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Over 1M People Follow This Page To Get Their Daily Dose Of History Facts And Here Are 50 Of Them
History is sometimes labeled as boring, reminding people of school days spent memorizing endless dates and reading through textbooks. But what if it could be genuinely exciting?
There’s an Instagram account called ‘How History Looks’ that proves it can. With over 1 million followers, this page shares fascinating photos and intriguing facts from the past. Curious to see what George Washington’s teeth looked like, what you could order from an old McDonald’s menu, or how students lived in an early 20th-century dorm? Look no further: these pics and more are waiting for you below.
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Andy Frobig 1 year ago
Until just now I thought, then why did they bother patenting it? But then I realized they kept everyone else from patenting it and charging everyone else
Julia Mckinney 1 year ago
And yet the top strap keeps trying to strangle me (I'm short and it keeps sliding up above my chest).
PattyK 1 year ago
Get a seat-belt adjuster at your local auto-parts store. It’s an inexpensive little plastic gizmo that lets you adjust the top strap.
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Sevin Hadley 1 year ago
That would NEVER happen today! Corporate greed is what has broken capitalism! Hmmm $1,000,000 for a pill that cures HIV ! CORPORATE GREED!
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 1 year ago
Can you imagine something happening like that nowadays? I can't :(
MushroomHead22 1 year ago
if they didnt do that, there would be several different seat belt types all striving to prove they are the safest. im ready to bet that there would have been many more fatal accidents.
If history can indeed be interesting, why is it not commonly treated as such? Experts believe the issue lies in how it’s taught—mainly through textbooks. In his book Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, sociologist and historian James W. Loewen explains why they fail to capture our imagination:
“The stories that history textbooks tell are all predictable; every problem has already been solved or is about to be solved,” he writes. “Textbooks exclude conflict or real suspense. They leave out anything that might reflect badly upon our national character. When they try for drama, they achieve only melodrama, because readers know that everything will turn out fine in the end.”
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sofacushionfort 1 year ago
African-Americans who’d left the South for the Great Plains were called “Exodusters.” And they did create prosperity in places like Oklahoma. But many Southern whites had fled their grinding poverty too, and brought their traditional prejudices along with them.
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Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
I'm sure the initially reluctant CEO of the milk company came to the party once they found a cow's head in their bed
PFD 1 year ago
Maybe. I thought this sounded too good to be true and it seems like it's probably a myth. The Capone family story is that Al's *brother*, Ralph, convinced milk producers to put *the date of production* on bottles (let's call that "close enough"). But a few people seem to have looked for evidence of it being true and found none. Ditto for the story of it being Al himself.
Frances Pitchoune 1 year ago
This is the second good thing I learned from him. The first being that he was apparently a good dad and a loving husband. While Elliot Ness was renowned for being a hell of an alcoholic, a wife and child beater (far from the image projected in The Intouchables).
Tabitha 1 year ago
He also set up and paid for free soup kitchens for poor people during the Great Depression. He had known poverty and hunger as a child.
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Linda Roy 1 year ago
The kitchens fed everyone who was hungry regardless of color.
Load More Replies... Charlene Wilbur 1 year ago
He was a really great guy for his neighborhood. Yes, he did some really bad things, but we can't overlook all the good that he did as well.
Gabriele Alfredo Pini 1 year ago
Sorry, no. This the way the Mafia justify itself, but in reality all it gives is only a part of what it has robbed. It is like saying thanking cancer for the loss of weight
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Awesome At Being Autistic 1 year ago
Okay no way is this real. You can easily smell and taste when milk is off.
Restless panda 🇫🇮 1 year ago
Was all milk pasteurised and kept cold back then? People fall sick from raw milk even today, in developed countries. Listeria doesn't necessarily cause bad smell or taste but it's dangerous to young and old people, and fetuses. That's why pregnant women are recommended to stay away from raw milk, soft cheese etc.
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“Textbooks also keep students in the dark about the nature of history. History is furious debate informed by evidence and reason. Textbooks encourage students to believe that history is facts to be learned,” Loewen adds.
Studying it this way meets a certain need—“a need that should not exist”—to simply absorb information in order to pass standardized tests. “It is the need for teachers who are not, first and foremost, teachers of history or social studies,” Loewen says.
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Nugget 1 year ago
I always got the impression that they were the most human and normal of all the presidents in recent history.
WindySwede 1 year ago
Yes, but what was the water incident about? (Flint) /gen
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Oskar vanZandt 1 year ago
I respect these two as fellow human beings and for all they have achieved personally and professionally... I think the rest of the world saw a glimmer of hope when Mr Obama became President of the United States.
NoNicknamePanda 1 year ago
Love them. But please take out that dadgum apostrophe. Plural words don't use them. Most possessive words do.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
*bats the tidbit under the sofa*
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David Cutler, a teacher of history and journalism at Brimmer and May in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, calls textbooks intimidating. They’re typically massive, around 1,000 pages long. “With so much dense, mind-numbing text, too many students give up trying to understand what’s really important,” he says.
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Jacob B. 1 year ago
Uh, not quite. Ukraine lacked the expertise and ability to maintain and secure the nukes. The USA pressured them to send them to Russia to be dismantled, who had the expertise. On top of that, Merchants of Death were secretly trying to acquire some of those nukes to sell to rogue nations or terrorist groups....and there were some in Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan willing to "look the other way" for a price. Former Soviet Republics with nukes all signed an agreement to repatriate the nukes back to Russia with the USA granting a nice aid package. The memorandums were just for show, but getting play time due to the war now.
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago (edited)
Nevertheless, Ukraine signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation treaty and the UK, US, Russia and Ukraine signed the Budapest Memorandum of Security Assurances at the United Nations: "... The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States Of America reaffirm their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, and that none of their weapons will ever be used against Ukraine except in self-defense or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations...". Call it a latter day Munich Agreement with Russia if you will, like the Iran agreement the the US pulled out of, but no agreement can survive a Putin or a Trump, but calling it "just for show" is not correct.
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LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
I'm- I'm shocked! My world has been turned upside down!
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J 1 year ago
never trust Soviets! their invasion in Ukraine and the destruction they have caused is comparable only with what Nazis did in WWII... tragic
Hugh Cookson 1 year ago
Catch up please. The Soviet Union was obliterated 30 + years ago. What is happening in Ukraine is more akin to Hitlers invasion of the Sudatenland in 1939 which then led to further land grabs.
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robin aldrich 1 year ago
Well Putin had an "excuse" to break that contract!!! what was it- Nazis????
