Historical images - Images that made history

[Alex Hogendorp]

The Earliest Image of the famous Roblox Humanoid back in October 2005. Often associated with the Oof sound from the 2000 game called Messiah. The fact Roblox became this dystopian shithole really broke my heart. I really love this old Roblox aesthetic.

 

[AmazingEagle]

Wehrmacht soldiers advancing through the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, July 1941.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

The outcome of every Peruvian President since 2000

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

And here they are a few years later.

 

[Johnny Eastwood cash]

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

An old photo of a group of Greeks together.

 

[GenociderSyo]

Spoiler: Disability In Art

1568 The Beggars

1645 The Buffoon Sebastion de Morra

1550s Portrait of a Sixteenth Century Disabled Man

1460 Virgin and Child

1595 Portrait of Antonietta Gonzalez

1500s Portrait of Gregor Baci

1656 Les Meninas

150 BC Old Market Woman

1330s Disabled Beggar Child

1822 Portaits of the Insane
(A Woman Addicted to Gambling, A Child Snatcher, A Woman Suffering from Obsessive Envy, A Kleptomaniac; and A Man Suffering from Delusions of Military Command)

 

[AmazingEagle]

Finnish soldiers walking past a destroyed T-34 during the Battle of Tali-Ihantala, 1944.

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

 

[Meat Target]

US Marine Eugene Sledge, nicknamed "Sledgehammer".

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Was unable to post this on Christmas.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Pelé died today, so I figured why not:

 

[EpicGamerMoment]

A 17 year old Pele in Sweden before the 1958 World Cup, Brazil would become champions that year.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

Winston Churchill petting Fala:

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

Winston Churchill petting Fala:

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In some Eastern European dialects, fala means penis, which makes this funny.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

In some Eastern European dialects, fala means penis, which makes this funny.
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Well to be fair Fala in this case is short for "Murray the Outlaw of Falahill", and the dog was named after one of FDR's Scottish ancestors.

Image tax (colorized 1909 photo of child oyster shuckers):

 

[White_N]

Although it seems to me that the name "Rape of Nanjing" does not quite fit, there were a lot of rapes.

Spoiler: NSFW, and not in a sexy way

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

Various WW2 leaders as children:

 

[Eddie Riggs]

A dog having a cigarette on the eastern front

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

President Reagan greets a Soviet child. There is some talk that the blonde man on the far left is Putin as an undercover KGB agent.