What is this city called?
The government of which country sits here?
You will a lot about this photo this weekend. It marks the 50th anniversery of Bloody Sunday (Bogside Massacre) in Derry in 1972
Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, was a massacre on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march against internment without trial. Fourteen people died: thirteen were killed outright, while the death of another man four months later. Many of the victims were shot while fleeing from the soldiers, and some were shot while trying to help the wounded. Other protesters were injured by shrapnel, rubber bullets, or batons, and two were run down by British Army vehicles. All of those shot were Catholics.
Two investigations were held by the British government. The Widgery Tribunal, held in the aftermath, largely cleared the soldiers and British authorities of blame. It described the soldiers’ shooting as “bordering on the reckless”, but accepted their claims that they shot at gunmen and bomb-throwers. The report was widely criticised as a “whitewash. The Saville Inquiry, chaired by Lord Saville of Newdigate, was established in 1998 to reinvestigate the incident. Following a twelve-year investigation, Saville’s report was made public in 2010 and concluded that the killings were “unjustified” “. It found that all of those shot were unarmed, that none were posing a serious threat, that no bombs were thrown and that soldiers “knowingly put forward false accounts” to justify their firing. The soldiers denied shooting the named victims but also denied shooting anyone by mistake.[11] On publication of the report, British Prime Minister David Cameron made a formal apology on behalf of the UK.[12] Following this, police began a murder investigation into the killings.
World’s First Photograph
View from the Window at Le Gras
Manhattan, NYC
The Philadelphia Electric Company streetlight maintenance vehicle in 1910.
It is 1967 in Sweden. This is the day Sweden switched which side of the road they drive on.
The red part contains more people than the blue part put together.
What are these people doing and why? Year?
This is a photo of Disney artists studying a deer in preparation for drawing Bambi. It is 1940 and the movie was released in 1942.
Animators took life drawing courses on fawns (young deer) to understand their anatomy and mannerisms. Walt Disney wanted the animals in Bambi to be as realistic as possible while retaining an animation quality.
This photo captures a very important moment in Irish history. What is the important moment? What year is it and the location.
The date is 15 January 1947. In this photo electricity is switched on for the very first time as part of the rural electrification scheme. It was in Oldtown, Dublin. At the time more than 400,000 homes in rural Ireland had no electricity. The scheme ran until 1978 when Blackvalley, Co Kerry received electricity. This was the last place in Ireland to get electricity.
There are 100 red dots on this photo. What amazing feat do they represent?
Birthpalces of the 100 fastest 10,000 meter runners in the world
Maryland doctors transplant pig’s heart into human patient in medical first
Signing of Anglo Irish Treaty 6th December 1921
It is August 1998, the final whistle of the 1998 All Ireland hurling semi final between Clare and Offaly has just blown. Clare won the game by 3 points but referee Jimmy Cooney from Galway had blown the whistle 3 minutes early. The Offaly fans came on the field and began a protest. Offaly got a replay the following weekend, they won it and went on to win the All Ireland final a few weeks later.
Neil Armstrong’s family watching their Dad fly to the moon.
Ireland’s 1st Drive Through Restaurant – Dublin 1984
Members of the Irish Citizen Army and Irish Volunteers marching in 1915.
The Irish Citizen Army was a small paramilitary group of trained trade union volunteers from the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union (ITGWU) established in Dublin for the defence of workers’ demonstrations from the Dublin Metropolitan Police.
Irish Volunteers, a militia (a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency) founded 25 November 1913 at the Rotunda in Dublin They were founded as a direct response to the UVF (Ulster Volunteer Force, founded 1912). The UVF opposed Home Rule for Ireland and wished to maintain the union with Britain.
John Dillon speaks at an anti conscription rally explaining to the crowd that there is no glory to be found in the horrors of the WWI trenches in Europe.
Roscommon 1918
What is the purpose of the columns running down the castle wall. They serve a very important purpose.
It is a toilet in a medieval castle.
The Isolator, a helmet invented in 1925 that encourages focus and concentration
Japan is famous for its Train Pushers known as Oshiya. The photo above is from the 1960’s.
Shisa Kanko
The technique is called shisa kanko, a Japanese phrase meaning ‘point with finger and call’. It has been described as a practical demonstration of the Buddhist concept of mindfulness. A train driver, using shisa kanko, would not simply glance at a display to perform a required speed check
This is an Indian student studying at University. It is 1905. While studying late at night, students use to tie their hairs to a nail in the wall to prevent themselves from falling asleep.
This is Blacksod Lighthouse in Co Mayo. It played a really important role in the Allies winning WWII. Can you guess what that reason might be?
This photo is from an aletics event in England last May. The guy about to vault is Sam Kendricks, the men’s 2017 World Championships gold medalist and American Record holder. The guy holding the umbrella is Mondo Duplantis, the men’s World Record holder, who competes for Sweden. They are, without question, the two best male pole vaulters on the planet at the moment and they compete for different different countries. It was cold 10° and raining during the event. At the moment captured in this picture, they were both attempting the same height, yet Mondo, the world record holder, was holding the umbrella for his biggest competitor. It’s a moment of humility, character, and friendship between the two best athletes on Earth at their sport. Eventhough world rankings, bonus money, sponsorship deals, and their very livelihoods are at stake, there was Mondo, keeping his biggest athletic rival out of the cold rain so he could focus on his next jump.
Decoy tanks used in WW2
They are known as Radar Ears. After WWI which was mainly fought on the ground, wars suddenly took to the air and bomber and fighter planes were a regular sight. Binoculars were used to spot enemy planes but binoculars were of no use at night and in bad weather so Radar Ears were invented. By the 1930’s Radar had been invented and they soon became obsolete. The below video are Sound Mirrors that were built in England.
Chain screens on steel helmet to protect World War I soldiers’ eyes from fragments of shell, rock, etc.
This is called a Mortsafe. They were used over 200 years ago and they are found in Scotland. In order to learn about the human body and improve their work, surgeons needed to work on dead bodies. However the law said they could only dissect the bodies of convicted murderers. This meant they had access to 40 or so bodies per year. More was needed. The problem was then that people would break into graveyards, steal dead bodies and sell them to surgeons. The mortsafe was invented to keep dead bodies safe.
A knocker Upper – During the time when alarm clocks were expensive and not reliable, it was a persons job to wake people up. In this photo M. Smith earned 6 pence a week using a pea shooter to shoot dried peas at windows of sleeping workers in East London, 1930’s
Margaret Hamilton a software engineer who wrote the software that landed the Apollo 11 mission on the moon. Here she is with all the code she wrote for the mission.
This is an astronaut learning to walk again after returning from a 6 month stay on the International Space Station. As there is little gravity in space astronauts lose muscle strength (Use it or lose it). Astronauts must spend 2 hours a day exercising in space in order to stay strong.
This is a photo of a train parked in Blessington. This train line, effectively a roadside railway, ran 20¼ miles from Terenure in south west Dublin to Blessington and Poulaphouca in County Wicklow. Scroll down to see the difference in rail lines in the last 100 years. Why is there such a reductions?
This is a Siberian Bear Hunting Suit.
This is one of the most famous photos ever taken.
Earthrise is a photograph of Earth and some of the Moon’s surface that was taken from lunar orbit by astronaut William Anders on December 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission.
