Posted on 07/10/2015 12:50:42 PM PDT by ETL
The party started early on VJ Day. Though the official announcement that World War II ended wasn't made until closer to 7pm on Aug. 14, 1945, a scientific assessment of the famous photo of the couple kissing in celebration, called "VJ Day in Times Square" and widely known as "The Kiss," reveals the duo actually locked lips before then—at 5:51pm Eastern, to be precise.
So reports a team of scientists that includes a physicist and astronomer in the August issue of Sky & Telescope magazine. While they can't say with certainty who the couple is, they've used clues in the photo, such as shadows and light angles, as well as vintage maps and aerial photos, to determine the precise time photojournalist Alfred Eisenstaedt captured one of the century's most iconic images.
Physicist Donald Olson says it took four years to sort out, a journey that started in 2010 when an astrophysicist friend and colleague pointed out—in response to a New York Times article detailing new evidence about the image—that a peculiar shadow was draping part of the Bond clock in the background, reports Wired.
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Isn’t the Chemical Bank in the background where Nana did all her banking? I think it closed. It’s gone!
The primary problem with this is that THEY (the left) control most sources of information, from the mainstream snooze media to the college classroom. Plus they constantly drive the liberal-leftist agenda through various movies, popular TV sitcoms, TV talk shows, even music.
I don't know about that, but I, incredibly I think, identified a woman in the distant background as my great Aunt Sophie. Aunt Sophie, it was said, would always rush home from her job as a teller at the bank everyday at precisely 5:45pm to watch her favorite soap. And so with that I can confirm, without a doubt, that the time was indeed 5:51 pm, or there-about, when the iconic photo was taken.
They did not know each other, and Alfred Eisenstaedt admitted years later that the photo was not the least bit spontaneous and completely staged.
The Japs actually surrendered on our August 13th [their August 14th] and it was not officially announced until our August 14th [their August 15th.] It was known well in advance that an "official" announcement was coming. It took more than two weeks before the document signing.
Best dry line of the week.
Who are ‘we’?
I don't know who 'we' are. But I do know we're not the Americans. Not anymore.
[And it wasn't my line, I was responding to the OP, at post 8]
I don't know.
But I do know "she's on a very fixed income!"
You joke, but feminists really were demanding the suppression of that image a few years ago because the man and woman were strangers at the moment of the kiss.
Your dad gave you great reason to honor him.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/27646511/ns/us_news-life/t/nurse-v-j-day-kiss-photo-reunites-navy/
This is what makes our *job* even more difficult.
When I have my 12y/o GD *hostage* while riding in the car....I grill her about her knowledge of American history and events as she has been taught in school. It’s daunting.
I found a whole slew of old history books from the 20s and 30s at a tag sale. Gradually, I’m reviewing them with her. If anything, I want her to learn how gather info and to think for herself.
I seem to recall that Uncle Leo’s father won $1000.00 at the track and Nana told Leo to give half to Jerry’s mother.
I remember VJ Day, a neighbor of ours got everyone up at around 3-4 a.m. by firing in the air a few rounds from his shotgun and screaming in the air “The War is over, the boys are coming home”. Everyone came out of their houses with noise makers and all of a sudden you heard horns going off bloc by block, along with anything that made noise. My parents took me in pajamas to visit their friend who lived 2 blocks over from us to give them the good news. Their son was in the 8th Air Force. I remember the guys coming home from the war and how the neighbors greeted them back. Now I think back and wonder, “What ever happened to that America?”
Heh, did you see the “John Paul Jones” brand?
I have an extraordinary distaste for FDR, he gave us Social Security, and big government as we now see it. His administrations were riddled with Soviet spies, and both he and Harry Truman thought it was more important to not have anything bad said, than it was to ensure our national security was secure.
And never mind Eleanor Roosevelt, that communist, socialist scum.
But I find it difficult to condemn any of them for supporting him...things were different back then.
My dad was a democrat when he held office in local government, but he simply did it because running as a Republican in Massachusetts in the Seventies was not viable in nearly all locations.
He was a plank owner in Citizens for Limited Taxation, which tells you all you need to know about him.
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