Historical images - Images that made history

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Armenian victims of the Genocide

Spoiler: Armenian Genocide

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Shortly sung after the Armenian Genocide
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Founding of the First Armenian Republic
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And the badasses that put an end to the first Armenian Republic. (Kâzım Karabekir in the middle)

Fatma Seher Erden and her guerilla fighters.

Turkish scout plane crew and mechanics.

Ammunition production.

Repairing trucks.

Preparing for war.

Fires of Smyrna

Mustafa Kemal Pasha and buddies in Mersin after BTFOing Allied powers out of Turkey.

 

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And the badasses that put an end to the first Armenian Republic. (Kâzım Karabekir in the middle)
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Fatma Seher Erden and her guerilla fighters.
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Turkish scout plane crew and mechanics.
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Ammunition production.
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Repairing trucks.
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Preparing for war.
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Fires of Smyrna
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Mustafa Kemal Pasha and buddies in Mersin after BTFOing Allied powers out of Turkey.
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Oh, these are really nice. For some strange reason, out of the many Turks, I always enjoyed how Enver went down fighting against the Soviets.

 

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Oh, these are really nice. For some strange reason, out of the many Turks, I always enjoyed how Enver went down fighting against the Soviets.
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I believe it was an Armenian calvary officer that took him down. The Armenians deserve that W tbqh, He was a low iq nigger that let 60 thousand capable soldiers freeze to death in the Caucasus mountains. Our turkoids still worship xim for some reason, despite xim ruining the nation and running, leaving Atatürk to pick up the scraps.

Meanwhile this nigga was cucking the Arabs out of Medina with a skeleton army and no supplies.

 

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Not an image per se, but historical nonetheless.

One of the first recorded voices from the 1800s:

 

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The disastrous Cultural Revolution's first phase. (Yes there was a second phase)

One of the most infamous pictures of the Red Guards. Many of their victims consisted of the religious, teachers, "rightists", capitalist roaders, etc.

Many pieces of history were damaged, defaced, or destroyed, lost forever underneath the disastrous policy of destroying "The Four Olds." Temples, churches, and others were all looted, their scriptures and art destroyed. Riots and mass hysteria spread throughout China

Struggle sessions were commonplace, many were publically humiliated, and sometimes were tortured to death. Prominent victims consisted of: Xi Jinping's father, Xi Zhongxun, Liu Shaoqi, the Panchen Lama, Sampho Tsweamg Rigzin, and his wife.

The anthem of China was replaced by The East is Red until Mao's death, further solidifying his cult of personality as the country descended into hysteria.

 

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On May 6, 1970, Yuichiro Miura became the first man to ski down Mt. Everest, using a parachute to slow his descent.

 

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The Cultural Revolution's second phase aka Jiang Qing fucks everything up and runs China to the ground.

The gang of four led by Jiang Qiang, others consisted of Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen. Also with them is Zhou Enlai.

Having taken over the Cultural Revolution, what does Jiang Qing do? She makes it about herself of course.

Behold the Jiang Qing dress. Originally she wanted this mandated among Chinese women and it thankfully didn't take off. It was scorned and mocked heavily.

While revolutionary operas were a thing during the Cultural Revolution's first phase, the Jiang Qing and the Gang of Four phase increased them. It was constant for these operas to be mandated viewing and many were required to discuss or recount the plots to others. As seen above, this revolutionary opera was The Red Detachment of Women. Former President of the US was invited to view one of these Peking Operas and many tourists from the west often viewed them.

One of the many propaganda posters, insisting the people of China to be just like Jiang Qing. Telling them to study her works and to give her the respect she deserves. Didn't endear her much to the Chinese people.

After causing all of that chaos, she wasn't exactly beloved for many obvious reasons and was arrested shortly after Mao's death, taking most of the blame for the Cultural Revolution. Enraged she claimed Mao wrote "If you have any questions, ask Jiang Qing" over and over as she was dragged out, yelling slogans from the Cultural Revolution. She committed suicide in 1991 and isn't really missed besides a few neo-Maoists.

 

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Moments before happiness...

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

 

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Painting of various people, including President Theodore Roosevelt, with Slippers, the White House cat at the time:

 

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The Kampuchean Horror

Two Khmer Rouge Militia members riding down the streets during the fall of Phnom Penh. A good portion of the Khmer Rouge consisted of radicalized adolescents.

Many celebrated believing the bombing campaign over Cambodia was over, and that the war has finally ended. Some hoped for their king to return.

However peace didn't last long for them, immediately many were told to leave their cities and go down to the countryside.

Everyone was required to live in these villages, forced to farm constantly. Many died of overwork and starvation, some beaten to death for not working hard enough.

Some victims who went into the infamous Security 21 prison. Only twelve total survived the constant torture that went on there. Many victims consisted those who were considered educated, teachers, students, doctors, christians, buddhists, engineers, and many more. Entire families were taken in as well. Torture consisted of pouring saltwater on open wounds, beatings, electrocution,

Most infamously the killing fields. To save bullets, they resorted to rusted farm tools, beating children against the tree, buried alive etc. Mass graves are still being dug up to this day. The madness all came to an end once Vietnam invaded Cambodia.

 

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the shocking part to me is that photo is from the 1980s, in america people would assume its a 1950s picture.

