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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....
Modern blocks of C4 explosive come with the warning “poisonous if eaten” on the packaging (lemmy.world)
He suffered for our sins (lemmy.world)
Set phasers to fun (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...
The Vz 58 assault rifle can be directly reloaded with clips from the top. (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.”...
1995 San Diego tank chase (lemmy.world)
In 1995, Shawn Nelson, a former Army tank commander drove into a National Guard armory and stole an M60A3 tank. He drove the tank out of the armory, and onto residential streets where he began crushing things in his path. He drove the tank onto a highway and was pursued by a number of San Diego Police Department cars....
A divorced couple divides their Beanie Baby collection in court, 1999 (lemmy.world)
Full caption: Nov 5, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: Attorney Frank Totti looks over papers while his client Frances Mountain sorts out Beanie Babies with her ex-husband Harold Mountain in Judge Gerald Hardcastle’s Family Courtroom in Las Vegas November 5. The couple, who were divorced four months ago, were ordered to divide up...
The US Army experimented with digital camouflage as early as the 1970s. (lemmy.world)
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Audrey Hepburn, at the grocery store with her pet deer, 1958 (lemmy.world)
Source.
Battlestar Voyager (lemmy.world)
Has anyone here used a controller for the PC version of Rogue Squadron? Is it worth getting a controller? (lemmy.world)
This is one of my favorite games. I still occasionally play it on a Nintendo 64, but the N64 controller isn’t great and I can’t easily screen capture gameplay....
Art with a TIE “ugly”, a salvaged mix of a TIE Interceptor and Y-Wing components in the foreground. By John Nadeau (lemmy.world)
Get your spooky on (lemmy.world)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens concept art by Iain McCaig (lemmy.world)
For training, the US Army puts fake front cabins on Humvees to make them look like Soviet produced light vehicles. (lemmy.world)
Hot take, but I think World Devastators are neat. (lemmy.world)
I know Dark Empire is not everybody’s favorite story, but it does have some neato stuff....
The Best And Worst Star Wars Blasters
Star Wars is driven by aesthetics. Part of the look of the franchise that is front and center has always been the blasters....
Concept art for AT-ST, by Joe Johnston (lemmy.world)
I was looking through old Star Wars comics to see what might be interesting, and the classic Empire Strikes back adaption includes some bonus concept art in the back....
An M22 Locust light tank and a T28 Super heavy tank (lemmy.world)
The M22 Locust was a 7.4 ton light tank. It held a turret mounted 37mm cannon and a coaxial M1919A6 machinegun. It was developed by the US at the request of the British military, and used by the British near the end of WW2....
Just some relaxing decor (files.catbox.moe)
USS Monitor (lemmy.world)
The USS Monitor was an ironclad warship used by the Union Navy during the US Civil War. It was a radical design that sat low on the waterline to present a very small target, and had a revolving turret rather than a broadside battery. The turret traversed with steam power, being about to make a full rotation in just under 23...