11. Traditional elephant carriages used for long-distance travel, Siam (Thailand), 1877.
12. Albert Einstein and Marie Curie, 1921.
13. Photograph of the extinct Barbary Lion, Algeria, 1893.
14. Witold Kieżun, a soldier in the Polish Home Army, carrying a heavy machine gun after a successful assault on the enemy position, during the Warsaw Uprising, 1944.
15. A little girl having fun pretending to talk on the telephone, Japan, 1958.
16. John Clarence Woods on 16 October 1946 shortly after the conclusion of the Nuremberg Trials.
He was tasked with the duty of putting to death the convicted NAZI war criminals during their infamous reign.
17. Hospital ships USNS Mercy (T-AH-19) (left) and the USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) tied up at the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) piers, December 1986.
18. Dancer Lucia Joyce, daughter of the writer James Joyce, in Paris, 1929.
19. Pikes Peak or Bust! The tank that drove up a mountain, April 1919.
20. An American soldier eating a meal during the advance to Rome, Italy, 1944.
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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.