2020 New Random Pics

[bigel]

Ummm…let’s stick to the thread’s intention.

[svandamme]

Edit: PM me. Thanks and best.

[Jolly Amaranto]

Try to post this photo again.

[Jolly Amaranto]

And the random image to go with it,


"French civilians fight with captured German weapons in Paris in August of 1944" (Library of Congress)

[GH85Carrera]

As you wish....



In 1940, Václav "Robert" Bozděch, a Czech air gunner serving with the French Air Force, was flying over northern France when his aircraft was shot down by enemy fire. Robert survived the crash and went to an abandoned farmhouse. As he entered the kitchen, he discovered a starving German shepherd puppy. He knew the puppy wouldn't survive alone, so he unzipped his leather flying jacket, slipped the puppy inside, and returned to his air base. Robert named his new friend "Antis", and the dog became the Squadron's mascot. The airmen quickly noticed Antis' ability to hear enemy warplanes long before humans did. On many occasions, he barked and alerted the air base of an imminent attack, and on one occasion, he ignored his own injuries in order to rescue his human friends. Shortly after Germany invaded France, Robert and Antis went to England to carry on fighting against the Nazis. Robert served with the Royal Air Force, and Antis followed him everywhere. The German shepherd even flew with Robert on 30 missions over enemy territory. One day, the Wing Commander discovered that Antis flew on missions (which was strictly forbidden), so Robert began saying: "Sir, please let me explain....". His superior interrupted him and said: "There's a very good English expression that says: what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve after". Robert and Antis both survived the war and remained best friends until Antis died in 1953. His gravestone says in Czech: "Loyal unto death".


B-26 Marauders, with D-Day invasion stripes, strike a road and rail junction behind the front lines to slow down enemy reinforcements.June 1944 USAAF Image




Suspension bridge construction over the irrigation canal near the Australian camp at Giza, Egypt, during World War I, c. 1916

[Seahawk]

[GH85Carrera]

