Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Interesting Old Photos - email from Leslie Sirimanne





 
 
These are fascinating. Wonder which photos of today they'll show in 100 years?

A boxing match on board the USS Oregon in 1897.



Samurai taken between 1860 and 1880.

A shell shocked reindeer looks on as World War II planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941

Roy O. and Walt Disney on the day they opened Disney Studios.


The Microsoft staff in 1978.

The last known Tasmanian Tiger photographed in 1933. The species is now extinct.



Winston Churchill out for a swim.


Martin Luther King, Jr removes a burned cross from his yard in 1960. The boy is his son.

Google begins.

Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945.

A Native American overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in 1868.

The Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake of 1906.

A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.

The original Ronald McDonald -- played by Willard Scott!

Hitler in Paris.

Grounded aircraft on September 11, 2001 await orders.

British SAS back from a three month long patrol of North Africa, January 18, 1943.

Disneyland employee cafeteria in 1961.

The first McDonalds.

Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.


California lumberjacks work on Redwoods.


Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated in 1914,
an event that helped spark World War I.




Elvis in the Army.

The first photo following the discovery of Machu Pichu in 1912.

Child laborers in 1880.

New York's Times Square in 1911.

Construction of Christ the Redeemer in Rio da Janeiro, Brazil.

Steamboats on the Mississippi River in 1907.

Leo Tolstoy tells a story to his grandchildren in 1909.

The Beatles meet Muhammad Ali.

The construction of Disneyland.



Fourteen year-old Osama bin Laden. He's second from the right.

Construction of the Statue of Liberty in 1884.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Monday, June 3, 2013

Power point from Gallege De Silva

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London 1920 in Colour - email from jksw

London in the 1920s
A pioneering colour video travelogue - released by the British Film Institute

                  >>    http://vimeo.com/7638752#

This is amazing cinematography - history in motion.
THERE ARE OTHER VIDEOS AT THE END IF YOU WISH TO SEE THEM

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Guests dancing at a wedding, Yakkala, Sri Lanka.

See what life in Sri Lanka is now at present. At a middle-class family's daughters wedding.
Click on the web-link below:-

http://youtu.be/Ta_mgNOn4z0