History Is Interesting!

fuldagap: School principal.

picturesofwar — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:01:32 -0400

fuldagap:

School principal.

“Stanley Kubrick laughing maniacally in front of the burned...

picturesofwar — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:38:54 -0400

“Stanley Kubrick laughing maniacally in front of the burned down set of The Shining.”

snowce: Toni Frissell, Berlin, October 1961

picturesofwar — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:23:04 -0400

snowce:

Toni Frissell, Berlin, October 1961

quantumaniac: RIP Neil Armstrong - First Man on the Moon Neil...

picturesofwar — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:33:15 -0400

quantumaniac:

RIP Neil Armstrong - First Man on the Moon

Neil Armstrong, the astronaut who became first to walk on the moon as commander of Apollo 11, has died. He was 82 years old.

He was born in the small town of Wapakoneta, Ohio, on Aug. 5, 1930.

On July 20, 1969, half a billion people — a sixth of the world’s population at the time — watched a ghostly black-and-white television image as Armstrong backed down the ladder of the lunar landing ship Eagle, planted his left foot on the moon’s surface, and said, “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

Twenty minutes later his crewmate, Buzz Aldrin, joined him, and the world watched as the men spent the next two hours bounding around in the moon’s light gravity, taking rock samples, setting up experiments, and taking now-iconic photographs.

“Isn’t this fun?” Armstrong said over his radio link to Aldrin. The third member of the Apollo 11 crew, Michael L. Collins, orbited 60 miles overhead in the mission’s command ship, Columbia. President Richard Nixon called their eight-day trip to the moon “the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation.”

semioticapocalypse: Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt...

picturesofwar — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:06:33 -0400

semioticapocalypse:

Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt Fishing at Camp David - 1943

gedenkenbrauchtwissen: Fala Roosevelt in front of Franklin D....

picturesofwar — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:51:06 -0400

gedenkenbrauchtwissen:

Fala Roosevelt in front of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s grave - 1949.

Edward R. Murrow at work with CBS, 1957.

picturesofwar — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:23:00 -0400

Edward R. Murrow at work with CBS, 1957.

"All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world."

picturesofwar — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:51:47 -0400

“All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.”

- Gore Vidal

(October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012)

erintheartist: Jimi Hendrix- The Star Spangled Banner (Live at...

picturesofwar — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:46:15 -0400

erintheartist:

Jimi Hendrix- The Star Spangled Banner (Live at Woodstock 1969)

Happy Independence Day!

addictedtovanity: Red Warriors antifascist street gang, Paris,...

picturesofwar — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 18:29:07 -0400

addictedtovanity:

Red Warriors antifascist street gang, Paris, 1980’s.

Panopticon Prison: Inmates standing in their cells, Cuba, 1926...

picturesofwar — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:49:02 -0400

Panopticon Prison: Inmates standing in their cells, Cuba, 1926 - In this eerie photograph of a Cuban prison, inmate after inmate stands silhouetted in a semicircle of stacked cells. They are posed there, backlit, perhaps to demonstrate the building’s utilitarian design. First conceived by philosopher Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century, the so-called panopticon prison design allows a single guard to keep watch on hundreds of confined men while staying in an armored perch, out of the prisoner’s sight. The cells in the prison pictured here also do not have doors, though presumably armed guards would have been a deterrent against any escape attempt. Many prisons, including Alcatraz, were designed to remove a convict’s privacy in favor of control, but full incorporation’s of Bentham’s idea are a rarer find.

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picturesofwar — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:30:57 -0400

updownsmilefrown: Wanda Jackson, the Queen of Rockabilly,...

picturesofwar — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 19:39:32 -0400

updownsmilefrown:

Wanda Jackson, the Queen of Rockabilly, records at a Capitol Records studio, 1950s

updownsmilefrown: Jack and Bobby, 1960 by Hank Walker

picturesofwar — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:32:06 -0400

updownsmilefrown:

Jack and Bobby, 1960

by Hank Walker

vintagechampagnefever: Frank Sinatra waiting for a train

picturesofwar — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:35:06 -0400

vintagechampagnefever:

Frank Sinatra waiting for a train

fuckyeahvintage-retro: Boy crying. NYC, 1942.

picturesofwar — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:14:49 -0400

fuckyeahvintage-retro:

Boy crying. NYC, 1942.

washingtonpoststyle: Princess Yvonne and Prince Alexander of...

picturesofwar — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:55:12 -0400

washingtonpoststyle:

Princess Yvonne and Prince Alexander of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn in 1955.

foolproofidea: New York City, 1955

picturesofwar — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 22:53:13 -0400

foolproofidea:

New York City, 1955

Irish Free State passport issued 22 Aug 1927 I recently found...

picturesofwar — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:01:40 -0400

Irish Free State passport issued 22 Aug 1927

I recently found my great-grandfather’s Irish Free State passport!

usnatarchives: President Abraham Lincoln was sitting in this...

picturesofwar — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:08:59 -0400

usnatarchives:

President Abraham Lincoln was sitting in this chair at Ford’s Theater when he was shot by John Wilkes Booth.

Moments later, Dr. Charles Leale rushed into the private box to help treat the wounded President. He recorded the events of the evening in a 21-page report that was filed away and forgotten.

But Helena Iles Papaioannou,a researcher for the Papers of Abraham Lincoln Project, was going through a box of documents in the National Archives when she found the report written by Dr. Leale, which provides new eyewitness details to the events of Lincoln’s wounding, care, and death.

Read the full story here.

[Image: Ford’s Theatre, chair in which President Lincoln was sitting when shot. ARC 526238]