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Nerds of equal standing. (lemmy.world)
I am astounded that someone made this... (lemmy.world)
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...
Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?
Seeing the other post here about YouTuber that went downhill and seeing content creators I am familiar with makes me sad. But how about those that still makes great, high quality content?
Introducing the series?
My boyfriend knows absolutely nothing about the series other than that Natalie Portman is in the prequels. He wants to watch the prequels first - he likes her and is convinced you’re supposed to watch them in order....
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...
"My turn next!" Testing bulletproof vests, 1923
American-made M3 tank used by the British in the Burma Campaign, WW2, 1945 (media.kbin.social)
'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....
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...
US soldiers compare "Bazooka" sizes during the Korean War (lemmy.world)
The soldier on the left of the photo is holding an M20 series “Super Bazooka” which fires a 3.5 inch HEAT round, the M28 series , with a setback armed, base detonating fuse....
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....
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.”...
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....
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...