Great War in Real Time (now with gas warfare)

This is a blog that will follow the 100th anniversary of WWI by liveblogging as if it is happening now... 

[realtimegreatwar]

Poppy Day: Remembering the past but hoping for peace in the future - Vatican News

Each year, on the 11th of November, Armistice Day is celebrated in countries across the world. Accompanied by the symbol of the resilient fi

[unpretty]

The Outbursts of Everett True was a comic strip that ran in papers from 1905 to 1927, wherein the aforementioned Everett True regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude. Men have not only been taking up too much room on public transport for about as long as public transport has existed, but the people around them have been irritated about it for at least a hundred years. The next time someone tries to claim that manspreading is a false phenomenon, please direct them to this strip so that Everett True can correct their misconceptions with an umbrella upside the head.

[guyalice]

I have never before heard of Everett True, but if he “regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude,” I have a strong spiritual connection with him.

[froginakettle]

[hotcocoachia]

I fucking love him

[jaynavajasso]

i can imagine this guy’s voice very clearly in my head but i couldn’t put a name to it 

[iamtypinglike98madmen-deactivat]

He also jabs racists in the eye!

[tumblunni]

I love the justice grandpa of fists

[cursedcharley]

I’m very lucky to own a book that’s a collection of most of these comics (sadly not all of them) and would highly recommend hunting these down if you can. Sorry for the lack of a scanner but phone photos will just have to do.

He was a enjoyable cuss who didn’t care for war mongering.

Especially profitable war mongering and excuses for it!

He certainly didn’t like selfish husbands and fathers!

Politicians who turned on their words once they got theirs weren’t safe.

He said fuck the police!

He absolutely didn’t like people ruining little things for kids.

He stood up for foreigners. Especially those doing their best to communicate with limited second language knowledge.

He was not having any tomfoolery when it came to gun safety and laws. Especially with youth involved.

You had better not abuse a animal with him nearby. He’d right that wrong real quick!

And best of all him and his wife were both prickly cusses together. Relationship goals.

[biglawbear]

I have a new role model

[briarchubnj]

😍

[runcibility]

“justice grandpa of fists”

[arquus-malvaceae-deactivated202]

It’s nice to see a fat dude in a political cartoon that’s NOT being used as shorthand for greed and corruption.

[charismat1c-megafauna]

Hes like the personification of motherfucker unlimited

[bogleech]

Reblogging this newer version of this thread with so many more strips I haven’t seen…why did this character ever disappear. Where did you go, Everett.

[tramampoline]

we need him more than ever…

[emperorclaudiusofficial]

sorry to make a long post longer but I feel like we could all really use some Everett True Beating Up Anti-Maskers content: 

[dduane]

He’s a hero, our Everett.

[dollsahoy]

Just found out there were live action Everett True shorts (silent films, though, so the outbursts were largely body language)

[unseen-alumni]

Reblogging to always have it to hand. :)

[redarmyscreaming]

The first launch of a Sopwith Camel from a makeshift deck on board USS Texas (BB 35) in operations off Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in March 1919 was part of experiments operating wheeled aircraft from ships that led to the Navy’s first aircraft carrier.

[deadpresidents]

All Quiet on the Western Front is the greatest war movie I’ve ever seen. It’s easily one of the most intense movies I’ve ever experienced; it is basically like watching the first 25 minutes of Saving Private Ryan for two-and-a-half hours . It’s an absolutely amazing work of art – genuinely difficult to watch at times, yet also somehow gorgeous. Go watch it ASAP.

[todaysdocument]

Sacking the bread ready for shipment at Mechanical Bakery, Advance Section #1, Q.M.C. Is-sur-Tille, Côte-d'Or, France, 2/5/1919

Series: Photographs of American Military Activities, ca. 1918 - ca. 1981

Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985

Image description: Black soldiers take loaves of bread off wooden shelves and put the loaves into large burlap sacks reading “BAKERIES / U.S. ARMY”. 

Image description: Same photo on an index card. The caption is the same as the title of this post.

[longislandairpower]

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Eidolon, oil on linen by SombrePainter

This artist on Instagram

[hiddenwwi]

Closeup of wooden supports over which metal railway tracks were laid. The rail line is located deep underground beneath the Tete de Faux battlefield in the Vosges Mountains of Southern Alsace.

[thisdayinwwi]

Jul 21 1918 At the Exhibition of Naval Photographs at Princes Galleries, Piccadilly, photographer George P. Lewis takes this photo, IWM Q 1963, of King George V, Queen Mary, Queen Alexandra, Sir Dighton MacNaughton Probyn, Keeper of the Privy Purse and Petty Officer Ernest Pitcher (VC)

Top Left -  Ernest Brooks takes this photo, IWM Q 19520, of British sailors in fighting equipment. 

Center - IWM Q 18887, of British Arrogant-class cruiser HMS Vindictive taken after Apr 23 1918 Zeebrugge Raid

[thisdayinwwi]

Mar 23 1918 During Spring Offensive, war photographer Thomas Keith Aitken takes these photos of a Mark IV Female Tank (2559) “Gladys” with an unditching beam passing through Peronne.   

IWM Q 10832 - Colourized by Frederic Duriez

IWM Q 10838 - Miscaptioned by Getty as being taken on Jul 16 1918

IWM Q 10833

IWM Q 10831

Film clip, IWM IWM 503, shows a British Mark IV Female Tank (2559 Gladys) captured by the Germans and then recaptured in the Battle of Amiens displayed with its crew at Beauquesne on Sep 16 1918

[thisdayinwwi]

Jul 10 1918 #OTD Unknown Australian Official Photographer takes this photo, AWM E02677, of 7th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery operating a light trench mortar. On the left is 1916 Lance Corporal A. J. Ellis and on the right is 2700 Private A. Lawler. Photo taken just east of Villers-Bretonneux between the railway and the south side of the Amiens-St Quentin main road, alongside a position called ‘The Orchard’. Colourized by DB Colour @dougbanksee Probably Arthur Lawler, service Number: 2700, who enlisted in Geraldton, Western Australia. He died of disease (Acute Bronchitis) on Jan 1 1919 in France.

Probably Alfred John Ellis, service Number: 1916, who enlisted in Keswick, South Australia. He returned to Australia on Jan 24 1919

10 July 1918-07-10

[thisdayinwwi]

French soldiers in a trench during the Battle of Verdun

IMAGE number: XRD1701963

Colourized by colorsofhistory

La Grande Guerre

Chronologie commentée de la Première Guerre mondiale

[thisdayinwwi]

Jun 30 1918 At Bois-de-Warnimont, war photographer Henry Armytage Sanders takes this photo, Ref: ½-013282-G, of New Zealand (Māori) Pioneer Battalion performing a haka for Joseph George Ward.

Colourized by Rarity Color

June 30 1918-06-30

[thisdayinwwi]

[brucebocchi]

[scrapironflotilla]

Scene on the Arras-Tilloy road during the German Spring Offensive. British troops occupying trench alongside road. Note a Rolls-Royce armoured car stuck in shell-hole, 10 April 1917.

[scrapironflotilla]

An American field gun crew firing their 75 mm Gun M1897, better known as the French 75.

[just-shower-thoughts]

Think of any point in history. You had an ancestor living at that point, no matter what.