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World War One Color Photos
Big D & Bubba Show ^ | 3/2/05 | Unknown

Posted on 03/03/2005 2:25:44 PM PST by Jinjelsnaps

Found this on another message board, and thought my fellow Freepers would enjoy the history.

From the site: "The color photo was invented in 1903 by the Lumiere brothers, and the French army was the only one taking color photos during the course of the war."

http://www.bigdandbubba.com/nicknacks/color_photo_was_invented_in.htm


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: archaeology; colorphotos; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; history; pictures; warphotos; worldwarone; ww1; wwi; zotgeist
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To: Vicomte13
The French were very tough soldiers, especially during WWI. It was a major emphasis to build an army of high valor and toughness prior to the Great War.

Unfortunately this toughness was frittered away by poor leadership and the idea that this toughness was a substitute for good weapons, organization and such trivialities as food and clothing. By 1917, many French units were near mutiny, the slaughter was just too much. How the "rebellion" was put down is hush-hush, but the subversives were weeded out and dealt with.

Marshall Petain was instrumental in reestablishing order, he was of course the hero of Verdun and a key general. After the war the French military really never recovered and were fodder for the Germans in 1940 during round 2.

Petain's history is fascinating, WWI hero, Vichy leader, Nazi collaborator, tried in his 90s and sentenced to death for this collaboration, sentence commuted and he died a disgraced man. Classic French stab in the back, although cannot say Petain deserved much else.
141 posted on 03/03/2005 8:55:55 PM PST by schu
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To: Commie Basher

BUH BYE TROLL!

142 posted on 03/04/2005 3:30:48 AM PST by PilloryHillary (I lead a simple, heteronormative exsistence.)
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To: Cincinatus
Finest hour. "Last" hour, also.

The Great War burned the fight/courage/honor gene out of the French gene pool.

143 posted on 03/04/2005 4:15:49 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Commie Basher

YOU are sad and pathetic, troll.


144 posted on 03/04/2005 4:17:38 AM PST by Darksheare (If you were in my heart I'd surely not break you. If you were beside me and my love would take you.)
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To: Commie Basher

You deserve your banning.
As a former soldier, your oozing affection for the French backstabbers is offensive to me.
Go to France if you love them so much.


145 posted on 03/04/2005 4:19:35 AM PST by Darksheare (If you were in my heart I'd surely not break you. If you were beside me and my love would take you.)
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To: Commie Basher

I see you can't face the fact that you have no material from which to troll, so you're forced to be idiotic in thread.
It must be tough being a Liberal Democrat Shill with a vacuous skull.


146 posted on 03/04/2005 4:20:57 AM PST by Darksheare (If you were in my heart I'd surely not break you. If you were beside me and my love would take you.)
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To: Commie Basher; Republican Wildcat; 4mycountry; TheBigB; VRWCmember; Zavien Doombringer; jriemer; ...
Oh, I certainly love bashing Bush. Been bashing Bush for years. Feels great!

Bye, Commie Bush Basher. Your Trolling days are over.

"He's dead, Jim!"



147 posted on 03/04/2005 1:40:51 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: yall
Sorry for the double ping to the same thread / same Troll, but I just couldn't resist this one.

148 posted on 03/04/2005 1:41:50 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: MeekOneGOP; Commie Basher

BUH BYE BUSH BASHER!


149 posted on 03/04/2005 1:45:12 PM PST by PilloryHillary (I lead a simple, heteronormative exsistence.)
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To: MeekOneGOP; Commie Basher
Well I be, Commie Basher has been here over 5 years and now turn into a Bush bashing troll. Real DUmmy.


150 posted on 03/04/2005 1:47:18 PM PST by Arrowhead1952 ("I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for," - Howard Dean 01/29/2005)
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To: MeekOneGOP

Amazing to see zot from someone who's been here since 1999.


151 posted on 03/04/2005 1:50:14 PM PST by JimWforBush
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To: Commie Basher

Try to get your facts straight next time you sign up to post here, okay?


152 posted on 03/04/2005 1:52:16 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Pajama Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: Commie Basher

153 posted on 03/04/2005 1:54:28 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Pajama Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: MeekOneGOP

Thanks for the ping, Meekie! Great pics...and you got to get rid of another troll!


154 posted on 03/04/2005 1:58:34 PM PST by pelikan
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155 posted on 03/04/2005 2:53:27 PM PST by glock rocks (WYGIWYG)
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To: glock rocks
He's busted! :^D

156 posted on 03/04/2005 3:12:55 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: JimWforBush; MeekOneGOP

>>Amazing to see zot from someone who's been here since 1999.

Since I snagged him, or at least tipped off MeekOneGOP, do I get a "Deepest Troll" of the month award of some type? :)


157 posted on 03/04/2005 3:42:39 PM PST by MarineBrat ("God is dead"- Nietzsche,1886. "Nietzsche is dead"- God,1901)
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To: Antioch
Black and white photos don't do history justice-they seem dead and not a part of the real world- like a story from a textbook. Then you see the images in color, like the General in a cafe reading the paper...-it really hits home, it really happened and not so long ago...

My thoughts exactly. The pic of the General looks totally real and contemporary.

It's funny -- the only period of history that I imagine in black and white is the late 19th and early 20th century. There are so many b&w photos from that era that it's just ingrained that that's the way it looked. But when I think of the Romans the medieval times or even the early part of US history, like the Revolutionary War, I picture it in color.

Seeing the WWI and WWII stuff in color makes you realize that they lived in a color world too. You know intellectually that that was the case, but it's still almost eerie to see the color pics.

158 posted on 03/04/2005 3:52:39 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: Jinjelsnaps; MeekOneGOP
He's Very Dead Jim!

All your Nukes ARE Belong to Us!!!!

ZOT!

PWND!

159 posted on 03/04/2005 3:56:23 PM PST by KoRn (~Halliburton Told Me......)
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To: MeekOneGOP
Aw....too I missed him.

I was just fixin' to introduce him to


"Major Zot"

160 posted on 03/04/2005 4:26:37 PM PST by Zacs Mom (Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
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