2020 New Random Pics

[asphaltgambler]

Definitely an early Mopar in the field, the slant six is still there but all else rusted away

[GH85Carrera]

The oldest door is still in use in Rome. Cast in bronze for emperor Hadrian' rebuilding, they date from about 115 AD.
Each door is solid bronze seven and a half feet wide & twenty-five feet high, yet so well balanced they can be pushed or pulled open easily by one person.




CH-53E Super Stallion
The heavy-lift helicopter of the Marine Corps can carry a 26,000-pound Light Armored Vehicle, 16 tons of cargo 50 miles and back, or enough combat-loaded Marines to lead an assault or humanitarian operation. Though powerful enough to lift every aircraft in the Marine inventory except the KC-130, the CH-53E Super Stallion is compact enough to deploy on amphibious assault ships, and has the armament, speed and agility to qualify as much more than a heavy lifter.

[kach22i]

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/toyota-lexus-electric-sports-car-teaser-preview/

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[A930Rocket]

The Flatiron building. Funny how you remember the name of something like that.

[john70t]

One in SF as well.

[GH85Carrera]

Several cars and a motorcyclist wait for their turn to cross the intersection of 9th and Main streets, ca. 1925. A traffic control booth is perched above the street on the corner, with a man at the helm changing the traffic signals. McColloch Drug Co. is open for business offering a soda fountain as well as lunch. The adjacent building, at 859 9th Street appears to be vacant. A clock on a building at the opposite corner reads 12:55.

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[GH85Carrera]

What's the strangest weapons/items soldiers have carried into battle?
Major Allison Digby Tatham-Warter DSO was an officer of the Parachute Regiment who dropped into Arnhem during World War Two. He had difficulty remembering passwords so always carried an umbrella to wave at sentries to identify himself.
He also once disabled a German armoured car by poking the umbrella through the vision slit and into the driver’s eye! He also led a bayonet charge during the battle whilst wearing a bowler hat and waving his umbrella and once calmly walked across a street under fire to rescue the pinned down Chaplain, Father Egan. When Father Egan pointed out the street was under gun and mortar fire he said “Don’t worry, I’ve got an umbrella”, put it up and walked both of them back to safety under it.




Laid down: 1 March 1939 - USS Tautog (SS-199), a Tambor-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the tautog, a small edible sport fish, which is also called a blackfish.
One of the most successful submarines of World War II, Tautog was credited with sinking 26 Japanese ships, for a total of 72,606 tons, scoring second by number of ships and eleventh by tonnage earning her the nickname "The Terrible T."


The Hidden Apaches: Grenville Goodwin’s Description of the Sierra Espuelas Apache Camp found in Chihuahua in 1931
(Frank Randall 1884 Photo, Apache, Wikiup, Courtesy National Archives)

[JackDidley]

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

The excitement of seeing a target rich environment?

[red 928]

[masraum]

Originally Posted by red 928

Dick!

[beatnavy]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

The excitement of seeing a target rich environment?

Not just a target rich environment, a sitting duck target rich environment. The USAF could eat that convoy up in a heartbeat. It would be like the "Highway of Death" in Kuwait. I saw the results first hand a couple of days after it happened. It was not pretty.





A couple more photos, some gruesome, here: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/05/the-highway-of-death.html

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[GH85Carrera]

Knife grinders in France 1902, they worked lying down to save their backs and had dogs sit on their legs for warmth.

[craigster59]

BEHIND THE "GLAMOUR"...The other side of LAUGH IN's joke wall 1968.