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It’s virtually impossible to feel how fast time flies until it passes right behind us, leaving the sense it was only yesterday we had our first day at school or said ‘I Do’. Present moments sneakily turn into memories, and it’s a never-ending cycle.

But thanks to the invention of photography and people who stood behind the lens, not everything gets lost in history. People, places, events that happened years, decades and hundreds of years ago are all made immortal by the camera.

One such mesmerizing gallery is curated by the Lost In History Twitter account dedicated to sharing photos that they say “throw light on our past.” Below, we selected some of the most incredible and interesting photos shared there, so pull your seat closer!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I read a lot of mystery books about the Orient Express, and it is described as very luxurious and beautiful. I can see now why

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Some time ago, Bored Panda spoke with 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. We found out about the cultural and societal significance of old photos, as well as the meanings behind them. It turned out that old photographs can tell us more about life in the past than you will ever learn from history books.

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Laura Henderson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Amazing, rising literally from the ashes. I do hope she didn't die horribly of radiation poisoning...

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First and foremost, it’s important to understand that old photos affect our perception of time in unique ways. According to Lisa, they do that “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 gave an interesting example: “I was really taken by images of Japanese-Americans in WWII U.S. internment camps, young people protesting low wages for teachers in the Great Depression, female engineers working for the Space Race, and little kids protesting Daylight Savings Time—my own son especially appreciated that one…"

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Mr. Cinder
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What are the cannibals going to eat? They're nothing but bones. What a horrific picture.

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Rod
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And a 100 years later young girls are sent home from school because you can see their shoulders...

Andrzej Nikolaevich
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's things like this picture and your comment that remind me of so much still wrong with the world that still isn't fixed

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Bernd Herbert
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Are these the "good old times" people are mentioning regularly?

AmAndA_Panda
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"The sexiest thing a woman can wear is confidence!" Also, "How dare you go out and be confident showing the same skin men do all the time?! Women should be demure and modest!"

Juan Ghote
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just change the caption date to 2022 and change swimsuit for termination of pregnancy...

Powerful Katrinka
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've been thinking the exact same thing. It's just a matter of time until the Y'alliban gets around to dictating what women can wear in public.

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Linda HS
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Next, after not being able to have the right for abortion, is the right to vote for women! Back more than a hundred years! Perfect👎

Shehzadi Amal
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How else would they spend their time if not playing at war games and regulating what womxn do? That would leave time for actual beneficial activities to take place. They can't have that. Making sure womxn are nothing more than breeders that never leave the house, and assuring that PoC can't vote and return to the fields is all they're concerned with.

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$cagsy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Understandable considering their wasn't much actual crime going on there in the 20s. Apparently Al Capone's bathing suit was very moderate and conservative, allowing him to sneak under the Chicago cops' radar during raids such as this. He was a wily old fox, that one.

Ray McArdle
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's your choice how you want to dress, provided you are conscious of the presence of children. It shouldn't be a crime. I'm afraid the US is creeping its way back to these times.

October
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kinds have no problem with nudity at all. Untill they learn it is supposed to be a problem.

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v
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Straight men must live a horrible life...being always at war with themselves. Part of the time they so desire the female body and part of the time they are scared shitless of the female body.

Shehzadi Amal
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No one will ever be able to convince me otherwise.....stra8 males like having seggs with female anatomy but they fully hate womxn. Stra8 males would be thrilled if their seggs holes just shut TF up.

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Ugh_What_Now
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OH NO, your suits are too short! Men might get the wrong idea and... commit a crime... so that's illegal... FOR YOU!

SeaLouse_Comics
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's amazing how this still exists. In Scandinavia, going topless on the beach is totally normal. I'm hetero, and over there we can appreciate the female body without going nuts over it.

Shehzadi Amal
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah....bodily autonomy and not acting like a rabid animal when they see a female body is not something Americans are very good at.

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Ken Van Egdon
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Look at that woman dragging the other to the back Mariah... With a dude in a tank top watching

Slammer
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The one woman looks like quite the scrapper. Hope she gave it to that cop good.

Kathi Neumann
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And you can tell by the way she's fighting back that she's a true Chicago woman 😂 Chicago women hit differently, LITERALLY.

