Once You See These Rare Historical Photos, You’ll Never Forget Them

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Once You See These Rare Historical Photos, You’ll Never Forget Them, Especially #14. Wow.

By Micky Wren | 

May

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2014

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Like some of you, I’m also a rabid history buff, specializing in collecting the most interesting photos in history. I only curate the rare ones that have a significant impact on the history of the world.

Find out below some of the most fascinating photographs ever captured on camera. Thanks to these great images, we now have before us a rare window to some of the most interesting moments of our world history.

1. A boxing match on board the USS Oregon in 1897

2. An airman being captured by Vietnamese in Truc Bach Lake, Hanoi in 1967. The airman is John McCain.

3. Samurai warriors taken between 1860 and 1880

4. A shell-shocked reindeer looks on as war planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941.

5. Walt Disney on the day they opened Disney Studios

6. Che Guevara enjoying a drink

7. The Microsoft staff in 1978

8. The last known Tasmanian Tiger (now extinct) photographed in 1933

9. German air raid on Moscow in 1941

10. Winston Churchill out for a swim

11. The London sky after a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940

12. Martin Luther King, Jr removes a burned cross from his yard in 1960. The boy is his son.

13. Google begins.

14. Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945

15. The only photograph of a living Quagga (now extinct) from 1870

16. Hitler’s bunker

17. A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.

18. The original Ronald McDonald played by Willard Scott

19. The first photo taken from space in 1946

20. British SAS back from a 3-month patrol of North Africa in 1943

21. Disneyland employee cafeteria in 1961

22. The first McDonalds

23. Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.

24. George S. Patton’s dog mourning his master on the day of his death.

25. California lumberjacks working on Redwoods

26. Construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961

27. Bread and soup during the Great Depression

28. The 1912 World Series

29. The first photo following the discovery of Machu Pichu in 1912.

30. Construction of Christ the Redeemer in Rio da Janeiro, Brazil

31. Steamboats on the Mississippi River in 1907

32. Leo Tolstoy telling a story to his grandchildren in 1909

33. The construction of Disneyland

34. Arnold Schwarzenegger on the day he received his American citizenship

35. 14-year-old Osama bin Laden (2nd from the right)

36. Construction of the Statue of Liberty in 1884

37. Albert Einstein’s office photographed on the day of his death

38. A liberated Jew holds a Nazi guard at gunpoint.

39. Construction of the Manhattan Bridge in 1908

40. Construction of the Eiffel Tower in 1888

41. Dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989

42. Titanic leaves port in 1912.

43. Adolf Hitler’s pants after the failed assassination attempt at Wolf’s Lair in 1944

44. ENIAC, the first computer ever built

45. Brighton Swimming Club in 1863

46. Ferdinand Porsche (yeah, that Porsche) showing a model of the Volkswagen Beetle to Adolf Hitler in 1935

47. The unbroken seal on King Tut’s tomb

48. Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke left this family photo behind on the moon in 1972.

49. The crew of Apollo 1 practicing their water landing in 1966. Unfortunately, all of them were killed on the launch pad in a fire.

50. An aircraft crash on board during World War II

51. Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Warren G. Harding (29th president of USA), and Harvey Samuel Firestone (founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.) talking together

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A Visual Dictionary of Philosophy: Major Schools of Thought in Minimalist Geometric Graphics

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http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/04/14/philographics-book-genis-carreras/

A Visual Dictionary of Philosophy: Major Schools of Thought in Minimalist Geometric Graphics

by Maria Popova

A charming exercise in metaphorical thinking and symbolic representation.

Rodin believed that his art was about removing the stone not part of the sculpture to reveal the essence of his artistic vision. Perhaps this is what Catalan-born, London-based graphic designer Genis Carrerasimplicitly intended in chiseling away the proverbial philosopher’s stone to sculpt its minimalist essence. Many moons ago, I discovered with great delight Carreras’s series of geometric graphics explaining major movements in philosophy and now, with the help of Kickstarter, the project has come to new life in book form. Philographics: Big Ideas in Simple Shapes (public library) is a vibrant visual dictionary of philosophy, enlisting the telegraphic powers of design in distilling the essential principles of 95 schools of thought into visual metaphors and symbolic representation.

