Showing posts with label Images of World history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Images of World history. Show all posts

Thursday, 17 January 2013

Rare Image of Fidel Castro

Rare Image of Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro is a Cuban revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008.

Castro is a controversial and highly divisive world figure, being lauded as a champion of anti-imperialism, humanitarianism, socialism and environmentalism by his supporters, but his critics have accused him of being a dictator whose authoritarian administration has overseen multiple human rights abuses both at home and abroad.


Image: Cuban President Fidel Castro (3rd row, R) in 1961; Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro now

Friday, 21 December 2012

Childhood Picture of Barack Obama

Childhood picture of Barack Obama
Barack Obama is the 44th and current president of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.

Thursday, 9 August 2012

The Anniversary of Nagasaki Bomb Blast

9th August 1945 The USAAF dropped a Second Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki and 40,000 People Were Killed and 23,000 Injured. The Following Day, the Japanese Government Requested the Terms of Surrender....

Tuesday, 12 June 2012

Rare Picture of First War Tank

First War Tank
The first tanks were so loud that it was impossible to communicate via radio; instead they used carrier pigeons!

The Mark I was the world’s first combat tank made by the British Army during World War I. it was developed to be able to cross trenches, resist small arms fire, travel over difficult terrain, carry supplies, and to capture fortified enemy positions. 

The noise inside the tank was deafening and the driver used hand signals to communicate with the gearsmen. He first got their attention by banging on the engine block with a heavy spanner. There was no wireless radio communication.

Communication with command posts was by means of carrier pigeons that had their own small exit hatch in the sponsons, or by runners. The noise and vibration was too great to use any other form of communication and early experiments showed that carrier pigeons were the best route.

Tanks had major flaws when they came out. However, British propaganda often used tanks and promoted them. They portrayed them as the wonder weapon that would quickly win World War I.

Wednesday, 6 June 2012

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