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One Hundred Years Ago

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

Rix Gins

That looks good.  I'll be sure to watch both parts.  Thanks, WOTR. 

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, December 10, 1918.


QuoteKing George V, Edward, the Prince of Wales, and party inspecting a 380 mm German gun position ( Pommern or Leugenboom Redoubt) at Leugenboom, 10 December 1918. The last shell was fired into the concrete parapet in front of the gun in an unsuccessful effort to destroy the gun, the shell passing through the parapet.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239563 © IWM (Q 7749)


QuoteThe 380 mm gun of the Pommern or Leugenboom Redoubt which bombarded Dunkirk. The last shell was fired into the concrete parapet in front of the gun in an unsuccessful effort to destroy the gun, the shell passing through the parapet.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239562 © IWM (Q 7748)

Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.   The Williston Graphic, December 12, 1918. 






Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, December 13, 1918.


Quote29th Division entering Cologne by the Hohenzollern Bridge. General Herbert Plumer, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief the British Army of the Rhine taking the salute.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239058 © IWM (Q 7221)


QuoteGeneral Herbert Plumer, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief the British Army of the Rhine, taking the salute from the 29th Division entering Cologne by the Hohenzollern Bridge. The column took 4 hours to pass. General Plumer moved to another bridge later, his place being taken by General Claude Jacob. Friday, 13th December, 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239053 © IWM (Q 7216)


Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Grand Forks Herald, December 13, 1918.


Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, December 14, 1918.


Quote6-inch howitzers on the bank of the Rhine at Cologne, 14 December 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239055 © IWM (Q 7218)


Quote6-inch howitzer on the bank of the Rhine at Cologne, 14 December 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239054 © IWM (Q 7217)

Dr. MD MD

I understand that world wars are big deals that tend to dominate history but surely there must’ve been other things that happened 100 years ago too: important scientific discoveries or inventions; art movements; events in entertainment, etc. Any possibilty of horizon expansion in this thread? ???

Rix Gins

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on December 15, 2018, 02:12:57 PM
I understand that world wars are big deals that tend to dominate history but surely there must’ve been other things that happened 100 years ago too: important scientific discoveries or inventions; art movements; events in entertainment, etc. Any possibilty of horizon expansion in this thread? ???

The Imperial War Museum has good pics and they are free to use, as is Wiki in most cases, but lots of history sites and newspapers want you to subscribe monetarily to get to their content.  One hundred years ago, almost everything was dealing with the war.  There were quite a number of uprisings and revolutions taking place all over Europe and Russia, which I find kind of boring so if anyone else wants to report on them, fine.  But sure, science, inventions and entertainment are good subjects and I try to salt them in when possible.  Science Illustrated was being published back then, but they are a subscription site and they probably wouldn't want you to use their stuff even if you did pay to subscribe.

Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Seattle Star, December 16, 1918.



Info on the Squaw Man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Squaw_Man_(1918_film)
QuoteLike many American films of the time, The Squaw Man was subject to restrictions and cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required a cut, in Reel 4, of the intertitle "By God, you've got to make her happy", the shooting of Cash Hawkins, the shooting of the man in an ambush, and the modification of the plot by the transposition of the scenes of baby moccasins, etc., to indicate that the marriage had taken place prior to when any intimacy between Naturich and Jim Wynnegate had taken place, which would include placing the intertitle "Send for the Justice of the Peace" before the moccasin scene.


Still from The Squaw Man (1918 film).
By Famous Players-Lasky Corporation - classicmoviefavorites.com, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8046525

Bio of actor Elliott Dexter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Dexter
Bio of actress Ann Little: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Little





Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, December 19, 1918.

QuoteThe ruined village of Poelcapelle, 19 December 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205353413 © IWM (Q 110760)


QuoteA wrecked British tank on the road from Ypres to Poelcapelle, 19 December 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205353414 © IWM (Q 110761)

Rix Gins

Ripley's Believe It or Not! was first published on December 19, 1918 in the New York Globe newspaper. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripley%27s_Believe_It_or_Not!
https://www.ripleys.com/100s/

Rix Gins

The silent movie The Heart of Humanity was released to theatres on December 22, 1918.

Info on The Heart of Humanity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heart_of_Humanity


A hand colored, glass lantern slide advertising the movie. 
(This work is free of known copyright.)
The movie can be viewed on YouTube but it doesn't have any added music or anything.

pate

24DEC2018

Iceland gains independence?


What fate of the Greenlanders, are they still Danish?



Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Commonwealth., December 24, 1918.


Quote from: Rix Gins on December 24, 2018, 08:35:24 PM
From the Library of Congress.  The Commonwealth., December 24, 1918.



