Pages: 1 ... 3 4 [5] 6   Go Down

Author Topic: Amazing images  (Read 53172 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Ian

  • Administrator
  • Posts: 8985
Re: Amazing images
« Reply #60 on: January 23, 2011, 09:01:27 am »
See if you can guess that this is, before you scroll down to find out:

http://www.amshold.com/social_media/guess_what_this_is.html
Logged
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.  ― Michel de Montaigne

Si hoc legere scis, nimis eruditionis habes.

Yorkie

  • Guest
Re: Amazing images
« Reply #61 on: January 23, 2011, 10:16:41 am »
Wasn't it all put on magnetic wire in those days?  I see to remeber wire recorders from when I was in the RAF.
Logged

Offline Ian

  • Administrator
  • Posts: 8985
Re: Amazing images
« Reply #62 on: April 02, 2011, 02:58:01 pm »
The biggest spider webs on earth?
Logged
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.  ― Michel de Montaigne

Si hoc legere scis, nimis eruditionis habes.

Offline Pendragon

  • Ad Free Member.
  • *
  • Posts: 2927
Re: Amazing images
« Reply #63 on: April 02, 2011, 03:18:17 pm »
Ooh no I don't think so, makes my skin crawl  :o
Logged
Only hindsight has 20/20 vision
Angiegram - A romantic notion derived from the more mundane truth.

Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for." -Bob Marley

brumbob

  • Guest
Re: Amazing images
« Reply #64 on: April 04, 2011, 01:32:37 am »
Logged

Offline DaveR

  • Administrator
  • Posts: 13712
Re: Amazing images
« Reply #65 on: April 04, 2011, 08:07:59 am »
Fascinating pics, Brumbob, it does look pretty buggered.
Logged

Offline Fester

  • Ad Free Member.
  • *
  • Posts: 6660
  • El Baldito
Re: Amazing images
« Reply #66 on: April 04, 2011, 10:21:24 am »
It looks very similar to my houe at the moment.... my builder would say ''its nowt we can't fix''
Logged
Fester...
- Semper in Excretum, Sole Profundum Variat -

Offline DaveR

  • Administrator
  • Posts: 13712
Re: Amazing images
« Reply #67 on: April 04, 2011, 10:30:03 am »
Quote from: Fester on April 04, 2011, 10:21:24 am
my builder would say ''its nowt we can't fix''
...at a price.  8)
Logged

Offline Ian

  • Administrator
  • Posts: 8985
Re: Amazing images
« Reply #68 on: April 04, 2011, 10:33:58 am »
I think what surprised me was just how much was left intact, considering what they'd gone through.
Logged
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.  ― Michel de Montaigne

Si hoc legere scis, nimis eruditionis habes.

Offline DaveR

  • Administrator
  • Posts: 13712
Re: Amazing images
« Reply #69 on: April 12, 2011, 09:46:26 pm »
Logged

Offline DaveR

  • Administrator
  • Posts: 13712
Re: Amazing images
« Reply #70 on: June 20, 2011, 05:53:34 pm »
A great series of photos, showing the run up to World War II:

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/06/world-war-ii-before-the-war/100089/
Logged

Offline Yorkie

  • Member
  • Posts: 5255
Re: Amazing images
« Reply #71 on: June 20, 2011, 06:47:17 pm »
Fan-bloody-tastic!
Logged
Wise men have something to say.
Fools have to say something.
Cicero

Offline Fester

  • Ad Free Member.
  • *
  • Posts: 6660
  • El Baldito
Re: Amazing images
« Reply #72 on: June 20, 2011, 07:20:46 pm »
Fascinating...and appalling in equal measure.
Logged
Fester...
- Semper in Excretum, Sole Profundum Variat -

Offline Pendragon

  • Ad Free Member.
  • *
  • Posts: 2927
Re: Amazing images
« Reply #73 on: June 20, 2011, 07:51:19 pm »
Some excellent photos did you have a look at the underground pics too?
Logged
Only hindsight has 20/20 vision
Angiegram - A romantic notion derived from the more mundane truth.

Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for." -Bob Marley

Offline DaveR

  • Administrator
  • Posts: 13712
Re: Amazing images
« Reply #74 on: June 20, 2011, 08:07:31 pm »
Yes, there are many other great photo sets. I liked this one especially:
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/06/the-125th-anniversary-of-the-death-of-king-ludwig-ii/100085/

You can view them all here:
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/
Logged
Pages: 1 ... 3 4 [5] 6   Go Up