Interesting Black and White pictures ripped from the net

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A hair dryer from the 1930s

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The Burning of Cork by British forces took place on the night of 11–12 December 1920, during the Irish War of Independence. It followed an Irish Republican Army (IRA) ambush of a British Auxiliary patrol in the city, in which one of the patrol was killed and eleven wounded. In retaliation, Auxiliaries, Black and Tans and British soldiers set fire to a number of houses and then looted and burnt numerous buildings in the city centre. Many civilians also reported being beaten, shot at, robbed and verbally abused by British forces. Firefighters later testified that British forces hindered their attempts to tackle the blazes by intimidating them, shooting at them and cutting their hoses.

More than 40 business premises, 300 residential properties, City Hall and the Carnegie Library were destroyed by fire. Over £3 million worth of damage (1920 value; €172 millon in today's money) was done, 2,000 were left jobless and many were left homeless. Two unarmed IRA volunteers (who were brothers) were also shot dead at their home in the north of the city, and a woman died of a heart attack when Auxiliaries burst into her house. British forces carried out many other reprisals on Irish civilians during the war, but the burning of Cork was one of the biggest and most well known. The British government initially denied that its forces had started the fires and blamed them on the IRA. However, a British Army inquiry (which resulted in the "Strickland Report") concluded that a company of Auxiliaries was responsible. Although many witnesses described the burnings as systematic and organized, there is debate over whether they had been planned before the ambush.







A group of "Black and Tans" and Auxiliaries in Dublin, April 1921

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

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A hair dryer from the 1930s

That is what pseudo gets under before he logs on to make sure the government can't read his posts!

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Left to Right: Han Solo, Darth Vader, Chewbacca, Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker, R2-D2

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JeZUZ ! Princess Leia must be only about 4ft 10 !

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^ Cute though?

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JeZUZ ! Princess Leia must be only about 4ft 10 !

5ft 1in, according to the interweb thingy.

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Well, she appears to be the missing link between dwarves and normal-height people.

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JeZUZ ! Princess Leia must be only about 4ft 10 !

As they say, ''It's better to have loved a short girl than to have never loved a tall.''

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The janitor of a Bangkok building torched by angry students considers leaping to the blazing pavement, Thailand, October 15, 1973. The man drew back, collapsed and burned to death as the structure went up in flames. Protests over military government ended in riots, machine gunning of students and the fall of the junta regime.

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December 1917: A soldier on leave window-shopping for Christmas.

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You think your job sucks ?

Testing bulletproof vests.

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Countess Markievicz





Nancy Astor





Margaret Winteringham MP



The Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 enabled women to serve as MPs for the first time. The first three women to be elected were strikingly contrasting characters: a bohemian Anglo-Irish countess, an American society hostess, and a down-to-earth headmistress from Yorkshire.

In 1918, Constance Markievicz (1868-1927) became the first woman to be elected to the House of Commons. She was one of 73 Sinn Féin MPs elected that year but, in line with party policy, did not take her seat because that would mean swearing an oath of allegiance to the Monarch.

Constance Gore-Booth was born into a wealthy Anglo-Irish family and grew up in Sligo in the west of Ireland. She and her sister were childhood friends of the poet W. B. Yeats. She studied painting at the Slade in London, and became active in the women’s suffrage movement. Her studies took her to Paris, where she met and married Count Casimir Markievicz, a wealthy Polish artist. They settled in Dublin, where they moved in artistic and intellectual circles.

Constance Markievicz became involved in Irish nationalist politics in 1908, and joined Sinn Féin. She also joined Inghinidhe na hÉireann (Daughters of Ireland), although turning up to her first meeting in a ball gown and tiara—she had come straight from a grand Government ball—raised a few eyebrows. She was jailed and sentenced to death for taking part in the Easter Rising of 1916, but was freed under amnesty in 1917. She was soon back in prison for her alleged part in a plot against the British Government .

Markievicz was elected to the House of Commons to represent the Dublin St Patrick’s constituency while serving her sentence in Holloway prison. Along with the other Sinn Féin MPs, she helped to form the first independent Irish Parliament, Dáil Éireann, in 1919. She was the first woman to serve in the Dáil, and went on to become the first female Cabinet Minister in Europe.

Markievicz gave away most of her wealth and spent her final years doing charitable work in Dublin. She died in a public hospital in 1927. Thousands of people lined the streets on the day of her funeral, and the future president of Ireland, Éamon de Valera, gave the eulogy.

American-born Nancy Astor (1879-1964) was the first woman to take her seat in Parliament in 1919. When her husband inherited a peerage, she replaced him as Conservative MP for Plymouth Sutton. That background ensured she was not only forthright—“I’m a Virginian: we shoot to kill.”—but undaunted by ranks of parliamentarians, many of whom dined at Cliveden, her country estate.

Born Nancy Langhorne, she divorced her first husband, an abusive alcoholic, before leaving for England and marrying Waldorf Astor in 1906. She was a powerful advocate of temperance, and her greatest parliamentary achievement was introducing the Intoxicating Liquor (Sale to Persons under Eighteen) Bill and ensuring that it became law in 1923. Until then, minors as young as 14 could buy alcoholic drinks in pubs.