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Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
Yes, an ORIGINAL good story, instead of a really bad remake or another c**p chapter in a franchise that should’ve ended ten movies ago or a s****y live animation version that was perfectly fine as a normal animated version.
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HARRY KOPPERS 1 year ago
Pics from the time it happened shows him as having a large, luxuriant mustache, like Mario.
Uriel Grey 1 year ago
Funny thing is he was mad about it and then if i remember correctly wanted money
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Mabelbabel 1 year ago
It still happens. In 2011, during bombing and riots in Alexandria Egypt, Christians held hands in a ring to protect Muslims during their prayers. Respecting, befriending and supporting each other shouldn't depend on faith.
Sue User 1 year ago
Please tell me the blind mans hand looks like that because " old timey photograph"
karen snyder 1 year ago
First of all; this is not AI generated. The hand you are looking at is actually two hands, both resting on the top of a cane. The difference in size is just the product of an awkward perspective. Secondly, the man he is carrying has a birth defect called Spina Bifida, he is not a little person. Spina Bifida means that his spine did not fully develop and his brain does not connect to his lower body, which causes several additional problems like an excess of fluid in the head, known as hydrocephalus .
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Molly's Familiar 1 year ago
The implications of this sent my mind down so many rabbit holes .... I am far from being an SJW but still, how can one not be affected by the trust, love, acceptance, balance, tolerance and more, inherent in this photo?
“None of the facts is remembered, because they are presented simply as one damn thing after another,” Loewen notes. He drives the point with a simple metaphor, “While textbook authors tend to include most of the trees and all too many twigs, they neglect to give readers even a glimpse of what they might find memorable: the forests”.
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Pollywog 1 year ago
The artist's name is Dario Campanile. I had to look it up because I too thought he looked like Bob Ross!!!
Danika Ruso 1 year ago
The caption is wrong, this is the redesign in 1985. Wikipedia: "This is a photograph of the artist Dario Campanile standing in front of the artwork he created for Paramount Studios for their 75th Anniversary logo-redesign. The painting was used as the source for subsequent logo animation. The original is on display at Paramount Studios."
JoNo 1 year ago
Thank you, I did think it went back further than 1985 and was going to say that. Now I don't have to thanks to you. :)
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Brian Droste 1 year ago
When I was growing up and they showed a Paramount picture/show, they actually showed the Paramount mountain.
Lindy Mac 1 year ago
Yes- Pollywog gave us that info 2 weeks before you posted this info
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John Nelson 1 year ago (edited)
All 6 of my great uncles came home, but there were some close calls. One close enough that the Navy sent my great grandma the death telegram. Fortunately, he had sent her one at the same time to let her know he had survived his ship sinking.
Paul Brown 1 year ago
I had one great uncle captured by the Germans, he was a POW in the infamous Stalag 17. A movie was made about that Stalag. His brother was a guard at a POW camp here in the US guarding captured Germans.
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V.vi 1 year ago
Both of my brothers are fighting in Gaza to bring the hostages home. My mom hasn't slept a full night since the day they were recruited.
alwaysMispelled 1 year ago
I hope all the hostages get rescued soon and your brothers can go back home <3
Load More Replies... You don't need it 1 year ago
My grandpa was dead for awhile in WW2. He had lent his buddy his dog tags so his friend could take a vehicle from the motor pool. His buddy was not allowed to for disciplinary reasons, excessive drinking I believe. He got blown up and my grandmother was notified of his death. My grandpa managed to contact her, I don't remember how, and he got in a little trouble for it.
Maisey Myles 1 year ago
Being a mother of 8 boys is a heroic feat on its own! Imagine the meals she cooked, and the laundry.
Pam 1 year ago (edited)
With sons and sons-in-law there were 13 men in my grandparents lives. All 13 went into WWII, and all 13 came home and without major injuries. They were spread through all four services, South Pacific, Africa, Italy, France and onto Germany. We had 2 paratroopers and 3 who were at Bastogne in the Battle of the Bulge. My Fathers ship even blew up at one point!! It was a full on miracle that they call came home unscathed.
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Barbara Wilcock 1 year ago
And we think the world is moving forwards. For these women it's backwards
funkybluegirl (she/her) 1 year ago
And it seems like the United States is heading that way Scary times. 🫤
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tormentedpurple 1 year ago
These kinds of pictures hurt my soul, especially when I think of all the people who lost their lives in the "women, life, freedom" movement and more are still being executed for asking to have the very same rights we used to have before the so called "islamic revolution"
UncleJon_TheMadScientist 1 year ago
Another fine example of a religion becoming weaponized and used against its own followers.
sofacushionfort 1 year ago
The first phase of the revolution saw the expulsion of the Shah and the dismantling of SAVAK by progressive liberal students. They had their victory and were in position to build a modern, oil-rich nation upon it. But they had to insist on the Shah’s blood, and invaded the US embassy. They had a wolf by the ears, and left Iran vulnerable to takeover by the ayatollahs. They really blew it.
History truly comes alive when it feels tangible and allows you to make your own conclusions instead of blindly following someone else’s retelling of events. Photos, records, speeches, songs, even old newspapers, diaries, and letters—these are all ways to connect with the past in a personal and thought-provoking way.
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Claire Cotts 1 year ago (edited)
(sorry, I can’t figure out how to make the link live ) here you go… “He was thought to be a mannequin and was used in several movies in the background.” The Cowboy Bandit's Body That Was Used As A Movie Prop | https://wakeupwyo.com/the-cowboy-bandits-body-that-was-used-as-a-movie-prop/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral
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Emma Bull 1 year ago
If it had been missing so long, maybe those who would have recognised it had passed. And unless you were told about it or studied art history, you also wouldn't have known
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T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
The first legal "mixed marriage" was also in 1986. Their names were Suzanne LeClerc and Protas Madlala. They decided to get married no matter what and the government got rid of the mixed marriages act just before they wed. (Not for them but it meant they were the first couple we'd after it was scrapped.)
Arenite 1 year ago
Read Trevor Noah’s book “Born A Crime”. His mother was black, his father white, and his birth was considered ‘illegal’
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Emie N. 1 year ago (edited)
Yep, and there was angry bitter white people all over the country. (Still are)
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Doodles1983 1 year ago
The woman sat next to him doesn't know what to do. The woman stood next to him looks like she would not step on him with her shoe. (and like Dolores Umbridge!) and he looks alarmed. And in some places these expressions exist today. How many decades later? We don't learn as a species. Which is as bad as ignorance in the first place.
D Peterson 1 year ago
Arkansas governor, Huckabee Sanders, wants to bring back segregation in the US.
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Hiram's Friend 1 year ago
He did, unless he had to break scrub to go to the toilet.
