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What's your favourite historical photo and why? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This one always makes me melancholic:

Such a big turning point in time, captured on a photograph.

[–] KillerWhale@orcas.enjoying.yachts 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is that Batman on a horse?

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Batman on his bathorse

[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

What's an orse and why does it need a bath?

[–] DonAntonioMagino@feddit.nl 7 points 1 month ago

I’d have guessed emperor Wilhelm II, but it seems to just be a German officer.

[–] mech@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Similar ones:

WW1 cavalry soldiers who still carried a lance, for charging against infantry.
(Even in the later stage of the war, when they already had steel helmets and gas masks)