Interesting Black and White pictures ripped from the net

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A medic closes the eyes of an Afghan man after he was fatally shot during a battle between the Afghan Army and Taliban insurgents in Zhari Distric

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Former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali spars fun with 6-year-old Henry Joyner after working out in Atlanta on October 16, 1970. Muhammad Ali meets Jerry Quarry in a 15-round non-title fight on October 26 in Atlanta. Ali won his heavyweight title under the name of Cassius Clay

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Crip Heard, one-armed and one-legged artist of the dance, takes off with the aid of his crutch, Los Angeles, October 16, 1952

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Elvis Presley with a young polio patient in 1958.

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French Resistance fighters man a barricade in Paris,1944.

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Wow, the French resisted

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Newhaven in southern England

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Wow, the French resisted

Pretty snarky comment from a German......

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East and West shaking hands at laying last rail. The ceremony took place on May 10, 1869, marking the placement of the “golden spike” at Promontory Summit, Utah

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East and West shaking hands at laying last rail. The ceremony took place on May 10, 1869, marking the placement of the “golden spike” at Promontory Summit, Utah

Oh, I thought you meant the meeting of the East and the West somewhere in the middle of the Pacific (this being an Eastern thread). Plus, the topography is nearly identifical.

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Wow, the French resisted

Pretty snarky comment from a German......

The only thing German about me is being sauer

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A group of Marines, after landing on the beach at Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, during a struggle to push a landing boat back into deep water after it was beached when the tide went out on November 23, 1943

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Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is led down a corridor of the Dallas police station for another round of questioning in connection with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, on November 23, 1963. Oswald, who denies any involvement in the shooting, was formally charged with murder

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Members of the White House staff file past the body of John F. Kennedy, lying in repose in a closed, flag-draped coffin in the historic East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on November 23, 1963.

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Exhibition motorcycle rider Evel Knievel, a former movie stuntman, jumps his cycle between two ramps a hundred feet apart, to open a Sports Cycle Exhibition at the Civic Center, November 23, 1967, San Francisco, California. Knievel was making plans to jump the Grand Canyon with a jet engine on his cycle, wings, and a parachute

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Seven horses of the Queen’s Household Cavalry lie dead after the IRA detonated a nail bomb, 1982
The Hyde Park and Regent’s Park bombings were one of the worst IRA atrocities on the British mainland, killing 11 soldiers and seven horses and leaving dozens injured.
Sefton, a horse that survived the attack at Hyde Park despite suffering serious wounds, became famous after appearing in many television shows and was awarded Horse of the Year. Sefton’s rider at the time of the bombing, Michael Pedersen, survived but claimed to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder; after splitting from his wife he committed suicide in September 2012 after killing two of his children.

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Miners washing each other’s backs in the showers, a daily ritual at the end of the working day, 1945



Miners, who are covered in dust and soot, help each other to get clean in the showers after their shift at a mine in the Netherlands. Despite the hard work underground extracting the coal, the men seem to be in good spirits. Coal dust produced a greasy dirt, which could only be removed by washing and rinsing several times. Daily warm showers were actually a luxury at the time, none of these people had showers or bathtubs at home. Traditionally you would have a buddy who would wash your back and then you would was his, making sure not a spot was missed. Somehow it was a symbol of the comradeship and trust between the miners.

Coal mining in the mid-20th century was extremely difficult for the miners and their families. The underground work was dangerous, dirty, and often damp. Miners working in the underground tunnels could not stand straight, ceilings in the tunnels being too low. They breathed stale dusty air, and many developed a breathing ailment known today as “Black Lung”. Miners used lumber to prop up the roof where they worked, but often huge rocks would fall, thus trapping, injuring, or killing them. Miners complained that the coal companies did not supply them with adequate rails, cars, lumber, or fresh air. Explosive gas was present in some mines and many miners were injured or killed by blasts.

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Clark Gable, Shirley Temple, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland

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