Establishment of first socialist state, one the most progressive states in history and truly ahead of its times, inspiring countless people and revolutions across the globe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Standing_by_the_Crematory
This one. The cost of any war summarized in one picture.
It’s a pity that my app only shows the link text to the photograph instead of the image itself, but I’m glad, in some way, that now I am aware of the existence of such an image of loss. It’s pure loss.
First moon landing. It shows what we are capable of
Kubrick can make good movies.
Hey look everyone! Its a retard!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw
I heard that Kubrick was such a perfectionist, he insisted they shot on location.
Good one.
srsly go back on facebook
I really should have added that /j, eh?
you cannot imagine my ptsd from these people/bots. mb. and it was actually spielberg
We can go further. We need to support science and dream.
President Taft riding a water buffalo. Always gives me a chuckle.
All photos are historical photos. That’s a lot to choose from.
Only photos that made history are historical
If they made history, then they are historic, not historical. Well, they’re historical too, to be fair.
Free Huey is a great one:
Maybe that time a dove landed on Fidel’s shoulder during a speech right after the victory of the Cuban revolution.
It is hard to pick one, but this photo has always stuck with me. That is a picture from the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression.
The series of pictures apparently inspired Peter Gabriel for the song “don’t give up”.
I like pictures with bright colors in them.
To me that’s a sign towards a bright present and future.All those war, hunger and oppression photos just depress me.
Really interesting photo!
Any idea what those people are doing on the circular/staircase stages on the left and right?
I’m stuck on that too. It almost looks like a projection of the curtains and of the people. Are those real?
Just think of all of them taking part in some art performance. This part here has some bogus meaning and that part there just looks neat.
OP’s photo is my favorite, so I will have to mention my second favorite (though calling it a “favorite” feels off).
This photo was taken in 2003 in Iraq. This man is comforting his son. They are being held in an American camp. IIRC to this day we don’t know what happened to these two.
I think if I had to explain the last 25 years to a time-traveler, this would be the one photo I would choose.
Had never seen that one. Powerful.
Neocons have been dehumanising Arabs for a very long time.
US Liberals are still doing it to this day. One of their heroes, Obama, dropped an average of 80 bombs per day on the ME and North Africa.
After winning the Nobel peace prize, he dropped an average of 30k bombs / year (80 per day) during his presidency, mostly on Muslim countries, 2, 3. In 2016 alone, dropped 26,171 bombs in the Middle East and North Africa, up 3000 from the previous year. The countries bombed include Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and Somalia.
This is the hubble Deep Field in a series of deep field images. It was taken by directing the hubble telescope on a tiny dark spot of space. Every single light in this image is a galaxy, many of them as large or larger than our own. It truly shows the immensity of our universe and shows how insignifcant all our problems really are in the grand scheme of things.
It’s especially crazy that this is like .001% of the sky.
Oh, it’s much, much, much less than that.
0.0000416%, 1/24 millionth of the sky.
Here, a .gif on Reddit
It confirmed the cosmic insignificance of Earth, the profound vastness of space and time, and — at the same time — the rarity, beauty, and fragility of life. Human perception, memory, and understanding is tiny. But, it reaches toward infinity.
This one always makes me melancholic:
Such a big turning point in time, captured on a photograph.
Similar one:
A WW1 cavalry soldier who still carries a lance.Is that Batman on a horse?
Batman on his bathorse
What’s an orse and why does it need a bath?
I’d have guessed emperor Wilhelm II, but it seems to just be a German officer.
Yury Gagarin and Gina Lollobrigida. First man into space and one of the most famous actresses back then.
6-year old Ruby Bridges walking to school.
This picture was always so powerful to me. I think I had that one famous illustrated storybook about Ruby Bridges.
What’s the context for this? What country?
This is in the United States, during segregation.
The little girl in the picture is Ruby Bridges. In 1960, she was one of the first Black kids to integrate a school. In this picture, she is walking to an all-Whites school and the guards are protecting her because the racist white adults wanted to harm her just for wanting to go to school.
Ruby Bridges is still alive today.
Thanks. Did you just expect everyone to just know this when you posted the photo?
You guys have such a crazy history. And present.
It’s a very famous photo here.
Not here
wouldn’t really expect it to be
Cheers. 1960… it blows my mind.
Basically the US government decided to de-segregate schools in order to counter the “malign influence” of Soviet “lies” that the US is an apartheid state, but soon realized that the people were so racist that the black schoolchildren needed federal agents as personal bodyguards to prevent lynchings.
US Gov: “We’re not an apartheid state!”
[A few moments later…]
US Gov: “…errrm”
Oooh that’s a good one!
When federal agents were actually protecting minorities.
Pretty much only the federal agents who were directly ordered to though, most of the rest of them were busy putting the boot on minorities here and everywhere else in the world.
yeah this is the era of COINTELPRO, they were only helping minorities while on camera
On the one hand, very important photo to understand the context of the time.
On the other hand, monstrous that a child going to school was such a big deal and so much attention was focused on her. Can’t imagine that making a positive impression on a child.
I read about Ruby Bridges when I was a child in NZ, it made a huge impression on me.
It hasn’t happened yet. Not much longer though maybe 10 years at most.
Margaret Hamilton standing next to listings of the software that she and her MIT team produced for the Apollo Project.
I love her, and her code are adorable:“LOL Memory” (Core Rope): The code was literally woven into hardware by women in factories, dubbed “Little Old Lady” memory.
