Yale Makes Available Online 170,000 Photographs From WWII Period 49
schwit1 writes: Yale University had posted online 170,000 Library of Congress photographs taken in the United States from 1935 to 1945. The photos come from all over the U.S., and can be accessed with this easy-to-use interactive map. They also used the original captions allowing the viewer to get an honest feel for the time period.
Interactive map maybe ? (Score:3)
Inactive map seems pointless.
Re:Interactive map maybe ? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Interactive map maybe ? (Score:5, Funny)
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Slashdot editors finally reached a sentient level and are even touching prescient level! What an improvement :)
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Or a stopped clock is right twice a day.
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"I just created this site. It works so well on my local PC. Just throw it up on any old server."
Re:Interactive map maybe ? (Score:5, Funny)
Perhaps Yale needs to have some Harvard alum come and show them how to properly run a web server.
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Perhaps Yale needs to have some Harvard alum come and show them how to properly run a web server.
Ouch, someone call the Burn Center and tell them we have patients on the way in, STAT!
Re:Interactive map maybe ? (Score:5, Funny)
Once the Harvard alum get taught how to do the job by some prisoners.
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Perhaps Yale needs to have some Harvard alum come and show them how to properly run a web server.
Maybe someone from MIT.
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I said PROPERLY!
Nope (Score:2)
They can't; they're all in prison.
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Inactive map seems pointless.
I dunno...it proves that spell checkers work.
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To be fair, I clicked the link and it was indeed inactive, not interactive. I had presumed it was a typo, but I was wrong. Not sure what the news is, though.
slashdotted (Score:4, Funny)
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Dude, it was inactive before we showed up.
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We killed it via tachyon transmission!
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I think we done broke it.
Damn you, I wanted to have a look!
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I think we done broke it.
Damn you, I wanted to have a look!
Don't worry, if you just press reload enough times, eventually it will work. Try clicking faster.
Inactive? (Score:2)
Wouldn't an interactive map be much more useful?
Re:Inactive? (Score:4, Funny)
"Yale Debuts New Interactive Map Application Supporting Up To 20 Simultaneous Users"
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This is why we don't bother RingTFA around here.
Yoda Headline (Score:5, Funny)
That headline appears to have been written by Yoda.
How about "Yale makes 170,000 photographs from WWII period available online."
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That headline appears to have been written by Yoda.
How about "Yale makes 170,000 photographs from WWII period available online."
Nazi of grammar, you are.
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The editor of this story, inspired by the map he was writing about, decided to take an inactive approach.
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That headline appears to have been written by Yoda.
How about "Yale makes 170,000 photographs from WWII period available online."
More like "170,000 photographs online available from WWII period, Yale makes. And inactive map is, hmm?"
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Reverse Polish Notation is apparently alive and well pretty at Yale.
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Did samzenpus go to Yale?
Enjoy a Haiku (Score:1)
Connection refused
Just like that girl you asked out
Because you're a fag
How many Library of Congresses is that? (Score:2)
>> Yale University had posted online 170,000 Library of Congress photographs
How many Library of Congresses is that?
A link to an Australian website (Score:2)
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A link to an Australian website about an American collage posting images of America during WWII. Priceless.
I was hoping there would be a "Russia" connection I could work in there, but alas there was nothing. ;(
Back to the Future! (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdot Effect killing websites: Check
Government trying to ban encryption: Check
TI-82 programming featured on slashdot: Check
Slashdot ID still 4 digits: Check
Huzzah! I've managed to transport myself back to the 1990s! Who wants to pay me $150k to make them a website?
False Advertising (Score:3)
Rough times (Score:3)
Google "Yale University had posted online 170,000 Library of Congress photographs taken in the United States from 1935 to 1945.", and you'll get links to pages that have some of the photos. For example, this page [hyperallergic.com] has some good photos.
In that web page, I'm struck the most by the picture whose caption is "Farm machinery buried in drifting soil ...". Wow, look at that sand! It looks like they're at the beach.
And in the bottom picture "Bed on the porch, Newport, Oklahoma ..." - look at how the corner and edges of the house are held up by bricks and rocks. I guess the soil that used to support that part of the house blew away.
How in the world did those people survive?
WWII? (Score:3)
Since when was 1935 in the WWII period?
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When people say WWII, at least in Europe and North America, they refer to the period 1939 to 1945. There was some fighting in parts of Asia going on starting from 1936. So according to your logic I could say that 1905 or 1910 was part of the WWI Period as those years were between the Second Boer War and WWI. The period for a war was the years that the war was fought in.
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Try September 18, 1931 for the start of the hostilities that began WW2 - this is when Japan invaded Manchuria. First US casualties from that fracas were in 1937.
I'm partial to Jerry Pournelle's calling WW1, the ETO of WW2 and the ETO of the Cold War as the 70 year war.