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World War One Color Photos
Big D & Bubba Show ^ | 3/2/05 | Unknown

Posted on 03/03/2005 2:25:44 PM PST by Jinjelsnaps

Found this on another message board, and thought my fellow Freepers would enjoy the history.

From the site: "The color photo was invented in 1903 by the Lumiere brothers, and the French army was the only one taking color photos during the course of the war."

http://www.bigdandbubba.com/nicknacks/color_photo_was_invented_in.htm


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: archaeology; colorphotos; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; history; pictures; warphotos; worldwarone; ww1; wwi; zotgeist
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To: Jinjelsnaps
Fascinating photos! This one reminds me of one of the more artistic 9/11 Ground Zero photos. (I couldn't find the actual one for a side-by-side comparison.) The images tell the same story of destruction no matter when they were photographed.


121 posted on 03/03/2005 6:04:09 PM PST by arasina (So there.)
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To: Jinjelsnaps

What happened to the photos? Can't seem to pull any up.


122 posted on 03/03/2005 6:05:47 PM PST by YummiBox
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To: Jinjelsnaps

Fabulous! Thanks a bunch...


123 posted on 03/03/2005 6:07:40 PM PST by chilepepper (The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
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To: Jinjelsnaps

In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army

IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.




The first two stanzas are often cited by anti-war types, but the last stanza is clearly a call to duty, to shoulder the burden that those who have given their all died for, so that they will not have died in vain.

Michael Moore, John Kerry, Teddy Kennedy and the rest spit on all of these people, as well as those that died to stop Hitler, and those that died to end slavery. They are the ones who make such horrors possible. THEY are the enemy.


124 posted on 03/03/2005 6:08:51 PM PST by Phsstpok ("When you don't know where you are, but you don't care, you're not lost, you're exploring.")
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To: Mr. Mojo
Commie Basher sounds like a troll in disguise. It's best just to ignore him.

The First World War marked the true beginning of the Twentieth Century. When the war began, America was still a frontier nation in many ways and not yet a world power. The war made us an industrial giant and a major player on the world stage.

125 posted on 03/03/2005 6:09:16 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (Carnac: A siren, a baby and a liberal. Answer: Name three things that whine.)
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To: Commie Basher; MeekOneGOP
You see a chickenhawk [Bush] who hid from Vietnam in the Air National Guard and went AWOL, and you see a hero. Sad and pathetic.

Dan Rather, is that you?

I see you're forced to change the subject from Bush with an old Rather joke, proving that you can't counter the sad truth about Bush. It must be tough worshipping such an empty shell.

Actually oh so deeply dug troll, I was changing the subject to you! You seem so versed in all of the stupid leftist talking points about Bush and how joining the ANG is synonymous with "hiding" and how Bush went AWOL. Your blather sounds rather like Rather. Have you been lurking in the pipes all this time?

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126 posted on 03/03/2005 6:13:39 PM PST by MarineBrat ("God is dead"- Nietzsche,1886. "Nietzsche is dead"- God,1901)
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To: Commie Basher

I could comment how the rhetoric of your earlier post sounds sickeningly like the talking points we heard all last year from DU and MoveOn.org, but I think the really interesting thing about your post is that it proves a point of how because people online are able to hide behind the anonymity of a screen name, they think they can be as rude, as arrogant, and bad-behaviored as they want to be. You have an issue with me and my flippant post, fine, but I'd love to see if you're as big as man as you pretend to be on FreeRepublic, and are as cranky and as arrogant in real life as you are behind the computer monitor.


127 posted on 03/03/2005 6:20:52 PM PST by My2Cents (America is divided along issues of morality, between the haves and the have-nots.)
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To: Paulus Invictus
Those are truly stunning photos and they should be sent to the Eastman Museum of Photography in Rochester, NY! I have seen a lot of color pics, but never any from this early period and of such excellent quality. Where did they come from? Thanks!

