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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 19:14:15 GMT -5
John Wilson Webb and his mother. He weighed 54 kg (120 lbs) at 34 months. Pittsburgh, 1909
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 19:15:19 GMT -5
New York skateboarding, 1965
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 19:16:07 GMT -5
Execution of the four people condemned as conspirators for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. July 7, 1865
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 19:19:19 GMT -5
A man hypnotising four people for the camera back when hypnosis was extensively practised by reputable physicians for therapeutic use both as a form of anaesthesia and as a cure for disease, c.1845
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 19:20:40 GMT -5
The execution of nine American soldiers for the murder of Minerva Cook (of a nearby plantation) in Mississippi, 1861. Their future coffins can be seen lying in front of them.
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 19:21:39 GMT -5
A Sno-Cat balanced precariously over a crevasse during the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, c.1955
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 19:22:27 GMT -5
Protests in Little Rock, Arkansas against the integration of nine black students into a white school, 1959
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 19:23:07 GMT -5
English pranksters disguised as Abyssinian royals get a tour of the HMS Dreadnought, 1910
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 19:24:05 GMT -5
A communist rally in Union Square, San Francisco, 1932
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 19:24:32 GMT -5
An archaeological excavation of a monastery graveyard (from c.1450) in Aarhus, Denmark. The grave shows a mother with her one year old child
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 19:25:10 GMT -5
A policeman directs buses in Trafalgar Square, May 1929
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 19:25:49 GMT -5
"If a woman needs it, should she be spanked?" News clipping from the New York Daily Mirror, c. 1950
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 19:26:57 GMT -5
An Inuit girl and her husky, 1950
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 19:27:32 GMT -5
Two young boys buying lemonade in Berlin, 1931
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 19:28:15 GMT -5
The winding “Burma Road”, used to supply China from India during WWII. 1942
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 19:28:59 GMT -5
interior view of Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya) in Istanbul, between 1888 and 1910
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 19:29:56 GMT -5
Carl Akeley posing with the leopard he killed with his bare hands, after it attacked him. 1896
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 19:30:52 GMT -5
Leonid Rogozov In 1961, Rogozov was stationed at a newly constructed Russian base in Antarctica. The 12 men inside were cut off from the outside world by the polar winter by March of that year. In April, the 27-year-old Rogozov began to feel ill, very ill. His symptoms were classic: he had acute appendicitis. "He knew that if he was to survive he had to undergo an operation," the British Medical Journal recounted. "But he was in the frontier conditions of a newly founded Antarctic colony on the brink of the polar night. Transportation was impossible. Flying was out of the question, because of the snowstorms. And there was one further problem: he was the only physician on the base." There was no question that he'd have to operate. The pain was intolerable and he knew he was getting worse. He recorded his thoughts in his journal: I did not sleep at all last night. It hurts like the devil! A snowstorm whipping through my soul, wailing like a hundred jackals. Still no obvious symptoms that perforation is imminent, but an oppressive feeling of foreboding hangs over me ... This is it ... I have to think through the only possible way out: to operate on myself ... It's almost impossible ... but I can't just fold my arms and give up. Operating mostly by feeling around, Rogozov worked for an hour and 45 minutes, cutting himself open and removing the appendix. The men he'd chosen as assistants watched as the "calm and focused" doctor completed the operation, resting every five minutes for a few seconds as he battled vertigo and weakness. He recalled the operation in a journal entry: I worked without gloves. It was hard to see. The mirror helps, but it also hinders -- after all, it's showing things backwards. I work mainly by touch. The bleeding is quite heavy, but I take my time -- I try to work surely. Opening the peritoneum, I injured the blind gut and had to sew it up. Suddenly it flashed through my mind: there are more injuries here and I didn't notice them ... I grow weaker and weaker, my head starts to spin. Every 4-5 minutes I rest for 20-25 seconds. Finally, here it is, the cursed appendage! With horror I notice the dark stain at its base. That means just a day longer and it would have burst and ... At the worst moment of removing the appendix I flagged: my heart seized up and noticeably slowed; my hands felt like rubber. Well, I thought, it's going to end badly. And all that was left was removing the appendix ... And then I realised that, basically, I was already saved. Two weeks later, he was back on regular duty. He died at the age of 66 in St. Petersburg in 2000.
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Post by suba on Oct 28, 2015 19:31:35 GMT -5
Mah Jongg on Venice Beach, California, in 1926.
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Post by gallito on Oct 28, 2015 21:43:48 GMT -5
Colombian soldier Cauca Indigenous demonstration 2012
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Post by gallito on Oct 28, 2015 21:48:04 GMT -5
Madrid civil war 1936
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Post by gallito on Oct 28, 2015 21:53:39 GMT -5
Plaza de Oriente. Autor: Alfonso. Madrid, hacia 1925.
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Post by gallito on Oct 28, 2015 22:00:03 GMT -5
Bogota April 9th 1948
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Post by gallito on Oct 28, 2015 22:04:06 GMT -5
Cuba
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Post by gallito on Oct 28, 2015 22:06:41 GMT -5
Madrid xmas 1925
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Post by barrumundi on Oct 29, 2015 9:21:05 GMT -5
This sort of fits in with the historic photos:
She was one of as many as 100,000 British children to be sent overseas to Canada, Australia and other Commonwealth countries as child migrants between 1869 and 1970.
Run by a partnership of charities, churches and governments, the schemes were sold as an opportunity for a better life for children from impoverished backgrounds and broken homes. In reality, an isolated and brutal childhood awaited many of them.
Pamela was one of an estimated 7,000 children to go to Australia, some as young as four. They were often given the false status of "orphans" to simplify proceedings - and most never saw their homes, or their families again.
www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34656346
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Post by suba on Oct 29, 2015 16:10:36 GMT -5
An idyllic forest in northern Germany in 1972... And again in 1983...
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Post by suba on Oct 29, 2015 16:11:28 GMT -5
French farmers get rid of thousands of tonnes of apples in 1984 as EC price guarantees lead to mass overproduction
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Post by suba on Oct 29, 2015 16:12:56 GMT -5
A KKK wedding in Sedro Woolley, Washington, 1926
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Post by suba on Oct 29, 2015 16:13:44 GMT -5
Peters Brothers shoe car, San Francisco, c. 1921
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