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[QUOTE=Funsize;46137960][vid]http://puu.sh/bXgsy/48189fe23e.webm[/vid][/QUOTE] Is this a movie or an anti-drug advert?
[QUOTE=godfatherk;46136048]Walhalla on the Danube in Regensburg ; although the memorial is quite old, they keep adding busts, recently did so for Adenauer, Brahms, Gauss and Heine [thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Walhalla_Regensburg_1900.jpg[/thumb] [editline]2nd October 2014[/editline] [editline]3rd October 2014[/editline] And one more in Kelheim, built to commemorate winning against Napoleon [thumb]http://th00.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2011/149/d/6/befreiungshalle_by_hans64_kjz-d3hj8j3.jpg[/thumb] [/QUOTE] Ha, I live next to those places. The walhalla is visible from my window
[url=https://flic.kr/p/p7cr7w][img]https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2948/15166335350_84b96cb3b7_c.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/p7cr7w]IMG_6484.jpg[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/59868994@N03/]Terranigmus[/url], on Flickr Taken by me, it's the Dachstein Glacier
Some advertisements of British seaside towns [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/03/1412326732518_wps_35_BNPS_co_uk_01202_558833_P.jpg[/img] [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/03/1412326657742_wps_17_BNPS_co_uk_01202_558833_P.jpg[/img] [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/03/1412326717284_wps_32_BNPS_co_uk_01202_558833_P.jpg[/img] [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/03/1412326652226_wps_16_BNPS_co_uk_01202_558833_P.jpg[/img] [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/03/1412326663981_wps_20_BNPS_co_uk_01202_558833_P.jpg[/img] [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/03/1412326670301_wps_22_BNPS_co_uk_01202_558833_P.jpg[/img] [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/03/1412326685063_wps_25_BNPS_co_uk_01202_558833_P.jpg[/img] [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/03/1412326689955_wps_27_BNPS_co_uk_01202_558833_P.jpg[/img] [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/03/1412326776996_wps_45_BNPS_co_uk_01202_558833_P.jpg[/img]
[thumb]http://www.stratfor.com/sites/default/files/styles/stratfor_large__s_/public/main/images/0000724786-abdallah.jpg?itok=jGnLcG86[/thumb] [QUOTE]In Jordan, King Abdullah is depicted all over: dressed like a soldier, smiling with his children or simply looking stern in official portraits. [/QUOTE]
Wasn't the King of Jordan building a Star Trek theme park and plays world of tanks?
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[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;46142838]Wasn't the King of Jordan building a Star Trek theme park and plays world of tanks?[/QUOTE] He also studied at Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in DC, same as Bill Clinton.He must be a well-versed man, although this cult of idolatry thing is really off-putting imo... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIpTI6_JvUA[/media] 1920's Moscow amateur film by a philosopher And totally unrelated but still interesting: [QUOTE]Your favourite virtue ... Simplicity Your favourite virtue in man ... Strength Your favourite virtue in woman ... Weakness Your chief characteristic ... Singleness of purpose Your idea of happiness ... To fight Your idea of misery ... Submission The vice you excuse most ... Gullibility The vice you detest most ... Servility Your aversion ... Martin Tupper Favourite occupation ... Book-worming Favourite poet ... Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Goethe Favourite prose-writer ... Diderot Favourite hero ... Spartacus, Kepler Favourite heroine ... Gretchen [Heroine of Goethe's Faust] Favourite flower ... Daphne Favourite colour ... Red Favourite name ... Laura, Jenny Favourite dish ... Fish Favourite maxim ... Nihil humani a me alienum puto [Nothing human is alien to me] Favourite motto ... De omnibus dubitandum [Everything must be doubted]. -- Karl Marx's replies to a set of questions given to him by his daughters Jenny and Laura (1865)[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=H4ngman;46140403]Ha, I live next to those places. The walhalla is visible from my window[/QUOTE] You ought to go and give us more photos
So here's my first ever contribution to the thread, Japanese woodblock propoganda prints from the First Sino-Japanese War [IMG]http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/throwing_off_asia_01/image/res_23_344_l.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/throwing_off_asia_01/image/2000_229_l.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/throwing_off_asia_01/image/2000_113_l.jpg[/IMG] Maybe people think these Japanese woodblock prints are classy, but this was cheap, lowest-common-denominator popular art to the core. Artists could churn out a dozen of these things every month, and even though the war lasted less than a year, hundreds of these works were created, all mass produced for middle class people all over the country. [IMG]http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/throwing_off_asia_01/image/2000_422_l.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/throwing_off_asia_01/image/res_23_294_l.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/throwing_off_asia_01/image/2000_009_l.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/throwing_off_asia_01/image/2000_440_l.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/throwing_off_asia_01/image/2000_431_l.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/throwing_off_asia_01/image/2000_021_l.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/throwing_off_asia_01/image/2000_026_l.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/throwing_off_asia_01/image/2000_380_07_l.jpg[/IMG] The visual language of it all is pretty clear--heroic, handsome, modern Japanese crushing cowardly, ugly, backwards Chinese. Making "your people" look good and making "their people" look bad is a pretty standard part of propaganda, but it stands out just how openly brutal the Japanese are to the Chinese. I mean, this is what they depicted when they were getting themselves pumped up for war, this is their idealized image of how it went down. It makes a modern viewer kinda feel sorry for the poor bastards. [IMG]http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/throwing_off_asia_01/image/2000_109_l.jpg[/IMG] "Shit's sinking, yo."
