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This Facebook Group Shares Curious Historical Artefacts From The Past, Here Are 50 Of The Most Interesting
World history is the narrative of humanity's past, understood and studied through archaeology, anthropology, genetics, and linguistics. Since the invention of writing, human history has been studied through primary and secondary source documents.
And the chances are you had (or have) a fair amount of this discipline back in high school and if you hadn’t slept through it, you’d have much better knowledge of it than you do now.
In fact, an article in The New York Times reported "Only 22 percent of American students had mastered enough history in their high school days to identify two contributions made by Lincoln to this country." The thing is, it was published in 1943, but it could have been written today.
Luckily, there’s this Facebook page dedicated to sharing some of the most interesting and lesser known bits of history. It won’t make us re-learn everything from scratch, but it will surely spark this lost interest into the times of the past.
Titled “The World Of History,” the page reminds us how similar yet different humans were hundreds of years ago compared with us today. Below, we wrapped up some of the most interesting posts shared here, so scroll down and enjoy!
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#1
A Victorian Couple Trying Not To Laugh While Getting Their Portraits Done, 1890s
Kristal 3 years ago
Lol omg, I posted the same thing! I deleted my comment though since you posted first
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RaroaRaroa 3 years ago
Yes. Old portrait photos make it look like everyone was having a miserable time, all the time.
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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
A good one for showing to people who think the smile wasn't invented until 1951.
Colin Timp 3 years ago
The reason that people didn't smile in old photos was because the exposure took much longer. It's hard to hold a smile in the same position; so you'd wind up with a blurry face. The photographer would tell people just to hold a blank face.
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Michelle M 3 years ago
Look at them trying desperately to hold their laugh in the third frame. I think it's the funniest.
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
This has to be one of my all time favourite series of portraits. The love and joy they have for one another is clear.
Remen Zack 3 years ago
It's always a delight to see photos or read stories from the past. I'm here for this, BP 😍
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#2
A Serbian Soldier Sleeps With His Father Who Came To Visit Him On The Front Line Near Belgrade, 1914/1915
Daniele Ribolla 3 years ago
look at father's "shoes"... completely broke, but walked to be with his son. 💖💖💖
#3
An East German Border Guard Offers A Flower Through A Gap In The Berlin Wall On The Morning It Fell, 1989
Kassiopeia 3 years ago
🎶Vielen Dank für die Blumen, vielen Dank wie lieb von dir🎶
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There’s something uncanny and absolutely fascinating about looking at old photographs that document the people, the events, the places, the current affairs of the past. It also challenges our perception of time, because as distant as we feel from the subjects shown in the photographs, we still share this similarity that’s impossible to ignore.
According to Lisa Yaszek, a Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech where she researches and teaches science fiction as a global language crossing centuries, continents, and cultures, old photos affect our perception of time in unique ways like nothing else:
“By making abstract historical events visually concrete, giving us an emotional connection to eras we might not otherwise know very much about, exactly, through books or family stories,” she explained in our previous in-depth interview on a similar topic.
#4
Noodle Delivery Boy In Tokyo, 1935
Night Owl 3 years ago
Jenga level: Extreme https://twitter.com/PubityIG/status/1556590287266398209
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Farid Red 3 years ago
In modern days, my food delivery guy cannot even sent my simple food without spill it. but this guy, riding a bicycle, can deliver a tower of food without spill a drop of soup!
Wax0nWax0ff 3 years ago
The order is brought wrong half or more of the time, too! Bet this guy didn’t even get tips
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Seth 3 years ago
I'm inclined to believe that he normally delivers a smaller stack, and this one was done up for the photo. It's hard to imagine this being normal.
Connie Martin 3 years ago
I've seen pictures of similar feats by delivery bicyclists that were taken in the last few years.
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#5
A Native American Mother And Her Child, 1900s
Robert T 3 years ago
Oooh, I can finally say "papoose", which is the thing the baby is carried in. :D
Abby 3 years ago
i always wondered what those were called. they look really cool
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Michael Violette 3 years ago
That's a remarkable picture. Beautiful mother with her beautiful child.
#6
On July 17, 1967, A Florida Lineman Named Randall Champion Accidentally Touched A High-Voltage Line — Which Sent 4,000 Volts Of Electricity Through His Body And Stopped His Heart
Luckily, his friend and fellow lineman J.D. Thompson was close enough to perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation until paramedics arrived. Thanks to Thompson's quick thinking, Champion survived the incident, and even reported to work the following week.
Unbeknownst to Champion and Thompson, a photographer for the Jacksonville Journal was standing just below them to capture this daring rescue. From the ground, Rocco Morabito snapped one of the most moving images in history — "The Kiss of Life."
Panda Kicki 3 years ago
Is it possible to start a heart with mouth to mouth only? Or did he somehow managed to do compressions as well? Last CPR-education I was at told us to skip mouth to mouth completely and only do compressions as the unconsious body gets enough air from the compression movements itself.
Syrinety 3 years ago
I think you are right. But I also think that doing something is better than doing nothing
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Panda in the Fake South 3 years ago
This may be the last time this Pic sees the light of day. Comrade DeSantis will probably have it destroyed and banned by the "don't say gay" bill. If math can be gay so can life saving first aid.
oscar Carserud 1 year ago
I was instructed in 1981 that in the case of electrocution, mouth to mouth where the right way to go.
alien weazel 3 years ago
The cpr comments are from idiots. Things change. It was different in the past. Signed a paramedic from 40 years ago.
Fish Fingers 3 years ago
What happened to life-saver Bob after this photo was published? I only ask as Muricans aren't know for their tolerance of things that 'might' be considered a bit gay by the righty's.
Tessb90 3 years ago (edited)
I'm not sure why you had down-votes, it seemed like a fair enough question to me. I don't know if anyone can help for the sake of clarity?
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While looking back into history from the present standpoint, it’s easier to imagine that life was simpler back in the day. But the photos are evidence that’s not the case. In fact, people in the past led rich and complex lives, just as we do today.
#7
During WWII, Jews In Budapest Were Brought To The Edge Of The Danube, Ordered To Remove Their Shoes, And Shot, Falling Into The Water Below
60 pairs of iron shoes now line the river's bank, a ghostly memorial to the victims. 'Shoes on the Danube Promenade' by Can Togay and Gyula Pauer.
troufaki13 3 years ago
All those years of wars and suffering and humanity still hasn't learned... :(
Joy Hunter 3 years ago
The National Museum of the Holocaust, in Washington, DC (part of the Smithsonian) displays, among other many things, several hundred shoes of all sizes, children's and adults. Absolutely heartbreaking.
Tamra 3 years ago
I couldn't get through the exhibit without tears, and the mood was very sombre and quiet. Hard to wrap one's mind around such an atrocity.
Load More Replies... Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
Absolutely horrific and so heart-achingly sad that so many innocent lives were lost. This is why teaching children about the Holocaust is so incredibly vital.
Jill Rhodry 3 years ago
Excuse my ignorance....what would've been the purpose of making them remove their shoes?
Saint Thomas 3 years ago
Shoes were valuable, as well as clothes or other things. According to facinghistory.org : "Men's underwear, men's clothing, including footwear, were first to fill staff needs at the concentration camps and then to be sent, for sale, to the troops as an undertaking of the Ethnic German Welfare Office (VOMI). The proceeds were to go to the Reich. Women's clothing, underwear, and footwear and also children's clothing and underwear were to go to VOMI for cash. "
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#8
3 People Pose For A Photo Whilst Wearing Face Masks During The Second Wave Of The Spanish Flu In California; 1918
Livingroom Panda 3 years ago (edited)
that sign should be a law edit: thanks for the upvotes! i didn't ever think id get that many
Sue User 3 years ago
It was a law. And people who now say " my freedom" are the same people who passed draconian laws around people who had aids ( mandatory reporting, could not hold certain jobs, etc )
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Panda in the Fake South 3 years ago
I saw the dumbest sticker in Florida (of course). "Sick until proven healthy is no less tyrannical than guilty until proven innocent". My state is full of selfish idiots.
