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Not sure if we've had this before, but here goes anyway. The name says it all, lets see some choice historical pictures and an explanation if you can.

I will start with a few pictures.


Here's Adolf Hitler at age 11



Here he is being released from prison after a year for treason. I think 1924



Atlanta. About a year or two before Sherman came through.



Teddy Roosevelt at Lincoln's Funeral.



London readers in library after bombing

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Swearing in of Lincoln at different angle




Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson




Union veterans viewing Gen. Warren statue on Little Round Top at the 25th reunion of Battle of Gettysburg in 1913.




Artistic Impression of the Battle of Clontarf, 1014



The photo was taken sometime in the early 1880's by William H. Tipton, a Gettyburg resident and photographer of the Battlefield for many years.
This is the McPherson Farm on McPherson's Ridge. The only stricture that still remains today is the barn.



The first flag raising on Mt Suribachi:



The iconic flag raising on Mt Suribachi:

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The Treaty of Versailles




The first ever commercial flight by a Concorde jet (by BA) to Bahrain




Wild Bill, Texas Jack and Buffalo Bill Cody




Geronimo, the last Apache holdout:



Robert Cornish, the man whom had he survived the war would've been my grandfather. He married my grandmother the night before he shipped out to Singapore where he was captured and died at hellfire pass in Thailand.



Taken shortly after jioing the Royal Signalers

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Somewhere in Singapore/Malaysia




Winston Churchill in 1880



Paris athletic club 1913




Prostitute and slave 1900 Persia



Hiroshima before and after. Take a guess which is which



first picture ever taken, 1826




Disney brothers, wives, and mother the day they opened Disney studios in 1923.

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Chernobyl





First photograph of a tornado, 1884.



Ghandi law offices




Himmler with family right after Himmler got back from Oktoberfest in Munich



John Lennon signing an autograph for the man who would kill him a couple of hours later.




churchill and Eisenhower shooting sub machine guns




Atlantic city 1915.




Boardwalk 1904



1905

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Colorized Custer and Union troops



Chicago dance marathon (ending) in 1930



Escobar visiting the USA



moulin rouge 1914



London skyline obscured by smoke during the blitz.

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French resistance fighters being executed by
Nazis



Lowering the flag on the sinking Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Last remaining carrier of the 6 that carried out the attack on Pearl Harbor.






German soldier Joseph Schultz choosing to die alongside the POWs instead of shooting them (allegedly)



Jefferson Davis and Varina Howell wedding picture 1845





Federal agents inspect lumber truck 1926




Lincoln's first photo




German WWII Pow Camp -- Russian prisoners from the outset of Operation Barbarossa.

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French soldiers, WWI




Christmas truce soccer game



1930: woman waits at train station.




1930: workers repave 28th street NY



Times square 1900




Babe Ruth, just before he died. The Yale baseball player is George H. W. Bush, 41st President if the US.

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Black man hanged by Union soldiers for "insulting a white woman".


The field of public relations being very much in its infancy, the upshot of this salutary demonstration seems not to have been conveyed to its target audience; so, when a defending Confederate battery caught sight of the gallows being thrown up in brazen view of its own lines, it jumped to the not-unreasonable conclusion that the Yanks were about to make an example of a southern spy. Rebel guns promptly made the Union detachment their “target audience.” An artillery shot struck one Sgt. Maj. G. F. Polley (or Polly) and “tore him all to pieces” before
[a] flag of truce was sent out to inform the enemy that a negro was to be hung who had insulted a white woman the day before; they stopped firing. We then marched back and saw the negro hung.
The return on investment for the souls of Johnson and the misfortunate NCO was altogether unsatisfactory:
The incident was cleverly turned to advantage by the Confederates, who had been losing hundreds of Negro laborers by desertion. The Rebels marched Negroes past the spot, pointing out to them the perils of fleeing their lines, saying that the Yankees hanged all ‘Contrabands.’ For weeks nocturnal escapes of Negroes ceased on that front.



Confederate infantrymen, members of the Army of Northern Virginia, pause at the corner of Market and Patrick streets (an intersection known as the Square Corner) in Frederick, Maryland. This candid image was probably taken on September 12, 1862, two days prior to the Battle of South Mountain, by an unknown photographer who was perched on the second floor above Jacob Rosenstock's Dry Good & Clothing Store. This is believed to be the only extant photograph of Confederate soldiers marching in columns.