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Moezzzz 1 year ago
Also- cool fact, the man on the table outlived his heart surgeon, ONLY because of the lifesaving surgery that was performed!
Lindy Mac 1 year ago
I came check the comments to double check if someone had mentioned that 👍👍👍
Load More Replies... Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
My grandma succumbed to heart disease in the 1970s. I survived a heart attack and triple bypass that was performed on my beating heart, with no blood transfusions, in 2001. Now I understand the process is even more streamlined and easier to survive, and I'm ever more amazed and grateful for the progress in cardiopulmonary treatment that continues to progress.
Wolf princess quinn 1 year ago
Umm. Why is the patient still on the table not in recovery. Seems weird
Lindy Mac 1 year ago
That may be the recovery and the surgery room... they may wanted to keep monitoring till they were sure he could be moved out of the O.R. It's also the nap room...
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Adam Klobukowski 1 year ago
This is Profesor Zbigniew Religa and it was first heart transplant in Poland.
Kyle Blackmer, a humanities teacher at The Heights School, shows how just a few photos can turn history into an immersive experience. For example, when teaching about the American Civil War, he lines up portraits of generals and asks students to describe their personalities based on their appearance.
“Seeing the proud, manicured, Napoleonic McClellan, the melancholic, humble Grant, and the anxious, intense Sherman all side by side is a great primer for studying the differences in leadership between these three and sets up a deeper look at their actions in the war,” he explains.
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Raquel Mencke 1 year ago
Both deserve to be uplifted and given grace for their circumstances.
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Alison Welles 1 year ago
It may be just a trick of light, but from here it looks like Diana Spencer...
Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
I hope she was able to stroke his hand and even kiss his face, as that connection would have meant so much more to the dying soldiers
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Carl Roberts 1 year ago
Because the Soviets were so great, right? Just ask the 30 million people who died because of them
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Yeah, I didn't know anything about propaganda when I was 7, either.
Load More Replies... Oskar vanZandt 1 year ago
Oligarchs, whether American or Russian (or Saudi or whatever) are obsessed with amassing their own wealth at the expense of health and wellbeing of the rest of the population.
Leslie Donsen 1 year ago
Eisenhower was correct when he said: "But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. . . . This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. . . .Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. . . . In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."
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Phil Green 1 year ago
She was in jail for less than six years. She had a very successful career as a politician.
Alison Welles 1 year ago
Not only brave, but as an aside, she's gorgeous!
Load More Replies... sofacushionfort 1 year ago (edited)
Strange how the conventional Western view today is that the Vietnamese were fighting to unify and liberate their country from foreign colonizers. It had never been one nation until the colonizers imposed it upon them. What resulted was a Tonkinese colonization of central Annam and southern Cocinchina, as well as domination in Laos and Cambodia.
Truth is, it’s natural for humans to be curious about the past. We have an innate drive to explore what came before us, something that 16th century British antiquarian William Camden described as a “back-looking curiositie”. Psychologists refer to this as epistemic curiosity—a thirst for knowledge that motivates us to discover new ideas and learn.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
That's obviously an alien astronaut helmet. Giorgio A. Tsoukalos is was right!
Manana Man 1 year ago
Not everything that is hard to explain is due to aliens.
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BigCityLady 1 year ago
And yet they still keep raging wars against each other only to be crowned the “winner” when there are no winners.
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cryssH 1 year ago (edited)
Our neighbors were German immigrants after WWII. Anna's brother spent his 15th birthday crying because the next day he had to report for service and 2 weeks later he was d**d at the Russian front. Her youngest sister (age 13) disappeared when the Russians came through. Her mother and older sister starved to death because they couldn't work. Anna worked every day, 12+ hours day, rain, shine or snow so she could eat in Russian occupied Germany until her husband could get her out. What the Nazis did was evil and wrong AND the German children paid the price.
XenoMurph 1 year ago
not "but". Should be "AND the German children paid the price". "But" sounds like there is some sort of negation of their crimes because further crimes were committed by others. This is not so.
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LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
There's a disturbing piece of film reel showing Hitler walking down a line of newly "recruited" soldiers in early 1945, patting their shoulders and shaking their hands in demented glee. He's trembling from the cocktail of morphine, meth, and heroin flooding his system, and the soldiers, none of whom can be older than 21, have the saddest forced happiness on their faces, knowing that they're being forced to go die for this moronic madman.
Load More Replies... Adrian 1 year ago
Full story here: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/hans-georg-henke.html
robin aldrich 1 year ago
I was interested and looked him up... there's two versions of the story : his version that he told his whole life and the version that the photographer told... doesn't really matter the truth still is that he was a 15-year-old boy in a war
Load More Replies... Isabel Galvez 1 year ago
Yes, at the end of the war they sent every man who could hold a gun. For a while there were only young children and very old men in Germany. The women started the reconstruction.
Paul Brown 1 year ago
I'm confused. BP posted this picture before and said he broke down when he got home he found out all his family was gone.
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Hassel Davidhoff 1 year ago (edited)
Today we have a system of legalized bribery, largely to benefit the corporate interests of politicians. It is all openly, profoundly corrupt. Lobbying should be illegal. Congress people and Senators should also have significant restrictions on their stock options too, as they get away with some serious corruption through that avenue as well, they legislate on matters they profit from. Basically, we need to get money out of politics as it has compromised our democracy, it has rendered the whole endeavor into a mess of total corruption.
Hiram's Friend 1 year ago
Remember if you and two friends send letters to your congress person, that's lobbying. Lobbying is simply advocating for a specific agenda.
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KatZen 1 year ago
Great movie. And it really was quite sad what happened to Jeremy Renner's congressman character. Wonder how accurate that part was.
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Maggie Mae 1 year ago
Need that to Happen again as soon as they elect the Deranged Crminal Pedophile Dictator Back into the white House!! The Dictator Agent Orange!
Trophy Husband 1 year ago
And yet when they have dimming evidence that a member of the supreme Court accepted bribes, they act like it doesn't matter.
Paul Brown 1 year ago
It was called ABSCAM. There is a Wikipedia page about it for anyone interested.
So when people have the opportunity to engage with history in an enjoyable way, their enthusiasm shines through. According to a survey by Conner Prairie, 91% of Americans are eager to visit history museums that promise to spark their curiosity and offer fun ways to learn. Moreover, 89% are interested in museums that help them feel more connected to the past, giving them insights into both today’s world and the future.
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Maggz Bennett 1 year ago
If there's any justice in the world, I hope she had a long and happy life henceforth. I once nursed a wonderful lady who had been in Auschwitz, and she was haunted all of her life by what she'd experienced.
