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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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[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

They thought it "opened up the lungs."

If you want more insight into early 20th century sports, check out this account of the first modern Olympic marathon.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I never thought about it before reading the article you posted, but WTF?

Holding the first modern games in Athens is obvious.

Going to Paris next makes sense; it's one of the most prominent cities in the world (and was possibly even more so in 1900).

But St. Louis, Missouri?!

I'm reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1904_Summer_Olympics to figure out how the fuck it happened, and yep, the story is pretty stupid.