Rare and very interesting photos
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An incredible eight bolts struck the Bay Bridge in San Francisco on April 12, 2012.
Awesome!!!
Real photo where the iconic image is taken from:
HHMS Britannic, the sister ship of the Titanic. Was finished 2 years after Titanic sunk, and implemented a lot of new safety features that came about from the Titanic's sinking. It was suppose to be larger and more luxurious than the Titanic was. World War I began, and the government commissioned it as a hospital ship. It hit a mine and sunk faster than the Titanic did. Only 30 people died (out of 1,036) and that was due to 2 lifeboats being lowered too early and were sucked into the still-rotating propellers.
To this day, the Britannic is the world's biggest sunken Ocean Liner
I have to know the story behind this picture.
Hate to disappoint, but in the thick ass coffee table book that I have of photos from the 20th century... The caption for this photo simply says, "1900. America's relentless modernity. An unnamed man faces death in the electric chair at Sing Sing, a New York state prison."
Princess Diana accident scene
She was still alive and paparazzi were steady taking flicks.
*WARNING*
The following link is a picture of the lynching of Willie Brown during the Omaha Race Riot of 1919. A 40 year old Brown was lynched for the alleged rape of 19 year old Agnes Loebeck. Loebeck accused Brown, but never made a positive identification.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Omaha_courthouse_lynching.jpg
The following link is a picture of the lynching of Willie Brown during the Omaha Race Riot of 1919. A 40 year old Brown was lynched for the alleged rape of 19 year old Agnes Loebeck. Loebeck accused Brown, but never made a positive identification.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Omaha_courthouse_lynching.jpg
He sure did, he also added to the propoganda that all africans were sub-human savages.
Dope ass thread. Keep it goin'... 
Coming together to show support for Ali's choice not to go to war
WOW !Never knew this existed ! thanks!!!!!!
This is one of my favorite historical images. I did a college report on the Tiananmen Square protest. This dude was a hero and no one ever figured out who he was.
The Tiananmen Square Guy
In June 1989, the world was cleaning up the Exxon Valdez spill, waiting for the Berlin Wall to fall down, getting ready for the career of M.C. Hammer to start and watching China protest communism. The protests for democracy started in April in Beijing and went on until early June, when Chinese authorities realized, "Wait, aren't we China? We don't tolerate this shit."
"Holy balls, we have an army? Guys, I know what to do about those protests."Thus, authorities immediately ordered an end to the protests, and China cracked down firmly on all the protesters, with troops and tanks storming Beijing and its focal point, Tiananmen Square. Protesters fled from the carnage. Except for one lone bystander.
The bystander, holding shopping bags, blocked a line of tanks heading into the square, and then climbed onto a tank and started talking to the crew. This happened for a few minutes until two random people ran up and dragged him away before the tank crew could contemplate how they would clean their tank treads of protester.
So Who Was He?
After the incident, reports were incomplete and contradictory. British newspapers reported that the man was possibly a 19-year-old student named Wang Weilin. Others said he wasn't. The paper went on to claim he was arrested for trying to subvert communism and for "hooliganism" (China apparently having a completely different idea of what "hooliganism" is). However, no man by the name of Wang Weilin, outside of a number of Guitar Hero avatars, is known to exist.
When the Communist Party of China checked his name out, they claimed to find no records of him ever existing. Many Western officials have maintained that the man was executed a few weeks after the incident, while people who were at the protests claim that he is alive and well somewhere in China.
In 1990, during an interview with Barbara Walters, the General Secretary of the Communist Party said he didn't know whether the man was arrested, but he reassuringly said, "I think never killed."
We may never know who he was, but the man did what many others could not: walk up to a column of moving tanks and live to tell about it. For a while, at least.
Read more: 6 Famous People Whose Identities We Still Don't Know | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/article_1930...ntities-we-still-dont-know.html#ixzz1s45JCCb1
"Holy balls, we have an army? Guys, I know what to do about those protests."
Jeff Widener/AP
This man is either an enduring symbol of the human spirit or tragically nearsighted.
That man, who briefly stopped the government tanks all by himself and appeared in one of the most iconic photos and pieces of video in world history, was never heard from again.So Who Was He?
After the incident, reports were incomplete and contradictory. British newspapers reported that the man was possibly a 19-year-old student named Wang Weilin. Others said he wasn't. The paper went on to claim he was arrested for trying to subvert communism and for "hooliganism" (China apparently having a completely different idea of what "hooliganism" is). However, no man by the name of Wang Weilin, outside of a number of Guitar Hero avatars, is known to exist.
Frontline: Tank Man
"I don't care about politics, I just want to be known as Tank Man."In 1990, during an interview with Barbara Walters, the General Secretary of the Communist Party said he didn't know whether the man was arrested, but he reassuringly said, "I think never killed."
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"Plus I forgot my wallet today. I'm just so flaky!"Read more: 6 Famous People Whose Identities We Still Don't Know | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/article_1930...ntities-we-still-dont-know.html#ixzz1s45JCCb1
lol was thinking the exact same thing
this is deep
this is deep
CACs in the beginning
A couple that dived to the Titanic wreck taking a picture on the bow (like the scene in the movie):
Speaking of interesting:
A couple that dived to the Titanic wreck taking a picture on the bow (like the scene in the movie):
Bullshit. No one can dive to that depth and not be crushed.
Keep em coming
Bullshit. No one can dive to that depth and not be crushed.
Yeah I just looked it up your right, this shit was is actually an ad that my dumb ass thought was real
Still interesting though (as far as photoshop goes
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Bullshit. No one can dive to that depth and not be crushed.
Not necessarily, you wouldn't get crushed no matter how far you dive. The issue is oxygen. Theres a certain percentage of air that is oxygen. At greater depths this oxygen becomes poisonous under pressure. Divers use mixes of artificial gases and oxygen in certain tanks for deep sea diving. After 1800 feet, divers won't be able to breath. So they won't get crushed, just can't breath that deep.
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