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Remember That Photo Of The Construction Workers Having Lunch On The Unfinished Empire State Building? Well Here's The Photographer Charles Ebbets Taking That Photo. 9/20/1932

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EEF🤓 2 years ago

Holy s**t

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"I think photography can be an essential and powerful tool for understanding history, but I think it is also necessary to view all photographs with a critical eye," professor, writer, and amateur homesteader Joshua Wilkey told Bored Panda. "While we might be accustomed to skepticism of photos in the age of Photoshop, photo editing isn't the only thing that should give us pause."

Dr. Darren R. Reid, who earned his Ph.D. from the University of Dundee and is now a lecturer at Coventry University, agrees. He explained to us that images are an incredibly important part of how we understand the past. "They give us a distinct look into how people and societies viewed themselves and each other," Reid said.

"In the medieval period, for example, Jesus and the saints were often depicted as physically larger than ordinary people — not because they were believed to be taller, but because they occupied a higher status in the minds of the artists who produced these images, and the audiences who consumed them. In later centuries, Europeans (and their descendants) looked to the classical world for inspiration, spending huge amounts of time (and money) on images that were both increasingly realistic and idealized."

"Native Americans and American colonizers were frequently depicted in classical poses — all deliberate choices that show us how many people perceived the invasion of the Americas and the genocides that occurred there," Reid continued. "They also include important details (such as items of clothing, hairstyles, etc.) that help us to picture the past. For modern people, this means we can more accurately imagine, and perhaps, empathize with the very different folks who came before us."

#3

Rail Commuters Wearing White Protective Masks, One With The Additional Message “Wear A Mask Or Go To Jail,” During The 1918 Influenza Pandemic In California

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T. D. Bostick 2 years ago

Amen

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SuperChicken 2 years ago

Double Amen.

15points

MJ Wiech 2 years ago

Idiocy is timeless.

11points

Christine Jemison 2 years ago

Back then people had common sense, only had to be ONCE!!!

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Jeanne d'Arc 2 years ago

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Ray Martin 2 years ago

Even then there were obviously idiots, like the woman in the centre, who didn't have the brains to wear one properly.

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Just Me 2 years ago

I laughed when I saw it. People never change.

47points

Sue Simmons 2 years ago

Where humans are there will always be idiots. Selfish too.

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Jonathan Hargrove 2 years ago

So you're eyes aren't a way for a virus to get into your system?

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Darren Drew 2 years ago (edited)

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A B C 2 years ago

I'd very much like a "wear a mask or go to jail" policy.

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Jessica Nel 2 years ago

Where I am, you can get fined. They were super strict about it when Covid first peaked its head but now they getting slack.

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Vaniah Rodriguez 2 years ago

Um

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Darren Drew 2 years ago

I'd also love mandatory jail time for stupid people as well...

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Jason Gaddis 2 years ago

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Missy 2 years ago

Someone's been radicalized! Oh, I forgot, that doesn't happen to people on "your side" of the coin. In six months' time, you will likely be nodding your head if someone suggests executing the unvaccinated, too.

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Stephanie Paich 2 years ago

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Pilot Chick 2 years ago

Still have someone with their nose hanging out

49points

Wood Carver 2 years ago

I came here to say the same. Come on put your d**k back in your mask d**k nose

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Layla Corman 2 years ago

My friends and I call that "Dingle Di*k Style". There was a meme in the start of covid, basically a humorous PSA, about men not wearing their undies right (their man parts were hanging over the top of the waistband like this woman has her nose hanging over top of the mask). I wish I was smart and knew how to post it here, but I'm not. Any time I see someone wearing a mask like this, I either think or mumble under my mask, "Dingle Di*k".

10points

Emily Rose 2 years ago

First thing I noticed😂

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Grant Barke 2 years ago

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”

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A Jones 2 years ago

Kind of wish the "Wear a mask or go to jail" was a thing nowadays.

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Emily Rose 2 years ago

Really?

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s. vitkovitsky 2 years ago

I'm wishing "Express a totalitarian mindset and get stuffed" was a thing nowadays.

10points

Anna Tribe 2 years ago

Me too

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Jody Banks 2 years ago

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Jason Gaddis 2 years ago

Nobody has enough ammunition to enforce that on me.

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John Ford 2 years ago

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Phil Green 2 years ago

Strange how the world turns. Millions of people around the world died and this on top of all those killed during the war. Here we are today and some people just haven't learnt a thing...

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Jo Choto 2 years ago

Don't see them screaming about their rights being violated!

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trikshot master1021 2 years ago

Trust me, it happened.

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Ellie 2 years ago

I remember seeing a picture of the 1918 pandemic years ago. I remember thinking how odd they looked because of the masks. Now those photos look so normal to me. Wear a mask. Get vaccinated Please

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John Ford 2 years ago

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Ana 2 years ago

The woman wearing it under her nose... I guess that's a human condition thing not a strange anti vax thing...

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John Ford 2 years ago

Oh shut the F up do you not realize most countries are opening up. Stop being afraid and lifer

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Mari Bryant 2 years ago

History is repeating itself. Not good. Lessons forgotten. 🥴

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Missy 2 years ago

It's even worse now though! At least in 1914, if you were run over by a car, that was your cause of death. Nowadays, however, covid is always to blame. *eyeroll*

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Elin Stenqvist 2 years ago

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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Mazer 2 years ago

It came in waves, just like now, it lasted about 3 years. India is believed to have suffered at least 12.5 million deaths during the pandemic, and in the United States about 550,000 people died. Some scholars think the total number could be even higher.

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Teresa Spanics 2 years ago

Sad, but so very true. The only way is to look up records of those who died of a lung illness and compare their symptoms.

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

The signs from the 1918 pandemic are very useful now.

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Mark Karol-Chik 2 years ago

History, will teach us nothing.

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September 2 years ago

And one still not wearing it correctly, smh

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B N 2 years ago

Some say that to this day, they're still wearing masks in California.

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HarriMissesScotland 2 years ago

If only....

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Béla Kun 2 years ago

And only one is wearing it wrong, that is a much better statistic than now

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Miss Cris 2 years ago

It looks as if current pandemy lasts forever and since forever!

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Seabeast 2 years ago

There is always one person in every group who wears it below the nose, negating the advantage.

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Sally Scholes 2 years ago

We could learn a few things from these people!!

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Darren Drew 2 years ago

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Chancey 2 years ago

There is always that one!!!

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SweetsEve 2 years ago

This photo is NOT from 1918. How dense would you be to even think it is?

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Kalikima Premium 5 months ago

Why do you say that?

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Debbie Fulton 2 years ago

But..but...My Freedoms....My freedoms. Are so much more important than Your lives..😯😪 anti-masker,anti-vaxxer jerks!

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SweetsEve 2 years ago

While I am vaccinated and I think that's a good thing. I disagree with your implication. Yes, my freedom is more important than my life. Freedom is that important. The moment you start to think something is more important than your freedoms don't be too surprised if you start seeing freedoms stripped away.

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Audra Lehman 2 years ago

Funny how many people are agreeing with the "wear a mask or go to jail" thing.... You know we still have influenza, right? It worked so well for them!

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Noah Nipperus 2 years ago

100 years of not covering our noses

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Chuk Lowry 2 years ago

History repeated! Dialogs HEATED!

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ZanClan 2 years ago

ok, so this is just a thing every century?

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Kris “ADHD_Carrier” Dudoich 2 years ago

Yep, they figured it out back in 1918 and here people in 2022 can't get with it!

