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In 1922, Scientists Entered A Ward Of Dying Children, All In Comatose Diabetic Ketoacidosis, And Injected A New Drug (Insulin) Into Them As Families Were Already Beginning To Grieve

Before they had injected the last person on the ward, the first woke up. One by one, all of the children awoke from their diabetic comas. A room of death and gloom, became a place of joy and hope.

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To learn more about history, pictures, and everything in-between, we contacted James Jefferies, who is a Ph.D. candidate and Assistant Lecturer at the University of Essex and University of Wolverhampton, and recently gave a seminar about the First World War using a still from the BBC documentary The Great War from the 1960s. "I always find images are good to use in seminars as visual stimulants alongside questions for topics," Jefferies told Bored Panda.

"The image I used showed what appeared to be a British soldier (a.k.a a 'Tommy') sitting in a trench surrounded by bodies with a look of forlorn disillusionment. I played students a clip of the opening titles in which this image is used and asked my students for their thoughts."

"They said how strong it was and that it emphasized the notions of the futility of the First World War. I then showed them that the image was actually an altered composite image that was taken from an original image of Irish troops in July 1916. In the original picture, the soldier is surrounded by smiling comrades and his facial expression now, in its true context, suggests one of curiosity over having his photograph taken rather than forlorn and disillusionment," Jefferies explained. "Now, not only does this raise questions about why the image was altered and how this fits into the public perception of the First World War in the 1960s but it also makes you question yourself when presented with images. You start to think about the context."

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A Mother And Her Son On Their Way To A Pride Walk, 1985

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Bardhi's Dad 2 years ago

Great!

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Lewis Fisher Wells 2 years ago

good

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Izzabelle Mendiola 2 years ago

Brilliant!

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Micah Chips 2 years ago

faaaantastic

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Shaylin Anderson 2 years ago

I’ve worked for the PRIDE organization for ~12 yrs & have seen so much unfiltered love & beauty — but also so much hate & self-righteous indignation. Every year preceding the death of Fred Phelps & for a few years after, members of the Westboro Baptist Church would park themselves outside the main entrance to the festival, using bullhorns & microphones, to accuse us of everything from b*********y to satanic worship. One year I got a call through my walkie-talkie to come pick up my dad, who was at the front entrance. He would occasionally stop by to bring food, etc, but that year he was throwing our old biology books from HS & college (my sister & I are both Dr’s, so there was a lot of them) & yelling at them. I arrived to find Drag Queens singing “Born This Way” & dancing w/my dad. I’ve never felt more loved in my life. The Drag Queens wanted to adopt him as their dad, too. Accepting, loving parents make life so much better ❤️

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The Gay Bitch 2 years ago

That's adorable

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Got Myself 4 Dwarves 2 years ago

I love this. I don't give a rats ass what my kids become sexually - so far my oldest two are bi and the other dating someone non-binary, my younger two I will find out in time but it makes no difference to me, they're people I have loved since before we met, and that nothing will ever stop me loving them. You teach children by example, and I want my kids to be loving, caring and accepting people - so I try to show them how to be like that - it's really not difficult

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Vicky Zar 2 years ago

THIS! "Parents" who can just throw out and disown their own children because they do not conform to their way of life have never really loved their children. They are not good parents, never have been and never will be. They are the ones who need to repent, not the other way around.

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IrrelevantNonsense 2 years ago

You’re an amazing parent. Now only if we could convince all parents that it doesn’t matter…

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Zarc 2 years ago

You are truly an awesome person and everyone should be just like you. I have to keep my personal life separate from my social life simply due to my family and where I live and because of that I have a lot of stress and anxiety that someone I don't want to know will find out who I really am.

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InfectedVoice 2 years ago

My mum was very good friends with a gay couple in the 80s when me and siblings were all kids, we didn't think anything of it, I'm glad my mum was like that, it taught us a good example I think.

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Chef Latte 2 years ago

That…actually is wholesome

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Benita Valdez 2 years ago

Best type of picture to see. Mothers love is unconditional

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Marlowe Fitzpatrik 2 years ago

It isn't. And considering how awful some people turn out to be, I think mothers deserve the right to have a line as to how much their love expands.

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Azolane 2 years ago

No it's not. My husband's mother is the most toxic person I have ever met, and she tried every way possible to make her son's life hell just because he's not what she wants him to be.

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WatermelonTheDutchie 2 years ago

it should be but alas :/

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roger rowden 2 years ago

This is cool, although she may not agree, she isn't judging.

