Historical images - Images that made history

[Rome's rightful successor]

Orenburg cossacks with camels

 

[Peggy Olson]

On January 14th 2005 this photo taken on the surface of Saturn's moon of Titain by the Hugyens lander.


This was first photo taken on the surface of an object in the outer solar system, and the furthest surface picture humanity has ever taken, along with being . If the sun was visible in this image it would be 1/10th of the size it is on earth.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

I have no idea what the context to this photo is.

 

[awoo]

I have no idea what the context to this photo is.
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I believe it was monitoring the skies for planes before radar, so pre-WWII

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/war-sound-locators-before-radar/index.html

 

[Hummingbird]

I have no idea what the context to this photo is.
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They look like they have Mickey Mouse ears.

 

[独人13]

 

[WolfeTone]

 

[NOT a Loaded Gun]

I love the scale of this image. From the NASA website: "The Saturn V rocket was 111 meters (363 feet) tall, about the height of a 36-story-tall building"

 

[AnOminous]

I believe it was monitoring the skies for planes before radar, so pre-WWII

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/war-sound-locators-before-radar/index.html

Picture of an even larger one from that article.

 

[WolfeTone]

German soldier helps a boy sneak across the Berlin Wall, 1961.

 

[Carlos Thin]

Song Kang-ho taking a break from the movie Memories of Murder to visit the set of Oldboy.

 

[Esau]

Tyndale's Middle English manuscript of the Gospel of St. John.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

 

[Elbow Greased Strength]

German soldier helps a boy sneak across the Berlin Wall, 1961.
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Here's something really interesting - that soldier is wearing an NVA uniform, which means he's an East German. I think he's roughly the equivalent of a PFC in the US Army.

 

[The Last Stand]

Actress Clara Bow wearing a hat and blouse with swastika branding, circa 1920s. Contrary to public belief, she is NOT a Nazi. Remember, the swastika was adopted by the Nazis in the 1940s.

 

[Carlos Thin]

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Actress Clara Bow wearing a hat and blouse with swastika branding, circa 1920s. Contrary to public belief, she is NOT a Nazi. Remember, the swastika was adopted by the Nazis in the 1940s.

I can’t remember the proper symbolism for the swastika, is it well being or something to that effect? I do know many pilots put it on their airplanes pre WWII for good luck, which led to Allied aircraft changing that to how many German planes they shot down

 

[Mr. ShadowCreek]

An indian girl named O-o-dee smiling in an 1894 photo. It was rather rare to see someone smiling in photos back then.

 

[Mesh Gear Fox]

I can’t remember the proper symbolism for the swastika, is it well being or something to that effect?

Mostly its a symbol of luck and prosperity. You see it more in the East in places with populations of Buddhists, Jain, and Hindus.

 

[The Last Stand]

Mostly its a symbol of luck and prosperity. You see it more in the East in places with populations of Buddhists, Jain, and Hindus.

It's funny. She DID visit Germany in the 30s and Hilter fangirled over her with a signed copy of Mein Kampf. She didn't care either way. But that photo is unrelated.

 

[AmazingEagle]

East German border guards eating and drinking with West German civilians after the fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989.