Well, I'm bored and drunk.
Usually do these sort of threads on /k/, but have wanted to do one here for a bit. Been a while since I did one here.
Gathered a lot of photos on Veeky Forums, but usually without any further context. So I'll give what context I have.
>President John F. Kennedy, wearing a windbreaker, watches through binoculars as a Polaris missile clears the surface after firing from a submerged nuclear sub off Cape Canaveral, Florida, on November 16, 1963.
>Three generations and two royal families sit for a portrait during Cowes Week on the Isle of Wight in 1909. From left, the future Edward VIII, Mary, his mother and the future Queen of England; Alexandra, Queen of Great Britain; her granddaughter Princess Mary and her daughter Princess Victoria; Czar Nicholas II of Russia; King Edward the VII of Great Britain; Princess Olga of Russia, her mother Empress Alexandra, and her sister Princess Tatiana; the future George V, King of Great Britain; and Princess Marie of Russia. Seated in front are Czarevitch Alexis and Grand Duchess Anastasia, Nicholas and Alexandra's youngest children. The Czar, his wife, and all their children would be executed by the Bolsheviks 9 years later.
>A view of a trilithon being re-erected during Lieutenant-Colonel Hawley's excavations and renovations at Stone Henge in 1919 and 1920. The monument itself dates to circa 2000 B.C., although the site was in use much earlier than this.
>Claude Monet seated with some paintings which sold in 1880 for 1,000 francs. They were worth 100 times that at the time of the photo, most likely taken in the mid-1920s, as Monet’s career was winding down and his eyesight was failing.
>Dorothy Counts- the first Black girl to attend an all White school in the United States- being teased and taunted by her White male peers at Charlotte's Harry Harding High School, 1957
>16 April 1972
Apollo 16 Lunar Module Pilot Charlie Duke reviews flight plans while undergoing spacesuit pressure checks during suiting up operations prior to his launch to the Moon with his other crew members Young and Mattingly.
>An East German border guard tosses a ball back over the Wall after a West German child mistakenly threw it over. Berlin, 1962. (Paul Schutzer)
>In February 1991, having gutted and pillaged Kuwait City, the fleeing Iraqi Army sets off explosive charges at the heads of more than 700 Kuwaiti oil wells, igniting geysers of oil and sending brilliant yellow flames as high as 300 feet into the air. For some 30 weeks, these fires unleash up to 5000 tons of billowing black smoke a day into the bleak desert landscape, creating an apocalyptic, inky plume 800 miles long.
Smoke from the oil fires turns the desert day into night. The only relief from the darkness is the eerie flames themselves. From pools some 4000 feet below the earth’s surface, where it collected 100 million years ago, the oil shrieks up and out of the earth with an awful primal scream and a terrible force, like an air hose that’s been severed, only a hundred times louder.
The fires reach temperatures of 2000 degrees Fahrenheit. The air around the fires heats to a shimmering 650 degrees, and the sand at the base of the fires can reach a stupefying 1300 degrees.
>Internees Mr. Archibald Mathews and his son, Nicholas take cover in a makeshift shelter they constructed during the Japanese shelling of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines, 1945
>With more and more members of the Volkssturm (Germany's National Militia) being directed to the front line, German authorities were experiencing an ever-increasing strain on their stocks of army equipment and clothing. In a desperate attempt to overcome this deficiency, street to street collection depots called the Volksopfer, meaning Sacrifice of the people, scoured the country, collecting uniforms, boots and equipment from German civilians, as seen here in Berlin on February 12, 1945. The Volksopfer bears the words "The Fuhrer expects your sacrifice for Army and Home Guard. So that you're proud your Home Guard man can show himself in uniform - empty your wardrobe and bring its contents to us".
>Brimming with anger, a French man attacks a German soldier being marched through the streets of Paris following his capture by members of the French Resistance. After the entry of the French 2nd Armored Division of the Free French Forces and the U.S. Third Army (United States Army Central), numerous pockets of German snipers who refused to surrender had to be rooted out in street fighting. Paris, Île-de-France, France. 25 August 1944. Image taken by Robert Capa.
>Physicist Louis Slotin with the Gadget bomb during the Trinity test. He was killed a year later by a "three dimensional sunburn" from exposure to radioactive material when his screwdriver slipped during an experiment. [1945]
>A pickup truck flees from the pyroclastic flows spewing from the Mt.Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines, on June 17, 1991. This was the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century
>The Nazi booth at a radio exhibition which started in Berlin on August 19, 1932. The booth was designed as propaganda of the Nazi gramophone plate industry which produced only records of the national socialist movement.
>The Champs-Élysées as seen from the Arc de Triomphe. May 8th, 1945
>Britain's King George VI broadcasts to the British nation on the first evening of the war, on September 3, 1939, in London
Good thread!
Contributing.
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Appreciate it user.
