• Auxiliary Pics
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[QUOTE=Talishmar;46214923]What about the cane?[/QUOTE] I assume they're from around a time when his illness was beginning to take its toll on his health, so he started using the cane.
[QUOTE=Kolmala;46215078]I assume they're from around a time when his illness was beginning to take its toll on his health, so he started using the cane.[/QUOTE] I thought around then it was still "gentlmanly" to walk with a cane, regardless of necessity?
[QUOTE=Kolmala;46215078]I assume they're from around a time when his illness was beginning to take its toll on his health, so he started using the cane.[/QUOTE] He always used a cane. He caught Polio in 1921 at the age of 39 and it caused some considerable damage to his body. [editline]13th October 2014[/editline] When he was in private he normally used a wheelchair but in the public eye he believed it was better to use a cane. They even installed a spa in the stateroom of the Battleship [I]Iowa[/I] for him to use as the battleship ferried him to several Allied leaders meetings.
[QUOTE=download;46215174]He always used a cane. He caught Polio in 1921 at the age of 39 and it caused some considerable damage to his body.[/QUOTE] I think the bigger thing to note is his arm around the man beside him in both photos.
FDR kinda looks like an older Stephen Fry in that first pic: [img]http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2010/7/7/1278493834021/Stephen-Fry-for-Media-100-006.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=StickyWicket;46212053]i know right!?!?!?!?! them aussies deserved that gear more then them blacks ever did[/QUOTE] Are you really saying shit about the birthplace of humanity.
[QUOTE]A sled dog, tied to a whale rib, howls under the midnight sun in Alaska, 1969[/QUOTE] [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/ZAYu3al.jpg[/img_thumb]
[thumb]http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/281/4/9/seegson_aspiration_marketing_images_by_bradwright-d822ik6.jpg[/thumb] Concept art of Sevastopol station for Alien Isolation
[IMG]http://ertdrc.com/public/images/ERTDRC%2000105b.png[/IMG] Mengistu Haile Mariam throwing a bottle of human blood during a speech.
[media]http://vimeo.com/57424120[/media] [media]http://vimeo.com/68780529[/media]
[t]https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t31.0-8/r270/1271783_10152494240787017_2347002813357189372_o.jpg[/t] Took this just before midday (30mins ago)
[QUOTE=godfatherk;46207776][thumb]https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.history.state.gov/milestones/soviet-poster.jpg[/thumb][/QUOTE] Oddly cropped, it cuts off the most ironic part of it, here have an English version with the full caption. [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Englishham.jpg[/img] Memory serving there were Canadian, Australian, Ethiopian, and Chinese versions as well. All the same basic design just with a different picture and a different nationality.
[QUOTE=Griffster26;46218029][IMG]http://ertdrc.com/public/images/ERTDRC%2000105b.png[/IMG] Mengistu Haile Mariam throwing a bottle of human blood during a speech.[/QUOTE] What's the context for this?
Let's do a quest. [thumb]http://gp1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/806614/photos/photos.500px.net/85062165/cb720e7918158135c82a0c286c45fddc1fa5a722/5.jpg[/thumb] [editline]13th October 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=TAU!;46218962]What's the context for this?[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]From 1977 through 1978, resistance against the Derg ensued, led primarily by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party (EPRP). Mengistu cracked down on the EPRP and other revolutionary student organizations in what would become called the "Red Terror". The Derg subsequently turned against the socialist student movement MEISON, a major supporter against the EPRP, in what would be called the "White Terror". The EPRP's efforts to discredit and undermine the Derg and its MEISON collaborators escalated in the fall of 1976. It targeted public buildings and other symbols of state authority for bombings and assassinated numerous Abyot Seded and MEISON members, as well as public officials at all levels. The Derg, which countered with its own counter-terrorism campaign, labeled the EPRP's tactics the White Terror. Mengistu asserted that all "progressives" were given "freedom of action" in helping root out the revolution's enemies, and his wrath was particularly directed toward the EPRP. Peasants, workers, public officials, and even students thought to be loyal to the Mengistu regime were provided with arms to accomplish this task.[15] Col. Mengistu gave a dramatic send-off to his campaign of terror.[B] In a public speech, he shouted "Death to counterrevolutionaries! Death to the EPRP!" and then produced three bottles of what appeared to be blood and smashed them to the ground to show what the revolution would do to its enemies.[/B] Thousands of young men and women turned up dead in the streets of the capital and other cities in the following two years. They were systematically murdered mainly by militia attached to the "Kebeles," the neighborhood watch committees which served during Mengistu's reign as the lowest level local government and security surveillance units. Families had to pay the Kebeles a tax known as "the wasted bullet" to obtain the bodies of their loved ones.[16] In May 1977 the Swedish general secretary of the Save the Children Fund stated that "1,000 children have been killed, and their bodies are left in the streets and are being eaten by wild hyenas . . . You can see the heaped-up bodies of murdered children, most of them aged eleven to thirteen, lying in the gutter, as you drive out of Addis Ababa."[17] Military gains made by the monarchist Ethiopian Democratic Union in Begemder were rolled back when that party split just as it was on the verge of capturing the old capital of Gondar. The army of the Somali Democratic Republic invaded Ethiopia having overrun the Ogaden region, and was on the verge of capturing Harar and Dire Dawa, when Somalia's erstwhile allies, the Soviets and the Cubans, launched an unprecedented arms and personnel airlift to come to Ethiopia's rescue. The Derg government turned back the Somali invasion, and made deep strides against the Eritrean secessionists and the TPLF as well. [B]By the end of the seventies, Mengistu presided over the second largest army in all of sub-Saharan Africa, as well as a formidable airforce and navy. Amnesty International estimates that up to 500,000 people were killed during the Ethiopian Red Terror[/B][18][19][20][/QUOTE] [editline]13th October 2014[/editline] Oh, and after the 90's when the communists fell, he went to Harare, to meet up with his bro, another notorious dictator: [QUOTE]Mengistu still resides in Zimbabwe, despite the Ethiopian government's desire that he be extradited. He is said to live in luxurious circumstances, and it is claimed that he advises Mugabe on security matters; according to Zimbabwean intelligence sources, he proposed the idea of clearing slums, which was implemented as Operation Murambatsvina in 2005, and chaired meetings at which the operation was planned.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=kaine123;46219890][t]http://i.imgur.com/aKndIcZ.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] Call of Duty: Skeletons is looking great!