[img]http://i.imgur.com/uzlLOU3.jpg[/img] found a cool dood who draws war alright. even if it is completely ridiculous
[IMG]http://whatwillmatter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/owenslong.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]My heart is telling me that this is perhaps the last letter of my life. If that is so, I beg one thing from you. When the war is over, please go to Germany, find my son and tell him about his father. Tell him about the times when war did not separate us and tell him that things can be different between men in this world. Your brother, Luz. [/QUOTE] :c [url]http://whatwillmatter.com/2012/05/something-to-think-about-for-teens-10-jesse-owens-and-luz-long-sportsmanship-and-character/[/url]
If you thought the first Sino-Japanese war was brutal to the Chinese, the second one was a hell of a lot worse. Among the highlights of the war crimes: - The Three Alls policy, 'Kill all, Loot all, Burn all', implemented from 1942 onwards which resulted in the deaths of an estimated 2.7 million civilians. - Bombing was often completely indiscriminate, or in some cases deliberately targeted at civilians. In the first two days of bombing raids in the war over 5,000 civilians were killed. - During the 4 months of the Battle of Wuhan, the Emperor gave executive authorisation to launch gas attacks 375 seperate times. - Unit 731, commanded by Shiro Ishii took place in human experimentation with POWs and civilians, including vivisection, flamethrower and explosive weapons testing, and the testing of biological warfare including anthrax weapons, cholera and [I]the fucking bubonic plague[/I]. No officers of Unit 731 were prosecuted after the war, as they agreed to turn over their research to the Allied forces. - There was also the infamous 'Rape of Nanking', in which during which Imperial Japanese soldiers, over a period six weeks systematically killed between 50,000 and 300,000 civilians, committed mass rape of an estimated 20,000 women, regardless of age, looted anything worth looting and probably a whole lot that wasn't, and then at the end of these six weeks claimed to have 'restored order' to the city and ordered all civilian refugees to return to their homes. Prince Asaka and General Matsui, two of the commanders responsible for the Imperial Japanese Army in the city were recalled to the mainland for their actions, but neither recieved any particular repercussions. Prince Asaka remained on the Supreme War Council and was even promoted to General in 1939, while General Matsui retired soon after his return. Prince Asaka escaped prosecution after the war due to an earlier agreement with the Allies that granted him immunity to such matters. Surprisingly, Matsui was said to be 'dismayed' with his troops' actions in the city. He reportedly said to a civilian aide "I now realize that we have unknowingly wrought a most grievous effect on this city." Not exactly knights in shining armour, were the Imperial Japanese Army.
[IMG]https://i.imgur.com/I2YMSxY.jpg[/IMG] August 11, 1973 DJ Kool Herc decided to play instrumentals at a party in the Bronx and let people rap over it. Hip-Hop was born.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;46146311][img]http://i.imgur.com/uzlLOU3.jpg[/img] found a cool dood who draws war alright. even if it is completely ridiculous[/QUOTE] Blue Division! These guys were Spanish volunteers Franco sent over to help the Germans the same way they did in the Spanish Civil War. Have some stuff related to them: [QUOTE=Hitler]To troops, the Spaniards are a crew of ragamuffins. They regard a rifle as an instrument that should not be cleaned under any pretext. Their sentries exist only in principle. They don't take up their posts, or, if they do take them up, they do so in their sleep. When the Russians arrive, the natives have to wake them up. But the Spaniards have never yielded an inch of ground. One can't imagine more fearless fellows. They scarcely take cover. They flout death. I know, in any case, that our men are always glad to have Spaniards as neighbours in their sector.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://worldwartwozone.com/gallery.old/500/medium/IMG_000120.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/axis_allies/buledivision_files/munoz_grandes.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.historynotes.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/blue-division-5.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://evg-nalivaev.narod.ru/Spain_1942.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.history.jp/wehrmacht/008-16.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.military.be/spanjaarden.jpg[/IMG] And now the [URL="http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=38122&sid=7c4ce79ef44f041b70ecdd3e50c8c122"]Axis History thread about these guys[/URL].
did Hitler really say "ragamuffins"?
