RARE HISTORICAL PHOTOS

You all know by now that I am a fan of history and, if you don't know that... why haven't you been paying attention?  I feel like I mean nothing to you!

Even if you are inattentive and don't really deserve my affections, you should know that the part of history that fascinates me the most are the alternative points of view to it... those photos and descriptions that tell us what it was like to be there and, perhaps, surprise us with something we didn't know and haven't seen.

A boxing match on board the USS Oregon in 1897. Albert Einstein looking fabulous. Here's his report card! Samurai taken between 1860 and 1880. A shell shocked reindeer looks on as World War II planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941 Roy O. and Walt Disney on the day they opened Disney Studios. Che Guevara. The Microsoft staff in 1978. The last known Tasmanian Tiger photographed in 1933.  The species is now extinct. A different angle taken of "Tank Man," the man who stood against a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square. He is standing in the street between the tree trunk and the fleeing man. You can see the tanks approaching from the right. Winston Churchill out for a swim. The London sky following a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940. Martin Luther King, Jr removes a burned cross from his yard in 1960. The boy is his son. Google begins. Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945. A Native American overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in 1868. The Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake of 1906. A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944. The original Ronald McDonald -- played by Willard Scott! Hitler in Paris. Grounded aircraft on September 11, 2001 await orders. British SAS back from a three month long patrol of North Africa, January 18, 1943. Disneyland employee cafeteria in 1961. The first McDonalds. Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial. California lumberjacks work on Redwoods. Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated in 1914, an event that helped spark World War I. The 1912 World Series. Bill and Hillary Clinton playing volleyball in 1975. Elvis in the Army. The first photo following the discovery of Machu Pichu in 1912. Child laborers in 1880. New York's Times Square in 1911. Construction of Christ the Redeemer in Rio da Janeiro, Brazil. Steamboats on the Mississippi River in 1907. Leo Tolstoy tells a story to his grandchildren in 1909. The Beatles meet Muhammad Ali. The construction of Disneyland. Arnold Schwarzenegger on the day he received his American citizenship. Fourteen year-old Osama bin Laden.  He's second from the right. Construction of the Statue of Liberty in 1884. Albert Einstein's office, photographed on the day of his death. Charles Godefroy flies his biplane through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on August 7th, 1919. A liberated Jew holds a Nazi at gunpoint. Construction of the Manhattan Bridge in 1908. Construction of the Eiffel Tower in 1888. Construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Titanic leaves port in 1912. An actual Titanic boarding pass. This is believed to be the last picture taken of Titanic before her sinking. Adolf Hitler's pants after the failed assassination attempt at Wolf's Lair in 1944. The ENIAC, the first computer ever built. John F. Kennedy has a tea party with his daughter, Caroline. Brighton Swimming Club in 1863.  I'm assuming the top hats are not part of their everyday swimwear. Ferdinand Porsche (yes, THAT Porsche) showcasing the Volkswagen Beetle to Adolf Hitler in 1935. The unbroken seal on King Tut's tomb. The headquarters of Benito Musolini and the Italian Fascist party taken in Rome in 1930. Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke’s family photo left behind on the moon in 1972. The crew of Apollo 1 rehearsing their water landing in 1966. Sadly, all three astronauts were killed on the launch pad in a fire. The first Wal-Mart. Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin after walking on the moon's surface. Mount Rushmore as it appeared in its more natural state. Stalin goofing around. Henry Ford (the founder of Ford Motor Co.), Thomas Edison (inventor of the phonograph, motion picture camera and the practical light bulb), Warren G. Harding (29th president of USA) and Harvey Samuel Firestone (founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.) lounging together. Eleven year-old Adolf Hitler. A view of Boston in 1860 taken from a hot air balloon. Pope Pio XII meets with Hitler. Hitler's bunker. The cast and creator of Star Trek stand in front of the first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, in 1979. Bread and soup during the Great Depression. The only photograph of a living Quagga from 1870.  This species is now extinct. German air raid on Moscow in 1941. A crash on board an aircraft carrier sometime during World War II. Dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The first photo taken in space from 1946. An airman being captured by Vietnamese civilians in Truc Bach Lake, Hanoi in 1967 The airman is John McCain. George S. Patton's dog mourning his lost master on this day of his death. General Custer and his men during the American Civil War. Manfred von Richthofen, aka “The Red Baron”, petting his dog on an airfield. Souce: http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/2013/march/rare_historical_photos.htm

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How to Solve (your computer is low on memory)

Methods to fix low virtual memory on Windows computer:

1. Close documents and apps currently unused.

If you open a lot of documents and applications in the meantime, there will be not enough memory for you to run other programs in the computer. Consequently, close the documents and apps which are unused currently and you probably can go on execute the task stopped by low virtual memory.

2. Restart the computer.

The memory resources occupied by some programs may not be returned to the computer system after the programs were exited. Therefore, you have to restart your PC to release the system resources, and run a program or the interrupted task after restarting.

3. Delete the program and reinstall it.

If other programs can run normally in the computer except for the program you are using, you may consider that this program is damaged. So you can remove the program and reinstall it, then run it again in your computer to see whether it works without problem.

4. Adjust system configuration when there are many programs running automatically.

The concrete method is to set Normal startup in System Configuration, which can be finished by the 3 steps below.

Step 1: Open Run dialog box by pressing WIN key and R key in the meantime, type msconfig in the empty box and tap OK to open System Configuration window.

Step 2: In General, select Normal startup and click OK, as shown in the following screen shot.

Step 3: Tap Restart in the following interface.

5. Set Automatically manage paging file size for all drives in System Properties.

If you manually set virtual memory or disable virtual memory in your computer, you may also get the error message. In this case, you can let the system automatically manage paging file size for all drives through the following steps.

Step 1: Open System Properties.

Step 2: As the System Properties window appears, in Advanced options, click Settings in Performance.

Step 3: In the next interface, select Advanced and tap Change under Virtual memory.

Step 4: Check the box before Automatically manage paging file size for all drives and click OK.

Step 5: Tap OK to restart the computer.

6. Increase the available disk space.

Suppose there is not enough space on the hard drives where the virtual memory paging files are, the error message may also emerge. Therefore, increasing the available disk space is another way to solve the problem. As for how to increase disk space, you can use the methods below.

Method 1: Empty the Recycle Bin.

You can right-click Recycle Bin and select Empty Recycle Bin in the context menu.

Method 2: Delete files which are never used.

Method 3: Remove the expired files and those have been archived in all the disks.

Method 4: Use Disk Cleanup to delete unnecessary files, temporary files and so on.

You can refer to the following steps.

Step 1: Open Computer/ My Computer.

Step 2: Right-click a hard drive and select Properties.

Step 3: In General, tap Disk Cleanup button, as the following picture exhibits.

Step 4: Wait for the Disk Cleanup to calculate the space to be released.

Step 5: After the Disk Cleanup window turns up, check the boxes before the files you want to delete and clickOK to move on.

Step 6: In the next window, tap Delete Files button to permanently delete the files selected.

7. Remove computer virus.

When the computer is affected by computer viruses, the error message mentioned at the beginning may turn up. So, you need to apply the latest and effective antivirus software to remove computer viruses as soon as possible.

8. Use memory optimization software.

This kind of software can be applied to automatically clear clipboard, release the memory occupied by some closed programs, reorganize virtual memory file, etc.

To make a conclusion, if your windows 8 computer is low on virtual memory, the above methods enable you to settle the problem quickly and effectively.

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