $10 USD or £7.93. It is interesting the Elliott was base in London. The Raspberry Pi is made in the UK.
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
Not to mention the fact that the company would still be paying for it til now! 😂😂
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Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
Since there's no title, this is Tiergarten in Berlin, in 1945 and 2021. :)
Kim Landfather 2 years ago
Wow, a rare scene where the after is more beautiful than the before.
David Paterson 2 years ago
Not so rare. Especially when the before is in wartime.
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Ralph Kretschmer 2 years ago
Yes, but the bridge has been gone again, still waiting for its repair.
#13
It Hasn't Changed Much In 157 Years, Aside From The Platform Height And Electrification. The World's Oldest Undeground Station, Baker Street!
Heffalump 2 years ago
The weird bit of my brain questions if there can be an oldest underground station. Surely it must be equal oldest with somewhere else, since until there was a service between here and another, it was just a hole in the ground?
Bob Broadley 2 years ago
What if the trains came out of a tunnel to an above ground station?
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Chróstnik Palace 2009 vs. 2021. Chróstnik, Lubin County, Poland
I heart Boo-BI-es 2 years ago
The photo says 2014 not 2021. So in 5 years they made this transformation happen.
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
Reminds me of Darul Aman Palace in Kabul. I visited it in 2015 and it was in ruins. The Afghans restored it with almost no outside help...just in time for it to be used as a covid hospital
Book author H.B.R. Patel shares tips for this kind of photography, and he advises that instead of capturing a hundred images that are somewhat in focus or in frame, you should wait for the moment when all these factors align perfectly. This way, the snapped second is much more precise and special. Having a purpose with your shots teaches you to read people better, be more coordinated, and even anticipate the unexpected. Then, organically, you improve your photo quality and have little frozen moments in time that are so much more special.
#15
Machu Picchu, Peru. 1915 & 2020
Drinking my Covfefe 2 years ago
When I scrolled down I thought the first picture was rushing flood waters. Yep, back to bed I go!
#16
There Is Beauty In France That Will Last Forever
Human #1,232,867 2 years ago
There is a little lie here, cause the car cannot park anymore, this is more like 2019 than 2023
Jayjay 2 years ago
When I was young, I visited with my sister (we went on bike :)). We took the "grand tour" around and that meant that we were allowed to climb through a pillar in the highest church, up to the roof through the support beams that contain stairs. Such an awesome experience to sit on the roof just below that golden statue and look down to the lower levels through the intricate curls of the support arches! When we visited some 20 years later with our children, it was closed to the public (understandably).
Chewie Baron 2 years ago
Directly opposite it across the Channel is St Michael’s Mount. Which had a smaller church.
#17
The Main Entrance To The City , York, England
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
Forget London, come to York! It's beautiful around Yorkshire <3
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
I would so love to visit the UK and explore all the places I've enjoyed reading about!
Keith Lancaster 2 years ago
This is rubbish. There are many gates into York. This is just one of them.
#18
The Same Trench From Ww1, 100 Years Apart, 1914-2014
BigCityLady 2 years ago
The War that was the one to destroy the minds and the views of those that were fortunate to survive.
#19
Prague 1910 And 2022
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
ikr, the way the lamp is hanging from the swirled part is so pretty!
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ॐBoyGanesh 2 years ago
It’s by that little church with the dome before you head up to the Hradčany, right?
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The changes that rephotography reflects are merely visual, but what is happening behind the scenes is so much more complex. People faced with challenges always say that if you give it some time, it will change, but does it really? During these moments, the wisdom that time heals everything seems valid. Knowing that something is out of our control and will get better with the passing hours is comforting, as it gives us a period to think everything through carefully and not worry about it too much.
But sometimes we have a goal to pursue, and despite our efforts, we are still far from reaching it. It’s a two-way relationship: time changes when we change ourselves. When action fails, give it a few moments and start again, but it’s unlikely that passing hours alone will fix everything.
#20
Hiroshima
similarly 2 years ago
Amazingly, the trams were running again in 3 days! Three of the original tram cars, 651, 652 and 653 are still in operation today.
Glynna Bowood 2 years ago
Wouldn't they be still contaminated with radiation?
