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Market in New York City. Circa 1900.

Suspected John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before he himself would be killed by Jack Ruby on Nov. 24, 1963.

The Golden Gate Bridge during its construction in the 1930s

An overhead photograph of World War II's D-Day landings in Normandy, France. 1944.

The body of mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, who was killed by an unknown assailant who shot him through a window with an M1 Carbine while he was staying at an associate's house in Beverly Hills. 1947

Booker T. Washington sitting at his desk while writing. Date unspecified.

Sharecroppers in Arkansas. 1935.

The mugshot of Laura Belle Devlin, who murdered and dismembered her 75-year-old husband with a hacksaw, throwing some of him in the wood stove and the rest in their backyard. Newark, Ohio. 1947.

The young son of a farmer walks amid the dust in Cimarron County, Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl. April 1936.

Children lick a massive block of ice in order to stay cool on a hot day. New York City. July 6, 1912.

A London fireman wearing a smoke helmet. 1908. Before Jason X obviously

A British cavalry sergeant major instructs an American soldier in bayonet charging at Texas’ Camp Dick.

Bar patrons hold up their glasses and toast the end of Prohibition. December 1933.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, leave the Sarajevo Guildhall on June 28, 1914. Five minutes later, they were assassinated. Their assassination precipitated Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia which later kicked off World War I.

The German airship Hindenburg bursts into flames in Manchester Township, New Jersey, on May 6, 1937 after static electricity ignited the hydrogen gas used to keep the craft afloat.

Al Capone after being arrested as he was trying to enter Miami, Florida. He was caught by city police who were trying to keep the notorious gangster out. 1930.

Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels gives the Heil Hitler salute as he watches over his daughters while they do the same during a state Christmas party in Berlin in 1937.

Robert McGee was left permanently scarred after surviving a scalping at the hands of the Sioux tribe in 1864, when he was just a 13-year-old orphan.

President Abraham Lincoln stands on the battlefield at Antietam, Maryland with Allan Pinkerton (the famed military intelligence operative who essentially invented the Secret Service, left) and Major General John A. McClernand (right) on Oct. 3, 1862.

This photo of Maud Wagner, the first female tattoo artist in the United States, shows you the before and after of Unger's colorization process.

Wagner was born in 1877. She performed in circuses as an aerialist before meeting her future husband Gus, who taught her how to tattoo. The two traveled the country in circuses and in vaudeville shows, and today, Wagner is seen as one of the biggest female icons in the tattoo industry.

This is Mark Twain , 3 years before his death



Twain is one of the greatest American novelists of all time, best known of his works "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and its sequel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Unger used a photo of the author from 1907, three years before his death in 1910.

In a twist of fate, Twain was born in 1835 when Halley's Comet was passing Earth. He predicted a year before his death that he would die when the comet returned in 1910 — and he did. He died of a heart attack the day after Halley's Comet was at its closest to Earth.

This is Che Guevara, a major figure in the Cuban Revolution during the '50s




Guevara was an Argentinian rebel that gained a following through the Cuban Revolution, in which he overthrew the Cuban government alongside the Castro brothers.

He died in 1967 at the age of 39, when he was executed by the Bolivian government.

Here is a more subdued photo of Marilyn monroe

Monroe remains a significant figure in American pop culture, even today, almost 60 years after her untimely death at age 36. In the past few months, stars like Khloe Kardashian, Bella Hadid, and Cardi B have all been spotted "channeling Marilyn Monroe."

Two legends, Louis Armstrong and Grace Kelly, on the set of the film "High Society.




The two collaborated together in the 1956 film "High Society," which ended up being Kelly's last film role due to her royal duties (she married Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956). Jazz icon Armstrong appeared as himself in the movie alongside his real-life band

CAPSLOCKED Dominique Hahn palehair

marvelphysics:
Can they with this predict the next species to go extinct or will science and tech change it all that the ones pple that will go extinct are dose behind in tech advancement

No , as its Impossible to predict the future , speculations and probabilities maybe , but never predict what happens even in the next second ,not more a specie to go extinct next

illicit:
What do they eat?

their ancestors some million years ago already invented Fire .

It's a drifting serial killer , please he/she would kill again I hope detectives investigate this homicide.

It is hard to know exactly why many species are on the verge of extinction now, let alone species in the deep past that are already gone. However, we can assume some of the same basic ecological processes driving animals to extinction today are part of the puzzle. In the case of Neanderthals, we think competition and changes to their habitat due to climate change were two of the main factors.

Neanderthals were fairly specialized to hunt large, Ice Age animals. But sometimes being specialized isn’t such a good strategy. When climates changed and some of those animals went extinct, the Neanderthals may have been more vulnerable to starvation.

We don’t have evidence of direct combat between the two species, but we know they interacted, because they interbred. Some would say Neanderthals didn’t go extinct, because everyone alive today whose ancestry is from outside of Africa (where Neanderthals never lived) carries a little bit of Neanderthal DNA in their genesp - about of anyone outside Africa is Neanderthal in origin.

As to how homo sapiens’ competitive edge biologically, technologically and socially:

Eiluned Pearce and Robin Dunbar of Oxford University recently worked with Stringer and compared the skulls of 32 Homo sapiens and 13 Neanderthals, finding the latter had eye sockets that were significantly larger. These larger eyes were an adaptation to the long, dark nights and winters of Europe, they concluded, and would have required much larger visual processing areas in Neanderthal skulls.

By contrast, modern humans, from sunny Africa, had no need for this adaptation and instead they evolved frontal lobes, which are associated with high-level processing. "More of the Neanderthal brain appears to have been dedicated to vision and body control, leaving less brain to deal with other functions like social networking," Pearce told BBC News.

