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Started by Rix Gins, January 01, 2016, 08:20:14 PM

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From the Imperial War Museum.


QuoteA captured German airplane on display at the Lord Mayor's Show in London, 9 November 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205025918


QuoteBritish tanks taking part in the Lord Mayor's Show in London, 9 November 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205287301


QuoteAmerican Congressmen visit the Royal Army Ordnance Corps workshops at Calais, 9th November 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205235741


QuoteOfficial photographers Frank Hurley and George H(Hubert) Wilkins: An Australian billet among the ruins of a house near Ypres. Soldiers prepare a meal and rest.  1917-11-09.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205194721


From the Europeana Collection.


QuoteTroop inspection and decoration of officers, NCOs and crew in the presence of Field Marshal Lieutenant von Felix by General of the infantry of Litzmann.  Date: 1917-11-09.
https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073596093.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=api2demo  http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/Pages/Search/Result.aspx?p_eBildansicht=2&p_ItemID=1  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/


QuoteAt the Livenza near Motta.  1917-11-09.
https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073604590.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=api2demo  http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/Pages/Search/Result.aspx?p_eBildansicht=2&p_ItemID=2  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/


QuoteHunters of the 2nd battalion of the bh. Infantry Regiment 1.  1917-11-09.
https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073493523.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=api2demo  http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/Pages/Search/Result.aspx?p_eBildansicht=2&p_ItemID=3  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

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The first 'Tank Bank' makes an appearance in London on November 9, 1917: https://imgur.com/a/Y4RTm



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From the Library of Congress.


The Butte Daily Post., November 10, 1917.


The Tacoma Times., November 10, 1917.

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November 10, 1917.

A cartoon from The Brooklyn Magazine: http://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3b20000/3b23000/3b23200/3b23212r.jpg

The Battle of Passchendaele finally comes to an end after losses on both side in the hundreds of thousands:   https://imgur.com/a/G19nb


QuoteSoldiers of an Australian 4th Division field artillery brigade on a duckboard track passing through Chateau Wood, near Hooge in the Ypres salient, 29 October 1917. The leading soldier is Gunner James Fulton and the second soldier is Lieutenant Anthony Devine. The men belong to a battery of the 10th Field Artillery Brigade. Australian War Memorial collection number E01220.
By Frank Hurley - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1446191


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From the Library of Congress.


Evening Star. November 11, 1917.


Salad recipes from the Tombstone Epitaph., November 11, 1917.

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November 11, 1917.

1.  The destroyer USS Little (DD-79) was launched on this day one hundred years ago.  It saw patrol service off the coast of France during World War One and returned to the states after the Armistice was signed.  It then took President Wilson to France for the League of Nations meetings and then brought him back to the USA.

The Little was refitted and took part in World War Two, where it would meet its fate off the coast of Guadalcanal.

Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Little_(DD-79)


QuoteUSS Little (DD-79), running trials in icy waters, 4 March 1918.
Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2697573


2.   HMS M15 was sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Gaza with a loss of 26 men.

Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_M15


QuotePhotograph of British monitor HMS M15 at Mudros.
By Surgeon Oscar Parkes - This is photograph SP 891 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17649878


3.   Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani died on November 11, 1917.  She was 79 years old.

Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liliuokalani


QuoteQueen Liliuokalani. Photographed around 1891 by James J. Williams.
By James J. Williams - https://hindirebyu.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/debbie-downer-ikalawang-bahagi-the-floating-city-at-ang-lahat-ng-natalo/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45701938

4.  Note:  Of course nobody knew it at the time, but World War One would last for exactly one more year.  I have attempted to locate anyone who had correctly forecast the end of the war, but couldn't find anyone.  I did however notice that Nostradamus supposedly predicted the war itself.  Here is an interesting article on his prediction: http://www.dummies.com/education/history/world-history/battles-in-the-sky-nostradamus-predicts-world-war-i/





Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.


Tonopah Daily Bonanza., November 12, 1917.


The Tacoma Times., November 12, 1917.

albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on November 09, 2017, 02:55:51 AM
From the Imperial War Museum.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205025918

I've been lucky enough to see a few of these. Interesting thing and an on-going tradition/requirement for many hundreds of years. People like Clyde Lewis or Jack could have a field-day with the symbolism, politics, and historical changes in the tradition. Interesting factoid: the use of barge on a part of the parade created the term we use "float" for parades on land now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Mayor's_Show

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From the Library of Congress.


The Tacoma Times., November 13, 1917.

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Actor Robert Sterling was born on November 13, 1917.  He was in lots of television shows and some movies.  You might remember him best as Captain Lee Crane in the 1961 movie 'Voyage to The Bottom of The Sea,' co-starring Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden and Peter Lorre.
Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sterling


QuotePhoto of Robert Sterling from an appearance in Finley's Fan Club on the CBS television anthology Front Row Center.
By CBS Television - eBayfrontback, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30911753

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From the Imperial War Museum.


QuoteThe 2nd Australian Tunneling Company at work underground. 14 November 1917 at Nieuport Bains, Belgium.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205223187


From the Europeana Collection.