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cerinamroth 2 years ago
It’s incredible seeing the first picture that the electric railway was partially running again after just three days! Hiroshima is one of my favourite cities in Japan now; lots of students, street musicians along the river, green…
Coffee loving panda 2 years ago
Are the radiation levels at a liveable rate? Considering that Tsjernobyl will be liveable in a couple of hundred years
David Paterson 2 years ago
Yes. Once you've cleaned up the surface, radiation levels got back to normal after a few months. They could have done the same thing at Chernobyl if they wanted to.
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TheAmericanAmerican 2 years ago
How is it that people see this before and after the literal worse case scenario with nuclear technology with us humans building back after disaster, and yet don't get that nuclear power plants are not capable of this level of destruction??? Nuclear power plants of today are not the outdated hunks of junk that Chernobyl was 4 decades ago! Don't be a bunch of sheep scared off by the fossil fuel industry's anti-nuclear technology!
Krd 2 years ago
Nuclear power is our quickest solution to stopping climate change. Unfortunately the handful of incidents (Chernobyl, Three-mile Isle, Fukushima) has scared enough people into not using it. I think the public is starting to warm up to nuclear power though.
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BigCityLady 2 years ago
That dates will forever mark us in the US to have gone too far for the sake to win the war. Destruction still to this day.
Margaret Shannon 2 years ago
It's tragic, yes. Like others here, I mourn the civilian losses. But Japan started the war.
Nevid 2 years ago
"But they started the war" is not a valid justification to target civilians.
Load More Replies... Scrolling through pictures on Facebook and looking at memories from years ago may stop us in our tracks to think, “Where’d the time go?”. With age, it seems to fly by faster and faster. But it wasn’t like this when we were little, was it? Kindergarten nap times seemed to drag on forever, and the summer holiday passed so slowly that it allowed us to complete our never-ending vacation bucket list.
It appears that this phenomenon is a common experience and has its own explanation. For a 10-year-old, one year is ten percent of their lives, and for a 60-year-old, it’s less than two. This percentage makes up a smaller portion of an adult’s lifetime, causing them to think it passed quickly. Also, new and exciting things feel different to children, setting months and years apart in their minds. As adults, our days and weeks start to feel similar, and our brain starts to lump everything together, making it feel like it flew by.
In order to make every day count, it’s a good idea to start appreciating joyful experiences, and maybe snap a couple of shots while you’re at it.
#21
1889 And 2010
Alethea Fletcher 2 years ago
It's not global warming, it is climate change. Which is all part of the cycle of earth. Thus js a normal and natural phenomenon, that has happened for millenia. However. Humans and what we have been doing to the planet over the last 200yrs, have caused it to speed up at a massive rate. And that's where the problems are occurring.
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Germanami1986 2 years ago
Oh, I do believe global warming is a real thing, don't get me wrong... But, who knows if the one picture wasn't taken in the spring / summer and the other in the middle of winter?
Somebodys grandmother 2 years ago
There are trees in the second picture. They just don't come for one season....
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Coffee loving panda 2 years ago
Our planet has great capacity to bounce back from it's destruction we humans put it trough. We as human's qre at risk of annihilation do to our own carelessness.
Nugget 2 years ago
Engabreen Glacier. Visited maybe 15 or so years ago and there was more ice there then. It's still there,just getting higher up the mountain.
Charlotte 2 years ago
Getting higher up the mountain = melting at the lower altitudes
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What is really frustrating me, is all those people debating whether the chance is due to human activity or not. Instead of debating what we can do about it.
#22
Sherman Tanks For The French Army In "Kaysersberg" In 1944 And Now
giku T 2 years ago
humankind is the srangest.we are capable building such beauty and yet we also have a huge tendency for destruction.
WonderWoman 2 years ago
Destroying things that your enemies find beautiful
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MacintoshID 2 years ago
Wonderful village. You can see where tanks did not quite fit thru some village streets and they gouged the buildings and tunnels. Loved living in this part of the world.
Casey Payne 2 years ago
I don't see the tank in the second picture. Oh my god; Invisible Tanks?! That's incredible.
#23
Rysstad, Norway, 1888 - 2013
Nilsen 2 years ago (edited)
That's an invasive species. Sitka spruce, introduced in the mid 1900's because they grow fast, and replacing the native Norwegian spruce. The woods turn into monocultures, killing entire biotopes. Hundreds of different plants, insects, and bigger animals that cannot survive in the more closed forests. This is Setesdal, in southern Norway
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#24
Tunnel Rock At Sequoia National Park, 1952 And 2022
Heather Talma 2 years ago
Wonder what year somebody decided "people probably shouldn't be driving under this all the time."
