[QUOTE=shian;52214184]Eh, its difficult comparing Singapore to other countries. Most cities in other countries are hundreds of years old, and you got alot of bureaucratic red tapes preventing all these fancy stuff being build. You really need a government who gives no shit and just want everything best for its economy, aka Singapore. This was what its like in the 60s:
Took like 50 years to look like that.
But, it was like your typical South East Asian developing shithole back then, I'm glad it changed for the better.
[editline]11th May 2017[/editline]
If you ever visit Singapore, hit me up, I'll be sure to be your tour guide.[/QUOTE]
i want to go to the singapore grand prix one day so maybe i'll hit you up on that
the fucking marina bay sands are such a beautiful building
[QUOTE=Zombii;52214416]i want to go to the singapore grand prix one day so maybe i'll hit you up on that
the fucking marina bay sands are such a beautiful building[/QUOTE]
Its easy to go up without paying.
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[img]https://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1917-halifax-explosion.jpg[/img]
[t]https://novascotia.ca/news/smr/media/2009-12-04-archives/wrecked-homes.jpg[/t]
[quote]The Halifax Explosion was a maritime disaster in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on the morning of 6 December 1917. SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship laden with high explosives, collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo in Halifax Harbor. A fire on board the French ship ignited her cargo, causing a large explosion that devastated the Richmond district of Halifax. Approximately 2,000 people were killed by blast, debris, fires and collapsed buildings, and an estimated 9,000 others were injured. The blast was the largest man-made explosion prior to the development of nuclear weapons, releasing the equivalent energy of roughly 2.9 kilotons of TNT.[/quote]
[quote]Mont-Blanc was under orders from the French government to carry her cargo of high explosives from New York via Halifax to Bordeaux, France. At roughly 8:45 am, she collided at low speed – approximately one knot (1 to 1.5 miles per hour or 1.6 to 2.4 kilometres per hour) – with the unladen Imo, chartered by the Commission for Relief in Belgium to pick up a cargo of relief supplies in New York. The resulting fire aboard the French ship quickly grew out of control. Approximately 20 minutes later at 9:04:35 am, Mont-Blanc exploded.[/quote]
[quote]Nearly all structures within an 800-metre radius, including the entire community of Richmond, were obliterated. A pressure wave snapped trees, bent iron rails, demolished buildings, grounded vessels, and scattered fragments of Mont-Blanc for kilometers. Hardly a window in the city proper survived the blast. Across the harbor, in Dartmouth, there was also widespread damage. A tsunami created by the blast wiped out the community of Mi'kmaq First Nations people who had lived in the Tuft's Cove area for generations.[/quote]
[quote]Relief efforts began almost immediately, and hospitals quickly became full. Rescue trains began arriving from across eastern Canada and the north-eastern United States, but were impeded by a blizzard. Construction of temporary shelters to house the many people left homeless began soon after the disaster. The initial judicial inquiry found Mont-Blanc to have been responsible for the disaster, but a later appeal determined that both vessels were to blame. There are several memorials to the victims of the explosion in the North End of Halifax [/quote]
[quote]Many of the wounds inflicted by the blast were permanently debilitating, such as those caused by flying glass or by the flash of the explosion. Thousands of people had stopped to watch the ship burning in the harbor, many from inside buildings, leaving them directly in the path of glass fragments from shattered windows. Roughly 5900 eye injuries were reported, and 41 people lost their sight permanently.[/quote]
[quote]In 1918, Halifax sent a Christmas tree to the City of Boston in thanks and remembrance for the help that the Boston Red Cross and the Massachusetts Public Safety Committee provided immediately after the disaster. That gift was revived in 1971 by the Lunenburg County Christmas Tree Producers Association, who began an annual donation of a large tree to promote Christmas tree exports as well as acknowledge Boston's support after the explosion. The gift was later taken over by the Nova Scotia Government to continue the goodwill gesture as well as to promote trade and tourism. The tree is Boston's official Christmas tree and is lit on Boston Common throughout the holiday season. In deference to its symbolic importance for both cities, the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources has specific guidelines for selecting the tree.[/quote]
And that's why The Boston Christmas Tree is a thing.
