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re: Another Historical Photos Thread
Posted on 10/3/17 at 10:39 pm to meeple
Posted on 10/3/17 at 10:39 pm to meeple
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I think I read where this is no longer the case since taller buildings have been built up around the terminal.
Not only that, those beautiful light beams are made mostly from backlit cigarette smoke, and today that terminal is smoke free.
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Posted on 10/3/17 at 10:44 pm to HonoraryCoonass
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Not only that, those beautiful light beams are made mostly from backlit cigarette smoke, and today that terminal is smoke free.
I wonder if everyone back in the day smoked just to mask their body odor? This was a time before air conditioning, before every home had washers and dryers, before daily showers became popular... it was a smelly time.
Posted on 10/3/17 at 10:49 pm to farad
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1945, at 5:29:45 a.m., the Manhattan Project comes to an explosive end as the first atom bomb is successfully tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico
That pic is Bikini atol, palm trees and lagoon kinda point out is is not NM.
Posted on 10/3/17 at 11:13 pm to heypaul
Captain Nieves Fernandez (Philippine resistance)demonstrates how she killed Japanese soldiers during WWII
Posted on 10/3/17 at 11:48 pm to Athis
Posted on 10/3/17 at 11:49 pm to DarthRebel
I would've eaten Grace Kelly's a-hole all night long
Posted on 10/4/17 at 12:01 am to heypaul
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Vladimir Lenin's last photo. He had had three strokes at this point and was completely mute, 1923
Surprised they even allowed a photo to be taken
Posted on 10/4/17 at 8:13 am to heypaul
A woman IRA volunteer on active service in West Belfast with an AR18 assault rifle. c. 1970
The first bananas in Norway, 1905
17-year-old Marcus Sarjeant shoots blanks at the Queen, 1981
King George V and his physically similar cousin Tsar Nicholas II in German military uniforms in Berlin, 1913
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This picture was taken during the wedding of the Kaiser’s daughter Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia.
The wedding, an extravagant affair, took place on 24 May 1913 in Berlin. In a diplomatic gesture, Emperor Wilhelm invited almost his entire extended family.
The wedding became the largest gathering of reigning monarchs in Germany since German unification in 1871, and one of the last great social events of European royalty before World War I began fourteen months later.
Posted on 10/4/17 at 8:55 am to heypaul
A rare color photo of Adolf Hitler which shows his true eye color.
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Picture taken in 1962 at the Faculty of Medicine in Kabul of two Afghan medicine students listening to their professor (at right) as they examine a plaster cast showing a part of a human body.
In Washington, District of Columbia, Afghan King Mohammad Zahir Shah (The last Afghan King) talks with US President John F. Kennedy in the car that took them to the White House on September 8, 1963.
A picture of a crowd in New York and there is not one unhatted head, 1930
A girl who grew up in a concentration camp draws a picture of "home" while living in a residence for disturbed children, 1948
French female collaborator (With Germany) punished by having her head shaved to publicly mark her, 1944
Opium Den, Singapore, 1941
Posted on 10/4/17 at 9:16 am to heypaul
Just beneath the front right wheel of the car on the far left.
Unhatted head.
ETA You know someone was going to try and find one based on the description.
This post was edited on 10/4/17 at 9:18 am
Posted on 10/4/17 at 9:31 am to heypaul
What makes the Hitler picture kind of scary is that he looks normal. Most pictures he is yelling, in military uniform, or surrounded by people in uniform that takes the normalcy away.
Posted on 10/4/17 at 11:00 am to heypaul
Talk about radical Islam screwing with everyday life in Afghanistan! What a stark contrast from today.
Posted on 10/4/17 at 11:57 am to goodgrin
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Talk about radical Islam screwing with everyday life in Afghanistan! What a stark contrast from today.
1950s & 1960s Afghanistan was really pretty modern. That's always a fun thing to google and see the vast differences verses now.
Posted on 10/4/17 at 12:11 pm to chinhoyang
quote:"How ya like dem ersters, Mr. President?"
Posted on 10/4/17 at 12:18 pm to PrimeTime Money
You can dance if you want toooo... 
Posted on 10/4/17 at 12:28 pm to TheFonz
Posted on 10/4/17 at 12:45 pm to CaptainsWafer
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ETA You know someone was going to try and find one based on the description.
I found another...
Posted on 10/4/17 at 12:47 pm to BunkieWrench
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Amusement park rides from the early 20th century
Exactly what my life needed today. I'm enjoying googling these. Thanks!
Posted on 10/4/17 at 12:47 pm to heypaul
Retired Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis is arrested for participating in the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011.
The 1968 Olympics Black Power Salute: African American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their fists in a gesture of solidarity at the 1968 Olympic games. Australian Silver medalist Peter Norman wore an Olympic Project for Human Rights badge in support of their protest. Both Americans were expelled from the games as a result.
POW Horace Greasley defiantly confronts Heinrich Himmler during an inspection of the camp he was confined in. Greasley also famously escaped from the camp and snuck back in more than 200 times to meet in secret with a local German girl he had fallen in love with.
unknown rebel who stood in front of a column of Chinese tanks in an act of defiance following the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
Posted on 10/4/17 at 12:52 pm to Roadkill Gumbo
quote:Good.
Both Americans were expelled from the games as a result.
quote:Damnations.
Greasley also famously escaped from the camp and snuck back in more than 200 times to meet in secret with a local German girl he had fallen in love with.
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