Why do the people in old photos (turn of the century) never smile?
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The first cameras needed quite a lot of exposure for a picture to be formed (sometimes well over half an hour) and to keep the photographs from coming out blurred the subjects had to remain very still.  This can be quite difficult to do if you have your face in some sort of unnatural smile!  Although photographs would mainly have been taken of inanimate objects when exposure time was this long, even when it was shortened it still took several minutes for an exposure to form. There may also be social reasons-maybe the families wanted to look dignified and not ridiculous, but on the whole its because of the long duration of perfect stillness required.  All the best!
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i just want to tell you it's not everybody as that kind of mentality, it so worst and they don't live in our century, for me it look like the people in the 1800. They don't know again that we are build the same with some blood and skin you have an intelligence and can make better sometime that us. I'm Quebecois french my big brother live with an Asiatic woman and i think he never have a woman like her she so fine an intelligent...
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Without a dought back 100 years ago. They had more hardships but they had more respect for everything back then. We have it good now but maybe its too good. We tend to take everything forgranted. Back then was just a simpler time.
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This statement is absolutely true. Don't you notice that the dumbest people in the world always have a stupid grin on their face. They don't know, don't see, don't care. They have nothing to worry about.
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i guess since everyone is trying to fit in, and alot of people think they can do that by the gothic revolution. Goths are creepy, in my opinion, but i don't discriminate against them or anything. Also alot of people are stressed out, because of financial problems. Also because some people are idiots and usually do things like steal, torcher people, suicide, murder, and all that stuff. I think it's all because of pressure, just because some people who are truly unhappy try to make others unhappy, trying to make the world an unhappy mess. People like me and maybe even you can save the world by just being happy, by just making someone's day, or giving someone a hug. I tried, by typing this foryou, to persuade you to always believe in happiness, tell you that happy people DO exist, and are still here. And happiness is in everybody, no matter how depressed they are. Depression hurts the mind, body, and soul. I hope you understand my love for happiness, because none of my other answers are this long!!! Or this much thought out. But don't worry, the happy people aren't gone. They are still here, to make the world a much better place. Like me.(:
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Well, old people means old times, and now, we are young and it means young times.\n\nOld people have had a different idea of how the world and culture works, because in their times, they were very diferent, we all know how the world has changed in terms of ideas and culture, all the good life we have now. So, old people might be angry that the world is changing so bad, when they talk to people that are enjoying the good life, just get angry. I guess
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Sure, look it up on their website! The pics might not be too great because the digital cameras they had back then didn't have the megapixels they do today.
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"Ever since their birth people fear death... And they forget to LIVE"
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Provided help. Maybe.\n\nBut that's after conquering, oppessing and enslaving the populations for centuries. Just because Wales, Scotland and Ireland eventually lost to the conquerors....\n\nAnyway, some people have long memories, and look at all that has happened, not just what happened recently. \n\nIt's the same with any group that has rivalries and conflict going back centuries. Some won't let go of the past, and some will.
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Good question!!  I think it has something to do with the fact that we vilify the old, fat, and ugly in our society (think movies).  Nobody wants to watch a handsome vilian and hate him.
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They are from oldest civilizations of the world living in the same land for ages... ( Not like USA )\nAnd  I think , they will achieve to live in peace with the whole world, with after a revolution.........
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It's these people living in a village. It looks real old timey.The "elders" won't let anyone go into the woods. They tell them there's monsters in the woods. It's really just the elders dressing up to scare the other people because it's really modern times but the people live like they did in the 1800s because they haven't seen the 'outside world'. The adults don't want them to know there is a place outside their village because relatives of there's went to the city before and bad things happened to them like being murdered or raped and things like that. One guy in the village gets hurt really bad and the people want to send someone into the woods to try to find somewhere to get medicines. They send a blind girl so she can't figure out that it is "modern times". The people watching the movie don't figure out that it's modern times until the end of the movie. Sorry my version isn't really clear. Just watch the movie it's really good.
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They're probably really nice people. You should talk to them directly and find out for yourself.\n\nOh, and never judge people by their appearance. There is a great story of the man who helped a bum across the street. The old man asked for the guy's name and went on his way. Years later the guy received a letter explaining that some millionaire had died and left him everything. Makes you think doesn't it?
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Because they never stop growing them. Their survival has evolved to depend upon their teeth, so their supply of teeth never ends. They have row after row of teeth, which keep growing back as they are lost. If you lost teeth like a shark did (because yours don't grow back), you'd have dentures by the age of 22.\n\nGood Luck!
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It's just the simple fact that the british put all the social rascal and scroundals in the land of australia from many years back and the present nation is just the offspring of the uncuth side of british people. That's why their attitude is like criminals. As their grand grand grand grand fathers were all basically social criminals, ousted and outlawed from the land of UK by the then govt. of UK.
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I think it a sign that somethings lacking in their lives. \n\nThe only certainty is we will find out when were dead. :D
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Because they are looking for attention and they have no other way of getting it. They're not the smartest, best looking, best educated, or most amusing. So they resort to showing skin. Pathetic, really.