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;46146311] found a cool dood who draws war alright. even if it is completely ridiculous[/QUOTE] Source on the cool dood?
[QUOTE=KommradKommisar;46148247]Source on the cool dood?[/QUOTE] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Ferrer-Dalmau[/url] Have some more División Azul stuff: [IMG]http://www.ww2incolor.com/d/435561-4/Division+Azul[/IMG] [IMG]https://41.media.tumblr.com/663cb3663d647adb35cae755e28a519e/tumblr_msb0t2Z51l1rbeo1xo1_500.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]BLUE DIVISION Falangist volunteers against Russia[/QUOTE] [IMG]https://33.media.tumblr.com/c7162f358910cc41dfafb21ab53d567e/tumblr_ncxa6xOFo41sjwt9co1_1280.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://36.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8gxki8A6G1rc7erjo1_1280.jpg[/IMG] These guys were also apparently chill with Soviet civilians as they had only joined up to fight communism, not the people themselves. [IMG]https://41.media.tumblr.com/c60932ce5a994db1b6cdfeebba2df655/tumblr_nafaqkilRr1spwf52o1_1280.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://41.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8gxr1ZksP1rc7erjo1_1280.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://36.media.tumblr.com/8e59a8495e005992f4c91b59c393f46b/tumblr_n257zxxNvR1so3vfyo1_500.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://40.media.tumblr.com/a2f436b2aadac23e294ebb931ae1860f/tumblr_mwf2ccEcA21swr2eho1_1280.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://41.media.tumblr.com/cfeec985170af1be524de4cca137ab62/tumblr_mo9dr1idDd1rcoy9ro1_1280.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Griffster26;46148814] These guys were also apparently chill with Soviet civilians as they had only joined up to fight communism, not the people themselves.[/QUOTE] Most of the men who joined up with the Wehrmacht joined up to fight Bolshevism and weren't interested in a war of extermination. But when the Partisans started interrupting convoys and kill their friends, most troops stopped caring and the indiscriminate executions and murder of civilians became common place. I'm sure these Spanish troops took part in burning down a few villages that partisans were hiding in.
You probably thought this act was a war crime? No! Just partisans.
[img]http://th04.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2013/253/0/8/083a1e8aaa08677a61634d5c9800d3ed-d6lsp20.jpg[/img] [img]http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/265/c/4/c412ab4a60d0159751940ab675e8bd51-d6nd56d.jpg[/img] [img]http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2014/229/5/c/passing_through_the_storm_by_ninjatic-d7vl640.png[/img] Also more Lovecraft. [img]http://th02.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2014/274/f/1/the_old_one_by_hfesbra-d819405.jpg[/img] [img]http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2013/319/b/2/yog_sothoth_rising_by_butttornado-d6ubvy6.jpg[/img] [img]http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2014/167/1/5/cthulhu_rises_by_silberius-d7mlm8d.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Ramone;46149117]You probably thought this act was a war crime? No! Just partisans.[/QUOTE] In their defense, the Hague convention and the Geneva conventions were very vague about what can and can't be done with terrorists and civilians assisting terrorists. Depending on what angle you look at it from, a lot of what the Germans and Soviets did could be justifiable. [editline]4th October 2014[/editline] lets keep the depression train moving [img]https://40.media.tumblr.com/fca5f132b9f2537b64df8ea06550ef45/tumblr_n9fn2wpqHf1rgpls4o1_500.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE]Hitler posted: To troops, the Spaniards are a crew of ragamuffins. They regard a rifle as an instrument that should not be cleaned under any pretext. Their sentries exist only in principle. They don't take up their posts, or, if they do take them up, they do so in their sleep. When the Russians arrive, the natives have to wake them up. But the Spaniards have never yielded an inch of ground. One can't imagine more fearless fellows. They scarcely take cover. They flout death. I know, in any case, that our men are always glad to have Spaniards as neighbours in their sector.