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Throughout human history, photographs have captured raw, poignant moments that resonate deeply with our shared human experience. From the the desperate mother's gaze during the Great Depression captured in "Migrant Mother", to the jubilant sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square at the end of World War II, these emotional snapshots offer an unfiltered insight into the highs and lows, the triumphs and tragedies, of our collective past.
Instagram page by the name of "Pictures of Humanity" collects such photographs all in one place to share with their audience. Today we'd like to share some of the best ones with you, Pandas.
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#1
Sign Seen At A March For Women's Rights In Pakistan. 2020
HellyHacka 2 years ago
Well we already know we're superior in many ways ;) equality won't change that!
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Two Parents Listening To The Heart Transplanted From Their 23 Year Old Son, Who Died Of An Opioid Overdose. 2018
EP 2 years ago
Look at the dad sobbing to hear his son’s heart beat again. Wow. Powerful stuff.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
My brother's heart and lungs went to a man whose only goal was to live long enough to see his son graduate high school. His voice broke when he told us, "Now I get to play with my grandchildren."
GrillMeASalmon 2 years ago
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself” - Khalil Gibran
Fire Singer 2 years ago
A friend of mine had a heart transplant. My friend sees the family of the man whose heart he now has once a year so they can listen to his heart and to make sure my friend is still doing well. It's sweet and heartbreaking at the same time.
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
Sorry! Sorry, I'm about to grill some burgers though!
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#3
Punk Rocker Lets Curious Child Touch His Jacket. 2012
Jez Coates 2 years ago
A beautiful interaction of two very different people - other than that they both have warm hearts.
Falcon on Dizzy 2 years ago
as a metalhead, this is a situation I'd wish to be in (bringing joy to curious kids)
Alex Ruddies 2 years ago
I miss my punk days...some of best people I've known I knew through the punk scene.
MrsFettesVette 2 years ago
I had some amazing times, saw some amazing shows
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Khavrinen 2 years ago
I used to have a coworker with a denim jacket like that, and all I could ever think about was what it must sound like if he put it in the washer/dryer.
sturmwesen 2 years ago
You either don't wash it or you screw off the big spikes first.
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Margeret Hamilton, Lead Software Engineer Of The Apollo Project, Standing Next To The Code She Wrote By Hand That Helped Take Us To The Moon. 1969
Oskar vanZandt 2 years ago (edited)
Coincidentally am watching "Hidden Figures" atm ... Amazing team of black women mathematicians who made the calculations for NASA's earliest rocket launches and subsequently worked with the room-sized IBM computer that replaced them.
#5
Siblings Found In Earthquake Rubble After Being Trapped For 17 Hours. Both Were Successfully Rescued. 2023
Sue Wade-Walters 2 years ago
Hope they can get PTSD help. I'd be claustrophobic for life.
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Benita Valdez 2 years ago
If I remember correctly, she insisted they save her little brother first too
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Micheala Smith 2 years ago
She’s such a big sister to still covering her siblings head. Strong little kids.
Narelle Hussy 2 years ago
this pic always makes me cry a little, they are the spitting image of my grandkids, poor little tykes must have been terrified waiting/wondering if help was coming😭
#6
Protesting The Ban On High School Girls Wearing Slacks In Brooklyn, NY. 1942
GrillMeASalmon 2 years ago
Well if it ain't the most well-dressed protest I've ever come by...
EarthGrowl 2 years ago
I remember my mom making me wear a dress for a family photo when I was 3. I hated it, it didn't feel right. I couldn't have explained it then but I don't like having my legs exposed. Wearing a dress was like walking out in public naked. My "shorts" are jeans with the knees ripped out. I am so glad these ladies took the risk to fight for their rights so people like me could dress as we like, not as some old fart demands.
Trish 2 years ago
Honestly, what would be wrong with girls wearing pants? Serious question. I don't understand it.
LH25 2 years ago
I remember reading things about how pants are for men, and so women can't wear them. Or that pants draw too much attention to a woman's backside. Nonsense stuff really.
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Kevin Hickey 2 years ago
The guy on the upper right is saying, "Why, there ought to be a law!!!!" in a Jimmy Stewart voice.
Elle Roque 2 years ago
“Girls show up in slacks at Abraham Lincoln High School, in Brooklyn, in protest because a classmate, Beverly Bernstein, was suspended the day before for wearing slacks.”
#7
Albert Einstein Giving A Lecture At Lincoln University, A Historically Black College. 1946
Bear Hall 2 years ago
There are probably more things common between them than the love of science.
Caroline Brooke 2 years ago
Woah!! I live 5 min away from Lincoln University, and didn’t know that! So cool!!
hitex 2 years ago
Aspies don't judge others like NTs do. We have been judged our whole life for also being different & many find different unacceptable...Einstein was most likely aspies as well
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 2 years ago (edited)
Hmmm...I'm not sure how to respond. I have ASD, and what used to be termed as Asperger (I don't care for the "Aspie" nickname, but that's just my personal preference). I can somewhat understand your post, personally I could say that I am not "judgemental" in the sense that it doesn't occur to me to do so with someone of a different race, religion, gender, partner preference, country of origin, etc., because it is illogical. However, that doesn't mean I am completely devoid of judgement. Grown-a*s adult throwing a tantrum because they won't take your coupon at Target, umm..I'm judging you!
