Pictures that say 1000 words (some pretty disturbing)
07-10-2013
, 09:39 PM
Some chain email from my wife's grandpa, first one I found interesting in quite awhile. I know some have been posted here before, and not all are "1000 words worthy" but whatever. The captions aren't mine either.
A boxing match on board the USS Oregon in 1897.
Albert Einstein looking fabulous.
Samurai taken between 1860 and 1880.
A shell shocked reindeer looks on as World War II planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941
Roy O. and Walt Disney on the day they opened Disney Studios.
Che Guevara.
Young Bill Gates ---- & ----The Microsoft staff in 1978. 11 people - 2 women 5 beards
The last known Tasmanian Tiger photographed in 1933. The species is now extinct.
A different angle taken of "Tank Man," the man who stood against a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square .
He is standing in the street between the tree trunk and the fleeing man. You can see the tanks approaching from the right.
Winston Churchill out for a swim. Typical swim suit of the day
The London sky following a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940.
Martin Luther King, Jr removes a burned cross from his yard in 1960. The boy is his son.
Google begins. 34 people here
Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945.
A Native American overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in 1868.
The Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake of 1906.
A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.
The original Ronald McDonald -- played by Willard Scott!
Hitler in Paris.
Grounded aircraft on September 11, 2001 await orders.
British SAS back from a three month long patrol of North Africa , January 18, 1943.
Disneyland employee cafeteria in 1961.
The first McDonalds. - buy em by the bag ---- on the sign
Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.
California lumberjacks work on Redwoods. Thousands of tree rings in these ancient trees each over 1000+ years old or even much older........such a shame - irreplaceable giants- national park treasures all gone but a few - what kind of men would do such a thing for over 100 years ---
Destroy something they cannot ever fix or replace for 2000 years?
It is an evergreen, long-lived, monoecious tree living 1200–1800 years or more. ...
An estimated 95% or more of the original old-growth redwood forest has been cut
In 1850, old-growth redwood forest covered more than 2,000,000 acres
(8,100 acres by... 1968, by which time nearly 90% of the original redwood trees had been logged.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated in 1914, an event that helped spark World War I.
The 1912 World Series.
Bill and Hillary Clinton playing volleyball in 1975. A future US President
Elvis in the Army.
The first photo following the discovery of Machu Pichu in 1912.
Child laborers in 1880.
New York 's Times Square in 1911.
Construction of Christ the Redeemer in Rio da Janeiro , Brazil .
Steamboats on the Mississippi River in 1907.
(Pope note: Doesn't quite look like a photo to me)
Leo Tolstoy tells a story to his grandchildren in 1909.
The Beatles meet Muhammad Ali.
The construction of Disneyland .
Arnold Schwarzenegger on the day he received his American citizenship.
Fourteen year-old Osama bin Laden. He's second from the right. - bell bottom pants - pink car - expensive shops, nice threads, About 24 people out smiling --- looking hip for the day and not one woman has their face or head covered.
(Pope note: Have no ****ing idea about this one, almost didn't include it. Make your own judgement on if what the caption is claiming is true)
A boxing match on board the USS Oregon in 1897.
Albert Einstein looking fabulous.
Samurai taken between 1860 and 1880.
A shell shocked reindeer looks on as World War II planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941
Roy O. and Walt Disney on the day they opened Disney Studios.
Che Guevara.
Young Bill Gates ---- & ----The Microsoft staff in 1978. 11 people - 2 women 5 beards
The last known Tasmanian Tiger photographed in 1933. The species is now extinct.
A different angle taken of "Tank Man," the man who stood against a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square .
He is standing in the street between the tree trunk and the fleeing man. You can see the tanks approaching from the right.
Winston Churchill out for a swim. Typical swim suit of the day
The London sky following a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940.
Martin Luther King, Jr removes a burned cross from his yard in 1960. The boy is his son.
Google begins. 34 people here
Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945.
A Native American overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in 1868.
The Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake of 1906.
A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.
The original Ronald McDonald -- played by Willard Scott!
Hitler in Paris.
Grounded aircraft on September 11, 2001 await orders.
British SAS back from a three month long patrol of North Africa , January 18, 1943.
Disneyland employee cafeteria in 1961.
The first McDonalds. - buy em by the bag ---- on the sign
Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.
California lumberjacks work on Redwoods. Thousands of tree rings in these ancient trees each over 1000+ years old or even much older........such a shame - irreplaceable giants- national park treasures all gone but a few - what kind of men would do such a thing for over 100 years ---
Destroy something they cannot ever fix or replace for 2000 years?
