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[Clint Torez]

20 long years...

 

[Foltest]

Shit, I was too late.

 

[Crepidodera fulvicornis]

My favourite one, if one can use this word, is the one that shows one tower still intact, the second engulfed in smokes and there is another plane in the background.
So unbelievable

ETA of course, there are multiple photos, not one, but I like that one below, there plane is a more subtle threat but unavoidable nevertheless

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Have no where left to go? Might as well jump....

most iconic image

but the dust cloud when the two collapses is what really gets me.

another shot

another one

on the groundhttps://sneed.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/FE3kbCeMYp65SiXDlRfmHw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD04MjcuMTkxNDA2MjU-/https://sneed.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/991nu9k_C2V2qBnFa.ze4A--~B/aD02ODI7dz0xMDI0O2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u/http://media.zenfs.com/152/2011/09/01/1339533-large-watermark-comp_210257.jpg

 

[Crepidodera fulvicornis]

There is a heartbreaking (but I'd would recommend to everyone) book about it “The only plane in the sky” - from the ordinary eyewitnesses, how unreal and worldvreaking that Was. I was young but enough to understand the out of this world level of this catastrophe, but it's still unimaginable simply be there. Like sky falling down.

 

[GenociderSyo]

Have no where left to go? Might as well jump....

There isa documentary about this called "The Falling Man" they were attempting to identify him and when they do the family will not accept it stating he would never commit suicide. His choice was a slow death by fire or a fast one by jumping, this is probably why many people jumped.

 

[Carnavoyeur]

Photo of the smoke plume taken from the ISS by Frank Culbertson, the only American onboard that day.

I remember getting up that morning, walking to the bathroom and seeing my mom in her room staring at the TV with her hand over her mouth. I stopped at her door and she said "Two planes just flew into the Twin Towers." A few hours later we went to take her then-boyfriend to get a dental procedure done and none of the local radio stations were playing music, just news about the attacks.

 

[Pocket Dragoon]

Union Private Jacob Miller

Miller, a native of Logansport, served in Company K of the 9th Indiana Infantry during the Civil War. In one of his numerous battles, Miller was struck squarely in the forehead with a bullet, which tore a jagged hole and entered his brain, allowing doctors to view the pulsations of his brain. The wound never healed.

Miller relayed his story and personal experiences in an interview he gave to a Joliet, Illinois, newspaper in 1911.


Miller enlisted in the war in Logansport in 1861 and participated in the battles of Greenbriar, West Virginia; the siege of Corinth; Perryville, Kentucky; Stones River. On Sept. 19, 1863, during the battle of Chickamauga, a musket ball pierced him between the eyes, he fell backward and was left for dead on the battlefield. He distinctly recalled his captain say, “It’s no use to remove poor Miller, for he is dead.”


“At last, I became conscious and raised up in a sitting position. Then I began to feel my wound," Miller recalled. "I found my left eye out of its place and tried to place it back, but I had to move the crushed bone back as together as near together as I could first. Then I got the eye in its proper place. I then bandaged the eye the best I could with my bandana.”

Miller’s other eye was so swollen, he could see nothing. Though blinded, he crawled through the battlefield over the dead and made his way to a field hospital. Fearful of being taken prisoner by the Confederates, he set out on a 15-mile journey to Chattanooga. Miller could only see a few feet ahead of him by holding open the lids of the swollen eye. Miller passed out along the roadside and was picked up by a man on horseback who took him to Chattanooga where he finally got his wounds dressed.

In excruciating pain, Miller begged every doctor he saw to remove the bullet. Surgeons were sure Miller would die if the bullet were removed, so they left it in until he reached home. Once in Logansport, doctors Graham Fitch and Henry Coleman successfully removed about one-third of the musket ball. “Seventeen years after I was wounded a buck shot dropped out of my wound and thirty-one years after two pieces of lead came out,” Miller said. Miller had been reported dead by his captain, and his name was printed in the newspapers among the killed. Two months later, friends and family finally received word from Miller that he was alive.

He received a pension from the government and could not work because of his wound. He married and had a son. Miller suffered constant pain and fits of madness, and he would often wander aimlessly. While he could not remember names, he vividly recalled the details of how he was injured and his subsequent escape. “Some might ask how it is I can describe so minutely my getting wounded and getting off the battlefield after so many years. My answer is I have an everyday reminder of it in my wound and constant pain in the head, never free of it while not asleep. The whole scene is imprinted on my brain as with a steel engraving.” Jacob Miller died Jan. 13, 1917, at the age of 88.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

closing out today we have my two favorite photos of that eerie day.

respect to those brave firemen of that day

The 9/11 cross is always a fascinating thing

And here it is after it was pulled out

 

[Lee Crabb]

Despite encompassing over 600 years, there has been to date only 7 Anglo-Saxon helmets discovered.
Categorized by age of the helmet.

Spoiler: Many Images

Shorewell Helmet (made 500 AD - 550 AD) discovered in 2004 on the Isle of Wight.