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#8
A Mother Laughs At Her Husband Who Just Fainted. 1986
Mochi 2 years ago
Did you guys know that there have been cases of period cramps that woman have endured for years with the same pain levels of having a heart attack?
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BetterBitterButter 2 years ago
Even the pain of childbirth was less than the funny situation her husband just showed.
Narelle Hussy 2 years ago
they are a laughing team 4 life when it comes 2 dads failures from that day on 🤣
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Zophra 2 years ago
Mine fainted at my epidural. "Are you okay!!!!???" I thought they were talking to me. Nope.
Lene 2 years ago
Perhaps this is why my bf was placed on a chair near the wall so he could just look at me and tell me how brave I was (nah... I just told the doctors to get the baby out alive. I was so scared she'd not make it)? Less risk of fainting soon-to-be-dad?
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EVILtheCAT 2 years ago
I had a scheduled cesarean for my son. They always bring the dad in after the surgery is underway and well...the RN who escorted my husband brought him in the wrong door. He said the first thing he saw were my intestines laying out on my abdomen. I've never that shade of pale on a living person before or since! The man has officially seen more of my body than I have:)
Šimon Špaček 2 years ago
That is pretty horrifying picture. "Mister Jones, do you want to see you cute newborn? Bam, there is your wife, cut in pieces, guts lying around." I can imagine his shock!
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Oskar vanZandt 2 years ago
"I've just been nearly ripped in two, and you're the one that passes out!"
Julia Mckinney 2 years ago
I just had blood drawn last week, the (female) technician was warning me about the needle pain, I replied "eh, not as bad as giving birth". She then said that a lot of the women whose blood she's taken say the same thing. However, she regularly gets men wincing and complaining about how much it hurts.
#9
Chinese Doctor Saying Goodbye To His Wife Before Leaving For Wuhan To Treat Coronavirus Patients. 2020
pamela nichols 2 years ago
He may have been the doctor who died in Wuhan.
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Jrog 2 years ago
Dr. Lyu Jun. I find publications from 2022 in his name, so probably he is ok.
Nancy T 2 years ago
I worked in a large hospital in Connecticut as Covid was moving into the area. My younger children and mother moved in with my eldest son so I could work in the Covid ICU and not infect the family. We didn't know what to expect. But I knew it was what I needed to do. I remember my son crying on the phone one night as I described the increasing numbers of Covid patients. No one knew what was going to happen. Would hospital staff get sick? How bad was this? It didn't seem real. But then Covid hit NYC. Then Massachusetts. Them one day we had two covid patients. Then twenty. Then 100...and it became very real. All i did was work and sleep. And work became a war zone. We were running out of resources. Patients were dying. Families weren't allowed in. There were not enough doctors and nurses and respiratory therapists to go around. We learned how to prone patients. We learned how to video chat with families...and to show them difficult scenes of their loved ones suffering or dying.
Nancy T 2 years ago
We learned how to let things go. If a patient was turned once that shift it was considered a win. If mouth care got done it was a miracle. Charting came second to patient care. Like it did for everyone else, Covid became our new normal. It's so strange now, not wearing masks at work. Seeing smiling faces. Visitors coming and going. I hope we never have to live through that again!
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A Father Watches His Son Become A Dad. 2017
cerinamroth 2 years ago
This is lovely. My children don't have granddads as our dads both died before they were born. I never had a granddad either. It's the kind of relationship I think I hanker for and why I like watching TV programmes about old men going fishing and things!
Nancy Marine 2 years ago
There's nothing wrong with "adopting" a grandparent or two from one of your lonely elder neighbors.
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GrillMeASalmon 2 years ago
"We all end in the ocean, We all start in the streams, We're all carried along, By the river of dreams..." - Billy Joel
Bgray450 2 years ago
Nothing like the love you feel for your child's child. It's like when the Grinch's heart grew three sizes.
pamela nichols 2 years ago
When my granddaugter was born you would have thought i was giving birth. I was so happy to be there and get to hold after my son and daughter in law.
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Magnifico Giganticus 2 years ago
If he was watching his son become a dad then the photo would have been taken in a delivery room at the hospital.
Michele Garrard 2 years ago
We don't believe fatherhood begins at conception anymore, right?
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Heavy Metal Fan In Botswana, Africa. 2011 By Frank Marshall
Not-a-Clue (she/her) 2 years ago
In full leather, in Africa? Very very hot, I imagine!
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Amina Hays 2 years ago
He's a Death Metal Cowboy! There are a few cool short documentaries about the men and women of the group on youtube. As a death/black metal fan myself who's also a brown lady, it's so nice to see people like us getting some publicity!
DarkViolet 2 years ago
You may be cool, but you'll never be heavy-metal-fan-in-Botswana-Africa cool.
#12
A Man Listens To His Phonograph In His Destroyed Bedroom In Aleppo, Syria. 2017 By Joseph Eid
GrillMeASalmon 2 years ago
"If music be the food of love, play on." 'Twelfth Night', William Shakespeare
Bear Hall 2 years ago
The civil war in Syria already killed tens of thousands with substantial help from the ISIS, Saud Arabia, Iran, etc. long before Russians decided to make an appearance.