#25
Chichen Lzta 1892 And Now
Tamra 2 years ago
I've been there. Photographs are one thing, but to stand next to it was something else entirely. Really incredible to stand next to such history.
Leslie Donsen 2 years ago
Myself as well. But it was a long time ago when you could climb to the top. Going up was easy. Down? A whole different ballgame.
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G R 2 years ago
Something the second photo doesn't show is the 10,000 vendors and stalls selling fake Mayan tourist tat, or the professional dancers in cheesy nearly naked replica costumes doing fake "Mayan ritual" dancing for the tourists. It's such an extraordinary site but it's been commercialised to the point of being in unbearable. There's nowhere on the site where you're not being hassled to buy mini plastic versions of what once were sacred objects.
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago (edited)
That's horrible; I'm glad the photo doesn't show those things. Sounds like the pyramids at Giza.
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Mary Gillis 2 years ago
Not even afraid of heights but once at the top. I about peed my pants.
Momo Skarsgård 2 years ago
I don't get why the people on here so touchy. It's just an opinion.
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Sharon Vaughn 2 years ago
Interesting that the electric trolley is still operating, though updated.
#27
Stonehenge: 1877 And 2019
Drinking my Covfefe 2 years ago
Me either! It kinda takes the fascinating history out of it. In my opinion.
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Dan Flo 2 years ago (edited)
In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, lived a strange race of people, the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing, but their legacy remains. Hewn into the living rock, of Stonehenge.
GraceN 2 years ago
Definitely want to know the difference between inches and feet.
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WindySwede 2 years ago
the most internering part is that Stonehenge was moved really far! Ant they also found where it was placed at that time!
Rose Kennedy 2 years ago
Stonehenge is kinda neat, but there are older and bigger circles else where that are much less touristy and that you can actually enter.
Chewie Baron 2 years ago
Be thankful they are still there, righted or not. As the Romans came very close to completely destroying the stones.
#28
Beauty Is Vanishing From Our World Because We Live As Though It Did Not Matter
les 2 years ago
in this case it was because the old bridge was cast iron. it was not safe anymore
SM 2 years ago
That's what I figured. People tend to think that things will go on forever if you just leave them, or that people only tear down things to "make progress", but in truth, sometimes it is necessary.
Load More Replies... Nitka Tsar 2 years ago (edited)
Hamburg. They „needed“ to make the bridge wider. For that they destroyed the entrence and I guess they could not save the other part… aparently it was not safe anymore
Charlotte 2 years ago
Because the old bridge wasn’t safe anymore. Sadly things don’t last forever
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates
TheAmericanAmerican 2 years ago
What a nightmarish hellscape in the middle of the desert. Boycott Dubai
𝓚𝓮𝓲𝓽𝓱 2 years ago
I don’t know how this has so many upvotes. Your own country is so f****d up but you clearly pride yourself in it considering your username. You can criticise and ‘boycott’ Dubai once you’ve actually done something about your nation’s s****y state
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#30
Crawford Notch In New Hampshire, As Depicted In 1839 vs. Now
#31
Hong Kong In 1964 And 2016
Mark 2 years ago
It’s called population growth, and considering that HK is a city-state, it’s not like you can move a rapidly expanding Stage 4 population elsewhere
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#32
1927 And 2008
StretcherBearer 2 years ago
Save for the guardrail and newer utilitarian bridge, not too terrible.
#33
Pyramid Street, Egypt
Mint Sauce 2 years ago
Welcome to the world of global over-population. In 1875 there were just over 7 million Egyptians, now there's over a 100 million.
Momo Skarsgård 2 years ago
It was such a beautiful place, so sad. It looks dirty and polluted now.
martymcmatrix 2 years ago
It IS dirty and polluted...when my parent's camera roll isn't lying...
Load More Replies... martymcmatrix 2 years ago
Wow, the pyramids are still there! And no, I will not add something relating to Erich von Däniken although it's already too late...🙋🏽
#34
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil - 1930 And Now
#35
Paris
Willem Andries Oosterhof 2 years ago
These constructions were not meant to last, even the Eiffel tower. But people liked that one and kept it in pĺace
the sixthgirl 2 years ago
Very similar to when Chicago built the White City for the Columbian Exposition of 1893.
