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Otoya Yamaguchi (17) in 1960 stabbing Inejirō Asanuma, the leader of the socialist party of Japan with a samurai sword, ending Japans path towards communism.
Otoya Yamaguchi (17) in 1960 stabbing Inejirō Asanuma, the leader of the socialist party of Japan with a samurai sword, ending Japans path towards communism.
Hundreds of miners hoping to strike it rich in the Yukon Gold Rush make the tedious climb out of the US and into British Columbia.
Canadian authorities would deny you entry if you did not bring at least a year's worth of food and other supplies to ensure your nominal survival in the backwoods.
Each man had to make countless trips up and down the slope, carrying 40 to 50 pounds each time, until they had moved all their required gear, (roughly 1,000 pounds total) to the top.
A step out of line to take a breather meant you might have to wait an hour or more before someone feeling generous would stop their climb to let you back in.
By the time of this picture, a cable tramway had been installed to help ease the slog, and eventually, the White Pass & Yukon Railroad would be constructed nearby and mercifully make this back-breaking section of trail obsolete.
This crew was working on the Woolworth Bldg, NYC, in 1926
Marion Post Wolcott
August 1940
Morehead, Kentucky
By standing on a nearby bridge to get a wide-angle perspective, Marion Post Wolcott created a photograph where the actions of the religious community are highlighted. She presents a congregation of Primitive Baptists as they establish a close bond between their world and the world of the New Testament by baptizing their new members as John baptized Jesus in the River Jordan. At this moment, the people being baptized are separated from the congregation, but they will eventually join it as full members of the church.
Liberty Congregational Church in Georgia
Does anyone have any old photos of church congregations from the first half of the 20th century? It would be useful for a project that I'm working on.
March 4, 1941 British and Norwegian special forces execute Operation Claymore - a surprise early morning attack on the Lofoten Islands in occupied Norway. It featured a shore bombardment by the Royal Navy followed by the landing of demolition and raiding parties to destroy the local infrastructure. Catching the German defenders completely by surprise, the raiders managed to sink 8 German merchant ships, blew up a fish oil factory (used for making explosives) and scored a major intelligence coup when parts of a German Enigma encryption machine and several naval code books were discovered in the wreckage of a destroyed fishing trawler. They also captured 228 German prisoners and several members of Quisling's collaborationist regime.
So thorough was their success that one British trooper couldn't help himself and dashed off a quick message to Berlin from the telegraph office before withdrawing back to England with his comrades:
