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Muhammad Ali Saved a Suicidal Man in 1981

Does anyone know the person on the right in this picture that some of us have seen for the first time?

Muhammed Ali..

In 1981, he is trying to save a person who wants to commit suicide by jumping from the 9th floor of the building.

Ali saved a suicidal man who was threatening to jump out of a ninth-floor building in Los Angeles in 1981.

“Over the next few days, Ali spent over $2,000 getting the man clothes, an apartment and a job. The poor fellow broke down in tears. He couldn’t believe the heavyweight champion was helping him,” Bingham said.”
“He grasped Ali by the hands, tears running down his cheeks, and said: ‘I spent years alone after returning from Vietnam. ‘I became convinced that nobody cares whether I live or die, so I decided I would die – but you changed that for me. You have given me the strength to carry on,'” Bingham claimed.
Ali stayed in touch with the vet for years, Bingham said.
“The champ called him every few months. There’s no doubt that Ali saved his life and helped him get a new start,” he said.

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Propellers of the Olympic 1908s

The Olympic Vessel;

It is the first of the three excellent vessels of the White Star Line company. They are  Olympic, Titanic and  Britannic. Interestingly, each god has a strange story, with memories scraped.

Olympic (on left ) and Titanic ( right ) in 2nd March 1912

The Olympic was the biggest vessel in the world during 1911 and 1913 until the Titanic has made.

Titanic was very similar to his old sister RMS Olympic. The spine was almost the same as the Olympic, although the volume and the registered tonnage were higher.

The Grand Staircase of the Olympic

However, there were some differences. The most obvious difference was that the front of the Titanic deck was covered with steel walls with sliding windows, while Olympic's complex was open. The B deck was also downscaled to Olympic, used for additional cabins and common rooms. When the Olympic was built, there was no Cafe Parisien like the Titanic had.

 This feature was not added until 1913. Some defects found in Ollympic Titanic'de corrected. For example, the sound of the junction at the back of the ship. The windows on the deck of the Titanic were circular, and the Olympic ones were oval. The tower of the tower was made narrower and longer. Because of this and other changes, the registered extra 1,004 gross tons was slightly heavier than Olympic and was the largest ship in 1912 to do the first journey.

Titanic and Olympic Alternative Theories

Two sister ships of the same size as the Titanic were built. The names of these vessels belonging to the same company are Olympic and Britannic. The most familiar theory starts here. Robin Gandiner's book Titanic: The Ship That Never Sank? According to the Titanic, it was submerged to get the insured money. Gandhiner: In 1911, the "Olympic" owned by the Titanic's owner White Star collided with the HMS Hawke of the British Navy and suffered a deep wound. But when the Navy rejected this crime, the company did not receive compensation. The White Star changed the name to Titanic and plunged the ship to get money from insurance. According to Gardiner, this is also the basis for the different number of lobes.

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Ford Model T Changing Lamps 1910

Changing street lamps with Ford Model T truck, 1910

The Ford Model T (colloquially known as the Tin Lizzie, T‑Model Ford, Model T, T, Leaping Lena, or flivver) is an automobile that was produced by Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927. It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that opened travel to the common middle-class American; some of this was because of Ford's efficient fabrication, including assembly line production instead of individual hand crafting.
The Ford Model T was named the most influential car of the 20th century in the 1999 Car of the Century competition, ahead of the BMC Mini, Citroën DS, and Volkswagen Type 1.Ford's Model T was not only successful because it provided inexpensive transportation on a massive scale, but also because the car signified innovation for the rising middle class and became a powerful symbol of America's age of modernization. With 16.5 million sold it stands eighth on the top ten list of most sold cars of all time as of 2012 ( source wikipedia)

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Woolworth Building Workplace Safety 1926

Woolworth Building is a skyline in New York City, USA. The building is located on Broadway Avenue. The building was built between 1910 and 1913 as the headquarters of the F. W. Woolworth Company and is one of the oldest skyscrapers in the city. The building is 241.4 meters high and has 57 floors. When it was built, it was the world's tallest building until the completion of 40 Wall Street in 1930.

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Harley Davidson police motorcycle and mobile booking center.

Once upon times Harley motorcycles was using for mobile booking center.

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The Crowded Liner Queen Elizabeth in WWII, 1945

This is troopship Queen Elisabeth. Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary were used as troop transports during the Second World War. Their high speeds allowed them to outrun hazards, principally German U-boats, usually allowing them to travel without a convoy. Her carrying capacity was over 15,000 troops and over 900 crew. During her war service as a troopship Queen Elizabeth carried more than 750,000 troops, and she also sailed some 500,000 miles (800,000 km).

The voyage would take about 5-7 days on average to go from the East Coast of the US to the British Isles while bringing troops to Europe. It looks crowded because everyone is on deck as it is pulling into harbor (look at the top of the picture). According to Eisenhower’s memoir some troops were complaining to the press about the slow rate at which they were being returned to the States. He got wind of this and asked a big gathering of troops at an event he was attending whether they wanted to continue filling the ships at normal capacity, or be crammed the hell into them to get home as soon as possible. They overwhelmingly applauded the later option.

How did anyone find their family members when everyone got off the boat? Actually not anyone entered in contact with their family. The family likely wouldn’t be waiting at the dock unless they lived near the harbor as train transportation was actually pretty expensive. The troops would get off the ship, go to a Western Union office, send their family a telegram telling them when and how they would be getting home, and then they would get the train to there. There were other options, such as long distance telephones, but a telegram would have likely been the most common. It’s also possible for some of the soldiers not to have the money for a telegram, so they just showed up in their old town.  ( Source: rarehistoricalphotos )

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Ute Chief Sevara and Family 1899

Ute people are Native Americans of the Ute tribe and culture. They are now living primarily in Utah and Colorado. The Ute are in the Great Basin classification of Indigenous People.

They have three Ute tribal reservations: Uintah-Ouray in northeastern Utah (3,500 members); Southern Ute in Colorado (1,500 members); and Ute Mountain which primarily lies in Colorado, but extends to Utah and New Mexico (2,000 members). The majority of Ute are believed to live on one of these reservations. The State of Utah is named after these people.

Source: LOC

Title

Utes--Chief Sevara [i.e., Severo] and family

Created / Published

c1899.

Subject Headings

-  Severo,--Ute Chief

-  Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1890-1900

-  Ute Indians--Clothing & dress--1890-1900

-  Families--1890-1900

Format Headings

Group portraits--1890-1900.

Photochrom prints--Color--1890-1900.

Portrait photographs--1890-1900.

Notes

-  Title from item.

-  No. 53408.

-  Reproduction of a photograph titled "Ute Indians" taken by Nast of Denver, Colorado, in 1885(?) (Source: Denver Public Library, image X-30721.)

-  Detroit Publishing Company Collection.

-  Copyright by the Detroit Photographic Co.

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Tipple boy - The Mining Industry Employed Thousands of Children

Tipple Boy - Otha Porter Martin

The person on this picture is Otha Porter Martin who was born in  July 3rd 1897, making him only eleven years old at the time the photo was taken by Lewis Hine in 1908.

The lamp on the boys head is a carbide lamp. Young boys were admirable within the industry because they could be paid so little for a large salary of labor. The work they did was manual labor that could be taught very quickly and done from as young as ten years old.

You can see another colorized version of this picture below.

Tipple Boy Otha Porter Martin

Lewis Hine (1874-1940), worked as an investigative reporter for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) documenting the working and living conditions of children in the United States between 1908 and 1924.

There are plenty of his images on LOC web page.

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