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Jrog 2 years ago
Most of those "buildings" were wood, fabric, gypsum and papier mache, built for the international exposition and designed to be torn down at the end of the yearlong event.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
It's similar to the structures built for the 'field of cloth of gold'
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Deaf Gypsy 2 years ago
Strange how in Italia, there's many 1000s of years old buildings still standing.... hmmmm
#36
Blada DeBlejd 2 years ago
The Product Exhibition Hall building was originally designed by Czech architect Jan Letzel. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_Peace_Memorial
#37
WindySwede 2 years ago
Probably 'Araçatuba Country Club' according to Reddit. I found it on GoogleMaps: https://www.google.se/maps/place/ara%C3%A7atuba+country+club/@-21.2222092,-50.403055,577a,35y,342.82h/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x94964113d9d17c4d:0xfdc9b162bf8ef0be!8m2!3d-21.2205593!4d-50.4037876!16s%2Fg%2F11sq5wpf16?entry=ttu
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Marla Singer 2 years ago
It doesn't look great, but it's still kinda nice when nature reclaims something.
#38
Lynn Freeman 2 years ago
I just hope those enjoying the beach remember who sacrificed so that they could have this joyous day.
#39
WindySwede 2 years ago
https://www.google.se/maps/@49.3397386,-0.6170232,3a,39.4y,285.94h,86.88t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sAF1QipPIYW3NJ0GuxpF-G6ZnYRqbMRncJ9zwZUgBW9WM!2e10!3e11!7i3840!8i1920?entry=ttu
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Glynna Bowood 2 years ago
Maybe, maybe a few were able to return as old men and make a new memory of that place.
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Don Adams 2 years ago
Believe this is/was one of the resorts in Sullivan County, New York (think Dirty Dancing). They lasted into the 70's, maybe a few into the 80's, but life style change and cheaper transportation options let folks go much further and faster. They have fallen into major disrepair, and several have been bought by a religious sect.
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
The Pines resort in Fallsburg, NY. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-pines-resort-2
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#41
David Paterson 2 years ago
The North West passage is open! Checking Wikipedia "Until 2009, the Arctic pack ice prevented regular marine shipping". That's an alternative to the Panama Canal.
Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
Maybe, but you’ll have to check with us first.🇨🇦 Where you see a huge “ ice path” so to speak, west to east, it is now a waterway. The south side of the waterway is Canada. The island to the north is also Canada. The Northwest Passage cuts straight through our country. There’s nothing international about it. We decide what we do with it.
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#42
Tokyo Japan
HARRY KOPPERS 2 years ago
firebombing, coupled with high winds; paper walled houses helped it spread faster.
Dorothy Reiser 2 years ago
Edo/Tokyo used to burn down often because of earthquakes and fires.
Packaged_Horse 2 years ago
From the air, yes. But on the ground, it's one of the Fer examples that is actually beautiful l. Check out some of the walks through Tokyo on YouTube
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Seoul, South Korea - 1900 And Now
Aspiring Canuck 2 years ago
Not at all. Some BP readers appear to have an aversion to density. Seoul is an amazing city where lots of people walk or use transit to get around. And yes, much of it is pretty.
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#44
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
Chateau Nottebohm in Belgium, I believe. The original owners fled during WW2, and the chateau ended up being used by the nazi's for a while. After the war, several investors etc tried to do something with the place, but it was never really successful and the estate ended up being abandoned.
Rae Rory 2 years ago
We're a family recovering from a marriage crisis looking for a fresh start. I'm thinking a rural fixer-upper to really help bring that family together. My hobbies include exploring dark rooms by myself, investigating strange noises and totally disregarding my children's imaginary friends.
G R 2 years ago
Hi! I'm the spooky neighbour, a lonely middle aged man with a dark past that others locally only hint about. Don't worry if you see me wandering around outside your property at night, I'm just checking that my uh dog didn't escape. Also I definitely didn't kill the ghost boy that lives in your attic.
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#45
Sponge Blob 2 years ago
It looks like that at first glance, but this tree might have been sick and had to be cut as it would endanger passersby.
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Fora Nakit 2 years ago
https://www.google.com/maps/@-21.623635,-48.3288582,3a,45.7y,83.19h,98.49t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s58GntYeBepPs7LMsSwYBog!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu it got burned down, but not sure about the cause of the fire. Lightning or something else.
