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Soldiers with bunnies in World War One.
Historical images - Images that made history
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A couple weeks later and after the dust has settled a little, this is what people are going through. From fires multiple times the size of the Amazon fires, to never seen before flooding, in two years. I’m a bit of a weather geek, and this weather is absolutely incredible. I’ve been on a few storm chases, and I’ve never seen anything like it. Im glad that we were spared the brunt of it up here, but down in New South Wales, they’ve been shafted royally. It really is heartbreaking to see people lose everything.
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1985 Stasi (East German secret police) guide on "negative-decadent youth cultures in the GDR". Basically a list of youth subcultures in East Germany that the government didn't like. Second image is an English translation.
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Strange how the Stasi never mentioned “Shit taste in music” for any of their negative qualities
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World War I (right) shakes hand with World War II (left) at the opening of the new Reichstag, colorized
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The most epic thing Trump ever did as President.
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Did they give them french fries, I never saw them in the photo...
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Airport Ramp in California 2003, the last forest fire season before the federal gov. banned the large piston engine water bombers. You can see the huge collection of radial engine multi engine air tankers. This was the end of an era.
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This photo is pretty much the definition of "Fake News" from the media, and characterizes how the Western media handles war.
True story is here: https://allthatsinteresting.com/saigon-execution
HEre's the important bit:
But the press painted it as a War Crime when in fact it was the summary field execution of a WAR CRIMINAL.
But hey, journalists lie, water's wet, and Brandon shit himself.
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Famous pre-mafia NYC gangster Monk Eastman's funeral procession. Eastman was a career criminal his entire life, but he took a break from crime to enlist to fight in WW1 at age 42. He died in 1920 after being shot by a crooked Prohibition agent associate over money
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Dayum. I knew the guy getting domed was Viet Cong, and thus a clean kill, but I didn't know he was a straight up death squad leader.
Blech.
Do you realize that shit was anything but fresh? Have you ever eaten COLD McDonalds? Man has access to literally some of the best chefs in the nation, but they went with stale fast food? Wasted, man.
Then again, considering his own diet and how crap the food is at Trump Hotel (you'd figure something bearing Trump's name could hire a bartender who can make a basic fucking martini!), I shouldn't be that shocked.
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Just a funky German man going on a fishing trip with his family.
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The photographer obviously faced them toward the sun to light them but then it was too bright which is why the kids are grimacing painfully. I'm pretty sure the girl with the braids is Gudrun Burwitz, who was ultimately a neo-Nazi herself and survived until 2018.
I'm actually somewhat doubtful "neo-Nazi" would even be appropriate. If she was always a Nazi even from childhood maybe she was probably just legitimately a Nazi.
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It was so weird finding out a couple of years before their deaths that she and Edda Goring were still alive only until fairly recently.
She had her father's face but not his belly.
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My Lathe I mentioned in the DIY thread likely made parts for STENS in the early days of WW2, it's got a War Department use stamp with a C next to it it means it was allowed to stay where it was and used to make war essential material and a date code of 1939 associated with it.
The STENS where called a Plumbers gun as they main components could be made by pretty much any plumber or mechanic in the country and they where all in if they could make parts for a while, they often had a round robin of parts saying I can make X, Bob can may Y and Jim can make Z etc.
A lot of music shops and luthiers made the springs for the early ones out of Piano and other kinds of music wire, and on some cases wooden furniture.
There was some interesting Civilian manufacture going on early in the war, there is a Helmet in a Local Home Guard station that was made by a Tin Maker out of a pan on display that I am aware of, they also had Caltrops made out of nails, and poles with metal ends and barbed wire and rope attached to them that where designed to be attached to tree limbs, metal bars, etc and where supposed to rammed into the rear of tank treds to break or clock the tracks. they where made by boy scouts.
I've also seen bandages rolled by a very upper class girls school in wrappers printed on the schools press.
I've also got a series of books printed in the mid war as "Wartime Economy Standard" for woodworkers, that where mostly printed and given away for free or sold at cost to people who where bombed out of there homes and it focuses on furniture construction and how to make your own tools in a real matter of fact way paired right by to functional rather than nice.
