test fire thompson submachine gun churchill .
During World War II, Churchill test-fired the Thompson submachine gun known as the " Chicago Typewriter " when he visited the U.S. military stationed in Britain. He was flanked by Eisenhower, the supreme commander of the Allied Forces. Churchill has many years of military experience, so his posture when holding a gun is also very professional, but he looks a bit like a "mafia" godfather.
Reading on the ruins.
After the German air raid on London, England in 1940, the Holland House Library in the West End of London was bombed in the air raid.
Even so, there are still citizens who come to the library that was bombed into ruins and swim in the ocean of knowledge selflessly as usual.
During the Great Depression in the United States in the 1930s, a man carried a creative resume on the street. The content of
's resume is: I have 3 skills, speak 3 languages, have been fighting for 3 years, have 3 children, have been unemployed for 3 months, and now I want a job.
Fifty years ago Afghanistan Capital Kabul In a kindergarten, children happily took music lessons outdoors.
In the 1950s and 1960s, due to Afghanistan's geographical advantages, it became the target of the United States and the Soviet Union to woo it. Against this background, Afghanistan gained a very valuable period of peaceful development. At that time, Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, had a modern transportation service system, citizens wore Western clothes, and boys and girls attended classes together in schools. But now Afghanistan can only sigh.
A family of four was driving and drinking cold drinks outside a drive-in restaurant.
In the drive-in restaurant in the United States in the 1960s, the driver drove here to buy food and enjoy it in the car, while the waiter would also blow air-conditioning in the car.
A hundred years ago, a couple was camping in the wild in an RV.
At the beginning of the last century, people converted cars with carriages into RVs, and then drove them to the countryside for camping. This homemade RV can also cook, and can be said to be the prototype of the modern RV.
After a heavy snow in Siberia in 1960.
Just look at the photos and you will know how big the snow is. The heavy snow has buried the telephone poles, and an employee of the Electricity Bureau stood on the several meters thick snow and shoveled the snow with a shovel. It is worth noting that the photographer worked hard to take this photo.
The "Ming Kuai Chinese Typewriter" exhibited in New York in 1947. The inventor of
is the famous linguist Lin Yutang . "Mingkuai Chinese Typewriter" can use the keyboard to type, which is convenient to use and simple to operate. After the success of the invention, Lin Yutang once said proudly: "This is my gift to the Chinese people."
But most of the parts of this typewriter had to be made by hand, and the cost of one machine was as high as 120,000 US dollars. Because the price was too high, this Chinese typewriter was not popularized in the end.
Vietnam Hue in 1968, a dead North Vietnamese soldier and his relics scattered on the ground.
The photographer was the famous British war correspondent Don McCullen. At that time, McCullen saw two U.S. soldiers robbing and trampling on the North Vietnamese soldier's relics. He was angry and collected the soldier's relics scattered everywhere. I took this meaningful photo.
Later, many people asked him if this photo was staged. He said frankly: "Yes, this photo was staged. He can't speak, so I have to speak for him."
learned that Pearl American reporter after Hong Kong was attacked by Japanese troops.
On December 7, 1941, White House reporters learned that Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese army. With excited smiles on their faces, they ran to where they could make a phone call and asked the newspaper as soon as possible to publish this headline that would make the newspaper and them rich. information.
In 1933, the United States, a corner of the street after the end of Prohibition.
A drunk man lies on a pile of wine bottles. This photo was actually staged by the photographer.
The coroner and jurors watch a simulation of the events of the 1929 Valentine's Day Massacre.
The massacre occurred on Valentine's Day in 1929, when Chicago gang leader Al Capone arranged for gang members to dress up as police officers and forced seven gang members of the Mad Moran gang to line up against the wall in a motor home, and They were slaughtered without mercy.
The world’s largest camera
This is said to be the world’s largest camera and was invented in 1900. It is 6 meters long and weighs 635 kilograms. It is made of cherry wood for the body, and has a small track for two focusing screens and a curtain panel bracket. It is not easy to transport such a huge camera, and it needs to be hauled by train to transport it to the shooting location.
A lucky little elephant throwing dice.
In 1966, while playing a dice game at the Sand Dunes Casino in Las Vegas, a baby elephant, considered by gamblers to bring good luck, helped people roll the dice.
In the 1950s, two clowns and a Santa Claus went to a children's hospital to comfort children.
Is this here to comfort children or to leave a shadow of their childhood?
This little girl must have been attracted by the rag doll in Santa Claus's hand, otherwise she would have been frightened to tears by these two clowns dressed in weird clothes if she turned around.
Man playing chess in the snow.
In the 1950s, in Moscow, the capital of the former Soviet Union, a man was sitting on a park bench in the biting cold wind and heavy snow, amusing himself and playing chess leisurely.
The winner of the oyster eating contest.
In 1920, at the Oyster Eating Contest held in New Orleans, USA, these two women finally won the championship by eating 204 oysters.
I really envy people like this who eat a lot but don’t gain weight.
Attempted suicide Tojo Hideki .
In 1945, the Japanese war criminal Tojo Hideki, who had his hands filled with blood donated by Chinese people, committed suicide before being tried with the pistol that Hitler gave him. He originally wanted to shoot in the heart, but unexpectedly the bullet hit his abdomen. The American soldiers who were guarding him rushed into his room after hearing the gunshot and immediately sent him to the hospital for rescue and rescued him. Hideki Jo was imprisoned by the US military in Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan.
A US military officer who donated blood to Hideki Tojo.
Hideki Tojo, who attempted suicide, needed a blood transfusion due to excessive blood loss during the rescue, so a US military officer took the initiative to sign up to donate blood. Afterwards, someone asked him why he did this. The officer replied: "I want this executioner covered in blood to stand trial alive and receive the punishment he deserves. It would be too cheap to let him die peacefully like this." He died."
A Japanese soldier stabbed a dead body.
In January 1942, Yamashita Tombumi led 70,000 Japanese troops to defeat 140,000 British troops in the Malay Peninsula. , the Japanese army began to focus on shooting the British prisoners and disobedient residents on the island. In order to prevent anyone from pretending to be dead, he After the shooting, they have to hit each other one after another.
