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Usually, when you read a history article or story, it's mostly just dry facts and your imagination. But an amazing photo gives something a bit different. It shows you how it all actually looked, letting you understand the historical moment more intimately. Whether it would be a historical landmark, a famous person or random old pictures of the past - they all have fascinating stories behind them, and we're just about to show you.
The brave photojournalists that took these interesting pictures saw the morbidity of wars, documented the creation of an atomic bomb and shot stills of most magnificent constructions being built. You might not be aware that the city of Tel-Aviv used to be just plain dunes or how someone looks after literally falling from space. Keep on scrolling to take a look at Bored Panda's list of rare historical photos that might shine a new light on how you saw these crucial moments.
Wondering how historical photos taken in black and white would look if they were restored in color? Check out this article.
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#1
Dorothy Counts - The First Black Girl To Attend An All White School In The United States - Being Teased And Taunted By Her White Male Peers At Charlotte’s Harry Harding High School, 1957
Jovana Dacic 9 years ago
This is the era Trump voters wanna go back to...you know...when America was "great."
Cesi Baca 9 years ago
Exactly......he wants to go back to a time when whites dominated society by racism and violence agai g minorities. Not gonna happen!
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Caroline Driver 9 years ago
That's what I was thinking, how brave and determined she looks. What a hero!
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Ginger Snap 9 years ago
I can't even imagine going through that. It makes me sad not just for her but that there were that many people in one place being so mean and hurtful to a fellow human being. We like to think things have changed but there is still plenty of people to fill 1000s of high school auditoriums, who would act the same way. :( I would be heartbroken if I found out my kids ever acted this way.
Melissa Bain 9 years ago
Ginger snap that's why it's important to set a good example. Racism, bigotry and bulling aren't born traits they're learned. So it's up to those of us that want to see this change to set an example for the change. Be careful of how we express our anger and sadness because we always have our children watching
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Kristi Zoebelein 9 years ago
I don't think any of us could imagine what these heroes went through. Absolutely amazed at their resolve and courage!
Linn Tara Lenby 9 years ago
I am amazed at the braveness those women had in those times. White men with a two digit IQ taunting her. I hope someone gave them a b***h slap so they woke up!
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#2
Nikola Tesla Sitting In His Laboratory With His “Magnifying Transmitter”
Maria Stoyanova 9 years ago
It is sad we live in a world where Kardashians and Hugh Hefner earn way more popularity and are better appreciated than geniuses like Tesla
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David Maruska 9 years ago
What is interesting is that this photo is two photos in one(double exposure). First Tesla sitting on the chair and the second with the generator on.
#3
Austrian Boy Receives New Shoes During WWII
Margaret Buckley 9 years ago
This picture was taken after the war, in 1946. ""New Shoes" by Gerald Waller, Austria 1946 Six year-old Werfel, living in an orphanage in Austria, hugs a new pair of shoes given to him by the American Red Cross. This photo was published by Life magazine."
Koko Sempai 9 years ago
I wish some kids now would appreciate sweets. People now take sweets for granted like nothing special.
Glen MacLeod 2 years ago
Please look at the condition of his worn out shoes. I saw this picture as a child and everytime I'm able to buy new shoes I see his feet in those paper thin lace ups. We are so lucky.
#4
Jewish Prisoners After Being Liberated From A Death Train, 1945
Linn Tara Lenby 9 years ago
There weren't ONLY jewish women on that train though. In WW2 there were 6 million jews killed but 10 million others was also killed in the camps; Homosexuals,Handicapped people, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Gypsies, and others that Hitler and his regime didn't like. Let's not forget all of them.
Leigh C. 7 years ago
It was anyone who wasn't tall, blonde, fair skinned and blue eyed, and wasn't Christian
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Caroline Driver 9 years ago
I know it's only a photo, but I just want to hug them all as they come up the hill.
Ginger Snap 9 years ago
I would like to know where this picture was taken. My grandfather was freed near Dachau in April 1945 while on a Death March. I do not know if he was walking or if it was actually on a train.
Edi Landau 9 years ago
Me too, both my parents were on the train which came to a halt near the town of Tutzing on lake Starnberg.
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Orel Gispan 9 years ago
That no innocent deserved to be murdered because of a wrong belief system?
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Jedi Tribe 2 years ago
It has repeated w/ the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) forcefully taking millions of Muslims into their own version of concentration camps and trying to strip them of their beliefs with torture, beatings, humiliation, intimidation, starving, and ultimately murdering anyone who refuses or goes against them in anyway. It's crazy that most people don't know about this and that history has and almost always repeats itself.
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CARREFOUR E.T. 9 years ago
The extraordinary shock these women must have received when they understood that at the end of the line, if they had not been liberated, the only thing waiting for them were the "showers" of the gas chambers.
#5
The Graves Of A Catholic Woman And Her Protestant Husband, Holland, 1888
MarshmallowPuft Sherri 9 years ago
I think it shows how monumentally stupid human is..
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Kerry Quist 9 years ago
Every religion divides us. They teach people that they are in the RIGHT club & those that aren't in their club are going to hell. It's sad. Especially since it's all for nothing. Noone is in the right religion because there is no right religion.
Julie Harkin 9 years ago
For those who said that it is people who are stupid, not religion. If religion was not there would this have happened? Most likely not because there would not have been a set of holier than thou idiots making the rules for their ONLY AND SUPERIOR TO ALL OTHERS religion. There would have been no religion = no reason for this.
Cláudia Tavares 9 years ago
religion is not stupid... people are... a lot... using religion to justify actions is unhuman...religion is a need of many... we have to respect that...but it's hard to see how mean people are beeing very ignorant when using religion as a backup to their illusions
Nanae Yoshiwara 9 years ago
Despite all these previous comments that are critical of religion and/or humans, I purely see the strength of this couple's love from this photo. They were determined to be together and remained together in spite of the adversity created by the culture and the tradition that controlled over the society at that time.
Darline Dorfman 9 years ago
Such a sad commentary on humanity! My husband is Jewish, I am not, we have been married 36 years. Thank God it is not like this now.
