It really is crazy what has happened in Afghanistan over the last half century. It was set up to be the beacon of the middle east in like the fifties, then a combination of Russia, Islam, and the Taliban have pushed it back to the stone age. You could mistake half of these pictures for America in the fifties. Just a damn shame: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/05/27/once_upon_a_time_in_afghanistan?page=full#19
Hell yeah. My parents were shopping for wedding rings in Memphis on April 4, 1968. You don't think I've asked them about that? Even if he's sensitive about past transgressions, hear him out on why.
What are some websites you history buffs like? I really enjoy the history articles on cracked.com, and badassoftheweek.com is great too.
Timing is everything, but if there's one thing I've learned, it's that old people are happy to talk about the days when they weren't old.
I'm not big on Reddit, but reddit.com/r/history and reddit.com/r/historyporn are both really good. The former has article/stories/etc. and the latter has pictures (some of which have made it to this thread). this thread.
The first photo of the mountainous iceberg that destroyed the Titanic — and sent 1,514 of her passengers to a watery grave in the frigid North Atlantic — has finally surfaced. A century after the supposedly unsinkable ship went down in the inky darkness on April 15, 1912, a picture showing the killer berg floating on a still and frozen horizon is up for auction. The haunting, black-and-white shot was taken less than 10 hours after the horrific maritime catastrophe killed Astors, Guggenheims and Strausses — the 1% of their era — along with hundreds of poor families in steerage. Racing to the rescue as England’s pride and joy went down on her maiden voyage was the RMS Carpathia, which plucked 705 survivors from lifeboats and ferried them to the Titanic’s destination, the West Side of Manhattan. It was on board the Carpathia that passenger Mabel Fenwick captured the floating ice mass that took down the great ship. The hull of one of the Titanic’s lifeboats can be seen in the top right corner of the historic image.
Great suggestion on the reddit/historyporn: One legged race in NYC in 1918. James Meredith, the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi, after being shot while leading a march to encourage African Americans to vote. Mississippi, June 6, 1966. [640x430] Construction of the Statue of Liberty:
An army chaplain plays violin for the HQ staff of the British 8th Army while they sing traditional songs the night before an attack during the campaign in North Africa's Western desert, El Alamein, Egypt, by Bob Landry, August 1942 Insanely youngJapanese Prisoners During WW2
Sorry to hear about your gpa's failing health. Put him out of his misery. Take him out back, torture him, shoot him in the head, tie him to an industrial fan with barbed wire, and throw him into the Tallahatchie river.
I spent about ten minutes trying to make that as subtle as possible. Only so much you can do with MSPaint.
I can't explain it, but pictures of big statues taken apart and put on ground level skeeve me out. Somewhere on the same scale as a dark room full of puppets or something.
It is really creepy when the faces are well done and detailed. and sorry for the guys who saw my 69 post while working, my bad guys, did not think that all the way around.
I nicknamed my penis "The Desert Fox". Telling a girl that "Old Blood and Guts" wasn't going to suck himself wasn't as appealing.
ha that shit is vulcan in bham The Vulcan statue is the largest cast iron statue in the world, and is the city symbol of Birmingham, Alabama, reflecting its roots in the iron and steel industry. The 56-foot (17 m) tall statue depicts the Roman god Vulcan, god of the fire and forge. It was created as Birmingham's entry for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 World's Fair) in St. Louis, Missouri. It is the seventh-tallest free-standing statue in the United States.[2]
This is nuts. Can't imagine that this was only like 70 years ago, someone that well-known in the world committing suicide to spare his family
Speaking of great generals, I am watching "Civil War" by Ken Burns. I haven't watched it in 15 years. Man I wish we could have unleashed Grant, Sherman, Lee and Jackson on a foreign army. Those mfers would have raked. Oh and McClellan is a insufferable faggot. If you haven't watched it before you should check it out: http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/. It is available on netflix.
My grandmother lived there and used to take us to go up in the tower underneath him. Ten years ago, my brother and I were coming from Atlanta and decided to detour through Birmingham to see it again. We had been really young when when we had first visited and it took us forever to find the dude. Whole time I'm yelling at him "You used to be able to see him from everywhere and now the fucker's invisible!" Unbeknowest to us, this was when they took him down for repairs. They could've put a sign out at the city limits telling us tourists that, for shit's sake.
you literally could have put just about anyone else, and by anyone i mean anyone that would be willing to fight, and the war would have been over in a year. all he had to do was go to war instead of sitting on his ass asking for more troops and the the civil war would have been a minor detail in american history. he would have wiped the floor against any army in virginia during the first year because of the amount of troops he had but he just did nothing.
my brother lives there now, anytime anyone asks him whats there to do in bham, beyond some breweries, hes like uhhh vulcan? haha
after the war the former confederate elite launched a huge smear campaign against longstreet because he was critical of lee and accepting of much of reconstruction. he became a scape goat in the south for decades.
Lincoln sent a telegram to McClellan at one point that said something to the effect of "if you aren't going to use the Union army, do you mind if I borrow it?"