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I mean, that helmet and curiass could in theory probably stop some of the artillery shrapnel that likely killed half of them. The everything else though...
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# ? Jul 29, 2020 15:14 |
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I'm guessing a horserider is a big target that's really hard to miss with machine guns.
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# ? Jul 29, 2020 15:19 |
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By popular demand posted:I'm guessing a horserider is a big target that's really hard to miss with machine guns. Also, they’re going to get very slow as soon as they hit the barbed wire.
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# ? Jul 29, 2020 18:12 |
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Zopotantor posted:Also, they’re going to get very slow as soon as they hit the barbed wire. The horse gets stuck in the wire, the rider acts as a human fletchette, hitting the enemy trenches sabre first.
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# ? Jul 29, 2020 18:14 |
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Plus they had to dig the trenches twice as deep.
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# ? Jul 29, 2020 21:58 |
The aftermath of a kamikaze pilot trying to sink HMS Sussex in the Indian Ocean in 1945:
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# ? Aug 5, 2020 16:28 |
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Sussex to be them
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# ? Aug 5, 2020 18:48 |
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Alhazred posted:The aftermath of a kamikaze pilot trying to sink HMS Sussex in the Indian Ocean in 1945: RIP Wile E. Coyote-san.
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# ? Aug 5, 2020 18:50 |
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quote:Portrait of a young Soviet prisoner of war in a steel breastplate SN-42, made of 2mm steel (.08″) and weighing 3.5 kg (7.7 lbs), captured by Finnish troops during the Finnish-Soviet Continuation War. A testament to the breastplate’s effectiveness, the young soldier had been shot three times in the chest and left unharmed. Image taken near Syskyjärvi, Karelia, Finland (now, Syuskyuyarvi, Republic of Karelia, Russia), July 15, 1944. http://www.tankarchives.ca/2013/10/soviet-infantry-protection.html quote:CAMD RF 81-12040-109
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# ? Aug 8, 2020 10:49 |
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Really interesting that they had the shooter's cut on those.
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# ? Aug 9, 2020 09:16 |
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I mean they gotta. Those old bolt actions kick like a sumbitch, and would be skipping straight off some curved steel.
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# ? Aug 9, 2020 11:21 |
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Wasabi the J posted:I mean they gotta. Those old bolt actions kick like a sumbitch, and would be skipping straight off some curved steel. Breastplates were given to specialized Assault Engineers and deminers. I don't think that many of the breastplate users were rocking M1891/30s or M44s. They were mostly issued submachine guns. The unit also had lots of other special Assault Engineering equipment like bangalores, various explosives, lots of grenades, flamethrowers, etc, but I doubt they made the guy wearing the armor carry a bunch of other poo poo.
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# ? Aug 10, 2020 18:16 |
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Zudgemud posted:I mean, that helmet and curiass could in theory probably stop some of the artillery shrapnel that likely killed half of them. The everything else though... The cuirasse is just for show, the bullets are halted in their flight by sheer cran
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# ? Aug 10, 2020 18:43 |
Children playing in the street, New York 1905.
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# ? Aug 16, 2020 19:08 |
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That's one tired looking horse.
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# ? Aug 16, 2020 19:14 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:That's one tired looking kid with a stick
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# ? Aug 16, 2020 19:16 |
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Whatever that kid is gonna do with the horse with that stick, it won't accomplish much.
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# ? Aug 16, 2020 19:55 |
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Negostrike posted:Whatever that kid is gonna do with the horse with that stick, it won't accomplish much. "The first GBS Post." Autochrome, 1905
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# ? Aug 16, 2020 20:36 |
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Negostrike posted:Whatever that kid is gonna do with the horse with that stick, it won't accomplish much. posted like someone who's never poked a dead horse with a stick
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# ? Aug 16, 2020 20:38 |
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If it's been lying there for a while and you poke it with a sharp enough stick, something will definitely be accomplished (cf. beached whale autopsy)
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# ? Aug 17, 2020 08:13 |
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jeebus bob posted:If it's been lying there for a while and you poke it with a sharp enough stick, something will definitely be accomplished That horse looks the complete opposite of bloated tbh. I wonder if the city had horse corpse removers or if the invisible hand of the free market scooped them up for dog food and glue.
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# ? Aug 17, 2020 11:03 |
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Wasnt all the dead horses and horseshit on the streets one of the reasons the automobile was invented?
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# ? Aug 17, 2020 11:47 |
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Molentik posted:Wasnt all the dead horses and horseshit on the streets one of the reasons the automobile was invented? "I can beat that!"
