Interesting Black and White pictures ripped from the net

[Latindancer]

This has no doubt been posted before, but worth repeating.

A Siamese woman from 1900 :

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It was an emotional day at Thomond Park in Limerick as Munster paid their respects to their late head coach, Anthony Foley. The Shannon club man won five All Ireland League titles, played 202 times for Munster and was capped 62 times for Ireland. He died suddenly in Paris on 16 October, at the age of 42. Here an emotional Simon Zebo sheds a tear, while the comforting hand of the Munster captain, Peter O’Mahony, rests on his shoulder, during a minute’s silence ahead of the Champions Cup game against Glasgow Warriors.

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Black & White Cabs Brisbane 1967

[Neverna]

What did desperate men do before the invention of computers and dating sites?

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Blacksmith shop, Oxley Road, Oxley, Brisbane 1888

[Cujo]

Black & White Cabs Brisbane 1967

Not working mate.

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[BaitongBoy]

Interesting...Anything behind that?...Dali's brother, maybe?...

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^Here you go

Erwan Venn

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Cheers...Not the "Venn diagram" we are used to...

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Cheers...Not the "Venn diagram" we are used to...

Math puns are a sine of a big problem.

[BaitongBoy]

^ Munchkins, too...

[hick]

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Photo Above – July 1972: an FBI agent, wearing only a pair of swim trunks, per the hijackers’ instructions, carries a case containing a $1 million ransom to the opened door of a hijacked Delta DC8 jet in Miami. The jet later took off for Algeria. George Wright, a convicted killer and 1970s militant, was among the hijackers.

Wright first became notorious in 1962 for his part in the slaying of New Jersey gas station owner Walter Patterson. The Asbury Park Press says Wright and three other people shot and killed Patterson as they robbed his Esso station in Wall. The group escaped with about $70 and they were caught two days later. Wright received a prison term from 15 to 30 years.

In 1970, he and two accomplices escaped from their prison in Leesburg, N.J., boldly stealing the warden’s car to get away, according to MSNBC. Wright ended up in Detroit and joined the Black Liberation Army; he apparently was able to work part-time as a model by using an alias.

Authorities saw him next disguised as a priest; on July 31, 1972, Wright and four members of the BLA commandeered a Delta flight en route from Detroit to Miami. As CNN notes, the group held 88 people hostage on the Miami tarmac until federal agents brought out a one million dollar ransom. The agents were forced to wear bathing suits as they delivered the cash because the hijackers were wary of guns.

The passengers were released and the pilots flew Wright and the other hijackers on to Boston, where an international navigator (who also had to wear swimming trunks) boarded the plane. Then they traveled to Algeria.

Wright and the other hijackers sought political asylum, which Algerian leaders never granted them, according to AP

The Story Behind the Semi-nude FBI Agent Delivering $1 Million Ransom to Skyjackers, 1972 - History Daily

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Shared from a buddy, excellent pic

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Black rhinoceros at night

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A group of men sit casually in a field, while in the background, smoke rises from the erupting Mount Etna. Sicily, Italy, between 1880 and 1890

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Wearing traditional robes of the Invisible Empire, Ku Klux Klan members form a circle around a burning cross in Rumford, Maine on September 27, 1987. Lead by the group’s national leader Imperial Wizard James W. Farrands, the Klan had gathered on a rural farm in western Maine for a rally.

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Hundreds of mounted policemen using sabers and riot troopers using tear gas clashed with rock-throwing squatters on April 24, 1987 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The policemen had order to evict 95 families who illegally occupied almost 40,000 square yards of privately-owned land. The two-hour clash left more than 20 squatters and 30 policemen injured. Forty-four people were arrested.

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Evacuation of Suvla Bay, Dardanelles, Gallipoli Peninsula, on January 1916



The British Aircraft Carrier HMS Argus



United States Marines and Sailors posing on unidentified ship (likely either the USS Pennsylvania or USS Arizona), in 1918







The German battle cruiser Seydlitz burns in the Battle of Jutland, May 31, 1916