Interesting Black and White pictures ripped from the net

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“Nice *gulp* titties, Miss.”

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Jack Johnson

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Neatness counts

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Chief Goes To War. Lakota. 1898. Photo by F.A. Rinehart.

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A collection of photographs depicting Dublin in the wake of the 1916 Rising has been released online as part of the newly launched Digital Repository of Ireland.
The 40 photographs, taken by Limerick antiquarian and engineer Thomas Johnson Westropp, show the damage and destruction left by the rebellion and British response.
Taken on May 17th and 18th, 1916, they depict Dubliners going about their daily lives against the backdrop of rubble and ruins. British soldiers stand guard as trams pass the GPO and workers remain focused on the ongoing effort to clean up the city.
Westropp captured aerial views of O’Connell Street, then named Sackville Street, from the top of Nelson’s Pillar, despite the British army regulating access to the viewing platform at the time.
The photographs are taken from a bound volume entitled Ruined Buildings in Dublin after the Sinn Féin Rebellion, as the Rising was popularly called at the time, which Westropp submitted to the Royal Irish Academy (RIA).
They are being made available as part of the digital repository, which is working with the RIA and educational institutions to provide an accessible online database of Irish cultural material.
Westropp was a well known antiquarian, and a noted member of the RIA, but little is known of his motivation for photographing the aftermath of the Rising.
Born in Patrickswell, Co Limerick in 1860, he attended Trinity College in Dublin,
In pen and ink sketches, and occasionally in photographs, he documented the Norman and Celtic antiquities of Clare and Limerick.
“He devoted most of his life to antiquarian research”, according to Siobhan Fitzpatrick, librarian of the RIA.
Dedicated
She described the images as being “of a piece with his antiquarian work”, with the damaged and destroyed buildings of Dublin serving as a stand-in for the ruined forts and castles he documented across the west.
Westropp had the photographs developed and bound, with multiple copies submitted to Dublin institutions, including the RIA and Trinity College. Each photograph was presented with a detailed description of its location.
A dedicated archivist, Westropp also gave the RIA more than 3,000 of his antiquarian sketches.
Natalie Bennet, acting director of the repository, said while nothing was known about Westropp’s political outlook, there was no reason to think he had any political motivation for the photographs.
“As historians and archivists, you find that most people are much less political in the moment than we expect them to be when we look back.”
The photographs are available on Digital Repository of Ireland’s website, dri.ie, and the original prints can be viewed by request in the RIA.

Rubble, ruins and the grim aftermath of the 1916 Rising

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Elizabeth Taylor with lasso, on the set of Giant in 1955. Photo by Frank Worth.

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The Frozen Chosin - American ingenuity to the rescue



This sixteen-foot hole was blown by Chinese soldiers in the single road from the Chosin Reservoir to the sea. Bridge sections were dropped by C-119s to span the gap and allow the retreat to continue.

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American ingenuity to the rescue

Bridge sections were dropped by C-119s to span the gap and allow the retreat to continue.

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Every picture tells a story

118 Squadron - Personnel 002 George Aird

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American ingenuity to the rescue

Bridge sections were dropped by C-119s to span the gap and allow the retreat to continue.

When you have about a zillion Red China Men swarming over your positions it's best to get out of Dodge PDQ

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Lovely looking little Beach Bunny on the right

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^ which pier is that, I wonder?

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^ which pier is that, I wonder?

Huntington Beach or Malibu maybe?

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^ i googled the image and came up with a fantastic web site: Finalists 2013 Top 50 - Red Bull Illume

Still don't know where the pier's at, however.

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^ I am still trying to find what is "interesting" about the photo. leaves me cold...

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^ I am still trying to find what is "interesting" about the photo. leaves me cold...

That's why the dude is wearing a wet suit. The water is cold.

It's athletics again. And, an interesting sport.

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I am still trying to find what is "interesting" about the photo. leaves me cold...

I find the pier interesting.

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An unidentified surfer shooting the pier, circa 1970. This pier was knocked down by a winter storm in 1983, rebuilt, and the present-day pier re-dedicated twenty-one years ago in July 1992. (Photo, City of Huntington Beach archives)

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I am still trying to find what is "interesting" about the photo. leaves me cold...

I find the pier interesting.

Back in the day when I did my feeble attempt to shoot the Huntington Pier, the barnacles did a number on me.

But it was a Rush, man!

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But it was a Rush, man!

Nothing like a fucking rush in any way, shape or form. My misspent youth was wasted in search of the almighty chemical rush, my misspent adulthood was spent in chase of the almighty dollar. My mature years have been spent in the high mountains of the Andes and Nepal and the more down to earth but no less exciting rock climbing environs of Southern California and Nevada. Makes people want to say "I wish I could do it all over again." That's why I ran 10k on a treadmill in an hour exactly today, lift weights for between 1.5 and 2.5 hours, 3 days a week and run the treadmill 10k the other 3 days. I can't say, by any means, every trip/climb was a rush but it's the possibility that drives me on.