Mary Rogers 3 years ago
Or maybe we just are victims of more propaganda than our ancestors. They didn't have Faux News and the internet.
Load More Replies... GlassHalfWay 3 years ago
This has been on BP numerous times and I'm sure other platforms throughout the past 2 years, ppl still not "inspired" to wear n care for others
Fieke Engelen 3 years ago
And we've again been going through it for last few years. Not quite that stricked ed
#9
Injured Dog In An Animal Ambulance Used During Ww2
Kimberley McMillan 3 years ago
I would insist on shouting "weeee-oooo weeee-ooooo weeeeee-oooooo" as I hurried down the street carrying that.
“For instance, we tend to assume that in the past, women were limited to work as wives and mothers, and we certainly see a number of images here celebrating women’s work in the home. But we also see women doing all sorts of work in the public sphere as well—everything from attending school graduations and working on supercomputers to taking back the streets of postwar London and bouncing drunks out of bars!”
#10
Father, Son, Grandfather And Great Grandfather, New Guinea, 1970
Michelle C 3 years ago
I couldn’t tell who was the great -grandfather and who was the grandfather. Wow!! The kid got some good genes and I imagine he or she lived a long and full life!
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Michelle M 3 years ago
Wow. Study the vast difference in the facial structure of the great-grandfather and the young boy. Interesting! Also, there's really no difference between their skin and that of anyone else's. That's the effect of lack of protection from harsh weather conditions. If I lived most of my life outside, had houses that do not completely protect me, never seen sunscreen or lotion, that'd be me. Just wanted to point that out.
Nimues Child 3 years ago
Do you think part of the difference in facial structure could be because the child is still young enough to have that round face of childhood that might well disappear as they approach puberty? I'm asking out of pure curiosity only.
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Happy_Pandalover 3 years ago (edited)
love this. i can‘t tell who is the grandfather and who is the great grandfather? either way they all havr incredible body statures, which come from their active lifestyles.
the_anonyMrs_Mir 3 years ago
My final decision is that the gentleman on the right is the great-grandfather.
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Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
It looks like it's a septum piercing/ornament of some sort. Some of the tribes of indigenous people of New Guinea (Papuans) practice septum piercing as an adulthood ritual, or just for ornamentation. The piercing is usually made of bone, tusk, or shell.
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#11
Double Leg Amputee Railway Signalman, James Wide, Photographed Working Alongside His Pet And Assistant, Jack Baboon, In Cape Town During The 1880s
James Wide purchased a chacma baboon in 1881 and trained him to push his wheelchair and to operate the railway signals under supervision.
After initial scepticism, the railway decided to officially employ Jack once his job competency was verified. The baboon was paid twenty cents a day, and half a bottle of a beer each week. It is widely reported in his nine years of employment with the railway company, Jack never made a single mistake. That's is wild and he worked there for nine years.
Dave Nalesnik 3 years ago
Did he end up a double amputee BEFORE or AFTER hiring the baboon as an assistant signalman?
LottieH 3 years ago
"He trained him to push his wheelchair" so I am gonna go with before.
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Tyranamar Seuss 3 years ago
Put some feet on those legs! My goodness. He must have great balance!
Seedy Vine 3 years ago
"James 'Jumper' Wide had been known for jumping between railcars until an accident where he fell and lost both of his legs." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_(baboon)
#12
Children Going To School Having To Cross A River By Pulley, Modena, Italy, 1959
Dave Nalesnik 3 years ago
How I will henceforth describe my school commute to children and grandchildren.
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Enrico Righetti 3 years ago
This was on the river Panaro, 15 km from where I live. The bridge of Ponte Samone was destroyed during WWII, and rebuilt only in the 1960s, but the school was on the other side. https://smargiassi-michele.blogautore.repubblica.it/2018/05/30/franco-gremignani-guiglia-bambini-scuola-carrucola-montecuccoli/
Casey Payne 3 years ago
"Rebecca, where is your homework? This the second time. If there is a third..." "I'm going to stop you right there. You try ziplining across the river in a dress, in the dark, and see how many things fly out of your possession because you have no damn pockets. Come at me after you have done that and let's compare notes."
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
Don't you talk to me about having to wake up earlier. When I was your age we had to trudge 2 miles in the pouring rain and then zip line over a raging river. We were stronger youth back then-- it put real hair on our chest.
Tyranamar Seuss 3 years ago
It looks like it angles up at both ends. How do they not get stuck in the middle?
“And that is what old photos do best: they remind us that people in the past have had many of the same challenges and triumphs as we have, and that we can look to them for inspiration regarding how to make sense of the present and build new futures,” Yaszek concluded.
#13
A British Sailor Removing The Leg Chains Off An Enslaved Man Who Had Worn Them For Three Years
The enslaved man, along with others, had escaped a slave-trading post off the coast of Oman when they heard the Royal Navy was nearby. (1907)
Tamra 3 years ago
How a person, or group of people, feel they have the right to OWN another human being is beyond my ability to understand or forgive.
Seth 3 years ago
You see this attitude all the time if you know how to look for it. Someone yelling at a barista to make their overly complex coffee again is only being that way because they truly believe that paying ~$6 means that you OWN that person for 5 minutes. There's not actually a worker shortage; Americans treating service workers like slaves and managers not supporting them created a morality shortage.
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Gary L. Street 3 years ago
I can only imagine his trust level was in the tank for the rest of his life.
#14
18th Century Device That Allowed Researchers To Work/Read Up To 8 Open Books At A Time
Ladytron 3 years ago
I think this looks great! I would love it. I work best when I can see everything at once or at least work with many things at the same time, so my desk is always full. I know some see it as being unorganized but that's how I'm most productive. This would save space. Great idea.
Kiem Gallagher 3 years ago
I'm in desperate need of this contraption, especially when I'm recipe testing and comparing different recipes from different books for one particular dish... books scattered everywhere, even the floor... it's nightmarish!
#15
This Is About A Victim, Not About Who Is To Blame. It Would Be Lovely To Honor Her And Others Who Lost Their Lives Here, And Debate Specifics Elsewhere
The image has become iconic and the woman in it, a then 28-year-old Marcy Borders, became known as the 'dust lady' in the days after 9/11. She had been working in the North Tower of the World Trade Center only a month, on the 81st floor only 12 stories down from where American Airlines Flight 11 made impact. She made her way down the main stairwell of the tower, along with hundreds of others escaping. In the time it took her to reach the ground floor, the South Tower had just collapsed and an enormous dust cloud, visible from space, was rising. “I took chase from this cloud of dust and smoke that was following me,” Borders said. “Once it caught me it threw me on my hands and knees. Every time I inhaled my mouth filled up with it, I was choking. I was saying to myself out loud, I didn’t want to die, I didn’t want to die.” She was pulled from the dust and into a nearby lobby by a man, and that is where photographer Stan Honda snapped this haunting photo, seen around the world as a testament to the horrors of 9/11.
Marcy Borders passed away from stomach cancer in August 2015, cancer she believes was exacerbated by inhaling dust on that fateful day. The 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund and the World Trade Center Health Program estimate that over 2,000 have died of illnesses related to the attack over the past 18 years.
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
Before his recent championing of medical care for soldiers and Marines injured by toxic burn pits, Jon Stewart used his bully pulpit to ensure the continuation of the 9/11 VCF & WTCHP. In both cases he had to fight against the same party in Congress. It's almost as if those people don't really care about first responders after they've served their purposes.