 

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Forensic reconstruction of Ivan the Terrible:

 

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The Kampuchean Horror

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Two Khmer Rouge Militia members riding down the streets during the fall of Phnom Penh. A good portion of the Khmer Rouge consisted of radicalized adolescents.

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Many celebrated believing the bombing campaign over Cambodia was over, and that the war has finally ended. Some hoped for their king to return.

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However peace didn't last long for them, immediately many were told to leave their cities and go down to the countryside.

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Everyone was required to live in these villages, forced to farm constantly. Many died of overwork and starvation, some beaten to death for not working hard enough.

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Some victims who went into the infamous Security 21 prison. Only twelve total survived the constant torture that went on there. Many victims consisted those who were considered educated, teachers, students, doctors, christians, buddhists, engineers, and many more. Entire families were taken in as well. Torture consisted of pouring saltwater on open wounds, beatings, electrocution,

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Most infamously the killing fields. To save bullets, they resorted to rusted farm tools, beating children against the tree, buried alive etc. Mass graves are still being dug up to this day. The madness all came to an end once Vietnam invaded Cambodia.

Doesn't take much for people to turn savage, does it?

 

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A political cartoon of Theodore Roosevelt, involving an incident which happened while he was hunting with the Governor of Mississippi. After an exhausting hound chase, with no kills, Roosevelt's assistant managed to lasso a young black bear for Roosevelt to kill. Roosevelt deemed it unsportsmanlike and refused to kill the bear, although he said to kill the bear to put it out of its misery. This cartoon inspired the inventor of the toy bear to name it Teddy's Bear, later simply a Teddy Bear, to great popularity.

Roosevelt absolutely loathed the name "Teddy", preferring at all times to be called Theodore, and along with the association of a children's toy, equally disliked the Teddy Bear. He called it an “outrageous impertinence”. The family, however, liked the association, and an original model of the Teddy Bear was donated to the Smithsonian by his Grandson Kermit.

 

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Theodore Roosevelt's diary entry the day his first wife as well as his mother died:

 

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Theodore Roosevelt's diary entry the day his first wife as well as his mother died:

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Alice Hathaway Lee. Born at Chestnut Hill, July 29th 1861. I saw her first on October 18th 1878; I wooed her for over a year before I won her; we were betrothed on January 25th 1880, and it was announced on Feb. 16th; on Oct. 27th of the same year we were married; we spent three years of happiness greater and more unalloyed than I have ever known to fall the lot of others; on Feb. 12th, 1884 her baby was born, and on Feb. 14th she died in my arms; my mother had died in the same house, and on the same day, but a few hours previously. On Feb. 16th they were buried together in Greenwood...For joy or sorrow, my life has now been lived out.

Diary entry Feb 17th. Apart from two written valedictories dedicated to her,

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She was beautiful in face and form, and lovelier still in spirit; As a flower she grew, and as a fair beautiful young flower she died. Her life had been always in the sunshine; there had never come to her a single sorrow; and none ever knew her who did not love and revere her for the bright, sunny temper and her saintly unselfishness. Fair, pure, and joyous as a maiden; loving, tender, and happy. As a young wife; when she had just become a mother, when her life seemed to be just begun, and when the years seemed so bright before her—then, by a strange and terrible fate, death came to her. And when my heart's dearest died, the light went from my life forever.

no record of Roosevelt ever mentioning or writing about his first wife again exists, including in his autobiography. His daughter, ironically named Alice Lee, was usually called "Baby Lee", and he never spoke to her of her mother. The few photographs of Alice H. Lee that survive his possession are notably missing their captions, and Roosevelt destroyed most of his diary entries concerning her and their correspondence.

 

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I know I usually shitpost in here but this is awesome. The Smithsonian is basically encouraging people to recreate art and artifacts. That is a stellar idea because having a piece of history you can pick up and hold lying around, even if it’s a replica, has great potential for preserving the best parts of the past, and helping people learn and become curious about history from a spectator’s viewpoint. Going to someone’s house and they have a miniature scale model of the Rosetta Stone is a great conversation starter. Plus you get to feel classy and cultured lol

 

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Ripple Rock was a reef less than 3 meters below the surface of Seymour Narrows.

It was a major navigation hazard and caused about 120 shipwrecks between 1875 and 1958 killing at least 110 people.

There had long been plans to try and remove it somehow. Between November 1955, and April 1958, a three-shift operation involving an average of 75 men worked to build a 174 metre vertical shaft from Maud Island, a 762 metre horizontal shaft to the base of Ripple Rock, and two main 91 meter vertical shafts into the twin peaks, from which "coyote" shafts were drilled for the explosives.



The contract was awarded to two firms for $2,639,000. At the time of the contract it was estimated the tunnels and shafts would not be completed until either 1957 or 1958 1,270 metric tons of Nitramex 2H explosives were placed in these shafts, estimated at ten times the amount needed for a similar explosion above water.



The explosion took place at 9:31:02 am on April 5, 1958. 635,000 metric tons of rock and water was displaced by the explosion, resulting in debris at least 300 metres in the air, falling on land on either side of the narrows.

The blast increased the clearing at low tide to about 14 metres (45 feet). The Royal Canadian Mounted Police cleared the area of within 3 miles of the explosion, and the engineers and TV crew that witnessed the explosion were housed in a bunker. It remains to this day one of the top five planned explosions in human history.