When both sides of the channel tunnel first met 1990.
In 1990, Mikhail Kalashnikov (inventor of the AK47) met Eugene Stoner (designer of the M-16). Stoner flew to meet him in his private jet and had to buy Mikhail's plane ticket because he couldn't afford it.
This is JFK at a campaign stop in West Virginia in 1960.
Audience reactions to the shower scene in Psycho at films premiere in New York City, 1960.
Che Guevara and Fidel Castro fishing, 1960.
The Chairman of the board and the King, 1960. Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, in the special Welcome Home, Elvis! to celebrate Elvis' homecoming from the army.
Whisky vending machine 1960.
A skateboarder in Central Park, 1960.
Robert Kennedy taking a break from brother John's 1960 presidential campaign, 1960.
Louis Armstrong (L), Duke Ellington (R), & trombonist Paul Newman in 1960.
David Lynch and Grace Zabriskie on the set of Twin Peaks, 1990.
Looking out of the Kremlin Clock, 1990.
Some of the biggest names in modeling circa the 1990's. Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford by Peter Lindbergh for Vogue UK, Janary 1990.
The cover of GQ, August 1990.
Aubrey Plaza Voyaging to the stars since 1990.
Johnny Depp & Winona Ryder - Mermaids premiere, December 1990.
Madonna parties backstage, 1990.
Sugerbowl, Lake Tahoe in winter in the 1990's.
Paleontologist Dr. Stephen Jay Gould, left, was among several recipients of the Encyclopaedia Britannica Awards in New York, Feb. 28, 1990. From left to right: Gould, John Hope Franklin, an African American historian; Freeman Dyson, a Princeton University Physicist; and Grigory Tunkin, Mikhail Gorbachev's advisor from Moscow.
Protesting the 1981 Springbok tour of the apartheid era South African rugby team in Gisborne, New Zealand marchers and police clash.
A very young Jim Carrey in 1981.
Magazine advertisement for Satellite TV in 1981.
Steve Buscemi in Little Italy, NYC, 1981.
The Secret Service, police and onlookers scramble moments after the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, 1981.
Hugh Laurie, Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery as young students in 1981. Laurie, Fry and the rest were members of the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, here they are reserving the first ever Perrier Comedy Award which is presented by Atkinson.
Tony Slattery is more well known in UK for his work on "Whose line is it anyway?" The man behind Stephen Fry is Paul Shearer, he did a lot of hosting and voicework. The curly haired woman is Penny Dwyer, she chose not to pursue a career in the entertainment business. Instead she became a metallurgist and has a major role in the construction of the Channel Tunnel.
Meryl Streep in NYC 1981 riding the subway.
Stephen King and Tom Savini 1981.
First Space Shuttle Mission, STS-1, Launches - April 12, 1981.
These illuminated tires were developed by Goodyear in 1961 Photo by Douglas Miller.
Ian McKellen, Cambridge, 1961.
Gregory Peck played chess with his child co-stars between filming scenes of "To Kill a Mockingbird", circa 1961.
Voting activist Annie Lumpkins at the Little Rock city jail -- July 10, 1961. This is Annie Lumpkins, age 18 at time of photo. In the hot summer of 1961, she and 4 friends boarded a freedom bus in St Louis, with the goal of desegregating public transportation facilities throughout the south, from St. Louis to New Orleans.
They didn't get far, for when they arrived in the Trailways Bus station, there was a mob waiting for them.
Annie and her friends, all black and white, all members of the same group of Freedom Riders, walked passed the mod and sat in a "Whites Only" waiting room in the station.
The police arrived, and arrested them all on the spot.
Keep in mind that just a year earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Boynton vs. Virginia ordered integration of all bus terminals, but that didn't matter to the police, or the prosecutor.
Their crime carried a punishment of a six month prison sentence and a $500 fine in Arkansas, which was common. But thanks to the ruling, the Judge had no authority to keep the band of five from traveling, and let them go.
Akira Kurosawa with Toshiro Mifune on the set of Yojimbo, 1961.
The pre 1970 AFL-NFL merger 1961 Starting Quarterbacks for the NFL.
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Dr. Leonid Rogozov operating himself to remove his Appendix in Antarctica 1961. He left instructions on how to complete the procedure if he should pass out on an errant napkin.
19-year-old Private Jimi Hendrix jamming with an Army buddy, 1961.
An East German soldier helping a boy cross the newly formed Berlin Wall, 1961. From what is known, the photograph was taken the day the emerging Wall was put up in August 1961 and the boy was found on the opposite side of the wall from his family. Despite given orders by the East German government to let no one pass, the soldier helped the boy through the barbwire. Near the exact time this photo was taken, it was said that the soldier was seen by his superior officer who immediately detached the soldier from his unit.