>"La Jeune Fille a la Fleur," a photograph by Marc Riboud, shows the young pacifist Jane Rose Kasmir planting a flower on the bayonets of guards at the Pentagon during a protest against the Vietnam War on October 21, 1967. The photograph would eventually become the symbol of the flower power movement.
Also started a thread on /k/, which is why I'm busy.
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>Gutzon Borglum and supt. inspecting work on the face of Washington, Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota. May 31 1932
>A workman at New York World's Fair repaints the famed Perisphere, on June 6, 1939.
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>The Great Blizzard of 1888 or Great Blizzard of ‘88 (March 11 – March 14, 1888) was one of the most severe recorded blizzards in the history of the United States of America. Snowfalls of 20–60 inches (51–150 cm) fell in parts of New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, and sustained winds of more than 45 miles per hour (72 km/h) produced snowdrifts in excess of 50 feet (15 m). Railroads were shut down and people were confined to their houses for up to a week.
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>Soviet rock fans attend a concert in Moscow on September 28, 1991. Half a million people jammed an airfield to see the Monsters of Rock concert featuring AC/DC, Pantera and Metallica at the Soviet Union's biggest Western rock concert, touted as a gift to Russian youth for their resistance to last month's coup.
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That's all for tonight. I'll try and post more tomorrow.
>Two astronauts asleep on Challenger’s middeck, August 9th 1983
‘On Challenger’s middeck, Commander Richard “Dick” Truly and Mission Specialist (MS) Guion Bluford sleep in front of forward lockers and port side wall. Truly sleeps with his head at the ceiling and his feet to the floor. Bluford, wearing sleep mask (blindfold), is oriented with the top of his head at the floor and his feet on the ceiling.’
That seems retarded. You'd slowly drift and bump against something. That's why they have sleeping pouches affixed to the wall.
pic related
Cool thread. I'll try to post some that people haven't seen before.
Space Particle Alert Network (SPAN) preparations at mission control center during the Apollo 11 Mission. Houston, TX 1969
Appreciate your help user.
>September 11, 1973 Chileans watch helplessly as tanks and troops under the command of General Augusto Pinochet take up positions to attack the presidential palace, where President Salvador Allende is broadc
Appreciate any help I can get, thanks user.
>A pro-democracy demonstrator fights with a Soviet soldier on top of a tank parked in front of the Russian Federation building on August 19, 1991, after a coup toppled Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
>French archeologist Joseph Hackin exploring The Buddhas of Bamiyan, Afghanistan, 1931.
Aimaro Satō, Japanese ambassador to the United States. 1917
>A Muslim guerrilla in Afghanistan's Paktia Province shows off his combat ration of peanut butter from the United States, on July 11, 1986.
>One of the first was captured on camera at the paparazzi celebrities attacks happened in New York, in 1909 (some sources - in 1910) year. Millionaire John Pierpont Morgan, the founder of the financial empire "George. JP Morgan & Kº " , trying to beat the cane Grentema photographer George Bain.
Morgan suffered from rhinophyma - a chronic disease, which resulted in his nose severely deformed. Finance shunned publicity and rarely photographed - all his portraits were created under his vigilant control and seriously retouched. Inconsistent shooting on the street led Morgan into a rage. "The irony is that the tycoon turned himself into a commodity, in photonews" - wrote about this picture German researcher Matthias Bruhn.
>George Bush delivers illegal, but gratifying right hook to opposing ball carrier. Former President GWB while playing on Yale’s rugby team,
Theodore Roosevelt in hunting suit. 1885
>helplessly
but Pinochet was helping them and would shortly put an end to Allende's shenanigans
Just posting the caption user.
Pretty ignorant to S. American history in all honesty, but appreciate anything I can learn.
>September 1973: Political prisoners are taken into the basement of the National Stadium for interrogation, after a U.S.-backed military coup overthrew and killed the socialist president of Chile, Salvador Allende
>A starving Chinese woman, too weak to stand, lies on the barren ground with blades of grass protruding from in her lips; a desperate attempt to find nourishment during the Henan famine. Henan Province was hit by a large-scale famine between the summer of 1942 and the spring of 1943 that led to the death of three million people. Another three million people became refugees, fleeing to other regions to escape the hunger. The famine was caused by severe drought, the ongoing destruction of fields by swarms of locusts, the domestic demand for supplies for the Chinese troops engaged in battle against the occupying Japanese Army, and the destruction of what little food remained when seized by the Japanese. Henan Province, Republic of China. November 1942. Image taken by Theodore H. White.
>On April 6, 1994, a group of Hutu began slaughtering the Tutsi in the African country of Rwanda. The bloody foot prints of children attempting to escape the slaughter by climbing the walls was photographed by Annie Leibovitz.
Done for the night, be back tomorrow. Though I here crickets...
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imagine seeing that
how come only Mesopotamians do crazy shit like that
I always love these threads, dude. Keep on doin' em.
