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Guess This Point in History

  • wacko
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My initial guess upon seeing the picture was the burning of the Library of Alexandria. However, that's not Europe, so... pyroclastic flow from Mount Vesuvius hitting Herculaneum in A.D. 79?
  • #51
  • 22 July 2011 - 10:05 PM
That looks a lot too modern to be ancient Rome...
  • #52
  • 22 July 2011 - 10:13 PM
Wrong, it was relatively recent (the US was close to it's birth)
  • #53
  • 22 July 2011 - 10:15 PM
I sorta remember this is it the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 :question:
Actually I think this is it.

This post has been edited by ThatOneDudeBro: 22 July 2011 - 10:21 PM

  • #54
  • 22 July 2011 - 10:17 PM
Yep, you got it, DudeBro. It was an earthquake so violent that did damage on the ground (hence the fires) and on the sea, causing a big wave to invade the coast. Most of the city had to be rebuilt after it, in a completely new way (The "pombaline" style).
Post away :D
  • #55
  • 22 July 2011 - 10:24 PM
Posted Image
Not to recent
  • #56
  • 22 July 2011 - 10:29 PM
Tokyo subway attacks

Edit: serin gas

This post has been edited by Carcharocles: 22 July 2011 - 10:34 PM

  • #57
  • 22 July 2011 - 10:34 PM
Why yes, yes it is.
  • #58
  • 22 July 2011 - 10:46 PM
Posted Image

Only people my age in the US will remember this.
  • #59
  • 22 July 2011 - 10:48 PM
I heard this on the news along time ago but I never really cared. It's those levees breaking in Mississippi right?
  • #60
  • 22 July 2011 - 10:55 PM
No, this wasn't an issue in Mississippi, and no levees broke.

Edit: well, it did include Mississippi but the actual event was much, much more widespread.

This post has been edited by Carcharocles: 22 July 2011 - 10:57 PM

  • #61
  • 22 July 2011 - 10:56 PM
The Great Mississippi and Missouri Flood of 1993 found it.
Knew it had to do with mississippi but not in 1993.
Thought it was the one where the levees were breaking.

This post has been edited by ThatOneDudeBro: 22 July 2011 - 11:01 PM

  • #62
  • 22 July 2011 - 11:00 PM
OneDudeBro wins this round.

Yeah, the flooding screwed with the sewers in KC and my basement flooded. We also happened to go on a trip to Texas during the event, and on the way back the airline company gave us a fuckload of packaged peanuts.

This post has been edited by Carcharocles: 22 July 2011 - 11:02 PM

  • #63
  • 22 July 2011 - 11:02 PM
I wan't peanuts :(
anyways bam Posted Image
  • #64
  • 22 July 2011 - 11:11 PM
I'm thinking either Chinese civil war, Japanese occupation of Korea, second Sino-Japanese war, or Korean war, but I'm sure this is a specific event that I just can't pin it down. :(

If it any of these are right, don't tell me, and this does not count as an actual guess (too vague).
  • #65
  • 22 July 2011 - 11:25 PM
Tet offensive, Vietnam War.
  • #66
  • 23 July 2011 - 12:00 AM

View PostReyOzymandias, on 23 July 2011 - 12:00 AM, said:

Tet offensive, Vietnam War.

Damn, you beat me to it.
  • #67
  • 23 July 2011 - 12:35 AM
Ok, since I definitively got this right, and I don't want to stall this, here we go:

Posted Image
  • #68
  • 23 July 2011 - 01:17 AM
Trinity Test
  • #69
  • 23 July 2011 - 01:20 AM
Spindletop?
  • #70
  • 23 July 2011 - 01:20 AM
DMLD got it.
  • #71
  • 23 July 2011 - 01:21 AM
What is this piece of work from?
Posted Image
  • #72
  • 23 July 2011 - 01:24 AM
A British WWI recruiting poster.
  • #73
  • 23 July 2011 - 01:28 AM

View PostThatOneDudeBro, on 23 July 2011 - 01:28 AM, said:

A British WWI recruiting poster.

Whoa, I didn't think someone would get it in one try. You're turn.
  • #74
  • 23 July 2011 - 01:30 AM
I was confused, because it looks kinda like Stalin, but it's in english. XD
  • #75
  • 23 July 2011 - 01:34 AM
Posted Image
seems a little easy.
  • #76
  • 23 July 2011 - 01:42 AM
Armenian genocide. It's like right there on the sign :P
  • #77
  • 23 July 2011 - 01:45 AM

View PostThatOneDudeBro, on 23 July 2011 - 01:42 AM, said:

Posted Image
seems a little easy.

Ninja'd

@OneDude Armenian Genocide?... The atrocities committed against the Armenian... Hm, humans are so... Foolish little creatures, but so cute and innocent. The sins they commit are so... interesting and enthralling. May Venus bless such.

