Ringo
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"Flo's Test": one of Florenz Ziegfeld's main tests for his dancers in the 1920s was to see if she could hold 50-cent coins simultaneously between her ankles, calves, and knees of her feet. If her legs could not allow her to do so, the girl was denied the job.
Edith Piaf and a prisoner of war, Germany, 1944. Once the singer performed in one of the camps, where several photos were taken as a souvenir, on which besides her there were about a hundred and twenty prisoners. Back in Paris, Piaf gave the photo in the underground workshop, where the face of each prisoner reshot on a separate card, enlarged and glued to a false identity card.
These documents the singer carried in a suitcase with a double bottom, coming to the concert in the same place. Several people she took out under the guise of her musicians with fake documents immediately, others escaped later.
"The Beatles sing to a few people in a modest club in the town of Aldershot in December 1961. They would become hyped superstars only a year and a half later.
Standard-bearer Yuri Vlasov carried the flying banner (weighing about 3 kg) on his outstretched arm for 25 minutes. No one has ever managed to repeat such a feat. The 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Girls in daring swimsuits, in terms of then late 19th century mores.
The 1940s, Berlin, Third Reich. A teacher conducts a lesson on racial purity, explaining to the girl what each race's nose, eyes, hair color, etc.
On February 25, 1941, these two teenagers, 14 and 12 years old, who were burglarizing wealthy country houses in Echo Lake, New Jersey, USA, stole 14 cars in three days, stole five rifles and two hunting rifles, about six hundred pieces of ammunition, were finally surrounded by the police and took the fight, barricaded in a four-story building. For three and a half hours, they fought off first local police officers and then reinforcements from New Jersey itself, 10 police officers, including automatic weapons. Finally, they managed to smoke them out with tear gas. Despite the large number of bullets fired by both sides, no one was injured.
Edith Piaf and a prisoner of war, Germany, 1944. Once the singer performed in one of the camps, where several photos were taken as a souvenir, on which besides her there were about a hundred and twenty prisoners. Back in Paris, Piaf gave the photo in the underground workshop, where the face of each prisoner reshot on a separate card, enlarged and glued to a false identity card.
These documents the singer carried in a suitcase with a double bottom, coming to the concert in the same place. Several people she took out under the guise of her musicians with fake documents immediately, others escaped later.
"The Beatles sing to a few people in a modest club in the town of Aldershot in December 1961. They would become hyped superstars only a year and a half later.
Standard-bearer Yuri Vlasov carried the flying banner (weighing about 3 kg) on his outstretched arm for 25 minutes. No one has ever managed to repeat such a feat. The 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Girls in daring swimsuits, in terms of then late 19th century mores.
The 1940s, Berlin, Third Reich. A teacher conducts a lesson on racial purity, explaining to the girl what each race's nose, eyes, hair color, etc.
On February 25, 1941, these two teenagers, 14 and 12 years old, who were burglarizing wealthy country houses in Echo Lake, New Jersey, USA, stole 14 cars in three days, stole five rifles and two hunting rifles, about six hundred pieces of ammunition, were finally surrounded by the police and took the fight, barricaded in a four-story building. For three and a half hours, they fought off first local police officers and then reinforcements from New Jersey itself, 10 police officers, including automatic weapons. Finally, they managed to smoke them out with tear gas. Despite the large number of bullets fired by both sides, no one was injured.
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