“How History Looks”: 50 Interesting Historical Photos You Might Not Find In Textbooks

she's a beauty with her traditional attire ❤

She's in her 70s now. Always remember that ALL the parents of that school withdrew their kids rather than allow them to go to school with a black girl. She was escorted past dozens of hateful white people throwing rocks and hurling insults at her. She was just a kid. And she went to those classes and sat alone.

THAT SMILEE

Handsome police man

Awww, I love this.

Is it just me or does he look like Elonek Muskow

Beautiful. May she live another 118 years.

I think a lot of commenters are forgetting that this was when the feminist movement was just getting started. Women had only JUST gotten the right to have their own bank accounts and credit cards separate from their husbands or fathers.

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This is most likely Nakano Takeko, a famous onna-bugeisha (female warrior) in Japanese history. Nakano fought during the Boshin War (1868-1869) and died aged 21. She (and other women) fought "without permission, since the senior Aizu retainers at the time did not allow them to fight as an official part of the army. Her preferred weapon was the naginata. She was wounded by a rifle bullet to the chest in October of 1868, and Nakano asked her younger sister to behead her in order to prevent Nakano being taken captive. She asked that her sister give her an honorable burial. Her sister and another Aizu soldier carried out her wishes, and Nakano was buried at the temple her family attended, in the Fukushima prefecture.

Woodward and Bernstein of the Washington Post. Had to stop my subscription when the WP didn't endorse Kamala Harris over Trump.

bet she was happy❤

Amazing special effects makeup. Comparable still to now, almost 100 years later.

Gurl put it over Ur nose-

We all like a bit of comfort.

one is clapping and the other one is thanking the Lord, pheww

Homework is BS and only there to program kids to the continuing BS of taking your work home when you enter the work force.

omg how are they even alive??

This happened in France during a syndicalist protest. They were best friends growing up. Man on the left is saying "Well, aren't you going to hit me?"

must be wondering how people went inside the tv set 🤦‍♂️

Looks seriously badass.

Queen Amidala!

Yeah, but look where he's standing.

So beautiful

Picking cotton is rough , not just from the work itself. The protective case around the fibers opens up into what look and feel like wooden spikes.

Sill coming to work though, right?

Dogs are so amazing!!

yeah, my great grandfather was like them once upon a time ❤

I met him way back when he was one of the WWF top fighters. I was working at an airport's gate and had to wand him. Well I'm barely 5' 2", and was about to climb a chair to start from the top, but he stopped me and instead crouched down to my height til I got done. Everyone around the gate was laughing and he signed autographs and took pictures with his fans.

Sweet Angels❤❤❤

What a sweet face. He's holding on to his desk with his toes. 🤣

That child is still in shock. Look at her eyes.

Poor you... Mowgli ❤

I love the boy with the huge smile on his face. Making the best of hard times.

this is an arranged picture by the people in the picture being there for their in the morning of the change. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H

Woman on the left wants to drop that dude on his face, LOL!

It getting much painting done up there. 😆

Wow! I've never seen this picture before. I never even knew it dried up like this. What happened?

Nope

The Black Tom explosion in New Jersey on July 30, 1916 was thought to have weakened the arm, and the stairway was closed to the public. Investigation attributed the explosion to German saboteurs, Apparently there were also logistic reasons for keeping it closed even after the repairs in 1984-86, due to the single staircase available in the arm.

Soldiers often wrote messages on bombs. Most with far harsher words that would be censored here.

Collapsible Boat A. The canvas sides were not put up during the sinking, so many of those who managed to climb onboard died of hypothermia and fell to the sea. Apparently, only 14 survived and were transfered to another boat. The three bodies were left there and the lifeboat drifted off.

if the pigeons only knew 😫

Why the heck does it look like Trump???

Dad looks like Jeffrey Dahmer.

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I like his art, Guernica for example is a masterpiece. Just a shame he was a moronic príck.

Thank you France!! 🇫🇷 🥰

I remember when we used them when I was younger life jackets we bulkier and more rectangular, compared to the ones now. I felt a little embarrassed wearing them then, which is silly of course.

Yeti

Its actually a staff meeting

So many deaths in such an awful way, right there.

Always the goof! He stole her tiara.

That was definitely the early 1900s. That gave way to Toni permanents you could do at home.

A photo without the Toyota building! 😂

What radiation you pick up here, take that home and expose others!

OSHA is having a stroke...

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It was during his army stint that he made his only stop in the UK. His plane taking him home made a fuel stop at Paisley Airport.

Amazing how first five are girls then six boys.

Apparently, McDonalds french fries were one of the main reasons for its success. They were fried in beef tallow, which made them golden and rich, but after a US Congressman had a heart attack which he attributed to the fries, a law was passed mandated cooking oil instead, which is worse...

Vodka and cigarettes but no vegetables.

How did it end?

NOPE I'VE SEEN ENOUGH MOVIES FOR THIS TO BE THE WAY I END

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Albert, the Prince Consort, had been ill for some time. In 1861, "Albert was informed that gossip was spreading in gentlemen's clubs and the foreign press that the Prince of Wales [his son] was involved with Nellie Clifden. Albert and Victoria were horrified by their son's indiscretion and feared blackmail, scandal or pregnancy. Although Albert was ill and at a low ebb, he travelled to Cambridge to see the Prince of Wales on 25 November and discuss the indiscreet affair." Albert died less than a month later on December 14th.

Probably just inspecting. There are no tools, and certainly no way to use them when hanging by both hands.

Oh hell no!

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For those confused: WC = Winston Churchill (in the photograph) but also stands for "water closet", another phrase for the toilet/bathroom, which is why they're holding their noses XD

Holy b00bies Batman!