Wendy Crow 9 years ago
According to my late Mormon (non-practicing) husband, I will not see him when I die. As a practicing Jew, I WILL see him...
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A Lone Man Refusing To Do The Nazi Salute, 1936
Essie Ball 9 years ago
Sadly he didn't last long https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Landmesser
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Boaty McBoatface 9 years ago
Or a Trump supporter at a DNC convention. Let's admit it. Both candidates suck.
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Karin de Visser 9 years ago
From artistic point of view I think this is the most powerful image.
Ginger Snap 9 years ago
August Landmesser is the man in the picture. ♥ http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/lone-man-refusing-nazi-salute-1936/
#7
Race Organizers Attempt To Stop Kathrine Switzer From Competing In The Boston Marathon. She Became The First Woman To Finish The Race, 1967
Hans 9 years ago
Another classic. And imagine how many ordinary picture from today will look unbeliebable like this one in a few decades.
Linn Tara Lenby 9 years ago
I just to add some info: The male runners actually helped her finish. It was the organizers that tried to pull her out of the group.The men that ran with her protected her from others that was outraged that she was in the run.
Yokie Miller 9 years ago
Her boyfriend is the runner to her left...he looks like he is going to take that guy apart. Two things that are the greatest motivators: fear and love. We are witnessing both in this image.
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Mugsy Perri 9 years ago
Really? Why? Why do humans make SUCH A BIG DEAL outta color, gender, beliefs? I'm simply astonished how we are truly killing ourselves every single day..from our own ignorance!
Jo Dempsey 9 years ago
It looks as if the other runners are helping her by keeping the "official" away.
Ariadne Leal 9 years ago
Actually, only the organizer Jock Semple, the guy trying to reach her in the picture, wanted to stop her. The other men were trying to help. Read the full story here (in portuguese): http://globoesporte.globo.com/eu-atleta/noticia/2012/03/fique-por-dentro-da-historia-da-atleta-americana-que-aos-20-anos-desafiou-regras-da-organizacao-da-prova-e-foi-quase-expulsa-por-um-dos-diretores.html
Dejan Petrović 9 years ago
Sorry but, not true. Bobbi Gibb was the first female. http://running.competitor.com/2016/03/boston-marathon/the-real-story-of-the-first-woman-to-run-the-boston-marathon_146715
#8
Harold Whittles Hearing Sound For The First Time, 1974
lila7074 5 years ago
He’s actually just surprised. Getting a hearing aid is often painful physically and takes years to understand and get used to. He is not for sure happy to hear. Often deaf individuals don’t like hearing aids and take them off one they get them. It doesn’t sound like how we hear things, it’s just signals being sent to the brain by a machine that definitely doesn’t replicate “natural “ hearing. It is a very cute picture but he actually is probably confused. I preferred using sign language myself 🙂
#9
Job Hunting In 1930's
David Johnson 9 years ago
Shows a sense of humor. That was one guy that I'd bet made it through the depression.
Susan Asbury McCormack 9 years ago
Such hard times, my father has told me there is no unemployment unless you see people going from door to door asking for work
Irena Spasovic 9 years ago
In my case those numbers are a bit different, somewhere up, somewhere down, but conclusion is the same.
#10
First Morning After Sweden Changed From Driving On The Left Side To Driving On The Right, 1967
Rob LeBlanc 9 years ago
UK, Australia, and Japan don't seem to have any issues with it. :/
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Nils Bjørkelo 9 years ago
This picture is quite irrelevant. It is taken 3 am on the Sunday morning at Kungsgatan in Stockholm - some rockers there were having fun at this very well plannend and very successfully done change from left- to right side driving. In 1967 traffic accidents went down in Sweden. Public transportations had been prepared several years for the change.
Kate Viscardi 9 years ago
I visited Sweden a couple of years before the switch, on a school exchange. Being a passenger was quite a scary experience, because while they drove on the left, the cars were all also left-hand drive. So the driver would rely on the passengers for information when wanting to overtake and so on. While the majority of the world drives on the left, Sweden deciding to switch, when all the countries around it drove on the right, was a rational decision.
Erik Jungnelius 9 years ago
This transition actually went surprisingly smoothly with few accidents. As someone pointed out, all neighboring countries drove on the right and a lot of people had cars that had the steering wheel on the left anyways.
Michael Ducey 9 years ago
Someone had a very bad memory regarding that from what I can see :-)
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Kevin Keller 9 years ago
the phrase a million words as i understand. possibly the metric system is to blame.
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Linda Hixon 9 years ago
I remember being fascinated that a country could change all its signage overnight. Wow!
Andrew Vince 7 years ago
I remember it. I think most vehicles in Sweden were "Left hand drive" and it made sense to drive on the right side of the road.
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#11
German Soldiers React To Footage Of Concentration Camps, 1945
Lucy Campbell 9 years ago
Poor kids, just ordered to war. They had no clue what their superiors were up to. Terribly sad.
Cesi Baca 9 years ago
Some did some didn't....but whether they knew about the camps or not. They were perfectly aware thatJews were being hauled off to camps. They also knew that once these Jews were put on trains they basically never came back. If these soldiers didn't know they could've at least figured it out that Jews were being offed. Unfortunately these soldiers and most of the German people didn't really care enough to put 2 & 2 together. A lot of American soldiers who have given testimony about liberating these camps said you could smell them for miles around.
