Historical Picture Thread

[JimServo]

Michelangelo's Creation of the Sun and Moon

Moniter and the Merrimac (Virginia)

 

[Kazmarov]

Washington Crossing the Delaware

 

[Jeanie]

General Nguyen Ngoc Loan Executing a Viet Cong Prisoner in Saigon

Vietnam war protesters

Vietnam POW homecoming

 

[JimServo]

Maximilian I, the last Emperor of Mexico

 

[JimServo]

(continuing the Imperial theme)

Meiji-tenno (Emperor of Japan, 1867-1912)

 

[Corona]

Tiananmen Square, China. 5 June, 1989.

 

[Jeanie]

dammit corona, no shit i was going to post that tianenman square picture next! that guy is one of my heroes.

and yes I knew the story behind that vietnam picture.

 

[Corona]

I still can't believe no one's posted the flag raising @ you know where.

 

[Jeanie]

Dallas, TX, November 22, 1963

Lee Harvey Oswald under arrest

Jack Ruby kills Oswald

John John salutes his father's casket

 

[Hanzo_Hattori]

(continuing the Imperial theme)

Meiji-tenno (Emperor of Japan, 1867-1912)

Damn that Emperor for moderising >.<

For that heres a picture of a classic Samurai