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For Christian American readers of this blog:


I wish to incite all Christians to rise up and take back the United States of America with all of God's manifold blessings. We want the free allowance of the Bible and prayers allowed again in schools, halls of justice, and all governing bodies. We don't seek a theocracy until Jesus returns to earth because all men are weak and power corrupts the very best of them.
We want to be a kinder and gentler people without slavery or condescension to any.

The world seems to be in a time of discontent among the populace. Christians should not fear. God is Love, shown best through Jesus Christ. God is still in control. All Glory to our Creator and to our God!


A favorite quote from my good friend, Jack Plymale, which I appreciate:

"Wars are planned by old men,in council rooms apart. They plan for greater armament, they map the battle chart, but: where sightless eyes stare out, beyond life's vanished joys, I've noticed,somehow, all the dead and mamed are hardly more than boys(Grantland Rice per our mutual friend, Sarah Rapp)."

Thanks Jack!

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Saturday, October 21, 2017

Nice Historical Photos, Dorothy C! Thx !Photos








More Interesting Old Photographs.  Sorry, no other information is available on these photographs.

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The first Waffle House? - circa 1900.
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An evening at home - date unknown.
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1916 4th of July Parade, Front Street, Nome Alaska.
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Rural Mail Delivery - circa 1914.
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Detroit Opera House - date unknown. 
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Pumping gasoline - circa 1925. 
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Josoroteo Arango Arula (Pancho Villa) - date unknown. 
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Old General Store - circa 1917. 
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Cowboy - circa 1888. 
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Cincinnati Street Car - circa 1913. 
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Bea Arthur (nee Bernice Frankel) (1922-2009)
SSgt. USMC 1943-45 WW II
Enlisted and assigned as typist at Marine HQ in
Wash DC, then air stations in VA and NC.
Best remembered for her title role in the TV series
"Maude" and as Dorothy in "Golden Girls".
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Lucille Ball - circa 1930. 
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Miss America - 1924.
My, my - how our standards of beauty have changed! 
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John Fitxgerald Kennedy - as a boy. 
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Emily Todd was Mary Todd Lincoln's half-sister.
In 1856 she married Benjamin Helm, a Confederate
general. After Helm's death in 1863 Emily Helm passed
through Union Lines to visit her sister in the White House.
This caused great consternation in the Northern
newspapers. Emily Helm took an oath of loyalty to
the Union and was granted amnesty.
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Three days before his 19th birthday,
George H.W. Bush became the youngest
aviator in the US Navy.
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Washington, D.C., circa 1919. "Walter Reed Hospital
flu ward." One of the very few images in Washington
area photo archives documenting the influenza
contagion of 1918-1919, which killed over 500,000
Americans and tens of millions around the globe.
Most victims succumbed to bacterial pneumonia
following influenza virus infection.
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Market Street, San Francisco.
After the earthquake, 1906.
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NOTICE: It has come to my attention that this cannot possibly be a real photograph of Sacajawea, as she died prior to the invention of photography.  My best guess is that this is a photo of a wax museum piece, or a staged/posed recreation.  In any event, I'm leaving it up.

Sacajawea - Stolen, held captive, sold, eventually reunited the Shoshone Indians.  She was an interpreter and guide for Lewis and Clark in 1805-1806 with her husband Toussaint Charbonneau. She navigated carrying her son, Jean Baptiste, on her back.  She traveled thousands of miles from the Dakotas to the Pacific Ocean.  The explorers, said she was cheerful, never complained, and proved to be invaluable.  She served as an advisor and caretaker, and is legendary for her perseverance and resourcefulness.
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Geraldine Doyle, who was the inspiration behind the famous Rosie the Riveter poster.
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Chief Petty Officer Graham Jackson plays "Going Home"
as FDR's body is borne past in Warm Springs, GA, where
the President was scheduled to attend a barbecue on the
day he died. April, 1945.
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Wagon train on Marietta Street, Atlanta. 
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Bonnie and Clyde's car following the shootout that ended the two outlaws. The gunfire barrage was so loud that many members of the posse experienced temporary deafness.. 
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Civil War veteran Samuel Decker poses with the prosthetic arms he made for himself... somehow.
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Inmates at Attica play chess.
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American soldiers hunker down in a trench less than a mile away from the detonation of a 43 kiloton nuclear bomb in 1953.
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Mark Twain smokes a cigar in 1905.. 
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LAPD police officers going undercover in 1960 to catch purse snatchers. 
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Children in iron lungs in 1937, before the advent of the polio vaccine. 
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Cincinnati's cavernous main library, demolished in 1955. 
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The first known sports team photo ever taken, The 1858 Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, Hoboken, New Jersey.
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Albert Einstein visits The Grand Canyon in 1922.
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Eisenhower and Patton examine a trove of stolen artifacts that the Germans hid in salt mine in 
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An American field hospital in the bombed out remains of a French church in 1918. 
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Waiting in line following the Louisville flood of 1937. 
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John F. and Bobby Kennedy in 1960. 
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A group of school children visit a bison in 1899. 
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The old Pony Express and the future of mail delivery. 
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The first ambulance: Bellevue Hospital Center, NY, 1869. 
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Abraham Lincoln inspects the battlefield in 1862. 
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A mountain of bison skulls ready to be ground into fertilizer in the 1870's. 
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Michigan loggers in 1890. 
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Prohibition begins and alcohol is poured down the drain in 1921. 
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12th Street in Miami, Florida in 1908. 
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An Alabama schoolhouse in 1935. 
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Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill pose together in 1885. 
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The road leading to Woodstock in 1969. 
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Lewis Powell, a co-conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He was hanged in 1865.
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