Photographer J. D. Edwards of New Orleans took this photo of a group of the 9th Mississippi Infantry at Pensacola, Florida, early in the war. From the left the men are James Pegues, Kinloch Falconer, John Fennel, James Cunningham, Thomas W. Falconer, James Simms, and John T. Smith. Kinloch Falconer went on during the war to become Assistant Adjutant General of the Army of Tennessee.





Photo of the Port Gibson Riflemen, Company K, 10th Mississippi Infantry, at Pensacola, Florida, in 1861. The image was taken by New Orleans photographer J. E. Edwards.



Hitler youth honor an unknown soldier by forming a swastika symbol on Aug. 27, 1933 in Germany.




America's Jesse Owens, center, salutes during the presentation of his gold medal for the long jump on August 11, 1936, after defeating Nazi Germany's Lutz Long, right, during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Naoto Tajima of Japan, left, placed third. Owens triumphed in the track and field competition by winning four gold medals in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes, long jump and 400-meter relay. He was the first athlete to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games.




Jimmy Stewart, former movie star, is sworn in as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Corps by Lt. E.L. Reid, personnel officer of the west coast training center at Moffett Field, California, on January 1, 1941. Stewart was one of Hollywood's most popular actors before he was inducted into the Army in 1941.




Captured Japanese photograph taken during the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. In the distance, the smoke rises from Hickam Field.



In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, eight miles from Pearl Harbor, shrapnel from a Japanese bomb riddled this car and killed three civilians in the attack of December 7, 1941. Two of the victims can be seen in the front seat. The Navy reported there was no nearby military target.




The terrible damage done to Tokyo by American bombers can be seen in what was once a residential district in the Japanese capital, viewed months later, on September 10, 1945. Only large well constructed buildings remain intact.




Across the Channel, Britain was being struck by continual bombardment by thousands of V-1 and V-2 bombs launched from German-controlled territory. This photo, taken from a fleet street roof-top, shows a V-1 flying bomb "buzzbomb" plunging toward central London. The distinctive sky-line of London's law-courts clearly locates the scene of the incident. Falling on a side road off Drury Lane, this bomb blasted several buildings, including the office of the Daily Herald. The last enemy action of British soil was a V-1 attack that struck Datchworth in Hertfordshire, on March 29 1945.

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i can post only 10 pictures per post....


One year after the D-Day landings in Normandy, German prisoners landscape the first U.S. cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France, near "Omaha" Beach, on May 28, 1945.




This one always kinda tripped me out. It's the entire population of a small town in Germany during WWII training for what to do in case of a chemical attack.



At 5:12 A.M. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, an earthquake woke up residents of San Francisco and tossed them from their beds. Little did they know that it was going to be one of the deadliest natural disasters in the history of the United States.

The earthquake itself only lasted about 45 seconds, but it was estimated to have been between 7.8 and 8.3 on the Richter scale, which wasn't invented until 1935. When the earth stopped shaking, few people realized that San Francisco's cataclysm had only just begun. Almost immediately, downed power lines, broken gas lines, and damaged chimneys ignited widespread fires. Worse, the quake had cracked the city's massive clay water mains, leaving firefighters virtually without water.





First game at original Yankee Stadium




Cuban President Fidel Castro replies to President Kennedy's naval blockade via Cuban radio and television, on October 23, 1962.



U.S. Army anti-aircraft rockets, mounted on launchers and pointed out over the Florida Straits in Key West, Florida, on October 27, 1962.

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The Kennedy trio in the mid 30s as teenagers; John, Bobby and Teddy.




Canal Street, 1960



Huey Long lying in state.



The body of the alleged assassin, Dr. Weiss



Astronaut John Glenn, aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury Capsule launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on February 20, 1962, sending the first American into orbit.



A photo of a nuclear bomb detonated by the French government at the Mururoa atoll, French Polynesia



A longer-exposure photograph of the Trinity explosion seconds after detonation on July 16, 1945.




Upshot-Knothole Grable, a test carried out by the U.S. military in Nevada on May 25, 1953.



The flash of the exploding nuclear warhead of an air-to-air rocket is shown as a bright sun in the eastern sky at 7:30 a.m. July 19, 1957 at Indian Springs Air Force Base, some 30 miles away from the point of detonation. A Scorpion, sister ship of the launching aircraft, is in the foreground.