Bandit's Roost (59 1/2 Mulberry), Five Points, 1888.
1850s Italian and Irish immigrants of America's 1st melting pot Five Points (bounded north by Canal) would move up Mulberry Street where Little Italy would emerge.
The Irish gang Dead Rabbits evolved from the Roach Guards at 19 Mulberry in the 1830s. Tap dancing was born 1840s across from 42 Mulberry. The fusion of Irish Jig and African Shuffle came from street dance battles between freed slaves and penniless Irish immigrants in Five Points.
He also became Columbia's first Italian literature prof as well as its first Jewish-born and Roman Catholic raised prof. He last lived at 91 Spring.
By 1855, half of New York City was foreign-born. But anti-immigrant Nativists (Bowery Boys, Know Nothing Party) only considered those of British Protestant heritage to be Native New Yorkers.
The City was divided by ethnic territories. Until 1968, it was legal to ban tenants or property buyers by ethnicity, giving rise to "ethnic ghettos."
Ethnic syndicates would emerge to create and protect ethnic economies. The mostly Italian Five Points Gang (1890s–1920s) would later see Al Capone (1899-1947) as a member.
"Bandit's Roost" was plagued by an underground spring and 1884-85 fire violations, demolished in 1896, when Cuneo died. Now Columbus Park.
Jacob Riis photographed slums for How the Other Half Lives (1890), but ironically, Cuneo's son Andrew became Jacob's neighbor by 1905 in Richmond Hill (Queens). Andrew's wife Joan Cuneo was the fastest woman in America, a rare 1905-10 woman race car driver.
Early Italian arrivals in NYC saw more Northern Italians. Little Italy would emerge by 1880s as a wave of Southern Italians settled on blocks defined by regions from which they came in the Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946). Italian Harlem was similar settled.
Di Palo's (est. 1910), now a 5th+ generation family business, once had 2 stores a half a block apart. One served Northern Italians. One served Southern Italians. The founder was a 1903 immigrant who milked cows daily.
In 1886, Banana King Antonio Cuneo had lived at 203 Grand across from future Di Palo's at 206 Grand.
The 1880-1924 Southern Italian immigration wave saw mostly laborers. The 1861 unification resulted in Southern Italy being economically depressed. Southern Italian men then came to NYC to work and send money home.
1 in 20 Italian men in 1880s Five Points were organ grinders, a profession banned 1936-1970 by America's 2nd Italian Mayor (1934-45) Fiorello La Guardia.
By 1890s, the New York Pizza slice to go was created in Little Italy for Southern Italian factory workers of the Industrial Age.
Mar 14, 1891, would see the worst lynching in US history when 11 Italian immigrants were lynched in New Orleans amidst anti-Southern Italian hate led by the Mayor. That caused the Kingdom of Italy to demand justice.
To address growing outcry, the US President created Columbus Day for the 400th anniversary of 1492. But in doing so in 1892, he also overlooked Columbus' atrocities (Columbus left Hispaniola in chains in 1500).
Columbus had also only represented Spain, not Italy. He never wrote in Genoese, and there's evidence he was possibly Jewish, having only Jewish beneficiaries. His voyages were financed by a Jewish treasurer for the Spanish royal court.
Neapolitan opera singer Enrico Caruso (1873-1921 updated) would debut at the Old Met (1883-1967) in 1903. He dined at Grotta Azzurra (est. 1908) at 177 Mulberry which later saw Frank Sinatra in the 1950s.
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) debuted at Old Met in 1910. Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) joined Old Met in 1908 and conducted the New York Philharmonic 1926-36. Caruso, Puccini and Toscanini were all customers of Barbetta (est. 1906) on Restaurant Row.
NYC's artichoke cartel would give birth to the Five Families. Mafia originated from the Sicilian lemon trade late 19th Century.
In 1935, Mayor LaGuardia banned artichokes to curb mafia control of the City. He also activated the pinball ban (1942-1976), then with mafia-controlled gambling.
By 1910s, the Morello-Terranova family had charged a rail import tax into NYC per carload of artichokes. They were also involved in dairy, meat and produce. 1920-33 Prohibition booze was later more lucrative. Morello Family became the Genovese Family.
America's 1st Italian Mayor (1931-44) Angelo Rossi in SF and La Guardia in NYC were both in power during WW II, when 600,000 Italians in America were declared enemy aliens in Feb 1942.
1941 national hero New York Yankees star Joe DiMaggio's father Giuseppe was placed under house arrest, after living in America since 1898. Mayor Rossi was a regular at his restaurant, forced to close. Son Joe had just hit in an unbeatable record 56-straight games. Joe also enlisted with his brother Dom.
