JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
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My first landlady had a damn-near life-sized version of this painting in her house. Framed canvas, floor to ceiling. Definitely the largest work of art I have ever seen in a private dwelling.
And she didn't live in some mansion, either, it was a little two-bedroom ranch in Abilene, Texas.
My roommates and I went to her house to drop off our first month's rent in person, and all we could talk about on the drive home was the giant Napoleon painting in the dining room.
Did everybody know that at various periods it was fashionable for Romans to piece their foreskins and use a little dick brooch to tuck it up all tight? I didnt know that that seems like somethin Id know I guess I do know it now feels good to make things right
Athlete infibulating himself (psykter by the Syriskos Painter, c. 480 BC)
A penile fibula is foremost a ring, attached with a pin through the foreskin to fasten it above the glans penis. It was mainly used by ancient Roman culture, though it may have originated earlier. This ring type of fibula has been described akin to a large modern safety pin. Its usage may have had several reasons, for example to avoid intercourse, to promote modesty or the belief that it helped preserve a man's voice. Some Jews also utilized fibulas to hide that they were circumcised.
The word fibula could also be used in general in Rome to denote any type of covering of the penis (such as with a sheath) for the sake of voice preservation or sexual abstinence, it was often used by masters on their slaves for this purpose. Fibulas were frequent subject of ridicule among satirists in Rome.
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Broke as fuck in the style of the times. Gratitude is all that can return on your generosity.
My first landlady had a damn-near life-sized version of this painting in her house. Framed canvas, floor to ceiling. Definitely the largest work of art I have ever seen in a private dwelling.
And she didn't live in some mansion, either, it was a little two-bedroom ranch in Abilene, Texas.
My roommates and I went to her house to drop off our first month's rent in person, and all we could talk about on the drive home was the giant Napoleon painting in the dining room.
In the New Kingdom, the fate of the deceased in the afterlife was reportedly affected by success in playing senet with underworld opponents. Here, a game board for senet, though not the board from the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in California. (Image credit: Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)
A game board that dates back to before the reign of the pharaoh Hatshepsut may represent the transformation of the game senet from fun pastime to religious symbol.
Senet is ancient, dating back some 5,000 years to Egypt's first dynasty. The game was played on a board with 30 squares arranged in a 3-by-10 rectangle. The precise rules are lost to history, but players had to move a set of pawns across the board, with moves determined by throws of a set of two-sided sticks. The squares were blank except for squares 26 to 29, which contained the same progression of symbols: one for goodness, one for water, one for the number three and one for the number two.
By the era of the New Kingdom of Egypt, which began in about 1550 B.C., these game boards had acquired a religious symbolism, appearing in the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The game seemed to represent the soul's journey through the afterlife. Over time, the markings on senet boards also became more elaborate.
4k, 60 fps] A Trip Through New York City in 19118:35 https://youtu.be/hZ1OgQL9_Cw Restored with neural networks 1911 New York footage taken by the Swedish company Svenska Biografteatern on a trip to America:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second;
✔ Image resolution boosted up to 4k;
✔ Resorted video sharpness;
✔ Colorized – I'am still unsure about this, but regarding to high request from the subscribers decided to test DeOldify NN on this video.
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Please, keep in mind that 4k resolution playback mostly not available on the phones.
JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
When that film was shot, folks had been experimenting with various tram systems for nearly seventy years and the first commercially successful cable car and electric tram systems were both around thirty years old!
It helped that horse-drawn streetcars were fairly common in large cities from the early 1800s, so it was mostly a matter of experimenting with new power sources while utilizing existing rails.
[4k, 60 fps] Apollo 16 Lunar Rover "Grand Prix" (1972 April 21, Moon)2:55 https://youtu.be/az9nFrnCK60 Upscaled and resounded version of Apollo 16 mission "Grand Prix" part:
FPS boosted to 60 frames per second;
Image resolution boosted up to 4k.
edit: [4k, 60 fps] Mars Curiosity Descent, Neural Networks upscaled version2:53 https://youtu.be/ZyJIboN-U5g This is an upscaled version of the gorgeous video by Bard Canning of curiosity descent uploaded on Sep 13, 2012
They're making something of a comeback, in the UK at least. Metropolitan City councils have apparently decided that you need trams to be in the Kool Kouncil Kids Klub, and there are several schemes in operation now.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
Who wouldn't want to be in the KKKK?