I've also got some WW1 and WW2 tools that where built basic but made to last, and show clear signs of Fettling by the end users the World Wars where really interesting for mixed production, there is a picture of a Cotton factory and a new munitions factory with a impromtu ladder based cart system to move the cut offs, end rolls and mix cotton scrap to be processed into Cordite.
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Sea harriers onboard the cargo freighter Atlantic Conveyor during the Falklands war. The Conveyor would eventually be sunk by Argentine aircraft two days after the Royal Navy removed their harriers off the ship and back on to the Hermes.
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Various pictures of Maria Bochkareva(2nd Picture, Bottom Center Right) and the Women's Battalion of Death in Russia.
They served in both WWI and the Russian Civil War until Maria was captured upon return to Arkhangelsk and was captured by the Soviets, Lenin supposedly wanted her alive but she was killed while in prison.
She had her autobiography ghostwritten while in self-exile in New York, it's actually pretty solid if you've never looked it up.
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First Men To the Poles
American Robert Peary (with mustache) credited with being the first man to travel to the North Pole (though this has been debated ever since), with Norwegian Roald Amundsen, first man to travel to the South Pole (who went on a much better documented expedition) and who also eventually went to the North Pole as well.
American Robert Peary (with mustache) credited with being the first man to travel to the North Pole (though this has been debated ever since), with Norwegian Roald Amundsen, first man to travel to the South Pole (who went on a much better documented expedition) and who also eventually went to the North Pole as well.
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Jeanne d'arc had no contemporary photos except for one sketch:
Though she is remembered as doing military campaigns she never fought or shed blood herself. She would rally the troops, but did not wish to fight.
Though signing her own abjuration and list of crimes she had no way to actually read it Jeanne was completely illiterate. She was told she had to sign or be executed immediately.
She was 19 years old when executed.
The Twelve Articles of Accusation that condemned her to execution were:
Though she is remembered as doing military campaigns she never fought or shed blood herself. She would rally the troops, but did not wish to fight.
Though signing her own abjuration and list of crimes she had no way to actually read it Jeanne was completely illiterate. She was told she had to sign or be executed immediately.
She was 19 years old when executed.
The Twelve Articles of Accusation that condemned her to execution were:
- This woman did say and affirm that when she was of the age of thirteen years or thereabouts, she did, with her bodily eyes, see Saint Michael come to comfort her, and from time to time also Saint Gabriel ; that both the one and the other appeared to her in bodily form. Sometimes also she had seen a great multitude of Angels; since then, Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret have shown themselves to her in bodily form ; every day she sees these two Saints and hears their voices ; she had often kissed and embraced them, and sometimes she had touched them, in a physical and corporeal manner. She had seen the heads of these Angels and these Saints, but of the rest of their persons and of their dress she will say nothing. The said Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret have also formerly spoken to her near a spring which flows at the foot of a great tree, called in the neighborhood “The Fairies’ Tree.” This spring and this tree nevertheless have been, it is said, frequented by fairies; persons ill of fever have repaired there in great numbers to recover their health. This spring and this tree are nevertheless in a profane place. There and elsewhere she had often venerated these two Saints, and had done them obeisance.
Besides this, she did say that Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret appeared and shown themselves to her adorned with most beautiful and most precious crowns. At this time and very often since, they have announced to her, by the order of God, that she was to go in search of a certain secular Prince, promising that, by her help and succor, this same Prince should, by force of arms, recover a great temporal domain and the honor of this world, and should obtain victory over his adversaries: this same Prince received her, and furnished her with arms and soldiers for the carrying out of what has just been said. Further, Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret have ordered this same woman, by the command of God, to take and to wear a man’s dress, which she had borne and did still bear, persisting in obeying this order, to the extent that she said she would rather die than give up this dress, adding that she will only abandon it by the express order of God. She had even preferred not to assist in the Office of the Mass and to deprive herself of the Holy Communion of the Eucharist, at the time when the Church commands the faithful to receive it, rather than to resume female dress and to quit this man’s habit.