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
No idea why people downvote facts here. Seems this place is a bubblegum land.
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Ray Martin 3 years ago
The cancer was probably caused by the amount of asbestos in the dust the poor woman inhaled and swallowed.
GlassHalfWay 3 years ago
This is a travesty for all those working in the buildings and the all those who helped others. Shame on the U.S. government for not paying for ALL their medical bills. This makes my American head hang low. Just terrible.
KimB 3 years ago
Whoever is doing all this downvoting please stop. We're all allowed to have different opinions and you don't have to like or agree with them.
Featherytoad 3 years ago
I've been seeing a lot and I mean a lot of this lately. I'm playing vigilante and giving votes back.
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Cherreka Wirth 3 years ago
Hey. The title says let's just remember the beautiful soul she was and not taint the memory with accusations. Please stop.
Load More Replies... removebeforeflight 3 years ago
After the attack had happened on 9/11, airlines now have very strict rules of entering the cockpit in-flight. The procedure should be done every time while a crew member (either cabin crew or flight crew) wants to enter cockpit, and the main doors of the aircraft are closed. In every airline the procedure may vary. Prior 9/11 everybody may enter the cockpit, now only pilots may open the door after making sure that the crew member who wants to enter follows the assigned procedure. Otherwise the door will stay closed. The door is now bulletproof and there is no way anybody can get inside the cockpit without knowing the procedure AND the cockpit door code (at least for Airbuses, I have heard that Boeings use other way of informing CPT that somebody wants to get inside instead of a pin-code, but not sure which one - I have never worked on Boeings).
#16
Knife Grinders In France 1902, They Worked Lying Down To Save Their Backs And Had Dogs Sit On Their Legs For Warmth
blobby_grrl 3 years ago
ye, this is me reading my book on my bed with my cat sleeping on my feet!
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Shyla Clay 3 years ago
The cat's would make the knife grinders sit on them. 🙃
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Jerry Mathers 3 years ago
I'm 100% sure that some old school knife sharpeners were dissing these guys as the 1800's version of snowflakes and how real knife-sharpeners would be proud to destroy their backs so the customer can see their faces while they get their knives sharpened. I can almost hear their sigh of the "good-ole-days" lol
Sue User 3 years ago
Had a teacher read a rant about how how kids these days wear inaspropiate clothes, talk too load, are disrespectful, etc. Turns out it was 2000 years old.
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SoapMonkey76 3 years ago
Without the explanation this would be the oddest photo I've ever seen.
Kenny Kulbiski 3 years ago
I wouldn't think this position would be very comfortable either after awhile. Especially for your neck and chest.
#17
Berlin, Germany, 1985-2018
Kayjunmoon 3 years ago
Actually, whilst not everything we hoped for has come to pass since the breaking up of the iron curtain, this picture shows the oppressive nature of life before the wall came down.
Nimues Child 3 years ago
I remember how incredible it seemed to see the wall come down. That seemed like an impossible thing to happen when I was growing up.
Kayjunmoon 3 years ago
Same. I was a child when the wall went up and I remember my father lamenting the fact.
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David Redman 3 years ago
I was in East Berlin within months after the wall was being demolished. It was a monochrome landscape. Visually dull. Mortar and bullet holes evident everywhere. Friedrichstrasse U-ban station was pathetic: broken steps and windows.
Brandi Delph 3 years ago
Pretty sure this image is from WEST Berlin. People could walk right up to the wall and graffiti it. East side had barbed wire and armed guards. Anyone living in Berlin, please correct if I am mistaken
Sammie 19 3 years ago
I was living in Germany when the wall came down. My dad was in the British army and a lot of us from our school Gloucester School in Bergen wanted to be there for such a momentous occasion but the military refused, said it was way too unsafe. All these years later I understand why but at the time it felt unfair
Pamela Laughter-Kissiah 3 years ago
It is said that restaurant has the best schnitzel in the world. I would love to try it.
#18
The Moment When President Bush Was Informed About The 9/11 Terrorist Attack, 2001
Paul Macdonell 3 years ago
Bush was stunned and perhaps looked a little dazed but the fact is it was the Secret Service's job to just haul him out as fast as possible. There was a major attack happening in the country and he should have been grabbed and thrown in the limo.
Jen Berry 3 years ago (edited)
Wasn't he in a class room full of students, like elementary age? They probably did not want to frighten them so they relayed the info calmly to make for a calm (and thus safe) exit. Security is also about reading and assessing the situation.
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Daenarys 3 years ago
You also have to take into account the fact that at the time this picture was taken everyone believed it was an accident, this was literally minutes after the first plane hit. The Secret Service didn't grab him up and go because they didn't know it was an attack. Once they knew, they set up a command center with solid security in the school. They did that because the Vice President was already on a plane that couldn't land anywhere due to them not knowing all the intended targets. They couldn't risk the President and Vice President's planes being attacked. While I never liked Bush Jr. as a president, this is one time there was no fault in his actions. He and the Secret Service made the best decisions they could've with the information they had as it came in.
Cheri Smallbeck 3 years ago
Hindsight is 20/20. I don't think he should have been so maligned over it. Nobody knew what was actually going on and shock does weird things to you. Absolutely no fan of Bush but he had only a fraction of the info and had to make a decision very quickly - in front of a class full of young children. I'm not sure what people thought he should have done?
RandomFrog(He/They️️) 3 years ago
Sort of unrelated but The picture behind is a childrens book called the colors of us. I own it and it’s bassically this little girl talking about all her friends. She says this is So and So. Her skin is the color of (cinnamon, French toast, and stuff like that) and they like (to paint, go on walks etc.) at the end she says everyone is beautifull or smth like that. It’s a nice book I like it.
Hugo Hackenbush 3 years ago
After he was informed, he kept reading as to not alarm the children, and to allow more information to be gathered in an unfolding situation.
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A Photograph Of A Filipino-American Family Taken More Than A Decade After The Us Colonization Of The Islands. The Photo Dates Back To 1912
Laura Gillette 3 years ago
That poor woman looks exhausted. Looks like she has had 6 children in 6 years.
Kiem Gallagher 3 years ago
Yes, very impressive strength by the man but I'm forever distracted by those beautifully chubby baby legs... rolls on rolls!
#20
British Soldier Retrieving Bandages From The Kit Of A Dog During Wwi, 1915
Kharyss 3 years ago
From 1860 to 1916 it was mandatory and part of the dress code for soldiers to have moustaches in the English Army. Command Nº 1,695 of the King’s Regulations in 1906 stated: The hair of the head will be kept short. The chin and the under-lip will be shaved, but not the upper lip. Whiskers, if worn, will be of moderate length.
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Lakota Wolf 3 years ago (edited)
Nintendo produced Wwi in 2010, after Wii, but before Switch. IM SORRY I know that's an irreverent sass of a reply/comment on my part, but I couldn't resist :'(
Load More Replies... Androgyny Lunacy 3 years ago
I feel like dogs were more serious and less goofy back in those times.
#21
The 2800 Year Old Kiss!
These human remains were unearthed in 1972 at the Teppe Hasanlu archaeological site, located in the Solduz Valley in the West Azerbaijan Province of Iran. The archaeologist who studied the skeletons confirms they were there since 2,800 years ago. The University of Pennsylvania has determined that the couple died together around 800 BC. The skeletons do appear like they are kissing each other before they died – as if to signify that love is eternal.
Michelle M 3 years ago (edited)
Before dreaming up any frisky story, note that both skeletons are believed to be male. The one on the right was a young adult male while the left one was 30 - 35 years old. It was hard to determine the left's gender, but after years of identifying as a female, it was later proven to be a male. Edited to let y'all know that I'm not homophobic. Wanted to let you know that they were males, so you can take that into account when dreaming up your frisky tales. A case of Romeo and Jack instead of Juliet.