Many Italian New Yorkers and Jersey Italians were also rounded up and sent to a secret detention camp on Ellis Island until Sep 1943 surrender in Italy. Several had worked at the 1939 World's Fair. A year after release, The New York Times on Sep 20, 1944, would introduce pizza to its readers. Pizza would go mainstream by 1950s.
Frank Sinatra's father Marty (a boxer, firefighter and bar owner), a 1903 immigrant in Hoboken, was also illiterate and spoke little English (no US citizenship) like Giuseppe DiMaggio. Marty was saved from arrest by spouse Dolly Sinatra's connections.
Dolly worked as a translator in Citizenship Court and represented almost all of Hoboken's Italian immigrants. She was powerful and championed Hoboken's 1st Italian Mayor Fred DeSapio to victory in 1947. The Mayor then created Sinatra Day on Oct 30, 1947.
On The Town (1949) filmed Frank Sinatra with Gene Kelly and Jules Munshin at 85 Mulberry.
After WW II, returning GI's wanted something they had in Italy. The hybrid Spaghetti alla Bolognese was born. But the Bolognese have been trying to reclaim their name ever since.
Chef Boyardee first popularized Spaghetti (which the Bolognese did not eat) in kits supplied as rations for US troops during WW II. His 1953-1979 TV appearances popularized Spaghetti nationally outside of Italian communities and US troops.
But the Bolognese use wider Tagliatelle (egg pasta) to pick up meat sauce. Italian American dishes also had more meat (and meatballs) with bountiful cattle.
Authentic Bolognese sauce has no basil, oregano, parsley or garlic. The official Bolognese sauce recipe has beef skirt, pancetta, celery, carrot, onion, a little tomato, wine, and milk.
In 1965, there was even a major effort to kill Spaghetti in mainstream America, with SpaghettiOs marketed as "less messy" than Spaghetti, selling 150 million cans yearly. But Spaghetti (more associated with Neapolitan cuisine) would survive.
Pasta itself was introduced to Sicily c1154 during Islamic rule (827-1240s) before the tomato arrived by the 16th Century. Pasta, gelato, espresso, and citrus (oranges and lemons) all have Islamic introductions to Sicily. That's also when the fork was introduced to pick up pasta and salad.
Tomato Pies are also Sicilian, topped by tomato sauce (instead of toppings found on Neapolitan-style Pizza). The term Pizza came from Pita which came from ancient Middle Eastern flatbread.
The first Neapolitan pizza in Naples had no tomato sauce, just garlic, butter and salt for sailors. "Marinara" (of the sea) sauce is believed to have been derived from serving Tomato Pies to seafarers in Naples.
Just to confuse things, Pizza ingredients were in low supply after WW II in Naples, and that gave birth to tomato-less "Fried Pizza," which is similar to the fried panzerotti (calzone is baked). Fried Pizza sold better than Baked Pizza in Naples into the 1950s but did not arrive in NYC until 2011.
Italy is a relatively new Republic founded in 1946. Distinctive City-States, including Venice, Milan, Florence and Naples, had united in 1861 to form the Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946).
The colors of Italy's flag came to be only because a Genoese newspaper in 1789 mistakenly had reported the democratic French flag was Red, White and Green. Thus student protesters used Red, White and Green instead, while seeking liberty from the Republic of Genoa. Naples was once ruled by the French. Marinara sauce was invented during Spanish rule of Naples.
The Margherita Pizza was named in honor the Queen's visit to Naples in 1889. It has the Kingdom's unification colors: Basil (Green), Tomatoes (Red), and Mozzarella (White).
By late 1960s, 1924 ethnic restrictions in immigration were lifted for Southern and Eastern Europeans, Asians, Africans and Latin Americans. That saw the rise of Italian fine dining in NYC and arrival of Italian wines, extra virgin olive oil, and prosciutto.
Balducci's at 424 6th Ave (1972-2003) would pioneer gourmet retailing. Dean & Delucca would open in 1977.
The baptism scene of Godfather (1972) showed newborn Sofia Coppola baptized at Staten Island's Church of St Joachim and St Anne (1882), the very church hosting the 1896 funeral Banana King Antonio Cuneo.
Little Italy has almost vanished, with Chinatown expanding, but Bank of America (1930) remains, originally Bank of Italy (1904).
Caruso and Sinatra also frequented Veniero's (1894) at 342 E 11th St. Bruce Springsteen's relatives the Zerillis took over Veniero's in 1970. In 1998, Bruce's mom Adele Zerilli (1925-2010) came with sisters Doris and Ida to Veniero's, looking for Frankie Zerilli. His son Robert is Bruce's cousin. Mozart's librettist once lived at 435 E 11th St, down the street.