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Philipp Dinse 9 years ago
I've Seen people Start laughing ( because There brain/mind can't handle such footage . I've visit 3 camps & always can't believe and Fight against my tears. This is the history of my grand parents (germany is my home country ). I will never 100% understand There way of thinking . I need to Apologize my horrible english. I just can say Learn, learn from the history.
lila7074 5 years ago
You are a kind soul and your English is wonderful, don’t ever apologize for learning another language, be proud of yourself! -a happy Jewish person who agrees that we must not let history repeat itself
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Jennifer Ruddick 9 years ago
Some of you also have to realize, that even if some of these soldiers knew bad things were happening....they were forced into being soldiers under God knows what threats. They were brainwashed into believing that Jews were being sent to work camps, not death camps. I'm sure they knew conditions were not comfortable for the Jews, but most of them had absolutely no utter idea that those people were being tortured thru medical experiments, or that they were flat out annihilating generations of families, and starving to death or dying of whatever gut wrenching disease was running rampant thru the camp. The ones who did know, were brainwashed into believing that the Jews were the reason for the collapse of the life they knew before, and Hitler was there to save them all from its even then the horrors were beyond their imagination.
richie_ziegler 9 years ago
To all the people saying that they don't all look disgusted: shortly after the end of the war the allied started showing raw footage of what they found at the concentration camps to the german population. They made it mandatory to watch it, however they quickly found that it didn't have the intended effect on most people. Most people didn't seem too bothered by the footage at all. The desired effect only occured after they started showing less horrid pictures in the movies (e.g. showing piles of clothes taken from the people in the camps, rather than piles of starved bodies) because these pictures were just too horrible for the mind to comprehend. I've seen some of these original movies in school and it is really not easy to comprehend that something like that could actually happen and that was probably a lot harder if you had to accept that you tolerated/didn't stop something like this. tl, dr: don't assume they are all evil just because they have blank looks on their face.
Yokie Miller 9 years ago
I am in no way condoning the atrocity of genocide the German people inflicted on the Jewish people, gays, Catholics, etc. That being said, the one temptation we humans give in to is taking our world view and placing over history. Don't know your age, but I am 50 yrs. old and my father, his father, and all the way up the chain, were stoic, strong, men who did unbelievable things in the face of danger and never spoke of it again. That is how they were brought up, trained and socialized. But, my father was a very compassionate, giving, generous person. My father wouldn't show an expression either, but he would do everything in his power to stop evil and to help the people whose lives were destroyed. Simply put, "Don't judge a book by its cover".
Load More Replies... Caroline Driver 9 years ago
And do you know who invented concentration camps? We British, in the Boer War. No one is blame free
Richard Baldwin 9 years ago
Indeed, nobody is blame free, but I'd check your definitions. Although the first modern concentration camps used to systematically dissuade rebels from fighting are usually attributed to the British during the Boer War, in the Spanish–American War, forts and camps were used by the Spanish in Cuba to separate rebels from their agricultural support bases. They've happened all through history. The USA used them to intern Native Americans in the 1830s, in the Civil war of 1860s, German and Japanese citizens in WW2. The Phillipines The word 'concentration camp' doesn't mean 'extermination camp', though it's now inextricably linked to the notion now thanks to the Nazis. It's emotive to talk of concentration camps, but to link Auschwitz as a 'concentration camp' and therefore the same as those in prior conflicts is disingenuous and revisionist.
Load More Replies... Cesi Baca 9 years ago
Actually if you really look at this photo, the majority of the soldiers don't seem to be bothered at all. Your eye is drawn to the few holding their faces. But really take a look at the rest of them. Seem just fine.
Linda Bicknell 9 years ago
You would have to understand the German culture. Just because they aren't showing reactions doesn't mean they aren't affected
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#12
Residents Of West Berlin Show Children To Their Grandparents Who Reside On The Eastern Side, 1961
Jennifer Ruddick 9 years ago
Am I the only one here sadly wondering if the grandparents ever lived long enouh for the wall to comd down, and actually hugged their grandkids, or their grown children ever again?.....
Mairi Coventry 9 years ago
As per number 5 above, it shows how monumentally stupid political ideology is. In other words, it's not religion necessarily that's stupid, just plain old human beings.
lemsip 9 years ago
Nothing to do with religion. It was all about the Iron Curtain and the Soviet Union annexing countries around it.
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Jen Veness 9 years ago
A sad warning from the past about voting for people like Trump and his build a wall mentality
David Thoreson 9 years ago
Jen Veness, the Berlin Wall was to keep people in the communist / socialist countries not to keep illegal immigrants out. Your analogy is so far wrong it is silly.
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Wayne Beesley 9 years ago
How ridiculous our prejudices and allowing our so called leaders to divide our love and kinship
Pauline van der Wal 9 years ago
This breaks my heart. Ego's should never ever make political decisions!
Uta Dohlenburg 9 years ago
The problem is: they always do. Look at who goes into politics, mostly people with a large ego.
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this group of photos is pretty depressing, makes us see how awful humans have been
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Acrobats Balance On Top Of The Empire State Building, 1934
karenza 9 years ago
beautiful male bodies - strength, mobile, challenging themselves, taking risks. yes i know women do these things also. but these, in case you haven't noticed (if in fact somebody - there is always somebody - gets all proto feminist) these are men. i kind of like them. mostly.........
Mart Brinkhuis 8 years ago
I think it is fake. Look at the shadows of the sign on the right and the shadow of the man's legs
Clive Cliberty 9 years ago
Um..... BUT..... The Empire State Building can be seen in the background!!! Twin Towers?
Anton Loki 4 years ago
They were called the "Carson Brothers". They did the impossible. Unfortunately they seem not as famous as they would presumably deserve. Have fun doing research ;)
#14
The Statue Of Liberty Under Construction In Paris In 1884
Tony Latimer 9 years ago
Viva la France.. our oldest ally who bankrolled our war against Britain.
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Robert Bailey 9 years ago
I can just imagine that giant hand swatting everything in it's path.
Adriana Garcia 5 years ago
Impressive indeed but in case you didn't know that is not the original statue of Liberty, the Americans rejected the first one because originally she was a woman of color so the French had to redo her to the Americans liking
#15
An Exotic Dancer Demonstrates That Her Underwear Was Too Large To Have Exposed Herself, After Undercover Police Officers Arrested Her In Florida
Luis Sancho 9 years ago
"I am not sure I understood your point. Would you expos...I mean, show me again? Just to be sure..."
