2020 New Random Pics

[Racerbvd]

[GH85Carrera]

Employees with a customer's car at a Phillips 66 service station in the early fifties!


Human skull fragments found in massive boneyard in hyenas’ lava tube cave
Archaeologists in northwestern Saudi Arabia have unearthed a massive collection of bones likely stockpiled by striped hyenas over the past 7,000 years. The bones included that of animals like horses, gazelles and goats, but also cranial remains of humans.
Hyenas often scavenge their meals, so they probably didn't kill their human prey, but rather, dug up cadavers from nearby burials and devoured them in this underground den, scientists recently reported.




P-38G Lightning cockpit. Flown by Major Richard Bong.

[craigster59]

[GH85Carrera]

U.S. Navy LCdr Maxwell F. Leslie, commanding officer of bombing squadron VB-3, ditches in the ocean next to the heavy cruiser USS Astoria, after successfully attacking the Japanese carrier Soryu during the Battle of Midway, on June 4, 1942. Leslie and his wingman Lt(jg) P.A. Holmberg ditched near Astoria due to fuel exhaustion, after their parent carrier USS Yorktown was under attack by Japanese planes when they returned. Leslie, Holmberg, and their gunners were rescued by one of the cruiser's whaleboats. Note one of the cruiser's Curtiss SOC Seagull floatplanes on the catapult at right.


A flat tire on a truck transporting used tires in Houston, Texas in March 1966.


Melon Time. Person County, North Carolina. Millworker's house six miles north of Roxboro. July 1939. Photo by Dorothea Lange.

[Racerbvd]

[Racerbvd]

[Edited. Three pictures removed - FTLOG, Byron, think. please]

[svandamme]

That is going to hurt some day when some thing catches that loop and yanks on it really hard.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by svandamme

That is going to hurt some day when some thing catches that loop and yanks on it really hard.

I'll reserve my opinion because if you don't have something nice to say....

This guy solved the "snagged it on a hook" issue...

[GH85Carrera]

Between 1942 and 1977, Virginia park ranger Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning on seven separate occasions. Later in life, people would refuse to walk near him for fear of being struck. The chances of this happening are slightly more than 4 in 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. From the "Human Lightning Rod"






Remembering Anthony Clement McAuliffe, was a senior US Army officer who earned fame as the acting commander of the 101st Airborne Division defending Bastogne, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. He is celebrated for his one-word reply to a German surrender ultimatum: "Nuts!"
After the battle, McAuliffe was promoted and given command of the 103rd Infantry Division, which he led January 1945 to July 1945. In the post-war era, he was commander of United States Army Europe.
Born in Washington D.C., on July 2, 1898. McAuliffe enrolled at West Point in 1917, he was part of an accelerated program and graduated shortly after the end of World War I, in 1918. McAuliffe held various field artillery positions before World War II. On the eve of D-Day, McAuliffe jumped with the first wave as a commander of division artillery, although he had never received formal parachute training.
On December 21, 1944, during the siege of Bastogne, Belgium, German army units surrounded the 101st Airborne Division, Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe was acting commander of the 101st in Major General Maxwell D. Taylor's absence.
On 22 December, the German commander, Heinrich Freiherr von Lüttwitz, sent McAuliffe an ultimatium, demanding that he surrender the town or face immediate annihilation. McAuliffe sent von Lüttwitz a one-word reply: "NUTS."
Over the next five days, the 101st repeatedly drove off German attacks. When elements of the Third Army, under General George S. Patton, broke through the German lines from the south, the 101st resumed the offensive and pushed the Germans back from Bastogne.
McAuliffe received the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions defending Bastogne.
General McAuliffe continued to serve on active duty, including assignments as Chief Chemical Officer of the Army Chemical Corps, and Commander-In-Chief of the U.S. Army, Europe. He was promoted to four-star general in 1955. In 1956, McAuliffe retired from the army. He died in Washingotn D.C. in 1975 at age 77 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
We're grateful for his extraordinary service and sacrifice for our country. Lest we forget.

[john70t]

Live in a van...down by the river...

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by masraum

When aliens invade we'll send these guys out to greet them.

[GH85Carrera]

[rockfan4]

I was going to just post the photo, but that would be wrong. So here it is - a printscreen of my browser, displaying a craigslist ad, with a photo of a phone displaying a photo of another phone, displaying a text message. Because typing is hard. Cutting and pasting is harder.

[Evans, Marv]

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My dad's Standard station in 1952. From an old, scanned pic.

[HobieMarty]

Edited. I agree...I just do not want to look at the pics again...

What the hell is wrong with people, why would anyone do this to themselves or think that it is a cool look???

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[masraum]

Originally Posted by HobieMarty

Edited. I agree...I just do not want to look at the pics again...

What the hell is wrong with people, why would anyone do this to themselves or think that it is a cool look???

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Those peeps are obviously the extremes, and I feel confident in my assessment that anyone that goes to those extremes has issues.

[Racerbvd]

[craigster59]

Babe Ruth watching his team play in the stands after getting suspended for 6 games for barnstorming, 1921

[GH85Carrera]

British Sherman V (M4A4) Crab Flail Tank in front of burning buildings in Arnhem Netherlands - April 14, 1945
The Idea for the Flail Tank is commonly attributed to a South African Officer; Captain Abraham du Toit.
The idea was that a rotating drum with chains attached could be placed in front of an armored vehicle to detonate buried land mines. A test rig was constructed in South Africa and results were so encouraging that du Toit was sent to the UK to develop the idea.
First tested and used by British/Commonwealth units in North Africa using converted Matilda Tanks, the early hastily developed flail system was unreliable and often broke down.
One unexpected effect was that the noise, dust and terrifying appearance of an approaching flail tank caused several Axis infantry units to surrender.
The Sherman Crab, put into production in 1943 by the British using converted Sherman tanks was undoubtedly the most successful WW2 Flail Tank, incorporating the lessons learned of earlier attempts.
IWM - Hewitt C. H. (Sergeant) Photographer


“Clean Up” day at the Deadwood Terra Gold Stamp Mill, one of the Homestake Mills, Terraville, Dakota 1888.


9/24/1967 Mobile Riverine Force. The US Naval Ship, USS Colleton APB-36 is used by the MRF as a troop ship, berthing all the troops of the MRF and is equipped with a floating pier for all smaller boats. On the top of the ship is a helipad to accommodate air traffic.USN Image


Gaspar Felix Tournachon, “Nadar,” credited with taking the first successful aerial photograph in 1858.

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