Photos From History Thread
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Got this in an email yesterday, found it pretty cool.
Link to WWII photos from 1944. Click and drag left or right and the picture changes to what that site looks like today.
http://interactive.guim.co.uk/embed/2014/apr/image-opacity-slider-master/index.html?ww2-dday
Link to WWII photos from 1944. Click and drag left or right and the picture changes to what that site looks like today.
http://interactive.guim.co.uk/embed/2014/apr/image-opacity-slider-master/index.html?ww2-dday
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Capturing the captured.
American troops retrieving the P-47 Thunderbolt captured by Germans from the US forces.
May, 9, 1945
American troops retrieving the P-47 Thunderbolt captured by Germans from the US forces.
May, 9, 1945
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Marion 6360 Strip shovel. At its time the biggest moving land machine ever built by man. Completed in 1965 it dug coal until 1991, when an oil fire damaged the machine. Repairing the damage was deemed too expensive so it got scrapped shortly after. 
12700 metric tons, 140m³ bucket capacity, 15000hp (electric), height 64 meters (approx 21 stories)
(Note guard rails on the machine to get an idea about its size, the railing is about chest-high)
12700 metric tons, 140m³ bucket capacity, 15000hp (electric), height 64 meters (approx 21 stories)
(Note guard rails on the machine to get an idea about its size, the railing is about chest-high)
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Glad someone finally put some pics of these babies up. From a truly different era, just awe inspiring things.Marion 6360 Strip shovel. At its time the biggest moving land machine ever built by man. Completed in 1965 it dug coal until 1991, when an oil fire damaged the machine. Repairing the damage was deemed too expensive so it got scrapped shortly after.
12700 metric tons, 140m³ bucket capacity, 15000hp (electric), height 64 meters (approx 21 stories)
(Note guard rails on the machine to get an idea about its size, the railing is about chest-high)
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Argentina vs Uruguay, 2nd October, 1924
Cesareo Onzari (not pictured) scores the first ever goal direct from a corner kick. Until June 1924, such a technique had been illegal and prohibited by the IFB.
Captains Of The Four Home Nations, 1914
Mickey Hamill (Ireland), Bob Crompton (England), Billy Meredith (Wales) and Jimmy Campbell (Scotland)
Cesareo Onzari (not pictured) scores the first ever goal direct from a corner kick. Until June 1924, such a technique had been illegal and prohibited by the IFB.
Captains Of The Four Home Nations, 1914
Mickey Hamill (Ireland), Bob Crompton (England), Billy Meredith (Wales) and Jimmy Campbell (Scotland)
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The D-Day invasion on a radar scope, 6 June 1944.
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The 1939 world's fair, and the "Railway Parade/Pageant".
A Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RR 4-6-4 Hudson (right) nose to nose with a streamlined Pennsylvania RR K4s 4-6-2 Pacific (left).
A Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RR 4-6-4 Hudson (right) nose to nose with a streamlined Pennsylvania RR K4s 4-6-2 Pacific (left).
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The D-Day invasion on a radar scope, 6 June 1944.
British ingenuity at its best.
And in keeping with that I give you Frank Whittle, pioneer of the jet engine, pictured in the late 30's with a prototype jet engine.
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Here's a little bit of local-ish history I checked out after seeing this shot for the first time in years.
Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway. In-use as a commercial line from 1903, a small portion of the now-8.5 mile long narrow gauge heritage railway once ran through the town of Welshpool. From where the current terminus at Raven Square sits on the outskirts of the town, down to the Cambrian Line at Welshpool Station. This mile-long stretch of track once meandered through the narrow streets until the entire line was closed by British Railways in 1956 after freight traffic began to dwindle. Passenger journeys had ceased in 1931.
By the early '60s, a group of volunteers had taken control of the line and the western part was reopened on April 6th 1963 for tourist use. With the eastern section up to Raven Square opening in 1981. The section through the town was never reopened however, and the final train passed through in 1963. All that's left of it is a bridge crossing over the Montgomery Canal and - up until a few years ago - the odd strip of exposed track on the local Pay and Display car park.
C. 1925 (2009)
C. 1950 (2010)
C. 1955 (2010)
The final train passing through Welshpool while signalling the reopening of the Llanfair section, April 1963. The same train can be seen in the first image I linked:
Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway. In-use as a commercial line from 1903, a small portion of the now-8.5 mile long narrow gauge heritage railway once ran through the town of Welshpool. From where the current terminus at Raven Square sits on the outskirts of the town, down to the Cambrian Line at Welshpool Station. This mile-long stretch of track once meandered through the narrow streets until the entire line was closed by British Railways in 1956 after freight traffic began to dwindle. Passenger journeys had ceased in 1931.
By the early '60s, a group of volunteers had taken control of the line and the western part was reopened on April 6th 1963 for tourist use. With the eastern section up to Raven Square opening in 1981. The section through the town was never reopened however, and the final train passed through in 1963. All that's left of it is a bridge crossing over the Montgomery Canal and - up until a few years ago - the odd strip of exposed track on the local Pay and Display car park.
C. 1925 (2009)
C. 1950 (2010)
C. 1955 (2010)
The final train passing through Welshpool while signalling the reopening of the Llanfair section, April 1963. The same train can be seen in the first image I linked:
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German WWII-era M-42 helmet in the Chechen war in the '90s.
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German soldiers preparing to cross a river in Belgium. 
May 11-12, 1940.
May 11-12, 1940.
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San Diego (L) - Tijuana (R) Border
👍 Done that crossing. So weird to literally step from one culture to another. You do it in Europe all the time but you just don't get such a change in culture in such a short distance with no graduation between.
Was almost 23 years ago when i did go to Mexico, so i imagine there has been some change, but stepping from the almost clinically clean and well ordered San Diego to the chaos and dirt of Tijuana was just bizarre. The landscape we passed through in a taxi from the border to downtown Tijuana was, i can only describe as, 'post-apocalyptical'.
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Last time I was in Mexico we actually went through Tecate. Not really a tourist town, but it was a little nicer than TJ.
They have lots of beer there.
They have lots of beer there.
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