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mellowyellow
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Mobsters hide their faces at Al Capone's trial 1931.
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1,800 year old Roman leather sandals on display at Vindolanda fort in Northumberland, England
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U.S. Army Corporal Larry Matinsk puts cigarettes into the extended hands of newly liberated prisoners behind a stockade in the Allach concentration camp. Also pictured are U.S. Army soldiers Arthur Toratti and George Babel (second and third from the left).
Original caption reads, "Cpl Larry Mutinsk, Philadelphia, PA., hands out his last pack of cigarettes to the eager reaching hands of the prisoners within the wire stockade of the prison camp at Dachau."
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My father was part of the Dachau liberation troops [45th Infantry] . He mentioned once that it just amazed him, that the first thing the now freed prisoners wanted was a cigarette. All that they went through & all that they did without for so long ..... and that was their first request.
He didn't smoke, so he gave away all of his ....
Especially odd when ya think about today ..... where in some locations you can be fined for just lighting one up. My how things do change ...........
mellowyellow
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Iranian Woman in Golestan Palace, Tehran, Iran
The palace’s highlight are the Main Halls, including the dazzling Talar-e Ayaheh (Mirror Hall). Built between 1874 and 1877 the Peacock Throne was housed here before it was moved to the National Jewels Museum. It was used for the coronation of Mohammad Reza Shah in 1967 (25 years after he came to power) and royal weddings. Today it and two adjoining halls house gifts, including a set of green malachite table decorations from Russia and fine porcelain from France, Germany and the UK.
The palace’s highlight are the Main Halls, including the dazzling Talar-e Ayaheh (Mirror Hall). Built between 1874 and 1877 the Peacock Throne was housed here before it was moved to the National Jewels Museum. It was used for the coronation of Mohammad Reza Shah in 1967 (25 years after he came to power) and royal weddings. Today it and two adjoining halls house gifts, including a set of green malachite table decorations from Russia and fine porcelain from France, Germany and the UK.
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A squad of Samurai, late 1800's.
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Dorothy Counts-Scoggins
The First Black Girl To Attend An All White School In The United States
Packerjohn
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I love my soup. Just can't imagine how this guy could enjoy a nice steaming hot bowl of soup?
On my trip around the world, via the Trans-Siberian Railroad, I stopped off at Yekaterinburg in the Ural Mountains just to see the sight. Unfortunately, the house and the basement where the murders happended was destroyed. All there is today is a monument. V.l. Lenin was the guy who was responsible for these murders.
Nicholas Romanov ll, Czar of Russia
May 18, 1868-July 17, 1918
On the night of July 16, 1918, a Bolshevik assassination squad executed Czar Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra, and their five children, putting an end to the Romanov family dynasty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_the_Romanov_family
mellowyellow
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Gosh you have had a wonderful life of travel Packerjohn, you've been everywhere.
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I sure did. I never believed in the myth, "Work hard, retire and then travel." I have been traveling since high school. Unfortunately, that darn Covid 19 and those "Variants of Interest" have put a big damper on my travel. However, I'm hoping that I can still "hit the road and go" ASAP as soon as this Pandemic Madness goes away.Gosh you have had a wonderful life of travel Packerjohn, you've been everywhere.
Good. According to my grandma, Good. Czar Nicholas knew & approved the mass murders of Jews during pogroms. Maybe the only good thing the Bolsheviks did. Good. He tried to kill my grandma, but she escaped with the help of Christian friends.
Nicholas Romanov ll, Czar of Russia
May 18, 1868-July 17, 1918
On the night of July 16, 1918, a Bolshevik assassination squad executed Czar Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra, and their five children, putting an end to the Romanov family dynasty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_the_Romanov_family
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Mary Ann Bevan (1874 – 1933) was an English woman who, after developing acromegaly, toured the sideshow circuit as "the ugliest woman in the world."
Mary Ann Bevan was one of eight children born into a working-class family in East London. She later became a nurse. In 1903 she married Thomas Bevan with whom she would have four children.
Bevan started exhibiting the symptoms of acromegaly soon after she was married, around the age of 32. She began to suffer from abnormal growth and facial distortion, which led to her "homely" appearance, along with severe headaches and fading eyesight.
After the death of her husband in 1914, she no longer had the income to support herself and her children. Bevan decided to capitalize on her appearance and entered a "Ugliest Woman" contest which she won.
In 1920, she was hired to appear in Coney Island's Dreamland sideshow, a form of freak show, where she would spend most of the remainder of her life. She also made appearances for the Ringling Brothers Circus until her death.
In the early 2000's, Bevan's image was used on a birthday card in the United Kingdom made by Hallmark Cards. The card made reference to the dating show Blind Date. A complaint was made by a Dutch doctor that it was disrespectful to a woman who had become deformed as the result of a disease. Hallmark decided that it was indeed inappropriate and agreed to stop distribution of the card.
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Myrtle Corbin, a girl who was born with two sets of legs, two pelvises, and two functional sets of sexual / reproductive organs
At age 19 she married James Clinton Bicknell, with whom she had four daughters and a son."It was "determined that it was in her left uterus that Mrs. B. was pregnant." "physicians determined that Corbin preferred intercourse in the right side, and this fact was commented upon in several subsequent reports."
Corbin was born in Lincoln County, Tennessee. Her parents were William H. Corbin, aged 25 at the time of his daughter's birth, and Nancy Corbin (née Sullins), aged 34. Both parents were described by physicians who examined the infant shortly after her birth as being very similar in appearance, "both having auburn hair, blue eyes, and very fair complexion"; in fact, they looked so similar that the physicians felt compelled to point out that they were not "blood kin" The Corbins had four children in total, including a child from Nancy's first marriage.
Myrtle's birth was not marked by anything "peculiar about the labour or delivery" according to her mother. Doctors who examined the child shortly after her birth noted that a breech presentation "would have proved fatal to the infant, and possibly to the mother." Corbin soon showed herself to be a strong child, weighing 10 lb (4.5 kg) three weeks after the birth, and it was reported in a journal published later that year that she "nurses healthily" and was "thriving well".
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Acromegaly is a condition caused by an excess of growth hormone, which causes the overgrowth of bones in the face, hands and feet. A tumour on the pituitary gland is the most common cause of acromegaly.