Cool Historical Pictures

[Penner]

Soviet soldiers (from the 1st Ukraine Front) liberating Auschwitz inmates, 1945:

[Speaker to Animals]

Aerial bombing over Osaka, Japan



Google map location of where it was taken today:

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6959632 ... a=!3m1!1e3

you can see his no. 3 engine ate flak and flamed out. The flame stretched all the way past the tail when it happened.

[Penner]

Mussolini, his mistress, and a few others hanging upside down, in 1945.

[Penner]

Aerial bombing over Osaka, Japan



Google map location of where it was taken today:

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6959632 ... a=!3m1!1e3

you can see his no. 3 engine ate flak and flamed out. The flame stretched all the way past the tail when it happened.

Look at the ground in the bottom left corner.

[Montegriffo]

Margaret Thatcher in a Challenger 1 during a visit to troops in West Germany, in 1986

[Montegriffo]

Bad taste street parties and demonstrations after the lactose larcenist's death,

[BjornP]

1960's Stodderkonge king of "stoddere", in old Danish a word for vagabonds and other travelling. homeless musicians/occasional day laborers and beggars. Before 1849 and the abolition of absolute monarchy, stodder kings were the travelling vagabonds appointed by the authorities to keep all the other vagabonds in the kingdom in line. After 1849 up to today, the Danish vagabonds (called stoddere back then) elect the stodder king themselves, though they still have a priest there to "anoint" the stodder as king.

They still do. They're called landevejsriddere, or "Road Knights" today, and are (culturally) regarded as a special class of homeless. They'll sometimes beg, but usually they'll ask to pay for a day's work then move on or play some music. New "Road Knights" are baptised once a year in beer.

[Hastur]

1960's Stodderkonge king of "stoddere", in old Danish a word for vagabonds and other travelling. homeless musicians/occasional day laborers and beggars. Before 1849 and the abolition of absolute monarchy, stodder kings were the travelling vagabonds appointed by the authorities to keep all the other vagabonds in the kingdom in line. After 1849 up to today, the Danish vagabonds (called stoddere back then) elect the stodder king themselves, though they still have a priest there to "anoint" the stodder as king.

They still do. They're called landevejsriddere, or "Road Knights" today, and are (culturally) regarded as a special class of homeless. They'll sometimes beg, but usually they'll ask to pay for a day's work then move on or play some music. New "Road Knights" are baptised once a year in beer.

And some people would have it that humans don’t need hierarchy.

[BjornP]

And some people would have it that humans don’t need hierarchy.

..the liberal republican said to the social democratic monarchist.

[Penner]

Soviet solider carrying around a statue head of Hitler in Berlin, in 1945