Holy hell. I have never heard of this, that's terrifying.
[QUOTE=Grenadiac;52221350]Holy hell. I have never heard of this, that's terrifying.[/QUOTE]
It's a pretty crazy story, there's alot more to it that I didn't post but here's some more pictures and information.
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[quote]A clock found in the rubble, the time of the explosion etched in its face[/quote]
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[img]http://exhibits.hsl.virginia.edu/hist-images/halifax/9.eyeinjuries.jpg[/img]
[quote]The many eye injuries led to better understanding on the part of physicians of how to care for damaged eyes, and "with the recently formed Canadian National Institute for the Blind, Halifax became internationally known as a centre for care for the blind", according to Dalhousie University professor Victoria Allen.The lack of coordinated pediatric care in such a disaster was also noted by a surgeon from Boston named William Ladd who had arrived to help. His insights from the explosion are generally credited with inspiring him to pioneer the specialty of pediatric surgery in North America.[/quote]
[quote]Many people in Halifax at first believed the explosion to be the result of a German attack. The Halifax Herald continued to propagate this belief for some time, for example reporting that Germans had mocked victims of the explosion. While John Johansen, the Norwegian helmsman of Imo, was being treated for serious injuries sustained during the explosion, it was reported to the military police that he had been behaving suspiciously. Johansen was arrested on suspicions of being a German spy when a search turned up a letter on his person, supposedly written in German. It turned out that the letter was actually written in Norwegian.Immediately following the explosion, most of the German survivors in Halifax had been rounded up and imprisoned. Eventually the fear dissipated as the real cause of the explosion became known, although rumours of German involvement persisted[/quote]
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[quote]The death toll could have been worse had it not been for the self-sacrifice of an Intercolonial Railway dispatcher, Patrick Vincent (Vince) Coleman, operating at the railyard about 750 feet (230 m) from Pier 6, where the explosion occurred. He and his co-worker, William Lovett, learned of the dangerous cargo aboard the burning Mont-Blanc from a sailor and began to flee. Coleman remembered, however, that an incoming passenger train from Saint John, New Brunswick, was due to arrive at the railyard within minutes. He returned to his post alone and continued to send out urgent telegraph messages to stop the train. Several variations of the message have been reported, among them this from the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic: "Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbor making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys." Coleman's message was responsible for bringing all incoming trains around Halifax to a halt. It was heard by other stations all along the Intercolonial Railway, helping railway officials to respond immediately.Passenger Train No. 10, the overnight train from Saint John, is believed to have heeded the warning and stopped a safe distance from the blast at Rockingham, saving the lives of about 300 railway passengers. Coleman was killed at his post as the explosion ripped through the city. He was honoured with a Heritage Minute in the 1990s and inducted into the Canadian Railway Hall of Fame in 2004.[/quote]
Vince Coleman is a true hero.
[media]https://youtu.be/rw-FbwmzPKo[/media]
horse with naturally curly hair
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[QUOTE=Bbarnes005;52207655]Isn't that the movie that basically gave birth to the modern dystopia?
Also did HG Wells write any other books outside of War of the Worlds and The Time Machine because that's the only two I've heard of by him. I also know he did a few short stories.[/QUOTE]
i recently watched a doco about the radio play of war of the worlds by the other welles. really interesting stuff. real handsome guy too.
[editline]13th May 2017[/editline]
[QUOTE=Arc Nova;52182083]I get to look outside and see this
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_of_Louisbourg[/url][/QUOTE]
holy shit arc, thats fucking beautiful. i would wake up every day, look out my window and cry if i lived there.
if you come there they will let you fire a musket and a cannonball
[img]http://i.imgur.com/3zrHB7b.jpg[/img]
Picture of the employees at a Cadillac dealer/service station circa 1918. My great grandfather is the man in the suit on the right. Found around 18 other pictures taken by a professional photographer on his behalf of the facility he worked at.