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Oskar vanZandt 2 years ago
War causes so much human suffering... I wish the warmongers would just stop... Full stop.
Šimon Špaček 2 years ago
If you consider that war is something we do for... whole documented history, no, we will probably never stop.
Load More Replies... Burnt Bagel 2 years ago
This world is so f****d up! Humans are way too stupid to be thinking that they are running it!
#13
Whang-Od Oggay Is A Filipina Tattoo Artist. Currently 106 Years Old, She Is The Oldest Known Person To Practice Mambabatok, An Ancient Traditional Form Of Kalinga Tattooing
Bear Hall 2 years ago (edited)
There are very few people I've seen not only have tattoos but WEARING their tattoos. She does look great.
Somebodys grandmother 2 years ago (edited)
You're right. She looks SO different with her tattoos... she own them in a different way (and I hate tattoos).... let me have that look in my eyes when I get older!!!
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Margaret H 2 years ago
One thing I noticed - her tattoos are all patterns that can be stretched without losing their beauty. I look at some of the modern picture-type tattoos and think they will not age well at all once the skin sags and bags.
martymcmatrix 2 years ago
Absolutely. That's what »Bear Hall« meant by stating that she's not simply having some tattoos, she is »wearing« them like clothes.
Load More Replies... BPisaddictive 2 years ago
Nobody said when she had those tattoos done, maybe few days before! Just kidding of course
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Two Girls Greet Their Wounded Father Returning Home From War. 1940
Laughing Orc 2 years ago
It's quite literally a chair with wheels bolted on. Looks surprisingly comfy.
Load More Replies... BetterBitterButter 2 years ago
The relief they must've felt knowing that their father was home!
Gorilla guy 2 years ago (edited)
Some war, yes. But to say all war is stupid is to say that you would like to be enslaved by some foreign people or be killed in the hands of your country's enemies.
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#15
Walking Practice At The Polio Hospital. 1953
Daya Meyer 2 years ago
Like: One day I will rule the world on these legs."
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TheBadHalfofHel 2 years ago
Vaccines for polio saved an entire generation. And now the children of those patents (who are ignorant, science denying b@$t@rd$) are questioning every advance in science.
#16
She's In Someone's Locket. 1940s
#17
The Earliest Known Photograph Of A Surfer. Hawaii, 1898
Chewie Baron 2 years ago
Agatha Christie, is one of the very first Western women to have ever surfed. Could even be the first.
Lisa Greene 2 years ago
Thank you to the Hawaiians for gifting the world with surfing! Hang ten 🤟
Ben 2 years ago
This is amazing. I am actually going back to Waikiki in less than two months and I will have the same view!
opensourcemind 2 years ago
Sadly, it’s NOT the same view anymore… IMG_2642jp...08-png.jpg 
LovingKnuckle 2 years ago
Ok now we need you to put on the loin cloth and we will take a pic. Why do I need the loin cloth? Well, you, you can’t just…some of the women are fainting…
#18
A 95 Year Old Grandmother Becomes The First Patient To Recover From Covid-19 In Modena, Italy. 2020
Tessa 2 years ago
Good for her and brave doctors! Italy suffered from a COVID crisis as one of the first countries in Europe.
Sunny Day 2 years ago
That's because their population has a large percentage of elderly.
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and later that afternoon she made a new pot of gravy and force fed the doctors. Mangia Mangia!
Mrs. Dearly Regret 2 years ago
History has no age, it happens all the time, even now
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Australian Man And His Dog Watching Their World Burn. 2020
Argle Bargle 2 years ago
In Australia, we feel this deeply. Just the smell of smoke puts most of us on edge now. I can't be in the forest where my family lives and just see the beauty of it anymore, without also feeling a sense of impending doom. My aunt just built a tiny fire bunker out of stones she collected in the bush, in case the fire front comes through and they can't make it to their dam in time. It was the saddest thing I've ever seen, and I hope they never have to use it
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Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
That must be terrifying to live in Australia when there are fires like this
Full of Giggles 2 years ago
The fear is indescribable. My husband and I narrowly escaped the fires three times. And when I say narrowly escaped, I mean we had to drive through the fire to get to safety. We went to bed on January 1st around 11 PM with nearest fire being hundreds of km away. By 3 AM, fire crews were pounding on our door telling us we had less than 5 minutes to evacuate. The first two shelters we went to were evacuated too. Our final refuge was the beach. We came really close to having to flee into the water because we were trapped on the beach. We’ve experienced wildfires on our property in the US but our experience in Australia was 10x worse.
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Roxy Zena 2 years ago
I see Australians being totally chill with deadly wildlife wandering into their homes and, from what I've seen, they don't complain they just handle it and move on. And then I see these fires bullying them on the regular. Mother Nature, give these guys a damn break lady!
Tess 2 years ago
What makes it worse is that the original fires happened to start along the same route that the government had proposed to build railway infrastructure to carry goods from southern ports in Victoria to New South Wales. It had been strongly opposed by the people whose homes stood in the way. While the country was burning the prime minister was on holiday. He eventually reluctantly returned, but not to pretend to care. He decided that it was more appropriate to invite the New Zealand cricket team play on his lawn.
