From Out Of The Past... The History In Pictures Thread

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In 2008 a Japanese Lunar orbiter took this incredible footage of the Earth as it was completely illuminated as seen from the Moon.





B.B. King and Willie Nelson at Chastain Park, Atlanta, 2008.

Christmas chaos on 5th Ave in Manhattan, 2008.

I'm the Santa who crashed my vintage Porsche on Christmas in New York City

Brigadier Sir Nils Olav III is a king penguin who resides in Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland. He is the mascot and colonel-in-chief of the Norwegian King's Guard. The name 'Nils Olav' and associated ranks have been passed down through three king penguins since 1972 – the current holder being Nils Olav III. If you can further believe this, a knighthood was awarded during a visit by soldiers from the Norwegian King's Guard on 15 August 2008 to Olav III.

Brazilian native peoples ride a bus in Altamira, Brazil, May 21, 2008. Amazon Indians and activists continue to protest a proposed hydroelectric dam on the nearby Xingu River. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Cindy Crawford in 2008, age 42.

Heath Ledger and Aaron Eckhart in the make up chair for the Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight, 2008.

The Joker make-up was composed of three pieces of stamped silicone, which took less than an hour to apply to Heath Ledger on each day of shooting. Ledger described it as "new technology which is much quicker to apply than regular prosthetics"; he felt he was not wearing any make-up at all.

Two-Face's disfigurement was created through computer graphics rather than prosthetic make-up, as director Christopher Nolan felt that, no matter how good the make-up was, it is still inherently adding something onto an actor's face, when Two-Face's appearance requires part of his face to be burned away.

 

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Locals in Kyoto, Japan got a shock in 2009 when what looked like a RIVER MONSTER climbed out of the water. This is actually a 105cm long giant salamander. Law enforcement were called, and the salamander was eventually released unharmed upstream in a less populated area. Giant salamanders can grow to 150cm long and weigh 20kg.

A tornado south of Parker, Colorado, 2009. Photo by Zachary Caron.

A look at the shooting for the motion capture animation for A Christmas Carol, 2009, which starred Jim Carrey.





Michael Cera gets a Jersey Shore makeover, 2009.

Sir Patrick Stewart being knighted by the Queen, 2009.

Bruce Campbell meets up with a super fan during a visit to American forces in Iraq, 2009.

Sarychev Peak's 2009 eruption in the Kuril Islands in Russa as viewed by the ISS in orbit.



Exchange between Bill Maher and Senator Mark Pryor, 2009. Maher filmed this as part of his film Religulous.

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Wounded Danish soldier moments after close combat (Afghanistan 2010).

North Korean waves at his South Korean brother after inter-Korean temporary family reunions in 2010.

The Eyjafjallajokull volcano erupts in 2010, with a stunning display of the Northern Lights in the background, Iceland.

Hugo Weaving in the makeup chair and on set as the Red Skull in "Captain America", 2010. Prosthetic sculptor Shaune Harrison: "The one thing we didn’t want to try and do was the Frank Langella as Skeletor look from Masters of the Universe film."

Bart chalk board gag from 2010.

Cover for Marvel Comics Black Widow #1 from 2010.

Just a man with a picket sign at Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear 2010.

Spiders create cocoons and seek refuge in trees after a 2010 flood in Pakistan.

Anti-government riots in Bangkok, Thailand, May, 2010.

Giant driftwood on the beach at La Push, Washington, 2010.

 

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Japanese buildings during a 9 magnitude earthquake in 2011.




2011... And this man ran the Boston Marathon barefoot and dressed like a cave man... I salute you sir!

Badass shot of a guy protecting his truck during the 2011 Vancouver riot. The riot broke out immediately after the conclusion of the Boston Bruins' win over the Vancouver Canucks in game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals, which won the Stanley Cup for Boston. At least 140 people were reported as injured during the incident, 1 critically; at least 4 people were stabbed, 9 police officers were injured, and 101 people were arrested that night. In July 2015, four years after the riot, police finished their investigation and recommended the final charges against two suspects, bringing the total to 887 charges laid against 301 people.

A park ranger standing guard as Mount Nyamulagira erupts in eastern Congo on Friday, Nov. 11, 2011.

Students protesting higher university fees, London, 2011.