Reconstruction:



The famous Sutton Hoo helmet (originally made c. 500 AD but was maintained and used until early 7th century; likely belonged to King Raedwald of East Anglia ) Discovered in 1939 in Suffolk.

Reproduction


Staffordshire Helmet cheekguard (made 600-650) discovered in 2009 in...Staffordshire.

Reproduction (very much undergoing debate as we speak)


Benty Grange Helmet (made c. 650) discovered in 1848 in Derbyshire.

Reproduction



Pioneer Helmet (made late 7th century AD) discovered in 1997 in Northamptonshire

Reproduction



Coppergate Helmet (made 8th century AD) discovered in 1982 in Yorkshire

Reproduction



Finally, we have the Yarm Helmet (made in early 10th century) and while discovered in Yorkshire in the 1950s was officially categorized and dated in 2020. Despite being so simple and ugly compared to most of the earlier helmets in this list, I consider this the most interesting. To date, the Yarm helmet is not only the only Viking helmet discovered in the United Kingdom, it the is the only helmet discovered from the Viking Age in the UK. Period. All the previous helmets in this list predate the sack of Lindisfarne, which started the Viking Age in the British Isles. However, it's believed not to be a purely Norse helmet, but Anglo-Norse; the cultural fusion of Viking settlers and Anglo-Saxons that occurred in northern England around the time this helmet was made. Bears a close resemblance to the Gjermundbu helmet of 10th century Norway.

Reproduction

 

[Devyn]

Empire State Building under construction

 

[Tootsie Bear]

My favourite one, if one can use this word, is the one that shows one tower still intact, the second engulfed in smokes and there is another plane in the background.
So unbelievable

ETA of course, there are multiple photos, not one, but I like that one below, there plane is a more subtle threat but unavoidable nevertheless View attachment 2528145

Flight 175 seconds before crashing is so real. It's like seeing the end of the world happening in front of you in slow mow while everything else is on fast forward.

 

[Pocket Dragoon]

So while I was going down a wikipedia rabbit-hole on 9/11, I came across this gem.... the Oozlefinch, a bird that flies backwards at supersonic speed.

This article contains one of the best examples of military shitposting, starting with these arms bearing the Latin motto; "Quid ad sceleratorum curamus", which translates roughly as "What the hell do we care?"

The body of the shield "parti per fess, dovetailed" indicates the general woodenness, not of the Artillery Board and the other members of the "Gridiron Club" but of the passing throng who paid not their toll cheerfully in passing through the Sanctum to the bar. "Gules and Sable:" The color of the shield is red and black-red for the Artillery, and black in mourning for those who lost at dice by throwing the lowest spots. "In honor, a deuce spot of dice, lozenged. proper:" The honor point of the shield was given to the lowest marked dice, as it was the one which most frequently appeared to some members, the law of probabilities to the contrary notwithstanding. "In nombril a gridiron sable:" the lower half of the shield given over to the memory of those who did not belong to the "Gridiron Club" but who were constantly roasted by it. The supporters, "two Oozlefinches, regardant, proper," were a natural selection, "regardant" meaning looking, or better, all-seeing, with the great eyes that this bird has to protect while in flight in the manner described.

The crest "a terrapin, passant dexter proper, " was selected owing to the great number of these animals, cooked to perfection by Keeney Chapman and served with great pomp to the members of the Artillery Board on occasions of state. This was always accompanied by libations of "red top, " red top being a now obsolete drink made in the Champagne Country of France and once imported to the United States, in times gone by that now seem almost prehistoric.

The wavy bar, over which the terrapin is passing, represents the adjacent waters of Chesapeake Bay, the natural habitat of this animal.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

American President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ethiopian Emperor Hallie Selassie

Old photo of Hong Kong

Older photo of New York

 

[Gunga Dan]

Columns of Hoover Dam being filled with concrete. February 1934. (Looking upstream from Nevada Rim)

 

[Devyn]

Some photos of the Lykovs, a Russian family that had lived in total isolation in the Siberian taiga for over forty years. The man had fled with his wife, their nine year old son and two year old daughter to escape religious persecution by the Bolsheviks in 1936; another son (1940) and daughter (1943) were born in the wilderness, and none of them saw another human being outside the family until geologists discovered them in 1978.





Their hut:

For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II

In 1978, Soviet geologists prospecting in the wilds of Siberia discovered a family of six, lost in the taiga

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Some Luftwaffe photos

another one

some more

again

and one more.

 

[mickey339]

All American nazi niggas, yo.

 

[Bryan Magee]

All American nazi niggas, yo.

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Until the mid 20th century, this was the way that everyone saluted the U.S. flag.

 

[DoomsdayElite]

Salvatore Maranzano, after getting whacked on orders from Lucky Luciano in September of 1931 (who had also arranged the murder of his previous boss, Joe Masseria, just five months earlier after making a deal with Maranzano).