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crowspectre (he/they) 1 year ago

I am gay. I can't rhyme

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Jane Maxwell 2 years ago

Yep. In the 1980’s nobody cared what you did or who you were with. We minded our own business. Lifestyles weren’t shoved down each other throats. We did our own thing and nobody cared. It was nice back then.

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Smarty Panda 2 years ago

👏👏👏👏🌈🌈

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Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)

Good (and observant) parents always know, even before their child realizes it. They don’t change their opinion of their child. They don’t try to force them to be their idea of “normal”. They would never ever even think of throwing them out of the house and disowning them because of it. Good parents love and accept their children. Good parents want their children happy. Good parents make time to talk with their child if the kid comes to them with a problem. Good parents let their children be themselves and live their own lives—-though they stay in touch and do their best to make sure their child is safe and happy, whether the kid is 18 or 48. Mom in this picture doesn’t ask why, because there is no why. It. Just. IS. We’re attracted to whoever we’re attracted to, and love whoever we love. You can’t control any of that in yourself (hell, the man I married is not the kind of man I thought I wanted—-but he’s the kind of man I didn’t know I needed), so there’s no acceptable reason to try and control it in your kids.

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SK Bruning 2 years ago

And God said….(because He loves you!)

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Robert Giese 2 years ago

Awwww, what a mother's love must do for someone in a situation like that. But how scary it must have been for some parents, particularly back then.

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Micah Chips 2 years ago (edited)

I WISH THIS WAS MY MOM :O

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Becky B B 2 years ago

I have tears of sadness and tears of joy. I lost a very beloved friend to AIDS in that year he had never been able to come out because so few did then. We have come so far. How I wish you could be here to celebrate. You were so bright, highly intelligent, outrageously funny. A Gem only rarely ever discovered.

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Christine Gann 2 years ago

I'm so sorry you lost a good friend. A true friend is a gem indeed. Rare and hard to find!!

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Pamela Felt 12 months ago

I'm going to.say this ...world has gone to h-ll,we can praise gay people trans abortion rights ...couples that live as throuples with kids people that support a letter by Osama bin laden but every time someone even MENTIONS god now or religion or Jesus people spew hate it's like your grabbing the air from there lungs ....so so very sad !!!

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Amy Doyle 1 year ago (edited)

Great mother. All parents should be like this. My parents have never cared. I'm straight, my sisters bi but they literally don't care. Which js good.

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snek 1 year ago

He's just like me!

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DonnerDinnerParty 1 year ago

Love is love! 💞💘💞

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Olivia Cucinella 1 year ago

I love this!

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Tonja Massie 1 year ago

Love this

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Audrey Kahin 2 years ago

Now this brought a smile to my face

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Claudia Calabrese 2 years ago

Parents should always stay by their children no matter what. Unless they are violent criminals.

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Claudia Calabrese 2 years ago

*Doesn't

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Renee Asuega 2 years ago

I frickin love that <3

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Barbara E Johnson 2 years ago

Love, love, ❤️

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Kristen Lee 2 years ago

I LOVE THIS!!

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Stella Goldfish 2 years ago

Unconditional love

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Anna Gabrielle Borbolla-Menare 2 years ago

cool mom

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Anna Gabrielle Borbolla-Menare 2 years ago

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Beachbum 2 years ago

Love it!

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Brenda 2 years ago

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE

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Holly Bee 2 years ago

Parenting gooaaaals

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Susan S 2 years ago

This was a huge thing for her to do , back in 1985. I remember sitting in my Human Sexuality class in college around 1990 (for which I got an A+ , lol) and having a gay person as a guest speaker, cuz not many of us straights ever knowingly spoke to one before and ask them questions

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Livia Hubler 2 years ago

a lot of adults say that u either female or male or u confused

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Marsha Cain 2 years ago

So beautiful!!!

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Ramona Jackson 2 years ago

I love this!

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j b milam 2 years ago

i wish we didn't have to still fight for rights and acceptance, but we do.

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Corey Beth Greaves 2 years ago

What an awesome & supportive mother! This is the way it always should be!!

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Keisha 2 years ago

I LOVE this.

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Jennifer Norton 2 years ago

Simple and to the point!

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Thecoolbonnie 2 years ago

This is AWESOME!

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IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 2 years ago

Best kind of support.

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Christoph Rydzewski 2 years ago

I remember Scotty was my mom's friend. We went to his funeral. I was little but I'm like why is he there. As she was crying she said he had aids. Being 6 I didn't understand She told me stories how he loved taking me places as a child had big ass teddy bear for a long time. Life is cruel. But rules are set in motion to lower risk of disease and stuff. Wish people follow the Lord. His love and acceptances our two different things.

