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Krankenstein · « **Reply #189951 on:** March 28, 2026, 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 #189952 on:** March 28, 2026, 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 #189953 on:** March 28, 2026, 05:08:34 AM »

Quote from: wes on March 28, 2026, 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 #189954 on:** March 28, 2026, 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 #189955 on:** March 28, 2026, 05:14:01 AM »

Quote from: Krankenstein on March 28, 2026, 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 #189956 on:** March 28, 2026, 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 #189957 on:** March 28, 2026, 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 #189958 on:** March 28, 2026, 05:24:38 AM »

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

wes · « **Reply #189959 on:** March 28, 2026, 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 #189960 on:** March 28, 2026, 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 #189961 on:** March 28, 2026, 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 #189962 on:** March 28, 2026, 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 #189963 on:** March 28, 2026, 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 #189964 on:** March 28, 2026, 06:21:50 AM »

herne · « **Reply #189965 on:** March 28, 2026, 06:34:56 AM »

YngiweRhoads · « **Reply #189966 on:** March 28, 2026, 06:36:34 AM »

Quote from: wes on March 28, 2026, 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 #189967 on:** March 28, 2026, 06:38:44 AM »

wes · « **Reply #189968 on:** March 28, 2026, 07:08:06 AM »

joswift · « **Reply #189969 on:** March 28, 2026, 07:42:45 AM »

Quote from: wes on March 28, 2026, 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 #189970 on:** March 28, 2026, 08:04:28 AM »

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

All look healty, and delicious 😋

joswift · « **Reply #189971 on:** March 28, 2026, 08:07:38 AM »

Quote from: Beefjake on March 28, 2026, 08:04:28 AM

All look healty, and delicious 😋

hairy bush?

Humble Narcissist · « **Reply #189972 on:** March 28, 2026, 08:43:03 AM »

Quote from: Beefjake on March 28, 2026, 08:04:28 AM

All look healty, and delicious 😋

No tats, colored hair, or nose piercings.

IroNat · « **Reply #189973 on:** March 28, 2026, 09:14:04 AM »

Quote from: Krankenstein on March 28, 2026, 04:40:48 AM

A photo of the Cassius M. Clay Battalion of the Union Army defending the White House and President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, April of 1861

Never knew the history of Muhammad Ali's birth name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassius_Marcellus_Clay

herne · « **Reply #189974 on:** March 28, 2026, 09:30:02 AM »