Jackie Brown 9 years ago
Hahahahahahahahaha!! Bet he enjoyed that eyeful!! Lol!! Good on her!! xxx jb
Belinda Mullinix 9 years ago
Clerk: "Will the Court please rise." (Silence) Clerk: *Cough* "Erm... 'stand up', rather, will the Court please stand up." (Scraping of chairs) Exotic dancer rolls her eyes
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Mafia Boss Joe Masseria Lays Dead On A Brooklyn Restaurant Floor Holding The Ace Of Spades, 1931
Hayley Lightcap 9 years ago
That's cool, very dramatic. I think he lost the poker game though.
Sammy Scheerlijn 9 years ago
The ace of spades is a.k.a. the "death card"... look it up. I'm pretty sure it was put in his hand afterwards.
Roger Nehring 9 years ago
Some morbid photographer stuck that in his fingers. His hand is bloody, but the card is clean.
Marieange Dobresk 9 years ago
It appears that someone stuck that card in his hand, possibly for the photo op. No blood on it and it appears to have been slid between his middle and ring finger.
Archie Moore 9 years ago
The ace of spades is the mafia's death card. The killer would have put that there to make it known that it was a sanctioned hit.
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Lesbian Couple At Le Monocle, Paris, 1932
Katie O'Brien 9 years ago
They look both relaxed and unsure. This is such a simple, yet interesting glimpse into the past.
Jim Hubbard 9 years ago
I know this might get down-voted straight to hell, but I am still seriously looking for this answer. If lesbians are attracted to women, why do they date women that look and dress like men?
Sami Collins 9 years ago
Actually in all honesty and this is just being HONEST. If you're strait, why aren't you attracted to effeminate men? Men who wear girly clothes and have long hair? Physical attraction isn't dependent upon clothing. It's something uncontrollable, or at least I think so. I'm not attracted to anything, so there's that too.
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Jorge Ahlers Carrillo 9 years ago
The one in the right was a french Nazi officer who helped in the repression of her own country
Uta Dohlenburg 9 years ago
What the heck. I wasn't sure, if you made that up or not, so I had a look. Violette Morris. How is it possible that she was a lesbian and a Nazi officer, I mean, the Nazis wanted to see homosexuals and everything remotely different dead. And by all means, she was different! But whatever you make of her, what a remarkable story her life was.
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Jeffrey Schall 9 years ago
The Secret Paris 30s. I adored this book during college.
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Jorge Ahlers Carrillo 9 years ago
She was a Nazi offecer who tortured and killed lots of frenchs
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7-Foot Bolaji Badejo, A Nigerian Design Student And One-time Actor, Wearing His Costume From The Now Classic Sci-Fi Thriller Alien, 1978
Alaerys Rayne 9 years ago
The description doesn't state that he designed it himself. Just that he -was- a designer, and the person that wore the suit in the movie.
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Multi Chara 9 years ago
- for those of you who are a bit confused, let me clarify this for you. - he is not the designer, nor did the description express so, it states that he is a Nigerian Design Student, and one-time actor, wearing his costume. It said nothing about him designing it.
#19
The Most Beautiful Suicide - Evelyn Mchale Leapt To Her Death From The Empire State Building, 1947
Norman Cheah 9 years ago
A photograph taken four minutes after her death by photography student, Robert Wiles, is now considered among the most iconic suicide photographs in history, referred to as "the most beautiful suicide".
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Amanda Starr 9 years ago
On April 30, 1947, McHale took a train from New York to Easton, Pennsylvania to visit fiance Barry Rhodes. The next day, after leaving she returned to New York City and went to the Empire State Building where she jumped from the 86th floor observatory. Rhodes did not notice any indication of suicide before McHale left. Detective Frank Murray found her suicide note in a black pocketbook next to her neatly folded cloth coat over the observation deck wall which read: "I don't want anyone in or out of my family to see any part of me. Could you destroy my body by cremation? I beg of you and my family – don't have any service for me or remembrance for me. My fiance asked me to marry him in June. I don't think I would make a good wife for anybody. He is much better off without me. Tell my father, I have too many of my mother's tendencies."
Ashley Sneddon 9 years ago
Her mother was, I read, starting to show signs of schizophrenia. I wonder if Evelyn was experiencing it too.
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Jackie Brown 9 years ago
She looks like she's asleep!! Sad that she thought she had to throw herself from such a tall building to ease her pain.
Melody Lanzatella 9 years ago
This photo is absolutely AMAZING! It takes my breath away EVERY time I see it!
Robert Bellamy 5 years ago
How many times did you look at it? Once was enough for me.
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Jean-Luc Camille Malandain 9 years ago
Yeah. A flower pot could have, too.
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Melody Lanzatella 9 years ago
Being science minded, it amazes me what that petite woman did to that car! Especially considering back then they were made of STEEL!
#20
The Remains Of The Astronaut Vladimir Komarov, A Man Who Fell From Space, 1967
Air Cachero 9 years ago
Technically, it's cosmonaut because he's from Russia. Astronaut is for Americans
Magdalene Lee 9 years ago
Listening posts in Turkey heard him crying in rage as he fell, cursing those who put him into a botched spacecraft
Vivian Peters 9 years ago
I read that he knew what would likely happen, but went anyway so that the 'next in line' cosmonaut would not have to go.
Kamal Mugahid 9 years ago
He was put on a suicide mission as far as he was concerned. The ship was poorly designed and he died letting ground control what a horrible job the whole thing was. https://youtu.be/3Z_m7onLw74
Marinus Vesseur 9 years ago
No shouting or screaming. That is a myth. The man did the best he could do as controlled as possible until the very last. http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/space-disasters/soyuz-1/
Inga Ko 9 years ago
An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft
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Dan Bloch 9 years ago
His spaceflight on Soyuz 1 made him the first Soviet cosmonaut to fly into outer space more than once, and he became the first human to die on a space mission—he was killed when the Soyuz 1 space capsule crashed after re-entry on 24 April 1967 due to a parachute failure.[1] However, because he died when the capsule crashed into the ground, he is not considered to be the first human fatality in outer space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Komarov
#21
Hats In New York, 1930
Katie O'Brien 9 years ago
Men always wore a hat back then. My grandmother has often commented on this and how it's some different than today.
