Unusual History in Photos
From: M.J. Trebenskie (skie999hotmail.com)
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:22:09 -0800 (PST)


 

Some Historical Pictures And Explanations.....

 

An Ottoman supply train still lays where it was ambushed by Lawrence of Arabia on the Hejaz railway during World War I.
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There were many feats of bravery carried out during World War I, but one of the most inspiring feats of the era was carried out by T.E. Lawrence, otherwise known as Lawrence of Arabia. In 1917 Lawrence was serving in the Middle East when he and a troupe of Arab followers began toppling trains that served the Ottoman supply chain. By the end of the war Lawrence and his troops had destroyed so many trains and railroad that it was impossible to use. Rather than move the vacated trains from their lines the Turkish people simply left them in the desert.

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)

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The Cau Vang, outside the city of Da Nang in Vietnam is held up by two giant stone hands.

 

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This amazing 16th Century ring unfolds into an astronomical sphere.

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This 500-year-old boxwood miniature from the 16th century was created in the Netherlands

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This small ornate ax was made in Germany during the late 1500s.

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Carbonized bread from Pompeii that still has the baker's stamp on it, 79 AD.

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18th century carved door in Germany with incredible workmanship

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A futuristic-looking 1938 Dymaxion, designed by American inventor Buckminster Fuller

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The library inside of the Waldsassen Abbey in Bavaria holds thousands of volumes bound in white pigskin.

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'Cow shoes' used by moonshiners in the Prohibition days to disguise their footprints, 1924

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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.

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The 1936 Stout Scarab is one of the first minivans.

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Marketed as a toy for kids, U-238 Atomic Energy Labs came with three different types of live uranium ore and a Geiger counter.

**NOTE...this must be like the set that George's parents bought him in the 50's as he blew up the back of their house on an Air Force Base and suddenly the family was moving.....his dad was transferred. Hmmmm wonder why?:- **

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Shoes worn by Allied spies during World War II to steer the adversaries in the opposite direction

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The ornate Elephant Tower of the Carlsberg Brewery in Kopenhagen, 1901. https://d14e8oeg5e788p.cloudfront.net/content/139918/f1a199f1b021ac5d03ebdcdca87b3053.jpg

 

A triple-decker bus roaming the streets of Berlin, Germany. https://d14e8oeg5e788p.cloudfront.net/content/139918/72d7d8aa9ef09315340492119b69e9a0.jpg

 

Extreme tree pruning crew from the late 1800s.

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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.

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90-year-old Grandma in the Czech Republic passes time by artistically painting houses. https://d14e8oeg5e788p.cloudfront.net/content/75088/4cd03576eec7bec00e5d8fc2c6933902.jpg

 

Nicknamed 'Methuselah' this Californian bristlecone pine tree was seeded in the year 2833 BC, which makes this tree 4,850 years old.
https://d14e8oeg5e788p.cloudfront.net/content/75088/cc7e39e84f2ee5c651ec97b4c214cf83.jpgWonder ... for sure... how the age of this tree is known?


Infants sleeping in the open air after lunch at a maternity hospital in Moscow, 1958 https://d14e8oeg5e788p.cloudfront.net/content/75088/3f1d53400795b52272e777b2e08a8fb5.jpg

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.

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One of the most iconic photographs ever taken/ Bob Hope, John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, Dean Martin, and Frank Sinatra (circa 1975)** only one missing is Sammy Davis Jr...... then you would have "The Rat Pack" ** https://d14e8oeg5e788p.cloudfront.net/content/75088/8418449c62c2e1c6e095aa6b3b7279ca.jpg

 

The ornate Klementinum Library in Prague.

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Hope you enjoyed these history photos......

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

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