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Front Street, Juneau 1908. "All White Help."



Japanese bombing of Unalaska/Dutch Harbor in WWII that killed 25. Japanese launched two bombing attacks from air craft carriers on Dutch, and occupied two of the Aleutian Islands.




USS Macon under construction:




The Mt. St. Helens eruption was one of the most destructive in modern U.S. History. The eruption column alone was over 80,000 ft high and the mudslide created by the melted snow and ice created a swath of destruction that stretched out for over 50 miles. The entire North face of the mountain literally exploded.

The Mt. St. Helens eruption was one of the most destructive in modern U.S. History. The eruption column alone was over 80,000 ft high and the mudslide created by the melted snow and ice created a swath of destruction that stretched out for over 50 miles. The entire North face of the mountain literally exploded.

The eruption occurred over several days in March starting with a 4.0 earthquake and then the first major eruption on March 27. The side of the mount exploded as groundwater came in contact with magma ejecting rock and volcanic ash into the atmosphere. The force of the successive explosions equaled 25 megatons of force which was 1,600 times as powerful as the nuclear warhead that was dropped on Hiroshima with a blast radius of over 19 miles. The blast traveled at the speed of sound mowing down acres of forest. The heat of the gases were so intense that even trees that escaped the destruction ended up having their bark singed.

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Galveston hurricane 1900






Hindenburg Disaster

It was 75 years ago the hydrogen-filled German airship Hindenburg burned and crashed in Lakehurst, killing 35 of the 97 people on board and a Navy crewman on the ground.

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JFK trying to calm down LBJ on the campaign trail




Muhammad Ali//Sonny Liston, 1964




The sinking of the SMS Blücher German battle cruiser at the battle Dogger Bank in WWI.



Roger Bannister runs first 4 minute mile




The Bombing of Dresden was an attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, that took place in the final months of the Second World War. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 722 heavy bombers of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the city.[1] The resulting firestorm destroyed fifteen square miles (39 square kilometres) of the city centre. At least 22,000, at most 25,000 people were killed. Post-war discussion of whether or not the attacks were justified has led to the bombing becoming one of the moral causes célèbres of the Second World War.[

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The Great Tri-State Tornado of Wednesday, March 18, 1925, was the deadliest tornado in U.S. history. Inflicting 695 fatalities, the tornado killed more than twice as many as the second deadliest, the 1840 Great Natchez Tornado. The continuous =219 mile (=352 km) track left by the tornado was the longest ever recorded in the world: the tornado crossed from southeastern Missouri, through southern Illinois, then into southwestern Indiana. Although not officially rated by NOAA, it is recognized by most experts (such as Tom Grazulis) as an F5 tornado, the maximal damage rating issued on the Fujita scale









pics of the spruce goose

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Making of Mount Rushmore







High winds during the Columbus Day Storm (October 12, 1962) topples the Campbell Hall Tower on the campus of Western Oregon State College in Monmouth near Salem where 90 mph wind gusts were measured




Rare Color photos from the 30s & 40s







Grand Grocery Co., Lincoln, Nebraska in 1942





Mountaineers and farmers trading mules and horses on "Jockey St.," near the Court House, Campton, Wolfe County, Ky. (1941)




Catfish shack Natchitoches, La. (1940)




Farm auction, Derby, Conn. (1940)

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Jim Henson and Bert.



CIA experiment giving LSD to a college student.





Steve Martin working at Disneyland.




Adam West and Burt Ward on set.




August Landmesser (born May 24, 1910; missing and presumed dead Oct 17, 1944; declared dead in 1949) was a worker at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany, best known for his appearance in a photograph refusing to perform the Nazi salute at the launch of the naval training vessel Horst Wessel on 13 June 1936.

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Native American 1898



The battleships West Virginia and Tennessee burning after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941.

Bill Gates, about 27, in his Microsoft office in 1982.



Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs




Bill Gates watches his friend and future Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen typing on a teletype terminal at the Lakeside School in Seattle in 1968.

Gates was 13 when he entered the exclusive prep school, which was around the time this photo was taken.



