Arizona's Goldroad Mine in 1904.
Hundreds of years ago, Ute Pass Colorado was a trail the Ute Indians would take to hunt and travel between their winter and summer camps. It later became a wagon trail carrying supplies to the gold filed streams and mines. This snap taken circa 1860.. The miners headed into the gold fields were known as 59'ers as the Pikes Peak Gold Rush started in 1859
On June 26, 1948, pilots from the United States and Britain began what became known as the Berlin Airlift, dropping thousands of pounds of food and supplies into Berlin. Following the end of World War II, Germany was divided into different zones of occupation for each of the Allied powers. The United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia each controlled a section of Germany, with Russia controlling a large section in the east and the other nations controlling swaths of territory in the west. These lands soon took on the governmental styles of those occupying them. The country of East Germany was formed out of Soviet territory and became communist, while the other Allied countries merged their occupation zones and formed a democratic West Germany. To further complicate things, the German capital of Berlin had been divided as well following the war. Again, the Allies used the same east/west dividing method, and each section of the city took on the government of its respective occupiers.
Problems soon began to form due to the fact that Berlin sat well within the Soviet occupation zone. Because of Berlin’s symbolic importance the Allied powers had agreed to occupy it together, but by 1948, with the Cold War well under way, the Soviets were no longer happy with that arrangement. The Soviet Union attempted to gain control the city by cutting off the land and sea routes into West Berlin in order to force the Allies to evacuate. Because of the Soviet blockade, West Berlin’s two million residents were soon starving and in need of many other supplies. Not wishing for a military confrontation, President Harry Truman instead ordered a massive airlift operation to bring in the necessary supplies to the starving Berliners. On June 26, the airlift started and continued until September 1949, bringing in almost 2,500 pounds of food and supplies a day. Germany existed as two separate nations up until the end of the Cold War, when, with the rapid collapse of Communism in Europe, a reunification plan was put in to action. East and West Germany were reunited on October 2, 1990.
Breastplate of French cuirassier Antoine Favreau, who perished in the battle of Waterloo, struck and killed by a cannonball. June 18th, 1815.
Antoine Favreau was a Carabinier-à-cheval (mounted carabiner) during the time of the Napoleonic Wars. The Carabinier were a body of heavy cavalry. At the time of Napoleon, they wore steel armor-plated brass, highly polished, and were armed with carbine which gave them the name (sort of short rifle), a saber and a pair of pistols.
Antoine Favreau took part in the Battle of Waterloo, which marked the decline of the Napoleonic empire.