It is an evergreen, long-lived, monoecious tree living 1200–1800 years or more. ...
An estimated 95% or more of the original old-growth redwood forest has been cut
In 1850, old-growth redwood forest covered more than 2,000,000 acres
(8,100 acres by... 1968, by which time nearly 90% of the original redwood trees had been logged.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated in 1914, an event that helped spark World War I.
The 1912 World Series.
Bill and Hillary Clinton playing volleyball in 1975. A future US President
Elvis in the Army.
The first photo following the discovery of Machu Pichu in 1912.
Child laborers in 1880.
New York 's Times Square in 1911.
Construction of Christ the Redeemer in Rio da Janeiro , Brazil .
Steamboats on the Mississippi River in 1907.
(Pope note: Doesn't quite look like a photo to me)
Leo Tolstoy tells a story to his grandchildren in 1909.
The Beatles meet Muhammad Ali.
The construction of Disneyland .
Arnold Schwarzenegger on the day he received his American citizenship.
Fourteen year-old Osama bin Laden. He's second from the right. - bell bottom pants - pink car - expensive shops, nice threads, About 24 people out smiling --- looking hip for the day and not one woman has their face or head covered.
(Pope note: Have no ****ing idea about this one, almost didn't include it. Make your own judgement on if what the caption is claiming is true)
07-10-2013
, 09:51 PM
Hey, I have one of those.
07-10-2013
, 10:02 PM
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, 10:16 PM
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, 10:31 PM
07-10-2013
, 10:40 PM
California flood, Dec 1965.
Smoke Street, Brazil, 1930s.
Smoke Street, Brazil, 1930s.
Last edited by ObezyankaNol; 07-10-2013 at 10:52 PM.
07-10-2013
, 11:13 PM
Quote:
Fourteen year-old Osama bin Laden. He's second from the right. - bell bottom pants - pink car - expensive shops, nice threads, About 24 people out smiling --- looking hip for the day and not one woman has their face or head covered.
(Pope note: Have no ****ing idea about this one, almost didn't include it. Make your own judgement on if what the caption is claiming is true)
(Pope note: Have no ****ing idea about this one, almost didn't include it. Make your own judgement on if what the caption is claiming is true)
07-10-2013
, 11:34 PM
For those who enjoyed that_pope's post
https://twitter.com/History_Pics/media/grid
Big Jay McNeely 1951 Los Angeles
The last public hanging in the USA, in Owensboro, Kentucky. 1936
Ruby Bridges, the first black child to attend a white elementary school in the South. 1960
A small white boy touches the riot shield of a black state trooper at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Atlanta, Georgia, 1992.
79 years ago Mussolini met Hitler for the 1st time. He later described Hitler as "a silly little monkey". 1934
https://twitter.com/History_Pics/media/grid
Big Jay McNeely 1951 Los Angeles
The last public hanging in the USA, in Owensboro, Kentucky. 1936
Spoiler:
Ruby Bridges, the first black child to attend a white elementary school in the South. 1960
A small white boy touches the riot shield of a black state trooper at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Atlanta, Georgia, 1992.
79 years ago Mussolini met Hitler for the 1st time. He later described Hitler as "a silly little monkey". 1934
Last edited by Banned4lyfe; 07-10-2013 at 11:40 PM.
07-11-2013
, 12:07 PM
Quote:
Fourteen year-old Osama bin Laden. He's second from the right. - bell bottom pants - pink car - expensive shops, nice threads, About 24 people out smiling --- looking hip for the day and not one woman has their face or head covered.
(Pope note: Have no ****ing idea about this one, almost didn't include it. Make your own judgement on if what the caption is claiming is true)
(Pope note: Have no ****ing idea about this one, almost didn't include it. Make your own judgement on if what the caption is claiming is true)
Quote:
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The 14-year-old Osama, smiling in a young, vulnerable way, stands second from right. The photograph in all its brittle colour glory is genuinely fascinating. In the green jumper stands Bin Laden before Bin Laden, a boy whose destiny you cannot conceivably read in his face.
07-11-2013
, 12:53 PM
The people on top look photoshopped - are they on top of the car?
07-11-2013
, 01:46 PM
i think 2nd from the right in the front row might make since (Green sweater & pimp hat). Bin laden had a pretty light skin tone iirc.
07-11-2013
, 01:51 PM
Fixed your post.