South African diamond miner being x-rayed at the end of his shift to prevent theft, 1954 (lemmy.world)
Aboriginal Australians used as forced labor by European settlers, 1902 (lemmy.world)
Woman strikes a Swedish neonazi with her handbag, 1985 (lemmy.world)
WW2 weekly ration of sugar, tea, margarine, 'national butter', lard, eggs, bacon and cheese for an adult in the UK, WW2, 1942 (media.kbin.social)
British engineer J. A. Purves in his 'Dynasphere' vehicle, 1932 (lemmy.world)
Construction worker at the Hoover Dam, USA, 1931
Secret service agents moments after the 1981 assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan. (lemmy.world)
Excerpt: On this day in 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest at the side entrance of the Washington Hilton on Connecticut Avenue by John Hinckley Jr. Reagan was walking to his limousine after a speech to AFL-CIO leaders when Hinckley, 25, who was standing among a group of reporters, fired six shots, hitting Reagan...
OJ Simpson freeway chase, 1994 (lemmy.world)
On June 17, 1994 celebrity and NFL player OJ Simpson had failed turn himself in to the LAPD in connection with the killing of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman....
POWER MOWER OF THE FUTURE, USA, 1957 (lemmy.world)
Color photo of a man and woman in Dagestan, 1904 (lemmy.world)
'Motormat' drive-in restaurant, Los Angeles, 1949 (lemmy.world)
Weekly wartime ration for two British civilians, excluding bread, fresh vegetables, and some canned goods, WW2, 1943 (lemmy.world)
The ISOLATOR, invention from 1925 (lemmy.world)
The Monowheel, Italy, 1933 (lemmy.world)
Two men posing with a 'Punt Gun', a kind of shotgun for hunting waterfowl in large quantities, 1923 (lemmy.world)
Pro-segregation rally in Arkansas, USA, 1960s
Jetpack test flight, Virginia, USA, 1969 (lemmy.world)
British blacksmith on an anti-slavery patrol boat removing leg irons from a freed slave off the coast of Mozambique, 1907 (lemmy.world)
Multi-cigarette holder, for rapid cancer acquisition, 1954 (lemmy.world)
Michael Dukakis tanks his presidential campaign, 1988 (lemmy.world)
Michael Dukakis was a Democrat candidate running for President in 1988. He had previously been criticized as being soft on national defense, so in September of that year he orchestrated a photo op in an M1 Abrams tank meant to toughen up his image....
The Texas Superconducting Super Collider under construction, 1990s. (lemmy.world)
Excerpt: The Texas Superconducting Super Collider would have dwarfed CERN’s LHC, according to reports. It was designed as an enormous underground ring complex situated close to Waxahachie and had it been allowed to go forward, would have been considered the most energetic particle accelerator in the world. The project’s...
Nazi shithead rally in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1938 (lemmy.world)
Two Imperial German sound locators for detecting airplanes, WW1, 1917 (lemmy.world)
'Knocker-Upper' in Britain, a method of waking people up for their work shifts before reliable/cheap alarm clocks, 1915 (lemmy.world)
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, high on acid at the 2000 Oscars. (lemmy.world)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Blame Canada”. The creaters, Matt Parker and Trey Stone decided that, “It’s a magical night tonight.”...