Australian Special Operations Task Group during 2011 combat operations in Southern Afghanistan. Faces blurred to protect their anonymity.

The Moon and the ISS as Seen from the space shuttle Atlantis, July 19, 2011.

 

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2011... And this man ran the Boston Marathon barefoot and dressed like a cave man... I salute you sir!

Frasier Crane visiting his son Frederick in Boston so did the marathon (man in bottom right of photo)?

 

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Squadron Leader Douglas Bader, commanding No. 242 (Canadian) Squadron RAF, with (l) Pilot Officer William Lidstone 'Willie' McKnight and (r) Acting Fl/Lt. George Eric Ball outside the Officers Mess building, Duxford, Cambridgeshire. October 1940.

Willie Mcknight was killed in action 12th Jan 1941 aged 22

George Ball died in a flying accident 1st Feb 1946 aged 27

Doug Bader who lost both legs in a flying accident in 1931, died 5th September 1982 aged 72

RAF Duxford was a Sector Station in 12 Group, responsible for defending the Midlands and East Anglia in England.

By the date this photograph was taken these pilots had, between them, shot down over thirty enemy aircraft.

(Nb, Douglas Bader is wearing the Distinguished Service Order, medal ribbon that he was awarded on the 1st October 1940.

Willie McKnight wears the Distinguished Flying Cross awarded in September and George Ball, the DFC awarded 1st October 1940)

 

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A diver has a very personal moment of dejection at the bottom of the pool during the 2012 CCCA Swimming and Diving State Championships.

Filming of the London underground chase in Skyfall, 2012.

Christian Bale presents Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng with the 2012 Human Rights Award.

Chen Guangcheng - Wikipedia

Tweet from future White House Press Sec. in 2012 "complaining" about then Pres. Obama.

2012 Perseids meteor shower over the snowy range in Wyoming as captured by David Kingham.

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Opening ceremonies for the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Riot police, March 29, 2012, Barcelona, Spain.

A U.S. Army Officer walks through a poppy field. Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, April 2012.

Some of the big musical hits of 2012-

Spoiler: PSY- Gangnam Style

Spoiler: Gotye/Kimbra- Somebody That I Used To Know

Spoiler: Alicia Keys- Girl On Fire

 

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Behind the scenes photos from the James Bond movies, 1962-2012.

 

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New Years Eve, New Zealand, 2013.

February pf 2013, many of the men being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility launched a hunger strike against camp conditions. It was sparked by a disrespectful treatment of Quran. One month into the strike, attorneys for the men, many housed at the facilities infamous Camp 6, said the number refusing food had already reached 100.

On March 29, ExxonMobil’s Pegasus pipeline burst near the town of Mayflower, Arkansas, flooding the town with the equivalent of over 10,000 barrels of crude oil. Nearly two dozen homes were evacuated following the accident, which the US Environmental Protection Agency categorized as a “major spill”.

Syria, 2013: Maaloula, an ancient Christian town where the locals speak western Aramaic - a language spoken by Christ - has seen some of the fiercest fighting in the Syrian civil war, with attacks on Christians who were eventually forced to make desperate escapes. Christians and Muslims used to coexist in Maaloula peacefully and despite the civil war raging around them had agreed that their town must remain one of peace. But when Maaloula was taken over in early September by the Islamist fighters from jabat al-Nusra, a group with links to Al-Qaeda, not one of the town’s 5,000 Christian residents or virtually a single member of the 2,000 strong Muslim community remained. All have now fled, fearing for their lives. Maaloula has become a ghost town.

Simon Pegg and a fan at 2013's SDCC.

That 70's Show cast together again in 2013.

Gay Pride Parade NYC 2013.

The cerimonial end of the Burning Man Festival, 2013.

World Press Photo of the year, 2013. An image of the bodies of two young children carried through the streets of Gaza City after an Israeli airstrike on their home, the photographer said. They are being taken to a mosque for burial, their father's body carried on a stretcher behind them. Their mother was hospitalized.

Typhoon Haiyan approaching the Philippines, November 7, 2013. Typhoon Haiyan, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Yolanda, was one of the most powerful tropical cyclones ever recorded. On making landfall, Haiyan devastated portions of Southeast Asia, particularly the Philippines. It is the deadliest Philippine typhoon on record, killing at least 6,300 people in that country alone. In terms of JTWC-estimated 1-minute sustained winds, Haiyan is tied with Meranti for being the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone on record. In January 2014, bodies were still being found.

