In 1975, the women of Iceland took a "day off" from their usual jobs - and relations between Icelandic men and women were never quite the same again.
Weeks of strikes, protests and demonstrations have brought much of France to a standstill as workers, students and others voice their strong opposition to a government proposal to raise the age for a minimum pension from 60 to 62. A quarter of the nation's gas stations were out of fuel, hundreds of flights were canceled, long lines formed at gas stations and train services in many regions were cut in half. Protesters blockaded Marseille's airport, Lady Gaga canceled concerts in Paris and rioting youths attacked police in Lyon. The unpopular bill is edging closer to becoming law as the French Senate is preparing today to vote on it today. Collected here are recent images of the unrest around France.
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Millions of people across the globe took part in protests on Friday demanding urgent action on the climate crisis. The strike kicks off a week of environmental activism before the UN Climate Action Summit
FLASHBAK to 18/07/1970: A general view of the mass meeting of Liverpool dockers at the pier-head...
The central problem with the documentary is its promotion of the state capitalist Socialist Workers Party’s perspective, which lets the Labour Party and the unions entirely off the hook for the betrayal of the miners.
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Mari Key Mi osservo davanti allo specchio: che bagno di vanità il tuo stare in mia compagnia. Riconosco ogni singola posa che il tuo corpo assume, ogni singolo impercettibile inconsapevole moviment…
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There are few photo editors on the internet who have made as big of a splash with their witty antics as British graphic designer James Fridman, Photoshop troll and wizard extraordinaire. Odds are that you’ve scrolled past one of his hilarious photo edits on social media without realizing that it’s him working his magic behind the screen.
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These pictures, taken seconds before some unfortunate mishaps, make us feel pain just by looking at them
During 37 years of the Polish People's Republic, Poland was subjected to the USSR. The socialist food distribution system barely functioned, tanks rolled along the streets. But Poles managed to circumvent rules and restrictions. Chris Niedenthal's camera captured their attempts.
Matteo Walch has built up a remarkable relationship with a clan of marmots in Groslocker, Austria, and visits them with his family for two weeks every year.
More than 800,000 demonstrators have marched on cities throughout France, with railway workers, teachers and hospital staff joining the largest strikes in decades.
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You’ve heard that a photo is worth a thousand words, but photos like the collection here have stories with so much more to say. These pictures give an insight into what life was like in eras as disparate as the 18th century and the 1970s.
On the 100th anniversary of the Winnipeg General Strike, one Winnipegger who has spent years deeply embedded in the history said the events of 1919 continue to resonate with Winnipeggers even a century later.
Remember James Fridman, the master of photoshop who takes everything literally? We wrote about him back in March, then again in June, and now he strikes again with a new batch of photoshopped pictures.
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It’s almost 30 years since the end of the miners strike, we’d like to hear people’s memories from the time and also find out about the changes to mining communities
ON April 10, 1981, IRA prisoner and hunger striker Bobby Sands was elected to Westminster as the MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone. Bobby Sand's victory was the second time the voters of Fermanagh and South Tyrone had elected a republican prisoner as their MP. The first, Philip Clarke, in 1955, was disqualified because the law then did not allow convicts to take up political office...
By spending eight months in a Durham pit village, Keith Pattison found out that the longest strike in British history wasn't all about cops and miners punching each other in the head.
Robert Frank, Portrait Ben James, Welsh Miner, 1953
Looking through the long arc of time it’s easy to see the big moments, the major wins and losses, but it’s the small stories and characters who slip through the cracks of the history books that are the most interesting. Theirs are the stories that feel the most human, and provide context for grand historical moments that feel more like stories in a book than something that actually happened.These photos tell the history of people who rose to the occasion to make a change for the better, and who stood up for themselves when faced with impending doom.
Look, how many times have we told you to be careful what you wish for? Let me help you count. Bored Panda warned you in this same post 3 months ago and prior to that, we told you here, here, and here. Time has passed, years have gone by, seasons have changed and nobody, not a single one, has ever thought: “Wait, maybe I should really be more careful when asking James Fridman to photoshop my pic!”
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When you look back at history there are moments that you can’t help but feel like you’ve lived. Big, sweeping, epic moments that are etched in stone.
When Alan Denney went round photographing Stoke Newington in 1979 it almost looked like it had been abandoned.
Café Saint Yves Saint Germain des prés, Paris, France, 1948 Photo Robert Doisneau
Among all that case-solving was a truly important industrial action taken by women for women.
After nearly a year of blogging I’ve been looking back at the most popular posts of the last twelve months and at number four was the original post about the Duchess of Devonshire’s Diamond Jubilee…
More than a century before Caitlyn Jenner and Laverne Cox became household names, many men risked arrest for wearing women's clothes, while others became top female impersonators.
Sybilla, Spain’s biggest designer, is once again in fashion after a 10-year hiatus. Read about the comeback.
James Fridman (previously here, here and here) shot to fame by editing people's photos to express a satirical view of narcissistic behavior. And now he's back with more funny photos!
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Shareably rounded up amusing snaps of tourists posing with statues around the world - and they're sure to inspire the creativity of your next holiday snaps.
