Historical images - Images that made history

[Lee Crabb]

The only surviving vexillum (Roman legion cloth standard). Depicts the goddess Victory standing on the globe. 3rd century AD.


Modern reproduction

Reenactor with a vexillum

 

[The Last Stand]

Joan Crawford's last acting chair from Trog. (1970)

 

[Hummingbird]

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

True Santa Believer Xi Jinping.

 

[Googie dot com]

The famous portrait of Sharbat Guta aka The Afghan Girl taken by journalist Steve McCurry during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Sharbat, a Pashtun, escaped with her family to a refugee camp in Pakistan when she was six years old after the Soviets bombed their village.

 

[Coldgrip]

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The famous portrait of Sharbat Guta aka The Afghan Girl taken by journalist Steve McCurry during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Sharbat, a Pashtun, escaped with her family to a refugee camp in Pakistan when she was six years old after the Soviets bombed their village.

I seem to recall a story this and other photos taken be Mr. McCurry turning out to be doctored. Don't know if it was true or not.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

30 years ago today the red flag goes down for one final time.

And a Russian tricolor flag goes up

 

[Chad Holdenford]

Four of the greatest racers ever, side by side.
From left to right: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet.

Pictures taken prior to the 1986 Portuguese Grand Prix. Senna was still something of a rookie, but already showed an enormous potential that would eventually pay off into being considered perhaps the single greatest driver to ever enter a F1 cockpit.

 

[Big Boz]

The March 13, 1986 issue of the tabloid newspaperThe Sun made the claim that British comedian Freddie Starr ate his girlfriend's pet hamster after she refused to make him a sandwich. The claim was totally false and a result of his then agent Max Clifford. The headline is considered one of the most famous tabloid headlines of all time.

When Freddie died in 2019, The Sun paid tribute to the headline as well.

 

[Googie dot com]

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The March 13, 1986 issue of the tabloid newspaperThe Sun made the claim that British comedian Freddie Starr ate his girlfriend's pet hamster after she refused to make him a sandwich. The claim was totally false and a result of his then agent Max Clifford. The headline is considered one of the most famous tabloid headlines of all time.

When Freddie died in 2019, The Sun paid tribute to the headline as well.

I just wanna know how the fuck his manager thought: Let me tell the press a story of my client eating his girlfriend's manager? Like I know it was for publicity, but still, it just seems like a jump from sexy secrets to eating a hamster.

 

[Crepidodera fulvicornis]

story of my client eating his girlfriend's manager

Now that’s a story I would read

 

[Slap47]

18th century nursery rhyme for children.

 

[Not a Step]

A BOAC Boeing 707 taxiing for takeoff from Tokyo on March 5, 1966, as it passes by the wreckage of another plane, a DC-8 that had crashed the previous day. The 707 broke up in mid-air not long after.

 

[Doctor Placebo]

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Joan Crawford's last acting chair from Trog. (1970)

Last acting chair so far.

Blue Oyster Cult: Joan Crawford

Classic

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[The Last Stand]

Last acting chair so far.

Blue Oyster Cult: Joan Crawford

Classic

www.youtube.com

I miss Joan Crawford. And I wasn't even ALIVE then.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

OK this might not mean much to people but this -

Is the oldest depiction of a purpous built workbench we have on record from roughly 50AD, they likely existed for about 500 - 700 years by this point but it's the oldest one we have on record, the Egyptians used flat rocks and the ground as a workbench and it was likely the Greeks and Romans who where the first to make a dedicated workbench - These where the most common work bench across the whole of Europe till about 1500 and carried on being common till about 1930 - 1950 especally in more rural areas or in trades that where not mechanical engineering or cabinet makings (and that latter one was mostly for the big specialist shops).

You want to know what's even cooler? A few of the original Roman benches are still knocking around:

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The above one was found in Saalburg Germany in 1964 and dates to around the same time as the one in the Fresco from Pompi.

These benches where REALLY advanced for the time and show evidence of some really interesting work-holding including Round Peg / Dog holes, square holes for Stop holding (also likely a wedge vice) and where not considered disposable due to the way they where constructed using Iron strapping and the detailing on the Leg's showing clear signs of chamfering and detail work that wouldn't be added to a throw away item.

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This sort of Bench is starting to make a comeback along with a lot more traditional tools and methods of working.

 

[Slap47]

Image posted about Canada by Saudi government in response to criticisms from Trudeau's diplomat (who was a woman).

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

This is what totally happened last year I swear.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Bush did 1/6!

 

[Hummingbird]