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Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
Wish I hadn't been there to witness it, but I was. :( Smoke almost killed me.
Full of Giggles 2 years ago
My husband and I were among the thousands of people who took refuge on the beach that summer. One of the scariest and most heartbreaking moments of my life.
Argle Bargle 2 years ago
I'm so sorry you had to go through that. It must have been terrifying, and I'm sure it's still something that you would be trying to cope with. It's like something broke in all of us that summer. Best wishes yo you and your husband
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Bride Leaving Her Recently Bombed Home To Get Married. 1940
GrillMeASalmon 2 years ago
"In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance, My head is bloody, but unbowed." 'Invictus' by W E Henley.
Mila Preradović 2 years ago
As opposed to today's brides "My (F27) third cousin twice removed Aschleeighly (35F) was wearing pink beige dress at my wedding and it was RUINED! RUINED! I couldn't stop shaking myself in anger and I asked her TO LEAVE now my second aunt thrice removed is blowing my phone, AITA?"
Load More Replies... Daya Meyer 2 years ago
Those flowers though... You can find a dress from someone else and wear it but where do you find such a huge bunch of fresh flowers in a bombed area?
Spencer's slave 2 years ago
Allotments. During the Wars, a plot of land, often next to railways, was made available for people to grow vegetables and fruit. Some grew flowers too. It was a way of supplementing rations with people, neighbours sharing what was grown. Hard times but a simpler life.
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Lambda Omegamoo 2 years ago
Some people don't understand the significance of your joke, or don't like twisted/dry/dark humor. 🤷 I actually laughed out loud and thought "you forgot the 'again'. " 🤣
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A Buddhist Monk Prays While Holding The Hand Of A Man Who Died At A Train Station In China. 2011
MadOrca99 2 years ago
Genuine question, what do you mean by those question marks?
Load More Replies... cerinamroth 2 years ago
My dad died suddenly at a train station, too. This looks very humane. I hope his spirit is wandering free somewhere.
David 2 years ago (edited)
I held my grandmother's hand while she died. It was weird. I could feel the heartbeat fade away and stop
Leigh 2 years ago (edited)
It's very touching how concerned everyone seems to be for someone they didn't even know.
David 2 years ago
Your take is kinder than mine. My thought was people watching free drama while they wait for their trains. "Guess what happened at the train station today" kind of stuff. Though it was probably a mixture of both. We can look at an accident or something and be curious but also feel concern for the victims of the accident.
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New Everywhere 2 years ago
Years back my neighbor in a small apt complex died. Sensing her autistic son was in distress I ran in and found her on the bed unresponsive. After calling 911 my first instinct was to touch her and pray for her soul and her son's future. And I haven't been in a church in 20 years.
Hi! 2 years ago
Yeah he looks old sudden cardiac arrest is my guess but i could be wrong
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Iraqi Protestor Sits On The Chairs Of The Elected Officials That Have Failed Them. 2019
Lil Miss Hobbit 2 years ago
I was gonna say that. Like WOW the anger in his eyes. That's what revolutions are made out of.
Load More Replies... cerinamroth 2 years ago
A very powerful photo. I often think that those in politics should have to complete a mandatory year's training working as one of the lowest paid people in their country/region with no extra assistance.
Burnt Bagel 2 years ago
Unfortunately, the exact same argument a Trumpster Republican would give you about overtaking the capital on January 6.
Patricia Smith 2 years ago
He looks like a coal miner or some such to me. How incongruous a picture. Blue collar sitting on a golden throne.
#23
A Drive-In Restaurant In Dallas, Texas Caters To Women With Men As Car Hops. 1940
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
One of the few time Texas did anything positive for women, and probably the LGBTQ community as well. Of course it’s in the long past.
Jenna 2 years ago
In the US military, short-shorts are called "silkies" or Ranger- Panties" and are the uniform for PT/running. Google it; you won't be disappointed.
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Milkman Continues Working During The Bombing Of London. 1940 By Fred Morley
Consequential_mishaps 2 years ago
The picture is staged and the milkman was the photographers assistant, it was all part of the stay calm mentality. Worked really well.
Easily Excitable Panda 2 years ago
At the time, the British government banned any photos of firefighting, etc., for fear they would lower morale. The photographer got his assistant to pose - this was the only way he could sneak a photo of the firefighters into the shot.
Šimon Špaček 2 years ago
I read few books about WWII and in all of them ordinary Brits always sound like "Bombing? Yeah, there was some bombing, but we didn't get hit and the old teapot from my grandma is still in one piece, so we just continue." It is fascinating and very inspiring.
Jrog 2 years ago
There was also a widespread propaganda campaign from the homeland ministry that pushed that "calm and collected" narrative, to "make it real". This photo is part of that operation.
Load More Replies... Burnt Bagel 2 years ago
This is what does streets of the USA will look like if Trump wins in 2024.
Margaret H 2 years ago
OK. It's staged. But, in the circumstances, wouldn't YOU want your cuppa?
#25
Father Bathes His Daughter And Niece In Their Bombed Home In Gaza. 2015 By @emadsnassar
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
I often think, not just when seeing something like this, that there must be millions of times where people have had to do that. Like finding the one only slightly charred family photo after a fire, or being able to gift a grieving person a handpicked flower, or a family sitting together singing a well known song as their loved one dies (the last one I have experienced twice).
