'The boneyard' Tuscon Nevada US. Over 5k retired planes.
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'The boneyard' Tuscon Nevada US. Over 5k retired planes.
An expensive way of killing someone, but more humane than some other methods.
Boxer Hogan 'Kid' Bassey Training In Princes Park, Liverpool (1957)
Hogan "Kid" Bassey was a Nigerian-British boxer and the first man of Nigerian descent to become a world boxing champion.
He was born Okon Asuquo Bassey on the banks of the Cross River, Creek Town, Calabar, Nigeria, and became naturalised British when he moved to the UK, where he spent most of his life in Liverpool. He took the name Kid Bassey when he turned professional as a boxer.
Apollo 11 rocket engines found and recovered from Atlantic ocean floor. Courtesy of one founder of amazon.
Jodrell Bank observatory. Thrown a rainbow in for free.
It's a sizable 'no' from me, and then I found out he'd died in a fall (not here, which is sad as he was only 26) How had he made it without O2?
mothballed French navy ships, well past it, floating wrecks for all intents.
Eilean Donan Castle, wins through on the setting. The UK does do a roaring trade in castles. Looks like it moonlights as a links as well...
I've titled this 'foreshadowing'. And the timing seems rather apt.
The earliest photograph of the moon, taken by John Adams Whipple (1851).
The oldest surviving camera photograph “View from the Window at Le Gras” (1826)
Cheer up lads, it's Christmas.
Nazi Christmas party hosted by Adolf Hitler (1941)
Nazi Christmas party hosted by Adolf Hitler (1941)
shroud of Turin, depending on who you believe, a very early example of rudimentary photography. Apparently Jesus (a Jewish chap celebrated at christmas no less).
Hitler taking Helga Goebbels for a walk. She would later be killed by her parents in Hitlers' Berlin bunker.
Now there's a centre forward if there ever was one 
British corporal taking the surrender of a 7 feet 6 inch (228 cm) tall German soldier (1944)
British corporal taking the surrender of a 7 feet 6 inch (228 cm) tall German soldier (1944)