 

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The Californian city of Los Angeles through the years, part 1.

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1850 A modest LA. Looking northeast, the layout of the new city can clearly be seen with the Los Angeles Plaza located in the lower left-center. The large white structure to the left of the Plaza is the Old Plaza Church. The two streets running from bottom of photo to the Plaza are Main Street on the left and Los Angeles Street on the right. Alameda Street runs from the lower right corner diagonally toward the lower center of photo. The L.A. River can be seen running from the lower-right diagonally to the center of the photo, turns left and disappears behind the mountain. At that point the Arroyo Seco can be seen at its confluence with the LA River. The tall majestic San Gabriel Mountains stand in the far background. Vineyards blanket the area between the City and the L.A. River (lower right). The large dark spot in the lower-right of the photo is El Aliso, the historic landmark of the indigenous Tongva people who once lived in the Indian Village of Yangna at that location, adjacent to the Los Angeles River.

1860 Aliso Street east of Los Angeles Street, looking west from near Alameda Street. At the time this was the principal thoroughfare to the Pueblo. Low buildings, trees, and horse-drawn vehicles are seen.

1868, 3rd & Hill Street.

1870 View of Wilmington harbor, showing the Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad, which had been completed by Phineas Banning in 1869--the first railroad to the harbor. Before that, freight was transported to Los Angeles by ox carts and later by horse-drawn wagons.

1870s Cathedral of Saint Vibiana, Los Angeles.

1880 View of the pier and beach in Santa Monica. People are walking on the boardwalk, sitting on the beach, and enjoying the surf. This was considered casual attire in the 1800s.

1910, the LA Times Bombing.

The Los Angeles Times bombing was the purposeful dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times Building in Los Angeles, California, on October 1, 1910, by a union member belonging to the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. The explosion started a fire which killed 21 newspaper employees and injured 100 more. It was termed the "crime of the century" by the Times.

Brothers John J. ("J.J.") and James B. ("J.B.") McNamara were arrested in April 1911 for the bombing. Their trial became a cause célèbre for the American labor movement. J.B. admitted to setting the explosive, and was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. J.J. was sentenced to 15 years in prison for bombing a local iron manufacturing plant, and returned to the Iron Workers union as an organizer.

1910 Photograph of aviator Louis Paulhan making his record flight at the Dominguez Hills Air Meet, 1910. Paulhan's Farman airplane is climbing at low altitude at left. It is a biplane with a biplanar tail and a canard fore plane. There is no real fuselage, and the aircraft is held together with wooden beams. A large crowd is gathered and is seated in bleachers at right. There is an American flag hanging at the top of the grandstands. A small group of people is standing around at table in the foreground at right.

1918 Walking over Santa Monica. Aerial view of a bi-plane flying over Santa Monica. A woman is standing on the wing looking down. Ocean Park Pier with its amusement park appears just below the plane and Venice Pier is seen in the distance.

1923 The iconic Hollywood Land sign is erected. When those white, sans-serif block letters first rose from the face of Mount Lee in 1923, they were simply a real-estate advertisement, not a cultural symbol, and there were four more of them: L-A-N-D. The thirteen letters—illuminated at night by 4,000 incandescent bulbs. They were meant to be seen from an automobile; the sign's principal designers, publicist John D. Roche and Los Angeles Times publisher Harry Chandler, scaled the letters—50 feet tall by 30 feet wide—to be read from Wilshire Boulevard.

 

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1925 One of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department "Night Squads". These detective units responded to early morning major crimes and follow-up during the 1920s. Photo taken outside old County Courthouse. Photo from Shotgun World.

1928 View of the new UCLA Westwood campus looking west from the top of Janss Steps. Workers are seen constructing the steps.

1930 Mines Field, known today as Los Angeles International Airport.

1931 Transferring mail from an ocean liner to the Goodyear Blimp in the Los Angeles Harbor.

1933 View looking west on Santa Monica Boulevard toward Westbourne Drive. The building seen on the NW corner (center-right) is still there. This was taken at around 8612 Santa Monica, which puts it approximately where LA Fitness now stands.

