Today’s picture shows the Plaza de Luz in Havana, Cuba. The picture was taken
in the late 1800′s. The Regla Ferry is in the background. Looks like it was a
busy place.
ROMA
Today’s picture shows the boat docks at Havana, Cuba. The picture was taken
in 1904. It looks like this was a booming area back then.
Fidel Castro Playing Baseball
L.A. Riots – 1992(i.imgur.com)
Today’s picture shows a vegetable stand in the Mercado Tocon in Havana. The
picture was taken in 1904. I am not sure what type of melons those are in the
foreground
1938. Sudeten Germans welcome Wehrmacht invasion in Czechoslovakia.
Execution of Waffen-SS troops by the U.S. Army on April 29, 1945 imgur
Roma Women, location unknown
Members of the U.S. Army Air Corps’ 99th Pursuit Squadron, the Tuskegee
Airmen, receive instruction about wind currents from a lieutenant. (1942)
imgur
This 200-year-old church on banks of Hemavathi River near Hassan, India is
flooded and submerged yearly, slowly degrading it until nothing will remain
US Navy men pose with an eagle they rescued in the North Pacific,
1944.
AP
After four years of German occupation, the French greeted the US soldiers landing in Normandy on June 6, 1944 as liberators. The entire country was delirious with joy. But after only a few months, a shadow was cast over the new masters' image among the French. Here, US and French soldiers are greeted in Paris in August 1944.
AP
We are "attacked, robbed, run over both on the street and in our houses," wrote one angry citizen of Le Havre in October 1945. "This is a regime of terror, imposed by bandits in uniform." Here, US soldiers guard German POWs as they drive under the Eiffel Tower in September 1944
Thank goodness for those safety ropes: The walkway is only
a foot width wide and has been built clinging to the absolutely vertical cliff.
One misstep would send visitors plunging thousands of feet down into the
valley
Royal attendance: The Queen (left) and Prince Philip, Duke
of Edinburgh (front right) arrive at the Cenotaph in Central London, ahead of
Prince Harry (top)