FURNITURE SPECIAL

Photo Legend History Hawker Demons RAF Display held at Hendon Aerodrome in 1934. The Demon is a fighter-bomber with an all-metal body and fabric-covered wings. It entered service in 1933 and, powered by a supercharged Rolls-Royce Kestrel engine, it has a top speed of 184 mph, making it faster than most contemporary fighters. It has two forward-firing machine guns and a third facing backwards, operated by the observer / bomb aimer. Its bomb load is modest: eight 20-pounders. As well as the Demons, spectators will have seen the Prince of Wales arriving, piloting his own aircraft, Bristol Bulldog fighters attacking bombers, a Cierva Autogyro taking off, some parachute drops and the destruction of a mocked-up building, together with the shooting down in flames of an observation balloon as a finale. Vickers-Supermarine Type 224, a clumsy open-cockpit monoplane with cranked or gull wings and a fixed undercarriage enclosed in trouser fairings or 'spats'. It had been subject to endless...

Photo legend history, Korea Village Farmers House 1934

Photo Legend History, General Lord Rawlinson with the North Russian Expeditionary Force, interrogating the Red Army prisoners, 1919.

When he was 6 years old, his grandfather was shot dead. His family became a refugee, in a war zone. He grew up with the sound of an exploding grenade. The coach said he was too weak and too embarrassed to play football. Today, Luka Modric has just led Croatia as the first #WorldCup final.

Davor Suker was 30 years old when he arrived in France to play with Croatia at the 1998 World Cup. Known as a strong attacker, with fast legs, several years earlier he had participated in the 1990 World Cup Italy as part of the Yugoslav national team which ran aground in the quarter-finals. At the age of 22, Suker only became a reserve during the tournament and had to wait until next year before recording his first appearance from two appearances, before the country broke out. In 1992, Croatia established a national team of its own and Suker who was born in Osijek, a town near the border with Serbia, chose to play for Croatia. When a new and only 4.2 million people were eligible for their first World Cup in 1998, Suker has won the Champions League with Real Madrid and has scored 34 goals in 67 appearances for the Spanish club. In the World Cup France, playing in front with Zvonimir Boban and Robert Prosinecki, the greatness of Suker is clearly visible. He finished the tournament by...

Photo Legend History  Marcel Desailly and Robert Pires 1998. France winner World cup 1998.

In the 1920 Olympic soccer final at Olympisch Stadium in Antwerp, Robert Coppée scored for Belgium with a penalty kick.

Martelange, Belgium Harold Fray, the Bailey bridge built across the Sure River on December 23 when we were attached to The Fourth Armored waiting for the bridge was built to cross the river to free Bastogne. 1945 Photo Legend History 

Photo Legend History  Queen Elizabeth II presented England captain Bobby Moore World Cup 1966

Photo legend history German and British troops forget about the war for a moment and play football in the Christmas Truce of 1914 in WWI

American troops treat a wounded dog on Orote Peninsula, 1944

Photo legend history Testing Football Helmets in 1912

Photo Legend History Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play in the major leagues when he debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.

Photo legend history Jesse Owens - Known as “The Buckeye Bullet,” Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Adolf Hitler expected the Games to be a showcase of Aryan supremacy, but the United States won 11 gold medals, six of which were won by African-American athletes, and four of which were won by Owens. The defeat in his home city was an embarrassment for Hitler and cemented Owens into history. Though he was not met at home by fanfare at the time, he was eventually awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1976. (via Sports Illustrated)

"The Thrilla in manila" - The most brutal heavyweight fights of all time, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier faced off for the third time in their careers. Ali won the series 2-1 by TKO after the 14th round.

Eiffel Tower under construction, 1887

Photo legend history Oct 13, 1960 - Bill Mazeroski hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth inning in Game 7 of the World Series as the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the New York Yankees. Mazeroski's shot is the only Game 7 walk-off home run in World Series history.

Pink Floyd - first photo of the band without Syd Barrett, 1968. Photo by Ray Stevenson.

Happy Birthday! Kurt Cobain with his daughter Frances Bean Cobain March, 1993 - Seattle, WA

Albert Einstein holding an Albert Einstein puppet, 1931

The Titanic prepares to leave port, 1912. There were an estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard the ship, and more than 1,500 died after it collided with an iceberg during its voyage from Southampton to New York City. Photo Legend History

Photo legend history This was the original Ronald McDonald clown. 1963.

William Saunders’s Photographs: This British photographer went to China and staged the above image of a fake beheading… encouraging the military to takeover China and “civilize” its people.

