Photos From History Thread

[Liquid]

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

Lord Palmerston was British Prime Minister on two occasions; the first from 1855-1858 and the second from 1859-1865. He was also Foreign Secretary for a total of 15 years and is regarded as one of the best to ever hold the post.

Although there is an earlier photograph of the Duke of Wellington, that was taken after his time in office and well into his retirement. This is the first photograph of a sitting Prime Minister; taken in 1857 during his first term.

 

[Liquid]

Communist Resistance & Uprisings

Poland, 1956

Protests in Poznań focused on better working conditions at a metalworks factory. The protests were violently repressed with 10,000 troops being sent to quell the protesters. Although the protests were not political in nature, they were economical, the actions in Poznań helped to topple the Stalinist regime and install a less extreme government later in the year.

50-60 people were known to be killed and hundreds more were arrested.

Here, protesters march with a sign saying "We Want Bread!"

Hungarian Revolution, 1956

What started out as a student demonstration turned into an all-out battle.

Protesting at the continued Soviet occupation and the single-party state of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party, students stormed a radio building with their demands for a more democratic and free country. When they eventually left the building, one student was shot and killed; he was wrapped in a flag and the sight of this enraged the crowd.

Outbreaks, revolts, protests and anarchy swept through the country in every major population centre. The government collapsed. Pro-revolution militias began rounding up pro-Soviets and executing them coupled with the simultaneous release of political prisoners.

The Soviet Union initially announced that it would withdraw from Hungary but reversed its decision and marched eastwards towards Budapest. The revolution was crushed by a large and destructive Soviet force and resulted in the deaths of around 2,500 Hungarians and 700 Soviets. 200,000 people fled the country, including many of the country's top footballers and other sports stars.

In the meantime Hungary had withdrawn from the Warsaw Pact and attempted to go neutral like Yugoslavia. Imre Nagy, the head of the new government, fled to Yugoslavia when he knew the Soviets were coming for him but was eventually captured and executed in a secret kangaroo court. Khrushchev decided to kill him as a demonstration to other communist leaders to show what would happen if they did not do as Moscow wished.

The lasting legacy of the revolution is the Hungarian flag with the communist regime's seal cut out, as seen in the first picture.

Czechoslovakia, 1968

When Alexander Dubček made attempts to liberalise Czechoslovakia with his "socialism with a human face" policies such as government decentralisation, an increase in press/free speech and a decrease in censorship, the country was invaded by the Warsaw Pact under the pretense of a bourgeois system having corrupted it.

Talks had already failed and a four-country force of the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria marched in with a troop strength of 500,000. Much of the demonstrations against this invasion focused on the two major cities; Prague in the Czech lands and Bratislava in the Slovak lands.

The invading force expected to the done and dusted in as little as a week but the Czechs and Slovaks held out for 8 months. Much of the protesting was non-violent; in one incident a Polish force marched its way out of the country after several road signs were turned the wrong way. Despite this, 225 lives were lost on both sides during the invasion.

Dubček was removed from power and immediately retired to a quiet life in the Forestry Commission. All of his reforms were overturned under so-called "normalisation" and communism remained in Czechoslovakia until the Velvet Revolution of 1989.

 

[Liquid]

Eifel Tower, 1902

Boston Floods, 1915

Arsenal vs Manchester United, 1926

Dewatered Niagra Falls, 1968

 

[TRLWNC7396]

Why did they stop the falls in the daytime? That's an incredibly unique shot!

 

[Liquid]

Why did they stop the falls in the daytime? That's an incredibly unique shot!

It was temporarily dammed/diverted so engineers could remove some rocks at the base of the cliff underneath the falls.

Something to do with erosion, apparently.

 

[daan]

Docks in Glasgow

The only things left from that picture is the Finnieston Crane and the 2 rotundas. The Armadillo and SECC are now this side of the Clyde, and the BBC Scotland offices/studio and the Science centre are on the other.

One of the rotundas is now a restaurant, but I was surprised to find out that they were originally the entrances and exits to a tunnel under the Clyde. The rotundas housed lifts to take people, and horses and carts, down to the tunnels, where they'd walk or ride across, and then go back up the other side.

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

And a current photo albeit from a different angle.

