interesting pics in history

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  1. steamengine

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  2. Sterling A

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    Germany has monuments for deserters called the "Unknown Deserter", honoring soldiers who refused to kill.

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    "I had a ton of fun during the Korean War. There were 10-15 gay soldiers on the base. As long as we weren't seen doing anything, they could't discharge us. So we all rented a hotel room once a month, plastered the wall with Playbills from A Streetcar Named Desire, and had lots of sex."
     
  4. Squints

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    I wasn't sure where to put this, but I thought this was pretty cool.



    An animated data-driven documentary about war and peace, The Fallen of World War II looks at the human cost of the second World War and sizes up the numbers to other wars in history, including trends in recent conflicts.
     
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    AAP photo of interns rushing out of the US Supreme Court to get the same sex marriage ruling to tv crews
     
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    Gross
     
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    1953: Greek Finance Minister helps cancel 50% of Germany's debt
     
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  10. Merica

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    Max Yasgur, the farmer who owned the land, spoke about the peaceful atmosphere: “If we join them, we can turn those adversities that are the problems of America today into a hope for a brighter and more peaceful future…”
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    Max and Miriam Yasgur on their land after the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.


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    :roll: at some of the faces made by these dudes.

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  11. Truman

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    Veteran of Waterloo & his wife.

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  12. Moxin24

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    If we only had drones back then
     
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    "The Bonus Army was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. Its organizers called it the Bonus Expeditionary Force to echo the name of World War I's American Expeditionary Forces, while the media called it the Bonus March. It was led by Walter W. Waters, a former army sergeant. [...] On July 28, U.S. Attorney General William D. Mitchell ordered the veterans removed from all government property. Washington police met with resistance, shots were fired and two veterans were wounded and later died. President Herbert Hoover then ordered the army to clear the veterans' campsite. Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur commanded the infantry and cavalry supported by six tanks. The Bonus Army marchers with their wives and children were driven out, and their shelters and belongings burned."

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    "The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and the largest organized armed uprising since the American Civil War.[1] For five days in late August and early September 1921, in Logan County, West Virginia, some 10,000 armed coal miners confronted 3,000 lawmen and strikebreakers, called the Logan Defenders,[2] who were backed by coal mine operators during an attempt by the miners to unionize the southwestern West Virginia coalfields. The battle ended after approximately one million rounds were fired,[3] and the United States Army intervened by presidential order."
     
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  15. Truman

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    ^ That's an awesome set. Cool to see.
     
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    The earlier stuff is definitely reminding me of playing age of empires as a kid.
     
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    West Berlin policemen and East German soldiers face each other after a young girl made it across the border, 1955

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  21. KNOTT

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    Being Ex KGB makes you a badass till a 6'4 Hebrew standing in front of you.
     
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    Hurricane Joaquin from the space station. That's Miami in the top left corner.

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  23. Kirk Fogg

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    Ya....if this turned into a fight, Obama would be tapping out faster than Ronda Rousey's opponents.
     
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  24. Merica

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  25. Voodoo

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    That's COLD BLOOooOODED
     
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  26. Merica

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  27. Nug

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    How in the world could they verify that?
     
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    I watched the TV special which chronicled the attempts of the guy to verify it. Think it was called Billy the Kid: New Evidence. Was pretty interesting to see if for nothing more than the history. After watching the show I think there's a pretty good chance it's him in the photo. Wouldn't pay $5 million to find out though.
     
  29. chet fire

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    More clues that I'm getting old.

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    Me and teh squad out chea holding it down. #FritzBeFrantic
     
  32. Ironmike

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    I think I read that it's a verified location either by a biographer or somehow noted in writing that they were indeed at that location at that time long before the picture showed up.
     
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    the years have been kinder to only one of these two...
     
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  36. Merica

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    [​IMG] Bae is not happy and dude is trying to sneak a peak while acting disgusted. :laugh:

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  37. chet fire

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    Yeah, I can see one more thing about this that makes it San Francisco.
     
  38. chet fire

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    I'm sorry about that, Dad, log off my profile!
     
  39. Truman

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  40. Merica

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    So.....we did some pretty fucked up shit to Japanese bodies during WWII.

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


    In October 1943, the U.S. High Command expressed alarm over recent newspaper articles, for example one where a soldier made a string of beads using Japanese teeth, and another about a soldier with pictures showing the steps in preparing a skull, involving cooking and scraping of the Japanese heads.[5]

    This led to the poem The U.S. sailor with the Japanese skull, which described one method for preparation of skulls (the head is skinned, towed in a net behind a ship to clean and polish it, and in the end scrubbed with caustic soda).[12]


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  41. chet fire

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    You think that's bad, you should hear what the Japanese used to do to still-alive bodies.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
     
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  43. Merica

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    Instead of being tried for war crimes, the researchers involved in Unit 731 were given immunity by the U.S. in exchange for their data on human experimentation.

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  44. Can I Spliff it

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    Yeah. The nazis did similar experimentation on their victims, but the nazis saw fit to burn the information instead of getting caught with a paper record of having done it.

    It's really, really dark, but in some ways it's better that the data they got wasn't lost to oblivion, even if the actually action involved in getting the data is among the worst crimes in human history
     
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