Hugh De'Payne 3 years ago
True, they also took that hat off when eating at restaurants or at home. Shame curtesy has disappeared from this current world.
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Anamari Del Río 9 years ago
People wore hats back then because shampoo was hard to come by and quite expensive. Hats helped keep the hair clean for a longer period of time.
Jen Veness 9 years ago
I never thought of it that way before. I always bought into the romanticised idea that they were just snappier dresses back then
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Just Me 5 years ago
I do not understand why people suddenly stopped wearing hats. It just stopped a few decads ago.
Jutta Plötz 4 years ago (edited)
It became inconvenient to wear a hat while driving a car. Plus it became easier to wash your hair. Hats protected hair from dirt when you could only wash it once a week or less.
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#22
A German Child Meets Her Father, A WWII Soldier, For The First Time Since She Was 1 Year Old, 1956
Karolis Stašys 9 years ago
Explanation - the soldier was held a prisoner in Siberia concentration camp after being captured by the soviets.
Jacqueline Petley 9 years ago
Or was forced to work for the french, but im not sure how long that whole thing went on for.
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Peter Brandl 3 years ago (edited)
Only in 1956 did the last surviving germans come home from russia. To this day, the fate of 1.3 million germans from the second world war is unclear.
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Wounded Combat Dog During Action On The Orote Peninsula, 1944
Celia McDaniel 9 years ago
Amazing that the soldiers actually cared enough about that dog to stop and put it on a gurney. :)
brandon sat 9 years ago
im not sure about the rest of the world, but in the US...yes :-)
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#24
Frida Kahlo Dressed As A Boy, 1924
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A Mother Shows A Picture Of Her Son To A Returning Prisoner Of War, 1947
Kelly Smith 9 years ago
Yeah, and he ain't even looking at it. But I suppose he's just so happy to be going home.
Ann Reeves 9 years ago
It looks like the man from the previous photo. Maybe he just saw his daughter
Ilyas Ahmed 9 years ago
the look in her eyes. and to think how many people share such looks still in this day and age
#26
Scottish Piper In A Kilt On The Battlefield During World War One
Stéphanie Hirigaray 9 years ago
The bagpipe is the only musical instrument deemed a weapon of war because it inspired its troops to battle and instilled terror into the enemy
Dan Ling 9 years ago
In that case Justin bieber can also be classified as a weapon because hearing him sing incites me to bloody violence
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Vincent Jay 9 years ago
This must have been a very early part of the war. They learned very quickly not to expose themselves to their opponents' rifle and machine gun fire.
Iain Sinclair 9 years ago
100percent true. Read the comment properly, it is not saying that there were no other instruments used in war to incite people to advance, direct troops. It says that it was the only instrument to be classified as a weapon (sword/gun etc.) It was banned by English after the battle of Culloden circa 1745, and re-categorised as a musical instrument in 1996.
#27
Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa Is Returned To The Louvre After WWII
Sarah Garland 9 years ago
It's commendable when people risk themselves to save art and history during war times, and then return it.
Alec Karakashian 9 years ago
If they dont return it back then thats not saving art. Thats stealing art.
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#28
These Are Titanic Survivors Boarding The Carpathia In 1912
Denise Dee 6 years ago
Those safe boats do not really look all that big as what they are made to look like in the Titanic movies we all see today ... I truly thought they were much much bigger .
#29
Painting The Eiffel Tower, 1932
Amber Ridgdill 9 years ago
Probably about 40 cents per hour... ironically enough, due to inflation that is the same as 7.21 USD today. The federal minimum wage is only 4 cents more than that. In other words, nothing has changed.
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Shaun Kilkenny 8 years ago
See that s**t? That's a hell of a lot of "Nope, no way, not gonna do it, and you can't pay me enough TO do it," right there.
#30
A Rare Shot Of A Young Winston Churchill, 1895
Ashutosh Jha 9 years ago
Responsible for great Bengal famine where millions perished as he diverted the food for stock piling .when reported he responded with this acrid comment-then why hasn't Gandhi died yet
Zargon Future 3 years ago
If not for him Indians would need to speak Japanese.
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Barbara Jones 9 years ago
wow, he was a handsome young man! I've never seen this photograph of Winston Churchill before. :)
#31
The First Bananas In Norway, 1905
Andrea Deutsch 9 years ago
I was about six or seven years old ('85-'86) when my father had a banana as a Christmas present from the factory where he worked. We shared it between four of us. We didn't know first that we should peal the skin lol.
Mayvelin Solheim 9 years ago
And also that's why we call pineapple in norwegian for ananas. Because the first pineapples came to Norway with bananas. Remove the b, ananas!
Just Me 5 years ago
People tend to forget that this kind of thing was very exotic. Like avocados or mango. Befoe shipping people survived on what was seasonal for their area. That is why people spent days and hours canning fruits and vegetables. So they could enjoy during the long winter. Nothing funny about it.
Owyn Larock 2 weeks ago
I knew that but I still think it’s a funny picture
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Heather Cox 9 years ago
People probably looked at them the same we look at exotic fruit here. What the heck do you do with this.
Doug Graves 3 years ago
And after eating their 1st banana they all promptly slipped on the banana peels they had absent-mindedly dropped on the street & fell down on their backs 😂 🍌 There were no injuries & they all shared a good laugh together down there on the street.
#32
Robert Williams Wood, Max Planck And Albert Einstein In The Front Row Of A Session Of The Physical Society In Berlin On July 28, 1931
Dave Crampton 9 years ago
Apparently Wood & Einstein didn't attend every session. Planck was the only constant.
Ben Müller 9 years ago
The moment you realize that photo bombing was already a thing in 1931....
#33
About 100 People Participate In A Lottery To Divide A 12 Acre Plot Of Sand Dunes, That Would Later Become The City Of Tel Aviv, 1909
Aviad Shamir 9 years ago
This picture was taken north of Jaffa, on area bought from Jibli family. The people seen here were part of Ahuzat Bayit, a society that bought land in order to build the first modern Hebrew City. They wrote plot numbers on empty sea shells to determine how to divide the area between families who invested in the project. While the area looks desolate in the picture, it was actually right next to the already existing neighborhoods Neve Tzedek and Shabazi. Nowadays, instead of a sand dune, this spot is part of Rothschild Boulevard.