1936 Los Angeles Fire Department, Engine Company No. 14, located at 3401 S. Central Avenue and the corner of 34th Street.

1937 View looking southeast across Wilshire Boulevard showing the front of the Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 3300 Wilshire Boulevard.

1939 Exterior view of Little Joe's Restaurant and Little Joe's Groceries at 900 North Broadway.

1940 Corner of Cahuenga Boulevard and Hollywood Boulevard.

 

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1942 Motorcycle officers B. H. McLean and Bobby Clark guard a roped-off zone on Maple Street in Santa Monica while a dud shell is dug up after the Los Angeles Air Raid. This Photo appeared in the Feb. 26, 1942 Los Angeles Times. Tensions were high, and they only grew after U.S. Secretary of War Henry Stimson warned that American cities should be prepared to accept “occasional blows” from enemy forces. On February 23, 1942, a Japanese submarine surfaced off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, and hurled over a dozen artillery shells at an oil field and refinery. While the attack inflicted no casualties and caused only minor damage, it marked the first time that the mainland United States had been bombed during World War II.

1942 A deserted 1st Street in Little Tokyo.

After President Roosevelt's Executive Order gave broad powers to the Secretary of War to guard against the threat of sabotage and espionage. Within days of the February 19 order, a series of "Public Proclamations" and "Civilian Exclusion Orders" directed that Japanese and Japanese-Americans be removed from all West Coast states in order to prevent collusion with the enemy.

Virtually all Japanese, by birth or ancestry, were rounded up with scant warning and sent to ten internment camps far from the coast. Age, sex, or condition offered no exception to the rule. Having as little as 1/16th Japanese blood marked one for removal. Orphans of Japanese blood were gathered up and transported, even if they were in the care of Caucasian families.

1942 Japanese families gather with their belongings at a departure point where they will be taken to an assembly center and, eventually, to an internment camp. All persons, including children, had to wear identification tags. The intention of the tags was to prevent families from being separated. Tags also identify bales of bedding which might or might not be reunited with their owners.

1946 An early model Cadillac meets up with PE car No. 5120 at the intersection of Santa Monica and San Vicente boulevards. Val's Coffee Shop can be seen on the NE corner at 8875 Santa Monica Blvd.

1948 Bruin Theater premier of “Adventures of Casanova” getting the Hollywood red carpet treatment. Throngs of movie fans surround the theater, eager to catch a glimpse of their favorite stars.

December 25, 1950, people lined up for Christmas dinner in front of the Volunteers of America's mission post No. 1 on Skid Row.

1952 Celebrating the upcoming marriage of Nancy Davis (left) to Ronald Reagan, are Jeanne (Biegger) Martin and Dean Martin (right) at Ciro's Nightclub on the Sunset Strip on February 23, 1952. Ain't that a kick in the head!

1954 View looking north across a wet Sunset Boulevard toward Crossroads of the World.

May 8, 1959: "Several Chavez Ravine residents fought eviction, including Aurora Vargas, who vowed that, 'they'll have to carry me [out].' L.A. County Sheriffs forcibly remove Vargas from her home. Bulldozers then knocked over the few remaining dwellings. Four months later, ground-breaking for Dodger Stadium began." (Courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library HERALD-EXAMINER COLLECTION)


Chavez Ravine was a thriving, friendly hillside community of Mexican-American families, many of whom had roots in the neighborhood stretching back to the Victorian era. It would all be leveled to make way for a baseball stadium.

On Black Friday, May 9, 1959, the remaining families of Chavez Ravine were met with bulldozers and sheriffs wielding eviction orders. In a heart-wrenching scene, defiant families were forcibly dragged out of their homes.

 

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1962 Exterior view of Little Joe's Restaurant, 900 North Broadway.

1964 View showing people waiting in line to get into the Whisky A-Go-Go in West Hollywood. Now playing: Johnny Rivers. Photo by Julian Wasser.

1965 Watts Riots.

Some context:

Because of discrimination Los Angeles' African American residents were excluded from the high-paying jobs, affordable housing, and politics available to white residents; moreover, they faced discrimination by the white-dominated Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). In 1950, William H. Parker was appointed and sworn in as Los Angeles Chief of Police. After a major scandal called Bloody Christmas of 1951, Parker pushed for more independence from political pressures that would enable him to create a more professionalized police force. The public supported him and voted for charter changes that isolated the police department from the rest of the city government. In the 1960s, the LAPD was promoted as one of the best police forces in the world.