In 1977, Gates was arrested by New Mexico police for speeding

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Firemen equipped in full chemical suits taking part in a gas attack training exercise, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 1938








The Five Known X-ray Photographs of Hitler's head, circa 1944


Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Warren G. Harding, and Harvey Firestone, 1921



International forensic experts examine dozens of bodies in a mass grave in the Serb entity of Pilicer, Bosnia, in a Sept. 18, 1996.



Workers restoring the newly relocated temple of Abu Simbel, Egypt, 1968

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Photograph of Robert F. Kennedy lying wounded on the floor immediately after the shooting.




Soldier from the SS gives water to a wounded Soviet.




Local German girl forced to witness the mass grave of hundreds of slave worked murdered by the SS.



Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania, was responsible for saving ~6,000-10,000 Jews by giving out Visas against orders. Would routinely write a months worth of Visas in a single day. On the day his office closed and he was forced to leave he was seen throwing out blank Visas at the train station for Jews to fill out in order to escape the Germans.

Two Marines share foxhole with orphan on Okinawa.



Marines help elderly man on Okinawa.




Hans and Sophie Scholl, German siblings who started the White Rose resistance group with friends and a professor. Both were executed by guillotine along with other members.




The severed head of Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, who committed ritual suicide after a failed coup attempt in 1970.

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1923 FA Cup Final

A crowd estimated up to 300,000 began spilling onto the field and mounted policemen were called in to help disperse it, led by George Scorey and his horse Billie. Although there were other horses, Billie's image became iconic. The match eventually started 45 mins late and is still known as the White Horse Final, even though Billie was actually gray.





Howard Clifford running off the Tacoma Narrows Bridge during collapse, Tacoma, Washington, November 7, 1940




1955 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race, when a crash caused large pieces of racing car debris to fly into the crowd. Eighty-three spectators and driver Pierre Levegh died at the scene, whilst 120 more were injured in the most catastrophic accident in motorsport history.





Horace Greasley standing defiantly against Himmler. Greasley was a British POW who escaped from his POW camp over 200 times to carry on a fling with a local German woman. He returned to his camp each night.

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Wreck of Queen Elizabeth in Hong Kong 1972




Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)

Hitler Youth






Russian prisoners roughly 1907

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Remnants of German 6th Army surrender at Stalingrad



Jack Pierce applying makeup to Boris Karloff for the 1931 classic Frankenstein

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Mission Control celebrates successful splashdown of Apollo 13




Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee




9/11 pic taken by the only person not on earth at that time.



President Ford looks at the Word Trade Center Shortly after it's completion 1974




Raising of the CSS Hunley in 2000 in Charleston, SC. 1st sub ever to sink a military ship when it did so in 1864 in an attempt to find someway to block the Union blockade. Of course it never returned from that mission.



The golden staircase

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No details were available for this photo, but though it was a great photo of Native Americans.




Eiffel Tower buying built



Everest conquered for the first time, 1953.





1935 | SOUTH DAKOTA, UNITED STATES - The National Geographic-Army Air Corps stratosphere balloon Explorer II prepares to rise from the Stratobowl near Rapid City, S.D., on Nov 11, 1935. It carried two “aeronauts” 72,395 feet (nearly 14 miles) into the stratosphere — the highest men would go for the next 21 years. (Photo by H. Lee Wells) #



Destin Harbor 1964 and 2004. The first one is a shot from Dr. Strangelove. There is a bomber between the upper left harbor and the sand of the beach.

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1909 Bohemian Grove photo which appears to show and African American child being carried on a makeshift stretcher, to the delight of Grove members





Virgin pine trees, Bogalusa Forest:




Rudols Hess, Deputy Führer (1933 - 1941) hopped in a Messerschmitt Bf 110 in March 1941 and flew to Scotland to attempt a negotiated peace with Britain (he did not have Hitler's approval). He was with Hitler during the 1923 " Beer Hall Putsch" and was sentenced to Landsberg Prison with Hitler and the other future Nazi leaders. While there, he helped write and edit Mein Kampf.

Hess and Hitler at Landsberg Prison



Rudolf Hess, family man




Hitler and his #2




Hess at the Nuremberg Rally





(L to R) Rudolph Hess, Joachim Von Ribbentrop and Hermann Goering sitting in the defendants' box during the Nuremberg trials. 1946




More Hess at Nuremberg:






Hess was given a life sentence for his crimes and sent to Spandau Prison, in the British sector of Berlin, where he remained until 1987. At the time of his suicide, he was the only inmate in the prison.