One Hundred Years Ago

[albrecht]

https://youtu.be/2A6HQtPWatc

This past Sunday was both Remembrance Day and Remembrance Sunday, which is fitting for the 100th anniversary.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/nov/11/a-century-ago-world-war-i-ended-and-spokane-went-n/

"In small towns throughout the Inland Northwest, people went “frantic with joy” and staged monster celebrations on their main streets. Most main streets were completely closed to auto traffic because of the crowds. “The kaiser is hanging in effigy from many telephone poles today and is being hooted and jeered by frantic crowds,” reported one correspondent from outlying towns. In Spokane, Kaiser Wilhelm, who had just abdicated, swung in effigy from a guy wire at Howard Street and Riverside Avenue."

"A contingent from the Palace department store carried the “sad remains of Kaiser Bill and the Clown Prince” on stretchers. When a local “humorist” unveiled a sign saying, “We Got the Kaiser’s Pants,” the crowd gave him an ovation. Companies of happily mischievous “hat-removers” roamed the streets and knocked off every hat within reach (hat-removing was a fad at the time)." <--*
*recall there were later "hat riots" and such we've discussed on this thread before. So weird.

[K_Dubb]

Companies of happily mischievous “hat-removers” roamed the streets and knocked off every hat within reach (hat-removing was a fad at the time)." <--*
*recall there were later "hat riots" and such we've discussed on this thread before. So weird.

I do remember.  As I recall, fashion, specifically enforcing one of its ever-mysterious dicta against the straw boater, was the explanation for the earlier mayhem.  Here we see it as part of a general celebration.

I really wonder what was going on.  This is the era where both blocked hats and caps are seen -- maybe it is a class thing?  Old vs. young?  Somewhere I read a rule that must date from this era that said "a man's hat is his crown, and should be worn as such."  Maybe all that is meant is an affront to general dignity.

After nearly a hundred years of a hat truce, I see the maga cap is bringing back the hat wars again.

[albrecht]

I do remember.  As I recall, fashion, specifically enforcing one of its ever-mysterious dicta against the straw boater, was the explanation for the earlier mayhem.  Here we see it as part of a general celebration.

I really wonder what was going on.  This is the era where both blocked hats and caps are seen -- maybe it is a class thing?  Old vs. young?  Somewhere I read a rule that must date from this era that said "a man's hat is his crown, and should be worn as such."  Maybe all that is meant is an affront to general dignity.

After nearly a hundred years of a hat truce, I see the maga cap is bringing back the hat wars again.

Yes, the MAGA cap is a source of controversy and frequent "removal." This popped up on my news feed, for some reason, recently. Not hats but some freak taking off wigs from Jewish women (which I didn't even know the wig thing was a thing.)
https://kpax.com/cnn-regional/2018/11/08/police-arrest-man-suspected-of-pulling-wigs-off-orthodox-jewish-women/

[Jackstar]

The man appears to be 25 to 30 years old and follows the women as they are walking. He comes up from behind and then pulls their wig off of them.

I suppose if he pulled their foreskins off, that would be okay?

[K_Dubb]

Yes, the MAGA cap is a source of controversy and frequent "removal." This popped up on my news feed, for some reason, recently. Not hats but some freak taking off wigs from Jewish women (which I didn't even know the wig thing was a thing.)
https://kpax.com/cnn-regional/2018/11/08/police-arrest-man-suspected-of-pulling-wigs-off-orthodox-jewish-women/

Goodness.  I looked up sheitels to see what we're dealing with, and some look pretty natural.  I wonder if he's ever had a false positive.

Most definitely not a sheitel, but still relevant

[Rix Gins]

From the Imperial War Museum, November 14, 1918.

Mayor of Maubeuge presenting the Guards Division with a flag as an appreciation from the town which was taken by the Division on 9 November 1918. Major-General Torquhil Matheson is seen receiving the flag, 14 November 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239267 © IWM (Q 7447)

The first released British prisoners to reach Tournai, 14 November 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205245421 © IWM (Q 9686)

[Rix Gins]

From the Imperial War Museum, November 15, 1918.

Marshal Ferdinand Foch, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, leaving British Advanced GHQ at Iwuy, 15 November 1918. Field Marshal Douglas Haig, the C-in-C of the British Army, is seeing him off.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239019 © IWM (Q 7182)

Admiral David Beatty, Captain Ernle Chatfield RN and other officers on the bridge of HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH of the Grand Fleet on the day of the surrender of the German Fleet.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205357440 © IWM (Q 68666)

Parade of British troops led by band and sailors of HMS SUFFOLK marching past to celebrate signing off the Armistice. Vladivostok, 15 November 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205165393 © IWM (Q 98370)

[Rix Gins]

From the Imperial War Museum, November 16, 1918.

American dugout equipped with gas proof curtains near Chaumont, 16 November 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205218825 © IWM (Q 56991)

[Rix Gins]

From the Imperial War Museum, November 17, 1918.

