Historical images - Images that made history

[Dolphin Lundgren]

The Tank Man of Tiananmen Square.

 

[SparklyFetuses]

The Tank Man of Tiananmen Square.

IIRC, there are 4 different photos of the same incident. Here's one of them.

Spoiler: Big ass pic

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

IIRC, there are 4 different photos of the same incident. Here's one of them.

Spoiler: Big ass pic

I wonder what happened to this man, considering I couldn't find any information on him after this incident.

 

[SparklyFetuses]

I wonder what happened to this man, considering I couldn't find any >verified< information on him after this incident.

Here.

Also, there's actually 5 photos and not 4 as I've said. The last one (that was released almost 10 years ago) was taken from the ground level.

Spoiler: Our good ol' nigga Tank Man is at the left, between the 2 tree trunks and close to the damaged bus.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Here.

Also, there's actually 5 photos and not 4 as I've said. The last one (that was released almost 10 years ago) was taken from the ground level.

Spoiler: Our good ol' nigga Tank Man is at the left, between the 2 tree trunks and close to the damaged bus.

Damn. That guy had a lot of balls to do what he did. I read that he got taken away but nothing else can be found on his fate after this.

 

[Coldgrip]

Damn. That guy had a lot of balls to do what he did. I read that he got taken away but nothing else can be found on his fate after this.

He dead. You know the chinese government doesn't take kindly to drones going against their programing.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

He dead. You know the chinese government doesn't take kindly to drones going against their programing.

I saw claims that he was either in prison or dead, but sadly I think he was killed as well.

 

[Bluebird]

The Reichstag is a cool building. A lot of the Soviet graffiti from where the Red Army rolled through is still there.

(I forget if this is the edited version or not.)

unedited, notice the man on the bottom of the picture has two watches on. That was changed so critics couldn’t accuse the sovet military of widespread looting.

 

[Slap47]

The Tank Man of Tiananmen Square.

 

[Silence of the Troons]

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Eight year old Bill Paxton on a man's shoulders to get a peek at John F. Kennedy, hours before the shooting.

 

[GV 998]

Let me show. You my favorite painting from history. It is called Watson and The Shark by John Singleton Copley. The painting depicts the 1748 shark attack on Lord Mayor of England, Brook Watson, when he was only 14 years old. The attack cost him his right leg. The attack occurred when Watson was swimming alone in the bay in Cuba. He was rescued , which is depicted in the painting, but he lost his leg before that coud happen.

There is no record of what kind of shark attacked Watson, but judging by the size indicated in the painting and the location, it was possibly a great white.

This painting depicts one of the earliest reported shark attacks, and it is possibly the earliest depiction of a shark attack. Copley created three different versions of this painting and curiously, all three versions are nearly identical except for one factor: the shark.

And

One thing you’ll notice is that none of the version’s shark particularly resembles a shark. The dorsal fin is too round, the snout ridiculously has nostrils that it appears to be breathing out of in the first painting, and the shark appears to have lips. But most importantly, it’s eyes are forward facing and look all too human ( except in the second painting, where the eyes look outright demonic). This is because Copley had never seen a shark and only had very old sketches to use as a reference point.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Orson Welles discusses the reported panic shortly after his famous Halloween broadcast of "War of the Worlds" which caused mass hysteria in America.

Howard Hughes, testifying at the Senate War Investigating Subcommittee's Hearing on his wartime plane contracts. 1947.

 

[bearycool]

War doggo. View attachment 617187 This is Sergeant Stubby.

He was a ranked sergeant who is the official mascot of the 102nd Infantry Regiment and was assigned to the 26th Division in World War I. He served for 18 months and participated in seventeen battles on the Western Front. Wikipedia

Semper Fi, good boy!

There is an animated movie based on that dog too, btw.

 

[SparklyFetuses]

Hirohito, during his visit to Disneyland in 1975.

 

[Pop-Tart]

More Warsaw uprising pics

Pictures from the battle over Shuri Castle on Okinawa

Next time I will not post military stuff or at least as much

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Kent State, 1970:

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

WW2 almost completely destroyed the cultural identity of Okinawa, which was essentially just a colony of Japan at the time, just like Korea. The fact that so much of their historical stuff was destroyed and so many people got killed due to the completely insane behaviour of the japanese army breaks my heart.

 

[Slap47]

British abolitionists push for the usage of East Indian sugar to fight slavery.

WW2 almost completely destroyed the cultural identity of Okinawa, which was essentially just a colony of Japan at the time, just like Korea. The fact that so much of their historical stuff was destroyed and so many people got killed due to the completely insane behaviour of the japanese army breaks my heart.

The Japanese were very genocidal during the 19th century. Okinawa and Hokkaido were treated worse than how the US treated the wild west. Ainu and Ryukyuan people were banned from speaking their language and had all of their land privatized and sold to Japanese people. Worst of all, they found themselves forced to work manual labor jobs in fields and coal mines. Japanese coal mines were especially brutal as children were forced to work naked in small cramped mines with limited technology. Within decades the Ainu lost 80% of their population and no, disease wasn't a factor. The Ryukan's worked sugar plantations and were hit with a famine almost as bad as the one that hit the in Irish and then lost half of their population to ww2.

Japanese people still discriminate against these people today and its pretty extreme. They actually spit on and assault people that assert that these cultures are not a subgroup of the Yamato. The Ainu are basically dead and the Ryukans are viewed as traitors for starting an independence movement after ww2 and it is commonly believed that they sided with the Americans during the war despite all the mass suicides.

 

[Pop-Tart]

WW2 almost completely destroyed the cultural identity of Okinawa, which was essentially just a colony of Japan at the time, just like Korea. The fact that so much of their historical stuff was destroyed and so many people got killed due to the completely insane behaviour of the japanese army breaks my heart.

Japan was workin on that before the US invasion. The invasion obliterated it, and the current occupation is not helping. Japan wants the US military base and protection but not on the main islands. As military bases attracts crime, rowdy soldiers, and rape cases.