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TahJia Williams 2 years ago

Awwww❤❤❤❤❤

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Marita Berndt 2 years ago

❤🧡💛💚💙💜

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L Shaw 2 years ago

Love it ♥️ Fail to understand what is so upsetting to people .

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Topaz wolf Zzz 2 years ago

oo

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Terrie Keogh 2 years ago

🧡💚💙💛💜

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Gabrielle braswell 2 years ago

Ok this is positivity adorable

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Robbb 2 years ago

Funny 😂🤣

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Pjerrot 2 years ago

Yeah!!!!💪🏼👏👏👏👏Love & Pride🌈

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Dana Graves 2 years ago

Excellent statements 👌

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Giles Gallie 2 years ago

[Pauline] when you love and respect yourself, you know the meaning of love and respect for others.

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KC Nordquist 2 years ago

❤❤❤

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SirDigbyChickenCaesar 2 years ago

That's what real love looks like.

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Joanne Humphreys 2 years ago

What a great photograph 🐨🇦🇺🦘🌈🌟

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KurtCobainofficiallmao 2 years ago

love this

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Wendy Hamilton 2 years ago

Awesome!

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Terri Owens 2 years ago

EPIC!!!

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Moezzzz 2 years ago

I love these t shirts!

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Christine Jemison 2 years ago

Best mom ever😊😊😊😊😊

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T.Milly 2 years ago

Love the shirts!

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lucygoosey0903 2 years ago

Yes!

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Tempest 2 years ago

I dont know any straight people who dis use their sex lives with their parents and so on.

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Munchkin 2 years ago

great... now do a death drop

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ljbeanfield 2 years ago

Huh

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Dancy Chandler 2 years ago

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Jeweled Dragon 1 year ago

Not a choice

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Chris berkley 2 years ago

Because straight people don't have too, you ignorant waste of chromosomes

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bee_ 2 years ago

I think your employee was just stating that they're non-binary so people would use the correct pronouns. Stating your sexuality is different from stating your gender identity, especially if you're not cis.

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HellyHacka 2 years ago

At least you showed them the kind of workplace culture you have. Now they can go somewhere else they can be their whole selves at work.

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Potato 2 years ago

Uh... being non-binary is something you are in public when you are, you know, literally in public. It's not something "you do in private" because it's literally your identity. You can compare it to a man walking in to a room and someone addressing him as "mrs" and he says "no, actually, the correct salutation is 'mr'". By announcing it to the whole room, the person is saving time and energy because 1) assuming someone's gender by the way they dress or look is impossible and 2) it's exhausting to keep having the same conversation over and over.

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Bayou Billy 2 years ago

What's it like being a living dinosaur?

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#4

She Was 11 When WWI Started, 36 When WWII Started, 74 When Star Wars Released And 116 When Covid-19 Started. And Her Name Is Kane Tanaka As The World’s Oldest Living Person At Age 118 Years

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#5

A Member Of The Harlem Hellfighters (369th Infantry Regiment) Poses For The Camera While Holding A Puppy He Saved During World War 1, 1918

The Harlem Hellfighters was a regiment made up of decorated Black soldiers who fought as part of the French army because the U.S. did not allow Black soldiers to fight alongside white soldiers. The French accepted the Harlem Hellfighters with open arms and did not racially segregate them.

During World War 1, they fought on the front lines for 191 days, longer than any other American unit. And as a result, suffered the most casualties of any American regiment—losing approximately 1,500 men. Despite the heavy death toll and the poor replacement system, the Harlem Hellfighters never lost a trench or a foot of ground to the enemy; none of them became prisoners of war. Not only were they one of the most successful regiments of World War 1, but they also helped bring Jazz to France.

Upon returning home, the Harlem Hellfighters received a welcome parade in New York City; a privilege that was denied to them before they had left for war. However, the celebrations were short lived as the summer of 1919 became known as the Red Summer, in which the country saw some of the worst racial violence since the Civil War.

The Harlem Hellfighters who dreamed of returning home to a place that would finally treat them with respect and as equal human beings, quickly realized that nothing had changed at all.

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Authorities have long understood the power of visuals too. "I think in politics, whether that be governments, parties and such, most use images to convey a message and also to influence an emotional response with people," Jefferies said.