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Micah Chips 2 years ago

idk why this was downvoted, you have a good point :)

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Linda Moffitt 2 years ago

Too Bad they don't do this Today or for the last 2 Years (Almost)

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Heather Hutchison 2 years ago

And just like today, there’s always one eejit who can’t or won’t wear it correctly.

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Analyn Lahr 2 years ago

Petition to bring back that punishment. Also that lady in the middle doesn't have it all the over her nose.

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Micah Chips 2 years ago

signed, i think

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Jessica Macklemoore 2 years ago

Remember when most people understood that if they wanted 2 enjoy the perks of living in a society then they were also required 2 give back 2 that society by putting their own silly preferences aside(like wearing a few inches of harmless cloth over their face or not) 4 the greater good of that society in order 2 protect others from a deadly, contagious disease pandemic?Its really not that complicated. Yes, freedom is important but if u wanna enjoy all that living in a society has to offer, like havin a car and drivin without mining the minerals urself, then building the car yourself and then building the roads yourself- then there are going 2 be some minor sacrifices u mite have 2 make temporarily in dire circumstances. No one asked u 4 a kidney, Sir. Put on ur mask, damn! Grown men & women b out here acting like spoiled selfish children nowadays! Great example ur setting 4 ur kids! Screw every1 else, as long as I get 2 walk around w/o that horrific mask! So dramatic!

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Tee Witt 2 years ago

Not as well educated or knowledgeable as people of today yet they knew the benefits of wearing masks.

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Lola 2 years ago

You think anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers are knowledgeable and educated? Ha! That’s cute.

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JuniorCJ82 2 years ago

And yet "certain people" have learned NOTHING!!!!!!!!

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Orange Is Aging 2 years ago

Someone doesn’t have it over their nose………

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Thomas Sweda 2 years ago

But there’s still an idiot with the mask under the nose !

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Mickie Shea 1 year ago

So sorry we did not do same with Covid in 2020. Would have saved many lives. Bad “No maskers”.

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Lyn Moffett 2 years ago

Should have done that when Covid was really bad. Now people don't even have to isolate Must want to keep the virus around!!!

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Julieandthephatones 2 years ago

and yet there are still anti maskers

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J Aislynn d'Merricksson 2 years ago

How far we've fallen...

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Redwood Rebelgirl 2 years ago

They figured it out, over a hundred years ago. Still dumbasses who refuse to figure it out today.

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Vicki Perizzolo 2 years ago

Darwinism at our level is obviously a genetic defect .. too much human inbreeding creates stupid

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Kathy Conley 2 years ago

102 yrs later here we are! Just like the old saying goes “what goes around comes around”!

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janel Marie stallings 2 years ago

DOESNT THIS SEEM LIKE TODAY? IF YOU WISH TO SEE THE WORLD'S FUTURE SIMPLY LOOK AT ITS PAST.

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Sharon Heim 2 years ago

Should be done in modern times, too.

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Riley Quinn 2 years ago

One of the few things from the past that is actually more sensible than current times.

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Cary Gillenwater 2 years ago

I bet the comments on this one are fuuuun.

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Robert Ham 2 years ago

Apparently people were smarter in 1918

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Charis Denny 2 years ago

BUT MUH RIGHTS!!

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Sarah Holt 2 years ago

Wish they would implement this now during this current pandemic don't wear a mask wear a mask improperly go to jail.

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Laura Price 2 years ago

And we're still fighting it. People tht thin this will magically go away are very mistaken. It's here, it will always be here.

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Ashton 2 years ago

That's communist crap

1point

John Sharpe 2 years ago

I see CA has always been this way...

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Krs10Hall 2 years ago

Bring this back!

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Luna jimenez 2 years ago

Wear a mask or go to jail as the genius in the middle has her nose hanging out. These people with this mindset are the holier than thou tyrants running rampant today.

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Micah Chips 2 years ago (edited)

(but yes, fair point. i think. )

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Jill Tremblay 2 years ago

And yet there is always still one in the crowd that wears it wrong........

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Vicki Bennett Berry 2 years ago

Interestingly Awesome part of our history !

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Jennifer Norton 2 years ago

and of course there is that one person that doesn't cover their nose making the mask completely useless!

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Cathy Cee 2 years ago

and, like now, there's one who hasn't covered their nose

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Alex Boomhower 2 years ago

imma need one of those signs

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Downunderdude 2 years ago

I wonder if they had idiot conspiracy-theory anti-vax idiots back then? I suspect not.

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Hatred Pony 2 years ago

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Phee C 2 years ago

History repeats it self

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Daniel Marsh 2 years ago

Not the best propaganda for masking; secondary infectuous pneumonia has been identified as the main culprit in influenza deaths. NOT IN COVID!!! Covid is NOT 1918 flu... but still not a comparison you want to make.

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Karl Leaning 2 years ago

so what happened america?

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Micah Chips 2 years ago

people happened, sadly

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Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 2 years ago

We did it back then, so why aren't people doing it now?

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Scottsby 2 years ago

I truly admire their sensibility.

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patricia sandoval 2 years ago

👌

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Anita Pickle 2 years ago

The one in middle though

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Miguel justino C 2 years ago

Awesome!!

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Roger Haywood 2 years ago

See? Even back then they had sense.

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Silre 2 years ago

Bring this policy back

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Hannah Edwards 2 years ago

Middle woman has some nose overhang

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ZonkeY_the_DonkeY 2 years ago

and one of them doesn't have it over her nose xD

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Lovin' Life 2 years ago

"Wear a mask or go to jail," we need to adopt this policy.

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Jordan Scott 2 years ago

And not a screaming snowflake in sight.

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Alexia 2 years ago

I wonder if any of them claimed "That's an abuse, it's my constitutional right not to wear it and you can't make me!"

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Kalikima Premium 5 months ago

And of course, there's that one person wearing it wrong.. (center)

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Ruciana Pollard 1 year ago

No one would have guessed that 102 years later there would be a global pandemic that would take over a million lives worldwide!

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Marta Anna 2 years ago

Of course one of them is not wearing it right 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Dave Emilio 2 years ago

Over the nose persons 4th from left!!!

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Keiryn Addison 2 years ago

Even back then there was one not wearing their mask right 🤦

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Jane W. 2 years ago

And even then, there were those who pushed them below their nose.

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Christina Uhlir 2 years ago

Time has changed, I guess we have more "freedom" now. (Yea right).

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Kim Brown 2 years ago

There's always that one in the crowd...😷

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Cuppa tea? 2 years ago

We learned nothing. No progress in 100 years.

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Chris Harr 2 years ago

And yet you have the lady in the middle wearing the mask under her nose. It's good to know that stupidity is a constant, no matter the timeframe.

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Christopher Martin 2 years ago

Wow, deja vu

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sharron lynn parsons 2 years ago

Yes !!!

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Tamara Rymer 2 years ago

That one lady with her nose out…

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Bill Brown 2 years ago

History really does repeat itself

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K S 2 years ago

Wow, history sure does repeat itself.

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Bethanne Corl 2 years ago

It's always so depressing to think of all the advancements we've made, we can't seem to change ourselves. History continues to repeat the same conflicts time and time again

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Sara Jones 2 years ago

There's always that one who has their nose poking out lol

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Lisa Greene 2 years ago

We have no excuses

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Gary Beauchamp 2 years ago

Interesting.

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Ely Hopper 2 years ago

even then, there's still always that one a*****e with their nose out

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trikshot master1021 2 years ago

Idiots are eternal

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EJN 2 years ago

Let's revert to those times!

