The interior of the Orient Express. This long-distance passenger train 🚂 was created in 1883.
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A Watch Stopped At 08:15 AM Found In Hiroshima”. August 1945
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Otto, Anne Frank's father, revisits the attic where the family hid from the Nazis. He was the only survivor of his family (1960)
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WWII Gas Masks For Babies
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Two Armenian Counter-Militias Fighting The Armenian Genocide Perpetrated By The Turkish Ottomans. 1915
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Child soldiers taking a smoke break, Angola (1976).
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The Models Of The "American Gothic" Painting
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"Never thought about it before, but you know that famous picture of a bunch of construction workers sitting on a girder way up in the sky and having lunch? Well here's the photographer who took that picture: Charles C. Ebbets"
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Patrick Swayze once said: “I’ve now ceased to worry about image, because I don't care what people think of me anymore. Because I've had such a battle with what I think of me and with trying to find a way to like myself.”
Photo by: @maryellenmarkfoundation
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A Goodbye Between North- And South Korean Relatives After A Family Reunion, Who Were Separated For Over 57 Years
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Bernie Sanders Being Arrested In Chicago For Protesting Segregation In 1963. He Was Charged With Resisting Arrest And Fined $25
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In 1731, King Frederick I of Sweden sent his favourite lion, which had died, to a taxidermist, and this is what he received in return. To this day, King Frederik's Lion can be seen at Gripsholm Castle, a former royal residence that is now a museum in Mariefred, Sweden 🇸🇪
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André The Giant On A Plane Traveling To Japan, 1980
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Pre-Civil War Lebanon, Byblos, 1965.
Photo by Raymond Depardon
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Moses by Michelangelo Is A Marble Sculpture Created In 1513–1515
One of the numerous intricate aspects of this work of art is a little muscle in the forearms that only contracts when the pinky is lifted Moses is raising his pinky, so the teeny muscle there is contracted.
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A young boy lights up one last cigarette before facing the repercussions for breaking into his father's automobile and crashing it. 1974
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Corporal Jackie was a baboon in the South African army during WWI. He was made their mascot when his owner was drafted into war. Jackie received various injuries during the war such as being shot in the shoulder and having his right leg blown off
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Rome in The 60’s Was A Vibe
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After a long day of work, a crowd of Belgian coal miners are crammed onto an elevator. 1900
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Jenny Joseph Modeling For The Columbia Pictures Logo, 1992. She Had Never Modeled Before, And Never Did Again
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Arnold Schwarzenegger With Wilt Chamberlain And Andrè The Giant On The Set Of Conan The Destroyer, 1983
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A Couple At Woodstock 48 Hours After Meeting Each Other And The Same Couple 50 Years Later, Still Together ♥️
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A Train Of Jewish Prisoners Intercepted By Allied Forces. They then realized that the train would not be heading to a Concentration Camp, they had been liberated.
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Meet Margaret Hamilton, The Woman Who Took Mankind To The Moon. She Is Standing Beside The Code She Created To Program The Computer Systems On The Apollo 11 Spacecraft, 1969
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The photograph of Joseph Stalin taken at 4:31 am on June 22, 1941 - he just told that Germany had attacked the USSR, starting a war against the
Soviet Union. The photographer was asked to destroy the photo but he saved it.
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Simo Hayha.
Finnish farmer. Got drafted. Killed 505 Russians in the Winter War, making him the deadliest sniper ever. Didn't use a scope. He also killed 200 more with his machine gun
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“You have to know the past to understand the present.” ― Carl Sagan
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Mugshot of John Wojtowicz who unsuccessfully tried to rob a bank in 1972 to pay for his wife Eden's gender reassignment surgery.
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A Crowded Beach In Atlantic City, NJ, In 1908.
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"The Drunk Basket." In the 1960s, bars in Istanbul would hire someone to carry people back to their homes.
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Woman kneeling next to bed of child, in an underground tunnel during the bombing of London, World War II, January 1945
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Five boys sit together, eating large watermelon slices, New Orleans, Louisiana - 1930.
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1958. an engineer wiring an IBM computer
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Jennie Macgregor, Arrested By Minneapolis Police On April 10, 1924 For Dispensing Alcoholic Beverages From Life-Preserver Flasks
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Harold Whittles Hearing Sound For The First Time, 1974
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The Gadget, The First Atomic Bomb, 1945
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A Jewish Woman Who Is Concealing Her Face Sits On A Park Bench Marked "Only For Jews", Austria, 1938
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Mafia Boss Joe Masseria Lays Dead On A Brooklyn Restaurant Floor Holding The Ace Of Spades, 1931
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