I have a bunch of friends from the same areas. I used to smoke out up there quite often. And yeah it's a shitnest lol
not war history, but here's some cool local history from where I live. The Storm of 1900 - the deadliest natural disaster ever experienced by the U.S. ~8,000 people died (by comparison, hurricane Katrina killed about 1,800). After this storm, the city built its protective seawall and literally raised the city (all buildings, roads, houses, etc) 10-17 feet. They put all the buildings on stilts and just pumped sediment from the bay under them. All with minimal help from the US government - some consider this one of the greatest engineering feats of all time. Each homeowner had to pay to have their house raised, if they couldn't afford it they just had their first floor filled with sand. You can find some houses still standing today that weren't raised, you can see the top of the first floor coming out of the ground. They tried taking the bodies out to sea and dumping them, but they kept floating back to the beach so they had to start burning them. Edit - forgot to mention that this was in Galveston, Texas.
great topic. I need to delve into my imageshack from my spaceghetto days and see what I have back in there. this picture speaks volumes..
Yes and Lyndon B Johnson on the day of his inauguration. He's caught winking with a senator right there. http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/jfk_lbj_wink.html
German soldier lighting his cigarette with a flamethrower. Fucking love this one. Himmler on a visit to the POW Shirokaya Street Camp in Minsk, USSR. Taken August 1941. A Soviet soldier locked in a stare with the beast himself. here's the links..there's a bit more info if anyone wants a look. Loads more good photos on the site too. http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/german-soldier-lighting-cigarette-flamethrower-1940s/ http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/himmler-prisoner-locked-staring-contest-defiance/
This painting dates 1840 and is of the oldest construct in my home town, the Brig o Balgownie, built sometime late 1200's - early 1300's. This is it nowadays, many doobies been toked there. Australian Aboriginal hunter with boomerangs. Cave art from Chauvet Cave, Southern France - estimated time of drawings some 30'000 - 32'000 years ago. Edinburgh Castle
That soviet soldier has got some real balls lol. Probably doesnt care that he could be killed with the point of a finger, he probably died anyways.
Probably died in a ditch, got sent to the Gulag with his family for being captured or got released on the way to steamroll Berlin. One of my favorite pictures in this thread.
Abraham Lincoln at Antietam and other Civil War pics This Vietnam War one is insane. Captures the fear in their eyes so well. LA Riot
JFK stuff hit me pretty hard. I'm not often too emotional about stuff outside my life time but this gets me. I can't see this without imagining Jackie going for her husbands skull trying to put him back together. His death marks the point in which I feel America started its decline. I don't consider myself a conspiracy theorist, this might be the more outlandish thing I believe but I do think it was a coup. Aside from that, within years of his death America's violent crime rate grew by 400%. Another one that gets me is Tsar Nicholas II's family. Goddammit I hate communist.