This post has been edited by DMLD96: 23 July 2011 - 01:48 AM

  • #78
  • 23 July 2011 - 01:47 AM

View PostDMLD96, on 23 July 2011 - 01:47 AM, said:

The atrocities committed against the Armenian... Hm, humans are so... Foolish little creatures, but so cute and innocent. The sins they commit are so... interesting and enthralling. May Venus bless such.

Posted Image
  • #79
  • 23 July 2011 - 01:50 AM

View PostReyOzymandias, on 23 July 2011 - 01:45 AM, said:

Armenian genocide. It's like right there on the sign :P

I knew it would be easy XD
  • #80
  • 23 July 2011 - 01:52 AM
Posted Image

Should be pretty straightforward.

This post has been edited by ReyOzymandias: 23 July 2011 - 01:54 AM

  • #81
  • 23 July 2011 - 01:53 AM

View PostReyOzymandias, on 23 July 2011 - 01:53 AM, said:

Posted Image

Should be pretty straightforward.

Columbine... ._.
  • #82
  • 23 July 2011 - 01:59 AM
Yessir
  • #83
  • 23 July 2011 - 01:59 AM
Posted Image

He did what?
  • #84
  • 23 July 2011 - 02:02 AM
Is that Neil Armstrong???
  • #85
  • 23 July 2011 - 02:10 AM
Yep, and he landed on the moon.
  • #86
  • 23 July 2011 - 02:24 AM

View PostReyOzymandias, on 23 July 2011 - 02:10 AM, said:

Is that Neil Armstrong???

Nope.

Neil Armstrong looks like Posted Image. I'll give you a hint, it happened in Texas.
  • #87
  • 23 July 2011 - 05:10 AM

View PostDMLD96, on 23 July 2011 - 02:02 AM, said:

Posted Image

He did what?

Charles Whiteman, University of texas Sniper 1966, he killed 17 people and left over 30 wounded.
  • #88
  • 23 July 2011 - 06:17 AM

View PostSplee36, on 23 July 2011 - 06:17 AM, said:

View PostDMLD96, on 23 July 2011 - 02:02 AM, said:

Posted Image

He did what?

Charles Whiteman, University of texas Sniper 1966, he killed 17 people and left over 30 wounded.

Ding, ding. You're turn.
  • #89
  • 23 July 2011 - 07:35 AM
Really, who could've told the difference?! XP
  • #90
  • 23 July 2011 - 08:27 AM
These four girls are all linked to the same event.

Posted Image
  • #91
  • 23 July 2011 - 04:42 PM
Mississippi church bombing.

They made a movie about it.

Well, I guessed the right event, wrong location. It's Alabama, but Mississippi Burning is loosely based off the events. Was wrong about that too.

Exact one: 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing.

This post has been edited by Carcharocles: 23 July 2011 - 08:16 PM

  • #92
  • 23 July 2011 - 08:13 PM

View PostCarcharocles, on 23 July 2011 - 08:13 PM, said:

Mississippi church bombing.

They made a movie about it.

Well, I guessed the right event, wrong location. It's Alabama, but Mississippi Burning is loosely based off the events. Was wrong about that too.

Exact one: 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing.

You are correct, it was the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing in Burmingham Alabama
  • #93
  • 23 July 2011 - 08:18 PM
Posted Image
  • #94
  • 23 July 2011 - 08:21 PM
ATF Siege of David koresh and the Branch Davidians in Waco Texas 1993

This post has been edited by ThatOneDudeBro: 23 July 2011 - 09:43 PM

  • #95
  • 23 July 2011 - 09:42 PM
That One Dude Bro got it.
  • #96
  • 23 July 2011 - 09:46 PM
  • ILB
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Got a very U.S. spin to it, this. ^_^
  • #97
  • 23 July 2011 - 09:49 PM
Posted Image
  • #98
  • 23 July 2011 - 09:53 PM
Tunguska event.

I have a picture of it as one off my backgrounds.

Just in case this was too vague: an incident in the early 1900's where a meteor burst over Tunguska, Russia, with a force several times that of the Hiroshima bomb. (This is referred to as an air burst).

I specifically recognize all he trees being stripped and laying flat away from the burst.

This post has been edited by Carcharocles: 23 July 2011 - 09:56 PM

  • #99
  • 23 July 2011 - 09:53 PM
  • ILB
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Oh, oh, I know this one. That is the Tunguska blast/explosion/event in Siberia, Russia; it was caused by a meteorite falling (and likely exploding) in the atmosphere above the area, in 1908.

Aww, Char just beat me. ^_^
  • #100
  • 23 July 2011 - 09:56 PM
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