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Studying history helps us understand how past events have shaped the present. We not only learn about ourselves and how we came to be but also develop the ability to avoid mistakes and create better paths for our societies.

So, join us in taking a look at the Twitter account 'Historic Vids.' It shares daily lessons supplemented with vibrant images that perfectly illustrate them. Whether it's a secret photo of Stalin dealing with the news that Nazis invaded the Soviet Union or a portrait of a regular family during the Spanish flu, they will definitely broaden your horizons.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

um. in the first picture, you see that past guy on the right who looks like hes about to karate chop someone? look closely behind him. whos that? 💀

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Kathy Buskett
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As an artist I can tell you the colors are close to the exact opposite on the color wheel which is what makes this even more striking

Valaun
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is beautiful, but absolute hell if you get stuck out there with no water.

majandess
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't worry; you wouldn't be stuck out there that long. The tide will come in and wash you away.

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Richard Dunafon-Mawdsley
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not really historical , as this shot came from Amazon's Grand Tour (Top Gear) season 1 episodes 7 and 8. However this is a great shot of dichotomy on our planet!

Margaret H
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Beautiful it may be, but also unsettling. What happens if there is an avalanche of sand? Where would you go?

Arenite
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Always wanted to visit the Skeleton Coast. Guess this is the closest I’ll come.

Jo Hill (Trollmomjo)
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Travel through the desert to finally reach water and die of thrust because you can't drink it. WOW, amazing and deadly...

Liz Siemens
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I never expected it to be so tall right at the ocean! I would have thought it was at sea level.

honeyk
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

trip. still if you're dying of thirst, you're still screwed

der sebbl
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You could try to harvest drinkable water from the ocean as long as you have two different sized containers

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Jan Dunn
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would not drive down there looks like a dune might fall on you.

Hugh Cookson
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ran down there once - didn't want to run but as I was being shot at it seemed like a good idea.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I read that he had a reunion with the turtles from Rocky, Cuff and Link, a couple of years ago

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Sorry Boss, the beer was getting too bubbly, I had to drink it or it would go bad" ;D

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hate the way they turn these photos black and white to make it seem oldtimey, when it's in colour in the 80s.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandmother had one of those in her house. It's for warming gloves and socks, not bread

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The photo is "blind girl" taken in Hiroshima by Christer Strömholm. He took haunting pictures of the victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The close-up of a blind girl with scars on her face is surely the most well known of the series. Once seen, it is never forgotten. Like most of Strömholm’s photographs, this one seems unpolished and shadowed, since it was taken spontaneously and in the light available. Using the existing light was a central credo to him. Disturbingly, Strömholm confronts the viewer with a reality that is taboo and all too eagerly repressed. He lets the viewer experience unadorned human suffering without compromising the dignity of those he portrays. The girl stayed anonymous..The photo is often claimed to show the face of a girl blinded by the nuclear bomb. This seems unlikely, since the girl appears younger than 18 years. It is also possible that the photo was taken earlier but not published until 1963.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Revealing her vagina would have had serious irreversible health consequences. You might be talking about vulva perhaps?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Very healthy diets these tribal people had. I'm sure it's the same with New Guinea tribes as well. (Look it up. It's very good for inducing insomnia and waking nightmares.) I think one of the rockerfellers was their "guest" too.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sunscreen people! All jokes aside that's an impressive age to live to and I bet he had some stories to tell.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Legend has it that Frank secretly resented Dean Martin because Dean could just show up and smooooth out songs while Frank worked his asss off..... Dean Martin was LEAGUES better than Sinatra, imo, and less of an assshole...... though Frank did have his moments of going to bat for folks, especially Sammy....

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If that was actual bone growth around the spike then he survived for some time after injury. Can't speculate how long he could have lived or how mentally and physically challenged he would have been. If it is just museum repair job to hold spike in place, then it would mean he did not survive injury.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's an awesome pic, but her daughter looks like her eyes are about to pop out from the pressures of the Limpombo 😳

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually didn't help with coughing, but you just didn't care about it anymore!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

George Junius Stinney Jr., who at the age of 14 was convicted, in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial, and executed, for the murders of two young girls in March 1944 — Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 7 — in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina. He was convicted, sentenced to death, and executed by electric chair in June 1944, thus becoming the youngest American with an exact birth date confirmed to be sentenced to death and executed in the 20th century

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Weren't the two male too? Or was that the skeletons in Pompeii that turned out to be a male couple?

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My dad used to love to tell this story of how the Nazis marched into Paris in 1940, and when they got to the Louvre, there was nothing inside but the Winged Victory of Samothrace. After hearing this story a few times, I found myself in the Louvre, where they have a photo of the Winged Victory of Samothrace, crated up and being slid down a ramp so it could be taken away and hidden. When I saw Dad again I said "Dad, what the hell?" He said "I just figured it was too big to move!" Well they managed to get it from Greece to Paris in the 1860s, so why would it be a problem getting it into the countryside in 1940?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did Charles Manson practice his crazy stare from looking at this picture?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Titanic sank in 1912, wonder how many of these powerful, rich men were on it? Then the dark part, how many survived because they were rich vs those who died because they were gentlemen?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She wasn't the bad person the media made her out to be, she was troubled & he was kind to her

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Closed on May 28, 1937 for strengthening and structural repairs.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Again? Nope. She's dressed as a bat from Die Fledermaus. Bat costumes we hardly uncommon in this time period.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's a lot missing here. They injected them with insulin and their recovery was rapid (I read that the story has been exaggerated but the basis of the story is true)

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