Despite its reform and having a professionalized, military-like police force, William Parker's LAPD faced repeated criticism from the city's Latino and black residents for police brutality—resulting from his recruiting of officers from the South with strong anti-black and anti-Mexican attitudes. Chief Parker coined the term "Thin Blue Line", representing the police as holding down pervasive crime.

Resentment of such longstanding racial injustices are cited as reasons why Watts' African-American population exploded on August 11, 1965, in what would become the Watts Riots.


On the evening of Wednesday, August 11, 1965, 21-year-old Marquette Frye, an African-American man driving his mother's 1955 Buick, was pulled over by California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer Lee Minikus for alleged reckless driving. After administering a field sobriety test, Minikus placed Frye under arrest and radioed for his vehicle to be impounded. Marquette's brother, Ronald, a passenger in the vehicle, walked to their house nearby, bringing their mother, Rena Price, back with him to the scene of the arrest.

When Rena Price reached the intersection of Avalon Boulevard and 116th Street that evening, she scolded Frye about drinking and driving, as he recalled in a 1985 interview with the Orlando Sentinel. But the situation quickly escalated: someone shoved Price, Frye was struck, Price jumped an officer, and another officer pulled out a shotgun. Backup police officers attempted to arrest Frye by using physical force to subdue him. After community members reported that police had roughed up Frye and kicked a pregnant woman, angry mobs formed. As the situation intensified, growing crowds of local residents watching the exchange began yelling and throwing objects at the police officers. Frye's mother and brother fought with the officers and were eventually arrested along with Marquette Frye.

After the arrests of Price and her sons the Frye brothers, the crowd continued to grow along Avalon Boulevard. Police came to the scene to break up the crowd several times that night, but were attacked when people threw rocks and chunks of concrete. A 46-square-mile (119 square kilometer) swath of Los Angeles was transformed into a combat zone during the ensuing six days.


Thirty-four were killed and more than 1,000 were wounded in the riots, primarily African-Americans, and hundreds of buildings were destroyed.

With his .22 hunting rifle on his lap and a revolver in his belt, heavyweight boxer Amos Lincoln, a.k.a. Big Train, guards the family drug store during the riots.

 

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1965 Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks to a crowd of 4,500 on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles in April 1965.

1966 About 1,000 young music fans gathered at the Pandora’s Box club on Sunset Strip to protest against a 10pm curfew imposed by local residents on November 12, 1966. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

1967, THE DOORS' band members atop their billboard on Sunset Strip as workers finish installation.

Spoiler: The Doors- Love Me Two Times

Lewis Alcindor jr., soon to be Kareem Abdul-Jabar, doing what he do in a 1968 game between UCLA and Houston.

1969 Close-up view of the Sunset Strip billboard for the Beatle’s Abbey Road Album.

1971 San Fernando Earthquake. When the dust cleared on the 1971 Sylmar-San Fernando earthquake 45 years ago Tuesday, 64 people lay dead and more than 2,500 lay injured beneath more than $550 million in rubble.

The 12-second temblor, at 6.6 magnitude, ripped along a 12-mile fault zone beneath the San Gabriel Mountains beginning at 6:01 a.m.

1977 STAR WARS premiers at Manns Chinese Theater.

 

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1980 Exterior view of Gazzarri's nightclub on the Sunset Strip, with a sign which reads, "Every Sunday battle of the bands."

1985 View looking northwest on Sunset Boulevard toward the Hollywood Hills showing billboards for Rocky IV, KIIS FM, and the Marlboro Man. Part of the roofline for Great Western Savings and Loan can be seen on the left.

1988 View of the iconic Tower Records Building at 8801 Sunset Boulevard with an image of Michael Jackson on its front face.

1988, NWA released their debut album Straight Outta Compton. Straight Outta Compton peaked at number 37 on the US Billboard Top LPs chart and number 9 on the Billboard Top Soul LPs.

1991, and the Rodney King arrest and beating is caught on video as more people had access to video technology.