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Nina Khalil-Gray 2 years ago

stupid now, stupid then...

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Mary Jaye 2 years ago

so this idiocy of refusing to wear a mask existed back then too.

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Rita Saul 2 years ago

Wish it were that easy today!

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asd asd 2 years ago

didint it all end in riots and natural immunity? most people got sick and got immunity from it.ive been reading papers on the spanish flue in 2018 ,and i can say alot of the papers on it where changed to acomodate the new covid b******t. before almost everyone sayd the masks where just for show and didint do enything, and if you try reading about it now they say oh the masks worked and social distancing also helped....

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Luisa Vega 2 years ago

Even then we had those who wore the mask underneath their nose.

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Vix 2 years ago

There's always one that doesn't wear it over their nose

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James Butcher 2 years ago

And history DOES repeat

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Shelley Copeland 2 years ago

Am i the only skeptic?? I don’t even “buy” this bullsh** picture. Really?? In 1918. People were wearing the masks?? I dont believe it! And as if thats not enough for me to call bs on this “1918” picture, somebody a wayyyyyy back then to the time to go to a printer and print a sign to hang around their neck??? In 1-9-1-8???? Hmmm🙄

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Lawrence mcalistar 2 years ago

If your nose is out of the mask the mask will not work anyway

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SweetsEve 2 years ago (edited)

Masks block your ability to spread germs, not to get germs on you. A mask over the mouth like these guys have would prevent coughed germs from spreading into the air and that's still good. Germs are so tiny a mask won't keep you from breathing it in. There are plenty of places with strong mask mandates where people are still getting sick. That's why they're now handing out free n9 masks. Now those are a completely different story. Those will protect the wearer.

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Marcelo Gomes 2 years ago

There is always an idiot not covering the nose...

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Julie Totsch 2 years ago

Wish that was happening now.

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Ashley Vanerp 2 years ago

Even then there was that one person with it under their nose 😂

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Yvonne Gahley 2 years ago

And the "sniffer" is front and center.

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G A 2 years ago

Too bad we can't jail the anti maskers today! A bullet to the head would be far better though.

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G A 2 years ago

Too bad we don't jail the anti maskers today! A bullet to the head would be better though.

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jBeachey 2 years ago

Should be like that today!!!

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Vee Dub 2 years ago

And the woman in the middle seems to have her nose almost poking out. seems like some were not that more intelligent then ...

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Dorothy Cloud 2 years ago

There's always one that won't cover their nose!

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Kandi Sofia Dahlan 2 years ago

History repeats itself 😟🥺

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Ashton 2 years ago

Then, sure-- now, no. Now that there's a vaccine, if you believe it works you're welcome to get it and that's fine. But you have no right to force masks or a vaccine upon people

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Amy Stone-Chandler 2 years ago

Even then, seems to be idiots that wear them UNDER their noses. Today's people can't blame lack of information about that

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Starlee87 2 years ago

Wish they still wore masks like they should now

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Anne Atkins 2 years ago

One idiot with their nose out.

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Helen 2 years ago

The one in the middle though

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Alia 2 years ago

Karen in the middle with her nose out

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Spacey 2 years ago

Love it

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Stan Brooks 2 years ago

Would it were still so!!

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Bobby 2 years ago

Wear Mask or Have a curse. (verbal and Karma)

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#cat blog 2 years ago

What is up with their eyes?!

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Micah Chips 2 years ago

✨dEmOnS✨ /j

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Sofia Gonzalez 2 years ago

😷

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Summer Mason 2 years ago

Wear your God damn makes please. It's a face covering like you would wear during a clod front in Alaska. Wear it. Period. J s yahsjxjjfjfjjdjfjjf 🤬

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MissMePhoenix 2 years ago

A little bit louder for the people in the back

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Christina Keenan 2 years ago

Lord, nothing much has changed in a hundred years. If one tried to jail someone who wouldn't wear a mask today, one may very well become a target, of sorts . Please please please wear a mask.

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Brandy Grote 2 years ago (edited)

So many people didn't. H1N1 flu is now endemic, and still killing thousands a year.

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XenoMurph 2 years ago

Maybe that's been our problem all along. If we named them "White Protective Masks" maybe Trump supporters would wear them.

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Cheri Aline Sydney 2 years ago

Get help for your TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome, XenoMurph.... If you bother to look at the actual statistics of the unvaccinated you'll see that there are misguided people on both sides of the aisle...

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Kona Pake 2 years ago

We need bigger jails for anti-VAXers and anti-maskers.

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DC 2 years ago

True patriots!

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Otter 2 years ago

Are any of those laws still on the books? Anywhere?

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Buren 2 years ago

Listen, modern idiots!

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pascal odhiambo 2 years ago

Indeed humans have withstood many pandemics and survived at the end

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Armand Medina 2 years ago

Which worked so well it only killed...uh, 50 million worldwide.

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Jason Gaddis 2 years ago

Imagine when idiots thought a little bit of fabric could block a virus. LOL.

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Jason Gaddis 2 years ago

Even back then idiots thought a little bit of fabric could stop a virus……. Time has proven them oh so wrong.

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Justin Mundy 2 years ago

Well, people were just as dumb then as they are now. Wasn't it St. Fauci that wrote on all the cases of bacterial pneumonia that occurred as a result of wearing masks all the time during the 1918 "Spanish Flu" outbreak.

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K Blair 2 years ago

And you know those masks they wore never did a damn thing for viral safety.

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Louise Stange-Wahl 2 years ago

This says it all!

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Bryan With A Why 2 years ago

Ignorance and blind allegiance has been around for far more than 100 years...

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Ashley Vanerp 2 years ago

The lady in the middle has it under her nose. Shes dangerous lol

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Christopher Guittard 2 years ago

1918 flu > covid

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Wendy Globen 2 years ago

This looks fake. Anyone know how to fact check an image besides using google image? That was helpful in this case. BTW I am a mask wearer.

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Why Knot 2 years ago

A majority of the masks that I see people wearing today don't do a goddamn thing to protect them or me.

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Tyler Thompson 2 years ago

"Cloth masks aren't effective against stopping virus." - Dr. Fauci

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Jackie Johnson 2 years ago

They are better than nothing at all. Cloth masks are what they had. They didn't have the kinds of more effective masks we have today.

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STJ 6 months ago

Fooled by the mask round one.

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B. J. Moore 1 year ago

California!!! Of course! The only state in the U.S. that isn’t a state at all!

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Salty Wild Hair 2 years ago

Yep. And then someone was shot to death over not wearing a mask. Later, the newspaper published a series of photographs of elected officials at a boxing match not wearing masks, and guess what happened? They all stopped wearing masks and the flu went away.

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trikshot master1021 2 years ago

It went away because 100 million people died you stupid f**k

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David White 2 years ago

BS.

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Michael B 2 years ago

Much smarter than today's propaganda drones.

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Eric Lafleur 2 years ago

And I bet none of them ever complained, unlike today's self entitled sissies

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lkthorlyn23 2 years ago

Actually they did complain and that's why they wanted to fine or jail people...read about the Spanish flu and you'll learn something

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SweetsEve 2 years ago

In 1918 they wore masks.. great. They also were decades away from the success of the civil rights movement, or the feminist movement. In fact the Rosewood Massacre would take place in 1923, (a massacre that wouldn't get any real attention until the 1990s). But hey they're wearing masks. And God knows a mask, all by itself, marks the entire virtue of an individual. It's really that simple. Let us all praise how awesome these people are. And let's assume all of you are completely awesome as well.