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[60 fps] A Trip Through Paris, France in late 1890s / Un voyage à travers Paris, 18906:06 https://youtu.be/fo_eZuOTBNc
Upscaled with neural networks footage from the dawn of film taken in Belle Époque-era Paris, France from 1896-1900.
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second;
✔ Image resolution boosted up to 4k – with digital artifacts, but some parts are improved noticeable, I'm preparing new dataset for that process, 4k is till in beta;
✔ Improved video sharpness;
✔ Colorized – I'm still unsure about it, but regarding to high request from the subscribers I decided to use DeOldify NN again on this video. If you don't like how DeOldify doing colorization, please let me know in the comments, I will upload b&w version and put a link here.
⚠ Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
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I'm generally not that big on most war history stuff, but I do quite like the Forgotten Weapons guy, since he usually goes beyond just the mechanics of a gun and gets into the history and thought process behind it all.
I thought this video was particularly interesting, where he goes over a few different knockoff Chinese pistols from the first half of the 20th century.
Since there were bans on exporting weapons to China, there was basically a cottage industry for building copies of foreign guns to supply local warlords. Some of them are pretty well made and most have come from a dedicated factory, but what's a lot more interesting is the ones that aren't. Piles of guns were built by craftsmen who knew metalworking but almost nothing about how guns actually work. So while the guns are more or less still all functional, there's all these interesting little examples where they copy the form but miss the function.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
How Iran Threw the World's Greatest Party In a Desert30:09 https://youtu.be/6aF0UqC0J48 In 1971, Iran threw an extravagant and exclusive party to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the Persian empire. The party had a grandeur never seen before in the world's recorded history. It had delicious food from the world's best restaurant, exquisite drinks, luxurious accommodations, medieval European style decorations, and more importantly - the party had the most decorated guestlist - heads of states from 65 different countries, emperors, kings and queens, princes and princesses, sheiks, sultans, and business figures of all kinds from 5 different continents. The venue of the event was not some ancient castle or a seven-star hotel, instead, everything was organized from scratch, in the middle of a desert, by building plastic tents.
The cost of all of this? Not a million dollars; Not a billion dollars; this party almost cost a dynasty. It proved to be a stepping stone for the rise of the Iranian revolution and the fall of the Iranian Monarchy that changed the country forever.
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I was reading about the Night Witches earlier, an all-female night-bombing and harassment regiment in the Soviet air force during World War 2, and a highly decorated one to boot! The Germans apparently coined their nickname (which is nachthexen in German which is totally fuckin rad), due to a particular tactic of the Witches, which was to cut engines when near the target, glide in and drop their bombs, then roar off into the night with their engines cackling and spitting fire and such. The German soldiers said their wood-framed aircraft sounded like broomsticks clattering in flight in the night wind.
The witches didn't fly in the most modern, high-tech bombers of the era, not by a long shot. They were flying, essentially, wooden-framed crop-dusting planes fitted with guns that could carry like two to four bombs at a time, obsolete and archaic by the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War. However, these planes were highly maneuverable, and relatively easy to fly compared to more modernized aircraft, while also having a maximum top speed lower than the stall speed of German fighter planes of the time, which meant the Witches were a hard target to safely engage.
They'd fly multiple sorties a night, sometimes as many as 8, and two of their mechanics were released from Soviet military prison to serve in the regiment after being arrested for stealing the silk parachute off of a military flare and making underwear out of them and I love them very much.