On March 3, 1991, King was violently beaten by LAPD officers during his arrest for fleeing and resisting arrest on California State Route 210. A civilian, George Holliday, filmed the incident from his nearby balcony and sent the footage to local news station KTLA. The footage clearly showed King being beaten repeatedly, and the incident was covered by news media around the world.

The four officers were tried on charges of use of police brutality; three were acquitted, and the jury failed to reach a verdict on one charge for the fourth. Within hours of the acquittals, the 1992 Los Angeles riots started, sparked by outrage among African Americans over the trial's verdict and related, longstanding social issues. The rioting lasted six days and killed 63 people with 2,383 more injured; it ended only after the California Army National Guard, the United States Army and the United States Marine Corps provided reinforcements to re-establish control.

The attack on Reginald Denny was a racially motivated hate crime in the 1992 Los Angeles riots in which Reginald Denny, a white construction truck driver, was beaten nearly to death by a group of black men who came to be known as the "L.A. Four". The attack was captured on video by a news helicopter, and broadcast live on US national television.

A young woman sits on the hood of her car across the street from a burning grocery store.

 

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The Californian city of Los Angeles through the years part 7.



The 1994 Northridge earthquake was a moment magnitude 6.7 (Mw), blind thrust earthquake that occurred on January 17, 1994, at 4:30:55 a.m. PST in the San Fernando Valley region of the County of Los Angeles. Its epicenter was in Reseda, a neighborhood in the north-central area of the San Fernando Valley. The quake had a duration of approximately 10–20 seconds, and its peak ground acceleration of 1.8g (16.7 m/s2) was the highest ever instrumentally recorded in an urban area in North America. Strong ground motion was felt as far away as Las Vegas, Nevada, about 220 miles (360 km) from the epicenter. The peak ground velocity at the Rinaldi Receiving Station was 183 cm/s (4.09 mph or 6.59 km/h), the fastest ever recorded.

Property damage was estimated to be $13–50 billion (equivalent to $22–86 billion today), making it one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history.

1994. On June 17th 1994 OJ Simpson led Los Angeles Police on a low speed pursuit while in the infamous 1993 Ford Bronco.

1996 Rookie Kobe Bryant's first game vs the Minnesota Timberwolves at the Forum in Inglewood, California, Nov. 3, 1996.

The North Hollywood shootout was a confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, and members of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in the North Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California, on February 28, 1997. Both robbers were killed, 12 police officers and eight civilians were injured, and numerous vehicles and other property were damaged or destroyed by the nearly 2,000 rounds of ammunition fired by the robbers and police.

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South Korea, the Sewol ferry took a sharp turn and capsized off the southwestern island of Jindo, with the loss of 304 lives. Of those who died, 250 were students from Dawon High School in Ansan. April 16, 2014.

A fearless explorer and photographer, Carsten Peter takes a daring journey to capture images of the largest lava lake on Earth. From National Geographic, 2014.

Clew Bay Pipe Band Piper playing at the Achill Island, Ireland Saint Patrick's Day Parade, 2014.

2014, Cowboy Josh Hoy keeps a close watch on the flames in the annual prairie burn on the Flying W Ranch in the Flint Hills of Kansas.

Scenes from a revolution... Ukraine, 2014.

2014 Ukrainian revolution - Wikipedia

Just a little something for the ladies... And a percentage of the guys out there too I suppose... The 2014 Canadian Bobsled Olympic team take a selfie for fans.

 

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Holocaust survivor at international holocaust remembrance day 2014 in Auschwitz.

Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill, 2014.

Crew of the International Space Station watching the World Cup, 2014.

Graffiti outside of Levi's Stadium, California, 2014.

A Vanity Fair photoshoot of Jennifer Lawrence from 2014, when the youthful Lawrence was in fact the on screen performer that had the highest grossing films of the year.

Ellen and the famous Oscar Selfie moment from 2014.

Air Force Academy graduates throw their caps into the air at the completion of the graduation ceremony for the class of 2014, at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo., May 28, 2014.

Medical staff carry James Dorbor, 8, suspected of having Ebola, into a treatment facility in Monrovia, Liberia, Sept. 5, 2014.

A handout photo of Palestinian refugees waiting for food aid in the Yarmouk camp on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, Jan. 31, 2014.