LSR
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Hey your swimsuit is too short. Here, let me oogle you and squeeze you to...arrest you for it".

Unsound Mind
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

October, right. When do equal rights start. You know every guy there remembered that day with a dirty smile

Littlebooks
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I could be mistaken, but it even looks as if that's another woman dragging the one from the building. Such a shame. :(

Maegan Fleming
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We are still told what to wear and what to do with our bodies to this day.

Gina Tembo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And now we wear underwear and full clothing. Time is a fickle thing.

Gina Tembo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And now we wear underwear as full clothing. Time is a fickle thing.

Plague doctor
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly that's not bad compared to the cloths related arrest of today.🤦

Barong
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And I thought she was giving him a hug until I read the caption.

Jason Leaf
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I bet the arresting officer (center) was dreaming about a moment like this when he first thought of getting into law enforcement.

Becks
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought that was a pic from one of Boris Johnson's parties.

Robin
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Are you kidding? I can think of 2 specific pictures burned into my mind of women wearing literal mesh dresses that completely showed private parts so they may as well have been walking around naked... Lizzo going to a party and Zoe Kravitz with the comment, "It's just a body"... and the many pictures out there of "what you see at Walmart"... in today's society there is zero policing of women's clothing!!!!! Society has changed... if you were uncomfortable with it before, you have had this pushed into your face so strongly that you are just used to it now and built up a numbness to the shock so it just doesn't bother you like it used to.

Brenda White
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Really??? Except in 3rd world hell holes that the liberal new world order choose to ignore seriously, so many of you are so freaking negative. No one in Western culture objects to anyone's fashion choices. I have seen so many wonderful photos of high school prom wear by all kinds of kids and it's celebrated. If you don't have anything good to say..... I'm fed up with boredpanda negativity.

Robin
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Really? Policing? Have you seen the mesh dresses celebrities are wearing or the many pictures of "seen at Walmart"? People may as well walk around naked... showing private body parts is NOT policed in today's society.

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Another way old photos alter our perception of time is by showing that people in the past had just as rich and complex lives as we have today. Lisa explained that “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 the reality couldn’t be further from the truth. “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,” the professor explained.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The part in Schindlers List which upsets me the most is when they are told to carefully write their names on their suitcases as they will get them back when they get off the train. You then see the suitcases being brought to the sorting areas and the contents being put into various piles like this. The fact that they gave these prisoners a glimer of hope (that their possessions would be returned to them) while knowing what was in store for them is just heartbreaking 😥

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Moreover, old photographs remind us of something we tend to forget: “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,” Lisa concluded in this in-depth interview we had.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

TIL goats like bananas. Looked into it, and in addition to hay and grains, I learned they also eat "foods like fruits, dried fruits, veggies, graham crackers, cheerios, Cheetos, and even corn chips."

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Nathaniel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Stop, Hammer time! You can't touch this, You can't touch this, You can't touch this, Break it down!"

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Laura Henderson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

... And it wasn't just Germans who were brainwashed by Nazism. Let's not forget that.

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Laura Henderson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Terrible working conditions. It's literally what Zorro rescues "the disappeared ones" from in the movies.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looks like a house I grew up in, in Florida. Mortgage was $63 a month. Mom worked a full time and a part-time job, my dad was a lineman for the county. 950 square feet, linoleum floors, 1 very pink and black bathroom for the 5 of us, and murderous jalousie windows. No a/c. That house is now listed for $220, 000. Not worth it.

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Mistiekim
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Anytime I’m watching a movie or a tv show that you can see the Towers in, it always brings me back to that day. 😞

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just bcus I'm curious what sort of advantage would this have for training

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did you know that the Golden Gate Bridge must be repainted every five years to prevent rust? But it takes five years to paint the entire bridge from end to end, so the painters, when they finish, have to cycle back to the beginning and start all over again. It's a neverending job. Talk about your job security!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

James Cameron's inspiration for the "Draw me like one of your French girls" sofa scene in Titanic

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Eiffel Tower was supposed to have walls and everything but they stopped after buildilng the skeleton. Also everyone hated it when it was first built. I think they were right tbh.

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