Taleb Zaher 9 years ago
The Sands are located at the south of Palestine and not where what is called "Tel Aviv" is located right now. So it is not possible that desert dunes existed in north & middle of Palestine (where Tel Aviv is located now on the taken Palestine Land). The Desert is called Al Naqab Desert where these dunes do exist.
Boaty McBoatface 9 years ago
Stolen from Palestinians? Really? After world war 2, there was no such thing as Palestine. The Jews were exterminated throughout Europe. And so the Brits, who controlled a sizeable portion of the Middle East, decided to place them in that small area (refugees anyone?) Yes, there was a small local population. Bad thing was Muslims hated Jews. And so they tried to exterminate them in the 70s. Remember the Munich Massacre? Yom Kippur war? Arabs never won. So what they do? Forced the refugees of the war they started into Palestine, increasing the population. Then f*****g planted Hezbollah to prevent peace.
Jim Leow 9 years ago
"my ppl", "infidels", blah blah blah. can u folks just get along? thousands of yrs of blood n tears n still there r elements that want to carry on the hate. all because of some imaginary line that says "this is mine". how about, "this land belongs to both U and ME"? learn to share the damn place! u folks worship the same God! it's like 2 siblings fighting to see who's d**k is bigger for crying out loud.
#34
Carving Eye On Mount Rushmore, 1930s.
Bexxxxx 4 years ago
THANK YOU I thought I was the only pervert here 😂 he got a donk
Load More Replies... Kerry Quist 9 years ago
I don't see a harness anywhere. That's crazy. How many people were killed or injured for that scupture?
#35
Tsar Nicholas II Allows His Daughter, The Grand Duchess Anastasia, To Smoke
Vincent Jay 9 years ago
He shouldn't have done that; she could have died young as a result......... oh, wait ........ uh....... never mind.
Nichole Bondurant 9 years ago
They didn't know back then that smoking was so hazardous and in some cultured it was accepted for children of certain age to smoke
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justtired 9 years ago
Is 'tsar' accepted as regular word in English? (idk how to ask this better) I'm asking because it's weird for me to see it written like this, you can always use emperor (that should be the translation)
Gregory Blackham 9 years ago
Everyone on here is so a**l about spelling and grammar it's a very lighthearted photo gallery. Relaxxxx
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Gerard Nordskoven 3 years ago
Natalie Wood'S mom. See: http://www.mileswmathis.com/updates.html
Suzanne Haigh 5 years ago
Why could they not have come to Britain? The king refused them entry
#36
Marilyn Monroe Filming Her Iconic Scene In The Seven Year Itch. This Shot Was Taken In New York In Front Of A Large Crowd Of Bystanders And Press To Create Hype, 1954
Teodor Graur 9 years ago
Poor Marilyn... Produs al mass-media şi copil al Hollywood-ului. Trist.
Ponyo (they/them) 3 years ago
she took many pills to "commit suicide" without water, even though her friends and family said she had an extremely hard time swallowing one pill with water. the day after she died, probably when her murderer remembered or realized she couldn't swallow pills, a empty cup of water was found under her bed, it wasn't there the day before when police arrived on the scene.
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#37
Bob Dylan With Mick Jagger And Keith Richards At Jaggers 29th Birthday Party, July 1972
LeJoy Rothe 9 years ago
These jokers are almost my dad's age and still rock so hard! I love these guys!
Caroline Murphy 8 years ago
My dad's 71 and after all these people younger than him that are dying, it cheers him up when he reminds himself these guys are still alive
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#38
The Last Public Execution By Guillotine, 1939
Tiny Dynamine 9 years ago
It will become a regular occurrence if Trump wins this year...
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Debi Nikita 9 years ago
We humans are cruel, and destructive to ourselves and to this planet. We are our worst enemies and we are the most dangerous of all animal's living on this planet.
Misty Pal 9 years ago
yep u r on point! Couldn't agree more...Just waiting for humans to get extinct
Load More Replies... Marieange Dobresk 9 years ago
Eugène Weidmann became the last person to be publicly executed by guillotine. He had brutally killed 6 people.
Alex von Nesselborn 9 years ago
That's right. June, 17. in Versailles. 17 year old Christopher Lee was an eyewitness!
Load More Replies... Melissa Bain 9 years ago
All the people watch were probably the serial killers of that time. To watch something like that live. Ugh
Alex von Nesselborn 9 years ago
Well, Christopher Lee was one of them! Not really the serial killer type. ;)
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Simone Ehlers 9 years ago
Actually, the last death by guillotine was in Vietnam in 1971, but this might be the last one in the UK.
prince adam 9 years ago
Do you know for sure it's the UK? Cops look American.
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Duncan Rogers 3 years ago
While the last public execution by guillotine in France, it was no where near the last execution by guillotine. That actually occurred AFTER the release of the first Star Wars film. In 1981 France banned capitol punishment so that was well and truly the end of the guillotine as a means of death penalty.
#39
Hungarian Jews Being Selected By Nazis To Be Sent To The Gas Chamber At Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Auschwitz Album May-June 1944
Kanaanka 9 years ago
How much I'd like to know if a least that woman with a chils survived. This picture shows so much pain no one can't even express...
Charlie Riley 9 years ago
If she did, the baby didn't. Babies couldn't work and so were useless. Just incomprehensible.
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Debi Nikita 9 years ago
I can't believe people could do this to their fellow humans.. It's unthinkable.
Robert Levinson 2 years ago
It’s 2023 and I still haven’t forgiven even 1 German for what all of them allowed/encouraged.
#40
Columns Of Hoover Dam Being Filled With Concrete, February 1934 (Looking Upstream From The Nevada Rim)
#41
US Coast Guard Cutter Spencer Destroys The Nazi Submarine U-175, April 17, 1943
ene george 4 years ago
fckn hell, the sub was nazi ? what an advanced machinery that adopted ideologies
Jorge Medeiros 4 years ago
Why preserve such destructive bolshevik. Kropotkin, was a thousand times more valuable.
