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[Robert w'E'd Leef]

Chancellorsville was elsewhere. This was at Cold Harbor, like you said, but the dead were from a previous battle there, during the Seven Days Battle. At the second Cold Harbor, 10,000 Union soldiers went down in a half an hour. They so much knew that they were going to die that they pinned their names and addresses on their shirts so their families could be notified.

Chancellorsville was by Fredericksburg, which is about an hour from Cold Harbor by car

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

 

[Gunga Dan]

18.03.2020​

Wrocław Poland has been affected by epidemics many times in its over 1000 year history. Apart from the current one, the last time an epidemic was brought to the city was by a lieutenant colonel of the communist Security Services, returning from Asia. He was the "zero" patient of smallpox (variola major) epidemic in Wrocław in the summer of 1963.
In the spring of 1963, a Security Services officer - Lieutenant Colonel Bonifacy Jedynak - visited India. Nobody thought that in addition to souvenirs, he would bring smallpox virus to Poland. Jedynak returned to the country on 25 May 1963, landing at the Wroclaw Strachowice airport. Four days later he felt unwell. He had chills, muscle aches, fever, "strange acne lesions" on his face, and "rubella rash" on his chest. On 2 June he was hospitalized at the Wroclaw Ministry of the Interior hospital in Ołbińska Street with an "unknown tropical disease". Three days later, his blood samples were submitted for examination at the Tropical Medicine Centre in Gdańsk. Unfortunately, he was wrongly diagnosed with malaria.

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A Nurse With A Sick Child During The Small Pox Epidemic​

 

[AmazingEagle]

A propaganda poster in Rhodesia, 1975.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Peru's old ethnic Japanese president Alberto Fujimori and his family

 

[Devyn]

British mountaineers George Mallory (born 1886) and Andrew Irvine (born 1902)



They died during an attempt to be first to fully scale Mount Everest in 1924, and while no one knows for sure whether they actually did, it is possible.

Spoiler: Who was first?

Mallory's body was discovered in 1999, extremely well preserved by the atmospheric conditions

Spoiler: the body

Adventurer Conrad Anker and fellow climbers detail the day they found the frozen body of climber George Mallory on May 1, 1999 and footage of the discovery follows. Mallory and climbing partner Andrew "Sandy" Irvine disappeared in 1924.

 

[Karakhalkin-Gol]

German Soldiers Advancing from Gas, 1915

 

[Ponzo]

Otto Skorzeny was an austrian born SS Officer and titled "The most dangerous man in Europe" by allied forces.

He did some wild James Bond type shit during the war, like rescue Mussolini, infiltrate enemy forces and later help the Mossad hunt and kill former Nazis.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

 

[AnOminous]

That guard is such a stereotype.

 

[Karakhalkin-Gol]

Imperial Japanese Soldiers

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[Gunga Dan]

Acrobats Balance On Top Of The Empire State Building, 1934​

 

[Devyn]

Protesters blast a courthouse with fire hoses during the Marc Dutroux affair fiasco in Belgium, 1996, symbolically cleansing it of corruption and rot

Many Belgians, cynical after years of mismanagement of major criminal investigations, are irate over the court's decision.

"Connerotte is the only person we still trusted," one man said. "Public confidence in justice has completely disappeared."

He and about 700 other workers at a Volkswagen assembly plant in Brussels demonstrated by walking off the job. They marched on the Brussels Justice Palace. In the city of Liege, firefighters turned on their sirens and turned their hoses on a building housing the law courts.

"This place needs a good clean-out," as one fireman put it.

CNN - Belgians protest dismissal of pedophile investigator - Oct. 15, 1996

 

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Pablo Escobar cosplaying as Pancho Villa

Taken outside of Michigan Carbon Works in Rougeville, Mich., in 1892. At the close of the 18th century, there were between 30 and 60 million bison on the continent. By the time of this photograph, that population was reduced to only 456 wild bison.

 

[GorebyHog]

 

[SITHRAK!]

German Soldiers Advancing from Gas, 1915View attachment 2596295

Gas attacks rarely produced thick palls of smoke (as this would make it clear when it’s being deployed and therefore lessen its efficacy). The most successful chemical weapon in WW1 was phosgene and was deployed in a colorless form.

It also makes no sense to gas your own men on their way to attack enemy trenches. Especially when some of the blister agents, such as mustard gas and Lewisite, were actually vaporized liquid that would contaminate clothing, weapons and supplies.

There are no fixed bayonets visible and rifles are not being carried at the ready.
The ground is grassy with no obvious signs of prior or recent combat.

Gases used were heavier-than-air, also for obvious reasons. How fortunate that the photographer was able to capture the edge of the gas cloud without being in it as it propagated.

Gas deployment was generally of two varieties- there were ‘gas projectors’ that would spray gas but these were ineffective, as they were susceptible to damage, short-ranged, and prone to blue-on-blue gassing. The preferred for was delivery mixed in with regular artillery shells: the explosive and shrapnel shells force people into deep ground where the heavier-than-air gas can then get them. It would take an extremely stupid soldier to advance on the enemy, through a gas cloud, while being shelled, I think.

Lastly, if the Germans are advancing this would make the photographer British- all in all an unlikely scenario for ‘advancing from gas’.

Would it not be more likely that this is a photo of soldiers training in smoke clouds for the purposes of getting used to using gas masks?

 

[Yuri_]

 

[Robert w'E'd Leef]

colored photo of Kaiser Wilhelm smokin' em if he's got em in Silesia, 1913

 

[Sicko Hunter]

Homestake Mine, South Dakota, 1889

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

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Yuri!

Pablo Escobar cosplaying as Pancho Villa

Taken outside of Michigan Carbon Works in Rougeville, Mich., in 1892. At the close of the 18th century, there were between 30 and 60 million bison on the continent. By the time of this photograph, that population was reduced to only 456 wild bison.

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Homestake Mine, South Dakota, 1889

Thank god we saved the Buffalo