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[televator]

Found it.

Call me a fucking ambulance! lol

 

[StudioTan]

A mother hiding her face in shame at having to sell her children during the great depression.

 

[dekline]

Found it.

Yeah that's it. I had to dig the shirt out, guess it has been a long time since I've worn it

I mean, it was a dollar.

 

[Caelus]

A mother hiding her face in shame at having to sell her children during the great depression.

Disappointed I've never seen this sort of image during my U.S. history course even though I've read about it, really shows the extent of the damage.

 

[AngmarsKing701]

This thread is awesome. I googled "strange military machines 19th century" and got some weird results. Like, not military results.

Featuring the disembodied head of a woman and speaking in a gloomy, dismal voice, the Euphomia was the most advanced talking machine of the 19th century

At its peak of popularity, the purpose of the bathing machine was all about those crazy rules of bathing etiquette that they upheld in the 18th and 19th centuries

A young Winston Churchill in the uniform of the Fourth Queen's Own Hussars

 

[Minion101]

Don't worry Russia is working on it..


Also.. didn't see anyone post this, iconic scene from the end of the second world war.

Funny thing is he's kissing a random girl.

 

[Dai101]

Here's another angle of the Jack Ruby shooting

http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/BS-US-NEWS-JFK50YEARS-33-MC.jpg

Never seen this angle before.



EDIT: Also HOLY SHIT at the one selling their children.

 

[sonikokaruto]

Funny thing is he's kissing a random girl.

Today it wouldn't fly, this is RAPE against all women.

 

[AngmarsKing701]

We've had the first photo ever and the first selfie ever (really, I'm surprised they're not called Cornies)... here's the first photo that includes a person.

"Boulevard du Temple", a daguerreotype made by Louis Daguerre in 1838, is generally accepted as the earliest photograph to include people.

You'll notice that the guy at the corner with his foot up has paused long enough for the shutter to capture him without it being a blur.

 

[Niks]

amazing thread.
Reminds me so much of my amazing high school history teacher.

 

[Zombine]

Absolutely breathtaking.

I also love this one:

 

[AngmarsKing701]

This one has some pretty incredible historical significance. The first x-ray.

X-rays were discovered by accident. In 1895 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was experimenting with electric currents, passing them through a vacuum tube.

We don’t know what he was hoping to discover. What he did find was that while the current was going through the tube, a nearby fluorescent screen glowed. He realized that there must be an unknown ray causing the effect, so he named it X-ray, X being the symbol for something unknown. The first X-ray ever taken clearly showed the bones of his wife’s hand.

Being able to see inside the body was an enormously important discovery, and within just two months, X-rays were being used in Europe and North America to look at the skeleton and treat diseases.

 

[Zebra]

Amelia Earhart

Chicago World's Fair 1893

Louis Armstrong playing for his wife in front of the sphinx. 1961.

 

[Dunedain_Ranger]

"Door to Hell" in Turkmenistan. The result of a botched Soviet oil prospect, it has burned for 40 years with no end in sight.

Still trips me out everytime I see it

 

[AngmarsKing701]

I have no idea how legit these are, but a whole set of rare pictures of the Red Baron showed up in a garage sale in Great Britain in May 2014.



Edit: Hmm. it's a Daily Mail site and it's not letting me link it, so I'll just add a pic of the badass himself.

 

[alfredofroylan]

Coon Chicken Inn

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

A mother hiding her face in shame at having to sell her children during the great depression.

This image should have been more prominent back during the height of the last economic downturn. The fact of the matter is, things were not even in the same stratosphere as The Great Depression.

That's not to say it wasn't an issue, just that the comparisons should have never been made.

 

[shinobi602]

Here's another angle of the Jack Ruby shooting

Am I missing something or was the photographer an accomplice? Genuinely asking. Or is it part of a video? I can't picture a scenario where the photographer reacted within a split second to capture the perfect photo right before the trigger is pulled and right before his death. At least, you can tell it was all within a split second as the escorters didn't even react to it yet...

 

[Zebra]

Am I missing something or was the photographer an accomplice? Genuinely asking. Or is it part of a video? I can't picture a scenario where the photographer reacted within a split second to capture the perfect photo right before the trigger is pulled and right before his death. At least, you can tell it was all within a split second as the escorters didn't even react to it yet...

He was likely taking a picture of Oswald being escorted out and just happened to catch this very moment.

 

[mr.beers]

Nuclear cannon test


http://youtu.be/46GBjlUOROY

What causes the streamers on the right side of the explosion?

 

[crisdecuba]

A mother hiding her face in shame at having to sell her children during the great depression.

This just breaks my heart... I can't imagine being one of those kids... :-(

 

[alfredofroylan]

This just breaks my heart... I can't imagine being one of those kids... :-(

Well you can read their stories right here.

 

[Interceptor]

What causes the streamers on the right side of the explosion?

Those were set up before the explosion to visualise the blast radius. They were not caused by the explosion.

 

[crisdecuba]

Well you can read their stories right here.

Thank you for this!

 

[shinobi602]

He was likely taking a picture of Oswald being escorted out and just happened to catch this very moment.

I guess if the photographer was taking consecutive photos in rapid succession, true.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Those were set up before the explosion to visualise the blast radius. They were not caused by the explosion.

Actually they are a result of the ionizing of the atmosphere which causes the increase of the potential difference of the air and ground which causes lightning.


I am a total nerd.

