A thread full of fascinating/interesting images...

[easynow]

The Human nervous system

Slinky drop

Blink fast

Wedding rings from WW II concentration camps

Sunset on Mars

Turquoise ice northern lake, Russia

A RAF airman is buried with full military honours by occupying German soldiers. Jersey, Channel Islands. 1943

The hubble deep field photo explained

Nazi Rally

Hollow face illusion

The unbroken seal on Tutankhamun's tomb 1922. 3,245 years untouched

Contrails above London after dogfight between british and german aircraft. September 1940

The statue of Liberty being built in Paris

A lone man refusing to do the "Sieg Heil" salute at the launching of the Horst Wessell in Nazi Germany, 1936

Westminster schoolboys heading off to school with an employee of the Westminster City Council taking final exams in an anti-gas course. 5 February 1938

German troops trying to rescue what looks like a French soldier from sinking in a mud hole. Northern France

 

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The surface of venus

0.025 seconds after the first atom bomb detonation; code name Trinity. July 16, 1945

The Pale Blue dot

Tereska, a child in a residence for disturbed children, grew up in a concentration camp. She drew a picture of "home" on the blackboard, Poland, 1948

French Resistance member Georges Blind smiling in front of a German execution squad. October 1944

Captured British soldier shows his feelings towards the German camera 1941

Clear tape on frosted glass

Boy is just starting work, while an old man who has been there 33 years teaches him how to use a board saw. October 1908 - Peru, Indiana

Laying cable on the seabed

Alocholic father with his son

Bunkered British children watching aerial dogfight, 1940

The true orbit of our solar system

First Photo of Earth from the Moon taken by Lunar Orbiter 1 on August 23, 1966

A late nineteenth century photo of the partially excavated Great Sphinx

Sugar and sulfuric acid

A German WW1 submarine, washed ashore on the beach at Hastings, Sussex

WWI Loos-Hulluch trench system in France. British trenches are situated on the left of the photo, and German trenches on the right - in the middle of the two is no man’s land.

Sand under microscrope

A candid Joseph Goebbels at the moment he realized his photographer, Alfred Eisenstaedt, was a Jew, 1933

Ruby Bridges, first African-American to attend a white elementary school in the South (Nov. 14th, 1960)

 

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A beggar running alongside King George V's coach. England, c. 1920

Selk'nam natives en route to Europe for being exhibited as animals in human zoos.1889

Guilty cat

September 3rd, 1967, Stockholm, Sweden. The day Sweden changed from driving on the left to driving on the right

Bill Clinton meets John F. Kennedy

President Lincoln on the Battlefield of Antietam, Maryland, with Major General McClernand and Allan Pinkerton, Chief of the Secret Service, October 4, 1862

Memories

Times Square in 1900

A policeman in London directing three giraffe necked women from Burma along Elgin Avenue, London, 1935

Snowfall

Guitar Oscillations

The last known picture of Albert Einstein

Hungarian freedom fighter, Budapest, October 1956

Three archers, Japan

The last Tasmanian Tiger

Where did he go?

3d modelling of 2d images

3d modelling of 2d images [2]

3d modelling of 2d images [3]

USA/Moon size comparison

 

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Citizens in a bar celebrate the end of alcohol prohibition in the United States.

Interactive pool table

British SAS back from a 3 month long patrol, North Africa, January 18, 1943

Orphan Overjoyed at His New Shoes

Martin Luther King Jr removing a burned cross from his front yard with his son at his side

Loving lion

Dr John B. Watson and Rosalie Raynor studying the grasp reflex of a newborn baby. Baltimore. ca 1916

24hr Flight paths

Owl blending into tree

Turkish official teasing starved Armenian children by showing bread during the Armenian Genocide, 1915

Bucket trap

The only known photograph of an African American Union soldier with his family. c1863-65

Brighton Swimming Club in their top hats and swim suits, 1863

Spitfire beer supply to normandy

Red Cross nurse takes down the last words of a British soldier. Western front 1917.

Liberated Jewish man holds NAZI soldier at gunpoint during WWII

Chinese hand dance

Female Viet Cong Warrior c.1973

Keylock

Three Princeton students pose after the Freshman, Sophomore snowball fight.1893

 

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Largest stars observed compared to Earth

Every source of light is a galaxy

The 6000 year old kiss found in Hasanlu, Iran.

Chalk under microscope

Young English boy and stuffed animal after bombing, 1945

I got this

Military truck drop

Lucky British soldier shows off his damaged helmet. Western Front 1917

Gimme the money

Soldiers from 9 different countries sent to put down the boxer rebellion. From left; Britain, USA, Russia, India, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy and Japan. (1900)

Guy saves dogs life

 

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White blood cell vs bacteria

Creating stop motion

Golf ball

If Jupiter were as far away as the Moon

Slowed down lighting

NASA Image of Earth from Beyond Saturn Taken by Cassini | July 19, 2013

Live X ray

Look at the center of this image for 30sec, then look below and watch Van Gogh's *Starry Night* come to life

 

[T soprano]

gazza running to the aid of a fugitive

 

[algie]

Some excellent military ones there mate. Love the simple mouse trap one also.

 

[Husty]

There are some incredible step by step images of a Nuclear Pore complex assimilating a protein floating around somewhere, amazing to think of the level of intricacy in something we can barely even see with the best microscopes we possess. (and barely understand)

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

a lot about war isn't there?

 

[easynow]

a lot about war isn't there?

I have more non-war images bookmarked on my laptop. Will try and post them tommorow.

 

[easynow]

Love the simple mouse trap one also.

Some more tips & tricks...

lol

 

[footychick]

Fantastic thread

 

[Mowgli37]

Some incredible images there, thanks for sharing. I'm studying the boxer rebellion for my A-levels, do you have any more from that era?

 

[meeching gull]

Wow that Van gogh was mental how does it work

 

[£1.99]

Very interesting stuff here, thanks for posting.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Always love a space pic but the guilty cat is the bestest.

 

[GreersElbow]

Berlin is still divided, but only by the type of light bulbs used in East/West Berlin at the time.

 

[LargeHadronZugzwang]

Top thread, great pics!


Recent storm in Buenos Aires


Orion nebula which can be seen with naked eyes, but not this colourfully


Pencil drawing by Kanisa A, Australia


Tolstoy playing chess


Eclipse photo by Miloslav Drückmuller

 

[Bladders]

Great thread, some great photos there.

A guy called Sergay Larenkov does some great then and now montages.