Saturday, January 17, 2015

Fwd: FW: fabulous rare photographs (PND)

Lord, keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth . . . . . . . . . AMEN!

        ~  Unknown

Great photos some fabulous rare photographs

 

                                                      1.Prize fight Yankee Stadium

 

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2. A Russian spy laughing through his execution (1939).

 

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3. The evacuation of Saigon, in which some 45 UH-1

Hueys and one CH-47 Chinook

were pushed overboard to make room for others to land (1975).

 

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4. The first passengers on the brand new  New York subway (1904).

 

 

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5. Ernest Hemingway at a  Havana bar (date unknown).

 

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6.  Princeton students after a Freshman/Sophomore snowball fight (1893)

 

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7. Policemen inspect a "lumber truck" that smelled of alcohol

during prohibition (1926).

 

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8. Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they are assassinated,

which contributed to the start of WWI (1914).

 

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9. A native American watching the newly completed transcontinental railroad

in  Nevada (1868).

 

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10. The oldest running car on the planet: the 1884 De Dion, Bouton et

Trepardou Dos-à-Dos.

 

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11. A newly liberated French citizen happily lights Winston Churchill's

cigar (1944).

 

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12. A  US soldier offering his hand to a woman leaving a cave

during WWII.

 

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13. Queen Elizabeth during her WWII service.

 

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14. A last picture of the Titanic before sinking (1912).

 

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15. A pyramid of helmets from captured German soldiers on display

in  New York (1918).

 

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16. Construction of Brasilia City, which would later become the

capital of  Brazil (1960).

 

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17. Boeing 707 doing a barrel roll. When questioned about the stunt,

the test pilot said: "just selling airplanes."

 

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18. Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein debating over quantum mechanics

(1925).

 

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19. Fidel Castro and Malcolm X (1960).

 

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20. 106-year-old Armenian woman protecting her home with

an AK-47 (1990).

 

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21. Star Wars set at lunchtime.

 

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22. A WWI submarine washed ashore on the beach in  England .

 

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24. Execution of a German communist in  Munich (1919).

 

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25. Muhammad Ali trying to talk down a suicidal man (1981).

 

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26. Construction of  Mt.  Rushmore National Memorial (1939).

 

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27. The assembly line of Porsche 911s at the  Stuttgart factory (1970)

 

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28. American soldiers discover Manet's painting hidden in the salt mines

of Merker,

Germany (1945).

 

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29. John Young and Charles Duke training for the Apollo 16 mission

in the  New Mexico desert.

 

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30. A rebel soldier tosses a grenade into a loyalist position in Burgos,

Spain (1936).

 

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31. Anne Frank pokes her head out of her family's flat in  Amsterdam (1942).

 

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32. Archaeologist Howard Carter examining the opened sarcophagus

of King Tut.

 

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33. Hitler inspecting the massive 800mm "Schwerer Gustav" railway gun –

the largest-caliber rifled weapon ever used in combat (1942).

 

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34. Russian soldiers preparing for a gas attack against German positions

(1916).

 

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35. Eyes of hate: a photo of Goebbels after finding out his photographer

is Jewish.

 

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36. The first Wal-Mart store opened in 1962 by Sam Walton. It was called

Walton's Five and Dime.

 

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37. The Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the nuclear bomb

over  Hiroshima .

 

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38. Albert Einstein's desk photographed the day after his death.

 

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39. B-32 Bomber Factory in  Fort Worth ,  Texas (1944).

 

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40. The  Cologne cathedral amidst the ruins (1944).

 

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41. A rare photo of a young Winston Churchill (1895).

 

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42. The construction of the  Golden Gate  Bridge in  San Francisco (1937).

 

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43. Pre-Taliban days in Afghanistan when women enjoyed professional careers,

university education, etc… By mid-90s, the Taliban outlawed employment

and education of women over the age of 8.

 

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44. Gadget, the first atomic bomb.

 

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45. The night they ended Prohibition (December 5, 1933).

 

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46. German prisoners marching to  Moscow after their defeat

at  Belarus (1944).

 

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47. Testing a bulletproof vest (1923).

 

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48. Gas masks for babies tested at an English hospital (1940).

 

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49. Control room of the UB-110 German submarine (1918).

 

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50. A V-1 flying bomb "buzzbomb" plunging toward  London (1945).

 

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51. Buzz Aldrin taking a selfie in space (1966).

 

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52. Samuel Reshevsky, age 8, defeating several chess masters at once

in  France (1920).

 

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53. USAAF B-25 sinks Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze off the coast of Xiamen,

China (1945).

 

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54. An assassin attacking the socialist politician Inejiro Asanuma in Tokyo,

Japan (1960).

 

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55. A woman who survived the  Nagasaki bombing (1945).

 

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56. The first car factory in the  US for Ford (1926).

 

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57. Allied forces mocking Hitler (1945).

 

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58. A  US soldier replacing "Adolf-Hitler-Str." sign with " Roosevelt Blvd "

in  Berlin ,  Germany (1945).

 

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  This is why we enjoy photographs ~ they recall History so easily ~  Enjoy!

 

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