Historical pictures

[Pidge]

 

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law"

 

Family portrait of Aleister Crowley with his mistress, Leah Hirsig, and child.

[Mike D]

Soweto uprising, South Africa 1976.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soweto_uprising

[Pidge]

 

Lech Walesa addressing shipyard workers during strike action in communist Poland, 1980.

[Mike D]

Britains Nigel Mansell collapses trying to push his car over the finish line, Dallas, 1984.

[Mike D]

Ringo Starr and the Rev Wilbert Awdry with Thomas the tank engine characters which Awdry created and Ringo voiced. 1984.

[Mike D]

Train passes picket, Liverpool dockers strike 1995.

[Boss]

 

Bob Dylan gets called "Judas" before playing 'like a rolling stone' at the Manchester lesser free trade hall in 1966.

 

 

John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Mitch Mitchell burst into a rendition of 'Yer Blues' during the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus show of 1968.

 

 

Bowie with Cyrinda Foxe during filming of the music video for 'Jean Genie'. 

[Mike D]

Filming Gremlins 1984.

[Mike D]

Sigourney Weaver during filming of Ghostbusters. 1984.

[Mike D]

Conan O Brien in the writers room of The Simpsons. early 1990s.

[KopOut]

Two German naval boots.

 

The first sign of the discovery of the Bismarck, by Robert Ballard deep in Atlantic water. The water in which she sank is 4,000 feet deeper than that where Titanic sank. Ballard attempted to determine whether the German battleship had been sunk by the British or was scuttled by her own crew.

 

[Duff Man]

Mountain biking progressed a ridiculous amount in the early noughties with the advent of full suspension bikes and some seriously talented dudes making the switch from BMX. Here is freeride legend Wade Simmons raising the bar with a fucking huge 40' stepdown in 2002.

 

[General Dryness]

Two German naval boots.

 

The first sign of the discovery of the Bismarck, by Robert Ballard deep in Atlantic water. The water in which she sank is 4,000 feet deeper than that where Titanic sank. Ballard attempted to determine whether the German battleship had been sunk by the British or was scuttled by her own crew.

 

 

Das Boots.

[Mike D]

 

Aberfan disaster. On Friday 21 October 1966, a coal tip collapsed sending thousands of tons of mud and colliery waste down Merthyr Mountain near Aberfan in South Wales, destroying a school and about 20 houses and killing 144 people.116 of the dead were children. Susan Robertson, 8, was pulled alive from the rubble.

[Red Dawn]

Freddie Mercury..Live Aid '85

 

[Red Lead]

A North Korean waves at his South Korean brother after inter-Korean temporary family reunions.

 

A Rwandan boy left scarred after being liberated from a death camp.

 

Violinist, Nancy Dinovo, cries while playing during a service at Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Vancouver for the September 11 victims.

 

Clara Gantt is reunited with her husband's body after more than 60 years. Sergeant Joseph Grantt went missing during the Korean war.

 

"100,000 monks in prayer for a better world"

 

[Mike D]

[Red Dawn]

[Mike D]

Filming of 2001 A space odyssey 1968.

rotating set.

 

Stanley Kubrick on set.

 

finished shot.

[Red Dawn]

Irish teenager yells at British soldier during The Troubles in Northern Ireland

 

[chrisbonnie]

Excellent thread, keep up the good work.

[Red Dawn]

[chrisbonnie]

 

Elvis Presley meets secretly with President Nixon to become a "Federal Agent-at-Large" in the War on Drugs, December 1970

 

[chrisbonnie]

 

An American soldier at an advanced allied base, with his pet kangaroo (1942)

[Mike D]

Liverpool's last tram. 1957.