Lincoln, who was born in 1809, was a tremendously skilled wrestler. And, it seems, a prodigious trash talker. The rugged frontiersman once beat a man with a single toss and challenged the mob that had gathered with a shout: "Any of you want to try it, come on and whet your horns!" No one stepped forward.
Spoiler It was more than likely his dad that built it while a teenage Lincoln just helped put the logs in place. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vaul...e_president_build_a_log_cabin_by_himself.html
I don't feel the urge to do any research as to whether this post is made in jest or an actual event but I find it pretty awesome and funny so I choose to blindly believe that it is true.
Some pretty awesome pics of USS Enterprise in this article https://amp.businessinsider.com/wil...e-most-decorated-wwii-aircraft-carrier-2018-9 A bomb dropped by a Japanese dive bomber explodes on the Enterprise's flight deck during the Battle of the Eastern Solomon Islands in 1942. The ship took three direct hits during the battle. Lt. Walter L. Chewning Jr. climbs up a F6F Hellcat to help pilot Ensign Byron M. Johnson, who crash-landed on the Enterprise's flight deck on November 10, 1943. The Enterprise is hit by a Kamikaze pilot on May, 14, 1945, blowing its forward elevator about 400 feet into the air.
Dude climbing on the plane is fucking awesome. That’s a great picture, photographer gets an A as well.
love this IG now. I think they grab the colorized historical images off that reddit page. But its cool just seeing this stuff. This site has a ton of free history books on their site. Currently reading/audiobooking The Gulag by Anne Applebaum https://erenow.com/modern/gulagahistoryanneapplebaum/ the audiobook is 28 hours lol.
right right looks like a harsh disctator left left looks like a meek cuckhold maybe they just balanced each other out
Awesome, awesome photos here. I hope y'all enjoy them, I did. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...y-1966-2015-charted-areas-gentrification.html The changing face of New York's Skid Row: Photographer who lived on Bowery for 50 years (before selling his building for $55million) charted the area's gentrification - and yes, he thinks it was a lot more interesting back then Manhattan's Bowery was once known as New York's 'Skid Row' due to large homeless population It also had a myriad of grunge bars and clubs including the legendary - and now defunct - CBGB where bands including the Ramones took to the stage In 1990s and 2000s gentrification took hold and area completely transformed from a grunge hipster haven Famed photographer Jay Maisel charted area's gentrification for decades while living on Bowery He owned the iconic 72-room bank building at 190 Bowery from 1966 to 2015 when he sold it for $55million Now, Maisel is sorting and digitizing his thousands of photo slides for possible publication Few New Yorkers can say they witnessed the Big Apple’s transformation first-hand; photographer Jay Maisel is among them. He has photographed Marilyn Monroe, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and numerous Sports Illustrated covers, but among his many subjects is an equally familiar sight: the city that never sleeps. Maisel, now 87, lived on Manhattan's Bowery for nearly 50 years, charting its total transformation (for better or worse, depending on who you ask) from streets of crime and grime to a neighborhood dotted with boutiques, art galleries, and bars where the price of a cocktail usually runs around $15 minimum. The area, once known as New York’s ‘Skid Row’ due to the large homeless population, was for decades home to the grungy and legendary Mars bar and CBGB club, which opened in 1973, where punk rock legends like Patti Smith, the Ramones and Blondie graced the stage. Spoiler Empire State of Mind: A teenager in a baseball uniform walks up Bowery towards East Houston Street as the Empire State Building towers in the distance. This photograph was taken in 1970. A sign outside a storefront advertises Sammy's Bowery Follies, a dive bar with cabaret-style live entertainment that catered to the down-and-out. Its owner Sammy Fuchs passed away in 1969 and the bar closed a year later. Today a Whole Foods and other restaurants are in this location It's tough work, but someone's got to do it: Maisel took this photograph of a man asleep in a cart full of soft drink cans on the Lower East Side There may be snow on the ground but this man, whose tattoos show a crudely drawn skull and crossbones along with the words Hell's Angel across his back, didn't wear a coat - or a shirt. A passer-by is bundled up in a coat and hat Crime and grime: ‘When I first moved there it wasn’t super dangerous or anything, but it was super depressing. Guys on your sidewalk, guys on your steps, you had to be judicious on who you threw off your steps and who you didn’t.’ Pictured is a photograph of a man with his trousers down near a trash bin just outside a bar on the corner of Bowery and East 4th Streets. The bar remains open today Plus, the access his building provided at 190 Bowery to shoot street scenes from his windows or rooftop went unmatched. Pictured above is a photo he took of the Resolvent Building and a clothes line in Bowery Maisel spends most of his days sorting through the thousands of slides he has of images he captured during his career in an effort to digitize and catalogue them. Pictured above is an image he snapped while in the LES showing men hanging out on their fire escapes Maisel even took his camera with him on amusement rides, capturing moments like the one pictured above left showing a couple kissing while riding a Ferris Wheel in one of the Lower Manhattan neighborhoods decades ago. His prolific photo collection truly showcases the drastic changes Manhattan has experienced over the decades with mom and pop businesses shuttering