Concerning the fate of the soldier, most descriptions that come with photograph say that no one knows what became of him.
The Greenwood district in Tulsa OK was a middle class black neighborhood. It should be pointed out that at this point in american history it was very uncommon for middle class black neighborhoods to exist. The community was still subjected to racial segregation and Jim Crow but still managed at thrive. It was so prosperous that some referred to it as the Negro Wall Street at the time. However, Lynchings were still a common occurrence and would happen multiple times a year. On May 30th 1921 (Memorial Day) a 19 year old by the name of Dick Rowland was accused of assaulting a 17 year old girl by the name of Sarah Page (assault was used as a synonym of rape at the time). She didnt want him to be arrested and charged but he was arrested anyways. It was clear that he was going to get lynched so a group of black men when to the jail to protect him. When a group of white men went to the jail to lynch Rowland there was a confrontation between the two groups and gunfire was exchanged.
After this exchange the backlash was almost immediate. The white mob followed the black men back to Greenwood firing on them as the retreated. Once in Greenwood the mob began to loot and pillage the community. The rioting continued over night as more men joined in attacking the community. By the next day the mob began systematically looting houses and businesses and then burnt them down. There are even reports of airplanes flying over and dropping Molotov cocktails on the community. Local police are witnessed to have join the mob. It has been described as a war-zone with white men attacking the community and black men firing back at them. Eventually the national guard was called in to stop the fighting but by then the entire community was burnt down and hundreds of black men had been executed. Most historians say about 300 men were killed during the riot. The community never fully recovered, many families moved away.
A pair of horn amplifiers at Bolling Air Field, Washington DC, USA. Such detectors, developed in response to the rise of military aircraft, were rendered obsolete by the arrival of radar.
Manning the horns is a soldier of the 99th Aero Squadron of the United States Army Air Service who first served in World War 1 on the Western Front, and was re-designated as the 99th Corps Observation Squadron in 1921, coinciding with the units relocation to Bolling Air Force Base in Washington DC. The neo-classical building of the National War College at Fort McNair completed in 1907 in the background of this photograph still exists today.
Krazy Kat Club in 1921.The Krazy Kat Klub (alternatively, Krazy Kat Club, Krazy Kat Klubb, etc.) was a Bohemian cafe, speakeasy and nightclub that operated at No. 3 Green Court near Washington, D.C.'s Thomas Circle during the early decades of the 20th century. The club was run by portraitist and theatrical scenic designer Cleon "Throck" Throckmorton[1] and its name was borrowed from the title character of a comic strip that was popular at the time.
The Krazy Kat Klubs entrance was in an alley that led out to Massachusetts Avenue, and during 1921 the entrance door bore a small sign reading "The Krazy Kat" along with a chalk-written warning at the top of the door that read, All soap abandon ye who enter here. The club included both an indoor dance floor and an outdoor courtyard for al fresco dining and art exhibitions. The courtyard featured a small tree-house, accessed by a ladder. The Club was also the site of painting classes during the 1920s.
In 1919, a reporter for the Washington Post described the Krazy Kat Klub as being "something like a Greenwich Village coffee house", featuring "gaudy pictures created by futurists and impressionists". It was also mentioned in the published diary of Washington, DC resident Jeb Alexander, who wrote that the club was a "Bohemian joint in an old stable up near Thomas Circle . . . [a gathering place for] artists, musicians, atheists (and) professors."]
Winston Churchill and "Lawrence of Arabia" in front of the Sphinx in Egypt in 1921.
Locust Street Bridge, Milwaukee, 1921.
Ford Model T truck pulling 8,000 Pounds of Hay, 1921.
Then but a crown prince, Emperor Sh?wa (Hirohito) of Japan tours Paris in 1921.
Streets of Paris, 1925.
Two female moonshiners from the American South show off their operation and what they use to protect it and themselves during the Prohibition era in 1921.
Tottenham forward Ber Bliss doing his thing in the 1921 FA Cup final.
Australian soldiers wearing gas masks while cutting onions at Tobruk, Libya, 15 October 1941.
24 days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, military police in Times Square on New Year's Eve, as 1941 turns to 1942.
German military transport aircraft Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant, the largest land-based transport aircraft of the war. Photo taken in 1941.
HMS Hermione's cat, Convoy, asleep in his hammock, November 1941. Convoy was the ship's cat aboard HMS Hermione. He was so named because of the number of times he accompanied the ship on convoy escort duties. Convoy was duly listed in the ship's book and provided with a full kit, including a tiny hammock where he would sleep. He was killed along with 87 of his crew mates when the Hermione was torpedoed and sunk on 16 June 1942 by German submarine U-205.
