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re: Photos of History - MANY MORE ADDED
Posted on 3/7/17 at 9:09 am to Southcoast
Posted on 3/7/17 at 9:09 am to Southcoast
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Posted on 3/7/17 at 9:15 am to i am dan
Queen Victoria with her son, the future King Edward VII (top right); grandson, the future King George V (top left); and great-grandson, the future King Edward VIII.
King Edward VII (far right) with his son, future King George V (far left), and grandsons, future Kings Edward VIII (back) and George VI (front)
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill with his pet poodle, Rufus.
The propellers of the R.M.S. Titanic
This post was edited on 3/7/17 at 9:17 am
Posted on 3/7/17 at 9:26 am to Hammertime
Dang the first pic of a human, and it was porn.
Posted on 3/7/17 at 9:36 am to Soup Sammich
quote:IWHHI back in the day
Bikini girl was sucking that belly in for that pic
Posted on 3/7/17 at 10:07 am to rmnldr
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Colorized photo of French battleship Charles Martel. The ship was built in the 1890s and stricken in the 1920s
I've always had an odd fascination for late 19th & early 20th century pre-dreadnaught battleships. Not sure why but that period really is interesting to me.
This post was edited on 3/7/17 at 10:09 am
Posted on 3/7/17 at 10:14 am to TheFonz
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Queen Victoria with her son, the future King Edward VII (top right); grandson, the future King George V (top left); and great-grandson, the future King Edward VIII
It's uncanny how much George V of Great Britian looked like his cousin (Queen Victoria of Britian was both their grandmother) Czar Nicholas II of Russia. Here they are together. Can you tell who is who?
ETA: this guy here was likewise their cousin as well. Recognize him?
BTW, there are several pictures of each of these guys wearing the Army and/or navy uniforms of one another. In fact, when WWI broke out, Kiaser Wilhelm II of Germany was technically the highest ranking admiral in the British Navy and a field Marshal in the Russian Army while both King George and Czar Nicholas were both Field Marshals in the German Army.
This post was edited on 3/7/17 at 10:19 am
Posted on 3/7/17 at 10:16 am to LSU Coyote
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What freaks me out everytime is the age of soldiers in photos. I mean those are just kids. Could you imagine the baws and you being in that situation? I feel so unappreciative.
No shite. That one at the top looks like Harry Potter. Maybe 14-15.
Posted on 3/7/17 at 10:26 am to Darth_Vader
Yeah. All the royal families were intertwined. The tsar and tsarina were also second cousins (I believe) and this led to the passing of the hemophilia trait to their son, who in turn ushered rasputin to become the most influential person go the royal family.. Which in turn helped spark the revolution and end of the tsars.
That time period is stock full of interesting little factoids.
That time period is stock full of interesting little factoids.
Posted on 3/7/17 at 10:32 am to SundayFunday
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The amount of lives lost and only in the first month of the war... Its just impossible to understand.
And now we can understand why Europe is in the shape it's in. The bloodletting, the decimation of two generations of men.
Posted on 3/7/17 at 10:32 am to Darth_Vader
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2. Decline of Great Britian as the most powerful and most wealthy nation on earth.
WW2
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Rise of the United States as the new most powerful and wealthiest country on earth.
WW2
Posted on 3/7/17 at 10:33 am to beerJeep
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Yeah. All the royal families were intertwined. The tsar and tsarina were also second cousins (I believe) and this led to the passing of the hemophilia trait to their son, who in turn ushered rasputin to become the most influential person go the royal family.. Which in turn helped spark the revolution and end of the tsars
Another interesting fact about these intertwined dynasties, when Kiaser Wilhelm of Germany died in 1941, he was the last living Imperial Russian Field Marshal.
Posted on 3/7/17 at 10:36 am to BulldogXero
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BulldogXero
Might want to go hit the books junior. All those things came about due to WWI, not WWII.
I'd suggest you go study first how at the end of WWI Great Britain, who had been the world's richest country at the start of WWI, was basically broke and up to its eyeballs in debt at the end of WWI to the new richest country in the world, The United States of America.
This post was edited on 3/7/17 at 10:38 am
Posted on 3/7/17 at 10:39 am to Darth_Vader
I've actually been reading up more on rasputin and I'll be damned if that wasn't an interesting man. His murder is right out of the movies. Cyanide laced wine, shot a few times, comes back to life, shot again and tossed into a river. And all the pictures even today it's like rasputin is staring into your soul. Dude was a creepy arse man.