due to high rents and luxury sky rise apartments popping up in their place, specifically in the LES and Bowery which are now hipster havens Maisel’s building easily became an icon of the community as he once rented out the top floors to other artists like Adolph and Roy Lichtenstein. He repeatedly had to turn down offers from people and developers desiring to buy it, including Mick Jagger who approached Maisel through a representative at one point with an offer for the 35,000-square-foot space. The views from the various windows inside the building always seemed to offer a peak into the variety of his neighbor's activities, such as the image he captured above showing a man napping while the people above him in a different space have a nude photo shoot He explained: ‘I started doing a lot of stock photography and for me stock photography meant do whatever you want, and maybe you will sell it.' The image above Maisel captured shows a man wearing a suit and hat while reading a newspaper outside of a bright red building in the Lower East Side. The man's style is something few would sport today in the hipster neighborhood Maisel shot images no matter what the weather was outside in the Big Apple, including snow storms like the photo above showing a man dressed up while walking in the snow in the neighborhood Of the city's transformation, he said: ‘The transition was very subtle and very slow. I never thought the Bowery would get to be where it is now, in my lifetime.' Pictured above is a man walking during a snowstorm in one of the Lower Manhattan neighborhoods He captured the photo above of men chatting with each other on a corner in the LES. Of living in Brooklyn now, he shared: ‘I miss Manhattan, I love Manhattan. As soon as I get over the bridge I feel like its home. This is like the suburbs to me.' He added, ‘I always treated everyone really nice, I never tried to demean anyone or treat them in anyway less than a human. But there was times where you had to be firm with them.’ Pictured above is martial arts class in an image captured by Maisel in Chinatown at a park Day in and day out he would capture images from the rooftop or the various window views showcasing the neighborhood from his building at 190 Bowery. Pictured above is one photo he snapped from his rooftop of a fire burning nearby He also captured the image above showing snow on roof tops around his building at 190 Bowery. In 1995, Maisel decided to quit shooting commercial photographs and get back to his roots of capturing images for himself. But that move caused his income to decline and after a while he ran out of money Concrete jungle where dreams are made: Or even better views could be seen on the roof top at 190 Bowery when storms rolled over the city like the one above. Maisel said: ‘I didn’t want to sell the building. I didn’t want to sell it when I sold it. But at that point it became obvious that it made sense and I was running out of options and money. But selling it, the price was good.’ Award-winning photographer Jay Maisel has captured thousands of images showcasing the transformation of New York through the decades. The 87-year-old is pictured in his home studio in Brooklyn
The shoot-down and crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 (MH17); July 17, 2014. A passenger takes a photo of MH17 as it's parked at the gate. Caption: "If it disappears, this is what it looks like." (Referencing MH370's disappearance 4 months earlier) A Dutch planespotter snaps a photo of MH17 as it departs Amsterdam on the doomed voyage After flying slightly off-course over the Russian-Ukranian conflict zone to avoid bad weather, a single BUK surface-to-air missile is fired at MH17 by pro-Russian separatists, exploding to the right and above the cockpit, riddling the cockpit and business section with over 800 steel pellets, killing all 4 members of the flight crew instantly and separating the cockpit and first-class section from the fuselage. Many passengers seated behind this section were still alive for up to 90 seconds prior to impact. Some bodies were found with oxygen masks on. The aircraft broke up further during its descent when the airframe became overstressed from the speed of the dive. All 298 people on board were killed. It is the deadliest shoot-down of an airliner in history as well as the worst accident involving a Boeing 777. Spoiler: Crash Site
NSIAP - cool blog that focuses on posting interesting pictures in history https://abakusplace.blogspot.com/2018/
I put this in the Hardcore History thread but y'all might want to take a look as well. Peter Jackson has a new film that makes WWI footage look more lifelike than I ever thought possible.
Hopefully he puts in more effort into it than whatever the hell that last Hobbit film he trotted out was.
Idk where I saw it, but there was like a 5-10 minute follow-up to the trailer where Jackson was talking about the process to make the film. He said the British version of the National Archives had some ~70K+ hours of film / audio footage both during the war and after the war. He put in a request to only get A/V from during the war, and any post-war interviews that took place before the veterans were "too old." He then ran all of that footage through his computer programs that are used to enhance film (i.e. use AI to plug in gaps in footage, compare color photos to black and white film to colorize the film, etc.). It seemed pretty in depth. He mentioned his grandfather fought in the war and he wanted to dedicate this film to him, so maybe having the personal connection meant he put a lot of effort and attention in the movie.
"They look really human, nuance, empathy." Immediately shows vampire with soulless eyes playing a flute at the end.
My buddy has a Mark V dive suit, first thing out of my mouth when I saw it was “can I put it on”. Thing is awesome and heavy as shit.