"An example that comes to mind is a poster by the UK Conservative Party from the 1979 election campaign in the UK showing queues of people outside an employment office sign with words above saying 'Labour Isn't Working.' This poster and image struck a huge chord on the back of the period known as the 'winter of discontent' which had seen large numbers of strikes and rising unemployment. The image itself is fabricated but chimed into a feeling of disillusionment over the Labour government's handling of the crisis led by James Callaghan."

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An Upset Little Patient After A Visit To The Dentist, 1920s

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#7

Spanish Flu, 1918. Family Portrait

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#8

I Find Comfort Knowing That More Than 140 Years Ago People Were Taking Silly Pictures Of Their Pets, 1875

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Jefferies thinks the poster also played a part in Margaret Thatcher coming to power in 1979 and pointed out it has since been adapted and parodied by satirists and other political parties.

"The poster seems to have embedded itself into the collective public memory and it's really fascinating to think about how one simple image can have long-lasting effects and also be used as a representation of that period of history," Jefferies explained.

In 2012, during the United States Presidential Election, the Republican Party even used a variation of the poster, with the slogan 'Obama isn't working' instead of 'Labour isn't working.'

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Little Boy About To Receive A Dog For His Birthday (1955)

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#10

17 Year-Old Juliane Koepcke Was Sucked Out Of An Airplane In 1971 After It Was Struck By A Bolt Of Lightning. She Fell 2 Miles To The Ground, Strapped To Her Seat And Survived After She Endured 10 Days In The Amazon Jungle

17 Year-Old Juliane Koepcke Was Sucked Out Of An Airplane In 1971 After It Was Struck By A Bolt Of Lightning. She Fell 2 Miles To The Ground, Strapped To Her Seat And Survived After She Endured 10 Days In The Amazon Jungle

After ten days, she found a boat moored near a shelter, and found the boat's fuel tank still partly full. Koepcke poured the gasoline on her wounds, an action which succeeded in removing the maggots from her arm. Out of 93 passengers and crew, Juliane was the only survivor of the Lansa flight 508 crash that took place December 24th, 1971.

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#11

A Newly-Born Lamb Snuggles Up To A Boy, 1940

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#12

Protestor At Gay Rights Demonstration In 1970

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In 2006, Professor Anna Pegler-Gordon, already talked about visual media being more accessible to students than the written record. Pegler-Gordon's students were saying that images give concrete shape to a world that sometimes seems intangible and they appreciated the immediacy of the image, which often conveys information quicker than a primary document in an unfamiliar language.

However, as valuable as images can be to our learning process, Pegler-Gordon also pointed out that we should be careful about the way we consume them; we should not only pay close attention to an image's production and circulation, but also to the responses of the image's audience, for example. In most cases, this information cannot be learned from the image itself, and supplementary material is needed.

#13

“You!” – Princess Diana Meets Comedian Rowan Atkinson In 1984

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#14

A Young Barack Obama With His Mother On Halloween (1964)

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#15

Dad Showing Off His Skill To The Surprise Of His Little Daughter In Melbourne, Australia, 1940s

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#16

Albert Einstein Wearing Fuzzy Slippers, 1950s

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"With anything history-related, and I think this a good practice to have with most things, do check the source!" Jefferies said. "All good and reputable accounts will refer to the catalog number of the archives, museum or such, about where something is taken from. We're in an age of photo editing software which is improving all the time but if a catalog number is provided, you can check the original content."

#17

The Last Photo Taken Of Hachikō, A Japanese Akita Dog Remembered For His Unwavering Loyalty To His Owner

Hachikō belonged to professor Eizaburo Ueno who lived in Shibuya and taught at Tokyo Imperial University during the early 1920s. Every day, Ueno would walk to Shibuya station with Hachikō and take the train to work. Once he was done for the day, he would take the train back and return to the station at precisely 3 pm. Hachikō would always be there waiting patiently to accompany the professor home. One day, Ueno suffered a stroke and never arrived at the station. Hachikō went to the station every day for 9 years until his death in 1935. A statue of Hachikō is installed outside Tokyo's Shibuya station, in Japan. In 2015, another Hachiko statue got erected at Tokyo university to celebrate the faithful dog’s 80th death anniversary. They reunited Hachiko with his master, professor Ueno.

