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Close call at a Queensland airfield with a De Havilland Tiger Moth and an Oldsmobile.

 

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Queen Street, Brisbane, Queensland after the fire in December 1864
 

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All my pants are action pants  8)

Chuck Norris Action Pants, 1970s

 

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Photographs of the Execution of Conspirators in the Assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, 1865

On April 14, 1865, Lewis Thornton Powell, alias Payne, was the (Live Oak?) Florida native who was part of Booth?s conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln, Vice President Johnson and Secretary of State Seward. Powell entered Seward?s home, stabbed him in the throat, inflicted dangerous wounds on other members of the household. He escaped and hid in the woods near Washington, returned to the home of Mary Surratt, a fellow conspirator. As he reached the house it was being searched by officers. Powell said he had been hired to dig a drain. Surratt, when questioned raised her hand and swore :?Before God I do not know him, never saw him, and never hired him.?

Thus was the conspiracy indicated; and evidence soon forthcoming led to the conviction and execution of Surratt, Powell, George Atzerodt and David Herold. Shortly after the afternoon of July 7, 1865, the four condemned conspirators were forced to climb the hastily built gallows that they had heard being tested the night before from their prison cells.

It was hot that day, reportedly a hundred degrees (38 degrees Celsius). Sweat surely dripped down the accused?s faces as they passed by the cheap pine coffins and shallow graves that had been dug for them. Alexander Gardner was the only photographer permitted for the execution of the Lincoln assassination conspirators. More than 1,000 people?including government officials, members of the U.S. armed forces, friends and family of the accused, official witnesses, and reporters?had come with their exclusive tickets to see this execution.

Nooses were placed around the accused?s necks and hoods over their heads. Ever since the sentences had been handed down a week ago, Surratt?s lawyers and her daughter Anna had been fighting and pleading for her death sentence to be changed. In fact, many in attendance thought that Surratt would be saved from the gallows at the last minute. It was not to be. She was the first woman executed by the United States government.

After the last rites and shortly after 1:30 PM, the trap door was opened and all four fell. It was reported that Atzerodt yelled at this very last moment: ?May we meet in another world?. Within minutes, they were all dead.
 

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"Passing over Sydney Harbour Bridge & Milson's Pt. Taken from 'Faith in Australia'. 2,000 ft. 1939."
 

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ozcopper said:
A B-24 Liberator after suffering massive damage to the front & cockpit. As it's surely impossible to land an aircraft without cockpit, this destruction must have been caused by some kind of accident while grounded.

Mid-Air Collision. They would've flown this bomber back as is, a testament to how good they were built. The Halifax heavy bomber was even better being built like brick shithouses
 
Incredible Photograph Of A German Soldier Going Against Direct Orders To Help A Young Boy Cross The Newly Formed Berlin Wall After Being Separated From His Family, 1961
 

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When Nazis Asked Lepa Radic Who Were Her 'Accomplices' Before They Hanged Her She Responded: 'You'll Know Them When They Come To Avenge Me.' Young Serbian Girl Was Hanged At The Age Of 17 Near Gradiska In 1943. During The Battle Of Kozara, She Lost Her Father, Brother (15) And Her Uncle
 

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A German Soldier Returns Home Only To Find His Family No Longer There. Frankfurt, 1946
 

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Only one person in recorded history has ever been directly hit by a meteorite. Ann Hodges, 34, was napping under quilts on her couch in Sylacauga, Alabama, on November 30, 1954, when a nine-pound meteorite came through the ceiling and bounced off a radio before hitting her in the thigh.
 

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