A group of samurai visiting the Sphinx, 1864 (sh.itjust.works)
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Three men racing on rocket-powered bicycles, Berlin, Weimar Germany, 1929 (lemmy.world)
Passengers looking out of the Hindenburg Zeppelin, 1930s (lemmy.world)
Timber train bridge over Crooked River Gorge, Oregon, USA, late 19th century? (lemmy.world)
A man carrying many baskets on his head, Covent Garden, London, 1926-1927. (media.kbin.social)
25 baskets, to be precise, but I used the original caption.
East German guards carry away a refugee wounded by machine-gun fire after trying to escape East Berlin, 1971 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Bust of Stalin defaced during the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia - placard reading "Nothing lasts forever", 1989
A boy in front of the Loews 125th Street movie theater, 1976. (lemmy.world)
Source.
NYPD enter their temporary headquarters near the World Trade Center. New York, NY, September 13, 2001. Photo by Andrea Booher (lemmy.world)
Experimental WW2 Japanese fighter plane, the Kyushu J7W Shinden (files.catbox.moe)
The Shinden was a plane first conceptualized by the Japanese military in 1943, and first flown on a test flight in 1945. Even before the test flight, the Japanese Navy had ordered production of the plane. However Japan’s surrender in 1945 stopped production, and in the end only two of the planes were produced. One was...
French Soldiers in Tunnel, WW1 (1910s) (lemmy.world)
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/075dbccb-89c6-4584-b258-5ffbd83e22cb.webp
Yankee Claus giving toys to British children from his tank, Perham Downs, England, WW2, 1942 (media.kbin.social)
US soldiers sharing Christmas gifts from home, WW2, 1944. Merry Christmas, everyone! (media.kbin.social)
British soldiers carrying an inflatable decoy tank, post-WW2 (lemmy.world)
Color photo of Russian monks planting potatoes, 1910 (lemmy.world)
German spy pigeon with a time-activated camera, WW1, 1914-1918 (lemmy.world)
🎵 Stop that pigeon 🎵 🎵 Stop that pigeon 🎵
US Soldier and dog wearing gas masks during military exercises, West Germany, 1955 (lemmy.world)
Family working at the Bakalskii Iron Mines, Russia, 1910 (lemmy.world)
Patient in bed being 'fed' his daily cigarette ration, 1938 (lemmy.world)
Porter practicing for basket head-carrying championships (no, really!), London, 1925 (lemmy.world)
Captain Nieves Fernandez, Filipino guerilla leader and former school teacher, demonstrates to a US soldier how she used her long knife to kill Japanese occupying forces, WW2, 1944 (lemmy.world)
Solidarity in history, Yugoslavia, WW2, 1941 (lemmy.world)
American pilot Gail Halvorsen throws candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift, 1949 (lemmy.world)
Confederate submarine discovered by the US government in 1878. (lemmy.world)
Known as the “Bayou St. John submarine”, this vessel was discovered when the Bayou St. John, in New Orleans was dredged by the US Government in 1878. For years, the vessel was thought to be the Confederate submarine Pioneer, but research in the 20th century showed it was of a different design. There is no surviving...
