41 Badass Women Who Changed History Forever Jeanne Manford marches with her gay son during a Pride Parade. [1972] Jeanne went on to found the rights group "Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays." A women's suffrage activist protesting after the "Night of Terror." [1917] Source: reddit.com 33 suffrage activists had been arrested for "obstructing traffic" and were badly beaten by prison guards. Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer of the Apollo Project, stands next to the code she wrote by hand and that was used to take humanity to the moon. [1969] A Dutch woman refuses to leave her husband, a German soldier, after Allied soldiers capture him. Source: reddit.com Photograph of a samurai warrior. Source: reddit.com Anna Fisher, an American astronaut and "the first mother in space." [1984] Source: reddit.com Some of the first women sworn into the US Marine Corps. Source: pinterest.com Female pilots leaving their B-17, "Pistol Packin' Mama." Source: reddit.com Source: City of Toronto Archives Source: reddit.com Leola N.
Watch how immigration in America has changed since 1820 by Alvin Chang on April 26, 2016 The idea of banning an entire racial or ethnic group from entering the US isn't a new proposal. Donald Trump is far from the first person to propose it. In fact, this country has a long history of picking and choosing whom it lets into its borders — and whom it doesn't. In 1790, the US banned nonwhite people from naturalizing as citizens. The graphic above shows how these policies affect who enters the country. And we're back again to talking about restricting entire immigrant groups from coming to the US. 200 years of immigration also show how today's population came to be But this isn't just a story about immigration. In 1820, where the graphic starts, there were only about 9.7 million people in the United States, which is about the current population of Sweden. It is these people, and their descendants, who largely make up today's US population.
60 Historical Photos Worth 1000 Words posted by Katharine J. Tobal The American newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane said that “a picture is worth a thousand words” in 1911. Over 100 years later, this still rings true. Each photograph tells a story, a special event or moment, and helps us witness the past. 1. 2. 3. 106-year-old Armenian Woman Guards Her Home, 1990 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55.Nagasaki, 20 Minutes after the Atomic Bombing in 1945 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. About Author Katharine J. I'm Syrian activist, reporter, photographer, and graphic designer.
The Beautiful Story Behind This Viral Photo From A Chicago Airport Protest | The Huffington Post 50 Surprising Photos From The Past That Show How Different Life Used To Be The oldest known selfie. (1839) Source: hyperallergic.com Robert Cornelius took this photo outside the store his family owned. It became famous for being the first self portrait or as its commonly now known, a "selfie." People posing next to the Statue of Liberty as it's unpacked. (1886) This funny portrait of a woman was taken while she was mid-sneeze. (1900) A "knocker-up" waking up clients - the early 20th century version of alarm clocks. Nine kings gather to mourn the death of King Edward VII (1910). This may very well be the most kings ever photographed at once. Before automatic pinsetters were invented, "pin boys" worked to manually line them up. (1914). Sarcastic photo taken by anti-prohibitionists to mock their opponents in 1919. A police officer on a Harley and an old fashioned mobile holding cell. (1921) An early example of "horsemanning", the 1920's version of "planking". Two winners of a 1922 Beauty Pageant, when beauty standards were much different. Source: shorpy Source: reddit.com
Spain blazes a progressive path, fueling growth by legalizing migrants MADRID — When night falls on the other side of the Atlantic, her 32-year-old cousin, a house cleaner in New York, huddles inside a dim basement apartment, terrified of ICE raids. But in a burgeoning quarter of the Spanish capital, where immigrant-staffed restaurants tempt newcomers with Dominican chicharrones and Venezuelan empanadas, Edith Chimbo sat in the sunlight, musing about the Spanish Dream. “My cousin told me, ‘Go to Spain,’” said Chimbo, 22, who landed in Madrid earlier this year from the Ecuadorian highlands. Armed with a college degree but no work permit, she’s cleaning houses under the table, just like her cousin in the United States. Yet she is counting on something in the weeks ahead that her kin almost certainly cannot: legalization. “Here,” she said, “we have hope.” In this nation of 48 million with long colonial links to the New World, an influx of predominantly Latin American immigrants is helping fuel one of the fastest-growing economies in Europe.
55 Historic Photos Got Colorized. It Changes Everything. Even if you’re a history buff that is well-versed on historical events, these photos might change how you feel about certain moments in history. A Redditor gathered together a group of cleverly edited historic photos; seeing these blew my mind. They’re not digitally altered to the point of ruining the photo, they are simply colorized. Somehow, just adding color to some of these incredibly iconic images makes it seem entirely different. These images seem less impressive or historic when they appear so modern (although you may feel differently when you see them). If only they had modern recording technology back then… Source: Reddit Did history look quite the way we picture it in these colorized photos? Share these enlightening photos with others by clicking below.
Rare Historical Photos Pt. 8 Rare Historical Photos Pt. 8 [20 Pics] Mar 29 2013 Another roundup of the popular historical series of posts that we do. You can find the previous post here, and the start of the series here. Filming of The Matrix. Abraham Lincoln's hearse, 1865. F1 pilot ejects at extremely low altitude. Fidel Castro smoking a Cohiba cigar in Havana, Cuba. 1984. German engineers testing the Messerschmitt BF109 E3. In 1955 Marilyn Monroe left Twentieth Century Fox, to move onto bigger and better things. Golden Gate Bridge construction. 1937. Jack in the Box, 1964. Jimi Hendrix driving a dune buggy with an unidentified woman. Manhattan, New York City. Martin Luther King, Jr.' Mona Lisa being returned to its home at the Louvre in Paris, France after WW2. 1945. St. NASA before Powerpoint. New York World's Fair, railroad pageant. Niagara Falls during the freeze of 1911. The original Piggly Wiggly Store, Memphis, Tennessee. Saturn V lower stages under construction at Michoud Assembly Facility. See more photo posts
Rare Historical Photos Pt. 7 Rare Historical Photos Pt. 7 [20 Pics] Feb 5 2013 Another roundup of the popular historical series of posts that we do. You can find the previous post here, and the start of the series here. Titanic in dry dock. Here you can see the scale of the person standing next to one of the propellers. 1912. The headquarters of Benito Musolini and the Italian Fascist party. Crew members of Apollo 1 rehearsing their water landing. 1966. Hindenburg flies over Manhattan in 1936. Construction of Mount Rushmore. 1934-1939. Buzz Aldrin, sitting inside Apollo 11 lunar module. A Russian Sukhoi Su-25 close air support jet that was damaged by a Georgian MANPADS (Man Portable Air Defense System). Folsom Street in San Francisco, USA after the great earthquake of 1906. Soviet cruiser “Murmansk” that ran aground off the Norwegian village Sørvær during the transfer to be scrapped in India. 1994. Soviet sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko. A German soldier with kids on his motorcycle. See more photo posts Dec 28 2012 View Post