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#18

In The Mid-1950's, Italian Shoemakers Were Selling "Defense Shoes", Complete With Spurs On Toes And Heels To Kick Away Offensive Sex Pests, Especially In Rome

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#19

These Twins Toddlers On A Russian Street Are So Well Protected Against The Cold That They Look Like Penguins, 1968

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#20

Marriage Advice For Young Ladies From A Suffragette, 1918. The Pamphlet Is On Display At The Pontypridd Museum In Wales. The Suffragette Is Unknown

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The historian said sources such as the Imperial War Museum, National Archives, Time, etc. are well known and reputable places. "It's always good to get an idea of what is trustworthy, so ask around. Soon, you'll pick up how to look at images and what to look for. I'd definitely say checking its citing saying where it's come from with a catalog number is a good start. Of course, photographs have been manipulated since photography was invented, but experts can usually spot these fakes and this will be accounted for in catalogs. It's all part of the fun of research!"

#21

Can We Just Acknowledge The Fact That These Two Were Married For 74 Years? I Can't Imagine Being Coupled With Someone For That Amount Of Time And Then Losing Them. She Must Be Absolutely Devastated

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#22

Startled Bystander At The Annual Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade, 1994

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#23

My Favorite Picture Of My Grandma & Grandpa. Taken The Summer After Their High School Graduation In 1950

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#24

Princess Diana Dancing With John Travolta At A White House Dinner, 1985

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Jefferies added that sometimes people can be put off by history, thinking it's just memorizing dates and spending an eternity in cold archives. But that's not necessarily the case. "In reality, it's about using a multitude of sources, such as images, to understand that the past is not so far away and that these people felt the same things we did," he explained.

#25

Refusing To Do The Nazi Salute, 1936

The man was later identified to be August Landmesser who joined the Nazi party in 1931, believing that doing so would help him land a job during a poor economy. However, in 1934, as fate would have it, Landmesser fell in love with a Jewish women named Irma Eckler.

A year later they became engaged but their marriage application was denied by newly enacted Nuremberg laws which prohibited marriages between Jews and non-Jews. This however, did not deter them from having children, and Eckler gave birth to their first daughter, Ingrid, in 1935.

Two years later, Landmesser and his wife and daughter attempted to flee Germany to Denmark but were apprehended by authorities. Landmesser was charged with "dishonoring the race" but was later acquitted due to lack of evidence and was just ordered to end his relationship with Eckler.

However, he refused to abandon his wife and was eventually arrested again in 1938. This time he was sentenced to hard labor for 3-years at a nearby concentration camp. It was the last time he would see his wife and daughter.

Eckler was sent to prison where she gave birth to their second daughter, Irene. From there, she was sent to a concentration camp where she was eventually murdered in 1942.

Landmesser was released from his duties in 1941 and was eventually drafted to fight against the Allies. He was sent on the most dangerous missions due to his "criminal past". He was eventually killed in action in Croatia in 1944.

The two daughters were placed with foster parents and survived the war.

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#26

US Soldier Shakes Hand With A Dog In Luxembourg During The Battle Of Bulge, 1944

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#27

The Famous Photo Of Lady Diana Falling Asleep During An Official Royal Engagement, 1981. She Was Actually Pregnant With Prince William At The Time, However Her Pregnancy Had Yet To Be Announced

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#28

Sometimes Little Help Is All You Need, 1945

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"They fell in and out of love, they laughed, they cried, they had favorite foods, etc. One story I always remember is going to Pompeii at age 17 and seeing graffiti on the wall that dated from Roman times. I asked the tour guide what it said as it was in Latin, and she told me it said something like 'Marcus has a giant penis.' Suddenly realizing the fact that people from almost 2,000 years ago made dick jokes made them seem that much more real."

So if you're moved by these pictures, continue digging. Who knows what gems you might uncover!

#29

A Knocker-Upper Was Someone Whose Sole Purpose Was To Wake People Up During A Time When Alarm Clocks Were Expensive And Not Very Reliable

In this photo, Mary Smith earned six pence a week using a pea shooter to shoot dried peas at the windows of sleeping workers in east london, 1930s. She would not leave a window until she was sure that the workers had woken up.

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#44

Wholesome Pictures Of Young Jfk Playing With His Best Friend Lem Billings Who Was Gay

Though there has never been any proof of homosexual activity between them, JFK would often, even when married, share a bedroom with Billings.