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I was reading about the Night Witches earlier, an all-female night-bombing and harassment regiment in the Soviet air force during World War 2, and a highly decorated one to boot! The Germans apparently coined their nickname (which is nachthexen in German which is totally fuckin rad), due to a particular tactic of the Witches, which was to cut engines when near the target, glide in and drop their bombs, then roar off into the night with their engines cackling and spitting fire and such. The German soldiers said their wood-framed aircraft sounded like broomsticks clattering in flight in the night wind.
The witches didn't fly in the most modern, high-tech bombers of the era, not by a long shot. They were flying, essentially, wooden-framed crop-dusting planes fitted with guns that could carry like two to four bombs at a time, obsolete and archaic by the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War. However, these planes were highly maneuverable, and relatively easy to fly compared to more modernized aircraft, while also having a maximum top speed lower than the stall speed of German fighter planes of the time, which meant the Witches were a hard target to safely engage.
They'd fly multiple sorties a night, sometimes as many as 8, and two of their mechanics were released from Soviet military prison to serve in the regiment after being arrested for stealing the silk parachute off of a military flare and making underwear out of them and I love them very much.
I learned about them from this song and yes they were super rad.
Therin that video is a Mauser C-96 pistol done up in intricate gold damascene with ivory grips, a view from the Al-Hambra palace engraved on the receiver and along the barrel in Arabic script "The only victor is God" which amounts to the ballerest gun I've ever heard of
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My first landlady had a damn-near life-sized version of this painting in her house. Framed canvas, floor to ceiling. Definitely the largest work of art I have ever seen in a private dwelling.
And she didn't live in some mansion, either, it was a little two-bedroom ranch in Abilene, Texas.
My roommates and I went to her house to drop off our first month's rent in person, and all we could talk about on the drive home was the giant Napoleon painting in the dining room.
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I have this on a long sleeved top
I love it
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Well yeah, mountainous terrain? You'd want to be a sure footed little ass, not some big honking horse who is going to slip and break a leg any minute.
If that's a donkey in the picture, then that ass is fabulous.
Yeah a real crowd of ouiaboos
https://youtu.be/ztoUaJFEi8M
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Fuck.
https://www.livescience.com/amp/board-game-tied-to-egyptian-book-of-dead.html
In the New Kingdom, the fate of the deceased in the afterlife was reportedly affected by success in playing senet with underworld opponents. Here, a game board for senet, though not the board from the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in California. (Image credit: Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)
A game board that dates back to before the reign of the pharaoh Hatshepsut may represent the transformation of the game senet from fun pastime to religious symbol.
Senet is ancient, dating back some 5,000 years to Egypt's first dynasty. The game was played on a board with 30 squares arranged in a 3-by-10 rectangle. The precise rules are lost to history, but players had to move a set of pawns across the board, with moves determined by throws of a set of two-sided sticks. The squares were blank except for squares 26 to 29, which contained the same progression of symbols: one for goodness, one for water, one for the number three and one for the number two.
By the era of the New Kingdom of Egypt, which began in about 1550 B.C., these game boards had acquired a religious symbolism, appearing in the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The game seemed to represent the soul's journey through the afterlife. Over time, the markings on senet boards also became more elaborate.
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https://youtu.be/c3eqekf7snQ
Dang those lockers are ooooold
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I had lockers like that in high school
https://youtu.be/hZ1OgQL9_Cw
Restored with neural networks 1911 New York footage taken by the Swedish company Svenska Biografteatern on a trip to America:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second;
✔ Image resolution boosted up to 4k;
✔ Resorted video sharpness;
✔ Colorized – I'am still unsure about this, but regarding to high request from the subscribers decided to test DeOldify NN on this video.
______
Please, keep in mind that 4k resolution playback mostly not available on the phones.
Everyone was wearing a hat lol
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It helped that horse-drawn streetcars were fairly common in large cities from the early 1800s, so it was mostly a matter of experimenting with new power sources while utilizing existing rails.