Kira Okah 2 years ago
The tree burnt down. If you can read Spanish (if not, there are pictures of it on fire): https://g1.globo.com/sp/sao-carlos-regiao/noticia/2014/02/cartao-postal-de-matao-sp-figueira-de-50-anos-e-destruida-apos-incendio.html
ljtagge 2 years ago
As a professional line clearance arborist, that power line is going to be burning that tree. I have to cut down lots of really wonderful things sometimes....
Leah Wilson-Walls 1 year ago
Might sound like a crazy idea, but wouldn't it make more sense to move the poles? You know the things ppl put there instead of entire trees🤦🏽♀️ ps I know u personally don't make all the decisions, but as a whole shouldn't we maybe consider not destroying nature for our convenience and made up rules
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#46
Chernobyl (1984 - 2011)
Sven Grammersdorf 2 years ago
Empty swimming pools have creeped me out since I was a little kid
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Gavin Johnson 2 years ago
Azure Swimming Pool, Pripyat. Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is about ten miles away from the town, Pripyat, that housed the workers from the plant.
k1ddkanuck 2 years ago
Thank you. So many people think Chernobyl is the town. Pripyat is like the Frankenstein's Monster of geography. No one seems to understand its real name.
Load More Replies... tom 2 years ago
is it just me or does that diving platform remind you of the starship enterprise?
Emotional Support Velociraptor 2 years ago
I can see it, but I wouldn't have if you didn't point it out.
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Casey Payne 2 years ago
What's up with the people on the platform? If that is people and not just some debris hanging from the ceiling. It looks like 2 kids and the spectre of Death. Or maybe I need to get more sleep.
#47
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
Nordkapp, I think? The (almost) northernmost point of Europe.
martymcmatrix 2 years ago
Almost the entire platform has been blowing in the wind by erosion...🤭
Leah Wilson-Walls 1 year ago
What if years from now ppl discover this is just a tiny piece of some magnificent ancient structure
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Tuesday 2 years ago
For those wondering (or for those who didn't spot it) it has "Homs 2011" in the bottom right corner. Homs is a city in Syria
Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
What that cruel tyrant does to his own people to appease his psychopathic ego.
martin734 2 years ago (edited)
Actually, it is a result of Syria's own civil war that is still ongoing sporadically. It started in March 2011and was part of the middle east region's "Arab Spring" protests that started in Tunisia and then spread to Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria and Bahrain. The protests were in response to decades of corruption, oppression and economic incompetence endemic to those countries. So instead of making snide sarcastic comments, why don't you actually go and learn a thing?
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Stefaan De Clerck 2 years ago
Also a billboard for Heineken and even Albert Heijn, if I see correctly.
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Matthijs Frankena 2 years ago
Arnhem. See also https://strikehold.net/2020/04/15/on-this-day-in-history-the-liberation-of-arnhem/
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates - 2000 And Now
Pyla 2 years ago
Ghastly. Be aware that sand is a vital building component and desert sand is not adequate because it is rounded from, well, rolling around in the desert, consequently there is a great demand for beach sand. A huge black market and no political will to protect beaches. Ghastly.
Verena 2 years ago
Same for beach sand, plus too salty. The sand needed comes from pits
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#51
Ancient Greece Before And After Excavation
martymcmatrix 2 years ago
TIL that Ancient Greece fitted into a single stadium...🤭... "stadium" derives from the Greek »stadion« and refers to a clearly defined distance that had to be covered as the fastest in these ancient olympic games.....nowadays, a stadium refers to a sports arena as a whole...lawn, track, stands, pandas...
nm 2 years ago
The exact length of an ancient stadium is unknown today and estimated between 150-200 meters.
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Munich In 1910 And 2017
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The Home Of Al Capone In Chicago In The Late 1920s
Michael Largey 2 years ago
It was part of his cover as a "simple honest businessman". His house in Florida, where he spent much of his time, was opulent. And when he was in prison, it didn't matter what his houses looked like.
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How Times Have Changed. Top Photo Circa 1889, Bottom Photo Circa 1998
Nothankyou 2 years ago
I think there's a mistake in the 1889. Car shown in the picture travelled back in time?
Rob Chapman 2 years ago
The address is 100 Adelaide St E, Toronto, Canada. The top pic is from 1989. The bottom is 1998. And this is what it looks like now.... Screenshot...8c-png.jpg 
UpQuarkDownQuark (he/hey you) 2 years ago
I’m sure it was supposed to say 1989. The car on the left in upper photo is an 80s sedan, and the one on the right is from the 70s.