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#45

Rowan Atkinson With His 1981 Aston Martin Vantage

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#46

Frida Kahlo Painting In Bed, 1950s

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#47

San Francisco's Lombard Street In 1975

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#48

Mom Uses A Trash Can To Contain Her Baby While She Crochets In The Park, 1969

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#49

Princess Fatemeh Khanum Was The Princess Of Persia. She Was The Daughter Of King Nasir Al-Din Shah Qajar, Who Ruled Persia From 1848 To 1896. She Was Considered The Ultimate Symbol Of Beauty In Persia During The Early 1900s

Princess Fatemeh Khanum Was The Princess Of Persia. She Was The Daughter Of King Nasir Al-Din Shah Qajar, Who Ruled Persia From 1848 To 1896. She Was Considered The Ultimate Symbol Of Beauty In Persia During The Early 1900s

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#50

The Wartime Selfie, 1940s

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#51

Billed As "The Sheep-Headed Men," "The White Ecuadorian Cannibals Eko And Iko," And "The Ambassadors From Mars,” George And Willie Muse Were World-Famous Sideshow Performers In The Early 1900s

But even their white audiences hardly knew the horrors of their story. ⁠
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Born Black with a rare form of albinism, they were targeted by a traveling "freak hunter" when they were just boys and kidnapped from their Virginia home. Then they were forced to grow out their hair and sold to a series of traveling sideshows, including Ringling Bros. They weren’t allowed to go to school or learn to read, and they never saw a dime, though their handlers made a fortune off of them. They were even told that their mother was dead so that they would stop begging to go home.⁠
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Their years of enslavement finally ended in 1927 when Ringling Bros. found its way back to Roanoke and George recognized their mother in the crowd. "There's our dear old mother," he said. "Look, Willie, she is not dead."⁠

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#60

Highschool Photos Of Meryl Streep!

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#61

Salvador Dali Taking His Anteater For A Walk In Paris, 1969

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#62

Robert Wadlow, Tallest Human In Recorded History, With His Parents And Siblings, 1935

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#63

Clint Eastwood 1960s Then And Now - Still Cool

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#64

16 Year Old German Soldier, Hans-Georg Henke, Crying As He Is Captured By The Us 9th Army In Germany On April 3rd, 1945

He was a member of the Luftwaffe anti-air squad and burst into tears as his world crumbled around him. His father died in 1938, but when his mother died in 1944 leaving the family destitute, Hans-Georg had to find work in order to support the family. At 15 years of age he joined the Luftwaffe.

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#65

Us Soldier With Pictures Of His Girlfriend Attached To His Helmet, Củ Chi Base Camp, Vietnam In 1968

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#66

Wife Shields Her Husband's Eyes From A Young Woman Taking Her Top Off On The Beach In France, 1974

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89points

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#67

Not Yet Realizing A Terrorist Attack Was In Progress, Architect And Amateur Pilot Isabel Daser, Eight Months Pregnant, Asked A Co-Worker To Take Her Portrait As A Record Of The Day

Final score:

88points

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#68

The Discovery Of The Ancient Statue Of Antinous found In delphi, Greece during An Excavation In 1894

Antinous was the Greek male lover of Hadrian, a Roman Emperor in the 2nd century. Antinous died of mysterious circumstances while riding a flotilla down the Nile river in October of 130. Theories put forth by scholars range from accidental drowning to human sacrifice to suicide.

Upon his death, Hadrian underwent a period of intense grieving and eventually deified his lover by building temples and placing statues throughout the empire. Hadrian held festivals, minted metals and coins, and even founded a city named Antinopolis in his honor. He even went as far as establishing a cult devoted solely to the worship of Antinous.

Today, Antinous has more surviving sculptures than any other figure from classical antiquity except Augustus and Hadrian himself.

Final score:

85points

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#69

Italian Summer, 1980s

Final score:

84points

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#70

Not Everyone Likes Bikini, Miami Beach, 1980s

Final score:

83points

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#71

An Indian Student Studying At The University Of Madras In Tamil Nadu, 1905. While Studying Late At Night, Students Use To Tie Their Hairs To A Nail In The Wall To Prevent Themselves From Falling Asleep

An Indian Student Studying At The University Of Madras In Tamil Nadu, 1905. While Studying Late At Night, Students Use To Tie Their Hairs To A Nail In The Wall To Prevent Themselves From Falling Asleep

Final score:

82points

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#72

Escape Artist Harry Houdini Locked Up In Chains About To Take A 30 Foot Plunge Off The Harvard Bridge Into The Charles River In Boston, 1908

Houdini is quoted as saying “there is always the possibility that I will be unable to free myself, as one never can tell what will happen to a lock, however, I am a good swimmer, have confidence in myself, and I hope to perform this feat successfully.” some 20,000 spectators gathered to see Houdini’s leap, including the mayors of Boston and Cambridge. They waited 40 seconds for the magician to resurface, which he did with the shackles in his hands.