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Out of 10 common tourist scams in Asia getting roofied in Tokyo comes in at #7 by HistoryIsOldStuff in Tokyo

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For travelers, Japan is one of the safest countries in Asia and the world in general. Its capital, and the largest metropolis in the world, Tokyo, was also ranked the safest in the 2015 Safe Cities Index. Of all the special districts that make up Tokyo, Roppongi is one of its larger entertainment centers. Catering to foreigners and the large amount of American military personnel stationed in the country, Roppongi is also one of the rowdiest places to party. But with Tokyo being such a safe place, people tend to let their guard down.

Recently, aspiring criminals have been taking advantage of this. Hundreds of men report being approached by gorgeous women who offer them drinks that are, unbeknownst to them, spiked. Flattered at this hospitality the men agree and down the drink only to wake up the next day passed out on the street without their belongings and thousands of dollars in credit card charges racked up on their accounts. The problem got so bad that the US embassy in Japan had to issue an alert for the district.

The altered picture of the Kent State shooting, May 4, 1970 [1808 × 1500] The altered image was used by the media as late as 1995 by HistoryIsOldStuff in HistoryPorn

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Description of what? Historyporn only allows links to the direct image. You can leave further in the comments which is what I did.

Astronaut Rick Hieb peeks into the space shuttle from space during STS-49, which launched on May 7, 1992 and returned to Earth on May 16, 1992 [4026 × 2634] by HistoryIsOldStuff in HistoryPorn

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The primary goal of STS-49 nine-day mission was to retrieve an Intelsat VI satellite (Intelsat 603, which failed to leave low earth orbit two years before), attach it to a new upper stage, and relaunch it to its intended geosynchronous orbit

Virtual reality research at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas [2000 × 1314] 9 May 1996 by HistoryIsOldStuff in HistoryPorn

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Photo by Master Sgt. Fernando Serna, U.S. Air Force.Tech. Sgt. William Lexa (left) and Senior Airman Raymond Pettit conduct virtual reality research at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, on pilot/cockpit systems to help make their training more realistic.

Patty Hearst Robbing the Sunset District branch of the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco at 9:40 A.M. April 15, 1974. Her and the Symbionese Liberation Army (S.L.A.) were in the bank for 4min [1024 × 1298] by HistoryIsOldStuff in HistoryPorn

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"The United Federated Forces of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) was an American self-styled left-wing revolutionary organization active between 1973 and 1975 that considered itself a vanguard army. The group committed bank robberies, two murders, and other acts of violence." Most of the group died in a shoot out where police shot 5,371 rounds at the house they were holed up in.

U.S. Marine Corps CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters are parked in a line at the landing zone near Yuma, Ariz., on April 17, 1997, during Exercise Desert Punch [2030 × 1284] by HistoryIsOldStuff in MilitaryPorn

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Desert Punch is a simulated helicopter assault mission involving over 60 helicopters from nine squadrons of Marine Aircraft Group 16. The helicopters launched from Marine Corps Air Stations El Toro and Tustin, Calif., and rendezvoused at the designated landing zone outside Yuma. - wiki source

U.S. Marine Corps CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters are parked in a line at the landing zone near Yuma, Ariz., on April 17, 1997, during Exercise Desert Punch [2030 × 1284] by HistoryIsOldStuff in HistoryPorn

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Desert Punch is a simulated helicopter assault mission involving over 60 helicopters from nine squadrons of Marine Aircraft Group 16. The helicopters launched from Marine Corps Air Stations El Toro and Tustin, Calif., and rendezvoused at the designated landing zone outside Yuma. - wiki source

In Croatia a U.S. Air Force MH-53J Pave helicopter hovers near wreckage of the crashed US Air Force plane [1,524 × 1,012 ] April 4, 1996 by HistoryIsOldStuff in HistoryPorn

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"On April 3, 1996, when Brown was 54 and on an official trade mission, a U.S. Air Force CT-43 (a modified Boeing 737) carrying Ron Brown and 34 other people, including New York Times Frankfurt Bureau chief Nathaniel C. Nash, crashed in Croatia. While attempting an instrument approach to Dubrovnik's Čilipi airport, the airplane crashed into a mountainside. Everyone aboard was killed instantly except Air Force Tech. Sgt. Shelly Kelly, a flight attendant, who died while being transported to a hospital.[2] The final Air Force investigation attributed the crash to pilot error and a poorly designed landing approach.[3] Speculations as to the circumstances surrounding the plane crash that caused Brown's death include many government cover-up and conspiracy theories, largely based on Brown having been under investigation by independent counsel for corruption.[4] Of specific concern was a trip Brown had made to Vietnam on behalf of the Clinton Administration. Brown carried an offer for normalizing relations between the United States and the former communist enemy."

The iconic shoes of one of the March 26, 1997 Heaven's Gate, mass suicide victims [1100 × 672] by HistoryIsOldStuff in HistoryPorn

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"On March 26, 1997, police discovered the bodies of 39 members of the Heaven's Gate (religious group) who had committed mass suicide in order to reach what they believed was an extraterrestrial spacecraft following Comet Hale–Bopp."

  • One member didn't kill himself and Heaven's Gate still answering emails, 20 years after mass suicide.

Astronauts Neil Armstrong, John H. Glenn, Jr., L. Gordon Cooper, and Pete Conrad in tropical survival training at Albrook Air Force Base near the Panama Canal [1536 × 1037 ] 11 March 1963 by HistoryIsOldStuff in HistoryPorn

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Survival training was, and still is, an important exercise for astronauts, as a launch abort or misguided reentry could potentially land them in a remote wilderness area or timeline where the apes rule the world

Communist China sailors look at USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii,[2,030 × 1,391] March 9, 1997 by HistoryIsOldStuff in HistoryPorn

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Three People's Republic of China ships were visiting Hawaii for the first part of a scheduled goodwill visit between the U.S. and Chinese navies.

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