The said woman had gone so far, under the inspiration of these two Saints, that without the knowledge and against the will of her parents, at the age of seventeen, she did quit the paternal roof and joined herself to a great troop of soldiers, with whom she lived night and day, having never had, or at least very rarely, another woman with her. These two Saints have said and prescribed to her many other things for the which she declares herself sent by the God of Heaven and the Church Victorious, composed of Saints who already enjoy celestial blessedness; it is to them that she submits as right all she had done. As to the Church Militant, she had deferred and refused to submit herself, her deeds, and her words to it, although many times required and admonished so to do, saying always that it is impossible to her to do contrary to what she had, in her Trial, affirmed to have done by the order of God; and that for these things she will not refer to the decision or the judgment of any man alive, but to the judgment of God alone.
The said Saints have revealed to this woman that she will obtain the glory of the blessed and will gain the salvation of her soul if she did preserve the virginity which she vowed to these Saints the first time she saw and recognized them. As a result of this revelation, she did affirm that she is as assured of her salvation as if, now and in fact, she were already in the Kingdom of Heaven. - The same woman said that the sign which was received by the Prince to whom she was sent – a sign which decided this Prince to believe in her and to aid her to carry on the war – was, that Saint Michael came to the said Prince, accompanied by a multitude of Angels, of which some had crowns and others had wings; with them also were Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret. She and the Angel proceeded together, their feet touching the ground, by the road, the staircase, and the Prince’s chamber; the Angel was accompanied by other Angels and by the said two Saints; he gave to the Prince a crown, very precious and made of the purest gold, bowing before him and doing him reverence. Once she had said that when her Prince received this sign, it seemed to her he was alone, although many other persons were close by; another time she had said that it seemed to her that an Archbishop had received the sign of the crown and had given it to the Prince, in the presence of several temporal lords.
- The same woman did say and affirm that he who visits her is Saint Michael; that which makes her believe in him is the good counsel, the comfort, and the good teaching which he did give her, and because he had named himself to her, and had told her that he was Saint Michael. She had in the same way recognized Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret; she knew how to distinguish the one from the other, because they name themselves to her and greet her.
On the subject of the pretended Saint Michael who appeared to her, she believes that it is truly Saint Michael; and the sayings and deeds of this Michael she believes to be true and good as firmly as she believes that Our Lord Jesus suffered and died for our redemption. - The same woman did say and affirm that she is certain of what should happen on the subject of certain future things, as surely as she is certain of those which she sees passing under her eyes. On the subject of occult things she did boast to know or to have known them by means of the revelations which have been made to her by the Voices of Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret: for example, that she will be delivered from her captivity, and that the French will do, under her guidance, the greatest exploits that they have ever done in all Christendom; for example, again, she said she had known by revelation without any one pointing them out to her, men whom she had never seen, and herself revealed and pointed out the existence of a sword which was hidden in the earth.
- The same woman did say and affirm that, by the command and good pleasure of God, she had taken and borne and continues still to bear a man’s dress. Further, she did say that, because she had had God’s command to bear this habit, it was necessary that she should have a short tunic, cap, jerkin, breeches, hose with many points, hair cut close above her ears, keeping no garment which might indicate her sex. She did say and affirm that she had, in this dress, several times received the Sacrament of the Eucharist. She had not desired and did still not desire to resume woman’s dress, although many times required and charitably admonished so to do. At times she said that she would rather die than leave off the dress which she bears; at times she said that she will leave it off only by the command of God. She did also say, that if she again found herself with this dress among those for whom she had armed herself she would act as she did before her capture; and this would be, she did add, one of the greatest benefits that could happen to the whole kingdom of France. Also, for nothing in the world will she swear to wear this dress or to take arms no more. In all this she did say that she had done and did well, obeying God and His Commandments.
