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This one always makes me melancholic:
Such a big turning point in time, captured on a photograph.
Similar ones:
WW1 cavalry soldiers who still carried a lance, for charging against infantry.
(Even in the later stage of the war, when they already had steel helmets and gas masks)
Is that Batman on a horse?
Iโd have guessed emperor Wilhelm II, but it seems to just be a German officer.
Batman on his bathorse
What's an orse and why does it need a bath?