[URY914]

[GH85Carrera]

Quanah Parker (circa-1848 - 1911), the last Comanche war chief, died at around the age of 63. He died from the effects of “heart failure by rheumatism” at Star House, his home at the town of Cache in Comanche County, Oklahoma.


Henry Clay Thruston was beyond a doubt the tallest man in the Confederate Army, and was perhaps during the time that he lived, one of the tallest men in the world. He was 7 feet 7 inches tall.






Panoramic view of the city of quonset huts in San Pedro on February 6, 1946. A project to relieve the housing shortage, the huts house 280 Naval families.

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[GH85Carrera]

[bkreigsr]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

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[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by bkreigsr

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[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

In 1940, Václav "Robert" Bozděch, a Czech air gunner serving with the French Air Force, was flying over northern France when his aircraft was shot down by enemy fire. Robert survived the crash and went to an abandoned farmhouse. As he entered the kitchen, he discovered a starving German shepherd puppy. He knew the puppy wouldn't survive alone, so he unzipped his leather flying jacket, slipped the puppy inside, and returned to his air base. Robert named his new friend "Antis", and the dog became the Squadron's mascot. The airmen quickly noticed Antis' ability to hear enemy warplanes long before humans did. On many occasions, he barked and alerted the air base of an imminent attack, and on one occasion, he ignored his own injuries in order to rescue his human friends. Shortly after Germany invaded France, Robert and Antis went to England to carry on fighting against the Nazis. Robert served with the Royal Air Force, and Antis followed him everywhere. The German shepherd even flew with Robert on 30 missions over enemy territory. One day, the Wing Commander discovered that Antis flew on missions (which was strictly forbidden), so Robert began saying: "Sir, please let me explain....". His superior interrupted him and said: "There's a very good English expression that says: what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve after". Robert and Antis both survived the war and remained best friends until Antis died in 1953. His gravestone says in Czech: "Loyal unto death".

Well, that was about the best thing I have read.

[GH85Carrera]

Cosmopolitan Saloon and Gambling Hall - Telluride, Colorado.

[TimT]

If you're having a little run of bad luck etc...

This site is always good for a pick me up...lord knows I've needed some levity lately

We Rate Dogs

When I used to walk across the yard at one of my jobs... the feral cats always came out to greet me...Being cats they did the around the leg weave and head boops to try and trip me..



Cats love boxes



In case you were wondering:



Doggos:







Who are those guys? (Butch and Sundance)










Btw I know the file names give them away

[A930Rocket]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Fire crotch 🔥

[Baz]

26th January 1965: Actress Honor Blackman going for a ride on a Solex moped while in Cannes to film 'Moment To Moment'.

[Heel n Toe]

Originally Posted by Jolly Amaranto

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

As you wish....

Thanks, guys... I really appreciate it. I was looking to the right of it.






I spotted an F-16 from Shaw AFB in the closeup of the Super Bowl LVI flyover. A long way from home!





Closeup starts at 0:12 ...

[Heel n Toe]

Inside the Super Bowl LVI Flyover
Air Force Heritage Flight Foundation pilot Steve Hinton reveals secrets of the flyover’s split-second timing and tight formation.
By Thom Patterson - February 11, 2022

During the final notes of the national anthem at Sunday’s Super Bowl LVI in Los Angeles, most fans will be thinking about the
matchup between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Los Angeles Rams. Others will be looking up, scanning the sky for the flyover.

The pre-game flyover is a Super Bowl ritual more than half a century old.
Although it only lasts a few seconds, for many pilots and aviation enthusiasts,
it’s one of the most thrilling moments of the game. Previous flyovers at the
NFL championship game have included the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, U.S.
Army helicopters, and even three different types of bombers.

In honor of this year’s 75th anniversary of the U.S. Air Force, the NFL has
enlisted the Air Force Heritage Flight Foundation (AFHFF) to perform this
brief—but thrilling—annual event.

The flight includes five historic and important U.S. military fighters and attack aircraft:

P-51D Mustang, based at the AFHFF in Chino, California
A-10 Thunderbolt II—aka “Warthog”—based at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona
F-22 Raptor, based at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia
F-35 Lightning II, based at Hill AFB, Utah
F-16 Fighting Falcon, aka “Viper,” based at Shaw AFB, South Carolina

More: https://www.flyingmag.com/inside-the-super-bowl-lvi-flyover/