Lara Verne 3 years ago
So they must be siblings or very good friends, right?
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Cuddly Panda 3 years ago
Upvoted because why in the heck would someone downvote this?
Load More Replies... Kenny Kulbiski 3 years ago
Did they die at the same time? The one on the right has a fatal looking hole in his skull. Did the one on the left volunteer.or was he forced? Could easily be more of a horror story than a love story.
Hello 3 years ago
They were hiding in that hole from invaders in their city and died from asphyxiation from fire smoke. https://allthatsinteresting.com/hasanlu-lovers
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Boris’ Mom 3 years ago
The headroom seems to make obvious what killed the figure on the right; but what was the cause of death Of the figure on the left?
Caroline Driver 3 years ago
The one on the right has a damn big hole in his skull though. Unless it was excavation damage, (seems unlikely given the impressive state of the skeletons) I'd guess he was killed
Elaine Everett-Klimas 3 years ago
The sciatic notch on the pelvis on the left of this picture looks female with a classic 'L' shape as opposed to a male 'J' shaped notch....
#22
Residents Of West Berlin Show Their Children To Their Grandparents Living In East Berlin, 1961
Chris Cristo 3 years ago
Sad but not over. Just take a look at South and North Korea. That thing is still alive
Kayjunmoon 3 years ago
East Germany was not communist in the true definition of the word. Neither was the USSR or China.
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#23
A Berlin Boy Sells Lemonade Using A Portable Lemonade Dispenser, 1931.
Tessb90 3 years ago (edited)
At the risk of looking like an idiot, which dude was in 2031? I understand that we're over here and struggling to get there *still*, is an apt description for the perpetual state of mankind, just confused as to the dude from 2031.
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Kiem Gallagher 3 years ago
You have to be impressed by this boy's ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit!
Paul Orsulic 3 years ago
Sad. This was 2 years before Hitler came to power. They were probably put into the Hitler Youth and died on the Front barely 10 years later.
#24
Meeting Around A Baguette. France 1950. Photo By: Robert Doisneau
Tended Olive 3 years ago
Technically...it's more like "Meeting in front of/ or behind a baguette" depending on your perspective.
#25
Canadian And German Soldiers Sharing A Cigarette During The Second Battle Of Passchendaele, November 1917
Trisha Howson 3 years ago
They where just humans being humans together ......wish all of us could be that way. Sad
RaroaRaroa 3 years ago
Lying in that disgusting mud, fighting a war started by men who never had to risk their lives fighting it.
Sussy Sus 3 years ago
So so true it was disgusting that men had to fight and lose their lives all over a silly assassination
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#26
Vietnam War Helmet Graffiti, 1967- “War Is Good Business- Invest Your Son”
Humanoid Panda 3 years ago
"Come on all you big strong men, Uncle Sam needs your help again.."
Kate 3 years ago
He's got himself in a terrible jam, way down yonder in Vietnam!
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Harvey Vostrejs 3 years ago
I've spoken to several vietnam veterans for a book I wrote. They all said it was a waste of life. So many lives lost, so many futures stolen.
Lin B 3 years ago
I’m still bitter. The rich could buy their way out. My two friends, and my husband’s friend, who died there, weren’t rich.
Anna roberts 3 years ago
and they number of men who were only sons, who were not allowed to serve and felt very guilty. My best friend was one of those who were not allowed to serve
Load More Replies... Kayjunmoon 3 years ago
All the businesses that make money out of war fund the path to wars and of course lobby governments.
Red Hair Blue Soul 3 years ago
Some are pro life in order to eventually turn them into dead soldiers
#27
16 Year-Old Anti-Aircraft Soldier Of The German Army, Hans-Georg Henke, Cries From Combat Shock As His World Falls Apart. He Was Captured By The Us 9th Army In Hessen, Germany In 1945
humdrum 3 years ago (edited)
He must have been in the Hitlerjugend at least since it was obligatory in 1941, but probably all his life. He didn't know any better, or anything else, really. EDIT I just read his parents were communists but they had died by then. After the war he went to communist East Germany.
Lainie 3 years ago
Literally first word say that he was 16 years old. A kid. :(
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At the end of WWII, German ‘Soldiers’, especially in Berlin, were mostly old men and young boys. The German Army had pretty much been decimated, captured, or surrendered.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
I think one of the last videos ever of Hitler taken with him shaking hands with the young boys that were going to defend the city. So sad.
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#28
The Statue Of Liberty - Paris, France - 1886 (Before It Was Transported To America)
Tara Dawn 3 years ago
American here. I do not believe we deserve this beautiful gift any longer. But thank you France.
Ozymandias73 3 years ago
I disagree. She stands for what we need to strive for. To be the so-called Land of the Free and have that fabled American Dream mean something. Symbols don't lose their meaning, people lose their understandings of the symbols.
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Tom Hardeveld 3 years ago
what ... hear me out ... this was an attempt of the French to invade America Troyan Horse-style and it just failed and one day we'll find 50 skeletons inside?
Nathaniel 3 years ago
The irony of the statue of Liberty and the USA being the country of the free.
Load More Replies... RandomFrog(He/They️️) 3 years ago
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GlassHalfWay 3 years ago
Do not agree with the #1 comment. I agree with Ozymandias73 however. That should be #1.
Den Ver 3 years ago (edited)
I like seeing the buildings surrounding the statue to give it a sense of scale. It seems a lot bigger here than at its present location.
Mosheh Wolf 3 years ago (edited)
I think that many people don't understand what "Statue of Liberty" Means. The personification of Liberty was always drawn as a woman holding a torch aloft, the same way that Justice is blindfolded and holds a scales and a sword, and Hope carries an anchor. It's not the "Statue or Liberty", it's the statue of "Liberty", as in the statue of the personification of liberty.
This Person 3 years ago
I love how you say "Paris France"! The USA didn't invent the name. If it says Paris I assume France!
#29
Seems Legit
Patricia Palmer 3 years ago
This was most like the 1910 kinetoscope film by Thomas Edison that is thought to be perhaps the first American science fiction movie being shown at a fair.
#30
Sisters In Cigarette Break, England, 1960s
Aoife Lorris 3 years ago (edited)
Quite frankly, it's nun of your business!
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Earl Grey 3 years ago
Folk artist Rose Walton did a series of Smoking Nun paintings not too long ago. F3E94B3B-4...6-jpeg.jpg 
Fish Fingers 3 years ago
A brief break from beating children and abusing pregnant women. Never trust a nun.
#31
Town Of Rysstad, Norway, 1888 - 2013
Not much I could find on this small town but the white, wooden, octagonal church was built in 1838 by Anders Thorsen Syrtveit using plans by the famous Norwegian architect Hans Linstow, who built the Royal Palace in Oslo. The church seats around 200 people.
The town dates back to the Middle Ages and was once a municipality of Norway. Population today of around one thousand.
Seen in an ' The Atlantic' article which details “Tilbakeblikk”, the name of a joint project between the Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute and Norsk Folkemuseum. Tilbakeblikk means “retrospect” or “looking back” in Norwegian, describing the project’s use of photographs taken of the same places separated by long periods of time to illustrate landscape changes in Norway.
Alexandru Bucur 3 years ago
The house on the left is there as well, behind the trees. Picture taken from 59°05'37.3"N 7°32'09.5"E
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#32
A German Woman With Her All Belonging Sitting Alone In War Ruined Cologne. 1945
Tamra 3 years ago
It never ceases to dismay me...how world leaders can cause such devastation and death, over and over and over. It makes me lose hope, at times.
Sylvia Schmitz 3 years ago
When the war was over and people heared that the cathedral was still standing they flooded back into the city. In he thousends every day and they didn't care that basically everything was destroyed. As long as the cathedral was still standing their city was not dead!
