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colorized photo of US Marine LVTs wading ashore at Iwo Jima
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Perhaps the most unusual naval battle in history was the Battle of Texel - where French cavalry defeated Dutch warships. An unusually cold winter caused the bay to freeze, and the French cavalry simply rode out on to the ice and surrounded the ships.
It wasn't exactly a defeat, the Dutch fleet had already received orders to offer no resistance. A few French hussars crossed the ice to negotiate a handover.
There were a few battles of Texel during the Anglo-Dutch war and it has a lot of nice paintings.
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This is the Battle of Texel in 1673. It was a battle between the Dutch republic and the combined French and English fleet. The Dutch had 75 warships, the French-English fleet 92. The French-English fleet tried to land soldiers on the shore, but suffered a defeat instead. Thus the end of the third Anglo-Dutch war.
man crushed by falling column, pompeii
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Honestly this guy probably got it lucky compared to the people who were buried alive in ash or burned to death in the pyroclastic flow.
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A Maderista fights in the streets of Mexico City during the ‘Ten Tragic Days’ of Feb. 1913.
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In the right conditions, when water freezes in dead wood it can create ‘hair ice’. (Image: Ronaldhuizer)
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Swedish neighbourhood watch sign. Growing up in a rural area with dense forests surrounding smaller communities of houses I've seen these signs pretty much everywhere and despite seeing it a few thousand times I still like the design of the crowbar being broken in two.
The text on the bottom right is inhabitants, property owners and insurance companies.
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Here's a sign for a protection-object (in this case a military one) citing the Protection Law of 2010 and that access without permission, photography, and surverying of the object is prohibited. A protection-object can be anything between a single structure to an entire military base and its surrounding forest.
This past week I was on my honeymoon in Cape May, New Jersey which is the southern most city in the state. There are hundreds of old victorian homes, as it was the "first sea resort in the nation". Many of the houses are 150 years old or more. These are all pictures I took just along the beach. There are tons more within the city as well. Majority of them are beach houses or Bed & Breakfasts. My wife and I stayed at one that was a B&B (not shown), and the goal of the owners was to make it as "period accurate" as possible, with one of them having a degree in historic building restoration. I'll post pictures of our suite later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_May%2C_New_Jersey
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Good lord, those houses are fucking massive
The B&Bs usually have 7 to 10 suites in them. Ours was a small one, with only 5
Hah, I scrolled right down to the pictures and was thinking "these buildings look so Jersey shore. Like Wildwood but for people with more money. It's probably Cape May."
What beautiful houses. Most of the Victorians in my town have been converted to businesses which I think is a shame, but at least it keeps them standing.
They look like the typical halloween haunted houses/frat parties house
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Members of the Irish National Army and the possibly the CID during the Civil War, a War that I'm willing to bet a fair few of you have never heard of, despite causing a similar amount of casualties to the Anglo-Irish War. The War was one of the first wars that saw the use of effective Armoured Cars, and also highlighted the dangers of Street Fighting, something that Along with experiences during the Anglo-Irish War would shape British tactics during the Second World War.
The War also shapes Irish and Northern Irish politics to this day.
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Its weird to see what are effectively home made guns being semi or fully automatic.
When I think of a gun built out of scrap metal plating with limited tools I think of simple things like pipe shotguns or single shot rifles/revolvers but to consider that there are designs simple enough that someone with a reasonable amount of knowhow can make up from scrap parts that 70 years ago were new and advanced is certainly food for thought.
To be honest the blowback Sten-type guns were considered crude even in their day, it was more a matter of "why did nobody think of this before" than "oh my god the future is now"
74 Years ago allied soldiers would begin landing on the beaches of Normandy, with the Paratroopers landing hours earlier
American troops of the 1st Infantry Division leaving the port of Weymouth, England en route to Omaha Beach in Normandy - June 1944
Photo by Robert Capa
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Some 15,000 flood damaged cars sit on the disused runway of Calverton Executive Airpark in New York state, January 2013. These vehicles were recovered from Hurricane Sandy, and are the most intact of the 230,000 cars estimated to have been damaged during the storm. The vast majority of these vehicles were either scrapped, sold for parts, and some were even sold as is to the public.
Calverton Executive Airpark has had a strange and colorful history beyond this, originally being founded as a Grumman aircraft plant in 1956 an also served as the staging ground for recovery efforts of the wreckage of TWA Flight 800.
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The first Sherman in U.S. service, the M4A1, appeared in the North Africa Campaign. Here one of the 7th Army lands at Red Beach 2 on July 10, 1943 during the Allied invasion of Sicily.
For a moment I thought it was an inflatable sherman tank
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I made a fractal program a long time ago and yesterday I decided to add color support. Now I'm kicking myself for not adding it sooner:
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First one looks like an unfinished puzzle set
Isn't it literally the fractal from the Jurassic Park book?
No it's a different fractal. The one you're thinking of is the Heighway Dragon.
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