Heather Atwood 1 year ago
Never thought we would see a rise in antisemitism ever again. Boy was I wrong!!!
J 1 year ago
visiting Auschwitz has so far been my most horrifying experience in my life (still haunting me in my dreams after 52 years)
MoMcB 1 year ago
I visited Belsen, and it still horrifies me 30 years later.
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Cool crow 1 year ago
Don't be. This can happen anywhere, to anyone, and does.
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Rebekah Fuentes 1 year ago
I'm conflicted on whether or not to upvote or downvote these types photos.🥺
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Dave 1 year ago
Why the necessity to comment on how a person fairs in the arbitrary physical appearance scaling?
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Patricia Smith 1 year ago
A man!? I've never heard that! I'm definitely indignant and aghast? Was it Trump?, just asking .
Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
Need these people back in the position of power and good leadership. I am sure they are pleased to step away from the idiocy happening to the US political stance now. Embarrassing
Jane Hower 1 year ago
BS. As Michael Roberts 'she' played in men's sports. SHE'S A TRANNIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kay Christensen 1 year ago
We may never again have a First Lady as intelligent, talented, classy and beautiful as Mrs. Obama.
UnKool-Aid 1 year ago
I must be in the minority when it comes to her looks because I don't find her attractive in the least.
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WFH Forever 1 year ago
My mother said the snow that year was over the ground floor windows and my big brothers went outside by climbing through their bedroom windows which were upstairs.
Sweet Taurus 1 year ago
According to google it snowed from March 2-5 in 1966. The snowfall totaled between 30-40 inches with wind gusts up to 70 miles an hour. So I would assume this picture is the result of a snow drift and not the actual snowfall.
Besides, research by Reach Advisors shows that history museums are considered the most trusted source of information in America. People crave authenticity, and museums, with their commitment to research and preservation, deliver a level of credibility that other sources can’t match.
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robin aldrich 1 year ago
Didn't they have to sit very still for quite a bit because it took time to capture the image?
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Sandy D 1 year ago
I can't stand cooked carrots (they are great raw tho], but other than that, a beef roast with gravy, potatoes, onions, etc sounds pretty great. I haven't made that
Load More Replies... Damned_Cat 1 year ago
Ooh, a really huge pot roast so you could have leftovers for sandwiches the next day. Those were the days!
SCamp 1 year ago
The boys may well have been in Nam 10 years later. I can’t help by think that when I see pictures of young boys 10 or so years ahead of a major war
Aaron Parker 1 year ago
So? The 50s sucked for any American that wasn't a Christian, straight white landowning male. Please let's stop romanticized the f*****g 1950s.
Hayhaypaula 1 year ago
Sunday roast beef with potatoes and carrots, and a side salad with tomato! Wish I could afford that now!
Glen Ellyn 1 year ago
The other boy reminds me of Jerry Mathers, who played Beaver in the TV series "Leave it to Beaver."
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Data1001 1 year ago
Probably something like, "Quick, Elizabeth, put down those dirty dishes and come over here! I wanna take a picture!"
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
Google "The Octavian". An abandoned ship that was found with its crew frozen solid in their cabins. It's freaky.
Susan W. 1 year ago
"The Octavius was a legendary 18th century ghost ship. According to the story, the three-masted schooner was found west of Greenland by the whaler Herald on 11 October 1775. Boarded as a derelict, the five-man boarding party found the entire crew of 28 below deck: dead, frozen, and almost perfectly preserved." Wikipedia
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
Someone even borrowed my Bermuda shorts and was never seen again.
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Beak Hookage 1 year ago
They found one back in the 90s but it turned out the ship was abandoned because one guy on the crew murdered everyone else, robbed the safe, and then f****d off in one of the life rafts. Sadly, he got away with it due to lack of evidence.
Major Harris 1 year ago
some are ships that are being towed to be cut up but have broken the towing cable.
Patricia Smith 1 year ago
In past centuries it was theorized that pirates probably boarded these ships and waylaid the crew. But in 2021 and 24?
pep Ito 1 year ago (edited)
There were and are pirates in 2021 and 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_in_the_21st_century
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The desire to learn and stay informed about the past is strong; it just needs the right motivation. And we hope these posts offered a glimpse into a more exciting way to explore history. So, ditch the textbooks and embrace your curiosity!
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Heir of Durin 1 year ago (edited)
It looks like it was stomach cancer. She thought it was from 9/11, but I’m not sure if it was proven. This poor lady had a really rough life after 9/11. “ Wikipedia said that she never recovered from the trauma of the attack. Depression led to a break-up with her partner, the loss of custody of her children, and an addiction to alcohol and d***s.”
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Teutonic Disaster 1 year ago (edited)
And her family is probably still fighting for some kind of financial compensation, but by all means re-elect the wannabe tin pot dictator and his acolytes... 🙄
Christine M Quigley 1 year ago
My niece had non Hodgkins lymphoma from inhaling all that c**p-, still surviving 45 yrs. later!
Salty Wild Hair 1 year ago
Add context to her story and explain what happened that day until the lung cancer got her. 911 left her alive but she had an extremely difficult life from this day until her death. May she rest in heaven.
Donald Holder 1 year ago
She died from a very rare, very aggressive cancer called asbestosis. It was a common occurrence among not only the survivors but also the endless, 24/7 rescue crews(fireman, police. City employees who all worked 'bucket brigade! "
Upstaged75 1 year ago
Horrifying. :( But on a lighter note, does anyone else think she looks a bit like Einstein?
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Lydsylou (she/her) 1 year ago
Strangely boys who have seen a TV before still look at it like that today
Jessi Thompson 1 year ago
I'd be shocked too, seeing those tiny people trapped in the box for the first time.
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Binny Tutera 1 year ago
Growing up, one of my favorite books was The Adventures of Caroline. It was a French book about a little girl and her friends (all animals ) and they all had wine at lunch! Never thought twice about it.
Martin Kaine 1 year ago
Given the way the average middle schooler acts after lunch, I wholeheartedly support bringing this back to mellow them out.
robin aldrich 1 year ago
Wasn't the water a little sketchy as far as drinking it??? or is that just a myth... on a school trip (way back in 1973) you had to look for a faucet labeled "potable" which meant drinkable water.
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alicia 1 year ago
Somebody had to have the idea to do that, though, so must be nice to be proven right!
Vicky Phenny 1 year ago
They scan for all sorts of things, often to figure out the techniques used to sculpt and paint. They probably were not expecting a human skeleton.
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Wolf princess quinn 1 year ago
Saw a doc on Buddhist monks. When they feel it's thier time they start drinking resins to mummify them Selves in prep for this.