John George 2 years ago (edited)
It was a word for human beings who did computations. But, as discussed elsewhere, the "1889" picture is really 1989.
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Perth, Australia In The 1940's And Now
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Captured Japanese Mini Submarine In The Aleutian Islands, 1943 And 2022
HARRY KOPPERS 2 years ago
this was part of the Japanese base on Kiska, which they abandoned. A surprisingly large base. 6 of these subs were stationed here. The tracks were for launching them. The Japanese blew them up before leaving. It's almost 1400 miles from Anchorage, almost to the end of the Aleutians.
Pyla 2 years ago
The only place on US soil where the Japanese established a foothold.
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Pyla 2 years ago
Where should it go? It’s rusting out, it’ll be gone soon enough
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Agfox 2 years ago
Halcyon Hall, the main building of the former Bennett College in Millbrook, New York. It was a women's College that went bankrupt in 1977 due to the increasing popularity of coeducational schools & colleges. The College was eventually demolished. Halcyon Hall was the last building standing before it was demolished in 2022
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Acropolis Of Athens (Greece) 1851 vs. 2021
Kira Okah 2 years ago
In the 1680s, the Ottomans had turned the Acropolis into an army garrison and the Parthenon into a gunpowder magazine. The Parthenon was hit by a Venetian mortar round in 1687 and the magazine exploded, blowing off the roof, blowing out the central portion, and killing 300 people on the spot.
Willem Andries Oosterhof 2 years ago
More about the tower here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankish_Tower_(Acropolis_of_Athens)
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Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
Looks like some European city that got hit hard in World War II
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London In 1980 vs. Now
David Paterson 2 years ago
Hold on, there are skyscrapers in London now? Apart from the gherkin, cheese grater and shard I mean. When I lived there in 1990 the housing and road system was a dystopian disaster.
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1912 And 2005
Lee Henderson 2 years ago
I want to go there despite lack of electricity, air conditioning and internet.
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Babs Ishkabibble 2 years ago (edited)
Kowloon Walled City! What a difference! Makes me wonder where all the indigent people who lived within that dystopia ended up going...
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Singapore In 2000 And Now
Phil Green 2 years ago
I lived in Singapore in the 1960s. I returned in 1997 and was not so much surprised by the change, as by how much was still the same. I found the house where we used to live and, apart from a few differences, it was still recognisable as our house. The kampongs had all gone, but even my taxi driver was surprised at how much I could remember... even the directions to my house!
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Then vs. Now
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ॐBoyGanesh 2 years ago (edited)
I love how the promenade from Concorde through Tuileries to Carrousel ends with an inviting view of the pyramid. It’s one of my favorite touristy things to do in Paris.
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Nimues Child 2 years ago
To quote Dan Brown: "Mitterand was a bold man". I never got used to the pyramid, myself.
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Jakarta In 1971 And Now
Agfox 2 years ago
Not-so-Fun Fact: at the rate of 11-12 cms per year, Jakarta is the World's fastest sinking city. Construction of a new capital city, Nusantara, started in July 2022 & will be inaugurated as the capital in August 2024
David Paterson 2 years ago
Wow. Thanks for that fact. "there are over 30 sinking cities around the world: including Jakarta, Tokyo, New Orleans, Miami, Houston, Alexandria, Amsterdam, and Venice." And London and New York. I just looked up a map and was surprised to learn that the USA is the World's fastest sinking country, averaging about 1 cm per year.
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"I took my wife to the capital city of Indonesia." "Jakarta?" "No, we went by plane."
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New York, USA
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Stefaan De Clerck 2 years ago
Indeed. The place given to cars is appalling. Why should there be excess parking spaces? As if cars are mainly used to be parked somewhere.
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Bu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - 1970 And Now
GlassHalfWay 2 years ago
Well, now I know where most of the money goes when I fill up my wagon.
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La Lucy 2 years ago
It would be nice if some of these noted where they were taken and timeframe.
David Paterson 2 years ago
I am pleasantly surprised. Threads like this in the past have been 100% biased towards "things are so much worse now". Here a sizeable percentage are things getting better.
La Lucy 2 years ago
It would be nice if some of these noted where they were taken and timeframe.
David Paterson 2 years ago
I am pleasantly surprised. Threads like this in the past have been 100% biased towards "things are so much worse now". Here a sizeable percentage are things getting better.
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