Well actually I guess Halifax had lots of streetcars back in the day but we paved over all thems shits cause public transits for communists
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https://www.vox.com/2015/5/7/8562007/streetcar-history-demise
Makes sense. Think it was Ford who wiped out public transportation in Los Angeles through dirty dealing
https://youtu.be/az9nFrnCK60
Upscaled and resounded version of Apollo 16 mission "Grand Prix" part:
FPS boosted to 60 frames per second;
Image resolution boosted up to 4k.
edit:
[4k, 60 fps] Mars Curiosity Descent, Neural Networks upscaled version 2:53
https://youtu.be/ZyJIboN-U5g
This is an upscaled version of the gorgeous video by Bard Canning of curiosity descent uploaded on Sep 13, 2012
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They're making something of a comeback, in the UK at least. Metropolitan City councils have apparently decided that you need trams to be in the Kool Kouncil Kids Klub, and there are several schemes in operation now.
The extra K means Extra Racism!
Krusty's Komedy Klown Kollege?
And public transport schemes that require huge capital investment!
https://youtu.be/fo_eZuOTBNc
Upscaled with neural networks footage from the dawn of film taken in Belle Époque-era Paris, France from 1896-1900.
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second;
✔ Image resolution boosted up to 4k – with digital artifacts, but some parts are improved noticeable, I'm preparing new dataset for that process, 4k is till in beta;
✔ Improved video sharpness;
✔ Colorized – I'm still unsure about it, but regarding to high request from the subscribers I decided to use DeOldify NN again on this video. If you don't like how DeOldify doing colorization, please let me know in the comments, I will upload b&w version and put a link here.
⚠ Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
Source video (with ambiance sound) – please subscribe to guy jones channel, he is doing an amazing job in ambiance sound adding:
More hats
Also I didn't expect to see travelators
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I thought this video was particularly interesting, where he goes over a few different knockoff Chinese pistols from the first half of the 20th century.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HNaB7l2GQk
Since there were bans on exporting weapons to China, there was basically a cottage industry for building copies of foreign guns to supply local warlords. Some of them are pretty well made and most have come from a dedicated factory, but what's a lot more interesting is the ones that aren't. Piles of guns were built by craftsmen who knew metalworking but almost nothing about how guns actually work. So while the guns are more or less still all functional, there's all these interesting little examples where they copy the form but miss the function.
https://youtu.be/6aF0UqC0J48
In 1971, Iran threw an extravagant and exclusive party to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the Persian empire. The party had a grandeur never seen before in the world's recorded history. It had delicious food from the world's best restaurant, exquisite drinks, luxurious accommodations, medieval European style decorations, and more importantly - the party had the most decorated guestlist - heads of states from 65 different countries, emperors, kings and queens, princes and princesses, sheiks, sultans, and business figures of all kinds from 5 different continents. The venue of the event was not some ancient castle or a seven-star hotel, instead, everything was organized from scratch, in the middle of a desert, by building plastic tents.
The cost of all of this? Not a million dollars; Not a billion dollars; this party almost cost a dynasty. It proved to be a stepping stone for the rise of the Iranian revolution and the fall of the Iranian Monarchy that changed the country forever.
Wow
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
The witches didn't fly in the most modern, high-tech bombers of the era, not by a long shot. They were flying, essentially, wooden-framed crop-dusting planes fitted with guns that could carry like two to four bombs at a time, obsolete and archaic by the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War. However, these planes were highly maneuverable, and relatively easy to fly compared to more modernized aircraft, while also having a maximum top speed lower than the stall speed of German fighter planes of the time, which meant the Witches were a hard target to safely engage.
They'd fly multiple sorties a night, sometimes as many as 8, and two of their mechanics were released from Soviet military prison to serve in the regiment after being arrested for stealing the silk parachute off of a military flare and making underwear out of them and I love them very much.
I learned about them from this song and yes they were super rad.
https://youtu.be/C7NSUFDHFgg
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4KM7ySNWuqU
Therin that video is a Mauser C-96 pistol done up in intricate gold damascene with ivory grips, a view from the Al-Hambra palace engraved on the receiver and along the barrel in Arabic script "The only victor is God" which amounts to the ballerest gun I've ever heard of
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