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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...
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...
British soldiers carrying an inflatable decoy tank, post-WW2 (lemmy.world)
Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, 1870s. (lemmy.world)
Excerpt: The Brooklyn Bridge has always been an icon. When its massive stone towers began rising in the early 1870s, photographers and illustrators began documenting what was considered the most daring and astounding engineering feat of the era....
Stand off between American and Soviet tanks in Berlin, 1961. (lemmy.world)
Quick wikipedia summary: Soon after the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961, a stand-off occurred between US and Soviet tanks on either side of Checkpoint Charlie....
Set phasers to fun (lemmy.world)
Godlike (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Damn it, Jim. (lemmy.world)
Force must be applied without apology - It's the Starfleet way. (lemmy.world)
The Picardo has spoken (lemmy.world)
Oh boy I love watching the adventures of Jainway (lemmy.world)
The first (coherent) underwater photo ever taken. 1899. (lemmy.world)
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Ancient hillside etching of a cat. Nazca-Pampa region, Peru. (lemmy.world)
Excerpt: Enormous cat etched into a hillside in the desert in Peru. Home to the geoglyphs of a hummingbird, a monkey, a spider and a human, the newly revealed form of the feline is about 37-meter-long, and expected to be dating back more than 2,000 years....
Mockups created in 1944 by the US government about how Hitler may have looked in disguise. (lemmy.world)
Excerpt: Towards the end of World War II, U.S. intelligence officials were afraid that the German dictator would flee Germany by assuming a disguise. By 1944 the world identified the man largely by his trademark toothbrush mustache and oily side-slicked hair, so they ordered his portrait to be cloned....
Punt gun for mass-hunting waterfowl in a, uh, punt, Britain, 1900-1912 (lemmy.world)
"Quaker guns" at Manassas Junction March 1862. (lemmy.world)
A Quaker gun is a deception tactic that was commonly used in warfare during the 18th and 19th centuries. Although resembling an actual cannon, the Quaker gun was simply a wooden log, usually painted black, used to deceive an enemy. Misleading the enemy as to the strength of an emplacement was an effective delaying tactic. The...
Why yes, Captain Kirk and Batman did share screen time together. (lemmy.world)
Both of them were in Alexander the Great, a TV pilot from 1963....
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