Linda Csapo 3 years ago
Hi there. I'm living in Cologne. Not sure if it is true, but I read somewhere that the allies attacking the city spared the Cathedral because they themselves needed it as an orientation point/land mark, since everything else was destroyed and in ruins
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#33
Abraham Lincoln At Gettysburg During The Civil War. Left: Allan Pinkerton, Right: Gen John Mcclernand. 1863. (Colorized)
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
Wow, he really was a tall guy! Even taking the hat into consideration.
Mary Rogers 3 years ago
He would probably have some stark warnings for us. Hopefully we are not headed towards civil war again.
Load More Replies... Colin Timp 3 years ago
Pinkerton, as in Pinkerton Detective Agency? Read up on some of the stuff those scumbags were into. They were some of the first union busters.
Bekah Sharkey 3 years ago (edited)
It’s also the name of a really good wheezer album
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Jill Hojnacki 3 years ago
Wonder what the conversation was in setting up this photo. If you zoom in, Pinkerton and McClernand seem to be trying to stare each other down while Lincoln ignores everyone and gazes serenely into the distance. This was clearly posed, so either they, or the photographer, were trying to convey a message to the viewer, or the photographer interrupted something in order to get them to pose. I’ll need to look up the occasion of its creation.
Cubbypotato 3 years ago
Abe has the tallest hat and is the tallest. Guy on the right has the next tallest hat and the next tallest.Guy on the left is the shortest and the shortest man. Coincidence I think not
TheDivineMsM 3 years ago
Fun fact: Allan Pinkerton was a spy and founded the Pinkerton Detective Agency in Chicago, which I think is pretty cool. One of his main targets was finding Jesse James.
RandomCitizen 3 years ago
From what I read, they were cruel, above the law, and very corrupt.
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The 3,300 Year Old Sandals Of King Tutankhamen
The Gingersmurf 3 years ago
Nokia phones. Nothing else would last this long.
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Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
They look nicer/fancier than ANY shoes I've ever owned XD
Load More Replies... Vanessa Panerosa 3 years ago
They depicted pictures of their enemies on the soles to always trample over them. Petty level 100% for thousands of years!
E Talavera 3 years ago
They look new even if they were made of leather they would have shtunk & discolored, maybe they r replica?
#35
Anatoly Golombievsky, A Soviet Veteran Who Lost Both His Legs During The Battle For Novorossiysk, During World War II, Takes The Salute Of 4 Cadets At The Nakhimov Navy School On V-Day In Leningrad, 1989
Gary Sansom 3 years ago
Good at fighting, making vodka.... I believe they are up to 1970 in medical technology now...
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Connie Martin 3 years ago
Fairly common method of locomotion for people with disarticulated hips in the early 20th century; not so much now.
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Sarmite Kraukle 3 years ago (edited)
Actually, some time after the WW2, Soviet government decided, that war invalids make streets look bad and took them all and put in small town and made like camp for them. In Soviet times everything should look perfect, no disabled people on streets, that why here couldn't be wheelchairs. Disabled children was sent to orphanages. And specially, if you wanted to have high rank job, you have to be member of Communist Party and can't have any abnormality in your family. That was disgusting!
Bubbles and sparks 3 years ago
They could have given this man a wheelchair, just a matter of respect. However, thinking in the time back then, sitting in a wheelchair might be seen as a sign of weakness if you're that high up in the chain of command... then being uncomfortable trumps losing respect.
#36
Tricycle Of 3 Year Old Boy Named Shin, Who Died 1,500 Meters From The Hypocenter Of Hiroshima Atomic Bombing, 1945
Ann Worth 3 years ago
Not as gut-wrenching as the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Ann Worth 3 years ago
I wonder what the Japanese government anticipated would result from a sneak bombing of the United States?
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Julia Mckinney 3 years ago
Would you rather have had millions of Americans and Japanese die in hand to hand fighting after the Allies invaded mainland Japan? Dropping the A-bombs, and the threat of more of them, shocked the Supreme War Council running Japan into surrendering. Before that, the Japanese were planning to fight, literally, to the death.
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Nonna_SoF 3 years ago
Not really, nukes don't make other materials very radioactive. The residual radiation is mostly from powder from the bomb, which can be removed.
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#37
Electric Charging Cars In 1917
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
It's almost as if someone *cough, cough, Rockefeller, cough* had a vested interest in suppressing them so Standard Oil could sell more gasoline.
Load More Replies... Ray Heap 3 years ago
Imagine EV´s with over a hundred years of development, Henry Ford and his ilk have a lot to answer for.
Billy Harrelson 3 years ago
Actually one of the first cars Ford developed was an EV. They just proved impractical with the tech of the time (no lithium-ion batteries and no computer chips to stop charging once the battery was at capacity). What really killed the EV was big oil. Just like big coal, they stood to lose if EVs caught on and back then Standard Oil was king.
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Fish Fingers 3 years ago
Don't forget; electric cars aren't being developed to save the planet, they're being developed to save the car industry.
Yogi's mom 3 years ago
Wait, what????? Apparently gas lobby was a WHOLE lot stronger than electric even back then!
M O'Connell 3 years ago
The earliest electric vehicles were hobbled by the manufacturing technology of the time. AGM-type lead acid batteries didn't exist, only flooded cells. The battery boxes were made of wood sealed with bitumen because plastic wasn't an option yet. Charging had to be regulated by having a worker watch it carefully and turn it off manually when charging was complete. They didn't have diodes, the conversion of AC grid power to DC for charging was done through mechanical rotary phase converters. Electric cars really should have risen rapidly starting in the late 1980s.
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DC 3 years ago
There still is a lot of potential in hybrid systems, which span from EV with range extender to a electrically pampered, highly efficient, ICE desiged to cooperate with the electric system. This does sound unspectacular, but the efficiency of an ICE is severely affected by proportions of sizes and the like, and having some power to use for, say, boosting the engine, and adapting the gas exchange process to a miller-cycle are two steps having a major impact on efficiency that often exceeds that of more complicated means taken in recent years, like stratified load and the like... You'd at the very least be able to recover energy from braking, and can drive a few miles electric-only if local emissions are restricted, while having all the benefits of an ICE, and a way better efficiency not only at peak, but throughout the entire range of operation. And, directly using any electric energy instead of storing too much of it decreases the demand for battery capacity and therefore, all downsides
#38
The Queen Of England And Her Husband At The Horse Races In 1968
FunesElMemorioso 3 years ago (edited)
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pretty sure they spent the night before at the opera
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
I'm old. My first thought was this: 250px-A_Ni...45c81f.jpg 
Laura Ketteridge 3 years ago
She has never been 'Queen of England'. Her titles include " Queen of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms", but not 'Queen of England'.
RatherLoopy 3 years ago
Geez... and they called Thatcher The Iron Lady. To quote Calvin's Hobbes, "You should always save hyperbole until you really need it."
Eunice Probert 3 years ago
Queen of England? So Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland don't count?
Bryony Tierney 3 years ago
As a Scottish person, we are quite happy not to claim her as our Queen. The only people happy to support the monarchy are unionists who believe in making Britain an empire again. Also the Queen is currently being sued for allowing illegal hunting or rare, protected birds at one of her estates here in Scotland. They are not for the people, could not care less about the people.
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Edgar 3 years ago
Everything is so English in this picture. Even the Land Rover. Great style !
Elizabeth Elliot 3 years ago
Sitting on your car roof at horse races is a thing in the Uk - strange but true!
#39
2 Year-Old Elvis Presley With His Parents, 1937
Bryony Tierney 3 years ago
Elvis Presley stole his entire style from Black blues musicians and never credited any of them. He became a superstar while the artists who he copied got left behind. He was not the amazing man everyone seems to think he was. Good music? Sure. But he owes his entire career to Black musicians.