[QUOTE=bigbadbarron;52224360][img]http://i.imgur.com/3zrHB7b.jpg[/img]
[/QUOTE]
"Hitler and his Gestapo brownshirts arresting several Jewish doctors in front of a hospital in Stuttgart, 1938."
it's kind of fascinating how "shirt, suit and tie" hasn't really gone out of fashion for 100+ years.
[QUOTE=bigbadbarron;52224360][img]http://i.imgur.com/3zrHB7b.jpg[/img]
Picture of the employees at a Cadillac dealer/service station circa 1918. My great grandfather is the man in the suit on the right. Found around 18 other pictures taken by a professional photographer on his behalf of the facility he worked at.[/QUOTE]
That guy furthest to the left on the bottom row looks like Eddie Murphy
Middle dude looks like a Jewish Hitler.
[QUOTE=download;52225445]Middle dude looks like a Jewish Hitler.[/QUOTE]
Well before Hitler came along that actually used to be a fairly popular way to style a mustache, not so sure about the hair though.
Terraced River Valley, Vietnam
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[QUOTE=shian;52209260]We have this neat modern building just outside the city center, everyone calls it the batman building, gotham building, wayne tower because, well, it looks like a place batman will stay:[/QUOTE]
Goddamn, this is amazing. Y'all are doing something right.
You're seriously a few dirigibles, modernist philosophers and some streamlined steam away from my fetishisized idea of a utopia
[QUOTE=nox;52226282]Terraced River Valley, Vietnam
[img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/86/ca/36/86ca36194ef85ba51eed7de2aa036543.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
The image is squished horizontally.
[QUOTE][media]https://twitter.com/HistoricalPics/status/863718106031673345[/media][/QUOTE]
good twitter btw
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Zoroastrians assembled within a fire temple.
The model couple for "American Gothic" by Grant Wood
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I wonder if they smiled a lot
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Zoroastrians assembled within a fire temple.[/QUOTE]
I thought they were some sort of chefs until I read your caption
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRv8pvLwFkE[/media]
FDNY fire chief attempts to reach a fire on the chaotic streets of 1920s New York
Since it's a silent film I do recommend some [url=http://vmashup.com/25GCoFNi]thematically appropriate music be played along with it.[/url]
Soviet soldier portrait, 1973
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Because uniform was basically the same it could've easily been from 1945 if not for PKM in the shot.
[QUOTE=maniacykt;52240256]Soviet soldier portrait, 1973
[T]http://i.imgur.com/4qUD3hS.jpg[/T]
Because uniform was basically the same it could've easily been from 1945 if not for PKM in the shot.[/QUOTE]
wait, did they go into Afghanistan with WWII level gear?
[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;52241684]wait, did they go into Afghanistan with WWII level gear?[/QUOTE]
Not really no. They had APCs and IFVs and the infamous Hind gunship. Their individual gear was not quite up to par with the USA and NATO in 1979 when they first invaded Afghanistan but it was certainly not WW2 level.
[QUOTE=Broguts;52241813]Not really no. They had APCs and IFVs and the infamous Hind gunship. Their individual gear was not quite up to par with the USA and NATO in 1979 when they first invaded Afghanistan but it was certainly not WW2 level.[/QUOTE]
Sorry, i meant in terms of the individual troop equipment. I know they had all sorts of vehicles and the the like, but 1973 is a lot closer to '79 than it is '39. That's just extraordinarily late for that kind of gear
I'm guessing Soviet uniforms didn't change a whole lot between the end of WW2 and the 80s. The guy could also be a conscript who they gave whatever was available.
How many wars did the Soviets fight between Korea and their invasion of Afghanistan? It's quite often difficult to improve troop equipment without actual combat experience.
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