Skepticism

True knowledge or certainty in a particular area is impossible. Skeptics have an attitude of doubt or a disposition of incredulity either in general or toward a particular object.

The skeptics (in the colloquial sense of the word, although its roots are, fittingly, philosophical) should remember that rather than an exercise in reckless reductionism seeking to dumb down some of humanity’s most complex ideas, the project is instead a playful and thoughtful celebration of symbolic and metaphorical thinking — that distinctly human faculty that isthe hallmark of our imagination. Perhaps most importantly, these minimalist graphics are designed to tickle our curiosity and spark deeper interest in influential theories of human nature and human purpose that those of us not formally trained in philosophy may not have previously been inspired to explore.

Carreras writes:

The visuals [are] open to different interpretations, allowing the reader to draw their path to connect the idea behind each theory with its form. This plurality reflects all the different theories to see and understand the world that are compiled [in] this book.

The book aims to be the starting point of deeper discussion about these theories; it’s a trigger of conversation to bring philosophy back to our daily lives.

Relativism

Points of view have no absolute truth or validity, having only relative, subjective value according to differences in perception and consideration. Principles and ethics are regarded as applicable in only limited context.

Absolutism

An absolute truth is always correct under any condition. An entity's ability to discern these things is irrelevant to that state of truth. Universal facts can be discovered. It is opposed to relativism, which claims that there is not an unique truth.

Positivism

The only authentic knowledge is that which is based on sense, experience and positive verification. Scientific method is the best process for uncovering the processes by which both physical and human events occur.

Empiricism

Knowledge arises from evidence gathered via sense experience. Empiricism emphasizes the role of experience and evidence, especially sensory perception, in the formation of ideas, over the notion of innate ideas or tradition.

Humanism

Human beings can lead happy and functional lives, and are capable of being ethical and moral without religion or dogma. Life stance emphasized the unique responsibility facing humanity and the ethical consequences of human decisions.

Holism

The properties of a given system cannot be determined or explained by its parts alone. Instead, the system as a whole determines in an important way how the parts behave.

Authoritarianism

Submission to authority and opposed to individualism and democracy. An authoritarian government is one in which political power is concentrated in a leader who possesses exclusive, unaccountable, and arbitrary power.

Determinism

Events within a given paradigm are bound by causality in such a way that any state of an object or event is determined by prior states. Every type of event, including human cognition (behavior, decision, and action) is causally determined by previous events.

Solipsism

Knowledge of anything outside one's own specific mind is unjustified. The external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist.

Philographics is absolutely delightful from cover to cover. Complement it withthe history of philosophy in superhero comics and these 60-second animations of famous philosophy thought experiments.

The Oppressed Majority: A Poignant French Short Film about a World in Which Men Are Subject to Sexism

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http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/05/26/the-oppressed-majority-eleanore-pourriat/

The Oppressed Majority: A Poignant French Short Film about a World in Which Men Are Subject to Sexism

by Maria Popova

A tragicomic day in the life of a man who struggles for equality in a mirror-image society dominated by women.

“Those who travel with the current will always feel they are good swimmers,” NPR science correspondent Shankar Vedantam wrote in his extraordinary exploration of society’s hidden biases, “[and] those who swim against the current may never realize they are better swimmers than they imagine.” That’s precisely what French filmmaker Eleonore Pourriat brings to life with imaginative vividness, elegantly waltzing between the hilarious and the heartbreaking, in her brilliant and pause-giving short film Oppressed Majority — a day in the life of a man who faces subtle sexism and unabashed sexual violence in a mirror-image society dominated by women. Laugh, cry, think twice:

For a deeper look at the serious issue beneath the comic veneer, see Vedantam’s indispensable The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives — a perspective-shifting even, if not especially, for those of us who consider ourselves well-intentioned and are thus most susceptible to unwitting biases.

Thanks, Julie