The "Post A Cool Picture" Thread

I dig the old photos, so that's where my interests are skewed. I have alot of WWII and WWI era or older military photos and CdVs.

I always laugh when I see this one. It was taken sometime during WWI.



I also really like this photo of a very early radial airplane engine from before WWI. It sort of goes beyond a photo of an object and is almost abstract art. It is mesmerizing when you have the actual photo in hand. It is also incredibly sharp for being 100 years old.

 

Mostly taken from different forums (including this one):






Some might not be all that cool, but I felt like posting them anyway.

 

I love czech beer turdison buck

 

I was bored at work today so I made this:

Productive day

 

um these are more funny than cool

 

Those two were some of my favorite characters growing up.

 

<a href="http://gwally.com/avatars/000673.php"><img src="http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/9029/ohhellsyeah0in.gif" border="0" width="150" alt="oh hells yeah" /></a>

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/92947261@N00/169626218/

 

The one...the only...SUPER GREG!!!

 

Here are a few pics I find fascinating:

The best baseball pic I've seen in a long time:


A genuine, uncirculated $10,000 bill:


A two-schilling note printed in 1775 (the note currently resides in my Dad's dresser drawer:


Scientific proof that girls are evil:


The largest bat colony in the world, and the greatest concentration of mammals in the world, resides just outside of Austin at Bracken Cave:


And, lastly, a picture you might not find fascinating but...

This is my family at the turn of the century. The little boy is my grandfather, and the man in the uniform is my great-grandfather.

 

FrontRowJow, what is your ancestry or the ethnicities of those in your picture?