GALLERIA Thread to post your own pic's & videos

wwkirk · Sep 7, 2022

nivek said:
The tallest, fattest, and shortest men of Europe play a game of cards (1913).

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How tall is the tallest one?

nivek · Sep 7, 2022

His name is Cornelius Bruns, I haven't been able to verify his height...

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wwkirk · Sep 7, 2022

nivek said:
His name is Cornelius Bruns, I haven't been able to verify his height...

View: https://m.facebook.com/TheHistoryUniversity/posts/118102376525661

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Supposedly he was 7ft 3 inches, but he doesn't seem that tall in the photo. (The sources I found are also unimpressive.)

pigfarmer · Sep 14, 2022

Big green ****er came by so say hello yesterday. From this angle he looks like he might want to rampage across downtown Tokyo.

michael59 · Sep 15, 2022

pigfarmer said:
Big green ****er came by so say hello yesterday. From this angle he looks like he might want to rampage across downtown Tokyo.
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That is one amazing example of camouflage

pigfarmer · Sep 19, 2022

I happen to be in an old-timey hobby store and ran across this.

wwkirk · Oct 13, 2022

A famous photo of Ninalee Craig by photographer Ruth Orkin, An American Girl in Italy (1951). I was alerted to it by the nice podcast and/or email, Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day.

wwkirk · Oct 13, 2022

wwkirk said:
A famous photo of Ninalee Craig by photographer Ruth Orkin, An American Girl in Italy (1951). I was alerted to it by the nice podcast and/or email, Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day.
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A detail worth noting is that Ninalee was six feet tall!

wwkirk · Oct 21, 2022

Escaping Criticism (1874) by Pere Borrell del Caso. An example of Trompe-l'œil, "an artistic term for the highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface."