Toshiro Mifune was amazing. I know that Kurosawa gets a lot of praise, and I'm sure he was a great film maker, but I'm not sure if he'd be as well known without Toshiro Mifune.

I have been to Hokkaido, but I don't think we went to an Ainu village or anything like that.

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The first time that we lived in Japan, I was around 9, and some neighbors took me out to the boonies off base where we dug for stuff. We found Jomon pottery sherds.

And it was possible to find impressively knapped flint and obsidian points and knives in the area. I almost stepped on a ~4" obsidian knife on base once, and my buddy saw it and snagged it. I'd stepped right over it.

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A water wheel powers a California placer mining operation in the 1850s

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^^^^^^Hmmmmmmmmmmm

I think somebody is stealing the cat from this one. Notice the angle.

Random

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Florida Man

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I think I wanna buy this car

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Considering a Go Fund me page to buy it
and put it out of it's misery.

And by that I mean recycle it.
It probably slowed down from all the crap he slapped on.. 3 extra lights.. 2 extra spoilers.. an extra temp gauge.

Surely no Porsche deserves this done to it, not even a 924

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Approach to Rolla, MO about 1951.

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Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt with revolver and cowboy attire
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Lieutenant James Doohan and his men are part of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division tasked with establishing a beachhead. In broad daylight, under constant fire from enemy machine guns, Doohan leads his men across a beach littered with landmines. Miraculously, none of the mines detonate, and they make their way to higher ground.
Doohan and his men faced two battalions of the German 716th Infantry Division, but were able to secure their positions by noon. Doohan himself took out two German snipers. Canadian troops continued to land on the beach and move inland…so many that by nightfall there was a risk of friendly fire. This is what happened to Doohan. Returning to his post from a smoke break, Doohan was shot six times. The silver cigarette case in his breast pocket deflected the bullet that would have killed him–“the one time that smoking saved my life,” he said later.
Doohan recovered from his wounds and joined the Royal Canadian Artillery, where he learned to fly the highly maneuverable Taylorcraft Auster Mark IV. He earned the nickname “craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Force” after flying between two telephone poles near ground level just to prove it possible. Doohan would eventually become involved in flying a much more interesting craft.
Back home in Canada, Doohan was listening to a radio drama one evening. “The worst drama I had ever heard,” he told an interviewer. “I knew I could do a better job.” So he signed up for drama lessons and eventually gained a scholarship to the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. Joining CBC radio in 1953, Doohan would eventually do more than 4,000 radio and television shows, earning him a reputation as the most versatile voice actor in the business. In 1966, he auditioned for a new NBC science fiction series that would change his life forever.
Knowing that Doohan was a skilled master of dozens of accents and voices, the show producers asked him to use the one he thought would be best for the role. He told them, “If this character is going to be an engineer, you’d better make him a Scotsman.” So was born Star Trek’s “Scotty”.
Scotty influenced a lot of aspiring engineers. The Milwaukee School of Engineering awarded him an honorary degree after nearly half of the student body reported that they had chosen to study engineering because of Scotty. When he received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2004, astronaut Neil Armstrong made a rare public appearance to declare, “from one old engineer to another, thanks, Scotty.”

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I put this in the wrong thread.

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"Centerville Camp on 66," Centerville, Missouri. Some of Doolittle was called Centerville back before the name change after WWII. This is Monroe & Hattie Ramsey's store and service station on old Rt. 66. Monroe said it was halfway between Rolla and Newburg so he called it Centerville. Monroe worked on everything that came down the pike while Hattie managed the camp, three sandstone and frame cabins behind the garage. The Ramsays operated there in the 1930s until the expansion of Rt. 66 cut them off in the 1940s.

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"Newly cast bull gear for a large hoist leaving the Fulton Foundry" - Virginia City, Nevada ca. 1879.

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April 29, 1866 Granville Stuart recorded in his journal an astonishing event he witnessed in Fort Benton. “A freight wagon drawn by four mules and escorted by a company of miners, arrived. The wagon was loaded with two and one-half tons of gold dust, valued at one million five hundred thousand dollars. The gold was all from Confederate gulch and was shipped down the river by steamboat. This was the first and only time that I ever saw a wagon load of gold dust.” Pure refined gold was worth $20.67 an ounce in 1866.

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U.S. Navy Yard, Washington, D.C., the Big Gun section of the shops, in 1917.

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Man, you play like a little girl! :eek:

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Double-exposed photograph of French illusionist Henri Robin with a ghost, Photo by Eugène Thiébault, 1863.

The Washington Navy Yard has been turned into command office spaces, etc., yet they kept the old structures as much as possible. They did a great job. Still feels Navy.

I used to park there and taxi over the the Hill.


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That's fantastic

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This poplar was cut in 1913 on Green Mountain, Tucker Co., WV, by the Otter Creek Boom and Lumber Co. at Hambleton. It filled an entire logging train and furnished 12,469 board feet of lumber. The tree was taken from an area that is now known as part of the Otter Creek Wilderness

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Police your brass!

The Battle of the Somme of World War One. In the week leading up to the battle, over 1.5 million shells were fired.
The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, was one of the largest battles of the First World War. It was fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire and it took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on both sides of the upper reaches of the River Somme in France. More than one million men were wounded or killed, making it one of the bloodiest battles in human history. These pictures depict the colossal scale of the battle

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This one honestly made me laugh out loud. I have done hundreds of Photoshop jobs for customers. Mostly removing ex husbands or head transplants when one photo has them with eyes closed and everyone else looks good in a group photo. Removing wrinkles in old ladies is common. That photo above is funny!

That is funny! I used to do a lot of Photoshops, but now it's subscription based and expensive. It was fun and you can get good at it and have some laughs.

I think it is $21 per month or something. We have to have it for our business, so I have the current version.

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Fashion of the 1980s.

Man, I love the 80's but........ THAT is ghey... ....has to be a band

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Men in Harlem gather in front of a shop to listen to the radio, 1940.

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Geronimo carving buffalo meat in Oklahoma. 1909.

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A Mississippi River pearl diver, using a car’s old gas tank for a helmet, prepares to descend into the river , 1938.

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I assume you guys are aware, but this is a guy that's well known for this sort of thing. People post pics and ask him to make edits. His edits are generally done like the genie does wishes. Careful what you wish for.

His stuff is always funny, except for a few which are much, much better.

He's actually got a bunch of these as well. Kudos to the guy for recognizing this sort of thing and handling it differently.

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^^^ I had not heard of him until your post. It appears he has both talent and empathy.

His work is awesome!

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James Fridman.

Most of his stuff is funny.

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But his best work
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Independence Rock, a key geologic landmark for overland trail emigrants in the 19th century, is now protected and an oft-visited popular state historic park just southwest of Casper, Wyoming.

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I bet that was a LOUD flyover.

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A slight spider problem.

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A big wave broke on USS Neosho as she refueled carrier Yorktown, 1 May 1942" (US Navy)

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Just some pictures of my neighborhood.

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In 1953 , the 600-foot-long, 70- foot-wide Marine Angel transited the Chicago River

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The SS Meteor was launched as the SS Frank Rockefeller in 1896. The last remaining of only 44 “whaleback” ships ever built, she was designed by a Scottish immigrant named Alexander McDougall. She is 380 feet long, 45 feet wide and 26 feet deep. This ship was designed to meet the specific requirements for shipping in the frigid choppy waters of the Great Lakes and for traveling through the shallow locks at Sault St. Marie.
McDougall’s innovative ships earned the name “whaleback” for their cigar-shaped steel hulls which rode very low in the water when loaded with cargo. This low profile was an attempt to make them more stable than other vessels. The Meteor also has a system of turrets, or rounded rooms, on her deck, which allowed the crew to move between decks and machinery spaces without letting water inside. Her unique design allowed the Meteor to be remodeled for a number of different uses. The whalebacks were also built with flat bottoms for more hauling capacity, and a conical bow and stern for improved hydrodynamics. Rounded decks allowed waves to wash over much of the ship instead of pounding against the bulwarks as they would on a conventional steamer.
Although no whalebacks were built after 1898, many of them continued to travel the lakes for decades before they were scrapped for various reasons.
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In 1960 a CIA Lockheed U-2 flown by Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union during an aerial reconnaissance overflight codenamed Operation GRAND SLAM.
In an attempt to cover up the overflight, a U-2 was painted in NASA colors and presented as a weather aircraft. Unaware that Powers was still alive and in Soviet hands, a story that the pilot might have fallen unconscious while the auto pilot was engaged was fabricated. This story was spread through the press.
Day later Soviet Premier Khrushchev, proceeded to unveil this ruse by announcing that not only Powers was still alive but that the covert U-2 technologies had mostly survived the crash.
The U-2 program was soon public knowledge.

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An American pioneer family by their little sod roof house on the prairie, 1870.

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anasazi/pueblo

Very cool!

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Longyou caves

2000 year old hand carved caves in China. Up to 30M tall and the five largest average 1000 square meters. The total area covered is 30,000 square meters.

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Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa. The caboose is the conductor's second home. He always uses the same one and many conductors cook and sleep there while waiting for trains to take back from division points.
- 1943

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"This is the shucking room in a big Baltimore, MD oyster house. Shucking consists merely of removing the shells. This is done by a stroke of a hammer or an oyster knife. This breaks the end of the shell and the two parts are pried apart. The shells drop in heaps on the floor and the oysters, are put into pails or vats. Most of this work, as you see, is done by women. The shucked oysters then go to the packing room. In the packing room the oysters may be put into large cans for shipping, or they may be put into smaller cans and sealed.”
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WW2 veterans of McMinn County, TN led one of the only successful insurrections in American history, known as the Battle of Athens, storming the town’s police station and disbanding the local government after years of corruption, police brutality, and voter discrimination. (1946)

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I think they're beautiful even IF they have religious overtones.

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