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Temperance Raziel 2 years ago

Masks didn't work then, and they don't work now.

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Micah Chips 2 years ago

mhm now go play with your toys, the intellectuals are talking.

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MonicaChicagoGal 2 years ago

😆I've ACTUALLY heard an idiot say that about the vaccines I told the dummy if somebody wanted to track you you have a cell phone right.

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J. Normal 2 years ago

when asked what arm I wanted my booster in, I said ... " I got the chip in the left so I should get the battery in the same one" she laughed.

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Micah Chips 2 years ago

trust me, no one wants to track you, Kishibe Angelo. literally no one.

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lkthorlyn23 2 years ago

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Walking On Sunshine 2 years ago

Quit being an ass.

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Walking On Sunshine 2 years ago

I can literally hear you bleating you brainwashed sheep.

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#4

Stoney First Nation Member, Guide Samson Beaver With His Wife Leah And Their Daughter Frances Louise, 1907. Photo Taken By Mary Schäffer

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Jo Choto 2 years ago

You look at the beauty and intricacy of their costumes, their affinity with nature, the peacefulness of those smiles. But remember, millions of Native Americans were branded as savages and eradicated. This is truth. The history we are taught is not.

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#5

Mogadishu, 1993. An Italian Soldier Gives Food To A Local Orphan

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Romenriel 2 years ago

The face expressions are universal language.

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Talking about photographs, in particular, Joshua Wilkey provided a few very helpful questions we can ask ourselves when analyzing them:

Is the photo lacking context? Or what is happening outside of the frame? "There's always the chance that the viewer is seeing an intentionally skewed perspective," Wilkey highlighted. "A picture might be worth a thousand words, but sometimes it takes a thousand words to explain the context of a single photo. Some pictures are downright strange without context."

Is the photo representative? In other words, can the photo indicate something bigger than itself? "For example, the internet has, for years, made fun of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un for marveling at seemingly cool but likely fake things like modern and well-stocked grocery stores. These photos are meant to be representative images portraying for Kim's people and for foreigners that North Korea is a modern and well-nourished society. The reality is a bit different."

#6

Atelier Photo: "A Lesbian Couple In Semi Drag Wedding Attire"; Kingdom Of Hungary - Budapest, 1920

Final score:

879points

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Ember 2 years ago

I really like this look! They both look amazing

239points

#7

A Man Looking For A Job Wearing His Cv, England - 1930s

Final score:

868points

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UncleRussian 2 years ago

Wow 3 languages is impressive even today let alone back then

291points

#8

A Beach In Iran A Few Months Before The Islamic Revolution, 1979

Final score:

865points

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Jo Choto 2 years ago

Religious extremism is the death of culture.

783points

As the historian said, these concepts can apply to virtually any photograph, but they become crucial when we're viewing a particular one as evidence. "They are important for historical photographs because of the power and usefulness of photography in political propaganda. North Korea is a great example of a regime that uses photography for propaganda, and the Soviet Union and the US were great examples too, particularly during the Cold War and the Space Race."

"Another good example of government using photography to achieve a political end was the Farm Service Administration's use of photography to document the impact of the Great Depression as a means of garnering support for the New Deal," Wilkey added. "Roosevelt's opponents argued it was political propaganda, while his proponents argued it was an accurate depiction of what was happening. Ultimately, most scholars have concluded that, while it accomplished political ends, it was indeed an accurate portrayal of reality."

#9

1972: 3 Women On The Streets Of Kabul, Afghanistan

Final score:

859points

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Jo Choto 2 years ago

Religious extremism is the death of culture (I know, I'm repeating myself).

697points

#10

A Man Browses For Books In The Old Public Library Of Cincinnati. The Building Was Demolished In 1955. Today An Office Building And A Parking Lot Stand Where It Used To Be

Final score:

858points

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DUN DUN (she/her) 2 years ago

Oh God SO MANY BOOKS!!! I hope they saved the books before demolishing the building

417points

#11

It’s No Longer Possible To See This, As Buildings Outside Block The Sun. Grand Central, NYC, 1929 Photo By Louis Faurer

Final score:

840points

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Otter 2 years ago

Even if the buildings didn't block the sun it would not be possible to see these rays of light, since public indoor spaces are no longer fogged with smoke from cigarettes and coal-burning trains.

212points

One more case that Wilkey mentioned to illustrate his point is Jacob Riis’s 1890 photojournalism work titled 'How the Other Half Lives,' which offered shocking views of tenement housing in New York City.

"Riis's work was accused of being 'muckraking' (activist journalism), but it led to reforms on tenement laws and rights and helped shepherd some of the first public health laws in the US," the historian said.

"Using photos from Riis’s work, one can apply both of the principles above: consider what is happening outside the frame of the camera, and consider whether the photos are representative. In the case of most of Riis’s photos of terrible living conditions, what was outside the frame of his camera was much the same as what was inside the frame, and his photographed subjects were representative of their entire communities. For me, they pass both my tests and should be treated as important historical sources."

#12

Freddie Mercury With His Mother, 1947

Final score:

806points

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ThEboRedEsTpANdA 2 years ago

She looks like Rosa Parks for some reason

208points

#13

A French Boy Introduces Himself To Indian Soldiers Who Had Just Arrived In France To Fight Alongside French And British Forces, Marseilles, 30th September 1914. [colorization]

Final score:

783points

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Jo Choto 2 years ago

There have been so many people of colour who have fought alongside varies allied forces, whose dedication and service has been completely eradicated from history.

410points

#14

West German School Children Pause To Talk With Two East German Border Guards Beside An Opening In The Berlin Wall During The Collapse Of Communism In East Germany In November 1989 (Photo: Stephen Jaffe)

West German School Children Pause To Talk With Two East German Border Guards Beside An Opening In The Berlin Wall During The Collapse Of Communism In East Germany In November 1989 (Photo: Stephen Jaffe)

Final score:

735points

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Stefan 2 years ago

9 November 1989 was a great day.

363points

However, Darren R. Reid pointed out that not only politicians and governments contribute to bending the narrative, and suggested taking a closer look at the art produced by the people.

"The invasion of the Americas was frequently sanctioned and/or driven by governments, but it was the acts of 'ordinary' people that made it possible, and across that continent, a huge body of work was produced to justify, even encourage, some really terrible acts," he said. "American comic books and movies depicted Native Americans as simple, brutish, and savage. This helped to justify genocide and colonization as it was ongoing — and justify it, long after the most violent part of the process was complete. For a great example, check out the awful depiction of Native Americans in Disney’s Peter Pan. They helped to justify the colonial project to generations of children, right up to the present day."

As Sue Walsh, the creative director at SYPartners, wonderfully put it, the way we perceive the world is more fluid than the binaries of fact and fiction. Especially now that we live in what some call a post-truth era. So keep not only an open eye, but a sharp mind as well if you want to navigate it.

#15

Reporters Who Exposed The Watergate Scandal Watch President Nixon Resign, 1974

Final score:

695points

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Stefan 2 years ago

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

338points

#16

A Man Guards His Family From The Cannibals During The Madras Famine Of 1877 At The Time Of British Raj, India

Final score:

675points

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DUN DUN (she/her) 2 years ago (edited)

I don't care if anyone gets offended by this, bt fck those colonizing grassholes! This looks so painful to WATCH, the pain they must've gone through is beyond my capability to imagine.

