[BITList] Wonderful old photographs

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Ronald,
did you forget to attach the photographs?
frank

On 1/4/2015 5:21 PM, ronald.thomas at sfr.fr wrote:
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>      Quite a collection! RT
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>                                Boxing in Yankee stadium (1923).
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>                                A Russian spy laughing through his 
> execution (1939).
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>                                The evacuation of Saigon , in which 
> some 45 UH-1 Hueys and one CH-47 Chinook were pushed overboard to make 
> room for others to land (1975).
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>                                The first passengers on the brand new 
> New York subway (1904).
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>                                Ernest Hemingway at a Havana bar (date 
> unknown).
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>                                Princeton students after a 
> Freshman/Sophomore snowball fight (1893).
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>                                Policemen inspect a “lumber truck” that 
> smelled of alcohol during prohibition (1926).
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>                                Archduke Franz Ferdinand with wife on 
> the day they’re assassinated, which contributed to the start of WWI 
> (1914).
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>                                A native American watching the newly 
> completed transcontinental railroad in Nevada (1868).
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>                                The oldest running car on the planet: 
> the 1884 De Dion, Bouton et Trepardou Dos-à-Dos.
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>                                A newly liberated French citizen 
> happily lights Winston Churchill’s cigar (1944).
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>                                A US soldier offering his hand to a 
> woman leaving a cave during WWII.
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>                                Queen Elizabeth during her WWII service.
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>                                The last picture of the Titanic before 
> sinking (1912).
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>                                A pyramid of helmets from captured 
> German soldiers on display in New York (1918).
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>                                Construction of Brasilia City , which 
> would later become the capital of Brazil (1960).
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>                                Boeing 707 doing a barrel roll. When 
> questioned about the stunt, the test pilot said: “just selling 
> airplanes.”
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>                                Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein debating 
> over quantum mechanics (1925).
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>                                Fidel Castro and Malcolm X (1960).
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>                                106-year-old Armenian woman protecting 
> her home with an AK-47 (1990).
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>                                Star Wars set at lunchtime.
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>                                A WWI submarine washed ashore on the 
> beach in England .
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>                                William Harley and Arthur Davidson (1914).
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>                                Execution of a German communist in 
> Munich (1919).
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>                                Muhammad Ali trying to talk down a 
> suicidal man (1981).
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>                                Construction of Mt. Rushmore National 
> Memorial (1939).
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>                                The assembly line of Porsche 911s at 
> the Stuttgart factory (1970)
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>                                American soldiers discover Manet’s 
> painting hidden in the salt mines of Merker, Germany (1945).
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>                                John Young and Charles Duke training 
> for the Apollo 16 mission in the New Mexico desert.
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>                                A rebel soldier tosses a grenade into a 
> loyalist position in Burgos , Spain (1936).
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>                                Anne Frank pokes her head out of her 
> family’s flat in Amsterdam (1942).
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>                                Archaeologist Howard Carter examining 
> the opened sarcophagus of King Tut.
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>                                Hitler inspecting the massive 800mm 
> “Schwerer Gustav” railway gun – the largest-caliber rifled weapon ever 
> used in combat (1942).
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>                                Russian soldiers preparing for a gas 
> attack against German positions (1916).
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>                                Eyes of hate: a photo of Goebbels after 
> finding out his photographer is Jewish.
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>                                The first Wal-Mart store opened in 1962 
> by Sam Walton. It was called Walton’s Five and Dime.
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>                                The Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber 
> that dropped the nuclear bomb over Hiroshima .
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>                                Albert Einstein’s desk photographed the 
> day after his death.
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>                                B-32 Bomber Factory in Fort Worth , 
> Texas (1944).
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>                                The Cologne cathedral amidst the ruins 
> (1944).
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>                                A rare photo of a young Winston 
> Churchill (1895).
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>                                The construction of the Golden Gate 
> Bridge in San Francisco (1937).
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>                                Pre-Taliban days in Afghanistan when 
> women enjoyed professional careers, university education, etc.
>                                By mid-90s, the Taliban outlawed 
> employment and education of women over the age of 8.
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>                                Gadget, the first atomic bomb.
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>                                The night they ended Prohibition 
> (December 5, 1933).
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>                                German prisoners marching to Moscow 
> after their defeat at Belarus (1944).
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>                                Testing a bulletproof vest (1923).
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>                                Gas masks for babies tested at an 
> English hospital (1940).
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>                                Control room of the UB-110 German 
> submarine (1918).
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>                                A V-1 flying bomb “buzzbomb” plunging 
> toward London (1945).
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>                                Buzz Aldrin taking a selfie in space 
> (1966).
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>                                Samuel Reshevsky, age 8, defeating 
> several chess masters at once in France (1920).
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>                                USAAF B-25 sinks Japanese destroyer 
> Amatsukaze off the coast of Xiamen, China (1945).
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>                                An assassin attacking the socialist 
> politician Inejiro Asanuma in Tokyo , Japan (1960).
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>                                A woman who survived the Nagasaki 
> bombing (1945).
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>                                The first car factory in the US for 
> Ford (1926).
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>                                Allied forces mocking Hitler (1945).
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>                                A US soldier replacing 
> “Adolf-Hitler-Str.” sign with “ Roosevelt Blvd ” in Berlin , Germany 
> (1945).
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>                                The 2,800 years old kiss.
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>                                Nine Kings in one photo (1910).
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>                                Mark Twain pays a visit to Nikolai 
> Tesla’s lab (1894).
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