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January 30, 2014 | Categories: History, Photography, The Drama Of It All, The Politics of Cultural Destruction, Weird | Tags: A bomb, AMERICA, Atom bomb, Atomic Bombs, Backpack Nuke, bomb, Cold War, Fight, Government, History, Military, Nuclear bomb, Nuke, Nukes, Photo, Photography, Politics, Power, Russia, US Politics, USA, USSR, War, Warfare, Weird | 1 Comment
The Germans leveled almost the entire city of Leuven (Louvain in French) just to punish the Belgians for their resistance….
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January 30, 2014 | Categories: History, Nightmares of World War II, Photography, Pursuit of Happiness, The Drama Of It All, The Politics of Cultural Destruction, World War Two | Tags: Adolf Hitler, Death, entire city, Europe, German, German empire, German soldiers, Germany, Government, History, Hitler, library, library of Louvain, Louvain, Military, Nazi, Photo, Politics, Power, War, Warfare, Weird, World War One, WW1 | Leave a comment
The Swedish text translates as “grilled sausage in 22 seconds”.
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January 30, 2014 | Categories: History, Photography, The Drama Of It All, Weird | Tags: Gothenburg, History, Hot dog, Meats, Photo, Photography, Sweden | Leave a comment
Today this kid would be labeled culturally insensitive and charged with terroristic threats.
If you were wondering. ..
A coal hole is a hatch in the pavement (sidewalk, in US usage) above an underground coal bunker. They are sometimes found outside houses that existed during the period when coal was widely used for domestic heating from the early 19th century to the middle 20th century.
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January 30, 2014 | Categories: History, Photography, The Drama Of It All, The Politics of Cultural Destruction, Weird | Tags: 1950's, 1950s america, AMERICA, black and white photography, Child, children, coal hole, headdress, History, Indian, Indian headdress, Kid, Native american, Photo, Photography, underground coal, USA, War, Warfare, Weird | Leave a comment
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January 30, 2014 | Categories: History, Photography, The Drama Of It All, Weird | Tags: 1891, AMERICA, American Civil War, Civil War, dead, Fight, Government, History, January 17, Photo, Photography, Politics, South Dakota, The Battle of Wounded Knee, USA, War, Warfare, Weird | 1 Comment
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January 30, 2014 | Categories: History, Photography, Pursuit of Happiness, Weird | Tags: 1862., AMERICA, balloon, Balloon Corps, Death, Fight, Gaines’ Mill, Government, History, Intrepid, Military, Photo, Photography, Telegraph, telegraph machine., Thaddeus Lowe, Union Army, Union Army Balloon Corps, USA, Virginia, War, Warfare, Weird | Leave a comment
She would have been 3 years old when Lincoln signed the proclamation in 1862.
Due to its fragile condition—it was printed on both sides of poor-quality 19th-century paper, unlike the Constitution, which is written on more durable parchment—the Emancipation Proclamation can only be displayed for 30 hours each year.
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January 30, 2014 | Categories: History, Photography, Pursuit of Happiness, The Drama Of It All, The Politics of Cultural Destruction, Weird | Tags: AMERICA, Death, Emancipation Proclamation, Fight, former slave, Government, History, Photo, Photography, Politics, sad, Sally Fickland, slavery, US Politics, USA, Weird | Leave a comment
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January 30, 2014 | Categories: History, Photography, Pursuit of Happiness, The Drama Of It All | Tags: 1885, AMERICA, American History, Art, black and white photography, History, old, Photo, Photography, Statue, Statue of Liberty, US Politics, USA, Weird | Leave a comment
I hope to be remembered for my atrocities! 