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« Reply #190375 on: April 07, 2026, 05:31:31 PM »
The coal mines were rough business, imagine some of the pussies nowadays trying to do that job.

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« Reply #190376 on: Today at 04:01:05 AM »

Protesting The High School Dress Code That Banned Slacks For Girls, Brooklyn C.1940


1945: The Day Daddy Came Home. Gunner Hector Murdoch Had Been Gone Over Four Years, Most Of It As A Prisoner Of War In Singapore. His Wife Rosina And Son John Hadn’t Known If He Was Dead Or Alive. He Got Home On His Birthday


My Great-Grandfather That Was Too Poor To Afford A Suit In Sicily, So He Had To Pose In Front Of A Cardboard Cut-Out, 1930s


Dad Showing Off His Skill To The Surprise Of His Little Daughter In Melbourne, Australia, Ca. 1940s


My Grandmother And Mom Circa 1974. My Grandmother Took My Mother To National Parks Over The Course Of A Few Months, Just The Two Of Them

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« Reply #190377 on: Today at 04:47:15 AM »



Question is Wes, did you hit it?

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« Reply #190378 on: Today at 04:48:44 AM »
Bill and Hillary Clinton on their wedding day, 1975


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« Reply #190379 on: Today at 04:49:28 AM »
“Emperor” Jean-Bedel Bokassa , seated on his golden throne for his coronation, Bangui, Central African Republic – December 4, 1977


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« Reply #190380 on: Today at 04:54:15 AM »
Soviet rock fans attend a concert in Moscow on September 28, 1991. Half a million people jammed an airfield to see the Soviet Union’s biggest Western rock concert, touted as a gift to Russian youth for their resistance last month’s coup.

Line up : AC/DC headlined, with Metallica, Pantera, Mötley Crüe, and Queensr˙che

(I think I saw something where Metallica still considers this the most wild concert they ever played.  James mentioned military helicopters flying around)






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« Reply #190381 on: Today at 04:56:09 AM »
A Comanche woman and her son in a cradleboard, sometime between 1907-1930.




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« Reply #190382 on: Today at 04:56:58 AM »
A man and his ‘Goatmobile’, early 1900s. (Is this better than a tricycle?)


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« Reply #190383 on: Today at 04:57:36 AM »
A protective pattern was spread across a farm near Walsh, Colorado by a farmer using two tractors (upper right) during the Dust Bowl. Photo by Margaret Bourke-White, 1954.


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« Reply #190384 on: Today at 04:59:34 AM »
A rare example where an engineer thought about the mechanic. (1950s)  A maintenance scene involving a 1949 DAF-Domburg bus, notable for its innovative "drawer-style" engine bay designed in the Netherlands.

- The Dutch manufacturer DAF designed this bus with a retractable, front-mounted engine that mechanics could slide out, similar to a drawer, for easy access.
- This design intended to streamline maintenance processes, allowing the diesel engine to be serviced, repaired, or completely removed from the subframe with minimal difficulty.
- To accommodate this sliding mechanism, the bus utilized a lengthy 5-foot slip yoke to control the drive shaft.


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« Reply #190385 on: Today at 05:00:08 AM »
A Roman grave marker for pouring libations (wine, milk, honey, water or oil) into the grave


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« Reply #190386 on: Today at 05:01:23 AM »
An Afghani man poses with his custom-made bus by combining a Mil Mi-8 helicopter fuselage and a KamAZ truck



Boston City Hall, Massachusetts 1865-1969.


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« Reply #190387 on: Today at 05:02:03 AM »
A group of camels against a backdrop of burning oil fields, sabotaged by Iraqi troops. Gulf War, Kuwait, 1991. Photo taken by McCurry.


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« Reply #190388 on: Today at 05:06:32 AM »
President George HW Bush gazes at the Capitol in a helicopter after leaving Clinton’s inauguration. 1992


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« Reply #190389 on: Today at 05:07:50 AM »
Denzel Washington serves as an honorary police chief for a New York police station in the 1960s.
(He was incredibly awesome in the Matrix)


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« Reply #190390 on: Today at 05:08:41 AM »
A couple on the New York City subway, 1980. Photo by Carrie Boretz.
(how low would those go if that top wasn't there?)


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« Reply #190391 on: Today at 05:09:54 AM »
Apple’s third co-founder Ronald Wayne, sold his 10% stake for $800 in 1976.
(suicide prediction?)


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« Reply #190392 on: Today at 05:11:07 AM »
Socks the Cat sitting behind President Clinton’s desk in the Oval Office. January 7, 1994.


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« Reply #190393 on: Today at 05:13:07 AM »
Colombian defender Andres Escobar on the ground after scoring an own goal against the USA at the 1994 World Cup. The own goal contributed to Colombia's 2-1 loss, which ultimately eliminated the team from the tournament.  Upon returning to Colombia, Andrés Escobar was shot and killed in what was widely believed to be retaliation for the own goal.


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« Reply #190394 on: Today at 05:15:47 AM »
An outdoor hockey game in Sweden is cut short.  The picture is from a match between Forsbacka and Köping the 3rd of january 1960. during a Corner stroke there was a lot of players around the Köping goal and the ice broke.


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« Reply #190395 on: Today at 05:17:57 AM »
This photograph was taken during the 1959 World Series in Chicago. Al Smith, the player in front of the wall, played for the Chicago White Sox.  The guy who dropped the beer on him was Melvin Peel, an oil company executive, who was trying to catch a ball and accidentally dropped his cup on Smith.


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« Reply #190396 on: Today at 05:19:24 AM »
USS Enterprise (CV-6), one of the few pre-WW2 aircraft carriers to survive and the most decorated US Navy Warship in WW2, including the only one to receive the highest honor from the Royal Navy, was towed to be sold for scrap on August 21, 1958.


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« Reply #190397 on: Today at 05:20:59 AM »
Union Boss Jimmy Hoffa flipping off attorney Robert Kennedy during a Senate committee hearing in 1957.


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« Reply #190398 on: Today at 05:48:51 AM »
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