Winston Churchill speaking at the Royal Albert Hall in the year 1944 on Thanksgiving day.
“The body of 10-month-old Palestinian infant Haneen Tafesh lies in the morgue of Shifa hospital in Gaza City, on November 15, 2012.”
Two young girls in a West Germans street chat with their grandparents in the window of their home in the Eastern sector, separated only by a barbed wire barricade. It was a common occurrence for families, who had once only lived on the opposite side of the street from one another, to become separated by the ever growing Berlin Wall.
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Children assembling some PPD-40 sub-machine guns in the Soviet Union
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The wreck of an American B-52, left over from the Vietnam War, rises out of the waters of a lagoon.
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exquisite-joys-exquiste-sorrows:
SARAJEVO, BOSNIA - 1995: In the dangerous suburb of Dobrinja, Meliha Varesanovic walks proudly and defiantly to work during the Siege of Sarajevo, 1995. Her message to the watching Serb gunmen who surround her city is simple, “you will never defeat us.” After the war Meliha revisited the street with Getty Images photographer Tom Stoddart who captured her striking appearence and attitude.(source: http://www.thisisthewhat.com/2012/05/tom-stoddart-women-of-sarajevo-revisited/)
Meliha Varesanovic, definiton of swag
During the siege of Sarajevo (1992-1995), this woman, this photo became a symbol. A symbol for the spirit of women from and in Sarajevo. A symbol for the people’s resistance. She walked down the notorious “Sniper Alley” like a lady. She and other women of Sarajevo refused to become caricatures of the war. A war in which mass rape was used as a tactic to destroy the people’s self-worth, pride, dignity.
They kept their heels and heads high. They didn’t allow them to take away their elegance, their pride. Looking as elegant, as ladylike, as normal as possible in the gruesome, grueling, deathly surroundings of war, was their way of saying: “Fuck you! You can take away our water, food, money, electricity, hell even our lives, but not what we are and what we stand for!”
This woman, these women of Sarajevo are my personal heroes and role models.
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Scenes from World War II Photoshopped Onto Today’s Streets
“It is a bit like painting with history,” Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse says of her project “Ghosts of History.”
She got the idea a few years ago when she found some old negatives at a flea market in Amsterdam, where she lives. “I was very curious about these mysterious photos and wanted to find out who took them and where. So I started to walk around Amsterdam and made photos in the same spot where the old photos were made and combined them on the computer.”
See more. [Images: Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse, Unknown, Tom Timmermans]
This day in history:
Amid protests across Soviet-dominated Hungary, violence erupts, sparking the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
Soon after the revolution began the Soviet Union planned to give in to demands and withdraw forces from the country. However they quickly changed plans and sent in a large military force to quash the rebellion and regain control.
Revolutionaries made quick and large gains up to the end of October, but stood no chance against the superior Soviet military. The rebellion eventually ended on November 10, two and a half weeks after it began.
Despite calls for help to western countries (especially the USA), the revolutionaries received no support during the conflict, and Hungary was dominated by Soviet oppression until 1989.
October 23, 1956 - 56 years ago today
London Calling: The Blitz in Color by William Vandivert (via LIFE)
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