Load More Replies... FeelingFrisky 2 years ago
Surprised by how happy they look. A good dad doing the best he can in such horrific situation.
afia kooma 2 years ago
Imagine the time it took for him to carry all those buckets of clean water.. and the girls faces makes it all worth while, as written on his face ❤️
Jaya 2 years ago
May I ask you a question? How do you make that little heart on BP?
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Bear Hall 2 years ago
Free Palestine - Safe Israel, but how? The damage these two peoples caused to each other is already enough for centuries of bloody revenge. And it's far from being over.
Load More Replies... Jez Coates 2 years ago
An image that is tragic, beautiful, sad, inspiring and heartbreaking all in one.
Burnt Bagel 2 years ago
Again, we is stupid. When the duck are people going to wake up and realize that in all cases we are fighting ourselves. It’s one organism. The hand is literally fighting it’s own foot!
Colleen Glim 2 years ago (edited)
I don’t think there will ever be a world without war. Humanity has too many design flaws
Load More Replies... Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
And they are still happy because they really love each other... you can see happiness in their faces
Ami Tokuda 2 years ago
Joy even in the midst of destruction. Precious moment. Love to these people.
#26
Buzz Aldrin Takes The First Ever Selfie In Space. 1966
Bear Hall 2 years ago
I wish every selfie would live up to this standard. We could live without all those influencers.
Susy Drizel 2 years ago
Man, let people enjoy life and take photos of themselves without grandeur.
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Laughing Orc 2 years ago
Honestly the fact that he was able to get this in focus, correctly exposed and even get himself in frame, whilst floating in space, is incredible in itself!
Susan Bosse 2 years ago
But I thought Paris Hilton invented the selfie. I'm KIDDING!!!! I swear I'm kidding.
#27
Open-Air School In The Netherlands. 1957
AzzyIsHere 2 years ago
This is cool but I could never-- Agoraphobia, no matter how severe, sucks.
Gorilla guy 2 years ago (edited)
We did this at my school, but shelters with three walls and a roof. Learned in them all year round (a few hours a week, the rest was inside). Northern Minnesota, USA
Margaret H 2 years ago
We did this in England, too, on those rare occasions there was a heatwave.
#28
The Day Sweet Rationing Ended In England. 1953
Ben 2 years ago
Amazing it tooks years after the war ended to get production back to where it should be.
Chris Jones 2 years ago
I don't think it's much of a surprise at all really... fighting war is expensive.
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Becky Samuel 2 years ago
There was a big war. You might have heard of it, no?
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Nasa Before Modern Computers. 1961
Elizabeth Elliot 2 years ago
"To work as a physicist at Nasa you'll need a head for heights." "Don't you mean numbers?" "I know what I said."
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 2 years ago
Both technically. It IS rocket science after all...
Load More Replies... General Anaesthesia 2 years ago
John Glenn refused to go up in Mercury capsule Friendship 7, as the US's first astronaut to orbit the earth, unless Katherine Johnson, a Black female "computer" verified the numbers from NASA's IBM computer. That was 1962. There's a movie about those "computers", "Hidden Figures".
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Doing their jobs instead of posing for pictures.
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Boy Watching A TV For The First Time In A Store Window. 1948
SincerelyMeesh 2 years ago
all the kids in my mom's neighborhood growing up would go to one house to watch the macy's parade cause it was the only house on the street with color tv.
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 2 years ago
My dad talks about when they got theirs. It was much later than you would expect because he lived in rural Australia, which was 10-20 years behind the city!
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An Italian Boy Helps His Little Brother Who Lost His Leg During The Bombing Of Naples. 1944
Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
The bombings of Naples were a disgrace. Naples was a strategic city, with a large port, a minor sub pen and some refineries that were legitimate military targets, but both of those were well separated from the densely populated and poorly defended historical city center. The Allied started bombing the industrial targets, but then begun carpet bombing the city without any real necessity, going on for months. Pilots kept adding to the bombing also machine-gun strafing runs onto the most populated roads, a war crime that kept being perpetrated even *after* the signing of the surrender. Keep in mind that the city was already providing very little support to the Fascists -and it ultimately revolted against them- but had over 20k killed by indiscriminate and useless attacks
Bear Hall 2 years ago
It also suffered the last major German air raid of the War after it was liberated. It damaged the mustard gas containers the Allies were unloading in the harbor. It killed more than 100 people. Thanks to the Lord beyond this it wasn't used in Europe during the War.
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#32
Us And El Salvador Under 16 Basketball Teams. 2019
vennyp0o 2 years ago
That and having a much larger possible pool to select taller-gened players from.
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Stephanie A Mutti 2 years ago
Bully for El Salvador girls going into that game with courage and hope!
Matticulas 2 years ago (edited)
That's a diet of beef from cows fed on growth hormone for you!
Anony Mouse 2 years ago
Sheesh. Can we have one post without turning into another cr@p-on-America comment thread?
Nancy Marine 2 years ago
No, the US is the resident whipping post on this site.
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The Great North Dakota Blizzard Of 1966
BradGfromDaBoo 2 years ago
it says it was 38 inches but wind gusts of up to 70 mph made it 30-40 ft deep in some spots
georgia layne 2 years ago
We got 4 ft of snow in one day just last year..
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Layla Ellingson 2 years ago
My grandpa was the center of that and he was the only one with a snowmobile and he went around and helped so many people and would go out to give blankets and food
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Teachers On Spring Break. 1910
Bear Hall 2 years ago
Even at that time teachers needed some booze to be able to return to the school.
Ms.GB 2 years ago
This could have been taken in 97' in my History teachers room. I hope you got help Ms. Love
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 2 years ago (edited)
If that is alcohol, they better be far from prying eyes! Even on their days off (in Australia at least) female teachers could lose their job for public drinking, along with a number of other sexist and ridiculous rules!
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
This is an example of some of the rules, which didn't change much for a long time Screenshot...3c926f.png 
Epona 2 years ago
All grades. Schools were usually one room back then and the students were of different ages.
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Leesa DeAndrea 2 years ago
And in about 10 more years many women will have discarded their petticoats and their long skirts for knee length skirts and cut their long hair short, beginning the modern era of women's clothing.
#35
Jazz Artist Big Jay Mcneely Performing In Los Angelos. 1951
Scott J 2 years ago
Man, he must be blowing that good jazz. I think those three dudes are climaxing.
Der Kommissar 2 years ago
Big Jay was more of a rock and roll sax player, similar in style to Bobby Keys or Clarence Clemons. Got to see him play once. Blowing sax while lying on the floor with legs up in the air was his trademark
RandomCrow(she/her)🇺🇦 2 years ago
A few paces to the right, then turn left, walk straight for a few minutes, then you should be there
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#36
Sailor Returns Home After 14 Months At Sea. 1966
afia kooma 2 years ago
Package carrying looks like the only experience of holding this man has
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David 2 years ago
Memories. 14 months seems long if you are land based. But if you are at sea it is L-O-N-G. My longest cruise was 9 months before I saw the USA and my family again and it seemed like forever. I did see other countries a few days here and there at at time but not my own country / family. And back then no internet / email / video chat. Letters only or if you wanted - a very expensive phone call from a foreign country. (international calling is MUCH cheaper now)
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
the babies face lmao. (but minus that, THIS should be the photo that should be famous and romanticised, not that non-consensual one)
Trainingfortheballetpotteh🇺🇦 2 years ago
okay to be fair, they couldve convieved the baby and then the baby was born about 9 months later, and now the baby is 5 months old
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#37
Police Officer Looks After An Abandoned Baby. 1971
vennyp0o 2 years ago (edited)
Gha...my first thought was 'did she open the drawer for the picture'? 😁
cerinamroth 2 years ago
We went on holiday with our 3-month-old to France (visiting family) and booked into a hotel en route to break up the journey. I had prebooked a cot for our daughter. When we got there, they said all the cots had already been assigned to other families and there was nothing they could do (Gallic shrug). She couldn't sleep in the bed with us because it had a gap in the middle (common in continental Europe) and we were worried it would open up and swallow her! So, we emptied out our suitcase and she slept very soundly (diagonally) in that. In fact, that was the first time she slept through the night! We made sure the lid wouldn't close on her in the night. We're not monsters!
Delta Dawn 2 years ago
it looks weird today, but people really used to use drawers as bassinets back in the day
Rachel 2 years ago
I’m told I slept in a dresser at first after leaving the hospital. My parents were very young and very broke.
Load More Replies... David 2 years ago (edited)
I own that desk. I got mine from Boeing Surplus sales in the Seattle area. I don't know the name of the model but the US government must have used a bazillion of them because I had the same desk in my work center on an aircraft carrier. I have also sat in that chair but the one at my desk didn't have wheels (ships pitch and roll)
#38
Six Year Old Wins Cranberry Pie Eating Competition After Eating A 10 Inch Pie In 15 Seconds. 1948
#39
A Stewardess Examines A New Uniform Proposal For Scandinavian Airlines. It Was Not Approved. 1964
Joshua David 2 years ago
The middle aged creepy CEO probably. Back when only men served on most board of directors. Probably.
Load More Replies... Mama Penguin 2 years ago
High and pointy heels, micromini skirt, uncomfortable looking top. I wonder why it wasn't approved.
Not-a-Clue (she/her) 2 years ago
The model may be smiling, but the stewardess doesn't look impressed.
PeepPeep the duck 2 years ago (edited)
I like them, but not for general work, good for stage and camera work yea. But imagine the sexual harassment 😭 you just want to give people drinks and 60yr old Larry can’t stop slapping you when you walk past and some guy old enough to be her dad constantly undressing her with his eyes while making gross comments
Lorenzo 2 years ago
This is why I don't allow anyone to call me Larry. It has become shorthand for buffoon or jerk.
Load More Replies... Daya Meyer 2 years ago
Is this the real life or is it just fantasy.... This thing is never created by a female designer.
#40
Rollerskating To Work In New York City. 1940
Hugh Cookson 2 years ago
Christ, if you tried to skate to work on the roads round where I live you'd end up with a broken ankle within the first 10 yards !! I speak as someone who has had 4 blown tyres, 2 smashed wheels and a front suspension collapse in 2 years, and STILL the local council denies that their roads are well and truly f****d !!!