Moisés 1 year ago
That's right, they believe is in a very deep and particular state of meditation.
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shankShaw deReemer 1 year ago
They were always dressed to the nines in that time period, hats ties/bowties, three-piece suits. I'd never lounge around in any suit I have--too expensive to dry clean! I'm glad I didn't live in those days. I'm all about comfort, and nothing about this picture screams comfort to me!
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Marie Clear 1 year ago
Not just porphyry, but imperial porphyry! It's purple and only found in one quarry in Egypt. It's in the Vatican Museum and apparently it's the most expensive item they have. Lately estimated to be worth closer to $2 billion.
Manana Man 1 year ago
Thank you Marie, now this makes sense. I saw this picture posted before and was totally confused: porphyry is a geologic term that simply means a granite with large crystals in a fine-grained matrix. Not rare or unusual, so I was confused. Also, not marble.
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Angelshark 1 year ago
So let me get this straight. It's a material so rare it's only found in one place ON THE PLANET, and some wealthy POS uses it to wash his a*s...can we please eat the rich already?
Piper 1 year ago
Well Nero was around a very long time ago, ruling from 54AD to 68AD.
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Michael Largey 1 year ago (edited)
Power-mad pos tyrants seem to have a thing for luxurious bathrooms. Oh, like gold toilets, perhaps.
Tabitha 1 year ago
So the Vatican spent millions to acquire it, and it’s worth billions today. But they hold on to it, instead of selling it and distributing the money to the poor, or at least paying to put up shelters, provide decent housing, build hospitals where needed for the chronically or mentally ill, and create jobs so people who want to work can get work. You know, the kind of stuff Christians are supposed to do. Hmmm.
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Vera Diblikova 1 year ago
Chinesian workers were worse victims of early capitalism in USA than African slaves, nobody cares.
Load More Replies... Paul Brown 1 year ago
I did not know that the US rounded up all the Japanese people and put them in internment camps. I only found out when reading about George Takai who plated Mr. Sulu on Star Trek.
Frances Pitchoune 1 year ago
I was in a Vietnamese restaurant (I'm white). Asian tourists entered. The owner, very polite, greeted them by saying: "Are you Japanese?" The father replied, sniffing very loudly: “Why? Do we stink like the Japanese?” They both laughed at the joke (actually, they were Chinese). And I was 😲
Marnie 1 year ago
It's "funny" that they didn't take all the people of German descent in the US and put them in a camp when Germany under Hitler was terrorizing Europe. Didn't that single fact alone give people enough of a reality check? I will never understand.
MrLiesegang 1 year ago
There are a couple of reasons. 1. the 3. Reich didn’t attack Pearl Harbor. 2. there were many people with sympathy for the way of the 3. Reich and their doings. 3. if they would they had to detain several millions of people
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Tina Harnish 1 year ago
Disgusting. Nazis were running around freely. No Japanese American did any crimes. The American Nazis did. But guess who got locked up? And Canada did this, too!
Shaun Coleman 1 year ago
So sad, yet they need the same thing for American born Latins in 2024. Some things never change, just the faces.
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Missy VanWinkle 1 year ago
This was less than a hundred years ago. Hearing people p*ss and moan about how hard we have it now, how bad inflation is, ... meh.
Vera Diblikova 1 year ago
Poor is not only scarcity, but in comparison with others.
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"Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. Lange's photographs influenced the development of documentary photography and humanized the consequences of the Great Depression." Wikipedia
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Manana Man 1 year ago
I really have my doubts that it was meant the way we interpret it today.
Comfortably Numb 1 year ago
Listen to some old, dirty blues music from the 30s.... Makes cardi b sound like a nun. And people have loved dirty jokes since at least, and I'd guess way before, the ancient Greeks and Romans
DuckDuckGooseberry 1 year ago
They probably listened to My Girl’s P U S S Y by Harry Roy earlier that day, then saw the sign 😂
Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
I doubt that was anywhere near their minds then ..I was one..and that was literal not sexy innuendos of today
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ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
Nope. My friend just got out of the military, and is now completely bald. He says he gave his best years of hair to the Army. ☺️
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Spittnimage 1 year ago
It's at boot camp, there were many of them not just one so can't say at THE boot camp.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
He will look back at this day as the easiest and sanest day of all of boot camp.
LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
That face! Talk about a timeless "what the hell did I get myself into" expression. 😂
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
Great picture! I love photos of soldier acting like goofballs, shows that they are also human.
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Dragon mama 1 year ago
Amazing the whole family could come at once. That was not the experience in my family.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
There's no babe in arms, so maybe they're (mercifully) done with having children.
D Peterson 1 year ago
Poor woman! She was pregnant most of her life & probably wasn't 29 years old in the photo.
Tamra 1 year ago
My grandma had nearly twice the number of children that this poor woman did - 15. And yes, she was pregnant for all of her most vital years, and utterly exhausted.
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Vera Diblikova 1 year ago
The children look good fed and healthy after long sea passage. Where they are from?
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Son of Philosoraptor 1 year ago
Every sperm is sacred/ Every sperms is great/ When a sperm is wasted / God gets quite irate!
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Lee Henderson 1 year ago
When I was a child (born 1960) McDonalds had an ad where you could "feed a family of four for under five dollars".
WickedLibra70 1 year ago (edited)
It was also a place that was fun and you had birthday parties and everything in the in the lobby didn't look like it was nasty and never cleaned. McDonald's now a days are do dark and unwelcoming looking, no fun decor for kids, no more cute commercials with mascots like grimace, the hamburgerler, etc
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Gionanna 1 year ago
Looks like they really wanted to convince people, with all these adjectives
Grumpy Old Broad 1 year ago
I remember back in the day when it was a special treat to go to McDonald's. Nowadays it's a 7 day a week meal plan for some people.
Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
The oldest McDonalds didn’t open until 1953, so this can’t be from the forties. However, adjusting for inflation, that 20 cent Triple Thick Shake would only cost $2.35 in 2024. So still a cheaper price back then than now.
LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
The first McDonald's drive-in was opened in 1940 in San Bernardino, CA by Maurice "Mac" and Richard McDonald. In 1948 the brothers revamped the restaurant in order to serve large quantities of food at low prices. By 1949, the menu was condensed to include 15-cent hamburgers, shakes, and fries, and the restaurant was so successful it spawned 10 franchise locations around the original San Bernardino one. Then Ray Kroc came along and the rest is history. (https://www.britannica.com/money/McDonalds)
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jai putman 1 year ago
This is later than the 40's due to 2 pertinent facts. 1 there is no BBQ on the menu which they sold until 1948, and secondly there's fries on the menu which didn't start being served til 1949 so I'd say this is a 1950's menu at the very earliest
Wolf princess quinn 1 year ago
I worked at one in late 70s Hamburger was .29ct cheese burger 39c
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Weasel Wise 1 year ago
It helps to demonstrate his poverty. He was too poor to afford meat, not cuz he loved animals.
