Famous , Iconic Photos.....

[JackRT]

The photo of the RMS Queen Mary above was taken by an anti-submarine patrol bomber in December 1942. She was carrying an entire division of 16,082 American soldiers plus about 2000 crew from New York to Great Britain when she was suddenly hit broadside by a rogue wave estimated to have reached a height of 92 ft. The ship rolled 52 degrees and another 3 degrees would have capsized her. In the photo you can see the wave completely over the bow and the ship's bridge and threatening the first funnel.

 

[tadoflamb]

RIP
Astronaut John Glenn photographed in space by an automatic sequence motion picture camera during his historic orbital flight on "Friendship 7" on Feb. 20, 1962.
Credit: NASA

 

[Colin]

Street Urchins in London , 1893......

 

[Shiloh Raven]

Remembering the massacre at Wounded Knee on December 29, 1890.

This was one of the mass graves dug to bury the Lakota men, women and children who were murdered at Wounded Knee.

 

[Shiloh Raven]

I know this photo has already been shared earlier on this in this thread, but today is the 126th anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre. For those who do not know, this is the body of Chief Big Foot frozen in the snow after the massacre.

 

[Shiloh Raven]

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Today would have been his 88th birthday.

In this picture, he is marching in Montgomery with John Lewis (on the far right).

 

[Colin]

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Today would have been his 88th birthday.

In this picture, he is marching in Montgomery with John Lewis (on the far right).

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May the memory of Martin Luther King Jr live on .

He and the American Civil Rights Movement played a large part in forming my religious and political beliefs .

 

[Colin]

Martin Luther King, Jr. stands in front of a bus at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, Dec. 26, 1956......

 

[Shiloh Raven]

Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington, August 28, 1963.

 

[Colin]

Perhaps the most perilous yet playful lunch break ever captured: 11 men casually eating, chatting and sneaking a smoke as if they weren’t 840 feet above Manhattan with nothing but a thin beam keeping them aloft. That comfort is real; the men are among the construction workers who helped build Rockefeller Center. But the picture, taken on the 69th floor of the flagship RCA Building (now the GE Building), was staged as part of a promotional campaign for the massive skyscraper complex.

 

[Colin]

A slum in Moss Side , Manchester .

Although the image was taken during the height of the Swinging Sixties, the pictures taken by photographer Nick Hedges show a different side to Britain.

 

[Armoured]

I know this photo has already been shared earlier on this in this thread, but today is the 126th anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre. For those who do not know, this is the body of Chief Big Foot frozen in the snow after the massacre.

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Serious question, is he named after Sasquatch, or for having big feet?

 

[Colin]

100 000 gather in London today to protest against Mr Trump......

 

[Shiloh Raven]

Serious question, is he named after Sasquatch, or for having big feet?

I doubt he was named for the Sasquatch. And as far as him having big feet, I have no idea.

 

[Armoured]

I doubt he was named for the Sasquatch. And as far as him having big feet, I have no idea.

I just wondered. But thanks.

 

[Colin]

Kilbowie Road , Glasgow , during The Blitz in 1941......

 

[Colin]

Looks like the USA is getting into the habit of denying the choice of its voters......

 

[Shiloh Raven]

A picture of the Resist banner Greenpeace displayed outside of the White House this morning.

 

[Colin]

Guinness Brewery, Dublin , the centre of the earth......

 

[Colin]

Building Blackpool Tower in Lancashire , England 1893......

Blackpool Tower today.....