891points

#17

A Man Takes A Selfie Using A Stick Of Wood To Activate The Camera, 1957

Final score:

658points

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lightbulb 2 years ago

The OG selfie stick.

320points

#18

French Soldiers Passing By A Dog Wearing Googles And Smoking A Pipe, 1915

Final score:

648points

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lightbulb 2 years ago

He's clearly the supervisor.

407points

#19

High School Teacher John T. Scopes Is Brought To Trial In Dayton, Tennessee For Teaching The Theory Of Evolution, Which Was Prohibited Under State Law. July 10, 1925

Final score:

616points

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Beverly Hasegawa 2 years ago

There are people today who want to return to those benighted days.

534points

#20

A Black U.S. Soldier Reads A Message Left By The Việt Cộng During The Vietnam War, The Message Reads: "U.S. Negro Armymen, You Are Committing The Same Ignominious Crimes In South Vietnam That The Kkk Clique Is Perpetrating Against Your Family At Home.", 1970.

A Black U.S. Soldier Reads A Message Left By The Việt Cộng During The Vietnam War, The Message Reads: "U.S. Negro Armymen, You Are Committing The Same Ignominious Crimes In South Vietnam That The Kkk Clique Is Perpetrating Against Your Family At Home.", 1970.

Final score:

615points

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Ray Martin 2 years ago

They weren't wrong.

470points

#21

David Attenborough Entertains Prince Charles And Princess Anne With A Cockatoo. 1958

Final score:

604points

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DennyS (denzoren) 2 years ago

If only he could be immortal and live forever.

392points

#22

Martin Luther King Jr. Removing A Burnt Cross From His Front Yard In 1960

Final score:

604points

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UncleRussian 2 years ago

Ugh, I hate how racist some people are. It's sad there are still racists, but we've gotten much better

207points

#23

A Young Female Welder Photographed By Bernard Hoffman In Connecticut, Circa 1943.

Final score:

598points

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Guy MacGregor 2 years ago

Florence Di Tullio, aka "Winnie the Welder"

255points

#24

Woman Cutting Her Birthday Cake In Iran 1973, 5 Years Before The Islamic Revolution

Final score:

596points

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Mitchell 2 years ago

Tragedy incoming. Imagine how this lady’s life unfolded after this.

331points

#25

A Makeshift Hospital In The Vietnam War, 1970

Final score:

580points

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A B C 2 years ago

Holy smokes. 😳

216points

#26

An Old Woman Leaving Her Home With Just A Portrait Of Her Husband And Rugs. Russian Soldiers Gave Her Just 5 Minutes To Pack Her Bags And Leave Before They Destroyed Her Home And Everything In It. Her Sons And Husband Were Already Dead. She Had Lost Everything. May 1995, Grozny

An Old Woman Leaving Her Home With Just A Portrait Of Her Husband And Rugs. Russian Soldiers Gave Her Just 5 Minutes To Pack Her Bags And Leave Before They Destroyed Her Home And Everything In It. Her Sons And Husband Were Already Dead. She Had Lost Everything. May 1995, Grozny

Final score:

574points

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Stefan 2 years ago (edited)

Photographer : Eric Bouvet. It would be nice to credit photographers, when possible.

488points

#27

Filming An Episode Of “The French Chef” With Julia Child, 1963

Final score:

568points

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Natalie 2 years ago

I love this kind of stuff!

214points

#28

Max Schreck Relaxing Behind The Scenes Of Nosferatu, 1922

Final score:

568points

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Ssss 2 years ago

Terrifying but a fantastic image

254points

#29

A Picture Of A Submerged Diver In 1899. Many Believe It To Be The First Photograph Taken Underwater

Final score:

566points

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(T)reacherou(S) 2 years ago

Wow!

129points

#30

John F. Kennedy Campaigning Door-To-Door In West Virginia (1960)

Final score:

559points

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Insert Generic Username 2 years ago

I don't know about anyone else but when someone comments that they're commenting to hide a rude comment, it draws my attention to the rude comment, not away from it.

241points

#31

Korean Mother Embraces Her Son, A Prisoner Of War Who Escaped His North Korean Pow Camp Shortly After The Signing Of The Korean Armistice Agreement, Which Ended The Widespread Fighting Of The Korean War, 1953.

Korean Mother Embraces Her Son, A Prisoner Of War Who Escaped His North Korean Pow Camp Shortly After The Signing Of The Korean Armistice Agreement, Which Ended The Widespread Fighting Of The Korean War, 1953.

Final score:

547points

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Ladymatic 2 years ago

Ohhhh the feels.

140points

#32

Chinese Guerrilla Fighter Cheng Benhua 成本華 Smiling Moment Before Execution By The Japanese, She Was 24. (Late 1938) [502 X 806]

Final score:

544points

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Kayla J 2 years ago

her executioners (among other things) are the smirking ones behind her

194points

#33

Sailors Saluting A War Veteran, Leningrad 1989

Final score:

542points

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Okokok! 2 years ago

You go to war(s) to fight for your country (and your loved ones), being highly decorated for your service but still don't get a minimum of respect by providing a wheelchair by the government. Military respects its soldiers / veterans... my ass.

232points

#34

Students Dance In Tiananmen Square Before The Arrival Of The Chinese Military, June 4th 1989

Final score:

541points

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Otter 2 years ago

I know someone who was there, an American who was studying abroad. She's good folks, the protestors were good folks, but the good guys don't always win.

298points

#35

Chief Low Dog - An Oglala Lakota Chief Who Fought With Sitting Bull At The Battle Of Little Bighorn, C. 1881

Final score:

528points

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Walking On Sunshine 2 years ago

STOIC

98points

#36

The Queen Consort Of Mongolia, Genepil, In Mongolia. The Last Queen Consort And Married To The Bogd Khaganate, Bogd Khan, Until His Death On April 17th, 1924, When The Monarchy Was Abolished. She Was Killed During The Stalinist Purges In May 1938. Photograph Dated January 1st, 1923

The Queen Consort Of Mongolia, Genepil, In Mongolia. The Last Queen Consort And Married To The Bogd Khaganate, Bogd Khan, Until His Death On April 17th, 1924, When The Monarchy Was Abolished. She Was Killed During The Stalinist Purges In May 1938. Photograph Dated January 1st, 1923

Final score:

520points

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T. D. Bostick 2 years ago

Looks like Naboo.

170points

#37

Rare Photo Showing Niagara Falls Without Water, 1969

Final score:

498points

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T. D. Bostick 2 years ago

How?

180points

#38

Mt St Helens The 17th Of May 1980 And 4 Months Later

Final score:

481points

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Adam C 2 years ago

Chuck Norris was here.

123points

#39

David Bowie After Being Arrested For Marijuana Possession In Rochester, 1976

Final score:

478points

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Raven Sheridan 2 years ago

The man is the epitome of photogenic!

405points

#40

Photograph Of The First Official Defector Of The "German Democratic Republic", Conrad Schumann, Who Escaped To The Western Side On August 15, 1961 After Jumping The Unfinished Area Of the Fence That He Guarded.

Photograph Of The First Official Defector Of The "German Democratic Republic", Conrad Schumann, Who Escaped To The Western Side On August 15, 1961 After Jumping The Unfinished Area Of the Fence That He Guarded.

Final score:

462points

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LisaMarie 2 years ago

Unfortunately he ended up committing suicide 😔

161points

#41

Eiffel Tower Under Construction, July 1888 [colorized]

Final score:

454points

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Bernd Herbert 2 years ago (edited)

In the background you can see the halls constructed for the world fair 1889. All of which have been demolished afterwards unfortunately. The tower was the hightes building in the world until the Chrysler Building was finished in 1930.

