Interesting Black and White pictures ripped from the net

[somtamslap]

^ The Jam.

Bruce Foxton having a go on a lead vox for a change.

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^ One of their best. Written about my home town...

[Chittychangchang]

^Tune!

[Iceman123]

^^
Great track. Paul at his best.

[Boon Mee]

Ernie Pyle with a tank crew of the US Army's 191st Tank Battalion at the Anzio Beachhead in 1944

Ernie Pyle was killed on the island of Ie Shima on this day 70 years ago. Shot in a hail of Japanese machine gun fire sticking his head up to see if the other soldiers he was with were ok. He stuck with the American soldier through victory in Europe and chose to follow on in the Pacific.

Ernie spent his life connecting families at home with their loved ones at war. The voice of the "dogface" in the field. The soldier's best friend.

The Death of Ernie Pyle | Bring the heat, Bring the Stupid

[nidhogg]

Bill Murray at Elvis funeral, 1977:

[rebbu]

Easter 1916 | Humanities Virtual Worlds Consortium

Contested Memories: The Battle of Mount Street Bridge (National University of Ireland Maynooth, Trinity College Dublin); PI: S. Schreibman; Co-PI: H. Denard)
The Easter Rising is regarded as perhaps the single most significant event in Irish history. The Irish state not only traces its beginning to the Rising, but its significance is ever-present in contemporary Ireland: from the ideology of its main political parties to national debates about societal values.
The motives, strategies, and actions of the 700 men who, in the middle of the Great War, staged an armed rising in Dublin have been the subject of revisionist accounts for nearly a century. Certain facts are not in dispute: on Easter Monday, 24 April, 1916, members of the Irish Volunteers paraded up Dublin’s O’Connell Street and seized one of the most iconic buildings in Dublin, the General Post Office (GPO), while at the same time other units were taking several strategic sites around the city, including the area around Mount Street Bridge, about a kilometre from the city centre. By the week’s end, according to many accounts, there were some over 2000 civilian and rebel casualties and 400 British casualties. Dublin’s Sackville Street (later renamed O’Connell Street) looked more like Ypres than the second city of the British Empire.

[nidhogg]

John, Paul, George and - Pete.

[Boon Mee]

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and King George V of Great Britain in Berlin, 1913

[rebbu]

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and King George V of Great Britain in Berlin, 1913

They look like brothers.

[Boon Mee]

They look like brothers.

If memory serves re history of the noble 'houses' of Germany, UK, Russia etc there was a lot of interbreeding going on so those two might well be first cousins.

[nidhogg]

They look like brothers.

If memory serves re history of the noble 'houses' of Germany, UK, Russia etc there was a lot of interbreeding going on so those two might well be first cousins.

They were indeed first cousins:

[Boon Mee]

Sunken WWII-era aircraft carrier found off Northern California



An aerial view of the Independence at anchor in San Francisco Bay in 1951. There is visible damage from the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. The ship, which was scuttled in the waters off the Farallon Islands, was recently located by scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.



File - In this July 1946 file photo is the USS Independence near Bikini Atoll. Scientists have rediscovered a mostly intact World War II aircraft carrier the U.S. Navy scuttled off the Northern California coast decades ago. The U.S.S. Independence was located and video recorded as part of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric mission to locate and map an estimated 300 historic shipwrecks in the waters outside San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. Images captured by a remotely controlled miniature submarine showed the Independence sitting upright about 30 miles west of the coast and near the Farallon Islands.

[Cujo]

Titanic.

[Cujo]

1920

[Cujo]

[harrybarracuda]

If there are any dupes, apologies.

The oldest selfie known, 1839.



People posing next to the Statue of Liberty as it's unpacked. (1886)



A police officer on a Harley and an old fashioned mobile holding cell. (1921)



Two winners of a 1922 Beauty Pageant, when beauty standards were much different.



Hitler rehearsing his speeches in front of a mirror (1925).



Afghan women at a public library during the 1950s.



Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial. (1959)



There are a few more at:

http://distractify.com/jake-heppner/...r-seen-before/

[boloa]

Cleaver moving Black and White Photos ( and a tune )

[Boon Mee]

38 Amazing Black and White Photographs of New York's Teenagers in the 1970s











For the rest, go here: vintage everyday: 38 Amazing Black and White Photographs of New York's Teenagers in the 1970s

[Cujo]

Nice one BM. Would green you but got to spread the lurve.

[Boon Mee]

A Panzer III tank crewman surrenders to an advancing British soldier during the Battle of El Alamein, 1942

[thaimeme]

Outstanding historied images, gentlemen.

[thaimeme]

The Song Remains the Same......

[thaimeme]

Aussie country picnic, circa 1900....

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