Heidi Bean 3 years ago (edited)
She kinda looks like Sigourney Weaver https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/203050%7C0/Sigourney-Weaver/#overview
#40
General George S. Patton’s Pet Dog On The Day Of His Owner’s Death, December 21st, 1945
Michelle M 3 years ago (edited)
If you want/need to cry, squeeze out the excess liquid in your eyes, then look up YouTube videos of dogs (and other animals) mourning their humans. I prescribe three videos in the morning, three at night. Thank me later.
Kitten Dog Mom 3 years ago
I can't even watch the ASPC commercials without crying...
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Benita Valdez 3 years ago
My mom passed last year and my dog was so sad and depressed; it broke my heart. He would just sit on her spot on the couch staring out the window. Became lethargic and didnt eat much so within a month we got him a companion and within 2-3 weeks he started perking up. Now he's back to his old self but on occasions he sits on our new couch, where she would probably be sitting, but doesn't look sad anymore as he looks out the window
Tara Dawn 3 years ago
I’m glad you are taking such good care and got him a friend!!
Load More Replies... Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
His name was Willie. He was an English Bull Terrier. After Patton's death, Willie was sent to live with Patton's widow and their daughters.
#41
Pope John Paul II Talks With Mehmet Agca, The Man Who Tried To Assassinate Him, In An Italian Prison, 1983
Billy Harrelson 3 years ago
Despite what people might say about the Catholic Church and the Pope in general, John Paul II did the one thing that many Christians and even non-Christians struggle to do everyday and that is forgive. Here is a man that tried to kill him just for who he was and he chose to sit down and talk to him and forgive him for what he did. Very powerful indeed and something everyone should practice.
Cuppa tea? 3 years ago
As he did at the time of assassination. Only it was open top vehicle. After that, they changed and enclosed with bulletproof glass.
Load More Replies... Brenda S 3 years ago
Truly a Man of grace. If ALL humanity could find a small portion of that same grace, what a beautiful world this could be..
Bubbles and sparks 3 years ago
As a former Catholic and being a complete atheist now, for me this "forgiveness" is an act of dominance... dominance against another human being to show them they failed. It's the same when going to confession, the punishment was day some prayers and you're forgiven in... the eyes of the lord, maybe. But never does it forgive taking another person's life, raping another human being... it just doesn't. But because so many believers of so many religions think this way, there will always be unforgivable crime done and forgiven and the people doing the crimes feel no remorse whatsoever anymore, because hey, they are forgiven, right???
#42
A Woman Walks Through The Ruins Of Berlin During The Battle Of Berlin, May 1945
Amanda Hunter 3 years ago
This image is the epitome of what women have to endure at the hands of greedy men.
Richard Baker 3 years ago
The Russians were paying back Germany for what they did during Operation Barbarossa.
#43
Acrobats Balance On Top Of The Empire State Building, C. 1934
Iris 3 years ago
Oh me too I just had to keep scrolling as quickly as possible
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Rejected Designs For The Eiffel Tower
Colin Timp 3 years ago
I would've said second on bottom. Looks like Barad-dur to me.
Load More Replies... Joy Hunter 3 years ago
Eiffel absolutely loathed the Tower. Every day after it was completed, he ate lunch in the cafe on the ground floor. When someone asked why he ate there eery day, when he hated the tower so much, he said, "It's the only place in Paris where I can't see it."
Laura Ketteridge 3 years ago
The apocryphal story is about Guy de Maupassant, not Gustave Eiffel.
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Walter Bravenboer 3 years ago
It was never meant to stay, they kept it as a telegraph station.
Kendra Miller 3 years ago
I like the middle one, not for it's asthenics, but it's potential as a super slide. Round and round and round we go, what a way to see the city.
Richard Nichols 3 years ago
These designs are for the Great Tower of London, not the Eiffel Tower. See https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/catalogue-of-the-68-competitive-designs-for-the-great-tower-for-london-1890
RandomCitizen 3 years ago
"No I don't need a tour, I just want to visit it." What I said to the French taxi driver in Paris.
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#45
1910, Mailing A Child Via Parcel Post In The USA, The Post Office’s Parcel Post Was Introduced In 1913
Within weeks, a number of parents attempted to send their children by post. In Ohio, Jesse and Mathilda Beagle posted their son James, eight months old, to his grandmother. The delivery cost 15c - cheaper than a rail ticket. Mr and Mrs Beagle insured James for $50.
In 1920, the Post Office elected to no longer deliver children until present time
Sean Sean 3 years ago
Not this again. This was a humorous publicity photo, the USPS never allowed children to be sent though the mail.
karen snyder 3 years ago
The story is only kinda true. Yes, one child was mailed to make the point that it wasn't technically illegal yet. Definitely for publicity. He was sent 8 blocks. Sending people in the mail was immediately made illegal. I'm annoyed BP keeps putting this up, over and over with false pretence. Makes me feel like we are part of the problem
Load More Replies... Sherry Harvey 3 years ago
I bet the first mailman to be given a child to transport and deliver, thought, “I didn’t sign up for this!”
ADHD McChick 3 years ago
No one needed to. The postman only carried him 8 blocks, lol.
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Nazda Pokmov 3 years ago
I tried to send my son via the post office but they refused to take him.
#46
Mummified Head (Mokomokai) With Moko Facial Tattoo
In mummification, the brain and eyes were removed, all the holes in the skull were sealed with flax fibers and gum. The head was then steamed in an oven, before being smoked in a fire, then left in the sun for several days. After that, the head was hydrated with shark fat oil - Maori culture -
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
All done by hand with tools like these: 1919987_or...eb9433.jpg 
Joseph rick 3 years ago
We Maori have been quietly repatriating all the Mokomokai for years (as soon as we can acquire them) back with their iwi(tribe) in Aotearoa(NZ) for solemn burial. There are many clues in the designs as to the rank, iwi and hapu (sub tribe) - so there can be some differentiation especially for the ranking but I understand from a colleague that a recent lot from France included heads of non-chiefs which were treated just as reverently, a policy I concur with. The chiefs who were killed in battle and had their heads removed - may have lost their MANA (earthly given) but never ever lost their TAPU (given by the gods) - this 'duality' is characteristic of our culture and preserves the order undermining it all is the supreme value of 'Reciprocity' so whoever cut my chiefs head off will be owing us and like all the 'gifts' taken or given they must be paid for. I myself have a list from way back to 6 generations ago that haven't been paid for or settled yet.
Nimues Child 3 years ago
Thank you for this detail on Maori spirituality. I really appreciate it! I'm impressed by your generational list and the respect that entails. And I am glad to see that the Mokomokai are being repatriated.
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T 3 years ago
Maori people were forced to relinquish their Mokomokai by Western colonizers. When the colinizers wanted more, enslaved people were tattooed and m-rdered specifically to imitate the Maori Moko. The Mokomokai were then sold/traded. (@paakadavis on TT shares a lot of Maori history, culture, and traditions)
BadCat 3 years ago
Hair can survive because it's already just dead cells.
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Béatrice Gallet 3 years ago
His is in exhibit still nowadays or had it been send back to his family/culture ?
M O'Connell 3 years ago
It spent 110 years in a German museum, and was repatriated to New Zealand in 2018. The Museum of New Zealand has promised to locate either a living descendant or at least the appropriate tribe so that the remains are returned.
