re: Pictures from days gone by....

Posted by chinhoyang

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Posted on 10/18/22 at 4:27 pm to chinhoyang

Ava Gardner

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Yvonne DeCarlo

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Posted on 10/18/22 at 4:39 pm to chinhoyang

Ann Miller - a highly skilled dancer, the fastest tap dancer in the 30's and 40's

Posted by 81Tiger

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Posted on 10/18/22 at 5:15 pm to chinhoyang

German Luz Long and Jesse Owens at 1936 Olympics. Long, the long jump favorite, gave Owens advice to help him qualify for for the finals, which Owens eventually won.

Long was killed in WWII in a 1943 battle against the Allies.

Posted by 81Tiger

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Posted on 10/18/22 at 5:27 pm to 81Tiger

Harold Abrahams wins the 100 meter gold medal in the 1924 Paris Olympics. His story was told in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire.

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Posted on 10/18/22 at 5:36 pm to 81Tiger

Ethiopian Abebe Bikila running barefoot at the 1960 Olympics in Rome, won the gold medal in a record time of 2:15:16.

Posted by Traveler

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Posted on 10/18/22 at 6:08 pm to 81Tiger

The B17. One tough old bird. The minutes passing by had to seem like hours when you were struggling to get back home.

Just one of the many crews that flew them.

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Posted by Kafka

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Posted on 10/18/22 at 6:33 pm to Traveler

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Posted on 10/18/22 at 6:45 pm to 81Tiger

Running Barefoot

I saw a program a few years ago where a runner from some pacific island where everyone is known for long-distance running was studied on a treadmill. Sensors and wires all over him. They compared his data with an American runner wearing shoes. End result showed shoes tended to make the runner land on his heel which sent the shock force upward through the hip at a damaging angle. The barefoot runner landed on the balls of his feet and the ankle acted as a shock absorber lowering the impact.

You can see this difference in the photo you posted.

This post was edited on 10/18/22 at 6:48 pm

Posted by Kafka

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Posted on 10/18/22 at 6:46 pm to Kafka

Nsala, the man in the picture, was photographed by English photographer Alice Seeley Harris (1870–1970) after he arrived at her mission clutching a parcel that contained the severed foot and hand of his five-year-old daughter in The Belgian Congo, May 1904. She’d been killed and dismembered as a punishment when his village failed to meet the rubber quotas demanded by the imperial Belgian regime.

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Posted on 10/18/22 at 6:51 pm to Kafka

A black debutante ball (1950s)

Comment on the photo (not mine):

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Actually with Segregation there was great demand in African American communities for enterprise, education, private clubs, lawyer firms, estate agents, designers and luxury goods - just about anything - that the community was forbidden access to in wider American society. The African-Americans who established institutions in these areas directly to cater to their own became extremely wealthy and respected as a result - and even though they could not move freely, lived extremely well in their own communities.

So developed a exclusive elite minority within the minority that often sought to match their children in status and credentials.