c. 1840s: A man who survived a scalping
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Josiah P. Wilbarger was scalped by Comanche in Texas in 1833, when he was 32. Photographer unknown.

On this day 54 years ago, supermodel Jean Shrimpton shocked the world with the shortest dress ever worn at the Melbourne Derby Day till that point

Opening of The Golden State Bridge, 1937

Vítězství černého priviligovaného muže nad imigranty z východu.

Children cross the river on their way to school in the outskirts of Modena, Italy, 1959.

Huntington Beach, 1976

Telefontornet, The Old Stockholm telephone tower, was a metallic structure built to connect approximately 5,500 telephone lines in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. Constructed in 1887, the tower was damaged by a fire in 1952 and demolished the following year.

zde circa 1890

1994, Bill Gates ukazuje, kolik dat se vejde na jedno CD.

Pomůcka pro koncentraci.

The writer introduced a small oxygen tank, attached to the helmet. This increases the respiration and livens the subject considerably.

...excluding practically all sounds.

The construction involved the use of ordinary window glass, the outer glass being painted entirely black. Two small white lines were scratched into the paint, as shown. The idea of this is as follows:
The writer thought that shutting out the noises was not sufficient. The eye would still wander around, thereby distracting attention. By having the two white lines scratched on the glass, the field through which the eye can move is comparatively small. ... it is almost impossible to see anything except a sheet of paper in front of the wearer. There is, therefore, no optical distraction here.

Aircraft detection before radar

1917, Germany
Combined acoustic/optical locating apparatus. The small-aperture goggles were apparently set so that when the sound was located by turning the head, the aircraft would be visible.


1921 USA

Stavění berlínské zdi, 13. 8. 1961

Finally beating Super Mario Bros. on Christmas night, 1988

Pacific Ocean, summer 1983

The Great North Dakota Blizzard of 1966

Clint Eastwood and Shirley MacLaine photographed on the set of Two Mules for Sister Sara in Durango, Mexico by Lawrence Schiller, 1969.

Clint Eastwood photographed on the set of Magnum Force by director Ted Post, 1973.

A 203 foot high wall of wood - The Cedar River Logging Trestle in Washington State

Příslušníci dánské královské gardy si dávají pivo se skupinkou členů hnutí skinheads, 1984

V doprovodu manželky Britt Ekland opouští Peter Sellers po infarktu nemocnici v LA (1964).