29 Pictures Of '80s Pop Culture At The Reagan White House The hair! The clothes! The supply-side economics Spoiler 1.Tom Cruise, Bruce Jenner, Cher, and Robert Rauchenberg Source: reagan.utexas.edu 2. A young Drew Barrymore Source: reagan.utexas.edu 3. Nancy Reagan sitting on Mr. T's lap. Source: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llzq1pAJQm1qearaqo1_500.jpg 4. Ronald Reagan telling Frank Sinatra to stop dancing with his wife. Source: reagan.utexas.edu 5. Bob Hope at a dinner for British Prime Minister Magaret Thatcher. Source: reagan.utexas.edu 6. Nancy Reagan shaking hands with Meryl Streep. Source: reagan.utexas.edu 7. Audrey Hepburn and Robert Wolders at a private dinner for the Prince of Wales. Source: reagan.utexas.edu 8. Ronald Reagan with Arnold Schwarzenegger at the Republican National Convention. Source: reagan.utexas.edu 9. Nancy Reagan talking with Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton at a movie screening for "Reds." Source: reagan.utexas.edu 10. Ronald and Nancy Reagan receiving a baseball from Frank Sinatra. Source: reagan.utexas.edu 11. Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielsen Source: reagan.utexas.edu 12. Tom Selleck, Dudley Moore, and Lucille Ball at Bob Hope's 80th birthday party. Source: reagan.utexas.edu 13. Michael Jackson Source: reagan.utexas.edu 14. Charlton Heston at a meeting with the Presidential Task Force on the Arts and Humanities. Source: reagan.utexas.edu 15. Steven Spielberg after a screening of the movie "'ET." Source: reagan.utexas.edu 16. Christie Brinkley, Cheryl Tiegs, and Brooke Shields at a Tribute to Bob Hope's 80th birthday party. Source: reagan.utexas.edu 17. 1981 Miss Universe Shawn Weatherly and 1981 Miss USA Kim Seel Brede in the Oval Office. Source: reagan.utexas.edu 18. Ella Fitzgerald after her performance for King Juan Carlos I of Spain. Source: reagan.utexas.edu 19. Christopher Reeve and Frank Gifford Source: reagan.utexas.edu 20. Vanessa Williams Source: reagan.utexas.edu 21. Dinah Shore and Burt Reynolds Source: reagan.utexas.edu 22. Wayne Newton, Kathleen McCrone, and Brooke Shields Source: reagan.utexas.edu 23. Ray Charles Source: reagan.utexas.edu 24. Cheryl Ladd and Brian Russell Source: reagan.utexas.edu 25. Michael J. Fox and Nancy McKeon Source: reagan.utexas.edu 26. Clint Eastwood and Louis Gossett Jr. Source: reagan.utexas.edu 27. Nancy Reagan talking to Elizabeth Taylor. Source: reagan.utexas.edu 28. Prince Charles and Princess Diana Source: reagan.utexas.edu 29. Princess Diana dancing with John Travolta in the entrance hall at the White House.
kinda cool photos of Afghanistan in the 1960s http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2013/01/28/podlich-afghanistan-1960s-photos/5846/
1848 Paris Barricades. Not sure if they're from the February or June insurrections. guess where, for the two flanking this text Since retiring from the Navy SEALs, Chris Kyle, whom the Pentagon has deemed as among America’s deadliest snipers, would occasionally take fellow veterans shooting as a kind of therapy to salve battlefield scars. Mr. Kyle, 38, author of the best-selling book “American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History,” was with a struggling former soldier on just such an outing on Saturday, hoping that a day at a shooting range would bring some relief, said a friend, Travis Cox. But the Texas authorities said Sunday that the troubled veteran turned on Mr. Kyle and a second man, Chad Littlefield, shooting and killing both before fleeing in a pickup truck. “Chad and Chris had taken a veteran out to shoot to try to help him,” Mr. Cox said. “And they were killed.” The police identified the gunman as Eddie Ray Routh, 25, who had served in both Iraq and Afghanistan and had suffered from mental illness. The police offered no information about a possible motive. "Quiet- the enemy is watching for your secrets" "As one man" "Total leads to total victory!" "A steel avalanche will crush the enemy!" "Blood for blood. Death for death." "All the youth united for Spain" plus some Anarchist militia women from the Spanish civil war: Burt Reynolds, 1966, sans mustache, playing a Native American in "Navajo Joe," from the director of the original "Django."
LOL @ Mr T. Thousands of dollars worth of Gold on his neck, but wear shoe so beat up they're being held together by duct tape. Its funny how no celeb or even psuedo celeb would be caught wearing old clothes like that.
Things have gotten weird for the majority of the people in the photos. The ones who are still alive. The 80's, I suppose.
Why are there so many "punch buggies" in the DC bus picture? Seems like a very high ratio versus other cars.
1 - gat damn at that DC bus strike. 2 - want to see pictures of michael jackson's closet(s). where do you even get that kind of outfit, let alone have enough of them to wear pretty much everytime you're in public...
from that snipers article: Rob Furlong A former corporal of the Canadian Forces, he holds the record for the longest confirmed sniper kill in history at 1.51 miles or 2,430 metres. That’s the length of about 26 football pitches. This amazing feat occurred in 2002, when he was involved in Operation Anaconda. His Sniper Team consisted of 2 Corporals and 3 Master Corporals. When a three man Al-Qaeda weapons team moved into a mountainside position he took aim. Furlong was armed with a .50-caliber McMillan Brothers Tac-50 Rifle and loaded with A-MAX very low drag bullets. He fired and missed. His second shot hit the enemies knapsack on his back. He had already fired his third shot by the time the second hit, but now the enemy knew he was under attack. The airtime for each bullet was about 3 seconds due to the immense distance, enough time for an enemy to take cover. However the dumbfounded militant realised what was happening just in time to take the third shot in the chest. Was curious what this gun looked like... yea nothing to see here
The story of Rushmore is crazy to me. U.S. kills Indians, steals their land, then teabags them by carving Presidents onto one of their sacred places. That's how the U.S. used to handle business. Good lord.
