Testing football helmets in 1912 |
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The Titanic in dry dock 1912 |
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Carl Akeley posed with the leopard he killed with his bare hands after it attacked him, 1896 |
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The smallest shop in London - a shoe salesman with a 1.2 square meter shoe store, 1900 |
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A beggar running alongside King George V’s coach. England, c. 1920 |
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Allied soldiers mock Hitler atop his balcony at the Reich Chancellery, by Fred Ramage, 1945 |
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13 June 1944: An English brewery donates a sizable amount of fresh beer
for the troops fighting in Normandy and a unique delivery method is created strapping kegs to the underwings of Spitfires being shipped to forward airfields. Flying at 12 000 feet chills the brew to perfection |
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An aerial view of the WWI Loos-Hulluch trench system in France.
British trenches are situated on the left of the photo, and German trenches
on the right - in the middle of the two is no man's land. July 22, 1917 |
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A man trying to sell his car after losing all in the Great Crash of 1929 |
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Wedding rings from WW II concentration camps.
Each pair of rings represents a family, a marriage, a couple. 1945 |
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Leonard Siffleet, captured Australian commando who fought in WWII, moments prior to being beheaded by a member of the Imperial Japanese Navy. 1943 |
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Iranian woman in the era before the Islamic revolution by Ayatollah Khomeini. Iran, 1960 |
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A shot from atop Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning during game 7 of the 1960 World Series. The Pirates defeated the Yankees with a walk off home run by Bill Mazeroski. Photo was taken moments after the home run. |
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The Muffin man in 1910 London |
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Animal Tamer Captain Jack Bonavita sitting down with some of his cats, ~1870s |
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1865: Hanging hooded bodies of the four Lincoln assassination conspirators |
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The morning after a long night awaiting a Viet Cong ambush that never came
40 miles East of Saigon, Vietnam, 1965 |
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A man having his nose measured during Aryan race determination tests, 1940 |
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Loggers in California with the felled giant ‘Mark Twain redwood’, 1892 |
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The last Jew in Vinnitsa, 1941 |
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US Government mockups of how Hitler could have disguised himself |
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The end of WWII is celebrated in Moscow’s Red Square. May 9, 1945 |
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