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RyeMeadow, in Imperial German cavalryman with lance and gas mask, WW1, 1918

Can you imagine if they gave the horse a gas mask too? Would be even cooler

PugJesus,
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There are definitely WW1 horse gas masks out there, I'll see if I can dig a good one up.

DrownedRats,
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Your commitment to archeology is truly inspiring!

PugJesus,
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I have a theoretical degree in internet archeology o7

GONADS125,

You never linked it to them after you found it!

GONADS125,

lemmy.world/…/ff7374d5-709b-477d-9e47-862a4452492…

OP found the photo but didn’t link it to you.

Salamendacious, in Imperial German cavalryman with lance and gas mask, WW1, 1918
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A horse, a lance, and a gas mask? WW1 was crazy!

PugJesus,
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The lance is actually interesting too - it's not traditional, not a wooden pole with a metal head. It's all-metal - a hollow tube of rolled steel.

Salamendacious,
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It’s wild to think that a soldier with a javelin or spear on horseback was an incredibly important component of warfare for thousands of years and it all ended, historically speaking, 5 seconds ago.

money_loo, in Geronimo driving a brand new Locomobile Model C, 1905

It’s weird when you zoom in it looks almost more like a piece of art than a photograph.

sab, (edited )
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I suspect it could be from an old postcard, which might indeed have had some artistic retouching done to improve upon the original photograph. If so, the version hosted on Wikimedia might be more true to the original. :)

Nastybutler, in Passengers looking out of the Hindenburg Zeppelin, 1930s

He didn’t have his papers

darvocet,

“No papers.”

PugJesus, in Zhen Zhenhua, arrested (sentenced to death?) for 'sodomy hooliganism', People's Republic of China, 1970s?
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afunkysongaday,

Your source kinda says the opposite of what your title says. Different name, was arrested this time for raping a kid, not sentenced for death but committed suicide and even showing that while “sodomy” was illegal you would not get the death penalty for it.

PugJesus,
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Your source kinda says the opposite of what your title says. Different name, was arrested this time for raping a kid, not sentenced for death but committed suicide and even showing that while “sodomy” was illegal you would not get the death penalty for it.

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Chinese society towards homosexuality, it was concluded that the level of acceptance was high and discrimination It is not common. For example, Zhang Zaizhou's book "The Ambiguous Process" refined China's attitude towards homosexuality into the word "ambiguous". But this was not the case after 1949. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, homosexuality was regarded as a "feudal remnant" and was eradicated from China's public discourse space along with polygamy, prostitution and other unmarried and abnormal sexual behaviors. Records of homosexuality during the Mao era are sparse and fragmented. At the same time, relevant agencies also began to persecute anyone who participated in homosexual behavior. Participants in homosexual behavior were accused of sodomy or hooliganism. It is not uncommon to see situations similar to those of Chen Baoping, Zhu Shouqing, and Zhu Zhenhua in the files I have seen. Some people were shot for anal sex. Zhu Zhenhua, who is kneeling in the top picture, has a cross on his name. This cross may represent a personal insult to the prisoner, or another possibility is that the cross was placed on his name only when he was executed.

EsteemedRectangle, in Passengers looking out of the Hindenburg Zeppelin, 1930s

Nothing like a splendid view of New Jersey to enjoy this finest blend of aged tobacc-

Assman,
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-oh the humanity!

joel1974, in Rail passengers listening to the radio through personal headphones, 1930

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  • EsteemedRectangle,

    Yeah, I was thinking… given the year in the caption, these people are wealthy. Rich? yes. Asshole? Probably

    Laticauda, (edited ) in Multi-cigarette holder, for rapid cancer acquisition, 1954

    I’ve honestly never understood how some people can think that smoking looks attractive. All I can ever think about when I see someone smoking is that smell 🤮. I’m sorry smokers, but y’all smell so fucking bad.

    PeWu,

    The smell also clings to clothes, it’s that bad

    Buddahriffic, in Multi-cigarette holder, for rapid cancer acquisition, 1954

    I don’t think smoking 20 cigarettes at once through that will result in 20x the effect of one smoke (even ignoring the fact that one isn’t lit). You can only pull in so much from your mouth, and with the resistance a single cigarette gives to pulling air through it, you’d probably get to no extra resistance after just a few of them, after which everything is just burning a bit slower when you take a drag unless you suck harder. But they all remain lit (except for the one), so they are burning up at their normal idle rate.

