Interesting Black and White pictures ripped from the net

[misskit]

^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuffi

[Ukan Kizmiaz]

I'm happy to read that tuffi the elephant lived for another 39 years.

[misskit]

Survivors of the Titanic boarding the rescue ship RMS Carpathia in 1912.



Only first class passengers were allowed to bring dogs aboard the Titanic. Only three survived. The three pictured here all perished. The Fox Terrier on the left was owned by William Dulles. The French Bulldog (center), owned by William Daniels was last seen swimming. The Great Dane died with her owner Anne Elizabeth Isham.

[TizMe]

Apologies if they've been posted before.

Malcolm X with Cassius Clay



Paris 1910 flood

[misskit]

A Congolese man stares at the severed hand and foot of his five-year-old daughter who was killed, and allegedly, cannibalized, by the members of the Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company militia in 1904. The sickening act was carried out as punishment on the father who had failed to make the daily rubber quota.




The first passengers aboard the brand-new New York subway system in 1904.




Separated by religion as much as a wall, here lie the graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, Holland, 1988.

[misskit]

The last public execution by guillotine. France, 1938.




In 1909, about 100 people participated in a lottery to divvy up a 12-acre plot of sand dunes. These dunes pictured here would later become the city of Tel Aviv.




Her name was Tereska and she grew up in a concentration camp. Seen here in 1948 living in a residence for disturbed children in Poland. She was asked to draw a picture of “home.”

[misskit]

The last known photo of Vladimir Lenin. At the time of this photo in 1923, he had suffered three strokes and was completely mute.




Residents of West Berlin in 1961 showing off their children to their grandparents who live on the eastern side.




The last full-blooded Tasmanian aborigines taken in the 1860’s.

[Latindancer]

Her name was Tereska and she grew up in a concentration camp. Seen here in 1948 living in a residence for disturbed children in Poland. She was asked to draw a picture of “home.”

Yes, her face has quite a feral look.... but that drawing has a 3-dimensional quality to it.

[Chittychangchang]

This April 1968 file photo shows the first sergeant of A Company, 101st Airborne Division, guiding a medevac helicopter through the jungle foliage to pick up casualties suffered during a five-day patrol near Hue, then-South Vietnam. Two soldiers in the photo, Dallas Brown (bottom) and Tim Wintenburg (far right), recently reunited to talk to The Associated Press about the iconic photo and the war. | ART GREENSPON / VIA AP

[grasshopper]

Obviously classified "Top Secret". Cannot be seen!

[Neverna]

^ and ^^

[Neverna]

A bigger picture.

[Luigi]

And a bit bigger (hopefully.)

[TizMe]

Here's the story:

Dallas Brown can still see the bullets coming for him 50 years later, smacking into the dirt at his feet as north Vietnamese soldiers fired on his platoon during an ambush deep in the jungle.


Minutes later, as the deadly firefight wound down, Brown and his fellow soldiers in the 101st Airborne would be immortalized.


In one of the most searing images of the Vietnam War, Brown grimaces as he lies on the ground with a back injury. Not far away, a platoon sergeant raises his arms to the heavens, seemingly seeking divine help.


Landing on the front page of The New York Times, the black and white image by Associated Press freelancer Art Greenspon gave Americans back home an unflinching look at the conditions soldiers endured in what would become the war’s deadliest year. Captured on April 1, 1968, it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and appeared prominently in Ken Burns’ recent Vietnam War documentary.


But for the young Americans who have decided to talk about it a half-century later, it was merely a moment in another sweltering day in a Southeast Asian jungle with well-hidden enemies all around. Some of them have spent years putting the experience in perspective.


“When I look at that picture now, I say, ‘If I can survive that, I can survive anything,'” said Tim Wintenburg, who in the photo helps carry a wounded soldier over brush hacked away to create a helicopter landing zone.


Sgt. Maj. Watson Baldwin has his arms raised to guide in a helicopter that would take away the wounded men, including one shot in the leg by the Vietnamese soldier who was firing at Brown. Baldwin died in 2005, according to Fort Campbell officials who recently tracked down soldiers in the photo.


Brown, who lives near Nashville, and Wintenburg, of Indianapolis, met with an Associated Press reporter at Fort Campbell in Kentucky to recount the events surrounding the photo — their first news media interviews ever on the war.