- The same woman did avow and acknowledge that she had caused to be written many letters and warnings on the which were placed these names “Jhesus Maria,” with the sign of the Cross. Sometimes, she put a cross, and between her and her party this signified that she did not wish them to do what in this same letter she told them to do. At other times she caused it to be written that she would have those who did not obey her warnings killed, and “by the blows she would give they would see who had the true right from the God of Heaven.” She had often said that she had done nothing but by the revelation and order of God.
- The same woman did say and confess that, being of the age of seventeen, by revelation, as she said, and spontaneously, she went to seek a Knight whom she had never seen, abandoning for this the paternal roof, against the will of her parents. These, when they had knowledge of her departure, were wild with grief. This same woman ordered the Knight to conduct her, or to have her conducted, to the Prince already mentioned. The said Knight, or Captain, furnished this woman, on her demand, with a man’s dress and a sword, and appointed and commanded for her conduct a Knight, a Squire, and four servants. When they had come to the Prince, this woman told him that she wished to fight against his adversaries. She promised to establish him in great sovereignty and to vanquish his enemies; and for this she had been sent by the God of Heaven. She said she had acted well, having had revelation and the command of God.
- The same woman did say and affirm that she, of herself, no one compelling her, did throw herself down from a very high tower, wishing rather to die than to be placed in the hands of her enemies and to live after the destruction of the town of Compiegne. She said also that she was not able to avoid this fall, although Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret had forbidden it to her. To offend them is, she herself said, a great sin. But she knew that this sin was remitted to her after she had confessed it; she said she received revelation of this.
- The same woman said that Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret have promised to conduct her to Paradise, if she did preserve with care the virginity of body and soul which she vowed to them. Of this she said she is as assured as if she were already in the glory of the blessed. She did not think she had committed mortal sin ; for, if she were in a state of mortal sin, she said it seem to her that Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret would not visit her each day as they do.
- The same woman did say and affirm that God did love sundry persons still living, designated by her and named, more than He did this woman: this, she knew by revelation from Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret, who speak frequently to her, but in French and not in English, because these Saints are not on the side of the English. Since she had known by revelation that their Voices were for the Prince aforesaid she had ceased to love the Burgundians.
- The same woman did say and confess that to the Voices and the Spirits now under consideration, whom she calls Michael, Gabriel, Catherine and Margaret, she did often do reverence, uncovering, bending the knee, kissing the earth on which they walk, vowing to them her virginity, at times kissing and embracing Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret; she had touched them with her own hands, corporeally and physically; she had asked of them counsel and help; at times she did call them, and they even come to her without being called; she accedes to and obeys their counsels and their commands; she had always obeyed them, without having asked counsel thereon from whomsoever it be – father, mother, curé, prelate, or any ecclesiastic whatsoever. She did believe no less firmly that the Voices and the revelations she receives by the medium of the Saints of whom she speaks come from God and by His order: she believes it as firmly as she believes the Christian Faith and that Our Lord Jesus Christ suffered for us Death and Passion. She did add that, if it were an evil spirit who had come to her under the appearance and mask of Saint Michael she would quite well have known how to distinguish that it was not Saint Michael. Finally she said, that of her own wish and without any one pressing her thereto, she had sworn to Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret, who appeared to her, to reveal to no one the sign of the crown given to the Prince to whom she was sent, until she should have permission from God to reveal it.
- The same woman did say and confess that if the Church wished that she should do anything contrary to the order she did pretend tohave received from God, she would not consent, whatsoever it might be. She did affirm that she knows well, that all contained in her Trial has come to her by the order of God, and it would be impossible for her to do contrary to what she did. Thereupon she did not wish to refer to the decision of the Church Militant, nor to any one, whoever it be in the world, but to God alone, Our Lord, Whose commands she did always execute, above all in what did concern her revelations, and in what she did in consequence. This answer and all the others are not from her own head, she said, but she had made and given them by order of her Voices and revelations: she did persist [in this], although by the Judges and others of the Assessors, the Article of Faith, ‘The Church, One, Holy, Catholic,’ had often been recalled to her, and it had often been shown to her that all the faithful are bound to obey the Church Militant and to submit to it their words and actions above all in matters of faith and in all which concerns sacred Doctrine and Ecclesiastical sanction.