    In effect, after maybe 3 or 4 of them, you’re just wasting cigarettes and creating more second hand smoke.

    I suggest instead to take a little bit of tobacco from one of the cigarettes and put it at the bottom of a bowl of weed. You’ll get that smoker head rush the first few times you do it, but eventually you get used to it, so save it for special occasions. Or just throw out the cigarettes because that smoker head rush isn’t that big of a deal.

    m0darn,

    I don’t know how much resistance there is in a cigarette, but this contraption would reduce the resistance.

    Buddahriffic,

    The pressure would be spead out among them all, but you still need to suck to create that pressure. If you take a normal drag, it just takes a tiny bit from each of them. You could suck in more with the same force, or increase the force to get even more, so I guess it’s not like it’s doing nothing at all. But I realize now my first post was based on the premise of “why would you want to get more smoke, one cigarette is enough or too much”, which is the whole point of that thing, so maybe I’m the idiot for thinking too much about it.

    Chainweasel, in Geronimo driving a brand new Locomobile Model C, 1905

    He was also a prisoner of war at this time and was rented out by the office of Indian affairs for events, like parades and fairs.

    PugJesus,
    @PugJesus@kbin.social avatar

    was rented out by the office of Indian affairs

    Didn't know this. Words escape me.

    sab,
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    He participated in a parade in Washington in relation to Roosevelt's second inauguration. This landed him an audience with the President, in which he asked for the pardon of himself and his fellow prisoners of war. Roosevelt rejected him personally.

    He was happy to parade him in front of the nation as a symbol of national unity though.

    PugJesus,
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    Was it supposed to be a symbol of national unity? It seems more like a humiliation, considering that at the time Geronimo was still quite infamous.

    sab, (edited )
    @sab@kbin.social avatar

    I have understood the parade to be supposed to symbolise that the hatchet was buried and that all peoples of the nation rallied behind the republican idea of America. But I'm by no means a historian - would love to hear a more enlightened take on it!

    PugJesus,
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    I'm not well-informed on the parade myself, just seems odd to include Geronimo as a uniting symbol at the time.

    sab, (edited )
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    I guess it's also a period in which people were going crazy about Buffalo Bill's Wild West show - it's a strange period of history in which the glorification and mythification of the past started before the dust had even settled.

    chuckleslord,

    Google is being real dumb and not finding anything on this. You gotta source I could read? Would love to read it

    skeezix, in Test pilot George Aird ejecting from his Lightning F1 aircraft, 1962 (he lived)

    What’s the guy on the tractor looking at?

    stoy,

    Probably the aircraft about to crash.

    BluJay320,
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    Probably just a squirrel

    Annoyed_Crabby,

    Probably just the wind.

    TIN,

    Probably the field he just ploughed

    kaboom36, (edited )

    The field he just ploughed that’s about to have a fighter jet sized crater in it…

    creditCrazy,
    @creditCrazy@lemmy.world avatar

    You probably have never been under a fighter jet before. Hell even f13s flying normally catch me off guard. Just out of nowhere the fuckin sky just randomly goes KABOOM. Imagine one of those crashing right behind you. I almost guarantee you if you were that man you to would be turning around to see what is making that deafining sound that’s rattling your entire body.

    sab, in Ordinary car crash, Boston, USA, 1938
    @sab@kbin.social avatar

    Reminds me of this classic from Montparnasse, 1895!

    muse,
    @muse@kbin.social avatar

    Hope everyone in that photo is doing okay!

    ivanafterall,
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    I'm happy to inform you everyone survived and they're all alive and well. It looked worse than it was.

    Linkerbaan, in Multi-cigarette holder, for rapid cancer acquisition, 1954
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    Hot woman in mono colors? r/oldschool cool time😎

    bingbong,

    Grandma sure was hot >!before she got cancer at the ripe old age of 24!<

    ma11en, in Ordinary car crash, Boston, USA, 1938

    It took them another 10 years to move the vehicle assembly line to the ground floor.

    Rocketpoweredgorilla,
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    They were selling so fast they had to push them out the windows as well as the doors to keep the assembly lines moving.

    cabron_offsets, in "Stalin For World Peace", Communist Party of Great Britain march, 1936

    lolbruh, the irony.

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