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HistoryPhotos is for photographs (or, if it can be found, film) of the past, recent or distant! Give us a little snapshot of history!

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Photos MUST be at LEAST 10 years old, and ideally over 20. We appreciate that we are living through events which will become history, but this is ultimately not a comm for news or current affairs, but events which have occurred some time in the past.

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The Lincoln Memorial under construction, 1917. (thelemmy.club)

submitted 3 months ago by setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world to c/historyphotos@piefed.social

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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I keep forgetting DC was a literal fucking marsh at one point

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[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 months ago (1 child)

I mean, that's why DC gets called "The swamp". It's not just a metaphor for corruption, it comes from the fact that it's built on a literal swamp

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[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 6 points 3 months ago

IIRC several presidents and prominent politicians became sickened and/or died by drinking local water. There's a modern theory that Harrison was one of them, I recall.

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