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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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

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

New Zealand laws - email jksw

Now we know .............

                                                                       

For those who haven't heard:

New Zealand just passed both laws - gay marriage and legalized marijuana.

The fact that gay marriage and marijuana were legalized on the same day

makes perfect biblical sense because Leviticus 20:13 says,

"If a man lies with another man they should be stoned."

We just hadn't interpreted it correctly before!

 

A day with Deepal - email Piyusha Atapattu.

Please watch this video. I have seen this man (whom I thought is a tramp) feeding cats and dogs in different places all over Colombo; and often wondered who he is and where he gets the money to buy all the fresh food he carries in two large bags for cats and dogs. He is actually a Thomian, and a graduate from an English University. I thought he is a mere vagrant. A vagrant he is in the true meaning of the word, but one with more noble ideals than most of us (at least more than yours truly) ! Story of a Thomian who chose an unusual and unglamorous path in life.............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH-4Gp4LMdI&feature=em-share_video_user

A Chinese tale - email from Piyusha Atapattu.

Stories From Ancient China: ‘A wise judge’s sentence’

Epoch Times German StaffCreated: October 17, 2008Last Updated: October 17, 2008

Related articles: China » Culture

  A beloved Chinese painting motif: landscapes with mountains, rivers and lakes. (Courtesy of Zhang Cuiying)

A farmer in ancient China had a neighbor who was a hunter, and who owned ferocious and poorly trained hunting dogs. They jumped the fence frequently and chased the farmer's lambs. The farmer asked his neighbor to keep his dogs in check, but this fell on deaf ears.

One day the dogs again jumped the fence and attacked and severely injured several of the lambs.

The farmer had had enough, and went to town to consult a judge who listened carefully to the story and said: "I could punish the hunter and instruct him to keep his dogs chained or lock them up. But you would lose a friend and gain an enemy. Which would you rather have, friend or foe for a neighbor?" The farmer replied that he preferred a friend.

“Alright, I will offer you a solution that keeps your lambs safe, and which will keep your a neighbor a friend." Having heard the judge's solution, the farmer agreed.

Once at home, the farmer immediately put the judge's suggestions to the test. He took three of his best lambs and presented them to his neighbor's three small sons, who were beside themselves with joy and began to play with them. To protect his son's newly acquired playthings, the hunter built a strong kennel for his dogs. Since then, the dogs never again bothered the farmer's lambs.

Out of gratitude for the farmer's generosity toward his sons, the hunter often shared the game he had hunted with the farmer. The farmer reciprocated by sending the hunter lamb meat and cheese he had made. Within a short time the neighbors became good friends.

A saying in old China went something like this, “one can win over and influence people the best with gestures of kindness and compassion.” A similar American saying: “One catches more flies with honey than with vinegar.”