Interesting Black and White pictures ripped from the net

[Boon Mee]

[rebbu]

Gael, revolutionary, soldier, chief of police, founding president of Fine Gael: during his short and controversial public life General Eoin O’Duffy played many roles. His place in the public memory, however, is largely bound up with just one of them: fascist. O’Duffy’s decision to lead the Blueshirt movement after his removal as commissioner of the Garda Síochána by President de Valera in 1933, and his ill-fated intervention in the Spanish Civil War on the side of General Franco, ensured his legacy as one of the villains of modern Irish history. Perhaps all political lives end in failure, but few careers in Irish public life have ended so ignominiously. The shadow of failure, as one of his acolytes recalled, hung heavily over O’Duffy’s final years of ill-health and tarnished reputation: ‘he was really a pathetic and lonely figure at the end; a recluse in the midst of society’. When he died in 1944—a broken man aged only in his mid-fifties—his obituary in the Irish Times noted that his name had ‘ceased to mean much to the public’.

History Ireland

[Boon Mee]

My Dad had a runabout very similar to this one:

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"Northrop’s Flying Wing Bomber known as the XB-35 in flight in 1946. The XB-35 was an experimental heavy bomber developed for the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II. The project was terminated shortly after the war, due to its technical difficulties."

[Boon Mee]

U.S. Soldier examines the grave of an unknown U.S. soldier, who was buried by the enemy before retreating. The first American soldier that noticed the grave, decorated it with mortar shells and ferns.

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M-10 Tank Destroyer from the 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion supporting the 143rd Infantry Regiment, 36th Division in Rohrwiller, 4 February 1945. You can see the town's church damaged by shell blasts

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Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr., has a smile for the recovery crew of the U.S.S. Kearsarge, after he is on board from a successful 22 orbit mission of the Earth in his Mercury spacecraft “Faith 7.” Cooper is still sitting in his capsule, with his helmet off.

Cooper was launched into space on May 15, 1963, aboard the Mercury-Atlas 9 (Faith 7) spacecraft, the last Mercury mission. He orbited the Earth 22 times and logged more time in space than all five previous Mercury astronauts combined—34 hours, 19 minutes and 49 seconds—traveling 546,167 miles (878,971 km) at 17,547 mph (28,239 km/h), pulling a maximum of 7.6 g (74.48 m/s²). Cooper achieved an altitude of 165.9 statute miles (267 km) at apogee. He was the first American astronaut to sleep not only in orbit but on the launch pad during a countdown.

Toward the end of the Faith 7 flight there were mission-threatening technical problems. During the 19th orbit, the capsule had a power failure. Carbon dioxide levels began rising, and the cabin temperature jumped to over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38°C). Cooper fell back on his understanding of star patterns, took manual control of the tiny capsule and successfully estimated the correct pitch for re-entry into the atmosphere. Some precision was needed in the calculation, since if the capsule came in too steep, g-forces would be too large, and if its trajectory were too shallow, it would shoot out of the atmosphere again, back into space. Cooper drew lines on the capsule window to help him check his orientation before firing the re-entry rockets. "So I used my wrist watch for time," he later recalled, "my eyeballs out the window for attitude. Then I fired my retrorockets at the right time and landed right by the carrier." Cooper's cool-headed performance and piloting skills led to a basic rethinking of design philosophy for later space missions.

Gordo looks happy to be alive and in one piece.

[Latindancer]

Wow ! Talk about flying by the seat of your pants !

[Boon Mee]

Wow ! Talk about flying by the seat of your pants !

Astronauts had to be short little guys too. Not inclined to suffer from claustrophobia either!

[Davis Knowlton]

Astronauts had to be short little guys too.

Not really. The first US astronauts were limited to 180cm or 5'11" and 82kg or 180 lbs. Both specs larger than the national average in 1959.

[palexxxx]

Astronauts had to be short little guys too.

Not really. The first US astronauts were limited to 180cm or 5'11" and 82kg or 180 lbs. Both specs larger than the national average in 1959.

You'd be hard pressed to find a yank coming in under those numbers nowadays.

[Davis Knowlton]

Astronauts had to be short little guys too.

Not really. The first US astronauts were limited to 180cm or 5'11" and 82kg or 180 lbs. Both specs larger than the national average in 1959.

You'd be hard pressed to find a yank coming in under those numbers nowadays.

I do...5'10" 180 lbs.

[palexxxx]

Astronauts had to be short little guys too.

Not really. The first US astronauts were limited to 180cm or 5'11" and 82kg or 180 lbs. Both specs larger than the national average in 1959.

You'd be hard pressed to find a yank coming in under those numbers nowadays.

I do...5'10" 180 lbs.

555, yes but I think you've missed the bus. Or do they have a pensioners concession ticket?

[Davis Knowlton]

^Senior citizens free on weekdays. Just like the movies.

[Boon Mee]

Shoshone group. ca. 1864-1869. Photo by Andrew J. Russell.

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Bell X-1A



Major Arthur W. “Kit” Murray poses with his X-1A, 4 June 1954, back in the day when the country knew how to push the envelope with boldness and courage.

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[rebbu]

He must have been hungry or 'challenged' to carry that snap off.

[bobo746]

Her name is Lam Thi Dep (Dep means beautiful in Vietnamese), the picture was taken in 1972 at Soc Trang Province by Vietnamese journalist Minh Truong. She was 18 at the time and she’s wielding an M-16, the standard issue American soldier’s rifle. Usually this type of photos were taken for propaganda purposes. North Vietnamese women were deeply involved at all levels of the military campaign throughout the war, especially at the business end, fighting against the American-led forces in the jungle.

[bobo746]

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Shoshone group. ca. 1864-1869. Photo by Andrew J. Russell.

[Boon Mee]

This is interesting



"Very few people today understand what it took to make ships in the "days of sail" actually work. It took apprentice sailors a long time to learn their craft, and it's why the Royal Navy established a system of young mid-shipmen. Royal Navy officers had to learn their craft back in the day when a Royal Army commission was simply purchased."

[Luigi]

Her name is Lam Thi Dep (Dep means beautiful in Vietnamese), the picture was taken in 1972 at Soc Trang Province by Vietnamese journalist Minh Truong. She was 18 at the time and she’s wielding an M-16, the standard issue American soldier’s rifle. Usually this type of photos were taken for propaganda purposes. North Vietnamese women were deeply involved at all levels of the military campaign throughout the war, especially at the business end, fighting against the American-led forces in the jungle.

https://teakdoor.com/arts-and-enterta...etnam-war.html

[Boon Mee]

Freckles are good even on hippie chicks