Sturgeon Posted March 15, 2015 Report Share Posted March 15, 2015 Aw yuss. Jeeps_Guns_Tanks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted March 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2015 Galleries of historical images often make the Imgur front page, and even if the text descriptions are not always 100% correct, they still are very interesting. I have decided to consolidate the historical picture threads here. Feel free to post stuff not on Imgur, of course.4-year-old Slick Willie: French opium parties. I imagine the world got much more exciting when people discovered cocaine: US memorial ceremony for those killed in the Hindenburg accident: The Looney Toons Roadrunner/Wile. E. Coyote formula: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T___A Posted March 16, 2015 Report Share Posted March 16, 2015 Texas German Newspaper announcing D-day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted March 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 Moar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted March 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2015 The latest one's pretty good: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted March 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2015 Excellent homologous photographs, taken 70 years apart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 The picture of the dead Whale shark is sickening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 The picture of the dead Whale shark is sickening. That was my Mayor. Donward and Sturgeon 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted March 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 More. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 I saw someone in Off Topic posted a link to National Review that had a photo montage of the Battle of Okinawa. Sure enough, they included the photo of my great uncle "Bud" Hocking who is the tall and gangly BAR man on the left. http://www.nationalreview.com/slideshows/battle-okinawa#3 And of course the Hocking cheekbones which all of the men in my family have. Sadly, Uncle Bud didn't survive the battle and - according to family lore - was shot by a "sniper" at Shuri Castle. A few months earlier, Bud was detailed as one of the Marines in President Roosevelt's funeral train honor guard since he was so tall and looked handsome in his uniform. And it was all unfair considering the war was already lost to everyone except the madmen running Japan. His mother saw this photo in one of news magazines of the day (I can't remember which one) and it became a family heirloom since it was the last photo of her favorite son which she never really quite got over. He's buried at Washelli Cemetary here in Seattle. We try to visit him on Memorial Day when he have the chance. Jeeps_Guns_Tanks and Sturgeon 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Sabiha Gokcen, Turkey's Female Fighter Pilot while having Armenian ancestry, possibly the first female fighter pilot ever. Suck it Emilia. Yemen, present day. T-34 forever. LoooSeR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Propaganda Posters LoooSeR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted April 6, 2015 Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 Fortifications in Peru from ~9th century AD; LoooSeR and Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted April 7, 2015 Report Share Posted April 7, 2015 Japan is and was weird. LoooSeR, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks, Xlucine and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted May 28, 2015 Report Share Posted May 28, 2015 General Bonesteel and his fucking eyepatch. Tied 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xlucine Posted May 28, 2015 Report Share Posted May 28, 2015 Someone name a tank after him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virdea Posted May 28, 2015 Report Share Posted May 28, 2015 The man is my great uncle McKeeby, whom I knew as Uncle Byron when we visited his grave. My Great Great Uncle is standing next to the trophy. He was the nut in our family and was constantly agitating for open marriage laws and annexation of the Philippines as a state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khand-e Posted May 28, 2015 Report Share Posted May 28, 2015 Well since it's historic, on this day in the 7th century in Imperial China under yet another civil war, Prince Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty would decimate the Xia army, capture the city of Luoyang, and set himself up to ultimately become the next emperor, taking the name Emperor Taizong of Tang upon his coronation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted May 29, 2015 Report Share Posted May 29, 2015 Prince Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty would decimate the Xia army, He left 90% of them alive? Weak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khand-e Posted May 29, 2015 Report Share Posted May 29, 2015 He left 90% of them alive? Weak Taking half of an enemies army captive after routing them when they outnumber you over 2.5 to 1 (5 to 1 if you count that up to half of his own army wasn't even in Luoyang at the time of the battle) is a pretty good win in my book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T___A Posted May 30, 2015 Report Share Posted May 30, 2015 President Wilson the 50 year anniversary of Gettysburg: Donward 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted May 30, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2015 For those who don't know, Wilson isn't the stoic looking fellow in beige in the front (that may be a relative), he's the guy in the top hat with bad teeth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted May 30, 2015 Report Share Posted May 30, 2015 That is some spectacularly good color retouching! Sturgeon and Jeeps_Guns_Tanks 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tied Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 Venezuelan soldier clutches at a priest during the El Porteñazo uprising June 4, 1962. Not a religious man, but i always liked this photo A couple sharing an intimate moment in Kraków, Poland in 1970. Good ol days Sandinista barricade during last days of fighting in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, 1979 Two Soviet officers resting near road with glasses of alcohol and shooting the breeze. Circa 1945. M-36 doing M-36 things. Dec. 16 1944 A dog walking through the rubble in the Basque city of Gernika/Guernica after the bombings, late April 1937 Commandos of No. 4 Commando, 1st Special Service Brigade, aboard a LCI(S) landing craft on their approach to Queen Red beach, Sword area, 6th June 1944. Member of 16th Recon Co., 1st Cavalry Div., sets fuses on daisy chain of anti-tank mines in Korea, Nov. 10, 1951 Sturgeon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted June 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 Excellent post, Tied. At the risk of appearing to miss the point of the first photo, the rifle laying on the ground is an FAL, and may be a 7.62x51mm conversion from the earlier 7x49mm Liviano round, a round only ever used by Venezuala in the only purchase of FALs in a caliber other than 7.62x51mm by a nation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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