Month: August 2017
Nothing says pulp quite like…
… a lion riding in a sidecar, racing, in a cage of DOOM!
Gas masks for babies
During WW2, the fear of the Germans deploying gas weapons over London had hospitals protecting themselves and their patients, children included, with protective gas masks.
Bulletproof test, 1923
Source: Daily Sanctuary
7mm pistol fired at close range into an experimental vest.
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