Posted on 3/7/17 at 10:43 am to Thib-a-doe Tiger
I know that war was brutal and often savage back then. But man we need to do this to basically the entire Middle East.
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Posted on 3/7/17 at 10:43 am to BulldogXero
The first grand shift of wealth and power to the new world was a result of WWI. WWII solidified us as the PREMIER superpower, but we absolutely took the reigns from Britain during and after wwi.
Posted on 3/7/17 at 10:46 am to Darth_Vader
The story of Czar Nicholas and his family interests me, especially with Anastasia.
This post was edited on 3/7/17 at 10:47 am
Posted on 3/7/17 at 10:46 am to beerJeep
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I've actually been reading up more on rasputin and I'll be damned if that wasn't an interesting man. His murder is right out of the movies. Cyanide laced wine, shot a few times, comes back to life, shot again and tossed into a river. And all the pictures even today it's like rasputin is staring into your soul. Dude was a creepy arse man
His role in the final days of the Romanov dynasty is very interesting to say the least. On the one hand he was a filthy drunk who rarely bathed. But at the same time he was slaying the highest society pussy in Russia right and left. He was seen as both a lunatic and charlatan by some but a healer and miracle worker sent by God to the Tsarina. I often wonder had Nicolas not left the capital to take personal command at the front, would Rasputin's role have changed?
This post was edited on 3/7/17 at 10:48 am
Posted on 3/7/17 at 10:59 am to Darth_Vader
Ra ra rasputin lover of the Russian queen, it was a shame how he carried on!
Dude was a healer, a mystic, a holy man, a drunk, a fool, a womanizer, unsanitary, and all around the life of the party.
However. I believe that had nicholas stayed in the capital rather than going to the front, a lot would have turned out differently. For one, the tsarina wouldn't have been able to sack and appoint members of the upper echelon of government at will. This would have kept a solidified front against the bolsheviks. I believe he would have had another falling out with rasputin, as the pressure grew to distance himself from rasputin in the final months.
The doctors would have eventually realized that giving asprin go a hemophiliac is a horrible idea so rasputins healing powers are no more.
But ultimately, I think with nicholas staying in the capital, the revolution at least holds off until the interwar period. Rather than crushing and knocking Russia out of the war.
Dude was a healer, a mystic, a holy man, a drunk, a fool, a womanizer, unsanitary, and all around the life of the party.
However. I believe that had nicholas stayed in the capital rather than going to the front, a lot would have turned out differently. For one, the tsarina wouldn't have been able to sack and appoint members of the upper echelon of government at will. This would have kept a solidified front against the bolsheviks. I believe he would have had another falling out with rasputin, as the pressure grew to distance himself from rasputin in the final months.
The doctors would have eventually realized that giving asprin go a hemophiliac is a horrible idea so rasputins healing powers are no more.
But ultimately, I think with nicholas staying in the capital, the revolution at least holds off until the interwar period. Rather than crushing and knocking Russia out of the war.
Posted on 3/7/17 at 11:02 am to Kracka
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I know that war was brutal and often savage back then. But man we need to do this to basically the entire Middle East.
BTW, those are incendiary bombs which were particularly devestating to Japanese cities where most structures were built out of wood.
General Curtis LeMay, the man in command of the 20th Air Force, stripped down his B29s of all the excess weight possible, including defensive guns, and had them switch from high altitude precision bombing with general purpose explosive bombs (mostly 500 lbs each) to low level area bombing using these much smaller and lighter incendiary bombs.
The results were devestating on a level never seen before in the history of warfare. Whole cities were burned to the ground. In fact, as devestating as the A-bombs were, they did not produce the most deadly bombing raid of WWII. That title goes to a B-29 incendiary raid on Tokyo the night of March 9-10. This bombing raid alome killed over 100,000 and flattened almost 16 square miles of the city.
This post was edited on 3/7/17 at 11:05 am
Posted on 3/7/17 at 11:04 am to beerJeep
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However. I believe that had nicholas stayed in the capital rather than going to the front, a lot would have turned out differently. For one, the tsarina wouldn't have been able to sack and appoint members of the upper echelon of government at will. This would have kept a solidified front against the bolsheviks. I believe he would have had another falling out with rasputin, as the pressure grew to distance himself from rasputin in the final months.
The doctors would have eventually realized that giving asprin go a hemophiliac is a horrible idea so rasputins healing powers are no more.
But ultimately, I think with nicholas staying in the capital, the revolution at least holds off until the interwar period. Rather than crushing and knocking Russia out of the war.
Solid points that are all very plausible. Great post.
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