Grace Noyes 2 years ago
Ok, this is weird, but I have a recurring dream that I'm skating everywhere I go--to work, to shop, to visit friends and family. The skates never come off, they're a part of me, but I'm the only person in the dream who skates. Everyone else is skateless. Discuss.
Linda Lee 2 years ago
Maybe it's a dream version of Skating through life. Having an easy life, doing things the easy way. Never having to work too hard.
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#41
A Guard Passes Out As Queen Elizabeth II Rides By. 1970
vennyp0o 2 years ago
I wonder if this is from holding your body too tight, too rigid, tensed up?
Julie S 2 years ago
They have to faint to attention that's not even a joke.
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Suzy McDaniel 2 years ago
Can speak from experience, you go down hard if you lock your knees. High school band, I just woke up on the ground with the director saying "Don't worry, we'll fix it!" I had fallen on my flute and bent it in half.
Load More Replies... Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
He's not the only one, there's loads of images/videos around of the Royal Guard fainting. And it's no surprise, especially when they have to wear that uniform whilst on their feet for hours at a time during heatwaves.
#42
Children In France Playing With A Toy Guillotine. 1959
Not-a-Clue (she/her) 2 years ago
And yet kids play with toy guns in many places to this day.
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Caffeinated Hedgehog 2 years ago
This is a "Bring your child to work day" for the executioners
BetterBitterButter 2 years ago
I read somewhere guillotines were outlawed only in the 1970s! This picture is a big NO!
Michael Largey 2 years ago
France stopped using gullotines around the time "Star Wars" came out. (No apparent connection.)
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Gia SDP 2 years ago
My 5-year granddaughter would love this. In my family we are big into creepy movies and things!
Beck 2 years ago
Me my mom and my 26 year old daughter are all getting little ghost tattoos soon! We are all big into the dark side. Them in a more fun type of way, where I am a little darker
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Joshua David 2 years ago
I feel like the 20s to about the 80s were free for all type of parents. When I was 2 in 1980 before car seats, I fell face first out of a moving car my mom was driving in traffic and the cop behind her almost ran over my head. She got nothing for that lol.
#43
A Bystander Attempts To Catch A Cup Of Moonshine Being Poured Out By Police During The Prohibition Era. 1925
Julia H 2 years ago
You mean like the guy who drank straight from a wine tanker in California? 😁
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StPaul9 2 years ago (edited)
I still am amazed that the United States said 'Yep. No beer from now on forever'. Idiotic.
Timmy Pillinger 2 years ago
They didn't. They agreed to do a thing in principle (the constitutional amendment) and passed the matter to a commission who came up with much stricter rules. I think an awful lot of people were expecting to be allowed to drink most things at home, and beer and wine in public - whilst outlawing saloons which sold spirits. It was a bit leopards ate my face.
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#44
Robert Wadlow, The Tallest Person In Recorded History. 1930s
Bear Hall 2 years ago
Are you sure? The others might be just farther away.
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Sarel Seerower 2 years ago (edited)
2.72m or 8 ft 11.1 in, for those too lazy to Google. Died at age 22. His great size and his continued growth in adulthood were due to hypertrophy of his pituitary gland, which results in an abnormally high level of human growth hormone. - Wikipedia
Sven Grammersdorf 2 years ago
My local museum has a pair of overalls worn by him, and the fly is 19 buttons long
The Amazing Fluffernaut 2 years ago
I kept seeing post like this, and only now did I get the reference, curse my slow brain
Load More Replies... Michelle C 2 years ago
He was 8 feet 11 inches (just one inch of short 9 feet tall) or 2.72 metres for anyone curious.
Baali Venomax 2 years ago
I wonder how many times he got asked what the weather was like up there?
#45
Child Car Seats In 1940
Jacob Rasmussen 2 years ago
I remember the days when I was a toddler sitting on my dad's lap, steering the car while he drank a beer, wait, that was last week, but we both had beers. Oh how time flies.
Susan 2 years ago
Probably had suicide doors (hinges toward the back instead of the front)
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Ropre 2 years ago
Why would they think putting the baby all the way high up like that would be good? Doesn't even look like she's strapped in.
Mario Strada 2 years ago
Strapped in? Race car drivers hadn't yet adopted seatbelts.
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Do i have to? [he/him] 2 years ago
I would've thought it'd be safer to just put her in a normal seat.
Mary Thompson 2 years ago
No doors, either. Get that kid some fresh air. (yes, I know about suicide doors...)
#46
Testing American Football Helmets. 1912
Robert Seals 2 years ago
Darwin has his award way before this, these are just top contenders for that year's ceremony
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Bear Hall 2 years ago
"Could you do that again please? But this time let your inner animal out."
#47
A Man Floating In The Dead Sea With A Book And An Umbrella. 1920
PeepPeep the duck 2 years ago
I really wanna float here, I’m a natural floater and ‘otter’ about for ages in water, but I want to try this water and feel like I’m ‘Jesus-ing’ on water
Eric G 2 years ago
Floating in the Dead Sea was great. It's amazing that in only about 4 ft of water it is nearly impossible to stand up once you have laid flat. I'm 6'4 tall and I couldn't. It literally feels like oil on your skin. The big warning you get, don't shave for 2 days before you go in because of the salt content.
