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ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago

What's your favourite historical photo and why?

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What's your favourite historical photo and why?

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ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago
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  • TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz
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    This one always makes me melancholic:

    Such a big turning point in time, captured on a photograph.

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      Similar ones:

      WW1 cavalry soldiers who still carried a lance, for charging against infantry.
      (Even in the later stage of the war, when they already had steel helmets and gas masks)

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      Is that Batman on a horse?

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        Batman on his bathorse

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          What’s an orse and why does it need a bath?

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        I’d have guessed emperor Wilhelm II, but it seems to just be a German officer.

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