Historical images - Images that made history

[Toji Suzuhara]

The Branderburg Gate on the night of Sedantag, 1898

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

 

[Carlos Thin]

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The Chad Roosevelt vs the Virgin anyone else

 

[IronJuche_Brigade]

Empire of Dust

 

[Soso]

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his lovely family

 

[Yellow Rose Of Texas]

Tiger tanks of the elite SS-Panzer Das Reich in the Belgorod Oblast.

 

[The Last Stand]

Found that Jarrell footage, there's one other video I'll add if I track it down:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=KTYHP5_dxh4In less than 45 seconds it went from nothing to that nightmare. completely wiping an entire subdivision literally off the face of the Earth. Cars were ground into unrecognizable metal fragments and an engine block was found miles away.

A famously dubbed picture entitled "Dead Man Walking" of the Jarrell, TX F5 tornado on May 27, 1997. An unusual slow-moving tornado that killed 27 people, practically wiping out a whole town within its wake. Houses completely disintegrated, cars mangled like crumbled paper, roads uprooted out from concrete, people only being discovered through dental records.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his lovely family
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An interesting coincidence is that on the license plate of the car he died in has the letters A111 118 or Armistice November 11 '18

 

[Vriljami]

French paratrooper-legionnaires of the 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion emulate the iconic scene of Jacques-Louis David's neoclassical painting "The Oath of the Horatii", during late 1953 or early 1954, somewhere in French Indochina.
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The man on the far-right of the photo is Jean-Marie Le Pen, at the time just a paratroop officer, but after fighting in the wars of decolonization in Indochina and Algeria, he was to become the founder and longtime leader of the French far-right party, Front National, and father of Marine Le Pen.

In place of swords, the legionnaires use WW2 German Mauser bayonets that are cut down to a shorter fighting knife length. Common practice in the Foreign Legion since the early 1900s pacification campaigns against Moroccan and Rif rebels, due to the lack of any officially issued fighting knife in French service, the lack of any cutting blade on standard-issue French spike bayonets, and the availability of Mauser bayonets through battlefield captures and war booty.

The French Foreign Legionnaires of all eras seem to have a historical affinity for the Roman Legions of antiquity, regarding them as the "First Legion", although the legend of "The Oath of the Horatii" predates the Roman Legions and is just a patriotic allegory that was celebrated during the French Revolution as a call to arms.

Late reply but incidentally I can shed some light into this: It was on March 3, 1957, that French troops including Le Pen entered Ahmed Moulay’s home in the Casbah in Algiers. The Algerian was tortured in front of his wife and six children. A Hitler Youth knife engraved with “J.M. Le Pen” and “1er REP”, the initials of the 1st Foreign Parachutist Division, Le Pen’s unit, was found at the scene by Mohamed Moulay, his 12-year-old son.

In November 1962, Jean-Marie Le Pen told Combat, “I have nothing to hide. We tortured because it had to be done. When someone is brought to you who has planted twenty bombs that could explode at any moment and who will not talk, you use all the methods at your disposal to make him talk.” The former intelligence officer and paratrooper once described his role in Algeria as being: “a mixture between being an SS officer and a Gestapo agent.”



Everyone knows Germans killed about a million people as part of their anti-partisan operations, fewer that its about the same amount French killed Algerians in similar operations.

 

[millais]

A Hitler Youth knife engraved with “J.M. Le Pen” and “1er REP”,

Ah, that makes a lot more sense for explaining the smaller size of the knives in the photo. There are a few other infamous Indochina photos of French colonial paratroopers and legionnaires with Hitler Jugend knives and scabbards strapped to their belts. They seem to have been a favorite item of war booty, though not as common as regular Mauser bayonets.

 

[Jaded Optimist]

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Looks like a German Reichs revolver

 

[Soso]

Scenes of Cuba before the revolution


Socialites and their families enjoying their lives.


Gambling was popular among tourists with plenty of entertainment

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

Julius Caesar's tomb in Italy:

 

[World Famous Quasi Payer]

Late reply but incidentally I can shed some light into this

Thanks!

An interesting coincidence is that on the license plate of the car he died in has the letters A111 118 or Armistice November 11 '18

Thought this was fake, but nope, its real. Damn.

 

[Yellow Rose Of Texas]

SS-Obersturmführer Werner Wolf,Joachim Peiper's right hand in command.
Photo was taken around Kursk in 1943.

Was gonna put this in a WW2 form but last time I got flagged for"sensitive offensive content"and have to deal with retards butthurt about it.

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[SITHRAK!]

Wenceslao Moguel, who was sentenced to death by firing squad in 1915 during the Mexican Revolution. He somehow survived and lived until 1976. He was 79 when he died.

Otherwise known as ‘El Fusillado’. He was shot at least 8 times in the body and a coup de grace shot was fired into his head, as is customary, but yes, he survived.
I saw a Ripley’s Believe it or Not exhibition about him as a kid and he always stuck in my mind.

Thread tax: 1902, hatchet-wielding proto-feminist lunatic ‘saloon buster’ Carrie Nation is invited by Yale humor magazine ‘The Yale Record’, pretending to be a temperance society, to speak on the evils of drink.

She agrees to take several photographs with staff from the magazine. These are set up, then the room’s lights turned off to create pitch blackness as indoor night-time flash photography at the time required it.

At this point the Yale lads whip out a variety of bottles, beer glasses, tankards and even a noose. Carrie doesn’t notice as the flash temporarily blinds her.

The lads doctor the first photo to make it look like she had a cigarette and was blowing smoke rings. Cigarettes were considered extremely vulgar and unladylike for women until 1929, when notorious public opinion manipulator Edward Bernays used suffragette feminism in his ‘torches of freedom’ march to break the public taboo.

Nation was absolutely incensed at these photos and spent the rest of her life reviling Yale as a hotbed of vice, drink and corruption. No doubt if she could see it now she would have a brain hemorrhage and die from pure outrage.

Please note, if you will, the absolute fucking glee on the face of the student standing on the far right of the second photo.



I don’t know who you are, gleeful chap, or whether you amounted to much, but you will always bring a smile to my face every time I see your photo.

 

[Carlos Thin]

In a case of short gives way to short, Khalid bin Barghash succeeded his cousin Hamad bin Thuwaini as Sultan of Zanzibar after his very suspicious death on the 13 of January, 1890. Only two days later the British Government, suspecting Khalid's direct involvement in Hamad's death, demanded Khalid's deposition and removal from the royal palace. He barricaded himself inside and the royal guard and the British navy fought the shortest recorded war in history, lasting approximately 45 minutes. It ended with Khalid fleeing the country and around 500 civilians being killed in the fire that erupted around the palace. It marked the end of the sultanate of Zanzibar, and the British controlled the country via a puppet Sultan.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

Colorized historical depiction of William Tyndale's martyrdom:

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Did something happen here in 1989?

 

[AnOminous]

Did something happen here in 1989?
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Just a little thang.