They are on the French museum site: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/

128 posted on 03/03/2005 7:26:22 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: dbwz; Jinjelsnaps; RightOnTheLeftCoast; JLO; Tall_Texan; YummiBox

Here's an alternate site:

http://www.network54.com/Forum/thread?forumid=211833&messageid=1088370788&lp=1088381193

and here:

http://board.iexbeta.com/lofiversion/index.php/t51388.html

And they are on the original French Museum site, but I can't navigate to them from the home page because I can't read French.

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/

And earlier I pointed out they are also (along with many other great photos of WWI) on the site: http://www.greatwar.nl/


129 posted on 03/03/2005 7:32:09 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: Commie Basher; MarineBrat; 4mycountry; TheBigB; VRWCmember; Zavien Doombringer; jriemer; mhking; ...
Unlike the Bush administration chickenhawks (who had "other priorities") or the many cyper-"warriors" on Free Republic .....

You see real warriors, and call them pansies. You see a chickenhawk who hid from Vietnam in the Air National Guard and went AWOL, and you see a hero. Sad and pathetic.

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130 posted on 03/03/2005 8:30:43 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: Commie Basher; Americanwolf; AQGeiger; Beaker; BenLurkin; baltodog; BJClinton; big'ol_freeper; ...

I have no time for you. This "cyber-warrior" is busy mobilizing for war.

You've outed yourself, Troll.


131 posted on 03/03/2005 8:34:53 PM PST by Old Sarge (In for a penny, in for a pound, saddlin' up and Baghdad-bound!)
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To: MeekOneGOP

It takes all kinds, doesn't it? (totally rhetorical)


132 posted on 03/03/2005 8:36:48 PM PST by Gabz (Wanna join my tag team?)
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To: Commie Basher; MeekOneGOP
Yeah, Kerry's a real warrior alright. He shot fleeing unarmed in the back, and turned on his fellow soldiers accusing them of war criminals. Meanwhile, then Lieutenant Bush flew fighter jets, not exactly a low-calibre task in itself, in defense of his own homeland. President Bush's records are available. John Kerry refuses to sign the 180. But I guess that's not enough for you, so long as you get an opportunity to bash a Republican.

DU beckons back to you, you moronic festering troll.


133 posted on 03/03/2005 8:36:57 PM PST by TBarnett34 ("Unnngh!" -John F'n Kerry, 11/2/04)
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To: Commie Basher

Actually, you seem to be the one who is pathetic, in desperate need of some facts, and a brain to analyze them with.

I pity you.


134 posted on 03/03/2005 8:38:29 PM PST by exnavychick
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To: WestVirginiaRebel; Commie Basher; MeekOneGOP
I am trying to ignore the Commie Bas... so here's a pig that can do it for us!


135 posted on 03/03/2005 8:38:40 PM PST by SolidRedState (I can't think of a new tagline, so I'll just post without one.)
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To: Commie Basher
This is a picture of a pork pie:


136 posted on 03/03/2005 8:40:46 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Commie Basher

What a puke.


137 posted on 03/03/2005 8:44:05 PM PST by AirForceMom (God Bless America! P.S. Dial up STINKS!!!!!!!)
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To: Calpernia

Thanks for the ping!


138 posted on 03/03/2005 8:46:33 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: AnAmericanMother

The French soldiers fought bravely in WWI, I agree that the poor quality of their generals is what got so many of them killed. America's fine military tradition is a great treasure which produces superior leadership. The French were not so lucky. My grandfather and his brother both fought in WWI for the United States, my grandfather was in the navy, his brother who was in the infantry, suffered much in that war. It was a horrible experience and mentally scarred many of the men who fought in it. I think that the French never really recovered from the war.


139 posted on 03/03/2005 8:54:10 PM PST by dog breath
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To: wideminded
Is the guy in this picture taking a leak

A soldier's urinoir - French for men's bathroom. The sides are painted with camouflage colors Picture made near Rexpoede, Northern France, on August 31, 1917.

You'll have to click through the pixs to get to it.

140 posted on 03/03/2005 8:55:19 PM PST by Tribune7
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