Interesting Black and White pictures ripped from the net

[bobo746]

Yosemite Valley:

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It must've been awesome when the indians lived there, no roads, factories, or cities.

Or emigrants.

They were having a little cookout in Massachusetts and a bunch of boats showed up.

"Hey would you mind moving over guys, bring in the stuff."

George Carlin from the class clown LP.

[SKkin]

"Four dead in Ohio" ...Was about to turn 11 the following month and less than 50 miles from this debacle.



Fourteen-year-old Mary Ann Vecchio screams over the body of 20-year-old Kent State student Jeffrey Miller after he was shot by the Ohio National Guard during a protest against the U.S. invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War on May 4, 1970.



A Vietnamese child clings to his bound father who was rounded up as a suspected Viet Cong guerrilla during “Operation Eagle Claw” in the Bong Son area, 280 miles northeast of Saigon on February 17, 1966. The father was taken to an interrogation camp with other suspects rounded up by the U.S. 1st air cavalry division.



Wounded and shocked civilian survivors of Dong Xoai crawl out of a fort bunker on June 6, 1965, where they survived murderous ground fighting and air bombardments of the previous two days.


What a goddamned waste it all was..."War is a racket."

[fishlocker]

Worked with a guy, tunnel rat, sat at the panel day and night quietly sharpening his blade. Lake Erie sounds nice at that point.

[fishlocker]

He of course was an older guy, a mentor in a way. Never the type to have once ever said been there, done that. Maybe we wish to foget some places we have been that our life has taken us or forced us to be.

Sigmund Freud has guessed at the answers. Who knows.

[BaitongBoy]

Maybe the Shadow knows...

[fishlocker]

Calm under duress.

[SKkin]

Worked with a guy, tunnel rat, sat at the panel day and night quietly sharpening his blade.

Sergeant Ronald Payne, 21, of Atlanta, Georgia, emerges from a Viet Cong tunnel holding his silencer-equipped revolver with which he fired at guerrillas fleeing ahead of him underground. Payne and others of the 196th light infantry brigade probed the massive tunnel in Hobo Woods, South Vietnam, on January 21, 1967, and found detailed maps and plans of the enemy. The infantrymen who explored the complex are known as “Tunnel Rats.” They were called out of the tunnels on January 21, and nauseating gas was pumped in.

[SKkin]

Shirren Lim – .balloons over bagan.

[TuskegeeBen]

Cancelled

[bobo746]

On July 7, 1908, Alexander Graham Bell (right) and his assistants observe the progress of one of his experimental tetrahedral kites

[bobo746]

n this British Official Photo, on the night of February 13 and the morning of February 14, 1945, Lancasters of R.A.F. Bomber Command made two very heavy attacks on Dresden, Germany. Heavy bombers of the U.S. 8th Air Force attacked this target the following day. The smoke from fires still burning drifted across Dresden on February 14, 1945. The fires involved an engine roundhouse, the central goods depot and any wagons in the heavily loaded yard.

[Chittychangchang]

[VocalNeal]

An Li150

[Chittychangchang]

Jennifer Aniston in the 1990's..



A chilled out granny winning 1st prize back in 73 at California council state fair for her herbal plant..


137 years of age the oldest native American 1785-1922


The record for the most babies born by one woman belongs to Mrs. Vassilyeva, from Russia, with a total of 69. She gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.

[bobo746]

A string of white vehicles follow the hearse carrying the body of rock and roll musician Elvis Presley along Elvis Presley Boulevard on the way to Forest Hills Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee, on August 19, 1977. Thousands of people lined the route for the city's final tribute to Elvis. He died at home in Memphis on August 16, 1977, at the age of 42



American golfer Arnold Palmer kicks off the Trophée Lancôme golf tournament on November 13, 1977, hitting a shot from the Eiffel Tower in Paris

[bobo746]

First Rains. "Situated on the boundary of Amboseli National Park's Lake Amboseli in Kenya

[bobo746]

Prague, Czechoslovakia



Civil-rights leader Andrew Young (left) and others stand on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel pointing in the direction of an assailant after the assassination of civil-rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who is lying at their feet, in Memphis, Tennessee



This aerial view shows clouds of smoke rising from burning buildings in northeast Washington, D.C., on April 5, 1968. The fires resulted from rioting and demonstrations after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr



Tommie Smith and John Carlos, gold and bronze medalists in the 200-meter run at the 1968 Olympic Games, engage in a victory stand protest against unfair treatment of blacks in the United States. With heads lowered and black-gloved fists raised in the black power salute, they refused to recognize the American flag and national anthem. Australian Peter Norman is the silver medalist



Senator Robert Kennedy lies sprawled, semi-conscious in his own blood after being shot in the head and neck while busboy Juan Romero tries to comfort him in kitchen in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, on June 5, 1968. A Palestinian immigrant named Sirhan Sirhan, who was angry with Kennedy over his support for Israel, shot Kennedy three times. Sirhan remains in prison to this day, last denied parole in 2016.



A large crowd lines railroad tracks as the funeral train of Robert F. Kennedy passes on its way to Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C



Helicopters fly low during Operation Pegasus in Vietnam on April 5, 1968. They were taking part in the operation to relieve the Khe Sanh marine base, which had been under siege for the previous three months.

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Customers at a London record shop in 1955.

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A young Harold Whittles hears sound for the first time, 1974




After her arrest by undercover cops in Florida, an exotic dancer demonstrates to the judge that her underwear was too big to have exposed her hoo-ha.




This daring elephant took a leap from a German monorail in 1950. He lived… for another 40 years.

[VocalNeal]

^ Davis reacts to one of Ant's posts?

[misskit]

By flinging himself out of a tram?

[misskit]

A young Francis Bavie… Aunt Bea from “The Andy Griffith Show”




Ernest Hemingway getting hammered in at a Havana bar.





After being shot down, a U.S. airman is captured by the Vietnamese in Truc Bach Lake, Hanoi in 1967. The airman is John McCain.

[misskit]

Execution by cannon, in Shiraz, Iran, mid-late 19th century.




Lewis Payne, co-conspirator to the assassination of President Lincoln, just before to his execution in 1865.




Albert Einstein wearing fuzzy slippers, circa 1950.

[Latindancer]

This daring elephant took a leap from a German monorail in 1950. He lived… for another 40 years.

What on earth was an elephant doing in a monorail ? It's not even a freight car....the windows indicate it was a passenger car.