Complete with the "squinty" bridge.

 

[PeterJB]

It was temporarily dammed/diverted so engineers could remove some rocks at the base of the cliff underneath the falls.

Something to do with erosion, apparently.

I desperately tried in vain yesterday to find footage of the dam being detonated and the water returning. Such footage appears to not exist.

 

[Liquid]

The Simpsons & History

Bart vs Australia & The Fall Of Saigon

Burns Verkaufen Der Kraftwerk & Nixon Meeting Elvis

Lisa The Beauty Queen & LBJ's Swearing In

Mother Simpson & Woodstock

Lisa's Substitute & Dewey Defeats Truman

Bonus

The Homer They Fall & Bellows' Dempsey & Firpo

 

[Ken]

@Liquid, this one has always been my favorite:

Of course, for the younger generation, the band is a small group called the Beatles.

 

[axletramp]

A slightly out-of-place Steve Strange in pub in Cardiff docks, 1981.

 

[TheCracker]

A slightly out-of-place Steve Strange in pub in Cardiff docks, 1981.

It's like The Legend of Old Gregg.

 

[axletramp]

It's like The Legend of Old Gregg.

Steve Strange could well be all wrong down there.

 

[Michael88]

German front line trench, World War 1

 

[catamount39]

German front line trench, World War 1

I think something that's interesting when looking at pics from WWI is seeing how much uniforms changed or evolved within such a short time. For all countries really.

Also interesting to note for the non-firearm inclined, German Mauser 98 rifles during the war had a minimum zero of 400 meters due to not realizing combat would take place at closer ranges. As such, they had to aim much lower to actually hit their target where they wanted to. Wasn't fixed until the new sights on the Kar98.

 

[Law93]

"Wait for me, Daddy"
Famous Canadian World War 2
photo from New Westminster BC.
I drive the place on the way home from work and it's crazy how the area has changed.

 

[Liquid]

Aldwych Tube Station, 1940

In use as an air raid shelter during the Blitz.

 

[Michael88]

I think something that's interesting when looking at pics from WWI is seeing how much uniforms changed or evolved within such a short time. For all countries really.

Also interesting to note for the non-firearm inclined, German Mauser 98 rifles during the war had a minimum zero of 400 meters due to not realizing combat would take place at closer ranges. As such, they had to aim much lower to actually hit their target where they wanted to. Wasn't fixed until the new sights on the Kar98.

They did a battlefield fix though, I think it was at the end of 1916 when they issued the troops with taller front sights bringing the 400 meter zero down to a 100 meter zero. Of course the ranges on the rear sights no longer worked correctly with the tall front sight but that didn't matter much since shots beyond 300 meters were unusual.

And yes, its interesting how quickly stuff evolves when war happens.

War is funny. Despite having millions of people killing each other it also means unlimited funds for research and people working together more than ever dramatically accelerating technological progress.

In WW2 Germany went from this:

....to this in just 6 years.

Even pressure suits for high altitude flights.

 

[Michael88]

WW1 German machine gun crew in a ''no mans land'' bomb crater.

 

[Lizard]

They did a battlefield fix though, I think it was at the end of 1916 when they issued the troops with taller front sights bringing the 400 meter zero down to a 100 meter zero. Of course the ranges on the rear sights no longer worked correctly with the tall front sight but that didn't matter much since shots beyond 300 meters were unusual.

And yes, its interesting how quickly stuff evolves when war happens.

War is funny. Despite having millions of people killing each other it also means unlimited funds for research and people working together more than ever dramatically accelerating technological progress.

In WW2 Germany went from this:

....to this in just 6 years.

Even pressure suits for high altitude flights.

Although the Komet was rubbish and the HO/GO229 was never mass produced and even after their introduction the 109 still kept itself as top dog alongside the 190 in the Luftwaffe.

 

[gnomefromnome]

 

[axletramp]

Oooo, look at you with your fancy front loader! Top loading not good enough for you, eh? EH!!?

 

[Flex0r]

Oooo, look at you with your fancy front loader! Top loading not good enough for you, eh? EH!!?

I'm more curious what they mean with "Free bush freight"?
What bush? I know this was 1985, so there probably was alot of bush to go around.

