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Natan | Military vehicles and history enthusiast | he/him | @just-random-guy for random reblogs | @just-random-fanboy for fandom stuff
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skluug

when there’s an old photograph, AND the guy in it is really old, it’s like, wow, that guy is super old

Conrad Heyer, photographed in 1852 at the age of 103. He was born in 1749 and is thought to be the earliest-born person ever photographed.

i am experiencing Emotions about locking photographic gaze with a man who was born in the middle of the 18th century

this dude was an adult already during the american revolutionary war (ish)? he was getting real time news of the unfolding of France's emperors? what

whaaat

he is looking at me

This man was born before the invention of:

The sextant (1757), which allowed precise calculation of your position in the ocean

Lightning rods (1752)

The first English dictionary (1755)

Carbonated water (1767)

Sewing machines (1790)

The cotton gin (1794)

Flush toilets (1775)

And he's looking at you

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natsikka

When he was born, the US Looked about like this

And then it was this at about the time of the photo

He saw colonial rule, revolution, war of 1812, the subsequent rise in nationalism, and manifest destiny (not to mention all the subsequent wars)

And he's looking at you

He was born in Maine when it was still part of Massachusetts. He was 81 when it became its own state.

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Guy who has heard other guys refer to their wives as "ball and chain" and "battle-axe" and wrongfully assumed you can refer to your wife as any medieval weapon: oh there's my beautiful Lucerne hammer
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Military parade organized in honour of Austrian Federal President Wilhelm Miklas, Vienna, 1936. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

these things are not meant for war. these are for doing burnouts in the walmart parking lot

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bacony-cakes

they've discovered a new dornier bomber design for the luftwaffe in world war 2 but this time it's one molecule thick so anti-aircraft cannons can't shoot it down but they kept gracefully blowing away in the wind and sinking into the caspian sea so they had to cancel it

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P-61A 42-5580 Wabash Cannon-Ball IV of the 425th Night Fighter Squadron. France, 1944.

This is one of my favorite things about WW2 plane names. It's not Wabash Cannonball. It's Wabash Cannonball IV.

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just overheard my wife spelling something on the phone and i shit you not saying the words “E as in Eeyore” i am on my hands and knees wailing screaming crying pleading and begging people to learn the NATO phonetic alphabet

like the reason this exists is because none of the words sound like each other, which means that even with a terrible signal both parties should be able to clearly understand the words being spelled

i am dead serious that i believe this should be taught in school

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