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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:12:28 GMT -5
Mongol hunter near Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 1913
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:12:51 GMT -5
Omaha Beach, Normandy, France
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:13:50 GMT -5
Transportation of pushchairs in New Zealand, 1950
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:15:02 GMT -5
French gypsies playing music and dancing, 1948
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:15:25 GMT -5
Ancient erotic coins used as tokens for different "services" in Roman brothels
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:16:10 GMT -5
Rescue plane crashes into a truck, while trying to land. Guatemala, 1976
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:16:49 GMT -5
he American robbers, and criminals Bonnie and Clyde in front of a Ford V-8 automobile, early 1930s
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:17:55 GMT -5
Miss New Zealand passed out from the heat during the 1954 Miss Universe pageant., California.
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:18:51 GMT -5
William "Doc" Carver and his Horse drop 60 feet for spectators' entertainment on Atlantic City's Steel Pier, 1881
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:19:53 GMT -5
Marlene Dietrich celebrates the end of WWII with soldiers at the Port of New York, 1945
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:20:31 GMT -5
Child rescue after the 2010 Haiti Earthquake.
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:21:35 GMT -5
Omaira Sánchez was a 13-year-old victim of the 1985 eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano, which erupted on November 13, 1985, in Armero, Colombia causing massive lahars which killed nearly 25,000. Trapped for three days in water, concrete, and other debris before she died, Omayra captured the attention of the media as volunteer workers told of a girl they were unable to save. Videos of her communicating with workers, smiling and making gestures to video cameras circulated around the media. Her "courage and dignity" touched Frank Fournier and many other relief workers who gathered around her to pray and be with her. After 60 hours of struggling, she died. Her death highlighted the failure of officials to respond promptly to the threat of the volcano and also the struggle for volunteer rescue workers to save trapped victims who would otherwise be quickly saved and treated. Sánchez became famous for a photograph of her taken shortly before she died by photojournalist Frank Fournier. When published worldwide after the young girl's death, the image caused controversy because of the photographer's decision to take it and the Colombian government's inaction in not working to prevent the Armero tragedy despite the forewarning that had been available.
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:23:47 GMT -5
Russian `anti-tank dogs'. Dogs were trained by the russian military during WW2 to carry explosives to tanks, bunkers and other military targets. The russians would teach the dogs to find meat beneath tanks and such like in training, before being unleashed with explosives onto the `real' battlefield. It is claimed that up to 300 armoured vehicles were destroyed in this manner....including many russian tanks after they ran back to their own lines.
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:25:59 GMT -5
During World War 2 the infamous Ilse Koch was known as the **** of Buchenwald for her bestial cruelty and sadistic behavior. She was the wife of Karl Koch, the Kommandant of Buchenwald, and struck fear into the inmates daily. She was especially fond of riding her horse through the camp, whipping any prisoner who attracted her attention. Her hobby was collecting lampshades, book covers, and gloves made from the skins of specially murdered concentration camp inmates, and shrunken human skulls. Ilse Koch would specially select prisoners with distinctive tattoos on her rides around the camp. These prisoners would be killed and their skin tanned and stored for later use by the SS guards. Her taste for collecting lampshades made from the tattooed skins was described by a witness at The Nuremberg Trials after the war: "The finished products (i.e. tattooed skin detached from corpses) were turned over to Koch's wife, who had them fashioned into lampshades and other ornamental household articles .." In the book Sidelights on the Koch Affair by Stefan Heymann the author pointed out that the fact, that the Kochs had lamps made of human skin did not distinguish them from the other SS officers. They had the same artworks made for their family homes: "It is more interesting that Frau Koch had a lady's handbag made out of the same material. She was just as proud of it as a South Sea island woman would have been about her cannibal trophies .. " Ilse Koch was tried by an American military tribunal in 1947, found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. But her sentence was reduced to four years and she was soon released.
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:28:47 GMT -5
London's Great Smog of 1952. Thought to have caused around 12,000 deaths
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:29:50 GMT -5
Wounded U.S. soldiers attending a Mother's Day services in a destroyed Coventry Cathedral, 1945
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:30:51 GMT -5
atch between the New York Rangers vs. the Montreal Canadians at Madison Square Garden. 1957
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:32:09 GMT -5
Crowded Bus Ride in London, 1865
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:32:48 GMT -5
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:33:39 GMT -5
Dutch soldiers on ice skates during a training exercise. 1940
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:33:58 GMT -5
he original Moulin Rouge in Paris, a year before it burned down. 1914
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:35:21 GMT -5
Massive wave hits a lighthouse off the coast of the Brittany region of France. The man survived. 1989
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:38:03 GMT -5
RAF fighter pilot Douglas Bader. After being shot down and captured in 1941, losing one of his artificial legs in the process Bader asked a young Luftwaffe fighter pilot: “Can you radio England and ask them to send me another leg?” He doubted if such an unprecedented task could be accomplished. The German promised that he would do what he could. Later, the Luftwaffe pilot returned. “I’ve got news for you,” he said cheerfully. “With the permission of Reichsmarschall [Hermann] Goering, we have radioed England on an international waveband.” He went on to explain that one RAF airplane had been given unrestricted passage to fly on a specified height, course, and time to drop the leg by parachute over St. Omer. After much debate, the RAF decided to send the leg in a Blenheim bomber. A six-foot metal canister was parachuted to the pre-designated area containing Bader’s artificial leg, inside the leg, his wife Thelma had stuffed tobacco, chocolates, and other scarce wartime goodies.
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:39:10 GMT -5
unuch of the Imperial Court of the last dynasty. Peking, 1949 - Henry Cartier Bresson
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:40:44 GMT -5
an stares at the cut off hand and foot of his daughter, who was punished for having harvested too little rubber. 1904
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:41:37 GMT -5
A bankrupt investor tries to sell his car for $100 in New York, following the 1929 stock market crash
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:41:54 GMT -5
A handwritten note on the back of the photo says: “Aunt Velma, she never married.” 1888
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:43:13 GMT -5
Bernhardt Holtermann with one of the largest gold nuggets ever found; weighing 286 kg (630 lbs). Australia, 1872
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:43:59 GMT -5
The sofa where Hitler and Eva Braun sat as they killed themselves in the bunker beneath the Reich Chancellery. 1945
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 18:44:40 GMT -5
"Heavy artillery in the East". German soldiers having some fun. 1915
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