The night before launch day, Apollo 11 crew members (R-L) Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong, and Edwin Aldrin, participated in a closed circuit press conference the night before they began their historic lunar landing mission. At far left is chief astronaut and director of flight crew operations, Donald K. Slayton. The press conference with questions via intercom, was held under semi-isolation conditions to avoid exposing the astronauts to possible illness at the last minute.
>killed the socialist president of Chile, Salvador Allende
a thorough investigation confirmed he killed himself
there is practically no risk of botulism from processed peanut butter
>April of 1979. President Jimmy Carter is attacked by a swimming rabbit during a fishing trip in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. The incident seriously damaged Carter's reputation as many did not believe that a rabbit could exhibit aggressive behavior. This photograph was released by the Carter administration as a means of corroborating the story. Carter's political opponents began using the story as a means to frame Carter as a weak and ineffectual president, costing Carter his re-election and the presidency.
New wooden fan blades being prepared for installation in the Altitude Wind Tunnel at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory. The facility underwent a major upgrade in 1951 to increase its operating capacities in order to handle the new, more powerful turbojet engines being manufactured in the 1950s. The fan blades were prepared in the shop area, seen in this photograph, before being lowered through a hole in the tunnel and attached to the drive shaft. A new drive bearing and tail faring were also installed on the fan as part of this rehab project. A 12-bladed 31-foot-diameter spruce wood fan generated the 300 to 500 mile-per-hour airflow through the tunnel. An 18,000-horsepower General Electric induction motor located in the rear corner of the Exhauster Building drove the fan at 410 revolutions per minute. An extension shaft, sealed in the tunnel’s shell with flexible couplings that allowed for the movement of the shell, connected the motor to the fan. A bronze screen secured to the turning vanes protected the fan against damage from any engine parts sailing through the tunnel. Despite this screen the blades did become worn or cracked over time and had to be replaced.
Adolf Hitler showing Mussolini the site of the 1944 assassination attempt.
>January of 1950. Research chemist Margaret Thatcher checks the measurements on a beaker during an experiment. Along with her team, Thatcher worked to find a way to stabilize a cheaper, airier ice cream. The end result of this research would become what we now would call "soft-serve" ice cream. Thatcher would later become Prime Minister of the UK in May of 1979.
>December of 1962. Frances O. Kelsey receives the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service from President John F. Kennedy. Kelsey was being honored for her critical role in stopping the drug "Thalidomide" from being sold in the US. Marketed as a solution to motion sickness for pregnant women, Thalidomide was soon discovered to cause horrifying birth defects. Kelsey recognized the danger of Thalidomide before anybody else did, and her actions prevented potentially thousands of birth defects by keeping the drug out of the US market.
god...just imagine being that guy...fuck oh fucking fuck..shit bitch fuck oh shit...is all that was going through his head.
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Korean war
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This triggers my RO2 PTSD
I'll post some of mine hope people like them
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David Bowie practicing his pose for the "Heroes" album cover
German soldiers taking a selfie in the early 1900's
Postcard from French Madagascar
Emperor Hirohito and Emperor Puyi of Manchukuo, a Japanese puppet state.
Lumberjacks in 1907
Emperor Hirohito golfing, it wasn't terribly common for emperors to engage in leisurely or casual acts
Kaiser Wilhelm celebrates his birthday in exile in the Netherlands
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Atatürk on a swing
Kaiser Wilhelm cosplaying as Fredrick the Great
The KKK on a Ferris wheel
They aren't soldiers, they're students.
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German man before and after visiting Ottoman Empire
Ottoman diversity
From left to right: Jewish, Christian European and Muslim
Emperor Meiji's funeral
King George V and Prince Hirohito
Hitler practicing poses
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Hitler says goodbye to Mussolini from a train
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>King George also liked anime
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>Berlin, Germany- A row of German women laugh heartily as they see Charlie Chaplin's imitation of Hitler making a speech in the movie 'The Great Dictator.' The film, shown experimentally to some 400 Berliners under the auspices of the American Military Government's Information Control Division.
>STILL ALIVE, one of the bank robbery suspects lies on the ground Friday, Feb. 28, 1997, near the corner of Archwood Street and Hinds Avenue in North Hollywood, where he was shot by police in an exchange of gun fire, and later died. Officer Futrell holds him down while he moves his head back and forth.
>A Chinese woman weeps in the rubble following a Japanese air raid in Hankou. Hankou was captured by the Japanese invaders in 1938 after the Battle of Wuhan. An important logistical center for the Japanese, the city was heavily bombed in December 1944 by the U.S. based in the Chengdu area. Hankou, Wuhan, Hubei, Republic of China. September 1938. Image taken by Robert Capa.
>Two Polish boys reading Mickey Mouse while standing among the ruins of a building in Warsaw, Poland. September 1939. By Julien Bryan