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Sandy D 1 year ago
So sad, He was brilliant and one thing he tried to do was make a system whereby everyone could get power for free. He apparently had it close to ready, but Thomas Edison made sure to squash that. He would t let tesla give away free power when Edison could rake in tons of money
Debby Keir 1 year ago
Many penniless people became vegetarian, due to the relative cost of meat.
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago (edited)
Which is funny since most non-vegan people complain how expensive veganism is. 🤣🤣🤣 Like what's cheaper than beans and rice🤷🏿
Load More Replies... Patricia Smith 1 year ago
Didn't Edison thwart Tesla at almost every turn? Adopting his processes and making sure Tesla never achieved the success he could have achieved?
LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
Yeah. Edison was a thieving bastard, but shrewd, which is how he became the winner of history.
Load More Replies... Tabitha 1 year ago
Except when it came to doing business and making any kind of living off his inventions. Man, he really could’ve used a good business manager. Can you imagine the kind of technology we’d have now, if Tesla hadn’t been cheated every damned time he made a breakthrough? He could’ve kept going, instead of being roadblocks time and again by his bigger, richer, and craftier bastard competitors—-who also stole ideas from him and came up with their own, most likely s****y, versions. The bastards.
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
Here is a picture of an emanciated man with a terminal disease and a casual mention he was a vegeterian. That's oddly specific...
Jessi Thompson 1 year ago
Like they're on the same level 😂 "he was dirt poor, penniless and starving and he also STOPPED EATING MEAT"
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Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Missouri: one of only 11 states that care so little about their black citizens that they could manage to forget about a black guy even after convicting him of robbery.
Noel Bovae 1 year ago
Not saying they do care, but a story like this could be spun to fit ANY narrative. Example: 'Missouri: one of only 11 states that care so much about their white citizens that they could manage to "forget" about a white guy even after convicting him of robbery.' This story tells much more about our "Justice" System as a whole, than it does about race relations.
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mikejaz2 1 year ago
Missouri-not the quickest state in the union..I mean they elected that scumsucker Josh Horseface Hawley...nuff said
Ceil 1 year ago
I live in Missouri and completely agree. I don't even think most voters in Missouri have any idea about what a candidate stands for or look at how they continue to fail us. Without any research so many just look for the Republican candidates and that's that. It's absolutely infuriating.
Load More Replies... Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
You would think he would avoid going on TV and talking about it then
PFD 1 year ago
"The error was only discovered when he was scheduled to be released from prison in 2013, and he was arrested and required to serve his sentence. His arrest stirred national controversy, especially since he was a changed man by that time, and on appeal Anderson was set free in 2014."
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Taylor's Ferry 1 year ago
Here is the rest of the story: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornealious_Michael_Anderson_III
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Margo Osti 1 year ago
Let's not forget. In 1984, the "skin" of the statue was removed and replaced. "A team of French and American architects, engineers, and conservators came together to determine what was needed to ensure the Statue's preservation into the next century. Workers repaired holes in the copper skin and removed layers of paint from the interior of the copper skin and internal iron structure. They replaced the rusting iron armature bars (which joined the copper skin to the Statue's internal skeleton) with stainless steel bars. The flame and upper portion of the torch had been severely damaged by water and was replaced with an exact replica of Bartholdi's original torch. The torch was gilded according to Bartholdi's original plans."
LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
My family visited NY during that time and I can remember the souvenir book I got detailing the refurb - fascinating stuff, even for a 7-year-old.
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Frances Pitchoune 1 year ago (edited)
It's really strange. In Québec City, we have the Château Frontenac which is very beautiful hôtel, but whose roofs are also made of copper. They are cleaned very often. So Americans never clean up Liberty? 🤔
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago (edited)
Nope. It was very intentionally supposed to patina. Edit: it's had repairs and things done, but not "cleaned".
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Cydney Golden 1 year ago
They actually spent a lot of money to remove the green for the bicentennial and it only lasted for a short time.
Abbas Fahmy 1 year ago
Fact: the statue of liberty was originally destined as a gift for Egypt.
Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
Well that was predictable she looks great all green verdigris anyhow
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Kristal 1 year ago
Wow, time for bed. Before reading the caption I thought it was a dude under cows (probably milking them)
Aaron Parker 1 year ago
Probably not...ww1 was a bloodbath. Nations treated fighting men like s**t, sending them to their deaths into the meat grinder for a couple yards of land. Then losing that land the next day at the cost of another 10,000 men. Studying that war alone made me lose my faith in humanity altogether
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Tim Douglass 1 year ago
I'm currently reading "Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914 – 1918" and compared to some of the places he describes this looks pretty good. WWI was brutal and dehumanizing in a way I don't think any other war has ever been.
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Vanessa Panerosa 1 year ago
Trust me, the rest of it is still like that. It’s the damn Mojave desert. Vegas is a blip of an oasis in the middle of NOTHING.
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Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
That $3 million in 1955 is $35 million today. Still expensive, but a fraction of what you’d think prime Las Vegas commercial real estate, most likely on the Strip, would sell for. So, even though expensive in 1955, it would still be a bargain for anyone who could raise the cash, especially if they kept the ground and mineral rights and had the hotels built on the land have to pay them handsomely to rent the land use in perpetuity. Usually commercial buildings rent the land they’re built on, so they basically only own what’s on top of the soil and what’s contained within their buildings, but not the land they’re sitting on. (When you buy a house, see if you can also get the land and mineral rights for the lot the house is sitting on. If they ever find anything valuable under your land and you own those rights, you profit. People who bought just the houses and a couple inches of depth of the land the house sits on, but not the mineral rights under it really lost out in the past, when oil and other valuable resources were discovered running under their property. They had zero claims to it, and someone else got rich off it.)
Data1001 1 year ago
Yeah, they made bank on that! Then again, the casinos that eventually sprang up there, made many billions more over the years.
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Sweet Taurus 1 year ago
I wonder how many acres comes with the $3 million. Seems sort of pricey for the 1950s. Wonder who ended up buying it.
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ILoveMySon 1 year ago (edited)
Anything to get through the day. Seriously though, this is sad.
Phil Green 1 year ago
I met a Russian major in in 1991 who was paid as much in a month as I earned in a day. I kept him in English cigarettes whilst he stayed in the UK. His own Russian cigs were terrible and had to be held upright. Poor guy was just as normal as the rest of us.
