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President Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman at the inauguration, 1953.

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Confederate Soldiers marching through Frederick Maryland. This is the only known photo of CS Soldiers on the march and one of only a few depicting CS Soldiers with arms and field gear. This is also an interesting photo as it was taken as a candid shot from one of the buildings, but you will note at least two of the men see the photographer.

There is some debate on when exactly this was taken with a large number leaning towards 1862 on the march to what would be the Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam to you northerners). If this is the case, many of the men in this photo would be dead following that battle.

Many of these buildings still exist and you can see where this was taken if you visit Frederick today.
 
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Tupolev Tu-160 said:
Shadow of the RAF's Avro Vulcan passing over the crashed American B-24 Liberator, Lady Be Good, in the Libyan desert.

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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.
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When the crew's remains were discovered, on them was a diary kept by the copilot, 2nd Lt Robert Toner. It indicates that they survived for a hellish 8 days with only one canteen of water between them. The last entry is chillingly short: "no help yet, very cold night"
 
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First Cell-Phone Picture, 1997​


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Boredom can be a powerful incentive. In 1997, Philippe Kahn was stuck in a Northern California maternity ward with nothing to do. The software entrepreneur had been shooed away by his wife while she birthed their daughter, Sophie. So Kahn, who had been tinkering with technologies that share images instantly, jerry-built a device that could send a photo of his newborn to friends and family—in real time. Like any invention, the setup was crude: a digital camera connected to his flip-top cell phone, synched by a few lines of code he’d written on his laptop in the hospital. But the effect has transformed the world: Kahn’s device captured his daughter’s first moments and transmitted them instantly to more than 2,000 people.
 
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Jamila said:
His hand is covered in blood and the card is spotless. It was definitely planted on him, either by a hitman or the photographer.
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It doesn't seem the style of guys like Bugsy Siegel or Lucky Luciano to go for movie type shit like that. It does seem like what a photographer would do, though, to jazz things up a bit.
 
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Malcolm Caldwell (Right) was a marxist academic and enthusiastic supporter of the Khmer Rouge (Khmer Red) regime who was likely murdered at the orders of the dictator Pol Pot. Caldwell visited the Khmer Rouge to prove that claims of the regime being murderous, anti-intellectual and racist were untrue. After Caldwell returned from his private conversation with Pol Pot he was "euphoric" and even more supportive of the dictator. That night he was randomly shot to death by armed assailants.

Throughout the entirety of the 1970s Caldwell dedicated himself to downplaying and denying claims about the Khmer Rouge. He adored the concept of "Year 0", believed in collectivization, and thought the Khmer Rouge were the closest to communism any country had ever been. His efforts were unsolicited by the regime, but he was acknowledged by the regime with an invitation for a guided tour. The two journalists on the tour (Left) survived. In the middle is the minder who gave the guided tour.
 
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AnOminous said:
It doesn't seem the style of guys like Bugsy Siegel or Lucky Luciano to go for movie type shit like that. It does seem like what a photographer would do, though, to jazz things up a bit.
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Yeah, if I recall correctly it was Lucky that ordered the hit on him but it's unknown who actually gunned him because there were no witnesses that came forward. I can see some young guy who just got into the game thinking it would be cool to do, but the framing of the shot and the love of blood and guts reporting back in those days leads me to believe it was the photographer.
 
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Jamila said:
Yeah, if I recall correctly it was Lucky that ordered the hit on him but it's unknown who actually gunned him because there were no witnesses that came forward. I can see some young guy who just got into the game thinking it would be cool to do, but the framing of the shot and the love of blood and guts reporting back in those days leads me to believe it was the photographer.
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I think they're pretty sure Bugsy was one of them. In any event, they wouldn't have done it without orders from Lucky. And he was whacking these guys because they were doing all kinds of gangland cowboy shit that was attracting public and police attention, so the very last thing he'd want is some theatrical gesture.

This was near the end of that era, and after this, there was a phase of the Five Families mostly keeping their violence intramural.

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Dutch Schultz on his deathbed after being shot in the Palace Chophouse in Newark, New Jersey. A rival of Lucky Luciano, he was also in deep tax troubles at the time, being prosecuted by Thomas Dewey (yes the same one as in the DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN headline). He decided he wanted to kill him. He asked the Commission for permission, which they refused.

Subsequently, Albert Anastasia, along with Bugsy Siegel one of the prime suspects of being Joe Masseria's killers, as well as the head of the so-called Murder, Inc., discovered Schultz was still plotting the killing, and informed Lucky Luciano. Assassinating a prosecutor was nothing Luciano was going to tolerate, and the Commission decided to kill him.

Schultz survived the original shooting, but ended up with peritonitis and died after a period of delirium in which he uttered what have since been called The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, uttered to police officers trying to interrogate him and taken down by a stenographer.

The strange poetic beauty of this monologue has inspired many people since, including William S. Burroughs, who wrote a book in the form of a film script about them.

And no, nowhere in it does he disclose the names of his shooters.
 
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Malcolm Caldwell (Right) was a marxist academic and enthusiastic supporter of the Khmer Rouge (Khmer Red) regime who was likely murdered at the orders of the dictator Pol Pot. Caldwell visited the Khmer Rouge to prove that claims of the regime being murderous, anti-intellectual and racist were untrue. After Caldwell returned from his private conversation with Pol Pot he was "euphoric" and even more supportive of the dictator. That night he was randomly shot to death by armed assailants.

Throughout the entirety of the 1970s Caldwell dedicated himself to downplaying and denying claims about the Khmer Rouge. He adored the concept of "Year 0", believed in collectivization, and thought the Khmer Rouge were the closest to communism any country had ever been. His efforts were unsolicited by the regime, but he was acknowledged by the regime with an invitation for a guided tour. The two journalists on the tour (Left) survived. In the middle is the minder who gave the guided tour.
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Historically having only 1 in 3 dying is a pretty good survival rate for communism
 
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Solar Eclipse Paradox said:
due to it's cold climate.
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I think it's more due to the lack of adequate soil than the cold, during the ice age most of Greenland was scrapped entirely clean of soil due to the massive glaciers on it.

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Thomas Alexander Cochrane the 10th earl of Dundonald known to the French as 'le loup des mers' (wolf of the sea) known to the Spanish simply as 'El Diablo' (the devil).

One of the most badass sailors to ever sail, admiral in the British Royal navy during the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars he lost his position as an admiral and member of parliament for accused market manipulation. He then fucked off and became first Admiral in the Chilean, Brazilian and then an admiral Greek navy.

One of his most notable exploits was the capture of the Spanish xebec frigate El Gamo on 6 May 1801. El Gamo carried 32 guns and 319 men, compared with Speedy's (cochranes ship) 14 guns and 54 men.[12][13] Cochrane flew an American flag and approached so closely to El Gamo that her guns could not depress to fire on Speedy's hull. The Spanish tried to board and take over the ship but, whenever they were about to board, Cochrane pulled away briefly and fired on the concentrated boarding parties with his ship's guns. Eventually, Cochrane boarded El Gamo and captured her, despite being outnumbered about six to one.

In Speedy's 13-month cruise, Cochrane captured, burned, or drove ashore 53 ships

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Valdivia is a city to capture it they actually captured 3 forts and 2 artillery batteries.
 
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