Historical Pictures

The OK Corral

 

Boot Hill

 

The Earps and Doc Holiday

 

Was this the face of Jack The Ripper ? Aaron Kosminski, a Polish barber who is now thought by many historians to indeed have been the infamous serial killer !

 

The British R101 Airship in her prime

 

And the crash site

 

Jesus ! Bit grim that Kiwi

 

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The pigeon camera invented by Julius Gustav Neubronner (8 February 1852 – 17 April 1932) in 1907

 

The olive tree of Vouves, on Crete. This tree, which has a trunk 15 feet in diameter, is at least 2,000 years old, and likely 2,900 years old, based on the graveyard found nearby.

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This tree likely lived through the writing of the Iliad, the golden age of Athens, the rise of the Roman Empire, and the birth of Christ – and then lived for 2000 years after that. It still produces olives.

 

*Roman shield found from Dura Europos, Syria.
This shield is only known surviving example of semi-cylindrical shield known as a scutum, used by Roman legions.
It is made of painted wood and rawhide, dated to mid 3rd century AD, and measures 105.5 x 41 x 30cm.

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Roman aqueduct - Zaghouan, Tunisia

The Zaghouan aqueduct was built during the reign of Emperor Hadrian in 122 to bring water from Jebel Zaghouan to Carthage.

This section is near Tunis.

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Fascinating, but I couldn't help start singing rolling rolling rolling when I read rawhide

 

British blacksmith removing leg irons from slave off the coast of Oman, 1907.
This slave escaped in a canoe from slave-trading village on hearing a Royal Navy ship was in the area.
The Navy’s West Africa Squadron seized approximately 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 slaves.

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