Mar 2, 1962 - Philadelphia Warriors star Wilt Chamberlain set a single-game record with 100 points in a win over the New York Knicks. Chamberlain's record still stands as the most points scored in a single NBA game. - Photo Legend History

May 6, 1954 -  In 1954, Englishman Roger Bannister rewrote the record books when he became the first person to run a sub-four-minute mile. This record has been broken many times since (the current record is 3:43), Bannister was the first to show it was possible.

The Beatles in Miami, 1964 Photo legend history

An American soldier at an advanced allied base, with his pet kangaroo. 1942. Photo by John Earl McNeil.

Photo legend history JFK stops at a store in West Virginia to buy some donuts during the 1960 Democratic primary campaign for president.

California Street, San Francisco. 1964

1936 - The other side of the Hoover Dam before it was flooded.

Woman sitting with her pet cheetah having tea at a café, Paris 1932

Goodbye kiss at Penn Station, NY, between a soldier and his loved one, and no assurance he ever comes back. 1944.

A space chimp posing to camera after a successful mission to space, 1961

Muhammad Ali with his winnings, 1974 Muhammad Ali born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. January 17, 1942 - June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer, activist, and philanthropist. He is much regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century. From early in his career, Ali was known as an inspiring, controversial, and polarizing figure both inside and outside the ring. He was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, and began training as an amateur boxer when he was 12 years old. At age 18, he won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome and turned professional later that year. At age 22 in 1964, he won the WBA, WBC, and lineal heavyweight titles from Sonny Liston in a major upset. He then announced his conversion to Islam and changed his name from Cassius Clay, which he called his "slave name", to Muhammad Ali. He sets an example of racial pride for African Americans and resistance to white d...

Photo legend history A young Paul McCartney's mirror selfie. Possibly the first selfie taken by a celebrity.

The famous Titanic grand staircase

Newly-born lamb snuggles up to a boy, 1940

Filming the famous scene where Marilyn Monroe's dress is blown up above a subway grate in "The Seven Year Itch". 1954

A little boy walking to his friends encounters British soldiers around the corner in Belfast, Northern Ireland. 1973

A letter from Gandhi to Hitler, written in July 1939.

Photo Legend History A Canadian soldier kisses his daughter goodbye before going to war. Quebec, 1914

Stolen car that once belonged to Amelia Earhart and valued at an estimated $500,000 found in LA (el sereno) today. This 1932 car said to have been owned by aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart was stolen last week from a parking lot in Orange and found abandoned Monday night, Feb. 26, in Los Angeles.

Photo Legend History, Interment Camps 1942 - The US government came to the conclusion that interning Japanese-American citizens was the best of a number of bad options. Roughly a hundred thousand Japanese-Americans ended up in camps. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 on February 19, uprooting Japanese Americans on the west coast to be sent to Internment camps. The order led to the internment of Japanese Americans or AJAs (Americans of Japanese Ancestry) in which some 120,000 ethnic Japanese people were held in internment camps for the duration of the war. Of the Japanese interned, 62% were Nisei (American-born, second-generation Japanese American and therefore American citizens) or Sansei (third-generation Japanese American, also American citizens) and the rest were Issei (Japanese immigrants and resident aliens, first-generation Japanese American).

Unitad States Army in Vietnam 1950 The United States entered the war to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam as part of their wider strategy of containment. Military advisors arrived, beginning in 1950. U.S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s, with U.S. troop levels tripling in 1961 and tripling again in 1962. The war exacted a huge human cost in terms of fatalities, including 3 to 4 million Vietnamese from both sides, 1.5 to 2 million Laotians and Cambodians, and 58,159 U.S. soldiers. The Case-Church Amendment, passed by the U.S. Congress in response to the anti-war movement, prohibited direct U.S. military involvement after August 15, 1973. U.S. military and economic aid continued until 1975. The capture of Saigon by North Vietnamese army in April 1975 marked the end of Vietnam War. North and South Vietnam were reunified the following year.

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space" - Johnny Cash

Illegal alcohol being poured out during Prohibition, Detroit, 1929

Times Square 1943 in Color.

Banff, Alberta, Canada, 1962. Photo Legend History

This is the last known photo of Nicola Tesla. On 7th January 1943, Tesla died alone in the New Yorker Hotel. The inventor, physicist, and futurist was best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. By the end of his brilliant and tortured life, he was penniless and had become a vegetarian living on only milk, bread, honey, and vegetable juices. Tesla spent days in a park surrounded by the creatures that mattered most to him—pigeons—and his sleepless nights working over mathematical equations and scientific problems in his head.