142points

#42

Kubrick Taking A Photo With Daughter Vivian, On The Set Of The Shining. Nicholson Thought He Himself Was The Photo’s Subject. 1980

Final score:

443points

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Steffen Rehm 2 years ago

Ha! Imagine someone waves at you, you wave awkwardly back and it was the person behind you. That would be the same level of awkward i think. :D Poor Nicholson.

172points

#43

Actor And Martial Arts Star Jackie Chan At The Benefit Concert In Hong Kong, In Support Of Tiananmen Square Protesters - 1989

Final score:

434points

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Exquisite Spam 2 years ago

Alas, that's all changed and he's now very pro-CCP

132points

#44

The Director Of The Belgrade Zoo Tries To Convince Sami The Chimpanzee To Return Home After He Escaped, 1988

Final score:

424points

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Milan 2 years ago

Imprisoning animals just for people’s fun. Disgusting…

147points

#45

Indigenous Children Forced To Pray To God In A Residential School Ran By The Canadian Government And Catholic Church Between 1930 And 1970, Unknown Location

Final score:

407points

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Alexia 2 years ago (edited)

Because that's how you teach God's love - by coercion. Poor kids.

436points

#46

Babies Left To Sleep Outside, Enforcing Immune Sistem, Moscow 1958

Final score:

405points

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(T)reacherou(S) 2 years ago

This is normal in scandinavia!

292points

#47

Coal Miner Waiting To Get Into The Communal Shower At The End Of His Shift, Taken In Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 1958. By Photographer Max Scheler

Final score:

402points

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Ember 2 years ago

Stunning photo

131points

#48

Archduke Franz Ferdinand And His Wife Minutes Before Assassination That Would Lead To Ww1, 1914 [colorized]

Final score:

383points

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Willem Hunse 2 years ago

Nice hat

100points

#49

People Fighting To Get On A Plane In Nha Trang, April 1, 1975, During The Us Withdrawal From South Vietnam

Final score:

356points

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Daria Z 2 years ago

It reminds me of Afghanistan a few months before.

379points

#50

Nirvana During The Photo Shoot For Their Album Nevermind, Which Was Released 30 Years Ago. 1991

Final score:

349points

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UncleRussian 2 years ago

Ugh, the baby for the cover has grown up into an insufferable a$$hole, just look up "Nirvana baby drama" and you'll see what that d*ckhead has been up to

344points

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#51

Frederick Douglass With His Musician Grandson Joseph Douglass, 1894.

Final score:

87points

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Caro Caro 2 years ago

During the time following the Civil War, many African-American musicians began to break into the art music genre. Joseph Douglass, a concert violinist, was one of the first African-American performers to be nationally and internationally renowned. His influence came at an early age from his father and grandfather, famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who were both amateur violin players. He studied violin at Boston Conservatory. Douglass received his first big break as a concert violinist at the age of 22 when he performed at the World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair. On August 25, 1893, performers joined together to celebrate Colored American Day (which Frederick Douglass helped plan).

13points

#52

21-Years-Old Yves Saint Laurent At Christian Dior's Funeral, 1957

Final score:

85points

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varwenea 2 years ago

He's so dapper.

24points

#53

“One Of America’s Youngest Newsboys. Four Years Old And Regular Seller. Tampa, Florida.” - 1913

Final score:

83points

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Hope Nope 2 years ago

I hope this boy grew up to live a great life

40points

#54

A Hippie Girl Selling Roadside Flowers In Oklahoma, 1973

Final score:

80points

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Eppe 2 years ago

Halfway this interesting but overall rather depressing post I'm going to cut my losses at this lovely image and start my day.

22points

#55

The Consequences Of Landing On The Wrong Aircraft Carrier, 1952

Final score:

79points

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Natalie 2 years ago

That’s hilarious

30points

#56

A United States Soldier Holds Up A Jungle Centipede During The Vietnam War, 1967

Final score:

78points

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T. D. Bostick 2 years ago

Kill it with fire!

39points

#57

Florence Thompson, The Migrant Mother In Dorothea Lange's Famous 1936 Photo, Holds Up Her Likeness During An Interview After Her Identity Was Discovered, October 10, 1978

Final score:

78points

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Thomas Sweda 2 years ago

Thankfully, it looks like her life improved somewhat.

29points

#58

Using A Vacuum Cleaner, 1906

Final score:

78points

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Ann Pattinson 2 years ago

Thats what vacuuming the house always feels like to me😅X

10points

#59

One Of Only Two Certified Photographs Of Billy The Kid (Top Hat). Playing Cards With His Accomplices. 1877

Final score:

78points

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Walking On Sunshine 2 years ago

Wow, he *was* just a kid.

20points

#60

Ww2: Chinese And Malayan Girls Forcibly Taken From Penang By The Japanese To Work As 'Comfort Girls' For The Troops. 1939-1945

Final score:

76points

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Jo Choto 2 years ago

Let's call this what it really was. The Japanese abducted countless numbers of women and girls and forced them into sexual slavery to satisfy the whims of Japanese soldiers.

163points

#61

Gaurds Of Delhi Darbar India Posing With James Recalton An American Photographer In 1903

Final score:

75points

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Natalie 2 years ago

Are they just very large or is he very small?

55points

#62

Theodosian Walls Of Constantinople, Ottoman Empire. 1870.

Final score:

74points

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H G 2 years ago

I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that the Ottoman Empire still existed in 1870, and would for another 50 years!

19points

#63

Mountain Of Buffalo Skulls In 1892 At The Height Of Their Endangerment

Final score:

72points

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Otter 2 years ago

Remember, the buffalo weren't slaughtered because the Americans needed the meat or the hides, they were slaughtered so the Plains Tribes would starve.

114points

#64

Miners In The Serra Pelada Gold Mines In Brazil, 1980s

Final score:

72points

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Maiun 2 years ago

1980?! Seriously?

38points

#65

John Lennon Signing An Autograph For Mark David Chapman, The Man Who Would Kill Him Five Hours Later, NYC, 1980

Final score:

71points

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Thomson StClair 2 years ago

creepy

13points

#66

Textile Worker, Taken By Nikolay Matorin, Ussr, C. 1960

Final score:

70points

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Maximum Ride 2 years ago

Very surreal effect

14points

#67

Ku Klux Klan Members On A Ferris Wheel In An Amusement Park In Cañon City, Colorado, April 26th 1926

Final score:

69points

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Ember 2 years ago

What an interesting picture on so many levels. Creepy as hell, but fascinating.

73points

#68

Princess Diana Losing An Argument To Her 7 Year Old Son.around 1991,

Final score:

68points

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Kayla J 2 years ago

aka Harry, who I'm sorry, but as a child who did that same gesture, is not winning that argument gettyimage...527652.jpg another photo from the same event

35points

#69

Daughters Of Tsar Nicolas II During A Summer Cruise In Finland, 1908

Final score:

67points

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Otter 2 years ago

Why oh WHY didn't Nicholas send his daughters abroad when things started to go to hell!

36points

#70

Mobsters Hide Their Faces At Al Capone's Trial 1931

Final score:

67points

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Steve R 2 years ago

Bob Fosse saw this picture and the rest is history.

