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05.21.2015 | 8:46 PM ET

I'm a big history buff and when I did some browsing on reddit, there was a thread where users would post awesome historic pics and videos with cool stuff from WWII and so on.  So I figured: why not do the same here (with a bit of a twist of course)?   In this thread, you can share any pictures and videos (MMA related or not, of course) from history that you have seen on the web here; as well as some background information on your post (if you so choose to).

Two caveats: 1.)  Keep it as SFW as you possibly can. 2.)  Try to avoid double posting the same pics.  I only ask of this, just so that we can keep the thread fresh and interesting.  (Note to the mods and admins:  If you feel that there is any guidelines that should be added to keep this thread from violating any specific rules to cause it to be removed, please add input.)

With that said, have fun and post away.

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05.21.2015 | 8:50 PM ET




Art Jimmerson vs Royce Gracie at the first UFC event ever held; Denver, Colorado; November 12th, 1993.

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05.21.2015 | 8:56 PM ET




Searchlights on the Rock of Gibraltar, 1942.

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05.22.2015 | 8:10 AM ET

I am still looking for it but somewhere my family has a pic of my grandfather with Wernher von Braun after the former created the reentry system for one of many NASA projects. It was a bunch of scientists and engineers at a table.  I hope to find it as it really shows about the benefits of Project Paperclip.

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05.22.2015 | 10:42 PM ET

@rappinpapsoda Wow, awesome.  Yeah without von Braun, I don't think the United States would have ever won the space race; nor would there have been a piqued intellectual curiosity in space in general.

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05.23.2015 | 10:05 AM ET

Thing is the Soviets had some German scientists too. We just got the better ones.
It is interesting to know that Robert Goddard helped in rocket science. He was about 15 years before VB. 

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05.23.2015 | 12:48 PM ET

A picture of your grandfather with a Nazi may not be what you want to brag about. Just putting that out there. Project Paperclip had benefits, but in the end it still goes down as one of the biggest ************* moves in American history. Among the many, it stands out.
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07.09.2015 | 7:48 PM ET



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07.09.2015 | 8:16 PM ET

Von Braun was not  a Nazi.  Yes, he built theor V1 and V2 but he did not subscribe to their idealogy. He did not lose any sleep over going to the USA.

* Edited at 07.09.2015, 8:22 PM ET *

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09.02.2015 | 4:31 PM ET



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09.02.2015 | 5:02 PM ET

Idk man, seems like a fake ass bill Burgess thread to me.


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09.02.2015 | 5:37 PM ET

@FollowTheMoney








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09.02.2015 | 6:01 PM ET

Its all good. I kind of needed a thread like this. 
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09.02.2015 | 8:21 PM ET



I am trying to post a pic.  I went into IMG and put the URL in.  Am I missing something?



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09.02.2015 | 8:51 PM ET

rappinpap, what you need to put in the img url is the link you copy from the "direct" box in your photobucket (if you just click on the "direct", it should auto copy the link for you to paste), not the link to the photobucket page. Then it looks like this:



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09.02.2015 | 9:41 PM ET

Thanks.


BTW, I found this at my grandparents house.  This has to be from the 13 days in October which were the Cuban Missile Crisis.  I assume the peace rally never happened as the crisis was over by 10-30-62.

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11.04.2015 | 12:41 PM ET




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11.04.2015 | 6:02 PM ET

Nice. Although not there, I like old pics of Chicago as I live near there and can relate.

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11.04.2015 | 11:39 PM ET






CSB: I met this guy at a ceremony at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs in the late 1990s.

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11.08.2015 | 8:11 PM ET

In case people are wondering, England Gay  was the plane that dropped the Hiroshima bomb.

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11.08.2015 | 8:47 PM ET

@rappinpap I think you mean the "Enola Gay"...




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