Basically the opposite of the Sullivans then.

Get off his lawn

This is so very sad, can't begin to imagine what he felt

JFC! How did this survive the war? That's amazing!

Pretty sure I saw this at the time. Either Time Magazine or National Geographic but I remember seeing this in teh early '90s.

A very shameful part of US history.

Your nan was gorgeous

"Don't wanna."

One way to keep them quiet during the afternoon

wow, THAT I didn't know

Early terraforming. The Louisiana Parish where I grew up was completely terraformed during the 1930s so that there was no standing water anywhere ever. This was done in the name of mosquito prevention. The work was done by oxen powered graders and earth movers. Over the next 30 years the state paid to replant trees on every land that owners allowed so it was reforested. It is still very green today. Huey P. Long, Populism, and the Great Depression combined to make it happen.

Yup. Called the Denny Regrade, where they basically washed the hill into Elliott Bay. Seattle was originally built on seven hills, just like Rome and San Francisco. Fun Fact: All three cities suffered catastrophic fires.

During this time, the term graveyard shift came into being. They had to move a cemetery. People didn't like seeing it during the day so they moved it at night. Thus the Graveyard shift.

Anybody been to Seattle lately? I think the hills still won.

Flattening hills, did you say? Ever tried walking from Pike Place Mkt to 3rd and Union? These guys didn't finish the job! Having lived in Seattle and in San Francisco, I'll take San Fran any day!

They primarily used high pressure hoses to blast away the soil and dumped it in Puget Sound.

… that’s Sad

Man is so destructive. It makes me sad.

Still plenty of hills left!

And they haven't changed much since. They're made of plastic instead of wire now and they have the baby seat now. That's pretty much it. Sometimes an inventor nails it on the first try.

On sand, too. That's tough!

Who took this photo?

That's Ryszard Kuszłejko, Polish oppositionist during communist times in Poland. He's recording a punk concert so that he can then distribute the cassettes among young people. This was the only way for teenagers to listen to "rebel" music, as the Censorship Office would never allow them to record in a studio.

Operation Baby Lift. Only those babies were allowed which had already found adoptive parents in the US. Many celebrities donated their planes, notably Hugh Hefner's Big Bunny

I guarantee it wasn't the first time, just the first time in modern history. As far as the last time though, well they might have something there.

That's a little close for my taste thank you. In '53 they were still tickling the dragon's tail and had no idea what they were dealing with.

Apartheid South Africa was a blight upon the world. A rich white plutocracy owned everyone and treated the indigenous African population like second class citizens. And guess who was a teenager in SA in '84. Elon Musk. Silver spoon sucking MF grew up treating black people like sh*t and he hasn't changed.

That was some FAFO for whoever stole his shoes.

Ya know… ya think ya know a time period…

more than a hundred years ago....and there are people nowadays calling that fake or staged. Imagine that

They look like they take their snowball fights seriously

Look at his face, he can't believe his luck in getting this job

"Joseph Arridy (/ˈærɪdi/; April 29, 1915 – January 6, 1939)[1][2] was an American man who was falsely convicted and wrongfully executed for the 1936 rape and murder of Dorothy Drain, a 15-year-old girl in Pueblo, Colorado." This is why I'm against the death penalty in ALL cases.

Solidarity with all strikers worldwide ✊🏼

Really BP? We have to censor a baby's innocent bare butt now?

Correction: This is a publicity shot of Boeing's mockup of the interior from an initial design intended to be convertible between passenger and cargo aircraft (see the sliding grooves for removing the seats). This also explains the bizarre empty area at the front.

Yep, the 90s casual wear checks out

Salute or be hauled off and shot. NAZIs suck.

What a waste. Trophy hunters are scum

difficult to read, but this is my badly-interpreted version of it! Dear (name im not sure), i planned to write family news today but i guess the invasion comes first- the whistles woke me at 3am, we've been fooled 5 or 6 times recently with sirens (or i?) thought they had a (not sure) fire down town - the fire dept. was (unsure) and the boats in the harbour were all blowing their whistles- at 4am the air raid sirens went

"Fascinating Historical Photos That You Probably Haven’t Seen In History Books"? Well, yeah.

It's 8:15 And that's the time that it's always been We got your message on the radio Conditions normal and you're coming home Enola Gay Is mother proud of little boy today? Ah-ha, this kiss you give It's never ever going to fade away: Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark.

Excuse me while l go puke