33points

#71

Elisabeth "Lilo" Gloeden Stands Before Judges, On Trial For Being Involved In The Attempt On Adolf Hitler's Life, 1944

Final score:

65points

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Kayla J 2 years ago

She along with her husband and mother were executed for sheltering Franz Lindemann, one of the failed plotters who was injured when arrested and died in custody wiki has their plaques and story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_the_Gloeden_family

35points

#72

Boiler Explosion Of C&o T-1 #3020 On May 1948

Final score:

63points

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Jill 2 years ago

Cthulhu is that you?

55points

#73

Us Medic Gives First Aid To A Wounded German Ss Soldier, France 1944

Final score:

62points

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RNA 2 years ago

Human being is still a human being, no matter the uniform

27points

#74

What Is Now The Fully Developed Las Vegas Strip, 1955

Final score:

62points

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Peej Maybe 2 years ago

So that's where Mater's hood got to!

20points

#75

A View Of The Destruction In Old Town Dresden From The Town Hall Tower, 15 Feb 1945.

Final score:

61points

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LostSoul 2 years ago

My grandma survied this warcrime (yes it was, sorry to say - and I am not right-wing!), she came to the city as a refugee from Silesia. Came with nothing and left with only her life later. She never talked about what she experinced.

33points

#76

Pyramid Of German Helmets In Celebration Of Victory, Grand Central, New York, 1919

Final score:

60points

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KatHat 2 years ago

Wow, so many people here unable to distinguish between an actual human head and the object manufactured to cover it. Explains a bit about our current times.

4points

#77

Tucker Sno-Cat Hovering Over A Crevasse During The Transantarctic Expedition, 1954

Final score:

60points

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User# 6 2 years ago

Brown trousers all around, I'd say.

46points

#78

The Only Known Color Photograph Of The Russian Czar's Fabled "Amber Room" - Looted By The Nazi's This Unique, Priceless Work Of Art Was Lost For Ever (Maybe?). St Petersburg, 1943

Final score:

59points

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Gaya Knust 2 years ago

I'm sure this has been said countless times, but I'll say it again: Fück you, Hitler!

20points

#79

The Champs-Élysées As Seen From The Arc De Triomphe, Ve Day. Paris, France, May 8, 1945. [colorization]

Final score:

59points

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Henry Hagens 2 years ago

Wow! The colours make it look CGI

4points

#80

Puritan Picket Against Too Revealing Swimwear On A Florida Beach, 1985. USA “You Will Follow To Hell.”

Final score:

58points

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Daria Z 2 years ago

Hahaha 🤦‍♀️

28points

#81

George N. Barnard's 1864 Photograph Of A Slave Trader's Business On Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Georgia, Shows A United States Colored Troop Infantryman [corporal] Just By The Door.

Final score:

56points

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Ember 2 years ago

We can never erase our history (although many try), the point is to learn from it and do better.

54points

#82

Student Survivors Head To A Library Near Columbine High School Where Students And Faculty Members Were Evacuated After Two Gunmen Went On A Shooting Rampage In The School. Tuesday, April 20, 1999.

Final score:

56points

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Not Proud British 2 years ago

And the shootings continue.....

39points

#83

Tutankhamun's Head. Harry Burrton Photo Published Dec. 1925. @ Griffin Institute/Oxford University.

Final score:

56points

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Kona Pake 2 years ago

Will there ever be an ending to grave robbing?

27points

#84

American Film Actress Veronica Lake Illustrates What Can Happen To Women War Workers Who Wear Their Hair Long While Working At Their Benches, In A Factory Somewhere In America, On November 9, 1943

Final score:

56points

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Helenium 2 years ago

Poor Veronica Lake, discarded by Hollywood died poor and alone

32points

#85

Shigeru Miyamoto, Creator Of Mario And Other Characters And Video Games For Nintendo, Holds A Nintendo Game Boy Containing The Super Mario World Video Game. June 1992

Final score:

56points

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Kona Pake 2 years ago

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#86

Finnish Soldiers In Nbc Gear, 1961

Final score:

53points

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Stefan 2 years ago

Don't mess with finnish soldiers.

28points

#87

Bulgarian Soldier Giving His Best Battle Cry For The Camera, Ca. 1916.

Final score:

52points

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jammer 2 years ago

Way ahead of his time, or didn’t understand how cameras worked back then. Make this a new tiktok challenge.

3points

#88

Ground View Of Human Fly George Willig Climbing The South Tower Of The World Trade Center In New York City, May 26, 1977

Final score:

52points

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MARGARET SCHILLING 2 years ago

What?!

9points

#89

Hitler Rehearsing A Speech In Front Of A Mirror, Taken By His Personal Photographer Heinrich Hoffman, 1925

Final score:

51points

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DUN DUN (she/her) 2 years ago

Ah yes, the jazz hands

50points

#90

Grande Hotel, Beira, Mozambique (1960s-2000s)

Final score:

51points

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Jo Choto 2 years ago

I went there in the 70s. Endless war has destroyed so much of Africa.

19points

#91

Italian-American Cafe, Macdougal Street, NY, 1942

Final score:

51points

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Ivy la Sangrienta 2 years ago

I would trip over those wires on the floor, guaranteed.

11points

#92

Young Boys Harassing The Horace Baker Family, The First African American Family To Move Into The All White Delmar Village Neighborhood Of Folcroft, Pennsylvania - Aug. 30, 1963.

Final score:

51points

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Otter 2 years ago

That boy is probably still alive, and is still a f*****g dirtbag.

85points

#93

16-Year-Old Brenda Spencer Leaves Court In Santa Ana, California, After Pleading Guilty To Two Counts Of Murder In A Sniper Attack. She Killed Two People And Wounded Nine Others. 1979

Final score:

50points

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Kayla J 2 years ago

aka "I don't like Mondays"

66points

#94

President Gerald Ford And Pele Play With A Soccer Ball In The Rose Garden, June 28, 1975

Final score:

50points

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Dodo 2 years ago

I want Pele's suit

21points

#95

Soviet Soldiers Celebrate Returning Home Alive, 1945

Final score:

49points

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Sarcastic Cow 2 years ago

Yeah, welcome to long - living hell.

10points

#96

Barbara Walters During Her Freshman Year At Sarah Lawrence College In 1949

Final score:

49points

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Losferatu 2 years ago

Damn she was hot!

31points

#97

A Man Exercises Using A Rowing Machine In The Gym Aboard The Rms Titanic, 1912.

Final score:

49points

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T. D. Bostick 2 years ago

You'll need those rowing muscles soon.

63points

#98

Jean Bedel Bokassa During His Coronation Ceremony To Make Himself Emperor Bokassa The First, Central African Republic 1977. The Ceremony Wasted A Third Of The Car's Entire Annual Fiscal Budget.

Final score:

48points

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EEF🤓 2 years ago

Egomania

39points

#99

A Dutch Athlete Receives A Portrait Of Adolf Hitler As A Sports Prize, Presented By General Otto Schumann, Commander Of The Ordnungspolizei. The Hague, The Netherlands, 1941

Final score:

48points

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Dave van Es 2 years ago

Thanks, I hate it

126points

#100

Harry S. Truman As A Captain During Wwi, 1918

Final score:

47points

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Bora Zrinyi 2 years ago

There was a lot of pockets in thoose trousers.

0points

#101

Soviet Rock Fans Attend A Concert In Moscow On September 28, 1991. Half A Million People Jammed An Airfield To See The Soviet Union’s Biggest Western Rock Concert, Touted As A Gift To Russian Youth For Their Resistance Last Month’s Coup.

Soviet Rock Fans Attend A Concert In Moscow On September 28, 1991. Half A Million People Jammed An Airfield To See The Soviet Union’s Biggest Western Rock Concert, Touted As A Gift To Russian Youth For Their Resistance Last Month’s Coup.

