Escape Goat
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Betty White with her dog in 1956
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Amazing historical photos and paintings
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adamYUKI
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Fuck -- Seeing this and thinking about the story behind it made me cry. The stillness, seemingly unflinching -- meditating so purely -- making a statement for a cause greater than one's self. Amazing.
PeskyToaster
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Also, Earthrise
One of my absolute favorites. So simple yet it carries a lot of weight with it.
terrisus
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Yeah, on an initial look it's just like, "Oh, alright."
But, when you stop to think about it, it's really moving.
terrisus
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always liked the newyork construction photos, so much to each shot, really tells alot about the times they were taken
Deified Data
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Interestingly this photo actually depicts a forcible assault, not a romantic exchange. The sailor grabbed the first woman he could find and stuck his tongue down her throat.
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Also, Earthrise
For how long have we been looking up to the moon? And now here we are, looking back.
Oh yeah that story again, show the proof that this woman considered it as such.
Fact is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-J_Day_in_Times_Square
Only some dumb article written by an angry women made that claim as fact simply because the guy didn't ask permission to kiss her. It's a dumb article.
There is this great movie based on the events that happened. Truely touching. Joyeux Noel
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So many awesome ones here
"The start of a new tradition, the first ever over-crowded celebration of the New Year in Times Square, 1904. At least 200,000 people attended the fireworks display set off from the brand new New York Times tower. There was no ball drop, which was introduced in 1907 when the fireworks were outlawed."
"The lion tamer Captain Jack Bonavita sits down with some of his lions in a Russian circus, 1905. This particular pose was one of the tricks Jack Bonavita performed during his acts called The Arm-Chair. Jack Bonavita worked as an animal trainer, actor and director. After a lion attack at Coney Island Jack lost an arm but continued his work with the animals. Jack Bonavita lost his life a few years later, in 1917, after being clawed to death while training a vicious polar bear."
"Two German soldiers and their mule wearing gas masks in WWI, 1916. Horses, mules, dogs and pigeons were vulnerable to poison gases so that special protection was necessary for them."
"Cameraman getting a shot of a driver in a moving race-car in the era before proper action cameras."
"A crew member is rescued from the French fishing trawler Jeanne Gougy, November 3rd, 1962. The Jeanne Gougy ran aground at Lands End, Cornwall. Twelve men, including the Skipper, lost their lives."
"A man searching for a book among the impressive collection of the Public Library of Cincinnati, 1874. Built by architect J.W. McLaughlin, the Library was considered to be the most magnificent public library in the country. In the 1920s the building got to small for the amount of books. In 1955 it was finally possible to move to another building. The Old Main Public Library was demolished as it already lay in decay."
"The tail section of a U.S. Navy Blimp is shown with the Stokes cloud in background at the Nevada test site on August 7, 1957. The blimp was in temporary free flight in excess of five miles from ground zero when it was collapsed by the shock wave from the blast. The airship was unmanned and was used in a military effects experiment."
Escape Goat
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What the heck is a military effects experiment? Were they experimenting with laser light shows?
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terrisus
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"A man searching for a book among the impressive collection of the Public Library of Cincinnati, 1874. Built by architect J.W. McLaughlin, the Library was considered to be the most magnificent public library in the country. In the 1920s the building got to small for the amount of books. In 1955 it was finally possible to move to another building. The Old Main Public Library was demolished as it already lay in decay."
I love the look of libraries.
If I were ever rich, I would have a tall room full of books.
The Giant
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Or it's from Peter Jackson's King Kong.
teruterubozu
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Arnold & the Prez
haha, right? I'd totally build myself one of them giant halls that are so large that when you look down it's a perspective illusion that makes it seem like it goes on into infinity. And it'd all just be endless rows of bookshelves, in the old world style, the smell of decaying paper and browning book sleeves wafting through the air. Little ornate spiral staircases leading up to the second and third stories worth of books.
Oh man, it'd be so rad
Red Liquorice
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Osama bin Laden was a Scooby Doo character?Osama Bin Laden, second from the right.
RoninChaos
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Great thread.
sadceph2001
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Such an awesome thread, keep 'em coming.
Head of Vengarl
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Pictures from the front lines of combat have always fascinated me. Not just from a morbid or historical perspective, but just the fact that someone had the balls and the presence of mind to snap some pictures while the bullets and shells were flying.
Soviet troops fighting in the ruins of Stalingrad, Russia, 2 Sep 1942
German Air Force troops securing areas recently overran by Army troops, Stalingrad, Russia, 22 Oct 1942; note MP 40 submachine gun
Soviet troops fighting in the ruins of the factory 'Red October', Stalingrad, Russia, Oct 1942; note PPSh-41 submachine guns, and a soldier who had just been shot
Russian soldier with PPSh-41 submachine gun guarding a wounded young German prisoner of war, Stalingrad, Russia, Jan 1943
Photos courtesy of World War II Database.
*Edit - Pics rehosted to imgur. WWII Database apparently doesn't allow hotlinking.
Soviet troops fighting in the ruins of Stalingrad, Russia, 2 Sep 1942
German Air Force troops securing areas recently overran by Army troops, Stalingrad, Russia, 22 Oct 1942; note MP 40 submachine gun
Soviet troops fighting in the ruins of the factory 'Red October', Stalingrad, Russia, Oct 1942; note PPSh-41 submachine guns, and a soldier who had just been shot
Russian soldier with PPSh-41 submachine gun guarding a wounded young German prisoner of war, Stalingrad, Russia, Jan 1943
Photos courtesy of World War II Database.