A golfer hits a tee shot as African migrants sit atop a border fence during an attempt to cross into Spanish territories between Morocco and Spain's north African enclave of Melilla, Oct. 22, 2014.

Some of the musical hits of 2014-

Spoiler: Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass

Spoiler: Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk (Official Video) ft. Bruno Mars

Spoiler: Maroon 5- Animals

Spoiler: Nicki Minaj- Anaconda

 

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Four years after the nuclear disaster caused by a tsunami photographer Arkadiusz Podniesinski entered to surrounding areas that were evacuated and abandoned in 2015.

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster - Wikipedia

Doc and Marty arrive in 2015... Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd appear on Jimmy Kimmel in character.

A female Kurdish fighter destroys an ISIS sign with instructions on how women should dress, northeast Syria, November 2015. Just a few years later under the Trump administration the Kurds, steadfast allies of the U.S. for decades, were routed and slaughtered by Turkish forces.

At a railway station, Stockholm, Sweden, 2015.

Members of the Indonesian Red Cross sit next to coffins containing passengers killed in a fatal plane crash of an Indonesian airliner after the rescue workers retrieved some of the bodies on January 2nd, 2015.

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French rugby players stand wearing shirts reading "We are all Charlie" during a minute of silence on January 9th for the victims of the deadly attack on the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo Thomas.

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Ukranian soldiers play soccer on the front lines of a civil war with Russian-backed separatists during a ceasefire on February 15, 2015.

Dylann Roof, who gunned down nine people at an African American church in South Carolina, appears at a court hearing in North Charleston, South Carolina, June 19, 2015.

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Pallbearers release doves at a funeral on June 25th for one of the victims of Dylann Roof's attack in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Chinese boys stare at a smartphone in front of their house next to a coal fired power plant on November 27, 2015, on the outskirts of Beijing, China.

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets supporters after a rally in Mobile, Alabama on August 21, 2015.

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A Syrian Kurdish boy sits on a destroyed tank in the Syrian town of Kobane on March 27, 2015. Roughly two months after Kurdish forces defeated an Islamic State offensive to capture the town Yasin.

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A couple takes a selfie while waiting to get married on June 26, 2015 in Los Angeles, California, following a landmark Supreme Court decision according same-sex couples the right to marry.

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Usain Bolt ran as a guide for blind Paralympic champion Terezinha Guilhermina in Rio (2015).

Emilia Clarke on the cover of Esquire, November 2015, voted their "Sexiest Woman Alive 2015".

Canadian and British Army reconnaissance team during Exercise IRON SWORD, 2015.

Some of the musical hits of 2015-

Spoiler: Adele- Hello

Spoiler: Demi Lovato- Cool For The Summer

Spoiler: Silento- Watch Me Whip

Spoiler: Fall Out Boy- Uma Thurman

 

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A sample of National Geographic's Pictures Of The Year for 2015.


Jeff Hester captured this incredible moment at Cabo Pulmo, a marine park off Mexico's Baja California peninsula, showing his wife swimming underneath a huge shoal of fish.

Lake Baikal in southeastern Siberia is the world's deepest and oldest, and was snapped by Alexey Trofimov.

Aurora Borealis is seen chasing across the dark night sky over Iceland.

While walking along the shore of Larak, Iran, Pooyan Shadpoor came across the luminous scene in the photo, saying that the 'magical lights of [the] plankton ... enchanted me so that I snapped the shot'.

Jellyfish Lake on Eil Malk, one of the Rock Islands of Palau in the Western Pacific is home to rare golden jellyfish which are harmless to humans and spend much of their lives following the sun as it makes its daily progress across the sky.

Clinton Berry, a member of National Geographic's Your Shot community, captured this photo with a GoPro on Antarctica's sea ice, about six miles from Casey Station after studying the moments of the penguins for several weeks to find where they walked.

 

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Pictures from the "Spanish Flu" pandemic that circled the globe from 1918-1920.


Men gargling with salt and water at Camp Dix in New Jersey as a preventive measure against the influenza epidemic of influenza.

The National Archives

The scenes in Philadelphia appeared to be straight out of the plague-infested Middle Ages. Throughout the day and night, horse-drawn wagons kept a constant parade through the streets of Philadelphia as priests joined the police in collecting corpses draped in sackcloths and blood-stained sheets that were left on porches and sidewalks. The bodies were piled on top of each other in the wagons with limbs protruding from underneath the sheets. The parents of one small boy who succumbed to the flu begged the authorities to allow him the dignity of being buried in a wooden box that had been used to ship macaroni instead of wrapping him a sheet and having him taken away in a patrol wagon.

