Simply Some Photos
Author: peter Date: 14 November, Category: Appealing, Visits 4334
Tsen Hai Sun and Hay Gy Sun, hanging by their hair beneath a hovering Bell helicopter, exchange gold rings in an unusual wedding ceremony in Hassloch, Pfalz, West Germany. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 1979
A human skull keeps watch over US soldiers encamped in the Vietnamese jungle during the Vietnam War. (Photo by Terry Fincher/Getty Images). 1968
Victorian travellers trekking on the Chamonix Glacier in the Savoy Alps. (Photo by William England/Getty Images). 1867
North Vietnamese soldier, Nguen Thi-Hai, standing guard. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 1968
Children jeer at British soldiers whiile a fire smoulders in the street behind them. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 7th December 1971
A Viet Cong suspect holds his hands up after a Vietnamese Ranger from the 21st Vietnam Infantry Division routed him from his hiding place. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 7th November 1967
English-born environmentalist and author Grey Owl (1888–1938) feeding a beaver. Born Archibald Stansfield Belaney in Surrey, he emigrated to Canada in 1906 and married a Mohawk woman. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). Circa 1930
The great lifting power of the French helicopter [The Lama] currently in production at the Marignana aircraft factory is displayed where it is lifting an Alouette Mark II. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 1st January 1972
A monkey shakes hands with a woman at the Hotel des Singes in the Atlas Mountains. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 1929
Loggers and their horses enjoying a lunchtime feed during tree felling at Scattersdells Wood, King's Langley, Hertfordshire. (Photo by Fred Morley/Fox Photos/Getty Images). 5th November 1937
Policemen arresting a demonstrator when fascists and communists clashed during a march led by British fascist Sir Oswald Mosley in London's East End. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 4th October 1936
After taking part in a nurses' protest march from Speakers' Corner to Downing Street, Mary Chundee, Pat Veal (centre) and Tina Stone (right) prepare to hand in a petition to the Prime Minister, protesting about the pay and conditions of nurses working in Britain, 15th August 1968. (Photo by George W. Hales/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
American army combat platoon leader Second Lieutenant John Libs (center) of 2nd platoon, C Company, 2d Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division, surveys the situation with his men from the relative safety of a watery rice paddy as they prepare to advance on a Viet Cong sniper position, Vietnam, mid 1960s. Libs and the rest of 2nd Platoon participated in the battle of Xa Cam My/Operation Abilene in April 1966 during which Charlie Company suffered 82% casualties. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). 1965
Young man wearing fez, with three trained monkeys. (Photo by Charles Phelps Cushing/Retrofile/Getty Images). India, circa 1930s