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ajuliea: (via Retronaut - Lightning over Challenger)
thecivilwarparlor: “Angel’s Glow" Soldiers with Glowing Wounds at Shiloh-Wounded soldiers who had to remain at the battleground in the rain and mud for up to two days before medics could reach them noticed that their wounds were glowing in
we-are-star-stuff: Every 26 months there is an opportunity to send a vehicle from Earth to the planet Mars along an efficient, low-energy trajectory. The trip can take six months or more. Probes to Mars often fail; as of July 2012, the success rate
ss-reicheagle: Austria never looked more beautiful
Nazi Germany in Pictures
demons: Apparently this didn’t post as had been sitting in my queue list with a posting date of 27 July 2014, so here we are a day late and a dollar short: After three years of a frustrating war and hiking causalities, the United States, the People’s
they-drift-like-worried-fire: A1C Donald Miller, 363rd Security Police Squadron, dressed in protective gear and, carrying an M-16 rifle, changes his position during exercise Reforger ‘80.
they-drift-like-worried-fire: Fort Lewis, Washington, January 1982 Pfc. Art Burgess, a candidate in the Ranger Indoctrination Program (RIP), 2nd Battalion, 75th Infantry (Ranger), fires a Winchester-built combat shotgun during special weapons training
ofspacifica: Osan Air Base, South Korea 1980Korean 1LT Lee Young Nam operates an M-60 machine gun on an armored personnel carrier (APC).
mysterymann21: FALL OUT
pbsthisdayinhistory: July 29, 1958: NASA is Created On this day in 1958, the United States Congress passed legislation creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Since its creation, NASA has played a vital role in coordinating
womenrockscience: Happy Birthday NASA They just turned 55. Lets celebrate with portraits of amazing female astronauts by legendary comic book illustrator Philip J Bond Can you guess the names of the astronauts from the drawings? Check out the rest of
collectivehistory: Ham the Chimp being retrieved, 1961 Ham the chimp had the pleasure of being the first hominid in space. On Jan. 31, 1961, Ham was placed in a Project Mercury capsule and launched into space. Ham survived his historic flight and lived
semioticapocalypse: Birth of Julius Caesar, Les anciennes hystoires rommaines, Paris 14th century (British Library, Royal 16 G VII, fol. 219r) [::SemAp::]
natgeofound: The balloon Explorer II is launched in 1935 in South Dakota.Photograph by Richard Hewitt Stewart, National Geographic
explore-blog: Pioneering astronomer Maria Mitchell, born on August 1, 1818, on science and life.
Genetic 'Adam' and 'Eve' Uncovered
archaeology: Diocletian’s palace gets laser facelift Roman Emperor’s palace in Croatia cleaned in a ten-year project Conservators in Croatia have completed a ten-year project to remove more than 1,700 years of grime from the courtyard of the palace
archaeology: Italian police seize huge haul of illicit antiquities - The Art Newspaper Police in southern Italy have seized a large haul of well-preserved artefacts that were illegally excavated between the two southern towns of Benevento and Foggia,
ancientpeoples: Necklace 650-600 BC Found at the temple of Artemis (Source: The British Museum)
ancientpeoples: Fragment of an Amphora c.530 BC East Greek/Archaic Greek (Source: The British Museum)
ancientpeoples: Corinthian Helmet 600-550 BC Archaic Greek (Source: The British Museum)
weirdvintage: Feejee Mermaid, 19th century—Though P.T. Barnum made the Feejee Mermaids famous, they were originally created in Japanese East Indies fishermen in around 1810. It was a traditional art form in which they created faux mermaids by stitching
weirdvintage: Roy Heckler (left) and his flea circus, 1951. Heckler’s father started the flea circus in 1900, and Roy took over in 1925. He trained only female fleas since they are twice the size as males. While fleas normally move by jumping,
weirdvintage: Alice E. Doherty was born in 1887 with a rare genetic mutation called “hypertrichosis", or “werewolf syndrome", which causes excessive body hair. She was billed as “The Minnesota Woolly Baby". At birth, she was
fuckyeahdrugpolicy: Sacrificed Incan Children Died Full of Coca and Alcohol | Motherboard Researchers ran tests on three creepily well-preserved mummies—a boy and a girl who were four or five, and one 13-year-old girl. They were discovered in 1999
likeavirgil: The Lycurgus Cup Late Roman, 4th century AD “This extraordinary cup is the only complete example of a very special type of glass, known as dichroic, which changes colour when held up to the light. The opaque green cup turns to a glowing
brilliantinemortality: The hand of Oldcroghan man (d. 362-175 BC), preserved in the National Museum of Ireland
missedinhistory: The Flannan Isles lighthouse on Eilean Mór in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, site of the unsolved disappearance of three lighthouse-keepers in 1900. (Photos © Chris Downer, JJM and Peter Standing, and licensed for reuse under this
life: On this day in LIFE — August 8, 1969: On the Moon, footprints and photographs by Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin
gunrunnerhell: Scarecrow A dead Russian soldier propped up in the snow as a grim warning to other Russian troops during the Winter War with Russia.