Over 11,000 Philadelphia residents died in October 1918, including 759 on the worst day of the outbreak. Drivers of open carts kept a near-constant vigil circling streets while hollering, “Bring out your dead!” They then deposited the collected corpses in mass graves excavated by steam shovels.

Policemen in Seattle, Washington wearing masks to prevent catching the flu.

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Street car conductor in Seattle not allowing passengers aboard without a mask, 1918.

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A demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station in Washington, D.C., during the influenza pandemic of 1918.

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A boxing match on the USS Siboney - with many spectators wearing protective masks.

Letter carrier in New York wearing mask for protection against influenza. New York City, October 16, 1918.

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Doctors and nurses assembled to treat those infected in Sydney, Australia, 1919.

Hospital Beds in Great Hall During Influenza Pandemic, Melbourne Exhibition Building, Carlton, Victoria, circa 1919.

By the time it abated in 1920, the Spanish flu had killed 675,000 Americans and left hundreds of thousands of children orphaned. Not only did more Americans die of the Spanish flu than in World War I, more died than in all the wars of the 20th century combined. Globally, the pandemic infected a third of the planet’s population and killed an estimated 50 million people.

Yet for all the lives lost and changed forever, the Spanish flu quickly faded from public consciousness. “It fell into this black hole of history,” Kenneth C. Davis, author of “More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War.” says. “Impacted families never seemed to talk much about it, perhaps because it was so terrible that no one wanted to think about it again. That’s the way the country also dealt with it.”

 

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The American Women's Gymnastics team for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio De Janero, 2016.

The 2016 NBA Dunk Contest between Zach Levine and Aaron Gordon.




3 siblings picking up their daily allowance of bottled water from the Fire Dept in Flint, MI., 2016.

As of early 2017, some officials asserted that the water quality had returned to acceptable levels, but as of January 2019, Flint residents and officials still expressed doubt about the cleanliness of the water. There were an estimated 2,500 lead service lines still in place as of April 2019. The city expects to finish replacing lead lines by July 2020.

Flint water crisis - Wikipedia

A Swedish woman protest a Neo-Nazi rally in Borlänge, Sweden, 2016.

Pictures from the 2016 World Nomad Games that took place in Kyrgyzstan.

The Games see forty central Asian nations compete in traditional sports from bone throwing to goat-carcass polo.

World Nomad Games - Wikipedia

 

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Keith Lamont Scott, a 43-year-old African-American man, was fatally shot on September 20, 2016, in Charlotte, North Carolina United States by Brentley Vinson, an African-American city police officer. Police officers had arrived at Scott's apartment complex to search for an unrelated man with an outstanding warrant. According to police, officers saw Scott exit a vehicle in the parking lot while carrying a handgun, and he refused to comply with their orders. Scott's wife was also present and disputed that account.

The shooting prompted investigations by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, and the U.S. Department of Justice. As is customary for the department, Vinson was placed on paid administrative leave pending an investigation. The shooting sparked both peaceful protests and violent riots in Charlotte over two nights. One person was killed by a civilian, and multiple officers and civilians were injured in the unrest.

In November 2016, county prosecutors decided not to charge Vinson, concluding that the shooting was justified.

One person was shot in the head during the night protests. The shooting occurred at North College and East Trade streets and was reported at around 8:45 p.m. Authorities stated that both the shooter and the victim were civilians; the Charlotte Clergy Coalition for Justice claimed that the individual was shot by police. The shooting victim, later identified as Justin Carr, age 26, was transported to the Carolinas Medical Center, where he died the next day.

On the morning of September 23, Rayquan Borum, age 23, was arrested and charged with the murder of Carr. Borum was indicted on first-degree murder charges on October 5. According to prosecutors, he confessed to the crime. He was found guilty by a jury on March 8, 2019 and sentenced to approximately 30 years in prison.


Shooting of Keith Lamont Scott - Wikipedia


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On the streets of Charlotte

 

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A selection of finalists From The 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer Of The Year.