This point is stressed by Stringer. He said: "Neanderthal brains were as big as modern humans' but the former had bigger bodies. More of their brain cells would have been needed to control these larger bodies, on top of the added bits of cortex needed for their enhanced vision. That means they had less brain power available to them compared with modern humans."

Thus our ancestors possessed a fair bit of enhanced cerebral prowess, even though their brains were no bigger than Neanderthals'. How they used that extra brain power is a little trickier to assess, though most scientists believe it maintained complex, extended social networks. Developing an ability to speak complex language would have been a direct outcome, for example.

Neanderthals had physical features that helped them survive cold climates, like large noses to humidify and warm dry, cold air and short, stout bodies to conserve heat, but early Homo sapiens had technology that Neanderthals didn’t, including sewing needles to make clothing, important during the colder periods of the Ice Ages. Homo sapiens also had innovative tools like bows and arrows and seemed to have a more diverse diet than Neanderthals.

Having extended networks of clans would have been a considerable advantage in Europe, which was then descending into another ice age. When times got hard for one group, help could be sought from another. This helped them in the tough climate of the ice age and in general when their regular resources were not available. Neanderthals are our extinct relatives ,They would have had less backup. This point is supported by studies of the flints used for Neanderthal tools. These are rarely found more than 30 miles from their source. By contrast, modern humans were setting up operations that saw implements transported 200 miles.

Cultural life became increasingly important for humans. Research by Tanya Smith of Harvard University recently revealed that modern human childhoods became longer than those of Neanderthals. By studying the teeth of Neanderthal children, she found they grew much more quickly than modern human children. The growth of teeth is linked to overall development and shows Neanderthals must have had a much reduced opportunity to learn from their parents and clan members.

"We moved from a primitive 'live fast and die young' strategy to a 'live slow and grow old' strategy and that has helped make humans one of the most successful organisms on the planet," said Smith. Thus Neanderthals – who already lived in sparse, small populations across Europe – were fundamentally ill-equipped to deal with the newcomers who had arrived from Africa.

"There may not have been a single cause of Neanderthal extinction," said Stringer. "They may have disappeared in different regions for different reasons, but the background cause is clear. They didn't have the numbers."

Here are 10 examples of words the Vikings taught us whether we wanted them to or not:English or pidgin speakers.

Ransack
From the old norse rannsaka, which means to search a house, this is clearly a word that has come to betray more about how the owners of the houses felt to have been searched, than the merits (or otherwise) of the search itself.

Window
A vindauga is a wind-eye, referring to the ability to see things coming up outside of your home while remaining sheltered inside it. Very descriptive group, the Vikings.

Slaughter
Comes from slatra and, fittingly, that’s the Norse verb for butchery.

Aloft
Lopt is the Norse word for the sky, heaven and a loft, while á means on. So bearing something aloft means to carry them up to heaven, or the sky, or put them away until next Christmas.

Husband
A portmanteau word in which hús (house) and bóndi (occupier and tiller of soil) are fused together into a single term that is curiously quiet on the subject of wives. Húsbóndi means house-occuper (and gardener).

Blunder
The word blundra means to shut your eyes and therefore to walk around banging into things. The extra layer of meaning—to “blunder” is to make a clumsy mistake—came later, but suits the word perfectly.

Happy
Pharrell Williams didn’t manage to get this into his song, but happ is the Old Norse word for good fortune or fate. So if you’re happy (and you know it), that is because you’ve been blessed with good luck.

Heathen
Never has a word been so aptly coined. The Vikings called those people who lived on heathland or open country heiðinn, and the inference is clearly that they are hicks, backwood sorts, who have not benefitted from recent advances in modern living. That the word was later taken up by Christians and used to describe non-Christians from less civilized nations is just a reiteration of the term’s snooty origins.

Scales
This isn’t referring to fragmented sections on a fish’s skin or the system for organizing musical notes; we’re talking weighing scales. The name for these comes from skal, a word for a bowl or drinking cup. And if you’re thinking there is something familiar about this, that’s because skol (or skål) is a Viking drinking toast.

Yule
Not content with half-inching a good portion of the words that now constitute their language from their Viking invaders, the English purloined several festive customs from Scandanavia too, including jol, a pagan feast set in the depths of the winter solstice




Cc palehair

deji17:
Sorry, I'm not a Muslim. I'm a Christian.

would love to help but politics is not my thing , especially an American one .

2
. Schizoid personality disorder

The term "schizoid" designates a natural tendency to direct attention toward one’s inner life and away from the external world. A person with schizoid PD is detached and aloof and prone to introspection and fantasy. He has no desire for social or sexual relationships, is indifferent to others and to social norms and conventions, and lacks emotional response. A competing theory about people with schizoid PD is that they are in fact highly sensitive with a rich inner life: They experience a deep longing for intimacy, but find initiating and maintaining close relationships too difficult or distressing, and so retreat into their inner world. People with schizoid PD rarely present to medical attention, because despite their reluctance to form close relationships, they are generally well functioning and quite untroubled by their apparent oddness.

1. Paranoid personality disorder

Cluster A is comprised of paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders. Paranoid personality disorder is characterized by a pervasive distrust of others, including even friends, family, and partners. As a result, this person is guarded, suspicious, and constantly on the lookout for clues or suggestions to validate his fears. He also has a strong sense of personal rights: He is overly sensitive to setbacks and rebuffs, easily feels shame and humiliation, and persistently bears grudges. Unsurprisingly, he tends to withdraw from others and to struggle with building close relationships. The principal ego defense in paranoid PD is projection, which involves attributing one’s unacceptable thoughts and feelings to other people. A large, long-term twin study found that paranoid PD is modestly heritable, and that it shares a portion of its genetic and environmental risk factors with schizoid PD and schizotypal PD.