Abdul's official "The past is a foreign country" thread.

solely · Post by **solely** » Thu Jul 23, 2020 10:28 pm

That can't be Uncle Joe.

Hungary, 1955.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Fri Jul 24, 2020 8:39 pm

Spoiler:

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Fri Jul 24, 2020 8:52 pm

Does the new tower have a restaurant at the top?

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Fri Jul 24, 2020 8:56 pm

Never you mind

I checked

It has three

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat Jul 25, 2020 2:27 pm

Link: https://twitter.com/StuartHumphryes/status/1287023363190329344

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun Jul 26, 2020 1:48 am

Chichen Itza when it was discovered in 1892 vs. Present-day

Fid · Post by **Fid** » Sun Jul 26, 2020 2:10 am

I remember finding a tiny stone arrow head and the chill to be touching a physical piece of the past last held by its maker.
Imagine finding that in 1892.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Jul 26, 2020 1:03 pm

@StuartHumphryes
I've restored this original colour autochrome from 1926, taken at the proposed site of the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in the Crow Indian Reservation, Montana. The chap on the right (named Curley) was one of General Custer’s scouts. (This isn't colourised).

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun Jul 26, 2020 2:28 pm

NATO Observers watch the Boltzmann Nuclear Test, 1956

The Joker · Post by **The Joker** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 9:26 pm

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 11:57 pm

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Jul 28, 2020 12:45 am

Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑Tue Jul 28, 2020 12:43 am Brezhnev.

Who's the other guy?

Uzbek SSR leader Sharof Rashidov, 1979.

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Tue Jul 28, 2020 2:38 am

Fags.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Tue Jul 28, 2020 3:25 pm

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Jul 28, 2020 11:22 pm

A lawn mower for Pyrrho:

Steam powered!

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Wed Jul 29, 2020 7:45 am

Any idea what year that is? The front wheels looked poorly thought out. The smallest mole hole would stop it dead.

solely · Post by **solely** » Wed Jul 29, 2020 10:07 am

January 1, 1903.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Wed Jul 29, 2020 11:39 am

@StuartHumphryes
Has an army ever looked so ill-prepared for modern warfare? This astounding (original colour) photo from 1913 shows the 7th regiment of French armoured cavalrymen at their camp northeast of Lyon in France, only a year before they joined the insanity of the First World War.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Wed Jul 29, 2020 8:37 pm

Allegedly a cartoon from the Daily Mirror, 1923

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Wed Jul 29, 2020 9:03 pm

I actually believe that one is real; prophetic, obviously.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed Jul 29, 2020 9:13 pm

Rob Lister wrote: ↑Wed Jul 29, 2020 9:03 pm I actually believe that one is real; prophetic, obviously.

Getty Images says Daily Mirror, 5th March 1919, by W. K. Haselden.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed Jul 29, 2020 9:16 pm

Spoiler:

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 1:40 am

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 11:19 am

Link: https://twitter.com/palewire/status/1288995784826871808

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 11:22 pm

The 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a regiment of almost entirely Japanese-Americans, in France, 1944. I read that this regiment was the most decorated unit for its size and length of service in the history of American warfare.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat Aug 01, 2020 4:05 pm

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Aug 02, 2020 4:15 pm

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Sun Aug 02, 2020 8:38 pm

Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑Sat Aug 01, 2020 4:28 pm I'm old enough to remember when that was allegedly fashionable.

I say allegedly because I never saw anybody dressed that way other than in ads or on TV.

Note: I lived in NYC and was frequently in midtown Manhattan, so supposedly I should have seen what was fashionable.

They only wore that shit in San Francisco and Provincetown.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sun Aug 02, 2020 11:18 pm

Nobody ever wore that shit

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Aug 03, 2020 1:26 am

Ypres Cloth Hall, WWI:

Spoiler:

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Tue Aug 04, 2020 11:02 am

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Aug 04, 2020 11:08 pm

"Druze woman of Mount Lebanon", Tancrède Dumas, 1889.

The most elaborate of all Lebanese headdresses was the tantour, a silver cone worn by the noble married women of the mountains. Young girls wore them if they were of royal birth.

Similarity of the tantour and the conical headdress of European women from the time of the Crusades through the 15th century has led to the hypothesis that the tantour may have been introduced in Lebanon by the Crusaders.

On the other hand, evidence from the Graeco- Roman reliefs at Kartaba, Lebanon, shows that a sort of cutoff cone headdress with veil was worn in Lebanon much earlier than the Crusader period.

Its height and composition were in proportion to the wealth of its owner. The most splendid tantours were of gold and as high as 30 inches. They were encrusted with diamonds, pearls and other precious jewels.

And about the Druze:

Wikipedia wrote:The Epistles of Wisdom is the foundational text of the Druze faith. The Druze faith incorporates elements of Isma'ilism, a branch of Shia Islam, Gnosticism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Neoplatonism, Pythagoreanism, and other philosophies and beliefs, creating a distinct and secretive theology based on an esoteric interpretation of scripture, which emphasises the role of the mind and truthfulness. Druze believe in theophany and reincarnation or the transmigration of the soul. Druze believe that at the end of the cycle of rebirth, which is achieved through successive reincarnations, the soul is united with the Cosmic Mind (al-ʻaql al-kullī).

Middle East, more religions than fleas on a dog.

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Fri Aug 07, 2020 8:20 pm

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Fri Aug 07, 2020 8:48 pm

East German map, 1988.

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Sat Aug 08, 2020 11:25 am

Hotarubi wrote: ↑Fri Aug 07, 2020 8:20 pm

0:36

25 Sonnborner Str.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/cxDn5oPNnzD6HCrc8

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Aug 09, 2020 7:44 pm

Link: https://twitter.com/hughlaurie/status/1292544439391604737

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun Aug 09, 2020 9:21 pm

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Aug 10, 2020 10:11 pm

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Wed Aug 12, 2020 12:08 pm

The "Duke of York" who did rather well for himself was of course George VI, ascending to the throne after that American divorcee gold digging slut came over here and stole one of our royals, made him renounce his royalty and took him back to America.

Wouldnt happen today.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu Aug 13, 2020 9:37 pm