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There's no danger at that distance [it's well over horizon].
Fallout-NL
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Onlookers from a Las Vegas pool witness a nuclear bomb being detonated 73 miles away. Taken in 1953.
This is why I don't drink the water here in Las Vegas. Still trying to figure out how not to shower in it...
That picture is cool as hell.
My great grandfather and (I assume) my great grandmother imposed on the top left, in uniform with decorations posing after the Great War in which he fought at the Yser river in Belgium. The picture is clearly painted over with some colors to highlight the decorations. I took this with my smartphone camera, as the picture is in a frame in my office. My parents have his bayonet and a honorary frame with all his medals in the living room, which I hope to inherit one day.
I don't know any stories about him though (nor about my grandfather in WWII, who was taken prisonor and was shipped of to a German factory for forced labour). My dad only knows that every time the war was brought up, my great grandfather started crying. Not sure how much action he saw, as the Belgian sector of the front was pretty calm compared to the british sector around Ypres, as with the flooding of the Yser river the lines of both armies were usually pretty far from each other and no man's land impossible to cross. I do know he served for the entire war, and on his honorary plaque they mention the battle of the Yser from october 1914 as one he servered in, so I assume he fought when the war was still mobile. I should look his military records up, because it fascinates me a lot...
WeAreStarStuff
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Onlookers from a Las Vegas pool witness a nuclear bomb being detonated 73 miles away. Taken in 1953.
This is why I don't drink the water here in Las Vegas. Still trying to figure out how not to shower in it...
Americans were much fitter back then.
Chuckie
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Probably posted already, but lynching of Jesse Washington:
I looked it up on Wikipedia. That is one of the most horrific stories I have read
I cannot even start to imagine how much that boy has suffered before he died.
backflip10019
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Just popping by to say that this thread is incredible.
I also HATE colorized photographs. The colors people use always make the photographs look like old Disney movies -- not true to what they actually look like. It's awful and I can't look at them.
I also HATE colorized photographs. The colors people use always make the photographs look like old Disney movies -- not true to what they actually look like. It's awful and I can't look at them.
I looked it up on Wikipedia. That is one of the most horrific stories I have read
I cannot even start to imagine how much that boy has suffered before he died.
Just remember, when people say "make america great again" they're thinking of those times.
Battersea Powerstation in 1934 before the second half was built.
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1976
201? .. Oh dear..
Love me some Art-Deco
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
If you didn't care what happened to me, and I didn't care for you, we would zig zag our way through the boredom and pain, occasionally glancing up through the rain, wondering which of the buggers to blame... and watching for pigs on the wing.1976
It is a fantastic looking building.
You know that I care what happens to you
And I know that you care for me too
So I don't feel alone
Of the weight of the stone
Now that I've found somewhere safe
To bury my bone
And any fool knows a dog needs a home
A shelter from pigs on the wing
I was waiting on this. Damn, beautiful song.
Real life Grand Canon holy moly
Grand Cannon was French, no?
It was. Also static. But this monster moves.
dreamcastmaster
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Battersea Powerstation in 1934 before the second half was built.
1976
201? .. Oh dear..
Find some pictures of the control room that have been taken by urban explorers, its stunning.
mariachi507
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Jesus Christ, that Jesse Washington story made me sick. I usually have a strong stomach too, but that's just awful.
Just goes to prove that humans are still ferocious, brutal and sadistic animals to the core.
Fascinating read. Thanks for sharing.
This the first thing that popped into my head as well, lol. Although I'm assuming these people are somewhat wealthy and have an easier time of it.
WeAreStarStuff
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Taken moments before they got struck by lightning. Luckily they both survived.
IIRC the youngest died.
The youngest committed suicide years later:
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/decad...to-still-reminder-lightning-danger-6C10791362
WeAreStarStuff
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DiipuSurotu
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Sioux people being tear-gassed by State Troopers
Maybe you could search their records, I believe those documents are public and can be researched
LordOfChaos
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Indian woman carrying a British merchant in a basket on her back, 1903
LordOfChaos
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Absolutely mind reeling, how one mans cult of personality could convince mothers and fathers, in mass, to poison their kids.
While giving a speech to the press at the opening of a photography gallery in the city of Ankara, Turkey, the Russian ambassador to Turkey - Andrei Karlov - is assassinated by 22 year-old Turkish policeman Mevlut Mert Altintas in protest of Russia's role in the conflict in Syria and the destruction of Aleppo. Moments after the shooting he began to shout in Turkish and Arabic about the Syrian war while pacing around Karlov's body. Altintas was shot dead at the scene by Turkish police.
The photograph was taken by Associated Press photographer Burhan Ozbilici.
From the BBC:
Perhaps even more chilling is this photo which Ozbilici took moments before the shooting, which shows Karlov's assassin calmly standing behind him:
The photograph was taken by Associated Press photographer Burhan Ozbilici.
From the BBC:
Perhaps even more chilling is this photo which Ozbilici took moments before the shooting, which shows Karlov's assassin calmly standing behind him:
Insane Metal
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Yup, that photo definetely deserves to be here.
JordanN
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Maybe not rare, but I came across this picture of Hitler without his hat during the final days of the war. It makes him look less intimidating, and more of just a really old and sick person.
And now here is purportedly the last picture of Hitler alive. Standing outside his destroyed bunker.
And now here is purportedly the last picture of Hitler alive. Standing outside his destroyed bunker.
not rare but historical
Frederic Chopin
it is the only known picture of the famous polish composer and was taken months before the composer's death, year 1849, that is almost 168 years ago.... yeah.
we also have fellow star pianist Franz Liszt
he lived much longer though, so there are several pics of him around.
Frederic Chopin
it is the only known picture of the famous polish composer and was taken months before the composer's death, year 1849, that is almost 168 years ago.... yeah.
we also have fellow star pianist Franz Liszt
he lived much longer though, so there are several pics of him around.
not rare but historical
Frederic Chopin
it is the only known picture of the famous polish composer and was taken months before the composer's death, year 1849, that is almost 168 years ago.... yeah.
we also have fellow star pianist Franz Liszt
he lived much longer though, so there are several pics of him around.
Wow, it just occurred to me that I've listened to several of their pieces during my music history classes but I've never seen how they look.
IAmtheFMan
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Jag
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Never knew Cher was Armenian.
shinobi602
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A Native American overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in 1868.
Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated in 1914,
an event that helped spark World War I.
Child laborers in 1880.
Albert Einstein's office, photographed on the day of his death.
This is believed to be the last picture taken of Titanic before her sinking.
The unbroken seal on King Tut's tomb.
Henry Ford (the founder of Ford Motor Co.), Thomas Edison (inventor of the phonograph, motion picture camera and the practical light bulb), Warren G. Harding (29th president of USA) and Harvey Samuel Firestone (founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.) lounging together.
Hitler's bunker.
Bread and soup during the Great Depression.
An airman being captured by Vietnamese civilians in Truc Bach Lake, Hanoi in 1967
The airman is John McCain.
Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated in 1914,
an event that helped spark World War I.
Child laborers in 1880.
Albert Einstein's office, photographed on the day of his death.
This is believed to be the last picture taken of Titanic before her sinking.
The unbroken seal on King Tut's tomb.
Henry Ford (the founder of Ford Motor Co.), Thomas Edison (inventor of the phonograph, motion picture camera and the practical light bulb), Warren G. Harding (29th president of USA) and Harvey Samuel Firestone (founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.) lounging together.
Hitler's bunker.
Bread and soup during the Great Depression.
An airman being captured by Vietnamese civilians in Truc Bach Lake, Hanoi in 1967
The airman is John McCain.
astroturfing
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does it freak anyone else out looking at pics of people long gone? i can almost imagine them alive.. yet they've been a pile of bones for a long time. those depression era guys eating soup and bread.. they were once just as alive as we are right now, right there in that picture. but in reality they're just gone forever and forgotten.
freaky.
also that Las Vegas nuclear test photo.. what really strikes me is the contrast between those old timey carriages in the background and the nuclear explosion. we are one weird species for sure.
freaky.
also that Las Vegas nuclear test photo.. what really strikes me is the contrast between those old timey carriages in the background and the nuclear explosion. we are one weird species for sure.
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
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It's been said many times but this is such an amazing thread, thanks guys
Henry Ford (the founder of Ford Motor Co.), Thomas Edison (inventor of the phonograph, motion picture camera and the practical light bulb), Warren G. Harding (29th president of USA) and Harvey Samuel Firestone (founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.) lounging together.
Ah, the Rittenhouse mob.
Elfotografoalocado
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Yeah, by that time there were elctron microscopes and satellites and spacecrafts and yet cancer was incurable, computers were the size of a small car, cars were shit...
Probably posted already, but lynching of Jesse Washington:
15k atendees, collected "souvenirs", cut off genitals and fingers, used images for post cards. The white savage having a grand ol tyme in the good old days.
hobblygobbly
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Not rare but this thread had for a long time been a good thread about history photographs in general. Also it's best that people use an image hoster like imgur so we don't get dead links as we already have.
Nazi Germany's official declaration of war with the U.S.
Original photo of Lenin and Trotsky.
"Eastern Legion" soldiers of the Wehrmacht.
Nazi Germany's official declaration of war with the U.S.
Original photo of Lenin and Trotsky.
"Eastern Legion" soldiers of the Wehrmacht.
Found some nice old pictures of one of my local villages.
I can't find the years of these though. Some in the gallery ar definitely pre-1914 though, like this, (look at the URL).
Compared with the one on Wikipedia
More can be found here:
http://www.goudhurst.co.uk/Pages/photo_gallery.html
Wikipedia article on it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goudhurst
Hardly the most exciting place in the world, but it's interesting to see how even those change with time. And it's quite obsure as well.
EDIT:
This is quite a nice photo of the old local fire engine:
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I can't find the years of these though. Some in the gallery ar definitely pre-1914 though, like this, (look at the URL).
Compared with the one on Wikipedia
More can be found here:
http://www.goudhurst.co.uk/Pages/photo_gallery.html
Wikipedia article on it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goudhurst
Hardly the most exciting place in the world, but it's interesting to see how even those change with time. And it's quite obsure as well.
EDIT:
This is quite a nice photo of the old local fire engine:
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AngmarsKing701
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^ cool pics!
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