Iconic Photographs

Massive crowds gather for Woodstock, 1969.

I was there 

Mcqueen wrote:I was there 

I spotted you first time in that lot you stood out like a sore thumb.  

As scientists were contemplating the medical specifics of weightlessness in space in 1958, they used a kitten as a stand-in for human testing.
Capt. Druey P. Parks took an F-94C jet up to 25,000 feet to study the cat’s reaction. Of all the possible animals they could have released into zero-gravity, a cat seems like the least convenient option.

Thankfully, the cat did not transform into a ball of slashing claws and fangs. Parks described the animal’s reaction as one of “bewilderment.”

Brian Denson would not stand for that

Reg and his schoolmates...

Liverpool school children wearing gas masks during the war

In 1941, the bombings of London created a scary environment for families and children.
All citizens of the UK were issued a gas mask during the War. There was a pervasive fear that the Axis powers would launch a gas attack on Britain.

The masks themselves were oppressively uncomfortable. Thankfully the feared gas attack never occurred.

Children were made to participate in gas attack drills at school. The air of gravity was punctured when the kids discovered they could make fart noises by exhaling sharply through the mask.

What's with all the Fair Isle jumpers...

I had a jumper like that, in fact I still have it somewhere 
Brian Denson trys to shag it when I'm not looking 

That's all they're good for!

I wouldn't know 

British sailor removing the leg irons from a slave

This is a photo of a British merchant on the HMS Sphinx removing these restraints in 1907. Britain had abolished slavery in the early 19th century.

British traders transported an estimated 3.4 million Africans to North America as slaves during the 245 years the transatlantic slave trade was active.

A massive stack of liquor barrels, collected by the authorities in 1924 and ready to be set ablaze.

This was during Prohibition, when liquor was outlawed. Prohibition was instated in 1920 and lasted until 1933. Prohibition was supported by a coalition of rural Protestants and urban progressives. It was codified in the 18th Amendement, which was repealed with the passage of the 23rd Amendment on December 5th, 1933.
Prohibition is still considered to have been an unsuccessful project in the long view, but it did succeed in reducing alcohol consumption by half during the 20s. Its major failure was an unintended entrenchment of organized crime in American life.

Minty could sup that lot 

Yeah...

Gandhi's letter to Hitler

A real letter sent from Gandhi to Hitler in July of 1939, which reads:

The Navy had a funny tradition – every time a plane would land on the wrong carrier, it would be covered with graffiti before being returned.
There’s also a historical rivalry between the branches of the military, hence the “Must be Air Force” slogan.
Moments of levity like this were important to break up the monotony of life in the military, and also to raise morale during a dark and frightening time.

Noy much danger of this happening in the UK just now...we don't have ANY carriers!

Float like a butterfly, sink like a bee...

Muhammad Ali was the greatest boxer in history. Before he was Muhammad, he was Cassius Clay. This photo shows him training and posing underwater at the Sir John Hotel, Miami in 1961.

Poor wee dug...

This is Laika, the first animal ever to be sent up into orbit. She was a Moscow stray before she was a Cosmonaut. Nobody expected her to survive the trip, and she didn’t. There’s now a monument erected to her in Moscow, of a dog standing on a rocket.

Space chimp lived.

Ham the Chimp, also known as Ham the Astrochimp, was the first Hominidae to take a space flight. He was named after the Holloman Aerospace Medical Center in New Mexico. He was launched from Cape Canaveral on January 31, 1961 and returned to Earth unharmed except for a bruised nose.

Struck by a meteorite.

This Sylacauga, Alabama resident is one of the only people (maybe the only person) to be struck by a meteorite. The 8 1/2 pound chunk of space rock crashed through the roof of her home, hit her radio, and ricocheted into her side and hand. It left this nasty bruise, which looks eerily like a meteorite itself.

Metieorite my arse, love bite...

The old Stockholm telephone tower.

The tower was built in the Swedish capital of Stockholm to connect over 5,000 telephone wires in 1887. It was shortly before telephone companies started burying their wires. Good thing, since the city’s residents hated it. The tower burned down in 1953.

Imagine the amount of bird shite if you were living near that

They all looked like that in the big towns in the early days, before some genius put them U/G.

A dog sits on top of a canon surrounded by soldiers. The photo was taken in France during the first World War.