On the 30th of March 1868 politician George W. Ashburn (b. 1814) was assassinated by the Ku Klux Klan for expressing pro-African-American sentiments. Born in North Carolina, his political career (and death) occurred in Columbus, Georgia.
Nobody was ever prosecuted for the crime.
I know all kinds of things used to happen on a frozen Thames, but this is pretty scary to see! Thinking of how the river is now, I just can’t imagine it!
On the 24th of March, 1953, Mary of Teck – Elizabeth the Second’s grandmother – died of a heart attack. She was eight-five years old.
You can see the similarities between her and her most famous granddaughter.
There’re so many sexist advertisements from the mid twentieth century that it’s hard to pick the worst of them. This one has to be somewhere near the top.
You owe it to HIM
Eh. Every time I look through vintage things I’m given more evidence of why many people from my grandparents’ generation (male and female) spout so much misogynistic garbage. I love many things about the time period (the wars, not so much), but no way in the world would I ever want to live in it!
August 2008: Destruction in Georgia after the Battle of Tskhinvali. Russia invaded Georgia after being awarded the 2014 Olympics. They invaded Ukraine after hosting the 2014 Olympics.
They make a habit of this, and yet everyone always seems surprised when they repeat the behaviour – and willing to believe their propaganda!
A depiction of a 13th century slave market in Yemen. Yemen didn’t officially abolish slavery until 1962.
Images from the old days of the St. James’s Gate (Guinness) Brewery in Dublin, Ireland.
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The Hindenburg in March 1936, a year and two months before it was destroyed in a disaster that took 36 people with it.
In Times Gone By... 