NewAgeHistory

Just my thoughts on history, politics, life, and other cool stuff

[historicaltimes]

Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Patterson with one of the two Tsavo Man-Eaters, a pair of female lions that killed 28-31 workers during the construction of the Kenya-Uganda Railway in 1898

via reddit

[historium]

Salvador Dali with Raquel Welch and his freshly painted portrait of her, 1965

[wandercrusty]

[artist-turner]

Kidwelly Castle, William Turner

Medium: watercolor,paper

https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-turner/kidwelly-castle

[salparadisewasright-deactivated]

Probably about five people will think this is funny, and I hope the other four see it.

[salparadisewasright-deactivated]

…My calculations appear to have been in error.

[internet-recluse]

I for one am existentially terrified of the HMS Incomprehensible.

[salparadisewasright-deactivated]

His Majesty’s least Euclidean ship.

[hms-exeter]

HMS Indigestible should prove a problem for any foolhardy sea monsters.

[aber-flyingtiger]

Is HMS Inoperative a Type 45 in the modern RN? 

[bmashine-deactivated20240516]

The postwar conversion of the American half-track armored vehicle M3 Half-track into a fire truck.

[peashooter85]

Moro keris, The Philippines, 19th century.

from Auctions Imperial

[tlirsgender]

Anyone who says they wouldn’t dress like a 17th century British Royal Navy admiral given the opportunity is lying

[historicaltimes]

Christmas packages destined for soldiers who have been killed or reported missing in action await “return to sender” stamps. New York City, 1944.

via reddit

[peashooter85]

Mughal zaghnal, India, 18th century.

from Helios Auctions

[redarmyscreaming]

…the standard arm was the most beautiful firearm ever invented, the famous short Lee Enfield…….She’s a museum piece now, but I still see her on T.V. newsreels, in the hands of hairy, outlandish men like the Mujahedeen of Afghanistan and capable-looking gentry in North Africa, and I have a feeling that she will be loosing off her ten rounds rapid when the Kalashnikovs and Armalites are forgotten. George MacDonald Fraser Quartered Safe Out Here (1992)

[historicaltimes]

Arnold Schwarzenegger at Cafe Hawelka in Vienna, 1975

via reddit

[historyfilia-deactivated2025061]

Column at the mortuary temple of Ramesses III

[historicaltimes]

Canadian forestry men skating during WW1

via reddit

[scrapironflotilla]

Members of H Mess, XXII Corps, August 1918. 

These officers come from four different nations. Left to right, Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand.

[historical-nonfiction]

Map of Tenochtitlan, From 1524

You might know it as today’s Mexico City.

[peashooter85]

Silver mounted Vietnamese guom, mid 19th century.

from Auctions Imperial