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"4 Children For Sale", 1948
The photo first appeared in the The Vidette-Messenger of Valparaiso, Indiana on August 5, 1948. The children looked posed and a bit confused as their pregnant mother hides in shame her face from the photographer after putting her childrens up for sale. The caption read: “A big ‘For Sale’ sign in a Chicago yard mutely tells the tragic story of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Chalifoux, who face eviction from their apartment. With no place to turn, the jobless coal truck driver and his wife decide to sell their four children. Mrs. Lucille Chalifoux turns her head from camera above while her children stare wonderingly. On the top step are Lana, 6, and Rae, 5. Below are Milton, 4, and Sue Ellen, 2”.
Family members accused the mother of being paid to stage the photo, which may have been part of the story, but unfortunately, she was dead serious about selling her children. Within two years all of the children pictures, as well as the baby she was carrying at the time, were sold off to different homes.
Squirrelly 3 years ago
Even sadder, it didn't become illegal to sell your children until 1967
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The rest of the story is even sadder: 2 of them got bought by a couple and were made to work long hours in the fields, and being chained up when they weren't. They were beaten and referred to as slaves. The boy ended up being incarcerated, as he started reacting with rage to the beatings and the girl was raped, impregnated, sent off to have her baby, which was then sold when she returned. 2 of the girls went off and nobody knew where, although it since transpired that one died of cancer in the 80's and the one who is alive felt that their mother should burn in hell.
Lady Goldberry 3 years ago
The mum remarried and went on to have another 4 daughters, apparently not reacting with any warmth or sorrow when the older children visited later in life. David, the one she was pregnant with, holds no resentment or anger towards his mother, as he points out it was all about survival and they were tough times.
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Jerry Mathers 3 years ago
This is the future conservatives are trying to return us to. Don't believe me, look at it. Reduced or no benefits for the poor, check. Elimination or reduction of legal age to work, check, removal of school lunches, check. Get rid of abortions, check. Just follow the future policy. They'll get us there.
Powerful Katrinka 3 years ago
What they are aiming for is the reintroduction of slavery. Private prisons are already there.
Load More Replies... Nimues Child 3 years ago
My great-grandfather had to parcel out his children to neighbors when his wife died and he had to go back out to sea (his job). Three went to one family and one went to another in their small town. By all accounts, the children were well-loved and raised. But that was neighbors helping neighbors. Selling your children is quite another thing.
The Starsong Princess 3 years ago
Same thing happened to my grandmother and her brothers when their mother abandoned them but they didn’t get a happy ending.
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PupperPanda 3 years ago
Seems to me like the UK is heading the same way at the moment. Parents can't afford to feed their kids, and the government is sitting by watching the energy companies profit from the misery.
Nicola Roberts 3 years ago
It sounds like you're exaggerating but I know you're not. I work full-time with an ok income but have spent a considerable amount of time wondering how I am going to afford this winter. I'm in the UK too, but I believe this is pretty much a world wide event.
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Sean Sean 3 years ago
Just another reason we need to make housing a right, or at the very least regulate the rental housing industry so rents are affordable again.
Lady Goldberry 3 years ago (edited)
I don't mind posting this on here, cos you're all pretty cool (as far as I can tell 😉) but my family and I are facing homelessness. My partner is a driver and has just recovered from cancer for the 2nd time, I work for local government and also am studying to be an OT. We have 4 children, the elder 3 all have jobs and are also studying and we have our 12 yo. Our landlord is selling up, so we have a no fault eviction, but due to the insane amounts landlords are asking for, mixed with the rise in the cost of living, we can't afford to save enough to move ourselves. We are entitled to social housing, but there isn't bloody any. We keep getting told we're a large family, which pisses me off because it makes us sound as though we decided to have 4 children - we didn't, we are a blended family. I am so sick of swimming against the tide. And these f*****g landlords are just laughing up their sleeves, watching everyone scrabble for a home.
Load More Replies... Deidre Goodluck 3 years ago
But yeah, force women to have babies. It worked so well in the past.
Margaret Hooper 3 years ago
You have to wonder how different the mother's life would have been if she had had access to safe abortion and contraception. I can see this happening again and it saddens me greatly.
Joseph rick 3 years ago
America has the HIGHEST CHILD POVERTY RATES IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD - IN TEXAS ALONE - ONE AND HALF MILLION CHILDREN GO HUNGRY EVERY DAY AND NIGHT.(go check it) - GET OFF YOUR ARSES AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT - This particular new fascist state just legalised for much more unwanted children.
#48
A 'Knocker-Up' In London (1929). Before Alarm Clocks, People Were Paid To Wake Clients Up For Work By Knocking On Their Doors And Windows With A Stick
Upstaged75 3 years ago
I could still use this. Sometimes I ignore my alarm but I'd certainly jump out of bed if a strange man was knocking on my window. :)
Jan Rosier 3 years ago
Belgian here but understanding some British slang, first instance of reading the title it was the second line that made me go 'ahh, ok...' as my dirty mind read something completely different at first.
Earl Grey 3 years ago (edited)
Before alarm clocks?! Sorry, but alarm clocks have been around since 1787: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-2000year-history-of-alarm-clocks
Honu 3 years ago
I'm assuming they mean "before alarm clocks were affordable for the masses". The article you posted also mentioned that the knocker-upper became much more rare in the 20s as that is when cheap alarm clocks came on the market.
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Rosie Mroczynski 3 years ago
and how did this morph into what it means now to be 'knocked up'?
#49
New York City, 1900s. (Colorized)
Ripley 3 years ago
Nobody even bats an eye at the dead horse. Most probably a regular enough occurrence that it's just not that interesting. We sometimes look at the past with rose-tinted glasses, but things were definitely not "the good old days".
Michelle M 3 years ago
True. I find it funny when some people wish for the 'olden days'. If you were poor or middle class, bad news. The rich didn't even have most of the great yet common comforts we have nowadays. Couple that with wars, inequality, poor medicine and pollution. Jeez, lovely times.
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Electra Complex 3 years ago (edited)
Nobody would bat an eye at a dead horse in present-day NYC either
Tom Hardeveld 3 years ago (edited)
you do NOT want to know what is floating through the little stream the kid had his feet in. Besides dead horse
Biofish23 3 years ago
I'm more concerned about the kids just sitting there with their feet in a sewer.
Tiffi 3 years ago
A dead horse in the street. I often wonder how humanity survived. Just the amount of disease had to be rampant.
Mary Rogers 3 years ago
Just from looking at this picture I get an inkling as to why child mortality was so high back then.
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Kahna Wanna 3 years ago
New York was losing upwards of 40 horses a day. The carcass' were left to rot for several days as they were easier to transport... ew and true folks.
#50
Dimple Making Machine Made In 1936
Hawkmoon 3 years ago
It reminds me of that silly vacuum thing some girls were doing to puff up their lips on tiktok or instagram that caused a few panic attacks.
Elin Stenqvist 3 years ago
The more things change, the more they stay the same
Load More Replies... Lara Verne 3 years ago
Not sure about dimples, but it was probably effective at making bruises.
Elizabeth Molloy 3 years ago
I just do not understand the dimples thing. I have dimples when I smile, and never thought anything of it, but some people go crazy. "OHH, DIMPLES!". It's just the way my face grew ...
#51
American Troops On Board A Landing Craft Heading For The Beaches At Oran In Algeria During Operation 'Torch', November 1942. (Colorized By Spektonz)
Disgruntled Pelican 3 years ago
My great-uncle was 18 when he was shipped off to Europe to fight. He still remembers exactly where and how he got around the battlefields.
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Laura Mende (Human) 3 years ago
But he has the highest rank in this picture...
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Katy McMouse 3 years ago
The soldier on the right hand side looks so much like the actor from Fringe - Joshua Jackson.
#52
Myrtle Corbin, Who Was Born With Two Sets Of Legs, Two Pelvises, And Two Functional Sets Of Sexual / Reproductive Organs, Taken Betwen 1868-1928
Elin Stenqvist 3 years ago
Sometimes that's the cause, but not in Myrtle's case. She was a dipygus. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipygus
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I do not mean this to be funny AT ALL, but that time of the month must have been absolute torture for her.
