Login

u/CrippledStripper

r/ACDC r/RighteousGemstones r/CinemaSerieTV r/HorridHistory r/UtterlyUniquePhotos r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime r/tesdcares r/DrBeboutsCabinet r/VeryFuckinCool r/UtterlyInteresting
▲ 156 r/UtterlyUniquePhotos

Jackie Tonawanda, self-styled "the Female Ali," was a pioneering 1970s heavyweight boxer who sued NY's athletic commission for a pro license after being denied one because of her sex. She's photographed here circa 1975.

Tonawanda won her 1975 case, Garrett v. NYSAC, but the ruling didn't overturn New York's ban on women's boxing. She fought just once professionally, losing to Diane Clark in 1979.

u/CrippledStripper — 7 days ago
▲ 25 r/VeryFuckinCool

Video of a meteor taken from flight attendant Alexandra Spasskaya on Aeroflot Flight SU 1289 from Ulyanovsk to Moscow. [📹 sasha_bashnya_]

u/CrippledStripper — 8 days ago
▲ 767 r/HorridHistory+1 crossposts

A clock from Nagasaki, Japan, frozen at 11:02 AM, the time the atomic bomb dropped on this day in 1945.

u/CarkWithaM — 11 days ago
▲ 2.8k r/UtterlyUniquePhotos

Cocky Bennett, photographed in 1914 at the remarkable age of 118, spent the first 78 years of his life aboard a ship. He eventually passed away at the age of 120 at the Sea Breeze Hotel in Canterbury, New South Wales.

u/CrippledStripper — 24 days ago
▲ 172 r/UtterlyUniquePhotos

Ajeeb the Wonderful, a chess-playing automaton made in 1865. Famous opponents incl. Houdini and Roosevelt though, of course, Ajeeb had a little help from the human hidden inside him making the moves.

u/CrippledStripper — 26 days ago
▲ 141 r/HorridHistory

The chilling psychological effects of combat, told through a Vietnam veteran's first hand experience. From the 1986 PBS Frontline documentary 'The Bloods of 'Nam'

u/CrippledStripper — 1 month ago
▲ 711 r/UtterlyInteresting

I love the POLICE SQUAD bit of killing off that week's Special Guest Star in the opening credits. Solid gag. Apparently one of the deceased special guests was John Belushi but he died before the eipsode was aired, so the William Conrad gag was a recycled version of the Lorne Green gag.

u/CrippledStripper — 1 month ago
▲ 486 r/UtterlyUniquePhotos

This 1941 photograph by Margaret Bourke-White during the Second Sino-Japanese War shows Chinese orphans in Chongqing singing a "bombing song" to mimic the sound of aircraft The children were housed at an orphanage funded by United China Relief, a US organization.

u/CrippledStripper — 1 month ago
▲ 2.8k r/UtterlyUniquePhotos

Thomas Jefferson Souder and his wife Mary Ellen buried together in a custom double casket. They were married 60 years, and died a couple of days apart in July, 1921 – Mary on the 13th, Thomas on the 16th

u/CrippledStripper — 1 month ago
▲ 807 r/UtterlyInteresting+1 crossposts

"Conceived as a crime deterrent, a ladies makeup compact fashioned in the shape of an inoperable pistol -- complete with powder, cheek rouge and lipstick in the shape of a bullet, ca.1920."

u/CrippledStripper — 1 month ago
▲ 99 r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime

Gary Heidnik ran a church on the ground floor of his Philadelphia house while keeping six women chained in a pit in the basement below. He was one of the killers who inspired Thomas Harris’s infamous character, Buffalo Bill, in The Silence of the Lambs.

Among many other dreadful acts, he killed and dismembered one of his victims in front of the other captives, cooking her ribs in the oven and boiling her head. He claimed to have fed her flesh to his captives, mixed with dog food.

u/CrippledStripper — 1 month ago