Duck 2 years ago
I went to the Dead Sea! It's an amazing experience! The water feels weird, kind of like oil and it makes your skin feel slippery. Floating in it is insane! You can't swim easily in it because you're floating and bobbing around. When you flip to your stomach, it's hard to flip back over. But the ground, instead of sand is salt and it's painful to walk on. Plus, if you cut yourself on salt, the salty water gets in it and stings horribly
Nicola Hocking 2 years ago
ive been to the Dead Sea and it really is strange just to float like this. When you get out of the sea you have to shower straight away, showers on the beach, as if you dry yourself without the shower you will scratch your skin to pieces
#48
Japanese Opposition Members Trying To Block The Passing Of New Immigration Laws. 2020
Weasel Wise 2 years ago
You gotta watch British parliament sometime, I've seen them straight wingin' shoes at the opposition. 🤣
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Der Kommissar 2 years ago
According to Japanese law, a child born to a foreigner in Japan does not get Japanese citizenship
Ludovic Laberge 2 years ago
According to Japanese law, my adopted son cannot get Japanese citizenship even though his adoptive mother (my wife) is Japanese....
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sofacushionfort 2 years ago
Japan has a birth rate problem. The elderly are well-cared for (props for that), but this places a tax burden on young people, who can’t afford to have children. The only way to stop the coming crisis is to allow immigration of (gasp!) non-Japanese.
afia kooma 2 years ago
The way Mr "admin" on the left is looking bored while protecting the mic and sound-direction 😂
#49
Parents Attempt To Heal A Child Suffering From Rickets By Dragging Him Through A Healing Tree. 1918
Jrog 2 years ago
To be fair, a cure for the illness would not be understood until 5 years later, while the ivermectine imbeciles already had plenty of scientific data disproving the efficacy and a cure in the works or already deployed.
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Veronica Jean 2 years ago
Some of these comments...How easy it is to look at desperate, poor people from a completely different time and culture and lay judgement on them. Of all our new understandings and developments, let us hope a deeper kindness and compassion lay among them <3
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
When they really should’ve just fed the kid more milk, eggs, and cheese if they could get them. Deficiencies in Vitamin D and Calcium are a cause of rickets.
PeepPeep the duck 2 years ago
Double props if they did this during twilight hours with no actual sunlight - I’m so sorry to be mean about rickets, it’s not funny
Maggz Bennett 2 years ago
Back then, there was no viable alternative and desperate people will try anything. I hope the poor kid lived a good life. (It's possible that the myth grew from taking a city dwelling child out into the countryside, which could have taken weeks, where they'd then get more vitamin D from sunlight.)
Νίκος Μηλιώρης 2 years ago
-I need a doctor -We have doctor in the house THE DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE:
#50
Mexican Police Take A Lunch Break During Protests. 2016
BPisaddictive 2 years ago
Definitely look delicious but... will they be able to run and fight after this not-so-light lunch?
#51
A Man Begging For His Wife's Forgiveness At Divorce Court In Chicago. 1948
Linda's friend Ginger 2 years ago
The image depicts one of the final moments in the marriage of Steve and Anna Strack, who were 37 and 33 at the time. Anna Strack had filed for divorce from her husband on the grounds of habitual drunkenness.
Hugh Cookson 2 years ago
The look on her face tells me the outcome did not go well for him ..... hey ho, silly boy.
#52
Miss Universe Contestants Look On As Miss New Zealand Passes Out From Heat Exhaustion. 1954
Caffeinated Hedgehog 2 years ago
16 years later, she is now serving as a guard for Queen Elizabeth II
Lil Miss Hobbit 2 years ago
Looking through all the countries, and then there's Texas right smack in the middle lol.🤣
cerinamroth 2 years ago
Don't they get judged on how they help others? No one willing to break ranks and help a sister up? Bleugh.
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Saphyre Fyre 2 years ago (edited)
Why do these posts say "change your perspective on things???" Yes, the world has lots of beauty, people do good every day, but all that bad stuff also is there every day, so I see no reason to change perspective. 2 posts before this one is people who realized their besties actually hate them, this post doesn't change the fact that people use and abuse each other.
Wayne Gossman 2 years ago
I thin these can be good to start healthy conversations. I sent a note to a daughter with that idea.
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Rostit. . 2 years ago
I think you all posted these same pics a few months ago. the passed out guard, the nasa math woman, the bombed houses, all been posted numerous times.
Saphyre Fyre 2 years ago (edited)
Why do these posts say "change your perspective on things???" Yes, the world has lots of beauty, people do good every day, but all that bad stuff also is there every day, so I see no reason to change perspective. 2 posts before this one is people who realized their besties actually hate them, this post doesn't change the fact that people use and abuse each other.
Wayne Gossman 2 years ago
I thin these can be good to start healthy conversations. I sent a note to a daughter with that idea.
Load More Replies... Rostit. . 2 years ago
I think you all posted these same pics a few months ago. the passed out guard, the nasa math woman, the bombed houses, all been posted numerous times.
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