[/QUOTE] This takes me back to Aguirre for some reason [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrokMa1QlKo[/media] But yeah, I think that character quite accurately describes some historic moments, like the fearless killing of Atahualpa and Pizarro's conquests: [QUOTE]In January 1531, a Spanish expedition led by Francisco Pizarro, on a mission to conquer the Inca Empire, landed on Puná Island. Pizarro brought with him [B]169 men and 69 horses[/B]. Atahualpa, in Cajamarca with his army of [B]80,000 troops[/B], heard that this party of strangers was advancing into the empire. The Spaniards invited Atahualpa to visit Cajamarca to meet Pizarro, which he resolved to do the following day.[11] Meanwhile, Pizarro was preparing an ambush to trap the Inca: while the Spanish cavalry and infantry were occupying three long buildings around the plaza, some musketeers and four pieces of artillery were located in a stone structure in the middle of the square.[12] The plan was to persuade Atahualpa to submit to the authority of the Spaniards and, if this failed, there were two options: a surprise attack, if success seemed possible, or keeping up a friendly stance if the Inca forces appeared too powerful. According to eyewitness accounts, Valverde then spoke about the Catholic religion but did not deliver the requerimiento, a speech requiring the listener to submit to the authority of the Spanish Crown and accept the Christian faith.[18] At Atahualpa's request, Valverde gave him his breviary but after a brief examination, the Inca threw it to the ground; Valverde hurried back toward Pizarro, calling on the Spaniards to attack.[19] At that moment, Pizarro gave the signal; the Spanish infantry and cavalry came out of their hiding places and charged the unsuspecting Inca retinue, killing a great number while the rest fled in panic.[20] Pizarro led the charge on Atahualpa but managed to capture him only after killing all those carrying him and turning over his litter.[21] [B]Not a single Spanish soldier was killed.[/B][/QUOTE] Either way, here's a Spanish ghost town, a common issue there, with 4 million empty houses, and in all of Europe, there's 11m. [thumb]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/02/20/article-2281564-17F883A5000005DC-449_964x643.jpg[/thumb] [QUOTE] Photographer Steve Brockett said: 'We seem to have an innate need to order and compartmentalise our lives, often more obvious from the air'[/QUOTE]
+ a neat population map [thumb]http://i.imgur.com/CvB0R3o.png[/thumb]
German Paratroopers prepare for their last major operation; Invasion of Crete [img]https://33.media.tumblr.com/519c6b363086d66228608ca4d5c6d294/tumblr_nckf9fzUZl1spe99eo1_500.jpg[/img]
[thumb]http://s1.lemde.fr/image/2014/05/30/0x0/4429124_7_31f3_les-corps-de-trente-trois-citoyens-russes_d21b3803ebd4d371802352889399db37.jpg[/thumb] [QUOTE]"Cargo 200" is a special term in Russia for dead soldiers returning home. This photograph shows a crudely marked truck carrying the bodies of Russian 'volunteers' killed fighting in Ukraine en route to Russia.[/QUOTE] Haunting image...
Here are some really cool concept vehicles by Daniel Simon: [img]http://danielsimon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/DanielSimon_CosmicMotors_Nembiquarer_title_00.jpg[/img] [img]http://danielsimon.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/DanielSimon_CosmicMotors_800225_Gravion_03.jpg[/img] [img]http://danielsimon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/DanielSimon_CosmicMotors_Detonator_bikedesign_001.jpg[/img] [img]http://danielsimon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/DanielSimon_CosmicMotors_Ictrain_title_00.jpg[/img] [img]http://danielsimon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/DanielSimon_Lotus-Motorcycles_C-01_blk_outdoor_960.jpg[/img] Fun fact: He also designed these for the movie Oblivion: [t]http://danielsimon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/DanielSimon_Oblivion_Bubbleship_3Dmodel_01.jpg[/t][t]http://danielsimon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/DanielSimon_Oblivion_Drone_Design_001.jpg[/t] These for Captain America: [t]http://danielsimon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/CaptainAmerica_DanielSimon_Design_Hydra-Coupe_Car_Schmidt_01.jpg[/t][t]http://danielsimon.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/CaptainAmerica_DanielSimon_B_Tank_01.jpg[/t] And these for Tron Legacy: [t]http://danielsimon.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/TronLegacy_DanielSimon_Banner_LightJet_01.jpg[/t][t]http://danielsimon.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/TronLegacy_DanielSimon_Banner_LightRunner_01.jpg[/t] Lots more (and some wallpapers) here: [url]http://danielsimon.com/[/url]
I don't remember that tron flyer in the movie, but god damn it's sexy.
[QUOTE=Crimor;46154937]I don't remember that tron flyer in the movie, but god damn it's sexy.[/QUOTE] It's in the final scene.
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