Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 123, click here.
1. Eddie” The Eagle” Edwards soars above a roaring crowd at the 1992 Calgary Winter Olympics.
He finished last.
2. Cow shoes used by moonshiners in the Prohibition days to disguise their footprints, 1924.
3. Residents of West Berlin show children to their grandparents who reside on the eastern side, 1961.
4. A British Army bomb disposal specialist approaches a car bomb during the troubles, 1970s.
5. Execution by cannon, Shiraz, Iran, 1890s.
6. A Croatian soldier and his darling, saying farewell to each other, 1995.
7. Walter Cronkite of CBS interviewing Professor Mai of the University of Hue in Vietnam, February 20, 1968.
8. Danuta Danielsson, a Jew whose mother survived Auschwitz, hitting a skinhead during a march in the Swedish town of Växjö, 1985.
9. Generalfeldmarschall August von Mackensen c.1920s.
10. Amelia Earhart, London, 1928.
#execution by canon, damn seems like a bit of overkill
not very safe for the bystanders too
Hitler had a picture of himself at his bathtub? Narcissistic much?
If you look closely enough, you can see Calgary ’88 on Eddie’s back. And I wasn’t around so I don’t know for sure, but I would have thought that he wouldn’t have gone to the ’92 Winter Olympics.