A French Astra Torees (AT. 4) dirigible balloon at the La Rochelle aerodrome, 17 November 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205307712 © IWM (Q 58520)

[WOTR]

From the Imperial War Museum, November 16, 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205218825 © IWM (Q 56991)

While I can imagine that keeping all of the air outside your dugout from entering would provide a level of protection from the gas, I can only imagine how stale the air would be...

[Rix Gins]

While I can imagine that keeping all of the air outside your dugout from entering would provide a level of protection from the gas, I can only imagine how stale the air would be...

Looks more like a quasi door or wall than a curtain,  I always pictured a gas prevention curtain in the more conventional sense...something that you could quickly slide open or close.  Also, it must be remembered that mustard gas would pool in depressions, which this dugout would certainly be.  I think that the soldiers could actually see the stuff forming in lower elevation fields, etc, if there wasn't any wind to disperse the stuff. 

[WOTR]

I keep running across things that are too new for the thread...

But Berlin, 1945 in colour... Something different.  My grandparents lived there for awhile in that time frame.  I had heard the stories (including the apartment they lived in).... Quite something to see it though.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5i9k7s9X_A

[Rix Gins]

I keep running across things that are too new for the thread...

But Berlin, 1945 in colour... Something different.  My grandparents lived there for awhile in that time frame.  I had heard the stories (including the apartment they lived in).... Quite something to see it though.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5i9k7s9X_A

The brief drive by scenes of destruction at the 5:26 mark look strangely 3-D in nature.

[Rix Gins]

From the Imperial War Museum, November 19, 1918.

Memorial service in honour of members of the 1st Wing, Australian Flying Corps, who have died, or been killed on service, held at Tetbury, England, 19 November 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205082748 © IWM (Q 111653)

[Rix Gins]

From the Imperial War Museum, November 20, 1918.

A captured German 142 mm heavy gun at Spincourt, 20 November 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205084367 © IWM (Q 47853)

A 155 mm GPF gun in travelling position at Blercourt, 20 November 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205324177 © IWM (Q 79430)

[Rix Gins]

From the Imperial War Museum, November 21, 1918.

A French soldier displaying a gas mask at Dun-sur-Meuse, 21 November 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205308477 © IWM (Q 60965)

British troops outside the historic 'Wellington's Hotel' near the battlefield at Waterloo, seen while marching to the Rhine, to later become the British Army of the Rhine.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205235929 © IWM (Q 3389)

Crew of the British battleship HMS Barham, 5th Battle Squadron, watching for the surrendered German ships, 21st November 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205254048 © IWM (Q 19679)

German battlecruisers arriving at the Forth.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205253710 © IWM (Q 19284)

German battle cruiser SMS MOLTKE.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205253730 © IWM (Q 19306)

A Royal Marine bugler and a naval rating with the dog, mascot of the British battleship HMS Barham, 21st November 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205382052 © IWM (Q 19685A)

[Rix Gins]

From the Imperial War Museum, November 22, 1918.

A captured German 7.7 cm FK 96 n.A. artillery gun on display in London, 22 November 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205139250 © IWM (Q 109544)

The ceremony for the state entry of Albert I, King of the Belgians, and other members of the Belgian Royal Family into Brussels, 22 November 1918. The Royal party watch a march-past of American troops.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205235918 © IWM (Q 3376)

[WOTR]

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205382052 © IWM (Q 19685A)

Marginally better than the human cannonball.  (what a strange place to perch your mascot.)

[Rix Gins]

From the Imperial War Museum, November 25, 1918.

The marble quarries at Marquise, 25 November 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205245438 © IWM (Q 9705)

German prisoners working in the marble quarries at Marquise, 25th November 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205245435 © IWM (Q 9702)

Machinery for the mechanical loading into railway trucks of screened marble chips quarried at Marquise, 25 November 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205245450 © IWM (Q 9717)

Machinery for the mechanical loading into railway trucks of screened marble chips quarried at Marquise, 25 November 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205245449 © IWM (Q 9716)

The Royal Engineers staff at the marble quarries at Marquise, 25 November 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205245446 © IWM (Q 9713)

[Rix Gins]

From the Library of Congress.  The Seattle Star, November 25, 1918.

[Dr. MD MD]

So focused on war that you blew it.  :

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_Alley

100 years ago...YESTERDAY!

[Jackstar]

So focused on war that you blew it.  ::)

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Son, you don't know dick about focus.

[Dr. MD MD]

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Son, you don't know dick about focus.

Shouldn’t you have said that I don’t know Jack about it? 

[Jackstar]

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[Dr. MD MD]

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Isn’t that the lead singer from <shudder> Nickelback?

[Jackstar]

We have a thread for those kind of questions, but I'll give you a free one--don't know, care even less.

[Dr. MD MD]

We have a thread for those kind of questions, but I'll give you a free one--don't know, care even less.

Yeah...sure. You’re obviously a HUGE fan. 

[Jackstar]

obviously a HUGE fan

It could be argued that I like Nickelback more than you like Google Reverse Image Search, but it would be a short row.

[Dr. MD MD]

It could be argued that I like Nickelback more than you like Google Reverse Image Search, but it would be a short row.

Never used it. I only go forward.

[Jackstar]

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