Owyn Larock 2 weeks ago
There’s something about black and white photos of the sea that creeps me out for some reason
#42
Vladimir Lenin's Last Photo. He Had Had Three Strokes At This Point And Was Completely Mute, 1923
Cat Meow 9 years ago
Yep, thought the same. Doesn't help that he's widened his eyes like Manson used to do
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Douglas Hewitt 3 years ago
He looks like he has the mental aptitude and morality of a 2022 democrat.
Manfred Muller 4 years ago
somebody should have driven an icepick through one of his eyes and nobody would have heard the asshole screaming
Savanna Sawyer 5 years ago
he does not look like Manson, he was not mad, he looks like that, because of the strokes, he was mute and probably confused, or something
#43
Eduard Bloch, The Jewish Physician Of The Hitler Family In His Office C. 1938. Bloch Was Later Called A ‘Noble Jew’ By Hitler And Stood Under His Personal Protection
Anamari Del Río 9 years ago
I think he was very ethical as a doctor... And also, he must have been terrified of him...
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Natasha Coleman 9 years ago
I know circumstances stopped him but imagine if he could have poised Hitler or "accidently" injected air into his veins.
Jutta Plötz 4 years ago
He wasn’t his physician during this time. He was spared because he tried his best to save his mother when he was a boy.
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Daniela Siracusa 4 years ago
wow very ironic saying that hitler hates jews, but still protects this one jew
lila7074 5 years ago
Hubbbaadabaubada WHAT?!?! NOT FAIR IF YOU COULD SEE PAST THE EVIL CATARACT IN EACH EYE HITLER THAN YOU WOULD SEE THAT NO HUMAN BEING REGUARDLESS OF RELIGION GENDER OR ANY OTHER FORM OF SELF OR SELF EXPRESSION WAS DESERVING OF THAT KIND OF TREATMENT EXEPT YOU!!! Every one of those poor people killed in the camps were more noble than anyone can be to me
#44
Soviet Troops Scrawled Graffiti In The Reichstag After They Took Berlin In 1945
Radiant Siren 3 years ago
if you visit you will see some of it is still there. Along with bullet holes.
Dragan Stepanović 9 years ago
Let's face it graffitis are still much better than nuclear bombs
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#45
A Jewish Woman Who Is Concealing Her Face Sits On A Park Bench Marked "Only For Jews", Austria, 1938
sunnyrei82 9 years ago
all those divisions of "jews only", "white people only", "black people only", or "whatever only" are so stupid! they make me SO MAD! Will we ever be able to surpass all that and just accept people for being people? Guess that's an utopia.
Aostara Kaye 9 years ago
What's sad is that the GOP candidate wants this for Muslims in the United States
Linda Tonner 9 years ago
Not sad.......... Bloody evil!!! The Chump is insane!!!! That's why he has got so far! He has no brakes in his brain to tell him to 'stop and think'.
Load More Replies... Pauline van der Wal 9 years ago
Outrageous. Cannot imagine how this must've been like. So demeaning...
Kurt Christensen 9 years ago
And that kind of despicable behavior are still tolerated in America (toilets). When will America join the human race? Or should I say the more decent part of the human race.
Tom Lockhart 9 years ago
Reminds me of segregated water coolers and waiting rooms I've seen in the US in the last 50 years. Bigotry and hatred know no boundaries of time or place.
#46
The Gadget, The First Atomic Bomb, 1945
LeJoy Rothe 9 years ago
I can't get over how casually he sits next tobit. He might as well be eating a sandwich. Just because we have the ability to make suck weapons of mass destruction, doesn't mean we should. :-(
Angela Giacomelli 9 years ago
I totally agree, but the guy there maybe doesn't know the bomb's effects. When you work in such a project, that doesn't mean that you know everything. You just use your competences for a little part of the project, and you don't make questions because you are not allowed to have the answers. That thing was super secret.
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Jorge Medeiros 4 years ago
Imagine it, in the hands of the Japanese. Or Hitler.
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Jeremy Campanella 9 years ago
Lejoy this technology saved countless lives. So please shut your mouth.
Sue Brandenburg 9 years ago
That's what I told the man I was a Caregiver for. At dinner one evening he said "I don't know if I did the right thing helping create the Bomb" It's what we had to do at the time now it's gotten into bad hands. He worked alongside Oppenheimer to create the Bomb. He died at 94 2013.
Load More Replies... Luis Sancho 9 years ago
"ok people, one of the cables was connected wrong. We need to check all of them agaiOOOOHHHH C**P!!"
Leann Allen 9 years ago
In hindsight is was partly Albert Einsteins fault if anyone knows history. Sad thing is that Berlin was never close/even created their atomic bomb.
Leann Allen 9 years ago
Based on Einsteins theory that E=mc2, and what a chain of reactions followed. :(
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Chris Ann Herron 9 years ago
ha! I noticed now that I read your comment. especially the way he sits :D
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Jennie Macgregor, Arrested By Minneapolis Police On April 10, 1924 For Dispensing Alcoholic Beverages From Life-Preserver Flasks
Sun Ae Vornbrock 9 years ago
The shoes are great, but the flasks are amazing!
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James E Valent 9 years ago
My Grandmother was also arrested for Bootlegging. It fed her family.
#48
Crew Of The Japanese Carrier Zuikaku Give One Final Banzai Cheer Before The Ship Sinks, 1944
Nikki Reid 9 years ago
Wonder how this photo survived, assuming the ship sank with all the people on it?
Jorge Medeiros 4 years ago
They provoked the tiger. Happily, became friends and allies. Thanks to Gen.McArthur.
Angela Giacomelli 9 years ago
1660 people died, almost all of them, or maybe all. Maybe the one who took the photograph survived
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Robert Levinson 2 years ago
I’ve read endless stories that this is how they accepted death (Kamkazis,etc) FN insane.
