Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Sailors had it much tougher then


4. Stormy seas, as seen from aboard the barque Garthsnaid, circa 1920 # Alexander Harper Turner / National Library of
New Zealand

Before the late Queen Elizabeth 11's time. King Charles 111 will find the Irish situation more civilized.


12. A crowd of Sinn Fein sympathizers confronts British troops in front of a barricade that barred the road to Mountjoy prison,
in Dublin, Ireland, on April 30, 1920. Earlier in April, Irish Republican Army prisoners in Mountjoy prison had begun a
hunger strike, demanding prisoner-of-war status, during the Irish War of Independence (1919–21). #
Bettmann / Getty

LOLOL This is daredevil stuff.


13. The daredevil Ormer Locklear stands on the wing of a Curtiss Jenny biplane going about 90 miles an hour in June 1920.
# Bettmann / Getty


My type of gal.


23. Original caption from August 17, 1920: "After finding the bricklaying business too full of ups and downs, this amazing
young girl decided to take a shot at iron girdering for a change. She is Miss 'Collie' Collier, a reporter for the
Chicago Herald-Examiner." # Bettmann / Getty

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Good stuff.