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Marty Champions · « **Reply #35975 on:** July 02, 2013, 04:55:58 PM »

Quote from: bradistani on July 02, 2013, 03:08:14 PM

dam this bitch needs to be mine

bradistani · « **Reply #35976 on:** July 02, 2013, 04:56:57 PM »

Paul Overby, one of two drivers trapped in the cab of a truck, is pulled to safety by a rope on the Pit River Bridge, over Shasta Lake, California on 3 May 1953. Overby and co-driver Hank Baum were rescued moments before the cab crashed and burned the rocks below. Virginia Schau was on fishing trip when she saw the accident, she grabbed her camera as her husband and another motorist rescued the drivers. Schau’s photo won the $10 prize in the Sacramento Bee’s weekly photo contest as well as making her the first woman and second amateur to win the Pulitzer prize for photography

bradistani · « **Reply #35977 on:** July 02, 2013, 04:57:34 PM »

Ham the chimpanzee photographed in his space suit which was fitted into the nose cone of the Mercury Redstone rocket

Ham became the first chimpanzee in space on 31 January 1961. He reached an altitude of 157 miles and speed of 5857 mph, during which he was weightless for 6.6 minutes. Ham was apparently only slightly fatigued and dehydrated after his ordeal

bradistani · « **Reply #35978 on:** July 02, 2013, 04:58:48 PM »

On 22 June 1937, in Chicago’s Comiskey Park, Joe Louis became world heavyweight champion by defeating James J Braddock, known as Cinderella Man. Louis was the first African American champion since Jack Johnson in 1915. He subsequently went on to hold the title for twelve years, defending his title twenty five times

Pictured here is Joe working on the beach with Carl Nelson.

bradistani · « **Reply #35979 on:** July 02, 2013, 04:59:57 PM »

This is a handwritten (!) newspaper, produced by Confederate POWs in Fort Delaware during the last year of the war

Kwon_2 · « **Reply #35980 on:** July 02, 2013, 05:00:06 PM »

bradistani · « **Reply #35981 on:** July 02, 2013, 05:01:47 PM »

Redwood forest lumberjacks in Northwest California by Swedish photographer A.W. Ericson, late 19th century

bradistani · « **Reply #35982 on:** July 02, 2013, 05:02:47 PM »

This maddening “literacy" test, administered to prospective voters in Louisiana before the Voting Rights Act made that illegal, will turn your brain to mush

bradistani · « **Reply #35983 on:** July 02, 2013, 05:03:48 PM »

Allied soldiers mock Hitler atop his balcony at the Reich Chancellery, by Fred Ramage, 1945

bradistani · « **Reply #35984 on:** July 02, 2013, 05:04:37 PM »

Young boys play in Whitby harbour, 1886.

bradistani · « **Reply #35985 on:** July 02, 2013, 05:05:30 PM »

Poverty causes a mother to use an old Coca-Cola bottle as a baby bottle for her children, California, 1939

bradistani · « **Reply #35986 on:** July 02, 2013, 05:06:25 PM »

Soldiers of the 101st Airborne escort the Little Rock Nine students into an all white high school, Little Rock, Arkansas 1957

bradistani · « **Reply #35987 on:** July 02, 2013, 05:08:28 PM »

The Berlin Airlift begins 65 years ago, June 24, 1948

WORLD IN FILM. Issue no. 176, 100 DAYS OF BLOCKADE, 1948

On June 24, 1948, Soviet forces began a blockade of West Berlin, severing all land connections between the city and western Europe. In response, U.S. and British Commonwealth Forces launched the Berlin Airlift (aka “Operation Vittles” for the Americans) to supply their garrisons and the population of Berlin.

At its height, the airlift delivered 5000 tons of supplies daily, including food, milk and coal, with aircraft arriving at Berlin every 30 seconds (at multiple airports). The blockade was eventually lifted on May 12, 1949.

bradistani · « **Reply #35988 on:** July 02, 2013, 05:09:25 PM »

The oldest pencil in the world, found in timbered house built in 1630

bradistani · « **Reply #35989 on:** July 02, 2013, 05:11:05 PM »

bradistani · « **Reply #35990 on:** July 02, 2013, 05:11:48 PM »

bradistani · « **Reply #35991 on:** July 02, 2013, 05:12:35 PM »

bradistani · « **Reply #35992 on:** July 02, 2013, 05:14:09 PM »

bradistani · « **Reply #35993 on:** July 02, 2013, 05:34:18 PM »

An emaciated father feeding Army rations to his son after he and his family were freed from a Japanese prison camp following the Allied liberation of Manila, 1945

bradistani · « **Reply #35994 on:** July 02, 2013, 06:01:25 PM »

bradistani · « **Reply #35995 on:** July 02, 2013, 06:03:23 PM »

arce1988 · « **Reply #35996 on:** July 02, 2013, 07:07:21 PM »

38-26-40 · « **Reply #35997 on:** July 02, 2013, 09:48:47 PM »

Highest human made rock climbing, Netherlands

Soul Crusher · « **Reply #35998 on:** July 02, 2013, 09:53:42 PM »

Quote from: 38-26-40 on July 02, 2013, 09:48:47 PM

Highest human made rock climbing, Netherlands

Belay On!

DroppingPlates · « **Reply #35999 on:** July 02, 2013, 10:04:46 PM »

Quote from: 38-26-40 on July 02, 2013, 09:48:47 PM

Highest human made rock climbing, Netherlands

37 meters/121 feet. Other than a few hills, the only Dutch 'rock'.