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Rockwell was actually quite receptive to the Nation's message of segregation and donated money at this meeting
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State Police detective Lt. Jesse Stanton (left) and Det. George Collitt pour 15,000 amphetamine sulfate pills into the city incinerator. The so-called "Pep Pills" were confiscated from service station attendants who were convicted of selling them to truckers. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1960.
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Nazis and black supremasists are natural allies, really.
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/his/ suffering chart, make of it what you will, totally agree with Stalin and Pol’s placement.
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This is wild. Judging by this post and your screenname- i bet you have a ton of cool shit like this. I've never seen a war horse in chem gear. What a wild ass sight
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Grand Duchess Anastasia has some of my favorite photos. She’s clearly just a normal girl, who happens to have the tsar of Russia for a dad.
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3 November 1962, a Nike Hercules air-defense guided missile with a W31 nuclear warhead was launched from Johnston Island. At an altitude of 21 km the warhead detonated with a yield of 10 kilotons. This was the last atmospheric nuclear test conducted by the United States.
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In 1994, Nintendo made a public event at a Dutch airport where 10,000 counterfeit Game Boy games they confiscated in the Netherlands were ran over by a steamroller, to send a message to counterfeiters. An actor in a Mario costume was overseeing the operation.
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after looking at only the first picture, and not yet seeing the caption, i thought the caption was going to be "furry heartbroken as someone steamrolls his porn collection."
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There's another good video about this posted recently.
In World War Two the Iron range in Minnesota produced over 75% of all iron used in the United Sates war effort. These massive pits contained the high grade iron ore, which was mostly used up by the end of the war. The ore from the mines was sent to the docks to be shipped off the iron mills.
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I think one of those boats is still operating the lakes today. This ship was built in 1942 and is still active but hauling limestone for cement.
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I just got hit in the feels at 75 suffering 5 deserved.
Rest in Peace, Roi Louis XVII
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I was recently reminded of a rather peculiar tale of the Persian princess.
Back in 2000, Pakistani police confiscated a mummified body plus sarcophagus from black market dealers on the border with Afghanistan. A peculiar find, the ancient Persians didn't mummify their dead, it was believed perhaps an Egyptian princess married to Persian nobility. Covered with Zoroastrian motifs, the governments of Iran, Pakistan, and even the Taliban laid claim to the body and demanded its ownership.
Except through the use of carbon dating, it was revealed that the coffin was only 250 years old.
And the "princess" had died in the mid 90s
Oh, and the woman in question had almost certainly been murdered. Possibly being hit by a car.
Laid to rest in 2008, the identity of the mummy and her murderer are still unknown to this day
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There's a few left, though a lot have been scraped. Both of the oldest boats left on the lakes are cement ships and are much smaller than other ships, the St Mary's Challenger (Now a barge, but still active) and the Alpena. The St Mary's Challenger was built in 1906 and the Alpena 1942. But the coolest ship from the WW2 era would be the Lee A. Tregurtha. It was orginaly launched during WW2 as a oiler ship called the USS. Chiwawa. After earning several battle ribbons during the war it was sold to great lakes shipping company. They cut the middle section out and built a new midsection in Germany. Towing the new section they welded it back together and started its career on the lakes.
The Tergurtha with her battle ribbons
The St Mary's Challenger before and after she was turned into a Barge
And the Alpena
And lastly another WW2 converted ship, the Cliffs Victory. It was Victory ship launched at the end of the war. It was also lengthened though retained its mid engine room. Which was the only modern ship to include this. In my opion this is one of the best looking ships.
I also can't forget the Edward L. Ryerson, which is also another of the best looking ships
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The St Mary's Challenger before and after she was turned into a Barge
And the Alpena
And lastly another WW2 converted ship, the Cliffs Victory. It was Victory ship launched at the end of the war. It was also lengthened though retained its mid engine room. Which was the only modern ship to include this. In my opion this is one of the best looking ships.
I also can't forget the Edward L. Ryerson, which is also another of the best looking ships
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The SS Edmund Fitzgerald 4 years before it sank off the coast of Michigan in Lake Superior.
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The Edmund FItzgerald being launched in 1958
The Carl D. Bradley was another shipwreck before the Fitz went down. Its probable the two ships sunk from the ship bending to much (Hogging) and breaking in half. Though in the Bradley's case, two people lived.
The Eastland was a passenger ship in Chicago that capsized in 1915, killing around 850 people. The boat was chartered by a comapny taking their employes and families on a company pinic. As of thousands of people boarded the ship, it soon grew unstable and capsized. Trapping people under the boat, with only 40 pulled out alive from under the boat.
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It looks like a toe.
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Paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews with the first fossilized dinosaur eggs ever discovered
Here's him with a deer on one of his chinese/mongolian expeditions.
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"San Francisco in ruins" photographed by George R. Lawrence after the San Francisco earthquake in 1906. He mounted the camera onto a kite and flew it above the bay with makeshift stabilizers to keep the image from being all blurry. Can't imagine how difficult it was.