Cash machine exploded out the wall by being pumped with gas [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/13/1413196821599_wps_1_The_scene_at_an_HSBC_on_B.jpg[/img] [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/13/1413196921979_wps_4_The_scene_at_an_HSBC_on_B.jpg[/img]
image of the Hanoi Hilton [t]http://i.imgur.com/QS1VYeg.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=matt.ant;46223014] [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/13/1413196821599_wps_1_The_scene_at_an_HSBC_on_B.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE] Looks like someone decided that the cash machine was free to withdraw too.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/zbqgOFi.jpg?1[/img] 14 year old boy falls out of the wheel well of an jet liner when he tried to sneak aboard a Japan bound flight from Australia.
charlotte st, bronx, ny in the 70s [t]http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/galleries/2009/real_estate/0911/gallery.charlotte_street/images/02_seventies.jpg[/t] [t]http://johnfekner.com/feknerArchive/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Bronx08.JPG[/t] today [t]http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/galleries/2009/real_estate/0911/gallery.charlotte_street/images/02a_rmickelson_40.jpg[/t] [t]http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/galleries/2009/real_estate/0911/gallery.charlotte_street/images/08_c1999.jpg[/t] thought this was p cool
I would have never believed the Bronx used to look like a warzone, I'm glad they fixed it up.
[QUOTE=McTbone;46228388]I would have never believed the Bronx used to look like a warzone, I'm glad they fixed it up.[/QUOTE] That is only one street. Parts of the Bronx still look like dilapidated chunks of urban warzones. It still needs improving. But hopefully that doesn't involve gentrification.
[QUOTE=elevate;46228323]charlotte st, bronx, ny in the 70s [t]http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/galleries/2009/real_estate/0911/gallery.charlotte_street/images/02_seventies.jpg[/t] [t]http://johnfekner.com/feknerArchive/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Bronx08.JPG[/t] today [t]http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/galleries/2009/real_estate/0911/gallery.charlotte_street/images/02a_rmickelson_40.jpg[/t] [t]http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/galleries/2009/real_estate/0911/gallery.charlotte_street/images/08_c1999.jpg[/t] thought this was p cool[/QUOTE] That's also the story of China more or less [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzBa947k2yY[/media]
Thought you guys might get a kick out of this; my late Grandfather circa 1960's. He was an A-1 Skyraider pilot. [img]http://i.imgur.com/06L3aME.jpg[/img]
[thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Belcastel_13.jpg[/thumb]
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/ZJJDG3s.jpg[/thumb] I took this quite a few years back when I was really into urbex. I really should get back into it.
[QUOTE=godfatherk;46229099]*town with castle*[/QUOTE] Reminds me of when I went to Chateau de Bonaguil [t]http://inventaire.aquitaine.fr/uploads/tx_cravirtuel/p130.jpg[/t] Speaking of Southern France, Carcasonne which still has its city walls: [t]http://www.holiday-france.org.uk/assets/images/Carcassonne.jpg[/t] Lauzerte, which has the title of 'most beautiful village in France' a title only given to 155 towns in France [t]http://www.mcbasquercy.fr/IMG/arton38.jpg[/t] And finally, Rocamadour [t]http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/1481772.jpg[/t]
the aral sea, also known as the sea that vanished overnight. this tragedy started occuring in the 60s water from the rivers that debouched on the aral sea were redirected to irrigate cotton plantations. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtRWrJV8rZg[/media] [t]http://electrictreehouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/aral_sea_fishing_ship_desert_moynaq.jpg[/t] [t]http://tainy.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/9289458_aralskoe_more__7__big1.jpg[/t] [t]http://www.pavelkosenko.com/lj/74/lj-74-4.jpg[/t] [t]http://bushtaxi.org/herwig/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ar-102.jpg[/t] [t]http://goista.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Aral-Sea-Uzbekistan.jpg[/t] [t]http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/aral_sea_main.jpg[/t] [t]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Sqi3-l-hOh0/T_wKeMlmwDI/AAAAAAAAB5o/bm8cliYQdkQ/s1600/Rtw_120706_Z10.JPG[/t] [t]http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/4156065.jpg[/t] [t]http://www.tourstouzbekistan.com/uploads/cities/Muynak/IMGP0378.JPG[/t] [t]http://i.ytimg.com/vi/oNDjL_q7kHU/maxresdefault.jpg[/t]
original plan for Empire State Building: [IMG]http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--yDuYb0Ao--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/tufgpidkyjcxprfjx2te.jpg[/IMG] [editline]15th October 2014[/editline] Golden Gate Bridge [IMG]http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--2R_BEW_N--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/qsryronxlrkjhkodhpyj.jpg[/IMG]
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