Here's a Japanese....editorial cartoon about the Russio-Japanese war so many years ago It might offend some sensibilities, delicate as they are on tmb, so it's going behind a spoiler Spoiler
well that storytime gif was kinda d'aawww until she started bringing him the partially eaten penguins. awesome as shit though
Abandoned Island in the Middle of Manhattan: http://imgur.com/gallery/J7sv8 Spoiler Back in September 2012 a friend and I kayaked from NYC to my place in Connecticut. Along the way, we stopped on an island called North Brother. Located in between Queens and the Bronx, in 1885 the island was used to build a hospital complex to quarantine and treat people suffering from smallpox and typhoid fever. In the 1950's it was turned into a rehab center. The entire island has been abandoned since 1963. After the city closed down the hospitals they tried to sell the island to private investors in the 70's but the cost of construction, transportation to the island, installing a sewage system, and the noise from Laguardia airport discouraged anyone from buying it. In the 80's they tried to build a prison on the island but scrapped the plan because it was cheaper to build in upstate New York. Abandoned for 50 years now, Mother Nature is slowly reclaiming her territory. We spent 3 hours on the island taking photos, hope you find the place as interesting as we did! x-ray machine. Artwork done by recovering heroin addicts in the 1950's. Top of the elevator shaft. Manhattan as seen from the roof of the tallest building on the island. om nom! The island's tennis court. The main road. Bullet holes? Definitely bullet holes.... Though given how close North Brother is to Rikers Island, which is one big prison complex, I'm fairly convinced that this is the work of bored NYPD officers.
It blows my mind that there is something like that in the middle of the most populated city in the USA. Super interesting. Thanks for posting
In the middle of Ghost Wars right now which chronicles bin laden and al qaedas rise up to 911. It's crazy how it all began.
National Front John Tyndall who was the leader of the BNP (British National Party) for awhile. The leader of the British National Party at the moment, Nick Griffin.
Someone likes the Misfits 990x669 From the study on GMO rats: J, K and L are rats with huge cancer grows after the treatments. GMO are rats fed GMO food, R are rats fed roundup ready mais and GMO+R is a combination. Not pictured: the control group (because it looks exactly the same). There is also an ethical issue where these rats should have been euthanised much earlier to stop their suffering, but the rules in France might be different. Regardless the journal should not have published it based on that alone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9scGtf5E3I 'Evil' scientists launching a video appeal in the UK, asking protesters not to destroy their field trial. They were succesful, the protest didn't accomplish anything. ~A short history of Haiti, in pictures~ Iran's new air superiority fighter: probably a fake by their gov -- Megan and Grace Phelps left Westboro Baptist Church pretty recently. https://medium.com/turning-points/83d2ef8ba4f5 All of the young people in this church seemed like intelligent and potentially decent people, only saddled with a terrible upbringing. It's really great that she and her sister at least have broken free. Louis Theroux did two great documentaries on them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOrz5k0jWdU Arterial system of a pregnant woman in a Persian manuscript From ibn Haytham's Kitâb al-Manâzir (The Book of Optics) An Army M-60 tank at top; one of thousands of old concrete culverts in the middle, and an old F-106 jet at bottom. All of these are artificial reefs in the Gulf of Mexico. In the last few decades, we've dumped everything from an old aircraft carrier (the USS Oriskany) to T-72 tanks on the bottom of the Gulf to provide reef structure. Funnily enough, we're also in the process of destroying some of the best established reefs in the Gulf- old, unused oil platforms.
On the tanks being used for reef-making: Army Diver Jason Jakovenko posted: You get down about 20 feet and it starts to come into sight, it's actually really-- it's like the moon or something. It's weird, it doesn't look like anything you could imagine, it's just tires for as far as you can see down there.
I think that island off Manhattan was deserted because of the plague. I think I saw that on Life after Human on Nat Geo or Dis or History Channel. Dont recall.
Arthur Mole's liberty bell, the picture was made with 25,000 soldiers in 1918 More here http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/l...and-thomas.html
http://www.esquire.com/features/man...-bin-laden-0313 The Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden used this gear during the May 2011 raid. Also from that article: quote: On the third floor, there were two chicks yelling at us and the point man was yelling at them and he said to me, "Hey, we need to get moving. These bitches is getting truculent." I remember saying to myself, Truculent? Really? Love that word.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_desk#History Spoiler: Not quite history Biden scratched his eye on a contact lens This makes me so quote: This is President Obama doing an exploding fist bump with someone Sen. Mark Kirk (R - Ill.), who had a stroke in 2012, after the president's arrival and before his speech. That's right: not just an exploding fist bump, an exploding fist bump with a Republican. The state of our union is dope, y'all.
Don't chastise the best era in the history of man when it comes to how to dress. 1900-1960 people knew how to fucking dress, we have lost that. Spoiler Also funny, about the same time the architecture of buildings went to shit, so did the ability to dress like a fucking human that gave two shits.