A BIG H/T to Terry for sending!!!!!!
An Ottoman
supply train
still lays
where it was
ambushed by
Lawrence of
Arabia on the
Hejaz railway
during World
War I.
Holy
Roman Emperor
Maximillian I
wore these
armored gloves
from 1508
until his
death in 1519.
(Now we know
where Star
Wars got some
of their
designs)
The Cau Vang,
outside the
city of Da
Nang in
Vietnam is
held up by two
giant stone
hands.
This
amazing 16th
Century ring
unfolds into
an
astronomical
sphere
This
500-year-old
boxwood
miniature from
the 16th
century was
created in the
Netherlands
This
small ornate
ax was made in
Germany during
the
late 1500s.
Carbonized
bread from
Pompeii that
still has the
baker's stamp
on it, 79 AD.
18th
century carved
door in
Germany with
incredible
workmanship
A
futuristic-looking 1938 Dymaxion, designed by American inventor
Buckminster
Fuller
The
library inside
of
the Waldsassen Abbey
in Bavaria
holds
thousands of
volumes bound
in white
pigskin.
'Cow
shoes' used by
moonshiners in
the
Prohibition
days to
disguise their
footprints,
1924
Designed
and built in
the
late 1800's,
this steamer
trunk coverts
into a
stand-up
dresser so the
traveler
doesn't have
to unpack.
The 1936
Stout Scarab
is one of the
first
minivans.
Marketed
as a toy for
kids, U-238
Atomic Energy
Labs came with
three
different
types of live
uranium ore
and a Geiger
counter.
Shoes
worn by Allied
spies during
World War II
to steer the
adversaries in
the opposite
direction
The
ornate
Elephant Tower
of the
Carlsberg
Brewery
in Kopenhagen,
1901.
A
triple-decker
bus roaming
the streets of
Berlin,
Germany.
Extreme
tree pruning
crew from the
late 1800s.
17
year-old
Juliane Koepcke was
sucked out of
an airplane in
1971 after it
was struck by
a bolt of
lightning. She
fell 2 miles
to the ground,
strapped to
her seat
and survived
after she
endured 10
days in the
Amazon Jungle.
90-year-old
Grandma in the
Czech Republic
passes time by
artistically
painting
houses.
Nicknamed
'Methuselah'
this
Californian
bristlecone
pine tree was
seeded in the
year 2833 BC,
which makes
this tree
4,853 years
old as of this
year.
Wonder...
for sure...
how the age of
this tree is
known?
Mildred
Burke, a
pioneer of
women's
pro-wrestling
who began
wrestling men
at carnivals
in 1935. She
would go on to
wrestle over
200 men,
losing to only
1.
One of
the most
iconic
photographs
ever taken/
Bob Hope, John
Wayne, Ronald
Reagan, Dean
Martin, and
Frank Sinatra
(circa 1975)
The
ornate Klementinum Library
in Prague.
Hope you enjoyed these history photos......
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What great pics! Thanks for finding and posting these!
ReplyDeleteLove,love,love this:))
ReplyDeleteWOW!
ReplyDeleteThe thank you belongs to Terry! He sent them to me! :o)
ReplyDeleteDo you still have a Gilbert Atomic Energy Lab?
ReplyDeleteNope- it blew up! LOL! I DID have the chemistry set, though - it was in a tri-folded metal box.
DeleteLoved these!!
ReplyDeleteI bet Mr. Google-pants is gonna get a lot of requests on these! :o)
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