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# ? Aug 17, 2020 11:57 |
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I enjoyed this colorized video of the Wuppertal aerial railway from 1902. It's such a weird contrast between the sleepy small town and the crazily over-engineered sky tram trundling over it.
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# ? Aug 17, 2020 12:26 |
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Inferior posted:I enjoyed this colorized video of the Wuppertal aerial railway from 1902. It's such a weird contrast between the sleepy small town and the crazily over-engineered sky tram trundling over it. I enjoy the video too, but calling what would have been back then the Empire's ninth-largest city a "sleepy small town" sounds kinda funny Related fun fact: As seen in the video, the railway runs for the most part above the Wupper river with only a small part of the track following streets. Said part was and apparently still is colloquially known as the "curtain rod track", because the people there were for the most part pious Protestants and insisted that the railway company gifted them curtains so that no overly curious passenger would be able to peep their wives' ankles or other risque stuff
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# ? Aug 17, 2020 13:29 |
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Molentik posted:Wasnt all the dead horses and horseshit on the streets one of the reasons the automobile was invented? New York isn't in Germany tho?
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# ? Aug 17, 2020 14:10 |
Pictures of immigrants at Ellis Island:
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# ? Aug 17, 2020 19:03 |
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Gonna guess all but maybe the first are from the Ottoman Empire.
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# ? Aug 17, 2020 19:14 |
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My guess would be that only the last one is from the Ottoman Empire.
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# ? Aug 17, 2020 19:18 |
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Phlegmish posted:My guess would be that only the last one is from the Ottoman Empire. Depends on when the photos were taken. I'm assuming they're from when the Ottomans still controlled most of the Balkans and the Middle East.
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# ? Aug 17, 2020 19:20 |
Vincent Van Goatse posted:Gonna guess all but maybe the first are from the Ottoman Empire. Only two from the Ottoman Empire and only kinda. The first is a guadeloupean immigrant, then a romanian shepherd (Romania was part of the Ottoman Empire but the photograph is from 1906 which was after Romania gained independence from the Ottoman Empire), the third one is a cossack, the fourth is only identified as "Hindoo Boy", the fifth is from Algeria (but again, after it gained independence from the Ottoman Empire) and the last one is a ruthenian immigrant.
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# ? Aug 17, 2020 19:28 |
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Yeah. Fifth looks like he's probably Tuareg, judging from the attire and skin tone. I don't think the Ottomans ever had firm control over them.
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Alhazred posted:Only two from the Ottoman Empire and only kinda. The first is a guadeloupean immigrant, then a romanian shepherd (Romania was part of the Ottoman Empire but the photograph is from 1906 which was after Romania gained independence from the Ottoman Empire), the third one is a cossack, the fourth is only identified as "Hindoo Boy", the fifth is from Algeria (but again, after it gained independence from the Ottoman Empire) and the last one is a ruthenian immigrant. Ah, see I thought the second photo could've been a Cossack and the third was from somewhere in Yugoslavia.
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# ? Aug 17, 2020 19:38 |
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The Cossacks/Russians had been battling (and pushing back) the Ottomans for about two centuries at that point. The Porte probably didn't have very many of them as subjects then, but who knows. 1905
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# ? Aug 17, 2020 19:45 |
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Alhazred posted:Pictures of immigrants at Ellis Island: Georgia. Where will you be going? Rome, Georgia. You're a bit overdressed for there.
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# ? Aug 17, 2020 21:06 |
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Ah, see I thought the second photo could've been a Cossack and the third was from somewhere in Yugoslavia. Why would a Yugoslavian move to America wearing a stereotypical Cossack costume?
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# ? Aug 17, 2020 21:26 |
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Unkempt posted:That horse looks the complete opposite of bloated tbh. That was the job of the Knackers who'd render what they could. But as you can imagine, they probably weren't in a rush at the prospect of new business, so dead animals tended to hang around for a while. Working animals just tended to do their job until they dropped dead, so this was all a massive problem until cars came along.
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# ? Aug 17, 2020 21:40 |
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Alhazred posted:Pictures of immigrants at Ellis Island: These are awesome
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# ? Aug 21, 2020 03:26 |
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Agree, they are amazing photographs.They capture a single moment in time where all these loose ends of the human weave become part of a single quilt. That's the kind of poo poo that makes the Statue of Liberty cry a single tear (of joy). This is America. and that is the first positive patriotic thought I have had in a very long time. oof
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# ? Aug 21, 2020 06:53 |
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System Metternich posted:I enjoy the video too, but calling what would have been back then the Empire's ninth-largest city a "sleepy small town" sounds kinda funny The implication is that catholics would flash their ankles at just any old passersby
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