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
When English cigarettes are considered good :)
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Comfortably Numb 1 year ago
Yes, and wall street calls anything involving tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical or legal recreational stocks "vice stocks". Take advantage of people in hard times relying on d***s to get through the day... Those stocks go up when things go to shīt
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Vladimir I 1 year ago
Alcohol was called once "liquid currency" and was much more stable than paper bills.
Bryn 1 year ago
Why would hthey keep the vodka? the students usually aren't the ones paying the teachers...
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Lisa Delgado 1 year ago
This was in Siberia, not all of Russia. The teachers probably used the vodka to barter for goods and services.
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jonesnori 1 year ago
Probably safer for her to go. I don't know about the Netherlands, but I have heard of some severe clapback toward collaborators elsewhere.
Pan Narrans 1 year ago
Collaborators yes, but marriage may be different. My grandfather (Dutch) married a German woman before the war. In the border regions those marriages were pretty common. My grandmother didn't have troubles after the war living in The Netherlands.
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Jeolas1 1 year ago
A lot of women in occupied countries who entered into relationships with German soldiers during the occupation were mistreated afterwards by their own people. A very common example is that the hair on their heads was forcibly shorn for lasting public humiliation.
Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
he looks like a Hemsworth brother, I wouldn't have left him either :)
ShadySlytherin 1 year ago
Weird that she looks proud of being such an objectively terrible person
FaceTime Audio 1 year ago
I have absolutely zero sympathy for either of them.
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Taylor's Ferry 1 year ago
She was certifiable. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manacled_Mormon_case
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Margaret H 1 year ago
She looks like she's contemplating how much housework she will have to do because he's too tired and hungry to wash
Rae Rory 1 year ago
By the time you get home, there isn't really time/energy. you wash up before church on Sunday. source: my Grandpa was coal miner.
Load More Replies... Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
The despair on his wife's face, The wonderful loaf of bread. Such a hard life but most survived to procreate the people of today
Wm Paul Robinson 1 year ago
Gueule noir in French. My father in law was one in the coal mines in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais for years. Now in his 80s and strong as an ox..
Crissy Newbury 1 year ago
This is strange. Miners had great self-respect and his wife would have kept his meal warm until he had washed and changed into his house clothes.
Leslie Donsen 1 year ago (edited)
My mom always told me that my grandfather was disabled because he dug ditches and got caught in a cave in. I found her birth certificate after she died. She wasn't born in Pittsburgh, but to the south of it.. There was only one employer in the county where she was born. The Crucible Coal mine in Greene County Pennsylvania.
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funkybluegirl (she/her) 1 year ago
Well, I lost a tooth with the string-on-a-doorknob method. In the late 70's.
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smugdruggler 1 year ago
I remember my grandad, who grew up in a small town in North Wales, telling me how a dentist came to the market place once a month. He'd have a drummer with him to let people know he was there, and to bang it every harder while he worked. Apparently all he did was pull teeth without anaesthetic and the drumming was to cover up the screaming. Grandad had two teeth out like that, said the pain was unbelievable.
Sandy D 1 year ago
I've had stubborn baby teeth pulled with needle nose pliers. If they were even slightly loose I'd convince my dad to yank it out!. I wanted tooth-fairƴ money. Usually only a dime, rarely a quarter. Not much money, but back then penny candy still existed if you went to the right store.. you could get a bunch of sugar in your little-kid energy tank! Whee
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Vanessa Panerosa 1 year ago
What losers. That’s the only thing that comes to mind. I hope they waited in line for hours. I hope they were next and the ride shut down. I hope it rained unexpectedly and they got soaked to the bone. I hope their expressions looked exactly as miserable as everyone else’s I see at the “happiest place on earth”
mSpencer 1 year ago
Former cast member here. I hope they slipped in "a protein spill" (vomit)
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LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
Despots and tyrants run on hypocriticality: "Do as I say, not as I do." Which is how you have a starving population worshipping a family eating multi-course meals off priceless dinnerware, among other things.
Load More Replies... tormentedpurple 1 year ago
Welcome to planet earth, where so called "leaders" get to make laws they don't obey....
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
And to think Kim Jong-Ill removed his eldest son from the line of sucession for using a fake passport to visit Disneyland Tokyo. And Kim Jong-Un had him killed.
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Sandy D 1 year ago
Had to be a medical issue, I hope. I doubt a baby/ toddler would be able to walk or even crawl being so heavy. Poor kid
Tabitha 1 year ago
Maybe, maybe not. Back then being fat was seen as healthy and eating regularly. The tubby baby was the ideal. The man with the big belly and fat wife was seen as highly successful, because it’s obvious he eats well and regularly, as does his wife. It’s all old country b******t the old timers brought over on the boat and held with for a long time after they got here. Their kids and grandkids learned better, and broke with that mindset when it came to their health. My own grandparents were Slovene immigrants who came to the US in 1909-1910. Once my grandfather started getting successful, he encouraged y grandmother to not diet and to put on weight instead of losing it, because he was growing his belly, and the “man with the belly” with a skinny wife looks like he can only afford to feed himself well, and not his wife. Needless to say, my parents, my brothers and I, and our children didn’t fall into that mindset, didn’t stuff ourselves, and stayed slender and fit.
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J 1 year ago
my late father in law immigrated to the US via Ellis Island in 1920; he was Jewish from Ukraine (wounded as a soldier in WWI) and arrived in the US with a Polish passport; his name was ISAAC ZŁOCZOWER (Polish translation of Goldsmith) the immigration clerc on the Island asked him what job he was planning to obtain and he said: lawyer; the clerc said: with this name ? you will not succeed! Isaac asked: so what name a lawyer should have? the clerc: say Irving Slater; Isaac answered: so be it!
Skywitness 1 year ago
My sister worked in the Saudi Arabian healthcare system. She said that there were a high number of genetic defects caused by first cousins marrying. One condition she referred to was oversized children like this who she referred to as sumo babies.
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U.S. Marine 1st Lt. Hart H. Spiegal tries to communicate with two very young Japanese soldiers captured during the Battle of Okinawa, June 17, 1945.
Anikulapo 1 year ago
2 Japanese boys found during a battle against the Japanese, wearing a Japanese uniform, and it was known that the Japanese enlisted children. They took a wild guess.
Load More Replies... Vanessa Panerosa 1 year ago
How can a country send their most vulnerable in to the worst conditions imaginable?
Comfortably Numb 1 year ago
You're serious? That's your comparison?? What a sad person you are...sitting in your nice little house in the quiet suburbs of some redneck state. No wonder our country is doomed when people like you are so prolific.
