https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/last-public-execution-guillotine-1939/ After a sensational and much-covered trial, Weidmann was sentenced to death. On the morning of June 17, 1939, Weidmann was taken out in front of the Prison Saint-Pierre, where a guillotine and a clamoring, whistling crowd awaited him. Among the attendees was future acting legend Christopher Lee, then 17 years old. Weidmann was placed into the guillotine, and France’s chief executioner Jules-Henri Desfourneaux let the blade fall without delay. Rather then react with solemn observance, the crowd behaved rowdily, using handkerchiefs to dab up Weidmann’s blood as souvenirs. Paris-Soir denounced the crowd as “disgusting”, “unruly”, “jostling, clamoring, whistling”. The unruly crowd delayed the execution beyond the usual twilight hour of dawn, enabling clear photographs and one short film to be taken.
The Bible has been used to justify the creation of a whole bunch of laws that ended up on the wrong side of history
read an article about how a thriving black community in uptown charlotte was destroyed by expanding the interstate system interesting article about it. has pics so i am deeming it thread appropriate https://www.bisnow.com/charlotte/ne...ment-ease-the-pain-of-second-wards-past-84490
Not only do blacks/minority groups/poors get fucked by where roads go but also where stuff like toxic waste dumps get built. "Environmental racism" is very pernicious
risk of heart disease by one interstate (i wanna say in minneapolis? can't find the article) was something like 40% higher than other neighborhoods.
Insane how little factors can make such a difference over time. I read about one school in New York City that sat near a train track. Over time the researchers could show where a classroom near the train track consistently produced lower standardized test scores than one that didn't get disturbed by the noise
If it took them more than one round of tests to figure this out then those researches are complete dumbasses. You know what also would have told them that? Common sense.
Do they really target the minorities and lower class with the location of those sites? I see it more as the property values in those areas are going to be far lower and that will attract low income housing and industrial/commercial sites, if allowed. I agree there may be some isolated incidents where this may not be the case but I would venture to say that is the exception and not the rule.
Random thought but there is a very good book called Black Like Me where that was a major topic of the book. It's a true story...the book takes place in the 60s and it is about a white man who takes a shit ton of melanin to make his skin black, and lives in the South (mainly New Orleans) to experience what it would be like for about a year or so iirc. One of the most striking things about the book is that he talked about having to walk miles around town every time he had to use the bathroom because 90% of the places did not allow blacks to use the bathroom. The guy seemed to spend 2-3 hours of his day just trying to locate a restroom. Pretty despicable. It's an interesting read.
This is crazy. Like some Game of Thrones shit, piling up the slain armor in the street. I was curious so I googled and found more This interesting picture, taken in 1919, shows employees of the New York Central Railroad at a celebration in Victory Way, showing off a pyramid of recovered German helmets in front of Grand Central Terminal. There were over 12,000 German Pickelhaubes on the pyramid, sent from warehouses in Germany at the end of the war. Victory Way was set up on Park Avenue to raise money for the 5th War Loan, and a pyramid of 12,000 helmets was erected at each end, along with other German war equipment. There is a hollow supporting structure underneath the helmets. While many of the image’s details have been confirmed, the figure that was placed at the top of the pyramid is still subject to speculation. Some sources believe that it’s Nike, the Goddess of Victory. There are also two cannons located at the left and right of the helmet pyramid. Beyond a well-framed shot, this photograph is interesting for the symbolism, sociological impact and historical significance. Many people may find the sight of so many enemy helmets too macabre with each helmet representing a dead or captured soldier. And how does such a public display affect the psyche of citizens? To be located near Grand Central Terminal means it would have been seen by a lot of people. The cannons in the foreground, the numerous flags, the eagles atop the pillars; the symbolism in this shot is very powerful. There is a hollow supporting structure underneath the helmets. All helmets produced for the infantry before and during 1914 were made of leather. As the war progressed, Germany’s leather stockpiles dwindled. After extensive imports from South America, particularly Argentina, the German government began producing ersatz Pickelhauben made of other materials. In 1915, some Pickelhauben began to be made from thin sheet steel. However, the German high command needed to produce an even greater number of helmets, leading to the usage of pressurized felt and even paper to construct Pickelhauben. During the early months of World War I, it was soon discovered that the Pickelhaube did not measure up to the demanding conditions of trench warfare. The leather helmets offered virtually no protection against shell fragments and shrapnel and the conspicuous spike made its wearer a target. These shortcomings, combined with material shortages, led to the introduction of the simplified model 1915 helmet, with a detachable spike. In September 1915 it was ordered that the new helmets were to be worn without spikes, when in the front line. Beginning in 1916, the Pickelhaube was slowly replaced by a new German steel helmet (the Stahlhelm) intended to offer greater head protection from shell fragments. The German steel helmet decreased German head wound fatalities by 70%.
Two things I never new existed in NYC before this thread: -Swastika flags in Madison Square Garden -Pyramids of captured German helmets in the street by Grand Central
That area also has a lot of the industrial zoning. Lots of chemical companies. I'm sure that has something to do with it as well.
I guess I applaud you for looking that up, even if it was Wikipedia. However, I wouldn’t invest too much into what the captions on these twitter accounts say. To me personally it’s the photo themselves that I find engrossing.
Not trying to be super nerd; was just pretty sure I'd never heard of anyone close to that old so decided to look up. It's definitely an interesting pic In before Methuselah