QuoteDitches (trenches?) in the east of Rückstein and south of the Dniester.  Date: 1917-11-14.
https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073595835.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=api2demo  http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/Pages/Search/Result.aspx?p_eBildansicht=2&p_ItemID=1  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

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From the Library of Congress.


The Tacoma Times., November 14, 1917.

Lord Grantham

Quote from: Rix Gins on November 14, 2017, 02:44:51 AM
From the Library of Congress.


The Tacoma Times., November 14, 1917.

Whoever drew these cartoons had a lot of anger issues. He would have fit in great here.

Rix Gins

Quote from: Lord Grantham on November 14, 2017, 03:26:23 PM
Whoever drew these cartoons had a lot of anger issues. He would have fit in great here.

Ha, good observation.  I do think though, that Everett's creator, A.D. Condo, was attempting to bring up certain irritating behaviors that people possessed one hundred years ago.  Mr. True was the designated mouthpiece and he got to voice his displeasure about the habits that annoyed him.  He does get rather carried away and I try to limit postings of him bashing other men for relatively minor reasons.  He never lays a finger on women who annoy him, in fact the only other person who occasionally gets to wallop on him is his wife.

A.D. Condo also drew a strip called 'Mr. Skygack, from Mars.'  It was about a Martian who visited the earth in order to study the human race.  It is considered to be the first science fiction comic.


QuoteThe 18 October 1907 panel of Mr. Skygack, from Mars.
By A.D. Condo - Barnacle Press], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28414654



   



Lord Grantham

Quote from: Rix Gins on November 15, 2017, 03:55:06 AM
Ha, good observation.  I do think though, that Everett's creator, A.D. Condo, was attempting to bring up certain irritating behaviors that people possessed one hundred years ago.  Mr. True was the designated mouthpiece and he got to voice his displeasure about the habits that annoyed him.  He does get rather carried away and I try to limit postings of him bashing other men for relatively minor reasons.  He never lays a finger on women who annoy him, in fact the only other person who occasionally gets to wallop on him is his wife.

A.D. Condo also drew a strip called 'Mr. Skygack, from Mars.'  It was about a Martian who visited the earth in order to study the human race.  It is considered to be the first science fiction comic.


Don't get me wrong, they're interesting. It's kinda fun struggling to understand what they're even about sometimes since we don't have the context. Like this one:
Quote from: Rix Gins on November 10, 2017, 03:35:23 AM


The Tacoma Times., November 10, 1917.
Are these guys gamblers? Are they smuggling wartime rationed items? Is he angry that they're using sales jargon?

Quote from: Lord Grantham link=topic=9331.msg1124665#msg1124665 dateon the sid=1510751806
Don't get me wrong, they're interesting. It's kinda fun struggling to understand what they're even about sometimes since we don't have the context. Like this one:Are these guys gamblers? Are they smuggling wartime rationed items? Is he angry that they're using sales jargon?

Nah.  Still very relevant today.  Think simpler. Just two dudes B.S.ing, blocking the side walk as they are parked between the wall and the pole - not giving a shit about other people around them.    Ever want to bash someone at the Walmart or Grocery store for blocking the aisle?


Everett is the man!

Lord Grantham

Quote from: Walks_At_Night on November 15, 2017, 07:23:27 AM
Nah.  Still very relevant today.  Think simpler. Just two dudes B.S.ing, blocking the side walk as they are parked between the wall and the pole - not giving a shit about other people around them.    Ever want to bash someone at the Walmart or Grocery store for blocking the aisle?


Everett is the man!


Oh, not as much depth as I had imagined.

Quote from: Lord Grantham on November 15, 2017, 07:25:19 AM
Oh, not as much depth as I had imagined.

Depth?  No depth....   What fascinates me is apparently, how little has changed in a 100 years.






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The famous sculptor Auguste Rodin died on November 17, 1917.

Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Rodin


QuoteRodin's The Thinker (1879â€"1889) is among the most recognized works in all of sculpture.
By AndrewHorne (talk) - Own work (Original text: I (AndrewHorne (talk)) created this work entirely by myself.), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15582363


Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.
Can you spot the typo?


The Pensacola Journal., November 18, 1917.

albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on November 18, 2017, 02:57:24 AM
From the Library of Congress.
Can you spot the typo?


The Pensacola Journal., November 18, 1917.
Besides the misspelling $15 for an out of state permit seems like a lot of money back then. And confusing. $3 out of state county permit and $15 out of state permit per country?
What is an "Irish Mail" you say?
http://antiquescenter.blogspot.com/2012/07/antique-irish-mail-car.html

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum.


QuoteOne of the 179 British tanks left derelict on the battlefield after the initial assault.  1917-11-20.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205213175


QuoteAn artillery observation officer on top of a ruined wall at Havrincourt, 20 November 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205213170


QuoteTrees cut down by the Germans across a road near Havrincourt to hinder the British advance.  1917-11-20.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205213177


QuoteMen of the 11th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment (6th Division) with Vickers machine guns in a captured second line trench at Ribecourt, 20 November 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205195981


QuoteA Mark IV (Male) tank of 'H' Battalion, 'Hyacinth', ditched in a German trench while supporting 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment near Ribecourt during the Battle of Cambrai, 20 November 1917.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205213173

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