Historical images - Images that made history

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Anti-Jewish cartoons from Der Sturmer:

 

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These old-timey inter-war posters are always really amazingly designed.

 

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Allied soldiers mock Hitler atop his balcony at the Reich Chancellery, 1945

The picture depicts Corporal Russell M. Ochwad, of Chicago, playing the part of Hitler on the famous balcony of the Chancellery, in Berlin, from which the former Nazi leader had proclaimed his 1,000-year empire. A British and Russian soldier stand on each side of Cpl. Ochwad, while American and Russian soldiers cheer at the little get-together.

 

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Dan Hollis talking with Terry Rossland, shortly before the latter pressed Strong Bad's "Dooj" button.

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^ The guy above is Rossland.

This happened in 1989, and the attempted suicide was recorded. Despite 70% of his body got burned, Rossland survived.

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However, he successfully killed himself a year later by OD.

 

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The discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922.

 

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However, he successfully killed himself a year later by OD.

Why didn't he just do that in the first fucking place?

 

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Why didn't he just do that in the first fucking place?

When one's feeling suicidal, their mind is too cloudy that they can't even think straight. That might explain why in some cases, suicide attempts fail: mainly because the methods were poorly elaborated (In Rossland's case, another possibility is that the physical pain was too unbearable for him that he had to get out of the car).
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Karl Wallenda's last stunt in San Juan, Puerto Rico (March 22, 1978 )

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When one's feeling suicidal, their mind is too cloudy that they can't even think straight. That might explain why in some cases, suicide attempts fail: mainly because the methods were poorly elaborated.

An elaborate car bomb took a lot more prep than just gobbling some pills.

 

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The Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine the day after it suffered a massive meltdown that resulted in a steam explosion. You can still see the highly radioactive steam billowing out of the destroyed tower.

 

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Fred Astaire doing his famous ceiling dance in Royal Wedding. (1951)

 

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A steam pipe at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The meltdown caused the melted core to flow through it.

The Elephant's Foot, composed of molten metal and the remnants of the reactor core. It still gives out 8,000 roentgens an hour, down from about 10,000 in 1986. Five minutes of unprotected exposure will kill you.

 

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A steam pipe at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The meltdown caused the melted core to flow through it.

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The Elephant's Foot, composed of molten metal and the remnants of the reactor core. It still gives out 8,000 roentgens an hour, down from about 10,000 in 1986. Five minutes of unprotected exposure will kill you.

I once read that this abomination was so radioactive right after the meltdown, merely having a direct line of sight for a short moment would be enough to give you a lethal dosis of radiation. It was also said that the first image they made of that thing couldn't be taken with a camera, since the film would be damaged the moment you'd hold out the camera around a corner to make the photo, so they had to use a mirror.

I don't know if this is true or not, but it makes for a good anecdote.

 

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I once read that this abomination was so radioactive right after the meltdown, merely having a direct line of sight for a short moment would be enough to give you a lethal dosis of radiation. It was also said that the first image they made of that thing couldn't be taken with a camera, since the film would be damaged the moment you'd hold out the camera around a corner to make the photo, so they had to use a mirror.

I don't know if this is true or not, but it makes for a good anecdote.

That is a guy named Artur Korneyev standing next to it and looking at it.

He was still alive as of 2014.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/27/science/chernobyl-capping-a-catastrophe.html

 

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Horrors of WWII:

A German soldier loses conciousness from blood loss after losing his arm, Russia 1941

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An Arizona war worker writes to her Navy boyfriend to thank him for sending her a Jap skull, 1944

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Marine Corp Colonel Francis Felton kneels over the body of his son, Okinawa 1945

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The mushroom cloud created by Fat Man, Nagasaki 1945

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I really wonder how many japanese skulls are still in the US in the possession (knowingly or unknowingly) of the families of war vets.
It's so fucked up, this stuff didn't even happen on the eastern front. How did it come to this? Was there an escalation between the two sides that culminated in US troops putting heads on their tanks?