Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 229, click here.
1. Nintendo’s first office, Kyoto, 1889.
2. Rows of infected people assembled into warehouses suffering from 1918 Influenza Pandemic.
A total of 50-100 million people were killed, c.1918.
3. ’79 Camaro used to deliver supplies to Sarajevo under siege during the Bosnian war, 1993.
4. Austro-Hungarian troops together with some citizens marching out of Jerusalem, WWI, 1916.
5. Some American DUKW amphibious vehicles passing by some gondola in the canals of Venice, 1945.
6. A patient is restrained in a mental institution in France, 1900.
7. “Elephant slide”, Spain – Catalonia, Barcelona, 1975.
Photo: Francesc Català-Roca (1922 – 1998).
8. General Patton’s dog just after his death, 1945.
9. A scene in the ruined city of Ypres, Belgium, 3 September 1917.
10. Japanese women, the survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bombing 10 years earlier, scarred by the blast at the Mitchel Air Force base on Long Island, New York, during the trip to the USA for plastic surgery, New York, 9 May 1955.
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1918 Influenza Pandemic
Call it for what it is, the Spanish flu
Its only called that because Spain actually reported their deaths while most of the world did not. It neither started nor ended there.
It hasn’t been called that for almost a month, we just didn’t know how contradictory to outrage about calling this Wuhan, excuse me, we didn’t know how “racist” we must have been way back then, about a month ago, it was a different time.
If you name something after it’s origin or place hardest hit, there must be awful bias behind it. That’s why I hate anyone from the Rocky Mountains (spotter fever), or anyone from Lyme County, or Germany (measles), or anyone with the last name Parkinson. After all, who could possibly understand that those are just names and not everyone those names associate with either have or are responsible for the diseases?
What a great slide! (#7)
10. Japanese women, scarred by the blast of the Hiroshima bombing 10 years earlier, are on a trip to the USA for plastic surgery. Photo taken at Mitchel Air Force base on Long Island, New York, May 5, 1955.