madnaths, I love your posts. Please post more intresting stuff :3
[QUOTE=Mindfuck 2;37469048]this looks extremely shopped.[/QUOTE]
Late reply, but to answer two things:
Yes, it is Teddy Roosevelt
Yes, it is real.
[img]http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/spanwar/san-juan-trenches-7-1-1898.jpg[/img]
US Soldiers sitting in a trench facing the Spanish Blockhouse of San Juan Hill before the charge.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/28/SanJuanHeightsUSArmyJuly1898VictorsKettleHill.jpg[/img]
Some of the same soldiers that survived stand on top of the hill with Theodore Roosevelt.
[QUOTE=madnath619;37485967]badass stuff[/QUOTE]
I remember hearing about that town on a news segment one day, but I never knew that only 10 people resided there.
[QUOTE=madnath619;37485967]42 winner ratings later, I intend to up that number! So, I present to you....
Centralia! Located in Pennsylvania!
Hmmm? What's that? Oh, you're asking me what's so special about this place? Well, it's pretty much Silent Hill but real. Let me explain, in 1981 this town had about 1,000 residents. As of 2010, 10 people reside in this town.
"....So, you're just telling us about a slightly populated ghost town?"
Not quite, the towns had twist is this: Underground, a massive mine fire is currently burning away. As of yet, we still don't know exactly what did cause the fires, but they still rage on today. The fires even caused the town of Byrnesville to become a ghost town. Beginning in 1980, dangerous health hazards were reported by several people due to the byproducts of the fire, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and a lack of healthy oxygen levels.
Taken from wikipedia:
"In 1979, locals became aware of the scale of the problem when a gas-station owner and then mayor, John Coddington, inserted a stick into one of his underground tanks to check the fuel level. When he withdrew it, it seemed hot, so he lowered a thermometer down on a string and was shocked to discover that the temperature of the gasoline in the tank was 172 °F (77.8 °C). Statewide attention to the fire began to increase, culminating in 1981 when a 12-year-old resident named Todd Domboski fell into a sinkhole four feet wide by 150 feet (46 m) deep that suddenly opened beneath his feet in a backyard. His cousin, 14-year-old Eric Wolfgang, in pulling Todd out of the hole saved Todd's life, as the plume of hot steam billowing from the hole was measured as containing a lethal level of carbon monoxide."
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/39576300/Facepunch/Centralia.jpg[/img][img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/39576300/Facepunch/Centralia2.jpg[/img]
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/39576300/Facepunch/Centralia3.jpg[/img][img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/39576300/Facepunch/Centralia4.jpg[/img]
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/39576300/Facepunch/Centralia5.jpg[/img]
Hmmm, I just noticed how short this is. It'll be bigger next time, I promise.[/QUOTE]
It's really not that special. I drive through there are least once a week.
[QUOTE=TheCloak;37496135]It's really not that special. I drive through there are least once a week.[/QUOTE]
If you see it every day, of course it's not special to you.
[QUOTE=TheCloak;37496135]It's really not that special. I drive through there are least once a week.[/QUOTE]
Try see it from my point of view, I view some pictures of Post-apocalyptic style, then I read the text and get to know it's an never ending fire which breaks the roads and shit...
Yepp, just another ordinary day.
[QUOTE=TheCloak;37496135]It's really not that special. I drive through there are least once a week.[/QUOTE]
To be fair, kids who swim with dolphins or live in tropical areas probably look at you like an idiot when you're mesmerized by the wildlife
[QUOTE=slamex;37507327]To be fair, kids who swim with dolphins or live in tropical areas probably look at you like an idiot when you're mesmerized by the wildlife[/QUOTE]
I live in Mystic CT where we have one of the worlds last bascule type bridges with two huge weights that are about 230 tons each. Now when the bridge goes up, these go from 50 to about 5 feet from the ground. Tourists are always gawking at it when I'm down at the ice cream shop right in front of it. (It goes from [url=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Mystic_River_Bascule_Bridge_counterweight.JPG]this[/url] to [url=http://i.imgur.com/b7hWf.jpg]further than this[/url].)
It's weird to realize that my whole life I've been living in a beautiful vacation spot with a lot of history but I never realized.
[QUOTE=kaine123;37515450]
It's weird to realize that my whole life I've been living in a beautiful vacation spot with a lot of history but I never realized.[/QUOTE]
ohh yeah? Time to do some homework ^_^ care to spill some details about the bridge? :3
[QUOTE=Mr Shadyface;37048981]See know I didn't know America used conscription at the time. I was under the impression they all went willingly.
So yes. poor fucking bastards. War is hell.[/QUOTE]
Yeah no, that is still no excuse.
A lot of volunteers get suckered in with the promise of fame, glory, money, or just a chance to get relief from the hell of living in the States and being poor.
I know a man who volunteered because he wanted to escape his rough childhood. He never tells stories about his service though, probably to sad for him to recall, so I don't pressure him to.
I also know my Uncle served in Beirut, and one of his best friends traded his post with him. He was supposed to be stationed in the barracks but his friend switched for him to be outside. The barracks was attacked and blown up, and my Uncle survived while his friend died.
[QUOTE=BananaFoam;37518615]Yeah no, that is still no excuse.
A lot of volunteers get suckered in with the promise of fame, glory, money, or just a chance to get relief from the hell of living in the States and being poor.
