History, anything goes, including pictures

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International Workers' Day parade in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR, on May 1. The parade took place five days after the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant disaster on 26 April. The Communist Party of Soviet Union ordered the parade to proceed despite the danger of the spread of nuclear radiation – 1986
 

RnR said:
Such devastation and death.
People collect the dead bodies of the victims in the rubble after the 1945 fire bombings.
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This was for the Blitz in London from Sept. 1940 to May 1941.
 
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1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins.

The Pony Express was a mail service delivering messages, newspapers, and mail. Officially operating as the Leavenworth and Pike's Peak Express Company of 1859, in 1860 it became the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company.

Commemorative stamps 1869, 1940, 1960. Illustrated Map of Pony Express Route in 1860 by William Henry Jackson. Library of Congress.

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During its 19 months of operation, it reduced the time for messages to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to about 10 days. From 3 April 1860 to October 1861, it became the West's most direct means of east–west communication before the transcontinental telegraph was established on 24 October 1861, and was vital for tying the new state of California with the rest of the United States.

During its brief time in operation, the Pony Express delivered approximately 35,000 letters between St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California.

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Harry Truman and the Library Books...

"A prolific reader as a youth, Truman later claimed to have read every volume—at least 2,000 books—in the Independence Library, including encyclopedias, by the age of 14."

(personally, I do not doubt he did that. My father was an avid reader. He would often read 10 books a week. So, I have seen people do that kind of thing).

https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2009/spring/truman-history.html
 
Humor and History

I posted these three in the humor section. But since they have a historical link, I thought I might also post it here.

These are from President Gerald Ford's book "Humor and the Presidency."

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1) During the Lincoln - Douglas debates, Abraham Lincoln said this to Douglas -

"Sir, your argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup made from a shadow of a pigeon that starved to death."

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2) Sir Winston Churchill and Lady Astor HATED each other's guts. Seated next to each other at a function, Lady Astor turned to Churchill and said, "Sir, if you were my husband, I would put poison in your tea..."

Without missing a beat, Churchill immediately replied, "Ma'am, if you were my wife, I'D DRINK IT!"

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3) President Calvin Coolidge was known to say very few words. At a dinner party, a man bet a friend that he could make President Coolidge say three words. He tried. He failed. He tried again. He failed. He tried again, he failed again. Finally, frustrated, he went directly up to Coolidge and told him about the bet, that he needed Coolidge to just say three words. Coolidge looked him dead in the eye and said, "You lose."
 
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