Historical pictures

[Mike D]

This tells you everything you need to know about cats.  Even in this company, the cat looks like the evil one.

 

I agree, I like more useful working animals..

 

 

Charlie, a shire horse used for shunting railway wagons and railway horseboxes at Newmarket station in 1966.

 

brief newsclip of Charlie's last day.

 

and Im sure he was useful later in a tube of evo stick.

[polymerpunkah]

 

 

Graves from the Franklin Expedition, unsuccessful seekers of the Northwest Passage.

[General Dryness]

Regarding the above, I recommend you read The Terror by Dan Simmons. Quite a long read, but I really enjoyed it.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terror_%28novel%29

[polymerpunkah]

I'll check it out.

 

If you're looking for a book on the entire period, I'd recommend "Artic Labyrinth" by Glyn Williams.

[stevebaby]

 

Liverpool's own speedway ace, Peter Craven, showing why he was known as the 'wizard of balance,

I once rode a speedway bike. Everything is back to front...to slow on the tight sections, screw the throttle wide open so the back wheel loses traction and spins...to accelerate, back off on the throttle so the back wheel bites, all the while trying to keep the front wheel down. Mostly I just laid the bike down and not by intention. Anyone who can win races on one has my respect.

[Red Lead]

The Volcanic Izu Islands where gas masks were obligatory.

 

 

A wedding on the island

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and his triumphant Rough Riders on San Juan Hill, Cuba, 1898.  This was a key victory in the Spanish-American War, which led to the USA gaining control of Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines.  The war initiated the USA's role as an interventionist, imperial power.

 

Jesse Langdon, the last surviving Rough Rider, in May 1975.

[stringvest]

This tells you everything you need to know about cats.  Even in this company, the cat looks like the evil one.

 

haha!  brilliant!  expect the wrath of Neko though

[KopOut]

THE BLACK DAHLIA

 

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ELIZABETH SHORT'S MURDER STILL UNSOLVED

On January 15, 1947 a woman walking on the sidewalk in the 3800 block of Norton St., in Liemert Park, Los Angeles caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a department store mannequin lying in the weeds on the side of the street; the top half separated from the lower half. As she approached the mannequin, the woman quickly realized that it was actually the nude body of a woman.

 

 

 

[polymerpunkah]

 

Maurice Herzog, following his first successful ascent of an 8000m peak, being carried off Annapurna by an un-named Sherpa in 1950.

[redheart]

 

Anna Fisher, astronaut, with stars in her eyes on the cover of Life magazine in 1985. She was the first mother in space.

[redheart]

 

Hitler rehearsing his speeches in front of a mirror (1925).

[Mike D]

 

A promotional event for the new Austin Seven and Morris Mini Minor. Five adults, one baby, two dogs and luggage were loaded into the small car at the British Motor Corporation’s Longbridge site in Birmingham. Date: 25/08/1959

[VladimirIlyich]

Absolutely fantastic photos of Tippi Degre and those wild animals. Totally blew me away they did.

[Mike D]

Formula 1 in the 1950s, Alfonso de Portago has a smoke while his car is refueled by his mechanic during a pitstop.

 

[Bjornebye]

20 year old Hunter S Thompson

 

[Mike D]

No disassemble!  Filming Short circuit 1985.

 

 

 

[AL66GOLF]

The Volcanic Izu Islands where gas masks were obligatory.

 

 

A wedding on the island

Like a nightclub in Newcastle

[Mike D]

On 25 July, 2000, this Air France Concorde caught fire and crashed just after take-off from Charles de Gaulle airport, Paris. 113 people onboard were killed.

[Yozzer]

 

Ho Chi Minh and Giap with Unites States OSS team, receiving help for their fight for independence from France.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

 

Hitler rehearsing his speeches in front of a mirror (1925).

[littletedwest]

took my user name from a similar thing offered in viz. wasn't particularly historic but was amusing.

[Mike D]

Elvis and Priscilla

[Chairman Meow]

took my user name from a similar thing offered in viz. wasn't particularly historic but was amusing.

 

The littletedwest advert was brilliant. Along with the Bernard Manning racist cunt of hearts plate and Tutankhamun Dambusters Clock.

 

I

[chrisbonnie]

Elvis and Priscilla

How fucking slick was Elvis back in the day!