What a great present!

albrecht

Quote from: pate on December 24, 2018, 05:04:00 AM
24DEC2018

Iceland gains independence?


What fate of the Greenlanders, are they still Danish?


Some weird deal "one country, two systems" basically the Danes sold-out to political correctness and allowing the natives to govern, and get money from Denmark taxpayers (supposedly will decline over time,) but certain things (defense mainly) are still controlled by Denmark. The USA used to have bases there, maybe still do? Some controversy over that (lost nukes.) I expect especially as "warming" happens the Danes will regret them selling-out as hydrocarbons, shipping lanes, fishing areas, and geo-thermal or etc (I could see even niche bottled water sold to yuppies type of deal) will be good up there. I could be wrong though.

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, December 26, 1918.


QuotePresident Woodrow Wilson and Duke of Connaught inspecting British Army Guard of Honor at Dover, 26 December 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205345175 © IWM (Q 102088)

Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Seattle Star., December 26, 1918.

WOTR

Quote from: Rix Gins on December 24, 2018, 08:35:24 PM
From the Library of Congress.  The Commonwealth., December 24, 1918.


What are the chances that it was just a hundred years late?  :(

Maybe one day...

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, December 29, 1918.


QuoteThe head of the German Democratic Party, very likely Friedrich Naumann, passing through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin during a joint mass demonstration by the Majority Democrats and the German Democratic Party against the Spartacists, 29 December 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205083064 © IWM (Q 110886)

Rix Gins

Quote from: WOTR on December 28, 2018, 12:57:45 AM
What are the chances that it was just a hundred years late?  :(

Maybe one day...

Hi WOTR.  I placed the above post after your comment on purpose.  Notice how it didn't take very long before things started to get all tense after the war?  Plus there were outbreaks of unrest in Poland, Romania, Latvia, Armenia, Yugoslavia, and Russia just to mention a few.   

WOTR

Quote from: Rix Gins on December 29, 2018, 02:47:53 AM
Hi WOTR.  I placed the above post after your comment on purpose.  Notice how it didn't take very long before things started to get all tense after the war?  Plus there were outbreaks of unrest in Poland, Romania, Latvia, Armenia, Yugoslavia, and Russia just to mention a few.
I suppose if that were not true, then the whole "wars and rumours of wars" would also not hold true.  Funny just how little time it took, though.

Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Seattle Star., December 31, 1918.



Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, January 2, 1919.


QuoteThe North Russia intervention.  American and British officers in command of left bank of the Dvina River Column, 2 January 1919. 
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205346042 © IWM (Q 102993)

WOTR

Supposedly the caption reads "02 Jan 1919, Italy --- Original caption: 1/2/1919-President Wilson and George Creel, Committee on Public Information leave Royal Train at Station in Alps for exercise. Taken on way to Rome, Italy."



Rix Gins

Quote from: WOTR on January 02, 2019, 03:39:11 AM
Supposedly the caption reads "02 Jan 1919, Italy --- Original caption: 1/2/1919-President Wilson and George Creel, Committee on Public Information leave Royal Train at Station in Alps for exercise. Taken on way to Rome, Italy."




I like this picture.  They used some good film on that one.

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, January 3, 1919.


QuoteReview of the 55th (West Lancashire) Division by Albert I the King of the Belgians, Brussels, 3rd January 1919. Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby in a car watching the troops pass.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205222943 © IWM (Q 3508)


QuoteReview of the 55th (West Lancashire) Division by Albert I the King of the Belgians, Brussels, 3rd January 1919. The King and General Hugh Sandham Jeudwine.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205236042 © IWM (Q 3505)


QuoteReview of the 55th (West Lancashire) Division by Albert I the King of the Belgians, Brussels, 3rd January 1919. The King saluting as the colours pass.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205236041 © IWM (Q 3504)

WOTR

Quote from: Rix Gins on January 03, 2019, 02:45:47 AM
I like this picture.  They used some good film on that one.
I could not put my finger on why I liked that picture- but you are right.  That was quality film making a sharp picture with well defined blacks.

If what they say about men who drive big vehicles / fast cars compensating for something else is true, I wonder if the same could be said for what kind of horse a man rode?

*That is one beautiful horse- but it looks like it is 30 hand high.  ;)

Rix Gins

Quote from: WOTR on January 03, 2019, 10:04:40 PM
I could not put my finger on why I liked that picture- but you are right.  That was quality film making a sharp picture with well defined blacks.

If what they say about men who drive big vehicles / fast cars compensating for something else is true, I wonder if the same could be said for what kind of horse a man rode?

*That is one beautiful horse- but it looks like it is 30 hand high.  ;)

Indeed it does.  It looks as if some of the marching soldiers in the bottom pic are glancing at the horse, or the king, I'm not sure which.

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