Historical images - Images that made history

[RomanesEuntDomus]

I thought the first and third photos were the same and I kept going back and forth between them. They are extremely similar.

And

Probably taken the same day, but they're different.

Look closely, the two guys are copypasted from image 1 onto image 3.

It becomes obvious when you look at small details such as folds in the cloth, they are exactly the same in both images, also neither man casts a shadow consistent with the horse's.

I assume image 3 originally only showed the horse, but without people next to it as frame of reference, you can't tell how tall and large he is, therefore someone cropped the other image and pasted those two guys on there.

 

[PT 940]

Ted Bundy washing dishes with a friend

 

[Silence of the Troons]

Pre-Iranian revolution fashion ad, 1970s

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

A black shirt, khaki pants-wearing woman (Edna Cintron, IIRC) waving for help in the North Tower's hole on 9/11.

Spoiler: What happened to her shortly after. Possibly NSFW?

Imagine for a moment what she must have been thinking in those final moments. The sheer horror she must have felt and the vain hope that someone could help her.
When I saw what happened afterwords I very nearly had to vomit. Not because it was especially gruesome but because I was imagining how it happened and I knew so many others made the choice to jump. I can't wrap my head around what kind of terror and dread one must be feeling to just jump like that. I can relate on some level though, even if I don't want to. I never really felt much about 9/11 until today, honestly. It was just another terrorist attack on a bunch of people I didn't know.

 

[W00K #17]

 

[Swagstika]

And


Look closely, the two guys are copypasted from image 1 onto image 3.

It becomes obvious when you look at small details such as folds in the cloth, they are exactly the same in both images, also neither man casts a shadow consistent with the horse's.

I assume image 3 originally only showed the horse, but without people next to it as frame of reference, you can't tell how tall and large he is, therefore someone cropped the other image and pasted those two guys on there.

Odd to use the same two guys and then not just reuse the full horse picture. The pictures of the horse are from two different times. There are small differences in musculature and the pose. But if you look at the hooves, they are too long on the front legs in the first (probably to get the show gait the Belgians are so fond of) and a healthier length in the third.

 

[Silence of the Troons]

Fumimaro Konoe, who was prime minister of Japan 1937-1939 and 1940-1941, dressed up as Hitler

Fittingly, he was an ultra nationalist and prime minister when the Nanjing massacre happened. However, he tried to avoid war with the United States for as long as he could and eventually, he resigned because he didn't feel he was being listened to. Here he is looking visibly distressed a few weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor happened.

Spoiler: How he died

After the war, he came under suspicion of war crimes, so one beautiful day in December 1945, he committed suicide by taking potassium cyanide.

But at least his grandson Morihiro Hosokawa became prime minister 48 years later

 

[MidUSA]

Fumimaro Konoe, who was prime minister of Japan 1937-1939 and 1940-1941, dressed up as Hitler
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Fittingly, he was an ultra nationalist and prime minister when the Nanjing massacre happened. However, he tried to avoid war with the United States for as long as he could and eventually, he resigned because he didn't feel he was being listened to. Here he is looking visibly distressed a few weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor happened.
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Spoiler: How he died

After the war, he came under suspicion of war crimes, so one beautiful day in December 1945, he committed suicide by taking potassium cyanide.
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But at least his grandson Morihiro Hosokawa became prime minister 48 years later
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Why is it so damn hard for people to draw nazi swastikas facing the correct way? (unless this picture has been mirrored).

Even contemporary allies of the reich couldn't manage it apparently?

 

[Silence of the Troons]

Yukio Hatoyama (prime minister of Japan 2009-2010) as a young lad

 

[Carlos Thin]

Jackie Chan practicing holding the phone and grabbing a pen in Police Story. A scene that would require more takes than hanging off a speeding bus and, to not spoil anything, the ending of the movie

 

[Silence of the Troons]

One last Japanese politician sperg post (for now)

Shinzo Abe as a young lad in the 1970s

He looks the exact same now, AKA like a 70-year-old man.

Yuriko Koike as a young gal, late 70s or 80s

Together with Morihiro Hosokawa, early 90s

 

[Billy_Sama]

One last Japanese politician sperg post (for now)

Shinzo Abe as a young lad in the 1970s
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He looks the exact same now, AKA like a 70-year-old man.

He looks like part of a Stoner comedy duo.

 

[Anonymous For This]

Dale Earnhardt's fatal crash at Daytona International Speedway on February 18, 2001. I was a kid when this happened and was watching the race with my dad. I remember when the ambulance was leaving the track my dad going, "They're going awfully slow. That don't look good."

NASCAR was so divided at that time. If you were a Dale guy, you hated Jeff Gordon's guts. And if you were a Jeff guy, you hated Dale's guts. But it was really nice seeing the whole sport rally together after Dale's passing. I still think it's cool how strong Earnhardt fans supported his son after the crash, regardless of talent level. (Jr was a good driver and excellent person, but nowhere the skill level of his father.)