Final score:

47points

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Kayla J 2 years ago

According to Rickyabunchofnumbers on that Reddit links "AC/DC, E.S.T., Metallica, Pantera & The Black Crowes share the same stage." They even have a video if you click the link, it is the top comment

15points

#102

Spring Break In California, 1947

Final score:

47points

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Not Proud British 2 years ago

They are not stick thin! See how fashion can change women's body shapes whilst men's body shape tends to stay the same.

31points

#103

Bill Clinton & White House Intern, Monica Lewinsky, 1998

Final score:

45points

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Gelato Cat 2 years ago

That woman was public ally ridiculed by everyone, yet no one took into account bill Clinton was much older, her boss and the most powerful man in America, she deserves an apology from everyone who shamed her

119points

#104

J.k. Rowling Writing Harry Potter At A Café In Scotland (1998)

Final score:

44points

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Peej Maybe 2 years ago

Time-travelling Ron Weasley in the background...

53points

#105

Female Nigerian Slave Trader Efunroye Tinubu (C. 1880)

Final score:

44points

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Caro Caro 2 years ago

She sold slaves to Brazilian and European merchants in violation of a 1852 treaty with Great Britain outlawing the slave trade in Lagos, which resulted in her coming into conflict with the British. She was exiled to Abeokuta under British pressure after plotting an unsuccessful conspiracy to remove British influence from Lagos. While in Abeokuta, she helped supply the city with munition during its victorious war against the Kingdom of Dahomey, thus granting her the chieftancy title of Iyalode in her honour.

30points

#106

The Temporary Grave Of Theodore Roosevelt In Normandy, Soon After His Death, July 1944. [colorization]

Final score:

42points

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Kayla J 2 years ago

This is of course Theodore Roosevelt Jr, Teddy's eldest son

61points

#107

A South Korean Soldier Forcibly Cuts A Young Man's Hair In Front Of Others During A Nationwide Crackdown On Men With Long Hair And Women Wearing Short Skirts In South Korea - 1970s

Final score:

41points

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Rucha Vanarase 2 years ago

This is horrible.

26points

#108

A Japanese Soldier Wades Into The Sea Off Cape Endaiadere, New Guinea, With A Grenade Against His Head Moments Before It Goes Off, Defying An Australian Soldier Calling On Him To Surrender, December 18, 1942

A Japanese Soldier Wades Into The Sea Off Cape Endaiadere, New Guinea, With A Grenade Against His Head Moments Before It Goes Off, Defying An Australian Soldier Calling On Him To Surrender, December 18, 1942

Final score:

41points

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Steffen Rehm 2 years ago

I am lucky to life in a country and time, to not experience that s**t, besides movies, internet and books.

25points

#109

1892, Logging Family With A 1300 Year Old Tree

Final score:

41points

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Zwiebel Suppe 2 years ago

But why cut it down? :(

38points

#110

Stalin In Bailov Prison, Baku, Azerbaijan, March 1910. [colorized By Me]

Final score:

40points

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Sarcastic Cow 2 years ago

He had to stay there.

12points

#111

Arctic Explorer Peter Freuchen Stands Next To His Third Wife, Dagmar Freuchen-Gale. He Is Wearing A Polar Bear Coat Made From A Bear He Killed Himself, 1947

Final score:

40points

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Kris 2 years ago

He looks huge! Or maby just a tiny wife :)

24points

#112

In Response To The Anti-Japanese Sentiment That Followed The Attack On Pearl Harbor, The Japanese-American Citizens League Opened The Anti-Axis Committee Office On December 14, 1941. It Was Part Of Their Campaign To Demonstrate The Loyalty Of American-Born Japanese Citizens To The Us

In Response To The Anti-Japanese Sentiment That Followed The Attack On Pearl Harbor, The Japanese-American Citizens League Opened The Anti-Axis Committee Office On December 14, 1941. It Was Part Of Their Campaign To Demonstrate The Loyalty Of American-Born Japanese Citizens To The Us

Final score:

39points

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Kimi Tomminello 2 years ago

And yet..... 😥

17points

#113

Nelson Mandela At A South African Communist Party Rally. Soweto, 1990.

Final score:

39points

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FOX_MULDER 2 years ago

palpable enthusiasm xD

3points

#114

British Schoolboys Holding Discarded Syringes, 1970s. "We Used To Play With These In School All The Time Because They Were Like Mini Water Pistols (Without The Needle)."

Final score:

39points

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Mitchell 2 years ago

Sad

9points

#115

Former President Andrew Jackson Aged 78, One Of The Few Existing Photographs Of Him, Taken In 1845, The Year He Died

Final score:

38points

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Shine Caramia 2 years ago

Truly a monster.

30points

#116

Adolf Hitler And Ludwig Wittgenstein In 1903

Final score:

38points

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El muerto 2 years ago

s**t. those are two different lives for those who don't know Wittgenstein was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century...a "Jew" and bisexual

34points

#117

Jurassic Park: The Ride Officially Opened At Universal Studios Hollywood. Here, Steven Spielberg And Jeff Goldblum Lift The Torches For The Ride's Grand Opening On June 21, 1996

Final score:

37points

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#118

President Lyndon B. Johnson Drives His Amphicar On The Lake Of His Texas Ranch In 1965

Final score:

37points

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Dodo 2 years ago

Didn't he used to drive it into lakes without telling people it was amphibious?

21points

#119

Vladimir Lenin Plays Chess (Yelling Checkmate) With Alexander Bogdanov During A Visit To Maxim Gorky, Capri, Italy, 1908 -

Final score:

35points

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Rijkærd 2 years ago

....and he lost. Source: my tired brain,circa 2022.

4points

#120

A Soviet Mi-8 Helicopter Flying Past One Of The Two Buddhas Of Bamiyan, Afghanistan 1980

Final score:

32points

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Bernd Herbert 2 years ago

f**k you Taliban!

38points

#121

Two French Men Restrain A Woman While Another Cuts Her Hair After She Has Been Accused Of Collaborating With The Germans During The Occupation, 1945. [colorization]

Final score:

32points

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Ray Martin 2 years ago

Of course "collaborating" probably meant staying alive in any way she could, and feeding her kids scraps the Germans gave her for "favours". These heroes probably did their own raping and pillaging, but they did it for France.

53points

#122

Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Is Married To Greek Magnate Aristotle Onassis, 1968

Final score:

31points

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CrunChewy McSandybutt 2 years ago

Oh, I didn't realize they were married in the late 60s. For some reason, I thought it was in the 80s.

7points

#123

President Nixon Dines With Chinese Leaders In Beijing, 1972

Final score:

31points

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Susan S 2 years ago

He looks like he's thinking, "What the hell is this?"

61points

#124

A Pic Of Turkish Military Exercise In Istanbul Against To Danger Of Chemical Attack.(1939)

Final score:

30points

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R.E.O. Speedwagon 2 years ago

Looks like something out of Fallout

9points

#125

Paul Tibbets, The Man Who Dropped The Atomic Bomb On Hiroshima, Pictured In 1996

Final score:

-5points

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Guy MacGregor 2 years ago

I know this won't be appreciated, but the atomic bomb attacks were war crimes. It is against the rules of war (and morale) to attack civilians, hospitals and non-combatants. This bomb (and the next) killed children, destroyed schools and hospitals without any distinction. The USA never were the good guys but at this moment was too much, even for them.

98points