He was vice president at the time for pete's sake.

 

[gnomefromnome]

Happy birthday, Alaska!


The Great Land was officially proclaimed a part of the union on Jan. 3, 1959, six months after President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Alaska Statehood Act into law.

@Flex0r didn't read your post until now. Bush Alaska is rural Alaska, or most villages not connected by roadway

 

[Liquid]

Nuremberg Trials (Nürnberger Prozesse)

There were four main charges brought against 24 people:

First charge) Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of a crime against peace
Second charge) Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace
Third charge) War crimes
Fourth charge) Crimes against humanity

Back row: Karl Dönitz (gaoled), Erich Raeder (gaoled), Baldur von Schirach (gaoled), Fritz Sauckel (hanged)
Front row: Hermann Göring (suicide), Rudolf Hess (gaoled), Joachim von Ribbentrop (hanged) Wilhelm Keitel (hanged), Ernst Kaltenbrunner (hanged)

Hermann Göring was the most senior Nazi tried at Nürnberg. He was convicted on all four counts and sentenced to death but committed suicide the night before he was due to be executed.

Ernst Kaltenbrunner was the highest-ranking SS officer tried and the highest ranking person who was successfully executed; Kaltenbrunner was one of the most senior figures in the both the regular police and secret police in addition to being the head of the Sicherheitsdienst intelligence agency.

Incredibly, he was also the head of INTERPOL during the war.

There were eight judges presiding over the trials; two from the Soviet Union, two from the United Kingdom, two from the United States and two from France.

L-R: Iona Nikitchenko, Alexander Volchkov, Norman Birkett, Geoffrey Lawrence (President), Francis Biddle, John Parker, Henri Donnedieu de Vabres, Robert Falco

 

[Pete05]

Nuremberg Trials (Nürnberger Prozesse)

There were four main charges brought against 24 people:

First charge) Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of a crime against peace
Second charge) Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace
Third charge) War crimes
Fourth charge) Crimes against humanity

Back row: Karl Dönitz (gaoled), Erich Raeder (gaoled), Baldur von Schirach (gaoled), Fritz Sauckel (hanged)
Front row: Hermann Göring (suicide), Rudolf Hess (gaoled), Joachim von Ribbentrop (hanged) Wilhelm Keitel (hanged), Ernst Kaltenbrunner (hanged)

Hermann Göring was the most senior Nazi tried at Nürnberg. He was convicted on all four counts and sentenced to death but committed suicide the night before he was due to be executed.

Ernst Kaltenbrunner was the highest-ranking SS officer tried and the highest ranking person who was successfully executed; Kaltenbrunner was one of the most senior figures in the both the regular police and secret police in addition to being the head of the Sicherheitsdienst intelligence agency.

Incredibly, he was also the head of INTERPOL during the war.

There were eight judges presiding over the trials; two from the Soviet Union, two from the United Kingdom, two from the United States and two from France.

L-R: Iona Nikitchenko, Alexander Volchkov, Norman Birkett, Geoffrey Lawrence (President), Francis Biddle, John Parker, Henri Donnedieu de Vabres, Robert Falco

In the first photo, it appears to me that either Hess perfectly understands the English language or, he just doesn't give a 🤬.

 

[TRLWNC7396]

Yeah, and Goring pretty blasted cocky in each of those.

 

[Liquid]

In the first photo, it appears to me that either Hess perfectly understands the English language or, he just doesn't give a 🤬.

Funny you should mention that because there was an extra trivium I didn't mention in the post.

Because of the depth and scope of the trial, and the fact that judges were Soviet, British, US and French, this was actually the first instance of simultaneous translation and the use of those court earpieces. There were three "language departments" each with a translator of the other three court languages (Russian, English, German and French) and they were relayed in real time to the members of the court.

For the people who could not speak any of those languages, they were given their own special translators; as well as Russian, English, German and French the court also heard Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Yiddish languages during the process.

 

[Legro]

US tanks facing Soviet tanks between 27 and 28 of October during the 1961 Berlin Crisis.

 

[Liquid]

Cutesy Wutesy Oldsy Timesy Pictures

 

[Liquid]

The only known picture of US General Patton with his medals. He hated wearing them and this photo was taken at the insistence of his wife.