After he received his draft notice in 1965, Wintenburg visited a recruiting office and was told he looked “like Airborne material.”


By early 1968, he was 20 years old and on the front lines.


Brown, who was 18 when he landed in Vietnam, remembers being inspired by “The Ballad of the Green Berets.” He was encouraged to go through airborne training. Both men ended up at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne.


In the spring of 1968, Brown and Wintenburg’s squad was in the dangerous A Shau Valley on a weekslong “search and destroy” mission, meaning they never took prisoners. Firefights were commonplace.


Brown recalls their battalion commander, a lieutenant colonel, telling them before one mission: “You get a body count, you get a prize.”


“To my knowledge we might have taken a handful of prisoners the whole time we was in Vietnam,” Brown said.


The soldiers were hiking up a slippery mountain trail after a monsoon when they paused to eat lunch.


Brown, sitting on his rucksack with his M-16 rifle across his lap, thought he saw a sapling move down a ravine. He didn’t feel any wind. He switched his rifle to full-automatic as an enemy fighter stepped into view.


Known in the platoon as “hillbilly” for his Tennessee drawl and proficiency with a rifle, Brown fired on the first north Vietnamese soldier, killing him and then another behind him. He was reloading when a third enemy fighter fired back.


“You know you see these movies where you see clods of dirt jumping up? I could see them, I mean they was coming right at me and that’s when I got off that rucksack,” Brown said. “I thought, this guy, he means to kill me as sure as the world.”


Brown lunged for cover, and a bullet struck the leg of a soldier who had been behind him. Once the ambush was put down, Brown carried the wounded man up the hill, injuring his back on the way.


Brown grimaced as the photo was snapped. Wintenburg, who had lost his helmet, helped the wounded soldier up to the landing spot. He glanced back toward Greenspon.


Greenspon now lives in Connecticut. He declined to be interviewed, saying the soldiers should always be the focus of any story about the photograph.


Brown and Wintenburg each spent about a year in Vietnam, and both men struggled with anxiety for years. But now, 50 years later, they relish opportunities to reunite with fellow 101st Airborne members.


Brown has a copy of the photo hanging in his home, and he has plenty of stories of how he convinced relatives and friends that he’s in it. A few years ago, Brown’s granddaughter and her boyfriend — now her husband — asked about it. Seeing it through their eyes reminded him of the growing pride he now takes in his piece of history.


Wintenburg shares that pride, though he is perhaps more sanguine about what led him to that moment.


“We didn’t really have a choice back then,” he said. “We did what we had to do.”

[Davis Knowlton]

I remember seeing that photo on 1 April 1968 and thinking "Oh, shit". I saw it 17 days before I joined the 101st in Vietnam.

[Ukan Kizmiaz]

BRIAN THE STOCKMAN AT WAVE HILL MOUNTING A DEAD HORSE, 1952

... through rural Queensland and the Northern Territory to record a drought that was rated as the worst on record. For the farmers located there a major challenge where cattle management was concerned was the basic lack of rail infrastructure. When the cattle were healthy teams of stockman, known locally as ‘jackeroos’, would heard their animals along stock routes thousands of miles long. In the case of severe drought however, the animals were effectively stranded. In that year some 250,000 perished, baked to the point of mummification in the unforgiving heat.

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[bobo746]

Fifty years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I've Been to the Mountaintop” speech in Memphis, Tennessee, one day before his assassination. King’s Memphis speech focused on the ongoing sanitation workers’ strike, and he reaffirmed his commitment to fight injustice with nonviolent protest, despite government injunctions and threats on his life. King stated he just wanted to carry out God’s will: “And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.” As the news of King’s assassination spread, riots broke out in more than 100 cities across the United States, with some raging for several days. In the week following the shooting in Memphis, hundreds of buildings were burned, thousands of arrests were made, and more than 40 people lost their lives.

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MLK would roll over in his grave if he knew nothing much has changed in the last 50 years.

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New York City, seen from the Hudson River

[TizMe]

Alice & the Colonel


Sprained Marilyn

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Earth Pyramids of Platten,northern Italy’s South Tyrol region

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Japan’s Blue Pond in Biei-cho, Hokkaido

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