Monday 3 years ago
It's not specifically stated anywhere but since she had two uteruses I would assume she had two periods...which sounds awful.
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Ondra Zicha 3 years ago
Died 6 May 1928 (aged 59) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrtle_Corbin
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JMC5003 3 years ago
Wikipedia said she could move them but they weren't strong enough for her to walk on them.
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If this mutation had an adaptive advantage, Myrtle would have had a lot of offspring and her children who also had this trait would have also had many offspring. I've got a friend who doesn't understand this is the basis of evolution and I show him these types of pictures to try and get him to think. (He doesn't even believe the Covid virus mutates and evolves).
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Homecoming Prisoner Of War - Vienna, Austria. 1946. Photo By Ernst Haas
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This Is A Mass Burial At Sea, On The Uss Intrepid In 1944 Following A Kamikaze Attack
Tara Dawn 3 years ago
No disrespect intended, but my eyes are getting older (w the rest of me) and I thought the servicemen in the very back were in speedos. A confusing cpl of seconds.
Earl Grey 3 years ago
This is County Class Heavy Cruiser HMS Sussex, which had been struck by Mitsubishi KI-51, a lightweight bomber, near the Dutch East Indies on the 26th of July, 1945. The ship was struck by one of two kamikaze raiders. The impact, in particular, was just above the waterline and onto the thick hull, which left a near-perfect imprint of the shape of the plane. Kamikaze was the worst enemy of any ship in World War 2. Allied Forces started using 4 inch thick steel armor to protect the ships. F6754093-1...3-jpeg.jpg 
Kurt Smith 3 years ago
These are American Servicemen who died in the line of duty. Very disrespectful
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One Of The Most Powerful First World War Photographs.
Photographed in near a German
prisoner war camp in Douchy, France sometime in 1916.
The original glass plate is captioned 'Louis'. We don't know anything else about the boys who are dressed in bits of French and German uniform.
There is mention of a pair of boys just like this in the book 'Storm of Steel', the frontline memoires of the famous German soldier-philosopher Ernst Jünger.
"There were two French boys, orphans, one eight, the other twelve years old, who became attached to the troops in the most extraordinary way. They wore nothing but field grey, spoke fluent German, and saluted all officers in the prescribed manner. They spoke of their fellow-countrymen contemptuously and called them 'Schangels' as they heard the soldiers doing. Their
great desire was to go into the line with their company.
They were proficient in drill and fell in on the left of the company at roll-call, and when they wished to accompany the canteen orderlies on an expedition to buy provisions at Cambrai they duly asked for leave. When the and Battalion went to Queant for a few weeks’ training, one of the two, called Louis, was, by order of Colonel von Oppen, to remain behind in Douchy, so
that no occasion for false reports should be given to the civil population. During the march he was nowhere to be seen, but when the battalion arrived he jumped out of
one of the transport waggons, where he had hidden himself. Unfortunately,some of the more thoughtless of the men used to take them with them into the canteen for the amusement of teaching them to drink. Later, I believe, the elder was sent to a N.C.O. course in Germany."
Nicola Roberts 3 years ago
I read a book based on the wolf children of Germany post ww2. Heart breaking perspective of orphaned children raising themselves. Nothing new, but my brain censor this stuff because it's overwhelming.
Helen X 3 years ago
Think about it this way: about a 100 years ago, teens or youngsters didn’t exist (only when it became obligatory to go to school till 16, then teens became a separate group). You had children and adults. These children in the photo have reached the age of adulthood just a little bit too early.
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French Soldiers, Battle Of Somme 1916
RandomCitizen 3 years ago
This is the "Before" photo. I wonder how many were around for the "after". Incredibly sad.
Jennifer Johnson 3 years ago
those r some good looking men. plus points for the upturned mustaches.
M O'Connell 3 years ago
They used this "horizon blue" color from 1914 until 1921 when they switched to khaki
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A German Officer And An Nco Wearing Portable Sound Locating Apparatae To Detect Enemy Aircraft (This Was A Type Of Early Radar). Western Front, 1917
Monday 3 years ago
Oh Golly! The enemy aircraft are coming! *Mickey laugh*
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Giles McArdell 3 years ago
In Britain we went with Acoustic Mirrors : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_mirror
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This Image Captured During World War II By Soviet War Reporter Max Alpert Depicts Soviet Red Army Political Commissar Alexey Yeremenko As He Raises A Tokarev Tt-33 Handgun And Leads His Men In Combat Against The Germans On July 12th, 1942
The image was captured near Khorosheye in the Ukraine, and Yeremenko was killed in action only a few minutes later. Yeremenko's identity as the commissar in this image was not established until his family recognized him when the photo was featured in a Pravda magazine in 1965.
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Forman Was A Well-Known Photographer Working For The Boston Herald When He Attended The Scene Of A Fire
What began as him documenting the rescue of a young woman and child quickly took a turn when the fire escape collapsed.
The pair began to fall and he continued shooting as they were falling. He capturing them swimming through the air. Forman only lowered his camera and turned at the last moment when he realized what he was witnessing was a woman plummeting to her death.
Nimues Child 3 years ago (edited)
I remember this fire and this picture. Within days, Boston changed its policy to improve the safety and maintenance of all fire escapes in the city to avoid a repeat of this tragedy. The next year, Forman won the Pulitzer again for his picture of a white thug attacking lawyer Ted Landsmark with an American Flag. Boston has come a long way since then, but people still think of that picture when they think of Boston and race. He is still taking pictures, but now it is video for channel 5.
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Northern Irish Boy Poses In Front Of Ira Car Bomb In Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1978
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"We Are Russians" Written On The Front Of A Shop In The East End Of London, England In 1915 So That They Would Not Be Mistakenly Identified As German And Attacked/Robbed As A Result Of The Anti-German Sentiment In The Country At The Time.
Redpanda 3 years ago
It's not Russians taht's the problem. The ukranian war has nothing to do with most of the russian residents, don't discriminate against Russian people.
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A Boxing Match Of American Sailors. 1899
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A Sikkimese Woman Carrying A British Man On Her Back, West Bengal. India 1900
Lady Goldberry 3 years ago (edited)
This makes me sick. What a pig that man was. And I don't wanna hear 'it was the times' blah blah...no one should demand to be carried like an infant unless they are one! Edited to recommend Monday's more accurate, if incredibly rude, correction.
Farid Red 3 years ago
The truth about the photo : eccentric man François Pierre Rodier who was a French colonial administrator in the late 1890s, and also specifies an event where the French colonial administrator had gone on a tour of British Myanmar, and ‘was amazed at the strength displayed by the local people, even accepting a demonstration by one of the female locals to carry him’. refer- https://medium.com/@johnkelly_17973/the-myth-of-the-british-colonial-master-and-his-infamous-piggy-back-ride-john-kelly-phd-4b6576adf60c
UnpopularPanda 3 years ago
The caption must include the fact that this was a demo of strength. There is already too much hate on the internet and captions like this only ignite negativty even more, in this case since there are words like British and India, people start assuming the lady poor and the man a pig. Don't belive me? read the comments.
Awkward lady 3 years ago
Dear pandas, please check the stories out before having a go! The knee jerk reaction to anything presumed British is getting kinda tiresome! I know the Brita aren't perfect, but pick your battles carefully, and aim for the truth.
kkathleen517 3 years ago
Are you FUKING KIDDING ME!!!?? What a sack of complete s**t. This is sick.
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David Andrews 3 years ago (edited)
Artifacts is the American spelling, artefacts is the British spelling, so both correct
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Artifacts is the American spelling, artefacts is the British spelling, so both correct
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