Historical images - Images that made history

[Carlos Thin]

Colorized historical depiction of William Tyndale's martyrdom:

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The King James Bible was merely his translation put through a spellcheck

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

Last known photo of Adolf Hitler (1945):

 

[Jimmy Hopkins]

This is one of my favorite historical photos as a coin collector/precious metals stacker. Gold rings confiscated by nazis from concentration camps.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

Depiction of the burning of Rome during Nero's reign, painted in 1785 by Hubert Robert:



Nero used this burning in order to have an excuse to persecute Roman Christians. Nero killed himself today on 9 June, 68 AD. 1,957 years of torment down with an eternity left to go.

 

[Soso]

Iran before the Islamic revolution


Underneath Reza Shah and Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Iran went through a series of reforms to push secularization and modernity.


Fashion during the 1970s


Education was not segregated by gender, many men and women attended the same classes and majors were not restricted as well.


While the modernization certainly pissed off mullahs. Iran was a popular destination for tourists to visit with many amenities before the Islamic Revolution.

 

[Jewthulhu]

Kids posing with a US soldier during Operation Just Cause

 

[Ventrue]

Images of the Kinetoscope: Between March and September 1894

The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device, designed for films to be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole viewer window. The Kinetoscope was not a movie projector, but it introduced the basic approach that would become the standard for all cinematic projection before the advent of video. It created the illusion of movement by conveying a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images over a light source with a high-speed shutter. First described in conceptual terms by U.S. inventor Thomas Edison in 1888, it was largely developed by his employee William Kennedy Laurie Dickson between 1889 and 1892.

Spoiler: Carmencita: Between March 10 and 16, 1894

Carmencita: Between March 10 and 16, 1894

Carmencita was the first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and may have been the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United States. Just three months after the commercial debut of the motion picture came the first recorded instance of motion picture censorship. The film in question showed a performance by the Spanish dancer Carmencita, a New York music hall star since the beginning of the decade. According to one description of her live act, she "communicated an intense sexuality across the footlights that led male reporters to write long, exuberant columns about her performance"—articles that would later be reproduced in the Edison film catalog. Runtime is 21 seconds.

Spoiler: Annabelle Butterfly Dance: Between April to August 1894

Annabelle Butterfly Dance: Between April to August 1894

It is one of the several silent films produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company starring Annabelle Moore, a Broadway dancer and actress. In the film, Annabelle performs one of her popular dances while wearing a butterfly costume. Runtime is 40 seconds.

Spoiler: Annabelle Serpentine Dance: Between April and August 1894

Annabelle Serpentine Dance: Between April and August 1894

Each short film depicts the popular serpentine dance performed by Annabelle Moore. Many of the prints were distributed in color, which was hand-tinted. Different versions of the film were released on four different dates: August 10, 1894; February 1895; April–August 1895; and May 8, 1897. Runtime is 45 seconds.

Spoiler: The Leonard–Cushing Fight: Between May 24 and June 14, 1894

The Leonard–Cushing Fight: Between May 24 and June 14, 1894

Several weeks later, the film premiered at the Kinetoscope Exhibition Company's parlor at 83 Nassau Street in New York. A half-dozen expanded Kinetoscope machines each showed a different round of the fight for a dime, meaning 60 cents to see the complete bout. For a planned series of follow-up fights (of which the outcome of at least the first was fixed), the owners of Kinetoscope Exhibition Company the Latham brothers signed famous heavyweight James J. Corbett, stipulating that his image could not be recorded by any other Kinetoscope company—the first movie star contract. Runtime 6 minutes, 1 minute each round.

Spoiler: Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (also known as Edison Kinetoscopic Record of Boxers and The Corbett-Courtney Fight): September 7, 1894

Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (also known as Edison Kinetoscopic Record of Boxers and The Corbett-Courtney Fight): September 7, 1894

It was only the second boxing match to be filmed, following The Leonard-Cushing Fight which had been filmed by the inventor William Kennedy Dickson between May 24 and June 14, 1894. The films are listed as "1st Round," "2nd Round," "3rd Round," "4th Round," "5th Round," and "6th Round". Runtime is 6 minutes, 1 minute each round.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

A photo of The Beach Boys casually doing a photo shoot inside a petting zoo with a giraffe

 

[AnOminous]

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A photo of The Beach Boys casually doing a photo shoot inside a petting zoo with a giraffe

I assume this was one of the pictures they took looking for a cover for Pet Sounds. It's from 1966, the same year as the album, and has a similar look. (And a search confirms it was.)

This is from the set with the one that ended up on the cover.

Also RIP Brian Wilson.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

I assume this was one of the pictures they took looking for a cover for Pet Sounds. It's from 1966, the same year as the album, and has a similar look. (And a search confirms it was.)

This is from the set with the one that ended up on the cover.
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Also RIP Brian Wilson.

It still looks beautiful even after 59 years, and it also makes me mad that pop music of today does not even resemble any of the things that Pet Sounds created. There may have been some exceptions, but it still sells itself short.

Sucks man.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

Depiction of William Bradford, multiple time Puritan Governor of Plymouth Colony and author of Of Plymouth Plantation:

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

Tomorrow marks the beginning of the traitors' uprising against the GDR in 1953. Patriots are in control.

 

[Carlos Thin]

I assume this was one of the pictures they took looking for a cover for Pet Sounds. It's from 1966, the same year as the album, and has a similar look. (And a search confirms it was.)

This is from the set with the one that ended up on the cover.
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Also RIP Brian Wilson.

Based on the facial expressions and general positions, I'm pretty sure this is the album cover. Any reason for the flip?

 

[AnOminous]

Based on the facial expressions and general positions, I'm pretty sure this is the album cover. Any reason for the flip?

Not sure, it does look like a flip, though, now that you point it out.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

The HistoMap This infographic was created all the way back in 1931 by a man named John B. Sparks, maps the ebb and flow of global power going all the way back to 2,000 B.C. on one coherent timeline.

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

Underneath Reza Shah and Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Iran went through a series of reforms to push secularization and modernity.

Pahlavi was proved to be a CIA puppet, which makes one wonder what the goal of the CIA actually was with all of that "modernity" it brought to Iran. In addition to the coup against Mossaddegh I mean. After all, if you can't trust the CIA to do the right thing, who can you trust?

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Shigeru Miyamoto

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Yuji Naka

 

[naaaaiiiiillllll!!!]

Fidel Castro sporting some stylish glasses. I THINK those are the famous Ray-Ban Wayfarer frames (or some lookalike):

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

June 22, 1941...the start of Operation Barbarossa. The largest military offensive in history and the most costly, with more casualties than the population of Finland.

Nazi forces enter the city of Smolensk, August 1941.