A British soldier and a Canadian sailor share a light, January 1941.
A woman sits atop a pile of rubble and has a cup of tea after a German Luftwaffe strike during the Blitz. London, England. 1941.
On September 16 and September 22, 1941, the Nazis rounded up all of the Jews in the town of Vinnitsa, Ukraine, and executed them. Pictured here in this famous photograph we see a man, kneeling before a pit filled with bodies, about to be shot by a German soldier. This photograph was found among a German soldiers photo album, and on the back was written the title The Last Jew of Vinnitsa.
A Wehrmacht officer who observed the slaughter described it in all its horror. The people were told to show up at the already dug pit for a census. They were then forced to disrobe and turn in all their belongings. A row of naked people were then lined up along the pit, and mowed down by German soldiers using pistols. The next group would be ordered to shovel quicklime onto the still-writhing bodies in the pit, then repeat the process of undressing, turning over their valuables, and being shot until each and every one of them joined their families and neighbors in the pit. All 28,000 Jews from Vinnitsa were killed in this manner.
A Bell P-39 Airacobra fires all weapons during a test flight, 1941.
A German soldier grabs a last minute goodbye kiss from his sweetheart on the eve of Operation: Barbarossa, 1941.
A German Luftwaffe officer POW disembarking in Newhaven, England glances contemptuously at a guard (ca. 1941).
Princess Diana shakes hands with an AIDS patient without gloves, a profound gesture that made her a hero to homosexual men suffering from the disease, 1991.
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates discuss the PC's future. Jobs' Palo Alto home, 1991.
One of the most famous pictures of The Gulf War: Death of an Iraqi soldier. Highway of Death, 1991.
Jim Carrey with daughter Jane in a tree house, 1991.
Jaleel White gliding past Will Smith and Reggie Miller during the 1991 Rock n' Jock basketball game.
Oil well firefighter in Kuwait, 1991.
Angelina Jolie getting some modeling in during 1991.
Monica Bellucci doing a photoshoot in Italy, 1991.
Coalition Fighters (F-16A, F-15C, F-15E) patrol over the burning oil fields of Kuwait, Gulf War, 1991.
American teachers showing a sense of humor about Spring Break in 1910.
3,500 pound sunfish caught in 1910 somewhere on the Catalina coast of the U.S.
Newsies taking a smoke break in St. Louis, 1910.
New York City Mayor William Gaynor moments after he was shot in the throat during an assassination attempt by a disgruntled city employee on board the SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse docked in Hoboken, New Jersey, 1910.
A view of Halleys Comet from the Lick Observatory on June 6, 1910.
Circa 1910. Passenger (observation) locomotive train car of New York Central R.R.
Indian woman with owl, 1910, Blind River, Ontario, Canada.
Lewis Hine was an American sociologist and photographer whose work was instrumental in changing the child labour laws in the United States. In 1908, Hine became the photographer for the National Child Labour Committee, and over the next decade, he documented child labour in American industry to aid the NCLCs lobbying efforts to end the practice.
Helen, 5, and her stepsisters hulling strawberries at Johnson's Hulling Station. This is her 2nd season at Johnson's Hulling Sta. On the day of investigation, she started working at 6 A.M., and at 6 P.M. the same day, Helen was still hulling strawberries. Seaford, Del, May 1910.
Gum vendors still selling at 9pm near the National theatre. Eli Marks, 8, makes 25 cents a night. Morris Marks, 10, makes 50 cents a night. Harry Schneider, 11, also makes 50 cents a night. April 1912.
On the right end is Marie Colbeck, 8, who shucks six or seven pots of oysters a day (making 30 or 35 cents) at Alabama Canning Factory. At left end, Johnnie Schraker, also 8, says she earns 45 cents a day. She's been schucking for 3 years. Bayou La Batre, Ala, February 1911.
General view of spinning room, Cornell Mill, Fall River, Mass, January 1912.
9 P.M. in an Indiana Glass Works. Indiana, August 1908.
Breaker boys at Hughestown Borough Coal Co. Pittston, Pa, January 1911.
Richard Pierce, 14, has been a Western Union Telegraph Co. messenger for 9 months. He works from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., smokes and visits houses of prostitution. Wilmington, Del, May 1910.
Garment workers: Katrina De Cato, 6, Franco Brezoo, 11, Maria Attreo, 12, Mattie Attreo, 5. New York City, January 1910.
Newsboy James Loqulla, 12, has been selling papers for 3 years. His average earnings come to about 50 cents a week. He doesn't smoke, but visits saloons. He works 7 hours a day. Wilmington, Del, May 1910.
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