I know a man who volunteered because he wanted to escape his rough childhood. He never tells stories about his service though, probably to sad for him to recall, so I don't pressure him to.
I also know my Uncle served in Beirut, and one of his best friends traded his post with him. He was supposed to be stationed in the barracks but his friend switched for him to be outside. The barracks was attacked and blown up, and my Uncle survived while his friend died.[/QUOTE]
My grandfather joined the Marines to escape his father from beating him every other day. To him, fighting in Korea was a better life than living at home.
And in the Marines is where he ended up meeting my grandmother so I guess it turned out pretty well.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;37527968]My grandfather joined the Marines to escape his father from beating him every other day. To him, fighting in Korea was a better life than living at home.
And in the Marines is where he ended up meeting my grandmother so I guess it turned out pretty well.[/QUOTE]
Did he ever come back to the father for revenge, or did he just leave him for ever?
Photos that Shook the World v1: General war discussion thread
[QUOTE=proch;37549178]Did he ever come back to the father for revenge, or did he just leave him for ever?[/QUOTE]
He occasionally went back to see his parents. His mother didn't beat him, after all. His mother usually looked out for him and his brother.
My grandfather and his brother are twins, even in old age they look almost exact. In their teen years, my grandfather had accidently (or so he says) started quite a forest fire near their home. The sheriff came over to their house about it because there was apparently a witness who saw him. His mother convinced him that her son was home all day and proved it by showing him and by pointing out the neighbors had seen him in the backyard. That of course, was my great uncle. :v:
[img]http://www.kingsacademy.com/mhodges/03_The-World-since-1900/07_World-War-Two/pictures/1939_Germans-remove-border-post.jpg[/img]
German soldiers taking apart a border crossing post between Germany and Poland.
[img]http://www.soviethistory.org/images/Large/1939/sgmeet.jpg[/img]
German and Soviet soldiers sharing cigarettes as they meet together in Poland.
[QUOTE=Hamburgers;37469750]..........in the same way very few people know of the internment camps in the USA[/QUOTE]
Really, here in San Francisco it's what our history classes feel the need to touch upon. which don't get me wrong, is important, but not enough to the point that we disregard things like the Rape of Nanking:
[IMG]http://padresteve.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/nanking-massacre-rape-of-nanking-killing-children.jpg[/IMG]
or the Khmer Rouge:
[IMG]http://latitudes.nu/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/skulls_khmer_rouge.jpg[/IMG]
Though I do suppose it's a case of proximity.
The book "The Rape of Nanking" should be required reading for history classes. A lot of people don't realize how brutal the pacific theater really was.
-edit: sry-
Felt like these belong here
[img]http://www.globalpost.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/gp3_fullpage/frontline1.jpeg[/img]
[quote]From left to right: Issa Aiash, 30, father of three, his young brother Ahmed, 17, and Sheihk Mamoud, 42, father of a newborn son, laugh and joke as they clean their post Saturday. (Tracey Shelton - GlobalPost)[/quote]
[img]http://www.globalpost.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/gp3_fullpage/frontline2.jpeg[/img]
[quote]A call comes through that a tank was spotted nearby. The men immediately grab weapons. (Tracey Shelton - GlobalPost)[/quote]
[img]http://www.globalpost.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/gp3_fullpage/frontline3.jpeg[/img]
[quote]Within seconds the tank blast has already hit. (Tracey Shelton - GlobalPost)[/quote]
[img]http://www.globalpost.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/gp3_fullpage/frontline4.jpeg[/img]
[quote]Debris and smoke fill the street around 30 meters back - covering me and the camera in dust. (Tracey Shelton - GlobalPost)[/quote]
[img]http://www.globalpost.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/gp3_fullpage/frontline5.jpeg[/img]
[quote]This man was the only survivor. (Tracey Shelton - GlobalPost)[/quote]
[img]http://www.globalpost.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/gp3_fullpage/frontline6.jpeg[/img]
[quote]He escaped with injuries. (Tracey Shelton - GlobalPost)[/quote]
[img]http://www.globalpost.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/gp3_fullpage/frontline7.jpeg[/img]
[quote]It took several minutes before the dust cleared enough to check for more survivors, but there was nothing we could do. (Tracey Shelton - GlobalPost)[/quote]
[QUOTE=PC_Paul;37581712][img]http://www.globalpost.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/gp3_fullpage/frontline4.jpeg[/img][/QUOTE]
is......is the red blood from his arm being blown off, or is that his shirt, or both?
shirt
^ To the post with the guys being hit by the tank.
Holy fucking shit
This, my friends, is the last picture ever taken of Der Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler.
[IMG]http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/2541115510-a540a68c90.jpg[/IMG]
London should have a statue of the guy that killed hitler
[QUOTE=Hamburgers;37601213]London should have a statue of the guy that killed hitler[/QUOTE]
A statue of Hitler?
I don't think that would go down too well.
[QUOTE=st0rmforce;37601293]A statue of Hitler?
I don't think that would go down too well.[/QUOTE]
Just say it's ironic and stick a coffee shop under it
Bam, instant hipster goldmine
[QUOTE=kaze4159;37601575]Just say it's ironic and stick a coffee shop under it
Bam, instant hipster goldmine[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbahg88kKx1qa4mo7o1_400.jpg[/IMG]