2020 New Random Pics

[masraum]

Originally Posted by john70t

Early Japanese (Ainu) Jomon who live mostly in the north island of Hokkaido these days.
It's interesting that Toshiro Mifune was so hirsute but was widely popular.
The first pic might be a halfu or visitor..almost european.

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.





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.

[GH85Carrera]

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

[asphaltgambler]

^^^^^^Hmmmmmmmmmmm

[A930Rocket]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

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

Random

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Florida Man

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[svandamme]

I think I wanna buy this car










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

[GH85Carrera]

Approach to Rolla, MO about 1951.


Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt with revolver and cowboy attire
c. 1880s


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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[Steve Carlton]

I put this in the wrong thread.

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[GH85Carrera]

"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.




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




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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[GH85Carrera]

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


Man, you play like a little girl!








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

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

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

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.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

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.

That's fantastic

[GH85Carrera]

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


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








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!

[Steve Carlton]

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.