The beauty and the pain of being human. Images.

[uzn]

A little photopuzzle for you.
Who is who ?
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and King George V of Great Britain in Berlin, 1913

[norman]

[Iloveyou]

^^^ Heavy! And most excellent.

@ uzn: Nicholas left / George right ?

Interchangeable like all of their ilk. They look terrified, do they?

More interesting (bloodline-)details:
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/kin...nicholas-1913/




Childhood of a king - Frederick II King of Prussia

His father, Frederick William I of Prussia, is described as irascible, unpredictable, tyrannical and obsessed with the military, his childhood and youth was coined by a military education with drill, corporal punishment and mental injuries. Young Frederick was a soft hearted child, interested in music, poetry, the arts, philosophy, French culture, literature and languages. Secretly he played flute and learned Latin. When the father found out, he was beaten and abused in front of the assembled servants. Fritz was clearly unloved and any childlike spontaneity, enthusiasm or trust had been destroyed in his struggle with his bullying father.

At dinner one day with his minister, the father suddenly started lecturing 12-year-old Fritz. There had been nothing in the boy's attitude to provoke his father - Fritz listened and answered dutifully - but for the very reason, perhaps, that he lacked all pretexts, F. W. grew more and more angry. He started by tapping and pinching his son's cheek; soon he was boxing his ears, hitting him, pulling his hair until he was suddenly seized with a kind of fit and jumped up and started throwing plates at the wall. Feigning drunk, his minister tactfully did the same, while the child stood by, trembling, and pale.

Whenever they happened to meet, in private or in public, the father would suddenly seize him by the throat and throw him to the ground, force him to kiss his boots and beg forgiveness. He would say: "If my father had treated me like this, I would have put an end to my life long ago. But you have no courage.“

He seized his 18-year-old son in public. He was kicked, beaten, dragged along the ground by his hair and sent off, bleeding and dishevelled, to make an official appearance.

Then Fritz decided to prepare for the only possible alternative: flight. The scheme failed and Fritz was imprisoned in Küstrin on charge of 'desertion'. He was forced to watch the execution of his 25-year-old lieutenant, best friend and accomplice.

As a later king he frequently, even almost continuously, waged war. It seems that in the end he has completely met, if not exceeded, the will of the father. Frederick II has identified himself fully with the aggressor and has himself become a relentless aggressor and warlord.

“Obedience is so important that all education is actually nothing other than learning how to obey.” (Johann Georg Sulzer, German educator, 1748)

“It is not very easy, however, to implant obedience in children. It is quite natural for the child’s soul to want to have a will of its own, and things that are not done correctly in the first two years will be difficult to rectify thereafter. One of the advantages of these early years is that then force and compulsion can be used. Over the years, children forget everything that happened to them in early childhood. If their wills can be broken at this time, they will never remember afterwards that they had a will, and for this very reason the severity that is required will not have any serious consequences.”

[Iloveyou]

[uzn]

Posted by Iloveyou (here)
^^^ Heavy! And most excellent.

@ uzn: Nicholas left / George right ?

You figured it out. Well done Iloveyou

You won some human horn Pictures

[Elpis]

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Fantastic photos by Abe Less

These photos struck my heart in so many ways. Thank you so much. I hope you continue to post.

[Valerie Villars]

There is something chillingly accurate about the efficacy of breaking will to control. Will is all.

And I found it interesting that all the horn photos were of Asian people.

[Leonard]

[Leonard]

PS: Adding some interesting stories here.
Bound-feet women (Long ago in the Chinese culture, where small feet stands for beauty)
http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-m...und-their-feet
People with beautiful eyes
https://trendcrown.co/these-people-w...-will-totally/
Dirtiest man in the world
http://www.newsiosity.com/articles/l...ut-taking-bath
School in a cave
https://www.boredpanda.com/cave-vill...guizhou-china/
A City where People Live Without Politics, Religion And Without Money
https://ancient-code.com/city-people...without-money/

[Valerie Villars]

PS: Adding some interesting stories here.
Bound-feet women (Long ago in the Chinese culture, where small feet stands for beauty)

Well, I sure must have tipped the tide with my big, flat, feet. Hell I can actually walk with mine.

Or is it flipped with my flappers?

[Iloveyou]

The break up of Yugoslavia (1991- 2001)




















"Your planet is forbidden for an open visit - extremely aggressive social environment, despite almost perfect climatic conditions. Almost 4 billion violent deaths for the last 5000 years and about 15000 major military conflicts in the same period."

(Thank you EFO for the quote)

[Iloveyou]

[A Voice from the Mountains]

Dating in the 1950s.

[A Voice from the Mountains]

A trip through New York City in 1911. Amazing video! Even has sound.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aohXOpKtns0

[Foxie Loxie]

Amazing 1911 in NYC!!

Somehow the city looks "too clean"?

[Bill Ryan]

This is Sreejith, who sat quietly and peacefully, initially alone, in front of an Indian government office for nearly 800 days, in protest against the death of his brother in police custody. People gradually joined him, including a number of Indian celebrities. He was once a professional footballer, but in his vigil he wasted away and became very weak. But he earned the respect and support of the whole nation of a billion people. He finally obtained justice, when a number of police were arrested for the murder.

[Valerie Villars]

That bought tears to my eyes. What a powerful story. Thank you.

[Bill Ryan]

Another solitary protest, that did not end so happily. In June 1963, Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk Thích Quang Duc, also alone, silent and unmoving, burned himself to death at a busy intersection in Saigon. He was attempting to show that to fight all forms of oppression on equal terms, Buddhism too, needed to have its martyrs.

[norman]

Some pictures of America in the 1950s

[Valerie Villars]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)


Another solitary protest, that did not end so happily. In June 1963, Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk Thích Quang Duc, also alone, silent and unmoving, burned himself to death at a busy intersection in Saigon. He was attempting to show that to fight all forms of oppression on equal terms, Buddhism too, needed to have its martyrs.

I remember that photo well. I believe it was in the "Best of Life". I used to pore over that book for hours and hours when I went to my grandparents. What photo journalism. Just incredible stuff. Thanks.

I also remember thinking, as a child, that it was a silly thing to do; annihilate yourself for principle. Now I kind of understand it.