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Anyone-for-tea? 1 year ago
I wondered if it meant $200 in today’s money as that seems like a high salary?
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PFD 1 year ago
This is a puzzling caption. At the time Ukraine was part of the USSR (7 million or so Ukrainians served in the Red Army during WWII). Is the caption supposed to mean that the woman was working in a Nazi POW camp, or what? Who's supposed to have been captured by whom?
Manana Man 1 year ago
Not sure, but I know that as the Wehrmacht swept eastward some people in Ukraine and other eastern European countries joined their side and fought the Russians. So maybe that explains it.
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Nikki Gross 1 year ago
I'm the youngest of 13 kids, I'm 47 years old and Gen X and my parents were from the Silent Generation. Mom's first born was my brother Richie born in 1956 and I was the last born in 1977. Mom came from a family of 10 kids and my Dad from 5, so they were both used to larger families.
nm (he/him) 1 year ago (edited)
I'm 72 y.o. and have only one sister. All married relatives had/have 1 or 2 children. You know, the human race runs no risk of extinction.
Load More Replies... Pandemonium 1 year ago
Why doesn't the caption read, "A woman and her husband..." ? She's the one who carried and birthed that brood.
Robin 1 year ago
This is such a weird way of captioning the picture, why not family of 15 from 1938?
Bexxxx 1 year ago
I think they wanted to mention 13 children specifically just to be clear
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Jennifer Brown 1 year ago
Part of the problem with our society is the huge families the poor and uneducated have. This family had no hope for ever climbing out of their current status, only perpetuating the cycle.
Crissy Newbury 1 year ago
My great grandmother on my mother’s side died of “exhaustion” aged 50. My grandfather was born in 1979.
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jonesnori 1 year ago
I'm not confident that it did work. That picture on the right looks like a forced smile, and we don't have much information there.
Load More Replies... ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
🎶I rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy 🎶
M McC 1 year ago
Are we to infer from this that lobotomies were somehow a good thing? WTF bored panda!
Rae Rory 1 year ago
Carrie Fisher swore by electroshock therapy. Sometimes extreme treatments help.
Load More Replies... Comfortably Numb 1 year ago
I wouldn't have a hard time believing they swapped the pictures before producing this, to falsely claim this is a wonder treatment that people should come pay them to perform. Immoral doctors have been around as long as disease's. Snake oil salesmen? Dr. whoever's wonder tonic? How about the surgeon not long ago who claimed to place plastic replacements into patients successfully, while skipping every aspect necessary to develop a new surgical procedure, killing many of his patients slowly and painfully. Don't believe everything people tell or show you. Deepfakes? Fabricated AI porn of someone you know? Come on people...
Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago
I'm glad I wasn't alive in the 40's. I may be schizophrenic and some days feel more like the picture on the left, but thankfully with modern medicines, I can feel like the right much more often than not, without needing a hole drilled into my head. *shudders*
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Sage da therian 1 year ago
Thr top right picture looks a bit like egg man from the sonic games
Emma S 1 year ago
Originally sentenced to 7 years for armed robbery in the 70's, his behaviour in prison- attacking and holding guards hostage- meant he kept getting time added onto his sentence and he's now been locked up for 50 years.
Porribix 1 year ago
He said he has to wear tinted glasses because he can't handle natural light
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Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago
The thirst and all that sounds bad but what would torture me would be not being able to sit down.
sofacushionfort 1 year ago
You can see he was standing on a pile of boards. Every day a few boards were removed, until he’d succumb from the collar at the top of the cage. Other variations had the condemned standing on sharp bamboo spikes.
J 1 year ago
I would like to see the one who invented this punishment to try it out himself: humans are the most cruel creatures in this world
Kathy 1 year ago
BP censors words about death and then allows horrible photos like this. What stupidity!
Craig Staley 1 year ago
He'll die of thirst or exposure well before he dies of starvation. This is a horrible way to die.
Jennifer Brown 1 year ago
and this is probably not good enough for some of the scumbags in our prisons
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PFD 1 year ago
He kept it up for those 5 months then when it seemed unlikely to stop, turned himself in - he realised that if he kept going, he'd have to stop just having fun and hoard money, leave the country, go into hiding etc. and he didn't want to do that. He was sentenced to a year in jail, another 18 months under a CCO and repayment of $250,000. After release he ended up working in bars again but told the press that it was an amazing time and he had no regrets about the whole thing.
Downunderdude 1 year ago
Sadly, there is no 'bank error in your favour'. It'd be very hard to prove you didn't believe that it was a mistake. It's fraud.
Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago
How do you not know they're going to come back and want that money? Did he honestly think it was just free money? People are dumb.
PFD 1 year ago
He knew it. He just thought, f**k it: how many people get the chance to live like this? And he said it was worth it.
Load More Replies... Marie Clear 1 year ago
And he's keeping the "free" going. I bet now he gets three free meals a day and his room and board are paid for. I wonder what he looks like in orange? (If there's any justice in the world.)
The explanation 1 year ago
See PFD's comment, they can explain it better than I could!
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Janice 1 year ago
Adultery requires at least two, right? Wonder what, if any, punishment her partner got into.
Comfortably Numb 1 year ago (edited)
He may have not been married, therefore did not commit adultery. It doesn't work the way you think it does, you can have sex with a married person who is commiting adultery, but that does not mean he committed adultery...unless he was married.
Load More Replies... J 1 year ago
same comment as above: "I would like to see the one who invented this punishment to try it out himself: humans are the most cruel creatures in this world"
Comfortably Numb 1 year ago
For this situation and crime, I agree. Not the same as murder obviously
Load More Replies... Charlene Wilbur 1 year ago
The problem with removing this is treating it like it didn't happen. Just because it hurts to see it doesn't mean it shouldn't be shared. Without knowledge of our past sins we are destined to commit them again.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Someone posted the childrens' stories the last time this picture was on BP. It didn't go well for any of them.
Marie Adamson 1 year ago
Here's the story behind that photo https://secretlifeofmom.com/children-for-sale-photo-1940s/?0ebp=ug5fmb
Sage da therian 1 year ago
Context: she did actually end up selling them, and a fifth she was pregnant with at the time because of financial reasons
ILoveMySon 1 year ago
So sad. I hope they were reunited when they grew up.
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Crystal Spencer 1 year ago
They say one of the kids was sold for $2 so the birth mom could have bingo money
Comfortably Numb 1 year ago
Dude, again? It was 1948, it didn't exist yet. These types of situations in addition to many others is WHY things like social services and CPS were invented in the first place
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