thisisaadl: It might make you sneeze, but it’s kind of beautiful up close. From Ueber den Pollen (1837), a book by St. Petersburg based German pharmacist and chemist Carl Julius Fritzsche, via The Public Domain Review
brookhavenlab: This symmetrical marvel is a radio-frequency quadrupole, designed to focus and accelerate particle beams. Seen here in 1983, this magnetic passageway prepared protons for injection into our Alternating Gradient Synchrotron—the source
kidsneedscience: Hipparcos was a satellite launched and managed by the European Space Agency on August 8, 1989 which remained in service until 1993. The name stands for High precision parallax collecting satellite, Hipparcos was the first space
laughingsquid: Alcatraz Prison Menu from 1946 is Surprisingly Appetizing
mpdrolet: Paris Exposition: Esplanade des Invalides, Paris, France, 1900 Goodyear Archival Collection, Brooklyn Museum
blackballoonpublishing: O’Connor’s fondness for the awkward, splendid creatures has become a part of her legacy, the peacock feather literary shorthand for her work. O’Connor would send the discarded tail feathers of peacocks to her friends, enclosing
ancientart: A selection of Early Cycladic II ‘frying pans’ from the cemetery of Chalandriani, Syros. All date to about 2800-2300 BCE. The 1st ‘frying pan’ shows an incised representation of a paddled longboat set among stamped wave-like spirals.
riversidearchives: Recruiting the first 29. “We hope and have every reason to believe, that the Navajos will play a major role in Marine Corps operations. When the war is over, their story may rank with great sagas of the battlefield.” August 14,
natgeofound: Nose assemblies for Douglas A-20 attack bombers in a factory.Photograph by Douglas Aircraft Co.
instagram: Exploring California’s Hearst Castle on Instagram For more photos and videos from Hearst Castle, explore the Hearst Castle location page. In 1919, media tycoon William Randolph Hearst commissioned architect Julia Morgan to design a home
pbsthisdayinhistory: August 13, 1961: Construction Begins on the Berlin WallOn this day in 1961, Berliners woke to find their city and their lives cut in two by a wall of barbed wire and concrete blocks. Ordinary citizens found themselves caught in the
flannelsandjeans-deactivated202: The Motherland Calls is a statue in Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia, commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad. It was designed by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and structural engineer Nikolai Nikitin. Declared the largest
todaysdocument: Quantrill’s Raid, aka the Lawrence Massacre 150 years ago on the morning of Friday, August 21, 1863, William Quantrill and 300 Confederate guerrillas descended upon the quiet town of Lawrence, Kansas. This letter contains a firsthand
todaysdocument: It’s National Radio Day! “A Farm Family Listening to Their Radio, 08/14/1926” from the series: Photographs of Extension Service Activities and Personnel, 1928 - 1943 What are your radio memories?
todaysdocument: “Students at Mt. Holyoke College Learning Agricultural Duties, 08/20/1918” From the series: American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, 1917 - 1918
todaysdocument: Happy National Aviation Day! Orville Wright takes flight with observer Lt. Frank P. Lahm at Ft. Myer Virginia to win the Army’s prize for sustained flight with a passenger in September 1908. National Aviation Day was proclaimed by
preservationporn: Belle Isle Aquarium, Detroit The aquarium, designed by Albert Kahn, opened in 1904. The Baroque entrance features elaborate columns, the Detroit city seal, and a depiction of Neptune. In contrast, the rest of the exterior is relatively
eiscef: The A7V ‘Sturmpanzerwagen*‘ of the Deutsches Heer, the German Army of the Second Reich (1871-1918). The design was started in the latter half of 1916 after the Somme Offensive of World War One and only twenty tanks were produced. Due to
georgy-konstantinovich-zhukov: “Mephisto” was captured by Australian infantry following damage sustained in the Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux. Although an attempt had been made to destroy the vehicle, resulting in the damage to the
ranio-nero: Sturmpanzerwagen A7V
georgy-konstantinovich-zhukov: A7V ‘Wotan’. (National Archives)
Tanks Doing Tank Things
geneparmesanprivateinvestigator: The Tsar Tank was an unusual Russian armoured vehicle developed in World War I by Nikolai Lebedenko, Nikolai Zhukovsky, Boris Stechkin, and Alexander Mikulin. The project was scrapped after initial tests deemed
metalwig: The Russian Lebedenko or ”Tsar Tank”, is without doubt the most strange Armoured Fighting vehicle ever constructed. By the end of July 1915, the monster tricycle was ready for it’s first trials. It started well. The vehicle moved
kingofspacetime: Now a staple of many steampunk (as well as sword and sorcery settings attempting to find an excuse to insert tanks into the setting without resorting to pure magic) fantasy settings, it appears that few people know that the Steam Tank
cloggo: STEAMPUNK Chasing down Steamtank links I discovered that the Americans did produce a full size steam tank fitted with a flame thrower. More HERE
art-of-swords: 19th-Century Samurai Training Text Deciphered A training text, used by a martial arts school to teach members of the bushi (samurai) class, has been deciphered, revealing the rules samurai were expected to follow and what it took to truly
weakchick: witchcraft interrogation
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