Historical images - Images that made history

[AmazingEagle]

Two female IDF soldiers at Bootcamp, 1954.

 

[Clint Torez]

American soldiers (1847) invading Mexico during the Mexican-American War. Some of the earliest photographs of warfare would be taken by various unknown photographers during this conflict.

 

[AnOminous]

Since we're posting daguerreotypes.

The first known photograph of Abraham Lincoln in 1846 shortly after he was elected to Congress.

 

[Hummingbird]

First gasoline powered car accident happened in Ohio in 1891 when engineer James Lambert hit a tree root sticking out of the ground as he was driving himself and his friend. Lambert lost control and the car hit the hitching post leaving both men with minor injuries.

 

[User names must be unique]

Photos of African slaves being liberated from Arabs by the royal navy from 1907. 100 years after the British began their blockade on slave trading.

 

[Lee Crabb]

Here's Qusayr Amra. Its a small castle in the Jordanian desert built in the early 8th century during the Umayyad Caliphate. It has some quite exceptional art inside thats quite unusual in Islamic art.


It's known not for elaborate geometric designs or calligraphy but portraits, frescos and murals.



What I think is so cool about the paintings is how utterly Greek they look despite being made by Arabs over a hundred years after the invasion . They look like something inside a medieval Greek church; I'm half expecting the Theokotos to pop up.


Okay, maybe's its not exactly like a church. The caliph liked big tiddy women.




Unfortunately, it seems like even 8th century Arabs had to deal with furries.


The centerpiece of the castle is what's known as the "Portrait of the Six Kings", which depicts six rival kings of the caliph in supplication.


A reproduction from 1907. They are from left to right: The Byzantine Emperor, King Roderic of Visigoth Spain, Shah Kisra of Sassanid Persia, Negus Armah (the Emperor of Ethiopia), and two mystery kings. Possible identities might include the Emperor of China, a Hindu raja, or even a Turkish khan

 

[AmazingEagle]

Arkan's Tigers soldiers fighting in Bosnia, 1992.

 

[Tupolev Tu-160]

Himmler looking at a young Soviet POW. Taken in a camp near Minsk, 1941.

 

[soy_king]

Here's Qusayr Amra. Its a small castle in the Jordanian desert built in the early 8th century during the Umayyad Caliphate. It has some quite exceptional art inside thats quite unusual in Islamic art.
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It's known not for elaborate geometric designs or calligraphy but portraits, frescos and murals.
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What I think is so cool about the paintings is how utterly Greek they look despite being made by Arabs over a hundred years after the invasion . They look like something inside a medieval Greek church; I'm half expecting the Theokotos to pop up.
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Okay, maybe's its not exactly like a church. The caliph liked big tiddy women.
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Unfortunately, it seems like even 8th century Arabs had to deal with furries.
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The centerpiece of the castle is what's known as the "Portrait of the Six Kings", which depicts six rival kings of the caliph in supplication.
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A reproduction from 1907. They are from left to right: The Byzantine Emperor, King Roderic of Visigoth Spain, Shah Kisra of Sassanid Persia, Negus Armah (the Emperor of Ethiopia), and two mystery kings. Possible identities might include the Emperor of China, a Hindu raja, or even a Turkish khan
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If I'm not mistaken, it was built as a secret retreat for the Ummayad caliph, hence why it's so remote.

As for the artwork, it's probably because they hired native Cjristian artists and artisans, since most of those lands were probably majority Christian at that time. If anything, the major drive for conversion of lands in the Caliphate only started with the Abbasids in the 9th Century.

 

[Lee Crabb]

If I'm not mistaken, it was built as a secret retreat for the Ummayad caliph, hence why it's so remote.

As for the artwork, it's probably because they hired native Cjristian artists and artisans, since most of those lands were probably majority Christian at that time. If anything, the major drive for conversion of lands in the Caliphate only started with the Abbasids in the 9th Century.

True. I remember reading that traditional music from the Middle East is heavily influenced by that of the Byzantines.

 

[The High Prophet of Truth]

Protestors being pepper-sprayed by officer John Pike during the UC Davis Protests.

 

[Radola Gajda]

Neville Chamberlain (UK), Eduard Daladier (France) , Adolf Hitler (Germany) And Benito Mussolini , before signing Munich agreement that will give Czechoslovak territory to Germany.

Reinhard Heydrich Himmlers right hand man and govermor of Ocuppied Bohemia looking at Saint Wenceslas Crown.

Armies of Warszawa pact in Prague 1968.

Wenceslas Square (Prague) November 1989.
Velvet Revolution .
End of Communist regime in Czechoslovakia

 

[Tupolev Tu-160]

Shadow of the RAF's Avro Vulcan passing over the crashed American B-24 Liberator, Lady Be Good, in the Libyan desert.

The B-24 disappeared during its first combat mission in 1943, but the crash site was not discovered until 1958. It's believed that the plane's nine-man crew had accidentally overflown their base in a sandstorm when the automatic direction finder failed. They continued to fly in the wrong direction for hours until they ran out of fuel and bailed, and eventually perished in the desert after several days of trying to get to safety on foot.

Because it was believed at the time that Lady Be Good had crashed somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea, the initial search and rescue mission turned up nothing, and the remains of all but one crew member weren't recovered until 1960, two years after the wreck was located. The remains of the ninth crew member, SSgt. Vernon L. Moore, have never been found. The wreckage of Lady Be Good was removed from the crash site in 1994.

 

[The Last Stand]

WWII era pin up girls. 1940s.

 

[AmazingEagle]

Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena being executed by Romanian soldiers, December 25, 1989.

 

[The Last Stand]

 

[Unsmug Anime Avatar]

I may have missed it but I didn't see any of the famous photos of Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, the first implementer of "tricolor theory" (dividing images between red, green and blue) to take pictures of Russian Empire before 1917:

The last Khan of Kiva, Isfandiyar Jurji Bahadur, deposed by Turkmen rebels after 1917


Also the last Emir of Bukhara, Sayyid Mir Muhammad Alim, conquered in 1920 by RSFSR expedition in Central Asia


A Russian factory with modern turbines:


There are many more pictures, you can find most on Google but some are only in print books.

 

[Slap47]

Pol pot funeral and grave.

 

[AmazingEagle]

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Pol pot funeral and grave.

Would've been better if they flushed his ashes down the toilet.

 

[Meat Target]

Sketch and mugshot of Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", a serial killer, rapist, and Satanist who went on a crime spree in California in 1985.

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Protestors being pepper-sprayed by officer John Pike during the UC Davis Protests.

Don't mind me, just watering my hippies