Powerful Pictures (@Powerful_Pics) tweeted at 1:39 AM on Tue, Apr 01, 2014: What Twitter looked like eight years ago today:
LBJ - John Connally Telephone Conversation About Conspiracy Rumors 1967 - YouTube
Arming coat, helmet, gauntlets, shield and sword scabbard of Edward the Black Prince, Canterbury Cathedral www.forest.gen.nz...
In 1974, eating at McDonald's was pretty inexpensive.
Hathor, Sky-Goddess of women, fertility and love. Temple of Kom Ombo, Aswan, Egypt.
The Coronation Chalice, 12th C. Almost all the Kings of France were crowned at Reims.This was the chalice used-
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to 1970s goaltending. Just kidding. Though beer did flow freely post-game, a lot of that changed after Pelle Lindbergh’s horrific car crash and subsequent death. Side note: Take a look at the glove above his head. Not much safety for stopping a booming slapshot.
A banged-up Ted Kennedy post-game during the 1950 playoffs. Payback for his devastating hit on Gordie Howe, aka The Night Teeder Kennedy Almost Killed Gordie Howe
History In Pictures (@History In Pics) tweeted at 7:43 PM on Mon, Mar 24, 2014: Ben and Jerry Stiller in NY, circa 1978
History In Pictures (@History In Pics) tweeted at 7:42 AM on Fri, Mar 28, 2014: Demonstrator at the Harlem Peace March to end racial oppression carries an anti-war sign, 1967.
History In Pictures (@History In Pics) tweeted at 0:14 PM on Fri, Mar 28, 2014: 1987 Princess Diana sitting on the fender of Charles's vintage Aston Martin.
May 12 1932, the decomposed and animal-eaten body of Lindbergh's son is discovered by truck driver William Allen, about two miles from the family home. Cause of death was apparently a fractured skull, and Lindbergh identified the body though a birth defect of one of the toes. The aviator ordered the body cremated, without a full autopsy.
Mount Hekla: Iceland's particularly active volcano developed a reputation as a gateway to Hell in the 12th century, after its 1104 eruption. Benedeit's 1120 Anglo-Norman poem Voyage of St. Brendan mentions the volcano as the prison of Judas, the apostle who betrayed Jesus. That reputation continued with further eruptions; after the 1341 eruption, there was a report that people saw birds flying amidst the fire—birds, some thought, that must really be swarming souls. Even in more recent times, He…
Iroquois Confederacy territory of 1600 which shows the 5 Nations from East to West: Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca.
Janis Joplin and her psychedelic, customised Porsche 356c Cabriolet. 1968.
St. Dunstan-in-the-East was a Church of England parish church halfway between London Bridge and the Tower of London. There has been a church on this site since approximately 1100. The church was destroyed in 1941 during the London Blitz of WW2.
Oldest church in England still in use: since AD597 - St Martin's Church, Canterbury, Kent, quite unbelievable!
History (@CombinedHistory) tweeted at 5:00 AM on Thu, Mar 27, 2014: Neil Armstrong's heart rate during Apollo 11.
Mug shot - Lee Harvey Oswald - shot President Kennedy - Nov. 22, 1963
Howard Hughes testifies before the Senate War Investigation Committee in 1947
Severe spinal and hip deformities, from August Schreiber’s General and special orthopedic surgery, with the inclusion of orthopedic operations, 1888
BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) tweeted at 3:51 AM on Wed, Mar 26, 2014: A State-By-State Look At The Future Of Legal Marijuana
Ali and X - "Turning my back on Malcolm was one of the mistakes that I regret most in my life. I wish I’d been able to tell Malcolm I was sorry, that he was right about so many things. But he was killed before I got the chance. He was a visionary ahead of us all" - Muhammad Ali
"Colonel Chivington before he ordered the raid on the Cheyenne peacefully assembled at Sand Creek in Colorado was quoted as saying: "Kill and scalp all, big and little; nits make lice." Chivington, who commanded the attacking force, was a Methodist minister and avid anti-slavery crusader. After the massacre he proudly displayed over 100 scalps and scalps of female pubic hair to audiences who gathered to hear him talk about his exploits."
NewsBreaker (@NewsBreaker) tweeted at 8:52 PM on Tue, Mar 25, 2014: The search for #MH370 is still absurdly difficult. This map puts it in perspective t.co/hI4BwkbC6p - @Jim Schachterle Cronin
Do you know the ghost story about Liberace and the Pittsburgh hospital that saved his life in 1963? He basically collapsed on stage of poisoning from the chemicals used to clean his costumes. While hospitalized near death at St. Francis Hospital he had a "visit" from a nun no one could identify. Liberace's life was saved by an early use of dialysis and he remained a benefactor of the hospital until his death in 1987.
History In Pictures @History In Pics Fred Astaire, age six, on the Vaudeville stage with his sister Adele, circa 1905
Patricia Hearst (1954-) was an heir to the Hearst newspaper empire when she was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974. She is seen here taking part in a bank robbery with her captors. Hearst announced she had joined the SLA and taken a new name, Tania. She was arrested 19 months after her kidnapping and served almost two years in prison before President Jimmy Carter commuted her sentence. She married her former bodyguard, Bernard Shaw, after her release.
1987: TIME names Philippine President Corazon Aquino its Woman of the Year.
Marilyn placing her hands in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater, 1953.
Rescue workers direct evacuees of the North Tower.
Cherokee Indian Symbols | Seal of the Cherokee Nation
Funerary Crown of Anna of Habsburg, Germany (ca. 1300).
Funerary Crown of Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, Speyer Cathedral, Germany (1106).
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