RCA 252 Posted September 2, 2016 Report Share Posted September 2, 2016 http://i.imgur.com/bkYTmAu.jpg 1# An iceberg photographed in 1912 bearing an unmistakable mark of black and red paint. It is believed that this is the iceberg that sake the Titanic. http://i.imgur.com/UXmdSgv.jpg 2# Ham the chimp returns to Earth following his historic 16 minute space flight in 1961. http://i.imgur.com/eWRw22l.jpg 3# The fuel tanks of the B-24H Liberator “Little Warrior†explode over Germany after being hit by anti-aircraft guns in 1944. http://i.imgur.com/LsQPd9a.jpg 4# Camp Commandant Amon Goeth, infamous from the movie "Schindler's List", on the balcony of his house overlooking Plaszow labor camp, Poland. 1943-44 http://i.imgur.com/mEr3ob1.jpg 5# Native American couple, Situwuka and Katkwachsnea in 1912. http://i.imgur.com/dbEWl68.jpg 6# The Kennedy family leave the funeral of John F. Kennedy in 1963. http://i.imgur.com/QzO0BZm.jpg 7# June 1915, Gallipoli: a Turkish sniper/sharpshooter, dressed as a tree, is captured by two Anzacs. http://i.imgur.com/VJAAMrS.jpg 9# The Golden Gate Bridge around 1935. http://i.imgur.com/qXHGUPJ.jpg 10# Mourners pay their respect to slain civil rights leader, Medgar Evars in 1963. His killer was finally convicted in 1994. http://i.imgur.com/gpPcqu3.jpg 11# Stephen Hawking marries Jane Wilde in 1965. http://i.imgur.com/wNReONj.jpg 12# Survivors of the Titanic are taken on board the Carpathia in 1912. http://i.imgur.com/PAjmtNB.jpg 13# Two childhood friends unexpectedly reunite on opposite sides of a demonstration in 1972. http://i.imgur.com/aL4uvPE.jpg 14# A burial at sea on board the USS Lexington in 1944. http://i.imgur.com/FpUOFcC.jpg 15# The Statue of Liberty photographed during a power failure in 1942. http://i.imgur.com/FWlG6ur.jpg 16# A lion rides in the sidecar during a performance of The Wall of Death carnival attraction at Revere Beach, Massachusetts in 1929. http://i.imgur.com/644FpBf.jpg 17# The RMS Olympic, the Titanic's sister ship, in wartime camouflage in 1915. http://i.imgur.com/4lobzC3.jpg 18# Anastasia shares a smoke with her father, Tsar Nicholas II two years before their assassination in 1916. http://i.imgur.com/eV7YQTM.jpg 19# OJ Simpson carries the Olympic Torch in 1984. Nichole Brown can be seen on the left. http://i.imgur.com/40dbaea.jpg 20# Harry Houdini exposes "spirit trickery" in 1925 http://i.imgur.com/7sdJ5ro.jpg 21# Arnold Schwarzenegger shows off to some elderly women in the 1970's. http://i.imgur.com/gNk8MAQ.jpg 22# Coney Island in 1905. http://i.imgur.com/FveRxKa.jpg 23# Construction of Hoover Dam in 1934. http://i.imgur.com/NFETeqr.jpg 24# George W. Bush plays a little dirty rugby for Yale in 1966. http://i.imgur.com/5brKNad.jpg 25# Sailors at Pearl Harbor watch as the USS Shaw explodes during the Japanese attack. December 7, 1941. http://i.imgur.com/MdaSmUh.jpg 26# The Japanese "War Tuba" used to locate enemy aircraft before the invention of radar. Circa 1930. http://i.imgur.com/ArHCoEQ.jpg 27#font-family:'Open Sans'Washington-Hoover Airport which was demolished in 1941. This is where the Pentagon stands today. http://i.imgur.com/iJWOlmA.jpg 28# The aftermath of the Great Hurricane of 1900 which killed an estimated 8,000 people in Galveston, Texas. http://i.imgur.com/M5WtlOJ.jpg 29# Marilyn Monroe with Ella Fitzgerald at the the Mocambo. A popular Hollywood night club at the time. That would not book Ella because of segregation. Marilyn told the manager that she would reserve a front row table every night Ella performed there. Ella performed a week later. 1955. http://i.imgur.com/iaVf76s.jpg 30# Sad clown Emmett Kelly, in his performer’s makeup, carrying a bucket of water in the aftermath of the Hartford circus fire of July 6, 1944, in which at least 167 people were killed. The tragedy is often called “the day the clown cried. http://i.imgur.com/CkB6j1t.jpg 31# The White House hollowed out during its reconstruction. 1948-1952 http://i.imgur.com/7QfO0fp.jpg 32# A crowded ship bringing American troops back to New York harbor after V-E Day, May 8th, 1945. http://i.imgur.com/lVXKAVh.jpg 33# Women protesting the forced Hijab in Iran days after the 1979 revolution. http://i.imgur.com/KzOd1X4.jpg 34# Women boxing in the roof sometime in the 1930s. http://i.imgur.com/ZGWyoMj.jpg 35# A Worker on beam of building at 40 Wall Street, 1930. http://i.imgur.com/15rsXHW.jpg 36# Germans testing a Messerschmitt Bf 109 in 1935. http://i.imgur.com/5JdF3St.jpg 37# Pacific Southwest Airlines stewardesses in 1972. http://i.imgur.com/bc7ujRb.jpg 38# General George S. Patton’s dog on the day of Patton’s death on December 21st, 1945. http://i.imgur.com/m3RxRqN.jpg 39# Frank Sinatra asks Lou Gehrig for an autograph in 1939. http://i.imgur.com/IZMX048.jpg 40# Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963, being transported to questioning before his murder trial for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. http://i.imgur.com/CUXMLvN.jpg 41# Helen Keller meeting comedian Charlie Chaplin in 1918 http://i.imgur.com/3Peccgi.jpg 42# Big Jay McNeely, Olympic Auditorium, 1953 Teddy, JillyJill, Substanz and 6 others like this Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scruffs 193 Posted September 2, 2016 Report Share Posted September 2, 2016 Really interesting, nice post :) RCA likes this Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scrappydoo 680 Posted September 23, 2016 Report Share Posted September 23, 2016 Interesting what's happened over centuries and decades:) RCA likes this Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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