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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...
Just some relaxing decor (files.catbox.moe)
Before the prequels were released, what did you personally think the Clone Wars were like?
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...
Imperial AT-ATs from the 1980 comic adaptation of Empire Strikes Back (lemmy.world)
Art by Al Williamson, coloring by James Sinclair, lettering by Rick Veitch....
A boy in front of the Loews 125th Street movie theater, 1976. (lemmy.world)
Source.
Han Solo drawn in the Holiday Special style. It is nightmarishly glorious. (lemmy.world)
Original artist RADMANRB deviantart page. If you like the drawing please give them a star or comment.
NYPD enter their temporary headquarters near the World Trade Center. New York, NY, September 13, 2001. Photo by Andrea Booher (lemmy.world)
Art from the Star Wars Epic Duels game (lemmy.world)
Picture of the full box....
Original Revenge Of The Jedi teaser poster, by Drew Struzan (lemmy.world)
The title of the movie was changed to Return Of The Jedi before release, on George Lucas’ insistence because it made the Jedi sound too ominous and harsh....
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....
Boba Fett (lemmy.world)
Some Ralph Macquarie art of bounty hunters posing (lemmy.world)
Early speeder bike concept art, by Joe Johnston (lemmy.world)
That Voyager is one clean burning starship though, I’ll tell you what. (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...
'Death In The Air', presented by Betty Archer (lemmy.world)
This is from a collection of 34 photographs that were in a book about World War 1, ‘Death in the Air: The War Dairy and Photographs of a Flying Corps Pilot’ published in 1933....
Gorm The Dissolver (lemmy.world)
I was reading Tales From The Mos Eisley Cantina book, and this guy got mentioned. I had a hard time visualizing him, so I went to wookipedia to check him out....
Art by Mark Harrison (lemmy.world)
Live Fast, Die Young, And Leave A Greasy Corpse: A Review Of Greedo’s Story In Tales From The Mos Eisley Cantina (lemmy.world)
The book Tales The The Mos Eisley Cantina is an anthology published in 1995. It covers the lives and times of the various characters we glimpsed inside the Mos Eisley in A New Hope....
Boba Fett, by Alex Maleev (lemmy.world)
Source.
CSS Virginia (otherwise known as the Merrimack, Merrimac, or "Rebel Monster") (lemmy.world)
CSS Virginia was the first, but not last, steam-powered ironclad warship built by the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. It was constructed from the original lower hull and engines of the scuttled steam frigate USS Merrimack. CSS Virginia famously took part in the Battle of Hampton Roads, opposing the...
The immaculately conceived messiah (m.youtube.com)
Chewie going nuts on some stormtroopers, by Brian Rood.
Artist’s page.
Armored rail train car from the US Civil War. (lemmy.world)
A drawing made during the war of another armored train car:...