 

[Exterminatus]

Simo Hayha, also known as White Death, the nickname was given to him by Red Army soldiers. One of the most legendary snipers in the history of modern warfare. It's alleged he killed between 500-550 Red Army soldiers in their invasion of Finland. He used an early series SAKO M/28-30 rifle with an iron sight as opposed to a scope like most other snipers had begun using as he feared the sun would reflect on the scope and give away his location. He would eat snow in order to hide his breath from enemy Red Army snipers and ensure his location was concealed. Before the war he mostly lived a quiet life on a farm in Finland but was a skilled hunter and marksman as the Commies would soon find out. His deeds became almost mythical to the Finnish armed forces and he became a symbol of dread to the Red Army.


On March 6th 1940 he was hit in the lower left jaw by an explosive round fired by a Red Army soldier but amazingly he was rescued by fellow Finnish soldiers and survived his injury. He lost consciousness and came back to himself the day Finland reached a peace agreement with the Soviet Union. He survived World War 2 and eventually lived to the ripe old age of 96, funnily enough he passed away in 2002 so he also lived to see the death of the Soviet Union.

And the image below is how he looked after recovering from his facial injury during the war.

Spoiler

 

[Silence of the Troons]

Hanako Ishii standing by the grave of her lover Richard Sorge, a Russian-German journalist who worked as a Soviet Spy in Nazi Germany and Japan and was caught and executed in 1944. Sorge was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1964 (the reason why it took such a long time was that Soviet authorities were ashamed of acknowledging that Sorge had informed them about operation Barbarossa before the attack happened but done nothing about it because Stalin didn't believe him) and from that point on, Ishii received a pension from the Russians until her death in 2000.

 

[Remove Goat]

Why is it so damn hard for people to draw nazi swastikas facing the correct way? (unless this picture has been mirrored).

Even contemporary allies of the reich couldn't manage it apparently?

Remember, the Japanese are more used to the Buddhist swastika, which is drawn mirror to the Nazi swastika.

It's like an Englishman writing in German and using "o" all the time instead of "ö"

 

[TiggerNits]

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Dale Earnhardt's fatal crash at Daytona International Speedway on February 18, 2001. I was a kid when this happened and was watching the race with my dad. I remember when the ambulance was leaving the track my dad going, "They're going awfully slow. That don't look good."

NASCAR was so divided at that time. If you were a Dale guy, you hated Jeff Gordon's guts. And if you were a Jeff guy, you hated Dale's guts. But it was really nice seeing the whole sport rally together after Dale's passing. I still think it's cool how strong Earnhardt fans supported his son after the crash, regardless of talent level. (Jr was a good driver and excellent person, but nowhere the skill level of his father.)

I've never been a NASCAR dude but I have some family that were devastated by it. I'll never understand it, but I'm happy I haven't had to I suppose

Also, if you haven't, go watch Dale Jrs appearance on Joe Rogan. It made me tear up

 

[Kamov Ka-52]

The mushroom clouds from the only wartime use of nuclear weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively.

As a bonus, the cloud from the first tested nuclear device The Gadget, detonated in New Mexico, which scientists believed, at the time, had a non-zero chance of igniting Earth's entire atmosphere in a massive nuclear chain reaction:

 

[Fortress Fortress]

Ie Shima, August 19th 1945: Two demilitarized Nipponese G4M "Betty" bombers arrive carrying Japan's surrender delegation seeking an end to WWII.
By American request, the aircraft were painted white with large green crosses for identification.

The planes and their crews waited in American hands while the delegates were taken to Manila for a conference with Gen MacArthur. There Japan's surrender was officially signed, two weeks before the famous surrender ceremony aboard USS Missouri.

Both aircraft are long gone.
One ran out of fuel and ditched at sea on the return trip to Japan because the crew's fuel request was incorrectly converted from liters to gallons by US ground crew.
The second made it back, and was parked at Kisarazu Air Field in Chiba. Not long after, it was picked apart for souvenirs by incoming American occupation forces, badly damaged in a typhoon in mid-September, and then unceremoniously bulldozed into the ocean by Seabees.

 

[Anonymous For This]

I've never been a NASCAR dude but I have some family that were devastated by it. I'll never understand it, but I'm happy I haven't had to I suppose

Also, if you haven't, go watch Dale Jrs appearance on Joe Rogan. It made me tear up

Dale got to where he was by sheer force of will and talent. He was a blue collar guy who made it big, because he was willing to work himself (literally) into an early grave to accomplish what he desired. That resonated with his fan base.

It also helped that he's likely one of the best drivers the world has ever seen. The stock cars of the 80s and 90s didn't have the stupid down force advantage modern, and more boring, stock cars do. He wrecked because he was willing to take chances, but also pulled himself out of the fire more often than not with sheer skill alone.

All that coupled with his personality made him a really loveable guy. There's a lot of vendettas in NASCAR now between drivers, but when they vent on camera they come off as whiney assholes. Dale had a way with tones and words where even if he was being an asshole, he was at least not being a cunt about it. He came off as a good natured county boy who may/may not have just bumped a guy out of the race on purpose. Nobody ever thought Dale went for actual blood, even if he was aggressive, unlike Kyle Busch these days.