A Solid Jab To The Feeling Sack

It's all just art, trust me

[suggabear23]

[parakeet]

so it turns out great tits can and do kill and eat both other birds and small mice when food is scarce, particularly during winter, and i just cannot get over this picture. it looks like the kind of photo hunters take with their kills. i’m losing it

[bryansbeard]

[liberalsarecool]

Anti-Fascism is legit American foreign and domestic policy for decades.

Just because Trump and Russia got into the White House does not change our hatred of Nazis.

[kiyokospeaks]

[kiyokospeaks]

Ah the tranquility of having blocked all the shitheads already😌

[nevver]

Memories 思い出, Paiheme Studio

[krabby-kronicle]

[srsfunny]

annoying as fuck

[ruinedchildhood]

[igmakeup]

[studentlifeproblems]

[1i73-deactivated20221021]

brothers in arms

[squided]

this is my favorite flagged post at the moment 

[addikted-2-dopamine-deactivated]

I LAUGHED SO HARD

[wikilaura]

Twas

[scrapironflotilla]

Giant Pyramid of Captured German Pickelhaube Helmets from WWI Grand Central Terminal, New York, 1918.  Photograph by New York Central Railroad.

[lunoesmeraude]

Seems weird.  AFIK those had been withdrawn from service a year or two before the US entered the war, Also, those belong in a museum.

[scrapironflotilla]

Your post got me thinking about this actually and what the circumstances around this were. You are right that the helmets were phased out of combat use in 1916, they were until that time produced in extremely large numbers using a variety of materials; from the traditional leather to thin sheet steel, stiffened fabric and even paper. 

Iconic as they were, they were unsuited to the war being fought, offering little or no protection from shell fragments and with their distinctive spike they offered good targets for enemy fire. In 1916 they were phased out by the  German army in favour of the new Stahlhelm which offered much greater protection and was easier to produce. The pickelhaubes remained in use by senior officers of the Prussian army and for a few units parade uniforms but ceased to be worn by soldiers at the front. 

They were an extremely popular item for souvenir hunters during the War and many thousands were taken home by allied soldiers. There were two of the above pyramids constructed, each one covered with 12,000 helmets and topped with a statue of Nike, the Greek goddess of victory. The pyramids were on display as part of a fundraising effort for US war bonds in 1918-19. People who purchased a certain amount of the bonds would get to take home a helmet as a token of their contribution.

The reverse of one of the pyramids showing a man sitting on a captured German field artillery piece. (Source)

The International WW1 Centennial Commission states that the helmets came from dead or captured German soldiers while another source claims that they were unused supplies sent from German warehouses after the War. Whichever is true, that is a hell of a lot of helmets, the whereabouts of which most are unknown.

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

hmmm