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Krankenstein · « **Reply #189950 on:** **Today** at 04:58:52 AM »

Oscar the Grouch was orange during the first season of Sesame Street, but that wasn't meant to be his original color. Originally, Jim Henson wanted Oscar's fur to be magenta. However, color TVs at the time couldn't really process magenta very well, so Jim settled on orange. Though, he then changed his mind and gave Oscar his signature green fur for Season 2 — with Oscar explaining the color change was a result of him being covered in mold and slime after a vacation to a swamp

Krankenstein · « **Reply #189951 on:** **Today** at 04:59:48 AM »

Carlo Rambaldi was an Italian special effects artist who helped create two of the most iconic movie aliens ever. He designed the head mechanisms for the alien in Alien and designed E.T.

Donny · « **Reply #189952 on:** **Today** at 05:00:14 AM »

Krankenstein · « **Reply #189953 on:** **Today** at 05:04:47 AM »

This is one of the last photos of James Dean alive. He was filling up his Porsche at a gas station in LA's Sherman Oaks neighborhood before driving up to participate in the Salinas Road Race — he would die a few hours after this photo was taken

wes · « **Reply #189954 on:** **Today** at 05:05:53 AM »

Actor Johnny Eck, who was born with an underdeveloped lower torso, poses for a promotional photo for the famous movie ‘Freaks,’ 1932.

A crowd watching a British airship fly over the port of Ostend during WWI, 1914.

Charles Godefroy flies through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. The height of the opening is 29.42 m, the width is 14.62 m. The wingspan of the aircraft is 9 meters wide, 1919.

Krankenstein · « **Reply #189955 on:** **Today** at 05:08:34 AM »

Quote from: wes on Today at 05:05:53 AM

Actor Johnny Eck, who was born with an underdeveloped lower torso, poses for a promotional photo for the famous movie ‘Freaks,’ 1932.

A crowd watching a British airship fly over the port of Ostend during WWI, 1914.

Charles Godefroy flies through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. The height of the opening is 29.42 m, the width is 14.62 m. The wingspan of the aircraft is 9 meters wide, 1919.

Wes.....

1) Did you ever hang out with him?

2) What was it like on that Airship?

3) Did you hit a front double bi as he flew through it?

wes · « **Reply #189956 on:** **Today** at 05:10:22 AM »

A circus performer in an aquarium car with crocodiles, Berlin, 1933.

An iron man of the past in a diving suit. The suit’s name was ‘Iron man’ too. It had electric charging and pressure protection systems. New York, 1907.

Soviet cryptographer Igor Guzenko, 1945. In this photo, he hid his face for an interview with Soul Pett from the Associated Press. Guzenko worked at the Soviet embassy in Ottawa and fled to the West in 1945. He brought more than a hundred classified documents and information from the Soviet spy network in Canada; 29 spies were arrested and convicted afterwards. Guzenko received an impressive reward, a mansion, and political asylum.

wes · « **Reply #189957 on:** **Today** at 05:14:01 AM »

Quote from: Krankenstein on Today at 05:08:34 AM

Wes.....

1) Did you ever hang out with him?

2) What was it like on that Airship?

3) Did you hit a front double bi as he flew through it?

yes to all 3........the airship was turbulent!!

wes · « **Reply #189958 on:** **Today** at 05:15:51 AM »

Italian traveler Attilio Gatti with two hired pygmies and a gorilla caught by them in the Belgian Congo, 1930.

wes · « **Reply #189959 on:** **Today** at 05:20:26 AM »

Adolf Hitler in the national trousers of the Tyroleans and Bavarians called lederhosen. 1927.

8-year-old Freddie McIntosh in a sun protection suit. The boy’s skin is very sensitive to daylight due to illness.

wes · « **Reply #189960 on:** **Today** at 05:24:38 AM »

Hippies at the original 1969 Woodstock festival sell LSD for just one dollar.

wes · « **Reply #189961 on:** **Today** at 05:36:34 AM »

Bonnie and Clyde goof around with a rifle. The outlaws left a camera with a number of photos like this at a crime scene, feeding the appetite of newspaper readers following their crime spree.

wes · « **Reply #189962 on:** **Today** at 05:37:57 AM »

New Yorkers pause in Times Square to watch the last episode of Seinfeld. The popular "show about nothing" ran for nine seasons and ended in 1998.

wes · « **Reply #189963 on:** **Today** at 05:40:05 AM »

A group of beaming Soviet snipers during World War II. The Soviet Union trained about 2,000 women as snipers.One of them, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, killed 300 people single-handedly.

wes · « **Reply #189964 on:** **Today** at 05:44:10 AM »

Diana Bryant (bottom) and Tiare Jones fall from the collapsed fire escape of their burning building on Marlborough Street in Boston just before firefighters could save them. July 22, 1975.

Bryant soon died as a result of her injuries, while Jones, who landed on Bryant's body, did not.

wes · « **Reply #189965 on:** **Today** at 05:45:45 AM »

This photograph of the devastating impact of a napalm attack on June 8, 1972 remains the most iconic image of the Vietnam War. The girl in the center of the photograph is nine-year-old Kim Phúc, who is running away from the attack with severe burns.

wes · « **Reply #189966 on:** **Today** at 06:21:50 AM »

herne · « **Reply #189967 on:** **Today** at 06:34:56 AM »

YngiweRhoads · « **Reply #189968 on:** **Today** at 06:36:34 AM »

Quote from: wes on Today at 05:24:38 AM

Hippies at the original 1969 Woodstock festival sell LSD for just one dollar.

We used to pay around 5 bucks a hit back in the day.

herne · « **Reply #189969 on:** **Today** at 06:38:44 AM »

wes · « **Reply #189970 on:** **Today** at 07:08:06 AM »

joswift · « **Reply #189971 on:** **Today** at 07:42:45 AM »

Quote from: wes on Today at 05:45:45 AM

This photograph of the devastating impact of a napalm attack on June 8, 1972 remains the most iconic image of the Vietnam War. The girl in the center of the photograph is nine-year-old Kim Phúc, who is running away from the attack with severe burns.

Nah,,, Prince Andrew just parachuted in...

Beefjake · « **Reply #189972 on:** **Today** at 08:04:28 AM »

Quote from: wes on March 27, 2026, 11:28:58 AM

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joswift · « **Reply #189973 on:** **Today** at 08:07:38 AM »

Quote from: Beefjake on Today at 08:04:28 AM

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hairy bush?

Humble Narcissist · « **Reply #189974 on:** **Today** at 08:43:03 AM »

Quote from: Beefjake on Today at 08:04:28 AM

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No tats, colored hair, or nose piercings.