Ivy Mike test

 

[Zebra]

On the set of Once Upon a Time in the West

NYC subway in the 1980s

The L.A. riots

Tommie Smith and John Carlos, 1968 olympics

Carl Sagan, 1980

Carl Sagan as a young child

 

[Norml]

Chichen Itza ruins, 1892

Same place today

I think it's crazy this was left to waste. Like not even one group stayed or discovered it, and made it their own.

 

[Dai101]

A rare photograph of Jose Guadalupe Posada:

José Guadalupe Posada (February 2, 1852 – January 20, 1913[1]) was a Mexican political printmaker and engraver whose work has influenced many Latin American artists and cartoonists because of its satirical acuteness and social engagement. He used skulls, calaveras, and skeletons to make political and cultural critiques.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Guadalupe_Posada

Outside of Posada's shop circa 1900

**not pictured, Posada himself

 

[Interceptor]

Actually they are a result of the ionizing of the atmosphere which causes the increase of the potential difference of the air and ground which causes lightning.


I am a total nerd.

Ivy Mike test

Not nerd enough to answer the question. ^^

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/SmokeTrails.html

 

[Liljagare]

That tower was a replica of the Giralda, Seville, Spain, my hometown.

Love Seville, and, the area around it looks about the same nowadays, Alcazar is so nice, and used as a stage in latest Game of Thrones. A old moorish castle in the downtown of a major city? How cool isn't that.

The Lions Gate

Gardens of the Royal Alcazar

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Not nerd enough to answer the question. ^^

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/SmokeTrails.html

Well shit. I guess there are two answers to it.

 

[SirMossyBloke]

"Door to Hell" in Turkmenistan. The result of a botched Soviet oil prospect, it has burned for 40 years with no end in sight.

Doesn't this place make some fucked up scary noise, or am I thinking of something else?

 

[Interceptor]

Well shit. I guess there are two answers to it.

Only if the question was about lightning.

 

[abstract alien]

I think it's crazy this was left to waste. Like not even one group stayed or discovered it, and made it their own.

I was floored when I visited this place. There are so many small details that I found unbelievable, such as the sound design. That was insane.

 

[Jharp]

edit: beaten

 

[Marky Mark]

Just ran across one that I hope hasn't been posted yet (I didn't see it, but I might have missed it). It's a little girl at a graveyard in the early 1900's, and while I'm sure the abnormality can be explained rationally through some early camera trickery, it's very creepy nonetheless.

Here's to hoping someone in this thread can shed more light on it.

What I can't decide is which is creepier - the extra girl in the reflection, or that neither has a face.

Already posted.

 

[More_Badass]

Teddy Roosevelt preparing for his grueling expedition down an unexplored tributary of the Amazon River. This was after the man was President; he almost died during the journey

A great book about it

Already posted.

What was the explanation?

 

[Blues1990]

Doesn't this place make some fucked up scary noise, or am I thinking of something else?

On the contrary, it's just the sounds of a raging fire and the smell of spoiled eggs.

 

[zoleristec]

First photo of a tornado (1884).

 

[Norml]

I was floored when I visited this place. There are so many small details that I found unbelievable, such as the sound design. That was insane.

I bet. Here's a neat video showing the sound in the great pyramid. https://youtu.be/ZC4U-2ntAGA?t=2m46s

 

[Jin]

Marilyn Monroe on the set of The Misfits 1961.

The line at the first Mcdonald's in Moscow 1991.

 

[Switch Back 9]

First photo of a tornado (1884).

That is such a creepy photo.

 

[N4Us]

JP Morgan caning a photographer in the early 1910s. He hated having his picture taken in public.

Groucho Marx and Alice Cooper

Considered to be the first touchscreen, from 1965

 

[Einchy]

A mother hiding her face in shame at having to sell her children during the great depression.

What the fuck? Was this legal back then? I had never heard of this happening.

 

[~Devil Trigger~]

Subbed

thread is amazing

 

[foxuzamaki]

You have to admit, those Nazi's knew how to put on a spectacle. I mean, if you want to look all powerful nothing quite comes across as well as those big theatres and monolithic designs drapped in red. Its actually kind of awe inspiring, I would imagine it looked pretty amazing in person.

Looking back on it now though it is a pretty ominous looking sight knowing what was to come.

It seems like something a game designer would draw.

 

[rhandino]

What the fuck? Was this legal back then? I had never heard of this happening.

Want to know more? She was also pregnant during that picture...

Yeah =(

 

[Grandi]

"HQ of the 328th U.S. Army Infantry Regiment, dated 21 December 1944, stated: No SS troops or paratroopers will be taken prisoner but will be shot on sight.
Major-General Raymond Hufft (U.S. Army) gave instructions to his troops not to take prisoners when they crossed the Rhine in 1945. "After the war, when he reflected on the war crimes he authorized, he admitted, 'if the Germans had won, I would have been on trial at Nuremberg instead of them.' "

War is hell, and atrocities are always committed on all sides.

Finnish soldiers with their pack reindeers. (Winter and/or Continuation War)

"Moving forward at Änkilänsalo, 2 August 1941."
That thousand-yard stare. The war wouldn't be over for these men for many years.

NSFW:

Spoiler

"A man ravaged by a Russian scouting patrol. Two out of the three man patrol had agreed to murder and eat their compatriot. The murder was committed by shooting while the man was shaving his beard. A Finnish scouting patrol stumbled upon the two dining Russkies. -description of bodyparts omitted- One of the murderers was a Finnish communist, who said that the meat tasted exceptionally good. Seesjärvi 1942.11.06"

 

[MistaPropella]

The German Reichstag burned out and destroyed.