*Edit - Pics rehosted to imgur. WWII Database apparently doesn't allow hotlinking.
terrisus
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Yeah, there are all sorts of instances where you just have to stop and think to yourself "Someone was actually there for the purpose of photographing/reporting on this."
Vigilant Walrus
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E37cMtCrKoA
"June 11, 1963, Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk from Vietnam, burned himself to death at a busy intersection in downtown Saigon to bring attention to the repressive policies of the Catholic Diem regime that controlled the South Vietnamese government at the time. Buddhist monks asked the regime to lift its ban on flying the traditional Buddhist flag, to grant Buddhism the same rights as Catholicism, to stop detaining Buddhists and to give Buddhist monks and nuns the right to practice and spread their religion.
As he burned he never moved a muscle, never uttered a sound."
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SpartanForce
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Not really a photo, but worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNh4MEEuNF8
NotTheGuyYouKill
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That Earthrise pic always gets me.
These appreared in my facebook feed today and I was quite shook by these colorized photos. Really does make the photo more "real."
http://news.distractify.com/jake-he...otos-that-give-us-a-new-look-at-the-past/?v=1
http://news.distractify.com/jake-he...otos-that-give-us-a-new-look-at-the-past/?v=1
Everyone go pluck your eyelashes out
Holy shit never realized they were green.
sadceph2001
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Saw this, had to share:
"A second kiss for Hirohito." Taken after the Fat Man's assembly, dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.
"A second kiss for Hirohito." Taken after the Fat Man's assembly, dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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This is cool... flamethrower show by the Army in New Orleans, 1942:
sadceph2001
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Very. The lack of colour makes it look like water cannons, rather than fire.
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Planet Venus' surface as pictured by a Russian probe in 1970. Due to the extreme conditions of the planet, the probe lasted a bit more than the hour. This one is more impressive than Mars' pictures because Mars isn't as inhospitable as this is, and there are barely any other mission that dedicates to Venus.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Planet Venus' surface as pictured by a Russian probe in 1970. Due to the extreme conditions of the planet, the probe lasted a bit more than the hour. This one is more impressive than Mars' pictures because Mars isn't as inhospitable as this is, and there are barely any other mission that dedicates to Venus.
Always have loved this picture. So goddamn alien. That yellow sky is terrifyingly haunting and acidic.
DXB-KNIGHT
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Wow Venus pics, I wonder that technology came a long way from the 70s that a sturdier probe can be built now.
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Pale Blue Dot
Hubble Extreme Deep Field
"The new full-color XDF image is even more sensitive, and contains about 5,500 galaxies even within its smaller field of view. The faintest galaxies are one ten-billionth the brightness of what the human eye can see."
Hubble Extreme Deep Field
"The new full-color XDF image is even more sensitive, and contains about 5,500 galaxies even within its smaller field of view. The faintest galaxies are one ten-billionth the brightness of what the human eye can see."
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Oh wow, I've never seen these. That looks terrifyingly inhospitable
Planet Venus' surface as pictured by a Russian probe in 1970. Due to the extreme conditions of the planet, the probe lasted a bit more than the hour. This one is more impressive than Mars' pictures because Mars isn't as inhospitable as this is, and there are barely any other mission that dedicates to Venus.
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I'm fairly certain that the Venus images are colorized, they were originally black and white. So the striking yellow color is not necessarily accurate.
This one grabbed me just by the number of recognizable names even to someone who's not a student of physics. Obviously Einstein, but also Schroedinger, Heisenberg, Bohr, Planck, Curie all at the same conference. Must have been a hell of a time to work in that field.
The 1927 Solvay physics conference
This one grabbed me just by the number of recognizable names even to someone who's not a student of physics. Obviously Einstein, but also Schroedinger, Heisenberg, Bohr, Planck, Curie all at the same conference. Must have been a hell of a time to work in that field.
And yet so familiar...
It's what strikes me the most about all these extra-terrestrial planet pictures :
it could very well be somewhere on earth (apart from the atmosphere).
And a little something for the ladies. Mark Twain (1883)
Smithers: Look at all the wonderful things you have, Mr. Burns: King Arthur's Excalibur, the only existing nude photo of Mark Twain, and that rare first draft of the constitution with the word "suckers" in it.
BloodMoney
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Operation Crossroads, nuclear test: Baker
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There are a couple of short videos of that same poor Thylacine / Tasmanian tiger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vqCCI1ZF7o
Head of Vengarl
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Yeah, that takes balls of steel. Especially those photographers who are completely unarmed. These particular photos were from a war where neither side gave much of a shit about killing civilians, so I have to imagine being a photographer on the Eastern Front would be insanity.
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Rehosted to imgur so you can see them now.
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I came across this photo earlier tonight, and it was too cool not to share. If you have any cool historical photos from any point in history, feel free to share it and the story behind it. Paintings are cool too, if only cause photos would limit us about a hundred and fifty years. Also, share why you like that piece, or why you find it interesting.
To start us off:
I love this photo cause it gives off such a creepy and alien vibe.
Edit: The original link stopped showing for me, so I put it in again.
I fucking LOVE this photo.
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