Interesting Black and White pictures ripped from the net

[nidhogg]

Pedal faster!

Not actually a scene from the Second World War, but the opening scenes in A Bridge Too Far. "Will there be anything else?"

Bugger! That's it. It has been annoying the crap our of me, as I was sure it was a movie shot but could not remember which one.

Well played Sir!

[Boon Mee]

Luftskipet (airship) «Norge». Norway, 14 April, 1926

[Boon Mee]

I had a little Viet Cong 'nurse' pop up out of a spider hole in a tunnel complex in the Hobo Wood in 1968. Got off one shot at me with a Makarov pistol, which then jammed. Otherwise, I suspect she would have stopped my clock. I still have the Makarov, almost 50 years later.

Took a tour through the Chu Chi Tunnel area a couple years ago. Went down into one of the passagways but almost couldn't get out! Man, those GI Tunnel Rats who did go down into those holes had stones of steel and were shorter dudes.

[Boon Mee]

A flight of De Havilland long distance day-bombing machines. Serny aerodrome, 17 February 1918.

[Davis Knowlton]

^^No way I was doing that. I had a young Captain once tell me, "Sergeant, grab a pistol and flashlight and go down in there and see what we've got."

A few seconds later after he had walked off, a large explosion collapsed the entrance.

He came running back. "Are you ok? What happened?"

"Was just getting ready to roll, Sir, when she blew. Dunno. Maybe booby trap."

Or, I guess it could have been the two grenades I dropped down it........

[rebbu]

About 30,000 conservancy workers, also known as sweepers, are employed by the civic authorities in the Indian city of Mumbai.
The workers, all of them Dalits - formerly known as untouchables - collect garbage, sweep the city streets, clean the gutters, load and unload garbage trucks and work in the dumping grounds.
And "without exception, all of them despise their work", says photographer Sudharak Olwe who documented their lives over a period of a year.



Mumbai generates 7,000 tonnes of waste every day



Workers often have to get down inside the drains and some of the drainage lines are deep enough to accommodate a double-decker bus. After an hour or so when a worker comes out, he keeps shivering. The work requires no special skills, just a pair of arms and legs and the courage to descend into hell.



Parmar uses his heavy, wooden broom to clean this bridge - sweeping tiny leaves and gathering them in to a small pile requires 30 to 40 brisk strokes. Gathering and pile making has to be done at a quick pace, before the leaves scatter away in the wind.



The garbage the workers rake out includes animal carcasses, food remains, steel wires, hospital waste, jagged pieces of wood-pipes, stone, broken glass and even blades.



Garbage clearing is back-breaking work and the tools of the trade are primitive. Hands are used to pick up the garbage and shoulders to carry it. Jadhav, who has been doing the job for many years now, does not like to talk about his work. There are scars where the wooden pole digs into his shoulders. He nods when asked if they hurt.



There are five dumping grounds on the eastern and western edges of the city and they are filled to capacity. None of the sites have as much as a small canteen or even a room where the workers can change their clothes or sit during a break.



One "perk" of the job is getting a small house, but many of these homes have to be shared between two or more families. A line drawn on the ground demarcates each family's territory.



Hiraman's wife, who refuses to be photographed, is furious with him because she says he gives her just 150 rupees a month to run the house. When I visited them, she kept threatening to leave him and he kept asking her to shut up. He appears to be visibly shrinking and is unlikely to live long. If he dies, his wife will be considered a "pity case" and get his job.


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34105691

[pickel]

Something to think about every time we hate our jobs.

[Chittychangchang]

[rebbu]

^ Very cool. I love silhouettes

[Boon Mee]

Goombi (aka Gumbye) the husband of Sain-To Hoodle (aka She Killed A Cow, aka Millie Durgan-Goombi) and their daughters near Fort Sill in Oklahoma - Kiowa - before his death in 1908

[VocalNeal]

Is he broadcasting or just listening to Luxembourg

[palexxxx]

Is he broadcasting or just listening to Luxembourg

That's must be Simon43 and his erection.

[Boon Mee]

Not happening...

[VocalNeal]

^ Sure it is?

[Boon Mee]

The big stick



USS Los Angeles (ZR-3), a US Navy blimp, flies over ships of the U.S. Fleet, circa 1930. Photographed from on board the airship, with two of her engine cars in the foreground. Ships below are USS Patoka (AO-9), closest to the camera, and the aircraft carriers Lexington (CV-2) and Saratoga (CV-3).

[rebbu]

Photograph of a slave boy in Zanzibar. 'An Arab master's punishment for a slight offence. ' c. 1890.

[rebbu]

A bearded man with a mouse crawling into his mouth.



Don McCullin - surface and surface





'Turkish defender leaving the side-entrance of a cinema, Limassol.



Donald "Don" McCullin, CBE Hon FRPS (9 October 1935) is an internationally known British photojournalist, particularly recognized for his war photography and images of urban strife. His career, which began in 1959, has specialised in examining the underside of society, and his photographs have depicted the unemployed, downtrodden and the impoverished.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_McCullin

[rebbu]

The Montparnasse derailment occurred at 4 pm on 22 October 1895 when the Granville–Paris Express overran the buffer stop at its Gare Montparnasse terminus. With the train several minutes late and the driver trying to make up for lost time, it entered the station too fast and the train air brake failed. After running through the buffer stop, the train crossed the station concourse and crashed through the station wall before falling onto the Place de Rennes below, where it stood on its nose. A woman in the street below was killed by falling masonry. The driver was fined 50 francs and one of the guards 25 francs.

The train was outside the station in this position for several days and a number of photographs were taken. The photograph at the top of this article has become iconic and widely reproduced. A replica of the crashed locomotive has been built in a theme park in Brazil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montparnasse_derailment

[rebbu]

June 5, 1968 - Robert Kennedy asking if everyone was OK moments after being shot.

[rebbu]

Hillsborough, Sheffield, April 15 1989.

[bobo746]

The 1904 Olympic games were held on the Washington University campus in St. Louis, Missouri. Men and women’s boxing was first introduced and only the United States competed in the sport with 18 fighters. While it was not an official Olympic sport, it was shown as a demonstration and exhibition sport. After the games, the Olympic committee decided to accept men’s boxing but believed women’s boxing to be a ‘health’ risk and did not accept it as an official sport.

[rebbu]

[bobo746]

Rime ice covers rocks on the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire on Tuesday, March 10, 2015. Rime ice occurs when freezing fog hits stationary objects in frigid condition

[Davis Knowlton]

^As a kid, I could look out my window and have a great view of Mt. Washington.

[nora tittoff]