Astor was known for her waspish wit, and her amusing sayings became known as “Astorisms”. One of the most famous was, “I married beneath me. All women do.” She was particularly good at responding to hecklers in debate in a tough but humorous way that disarmed the attacker.

Astor drew inspiration and energy from her Christian Science beliefs. She wanted to help others, especially to alleviate poverty, squalor and poor health, and believed the key to progress was improving the lives of women and children. She campaigned for nursery education before many others did, and later gave financial and other support to the nursery education pioneer Margaret McMillan.

A shadow was cast over Astor’s reputation in 1938 and 1939, when a group of friends who regularly spent weekends at Cliveden were accused in the press of appeasing the Nazi regime in Germany. There were rumours that pro-Nazi plots were hatched under her roof. The Astors strenuously denied the allegations, but they never completely lived them down.

Nancy Astor was devoted to her constituents and during the second world war she endeared herself to them by staying in Plymouth throughout the bombing, visiting shelters, arranging accommodation and canteens for the homeless and appealing for and channelling donations from Canada and the USA.

Margaret Wintringham (1879-55) was the first British-born woman to take her seat in the House of Commons. Before entering Parliament, she was a teacher and headmistress, as well as one of the first female Justices of the Peace. She was an active member of many societies working to improve the lives of the disadvantaged and of women, including the Women’s Institute. She said that her membership of the WI was the best possible preparation for her work as an MP.

In 1920, Wintringham’s husband, Thomas, who was the Liberal MP for Louth, died suddenly in the House, and she was asked to stand in his place. As she was in mourning, she agreed to do so on condition that she would not have to speak at public gatherings during the election campaign. She was known as the silent candidate, and her sisters and other female campaigners spoke on her behalf. She was elected as an Independent Liberal.

At first, Wintringham found the House a daunting place, but Nancy Astor welcomed her and the two became lifelong friends. They were very different characters, as their nicknames for each other showed—Wintringham was “the cart horse” and Astor the “prancing pony”. However, they shared many convictions, including a belief in temperance and Christian Science.

From 1922 to 1924, Wintringham served on the executive committee of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes, whose members referred to her as “our Institute MP”. She took up causes championed by the WI, such as a campaign to defend the jobs of female police officers. Her main achievement in the House was ensuring the passage of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1922, which was introduced to protect girls against under-age sex.

http://www.parliament.uk/about/livin...015/women-mps/

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From 1956, an IBM hard drive which weighed over 1 ton, and was capable of storing 5 Mb or data.

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A fire truck at the US capitol responding to a fire in February 1926.

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Jerry Quarry (May 15, 1945 – January 3, 1999), nicknamed "Irish" or "The Bellflower Bomber," was an American heavyweight boxer. Quarry was rated by Ring Magazine as the most popular fighter in the sport, from 1968–1971, during the peak of his career. His most famous bouts were against world champions Floyd Patterson, Jimmy Ellis, Joe Frazier, Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton. His professional career record of 53 wins-9 losses-4 draws included wins over some of the best heavyweights of his era, 1965-75. Quarry also had a remarkably successful amateur boxing career. Also briefly a Hollywood actor, Quarry appeared in a number of television roles, and also played a recurring character on the show Adam-12. His younger brother, Mike Quarry, was also a high-ranked contender in the light heavyweight division.

Quarry was a durable and smart counter-puncher/action fighter. He had both and speed in both hands, including an excellent left hook. He also was notable for having a remarkable chin. He was never knocked out in any of his 66 fights, though some ended early as losses. His major flaw as a fighter was a tendency to cut easily. He was also on the smaller side as a heavyweight in this era. Quarry was six feet tall (1.83 metres) and often weighed less than 200 pounds (88 kilograms) for his matches. he also had what was considered very average reach as a boxer at only 72 inches. Today, he would be a cruiserweight, a division he greatly helped to inspire.

Early days[edit]
Quarry was the most visible member of a significant boxing family, which included three other pro boxers (his father and two brothers). Quarry's father first put gloves on his son at five years. His career, he later felt, was decided for him at a very young age. Quarry fought first as a Junior Amateur, winning his first trophies at the age of eight. Later, he contracted nephritis, a debilitating illness which sidelined him for years. His comeback from that illness to become a professional athlete was considered medically remarkable. Quarry came to notice by winning the 1965 National Golden Gloves championship in Kansas City at age 19. Weighing just 183 pounds, Quarry knocked out each of his five opponents in the tournament, a feat unmatched before or since in the history of the tournament.[citation needed] In the wake of that unprecedented feat, Quarry began his pro career in May 1965, winning a decision against Gene Hamilton in Los Angeles, California.

Read more.

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

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^He was suffering from dementia pugilistica at the time of his death at the age of 43.Sad way to go

Just a man.




RIP today 17 years.

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A young unidentified woman patrols near a headquarters building in Havana, January 4, 1959. The Cuban Revolution had just come to an end, with Fidel Castro’s forces entering Havana in early January