#49
Boxing Match Aboard The U.S.S. New York, July 3, 1899
Rob LeBlanc 9 years ago
Sure thing pal. And I need to get my belted boxing stirrup pants!
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#50
Finalizing The Fat Man Atomic Bomb, Which Was Dropped On Nagasaki On August 9, 1945. On Its Nose It Had Stenciled The Acronym “Jancfu”- Joint Army-Navy-Civilian F*** Up
Bonnie S 9 years ago
@Mayur Das - not sure where you got that idea, but I assure you most Americans are NOT thinking "Get over it"
Jorge Medeiros 4 years ago
Of ending it and, preventing many others. Imagine it, in Japanese or, Nazy hands.
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Tom Lockhart 9 years ago
The US was not the only country working to build the atomic bomb. We just got there first. And once you have that kind of power, it WILL be used. We are very fortunate that it hasn't been used since.
Jeffrey Schall 9 years ago
Wasn't Fat Man dropped on Hiroshima? And Little Boy was Nagasaki's?
Katrina Mayo 9 years ago
Little boy was dropped on Hiroshima, Fat Man was Nagasaki, here http://www.atomicheritage.org/history/little-boy-and-fat-man
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#51
A Young Hitler Cheers The Start Of World War One, 1914
Auburn Skies 9 years ago
i dont think thats him. his iconic mustach was trimmed that way because he still wanted facial hair, but also needed it to fit under a gas mask
Wombat34 9 years ago
I find myself a bit skeptical too. He was a nobody then. Peculiar coincidence then to find him in a random photo, and he supposedly looked exactly the same 20 years prior to when he came to power?
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Jenn MacLean 9 years ago
I've seen other pictures of Adolf Hitler from WW1.... that looks nothing like him. At all. I disagree that this is him. Incorrect.
Ashley Dobbs 3 years ago
It doesn't really look like him except the moustache. There were other men who wore this moustache style then. We just automatically associate it with him
Toini Tak 9 years ago
This actually MIGHT be Adolf Hitler but in another context. In 1923 he tried to seize power with some other guys - in German this event is called "Marsch auf die Feldherrnhalle". The lion you see on the left of the picture ist part of the "Feldherrnhalle". In the german wikipedia link you see a picture from another angle taken that day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitlerputsch
Zora Kastner 9 years ago
http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/young-hitler-cheers-start-world-war-one-august-1914/
#52
The Eiffel Tower During The Nazi Occupation, 1940
Michelle Storm 9 years ago
The French disabled the elevators so the Germans would have to climb the stairs to hang their flags
#53
An American Evacuee Punches A South Vietnamese Man For A Place On The Last Chopper Out Of The US Embassy During The Evacuation Of Saigon In 1975
Jeanne Deaux 9 years ago
This man deserved more than the American invader to be on this chopper. Push the American s**t out of the chopper while its at full speed!
Alex 9 years ago
Whoa, talk about a clickbait title! Here's the *actual* caption, from the link right under this photo: "An American official punches a man in the face trying to break him from the doorway of an airplane already overloaded with refugees seeking to flee Nha Trang." Not a helicopter, not an American *evacuee* but rather an official (probably one of the ones helping run the airlift), and not taking his place but instead turning away someone trying to force his way onto an overloaded plane.
MacDudu 8 years ago
"Turning away" he's straight smacking the poor desperate bloke in the jaw... Do you see the young guy behind the 'official'? Look at his anxious face, that guy trying to get on is probably a relative. And if he doesn't get on that's the last they'll see of each other for a long time.
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R.j. Catolico 9 years ago
From what I see, he's trying to pry the other man's hand off of the helicopter.
Load More Replies... Robert Levinson 2 years ago
Not ONE thing we did in ‘Nam was sane nor justified, this is just its LAST example.
#54
A Group Of Men Posing In Front Of Lynch’s Slave Market, St. Louis, Missouri, 1852
Big,Ern MCCracken 7 years ago
you folks need to get off your high horse slavery didnt start in 1861, the romans had slaves, as did the greeks, the chineese, afericans, even native americans had black slaves even after the end of the civil war. every race on every part of this planet has had slaves, people still have slaves today, tomorrow and the day after that and the day ofter that, actor Don Cheadle family were slaves to the Chickasaw nation from an artical "I was astonished when our researchers uncovered an 1898 enrollment card for the Chickasaw freedmen — an official document listing slaves who were owned by the Chickasaw nation. The card includes the names of Don's great-great-grandmother, Mary, and some of her 11 children, including Don's great-grandfather, William. Don's ancestors were enslaved by Native Americans, the Chickasaw. They had been living in Indian Territory, and joined the march from Mississippi with their enslavers on the Trail of Tears. When the Civil War ended, the Five Civilized T
Eunisha Emerson 6 years ago
Slavery in the USA by Europeans was much different than "slavery" by Native Americans, and many African tribes. Missouri had some of the most heinous crimes committed against slaves than any state. (Registered crimes) Many Native Americans were classified as African here in Missouri by the census takers. Many Africans were sold as slaves to tribes here in the US, learned the languages, customs and went through the Trail of Tears...gained freedom, only to stay with their enslavers (some of which had bore children/ become family) but even today, still not recognized as anything but descendants of slaves... Crazy world. Humans kinda suck.
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Yvonne Calhoun-Kiriakoutsos 3 years ago
Pieces of IGNORANT SHITS!! If they only knew what they were doing to future white Americans!
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Anna Salerno 9 years ago
WOW... these are outstanding pictures... # 20 is absolutely unbelievable!
Castillo Delgado 1 year ago
Excellent and impressive images, these leave us reflecting about humanity!
Brian Goodwill 5 years ago
Very interesting article. Must have taken some time to find all those photos
Anna Salerno 9 years ago
WOW... these are outstanding pictures... # 20 is absolutely unbelievable!
Castillo Delgado 1 year ago
Excellent and impressive images, these leave us reflecting about humanity!
Brian Goodwill 5 years ago
Very interesting article. Must have taken some time to find all those photos
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