Amazing picture thread

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1916, Adeline and Augusta Van Buren became the first women to travel across America on solo motorcycles. They made it despite being frequently arrested for wearing pants.
(History Daily)

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Don't mind roughing it!

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White cliffs of Dover

Similar to Beachy Head.



Which is a famous suicide spot. Reportedly the 3rd most common in the World after The Golden Gate Bridge and that suicide forest in Japan.

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A dramatic capture of the famous Lighthouse Ar Men, otherwise known as the Hell of Hells, off the coast of Brittany. (Breizh'scapes Photographes)

htf did they ever build it!

There's an excellent BBC documentary on Bell's Rock lighthouse in the series Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. The first light house built on a rock 11 miles out that's submerged for most of the day.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xr5mk2

Almost as excellent are the rolling R'd Scottish accents.

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Yeah I saw that, some feat, working on the rock like 4-6 hours on good days including to and from.

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The day prohibition ended in America, December 5th, 1933.
A rare example of how irrational restraints on liberty CAN be repealed, and without a court decision.

Look at fluke there in the front looking like he just won the lottery.

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Stripped typewriter, engineering marvel of its time.

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^And they seemed to last for years and years.

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Hmm...well done to the team who did this.

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Nesting Falcon, a remarkable nature shot.


Until now the site has been a secret, but a mate's confirmed it is situated on the bend of the road between Daly River and Port Keats, Northern Territory, Oz.


Enjoy, nature is truly breathtaking.


Younger guys probably have never seen a Falcon and wouldn't recognise it.

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This pic was taken in 1918.

18,000 men preparing for the last bits of war took time out to pose for this at Camp Dodge, Iowa.




Facts:
Base to Shoulder: 150 feet
Right Arm: 340 feet
Widest part of arm holding torch: 12 1/2 f feet
Right thumb: 35 feet
Thickest part of body: 29 feet
Left hand length: 30 feet
Face: 60 feet
Nose: 21 feet
Longest spike of head piece: 70 feet
Torch and flame combined: 980 feet
Number of men in flame of torch: 12,000
Number of men in torch: 2,800
Number of men in right arm: 1,200
Number of men in body, head and balance of figure only: 2,000

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Vegas, 1947

I think they used to get free electricity as an incentive.

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What's amazing about five domestic animals?



Nothing, but one very patient photographer.

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Stripped typewriter, engineering marvel of its time.

Of today too, if you were told to reassemble it.

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Long before the dangers of tobacco reached mainstream, most people believed that cigarettes posed no dangerous side effects or health concerns, while many medical professionals touted smoking as a great way to relax.

Here we have a 1950s patient buying cigarettes from his hospital bed, and that's where he smoked them!

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Children in an iron lung before the advent of the polio vaccination (c 1937).

Before the polio vaccine put an end to the polio epidemic, artificial breathing machines known as iron lungs saved the lives of many children by helping them to breathe until their lungs were strong enough to do the job on their own. For some children, this meant months in the iron lung, though not all survived.

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Victorian toddler drinking from a Victorian murder bottle.

Breastfeeding fell out of fashion in the Victorian era due to constricting corsets which were bothersome to take off and put on, whereupon the inventive age introduced baby bottles to help nursing mothers.

What the mothers didn't know was that the difficult-to-clean bottles harboured bacteria that could make their children sick; several children died from the bacterial infections before the cause was discovered, earning the device a reputation as murder bottles.

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For some children, this meant months in the iron lung

...anti-vax mothers need to see that pic...

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The Curious Case of the Woman with Four Legs

Myrtle Corbin, known as the Four-Legged Woman, technically owned only one pair of legs; the other pair belonged to her dipygus twin sister.

Born in Lincoln County, Tennessee in 1868, Myrtle's condition was incredibly rare. The tiny body of her twin was only developed from the waist down and even then it was malformed – tiny and possessing only three toes on each foot.

Myrtle was able to control the limbs of her twin, but couldn't use them for walking. She herself had a difficult time getting around as she had a clubbed foot. Technically, the ‘Four-Legged Woman’ only had one good, fully-working leg.

Myrtle was a popular and successful circus attraction with PT Barnum, and later with Ringling Bros. and Coney Island. She would often dress the extra limbs with socks and shoes matching her own, giving her a truly surreal appearance. As such a popular attraction she was able to earn as much as $450 dollars a week; huge for the day.

Other aspects of her bizarre anatomy became evident after she married a doctor at age 19. It seems her twin sister was also fully formed sexually, which means Myrtle had two vaginas. Through her marriage she had five children, and it is rumoured that three of them were born from one set of organs and two from the other. Whether this is true or not we don't know for sure, though it is medically possible. In Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by George M Gould and Walter L Pyle, it was observed that both vaginas menstruated – thus indicating both were possibly sexually functional.

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A Kingsnake trying to swallow another snake which has its teeth in his back holding on for dear life.

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1941, the forward magazine of the destroyer USS Shaw explodes at Pearl Harbour.

Wasn't a good time for snowflakes.

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1941, the forward magazine of the destroyer USS Shaw explodes at Pearl Harbour.

Wasn't a good time for snowflakes.

Stupid thing to say, it wasn't a good day for anyone.

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Good day for the Japs I reckon, though one of the chiefs is reported to have avoided the celebrations pointing out the obvious which others seemed to have missed, to paraphrase, 'we've just awoken a sleeping giant!'

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A diesel locomotive hangs over Aliso Street in Los Angeles after running through end of rails, 1948.