Barber's shop, Japan, by Felice Beato ca.1867-69 [1024 x 784]

marquis_of_chaos · 2012-05-22T12:30:08.258835+00:00

Healtone · 2012-05-22T12:22:46.420176+00:00

Photo by Horst Faas.

marquis_of_chaos · 2012-05-22T12:14:06.853596+00:00

U.S. National Parks Service "There were constant reminders of the horrors of slavery in antebellum St. Louis. One of the worst involved the open sales of slaves at various places along the city’s busiest streets, which was an accepted community practice. Regular slave auctions and sales were held in several places, most notably at the slave market run by Bernard M. Lynch on Locust Street between Fourth and Fifth. This market was moved in 1859 to Broadway and Clark Streets. Lynch’s “slave pens” were former private residences with bars placed on all the windows to secure them like prisons. Slaves were herded off steamboats and up the street to the slave houses, then sold to persons, especially after 1840, from outside St. Louis, mostly from the western counties in Missouri or further down the river. Families were broken up, with children taken from mothers, fathers sold down the river, husbands and wives separated. And all of this was done in full view of crowds wishing to buy and passersby going about their daily business."

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marquis_of_chaos · 2012-05-22T12:08:49.811952+00:00

Samuel "Sam" Houston, was a nineteenth-century American statesman, politician, and soldier. He was born in Timber Ridge in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, of Scots-Irish descent. Houston became a key figure in the history of Texas and was elected as the first and third President of the Republic of Texas, U.S. Senator for Texas after it joined the United States, and finally as a governor of the state. He refused to swear loyalty to the Confederacy when Texas seceded from the Union in 1861 with the outbreak of the American Civil War, and was removed from office. To avoid bloodshed, he refused an offer of a Union army to put down the Confederate rebellion. Instead, he retired to Huntsville, Texas, where he died before the end of the Civil War.

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marquis_of_chaos · 2012-05-22T12:04:41.811649+00:00

The inauguration of James Buchanan as the 15th President of the United States was held on Wednesday, March 4, 1857. The inauguration marked the commencement of the four-year term of James Buchanan as President and John C. Breckinridge as Vice President. Chief Justice Roger Taney administered the Oath of office. This was the first inauguration ceremony known to be photographed.

marquis_of_chaos · 2012-05-22T11:57:43.270820+00:00

Hunterian Museum (Royal College Of Surgeons) staff packing up some of the 3000 human skulls stored in a shed in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, before their transfer to the Natural History Museum, 1st July 1948.

marquis_of_chaos · 2012-05-22T11:29:09.295248+00:00

Non print version.

kjoneslol · 2012-05-21T19:50:00.950802+00:00

I think with such a high voter turnout we can honestly say we have a strong mandate from the people.

Weaselvoyager · 2012-05-21T09:32:42.048375-07:00

The photograph itself was not taken in 1832, while Bentham did indeed die in 1832 the picture was obviously taken at a much later date (There is an electric light above the cabinet for example).

I'm sorry that I'm being harsh and that you no longer feel like reposting but we have to enforce the rules so that people can trust what they see on this subreddit.

As moderators it's our job to keep the integrity of the site intact (this includes removing spam, blogspam, wrongly attributed pictures, links that belong in other subreddits and checking the veracity of any images that are questioned). Once people lose trust in the moderators they will stop posting or visiting the subreddit and we would just become another, less popular, /r/pics.

kjamazing · 2012-05-21T09:07:07.838795-07:00

You could try contacting the trust that manages the site (Fife Coast and Countryside Trust?) to see if anybody has handed your camera in to the management.

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