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“A picture is worth a thousand words”—a phrase most of us have heard before. And for a reason. Photographs can capture loads of information in just a split second and immortalize it for years to come. By freezing moments, photographers enable us to travel to places and times we’ve never witnessed ourselves. They allow us to see the world exactly as it was, whether it was yesterday or a hundred years ago.

The Instagram account called Historical Pix boasts a beautiful collection of pictures from various points in time. Their uploads cover a multitude of topics, from war to technology, from sport to fashion; you name it, it’s there. As they themselves describe, “It's just history. The good, the bad, and the ugly.”

We have gathered some of the most impressive photographs shared by the account. Scroll down for the images and feel free to browse this list of historical pics or this one, if you’d like to see more.

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1945. 10-Year-Old Stoic Japanese Boy Standing At Attention Having Brought His Dead Younger Brother To A Cremation Pyre, Nagasaki

1945. 10-Year-Old Stoic Japanese Boy Standing At Attention Having Brought His Dead Younger Brother To A Cremation Pyre, Nagasaki

Years Later, Joe O’donnell, The American Photojournalist Who Took This Photo, Spoke To A Japanese Interviewer About This Photograph: “I Saw A Boy About Ten Years Old Walking By. He Was Carrying A Baby On His Back. In Those Days In Japan, We Often Saw Children Playing With Their Little Brothers Or Sisters On Their Backs, But This Boy Was Clearly Different. I Could See That He Had Come To This Place For A Serious Reason. He Was Wearing No Shoes. His Face Was Hard. The Little Head Was Tipped Back As If The Baby Were Fast Asleep. The Boy Stood There For Five Or Ten Minutes. The Men In White Masks Walked Over To Him And Quietly Began To Take Off The Rope That Was Holding The Baby. That Is When I Saw That The Baby Was Already Dead. The Men Held The Body By The Hands And Feet And Placed It On The Fire. The Boy Stood There Straight Without Moving, Watching The Flames. He Was Biting His Lower Lip So Hard That It Shone With Blood. The Flame Burned Low Like The Sun Going Down. The Boy Turned Around And Walked Silently Away.”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh my. This may be....I don't know if the photo or the explanation is sadder. So, so sad.

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Photography allows us to travel all the way back to the 1820s—that’s when the first-ever picture was taken. The French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce did that by using heliography—a process of applying sunlight to draw—and a pewter plate. Taking the picture took several hours, but the image, titled View from the Window at Le Gras, marked the beginning of modern photography.

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Back in the day, taking a picture required a bit more than a split second. Roughly until the 1840s, you would have had to stand still for 20 minutes for someone to photograph you. Can you imagine trying to take a family portrait or a picture of your cat under such circumstances?

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1961. East German Soldier Ignores Orders To Let No One Pass By Helping A Young Boy Cross The Newly Built Berlin Wall, To Reunite With His Family

1961. East German Soldier Ignores Orders To Let No One Pass By Helping A Young Boy Cross The Newly Built Berlin Wall, To Reunite With His Family

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Anna Coleman Ladd Was An American Sculptor Who Is Best Known For Her Work Creating Prosthetic Masks For Soldiers Who Were Disfigured During World War I

Anna Coleman Ladd Was An American Sculptor Who Is Best Known For Her Work Creating Prosthetic Masks For Soldiers Who Were Disfigured During World War I

Ladd, Who Was Born In 1878 And Died In 1939, Worked With A Team Of Assistants At The American Red Cross In Paris To Create The Masks, Which Were Made Of Copper And Other Materials And Were Designed To Be Worn Over The Soldiers' Faces In Order To Restore Some Of Their Appearance And Self-Confidence. The Masks Were Highly Realistic And Were Often Painted To Match The Soldiers' Skin Tones. Ladd's Work Was Praised For Its Artistic And Technical Skill, As Well As For Its Humanitarian Purpose

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Anna Coleman Ladd should should be given more credit for all the good work she has done.

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Nowadays, you can take a picture in the blink of an eye. You can also do it nearly anywhere, anytime, as most people now use camera phones. Able to fit in your pocket, they are undeniably more convenient than dragging around large pieces of equipment or trying to force the world to stop for 20 minutes so you can take a photograph.

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The cameras on phones developed in leaps and bounds over the years. The first one was the SCH-V200 model introduced by Samsung back in 2000. It allowed users to take up to 20 pictures at 0.35-megapixel resolution. Now, just over a couple of decades later, the average resolution of a phone camera is 12 megapixels, and the number of pictures one can store is way higher than 20.

#4

The Kiss Of Life. 1967

The Kiss Of Life. 1967

Utility Lineman Jimmy D. Thompson Giving Mouth-To-Mouth Resuscitation To Fellow Worker Randall G. Champion, After Champion Was Knocked Unconscious By An Electric Shock. Because Of Thompson's Intervention, Champion Survived And Lived Until 2002. Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photograph By Rocco Morabito

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1959. A Young French Girl Poses With Glee As She Cradles Her Cat

1959. A Young French Girl Poses With Glee As She Cradles Her Cat

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was about this child's age, I was upset and crying. Mom asked me what was wrong. I told her that every time we posed for a picture with a pet, my brother got to hold it. My mom said I was right, and to go get the kitten. She stopped whatever it was she was doing to listen to me when my feelings were hurt, and to fix the problem. In my pictures with that kitten, my face looked just like this kid's.

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According to Phototutorial, an average smartphone user has roughly 2,100 pictures on their device. The number is not that shocking, considering that people take nearly 93% of photos with their cellphones and only 7% use a camera. 

Taking photographs was mostly a job for professionals years ago when it required working with certain chemicals. But now, more people can capture beautiful moments with the help of constantly developing technology.

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1976. Soviet Explorer, Nikolai Machulyak, Feeding A Polar Bear And Her Cubs With Condensed Milk And Meat, Near Cape Schmidt Off The Coast Of The Chukchi Sea

1976. Soviet Explorer, Nikolai Machulyak, Feeding A Polar Bear And Her Cubs With Condensed Milk And Meat, Near Cape Schmidt Off The Coast Of The Chukchi Sea

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1954. Cats Stand Up On Their Hind Legs To Catch Squirts Of Milk During Milking At A Dairy Farm. Photo By Nat Farbman

1954. Cats Stand Up On Their Hind Legs To Catch Squirts Of Milk During Milking At A Dairy Farm. Photo By Nat Farbman

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Beatles Fans In 1964 And 2013. Ringo Starr Took The Top Photo From Car Window, After The High School Friends Skipped School To See The Beatles During Their First Trip To The Us In 1964

Beatles Fans In 1964 And 2013. Ringo Starr Took The Top Photo From Car Window, After The High School Friends Skipped School To See The Beatles During Their First Trip To The Us In 1964

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Phototutorial also revealed that people worldwide take an astonishing number of 57,246 pictures per second, which equals roughly 5 billion per day. So far, 12.4 trillion photos have been taken throughout the years, some of them capturing significant historical events.

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C. 1910. Native American Blackfoot Warriors At Glacier National Park, On The Shore Of St. Mary Lake, Montana. Photo By Roland W. Reed

C. 1910. Native American Blackfoot Warriors At Glacier National Park, On The Shore Of St. Mary Lake, Montana. Photo By Roland W. Reed

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Members Of The Red Warriors – A French Youth Anti-Fascist Street Gang That Used Violent Force To Combat The Surge Of Neo-Nazi Violence From France In The Mid To Late 1980s

Members Of The Red Warriors – A French Youth Anti-Fascist Street Gang That Used Violent Force To Combat The Surge Of Neo-Nazi Violence From France In The Mid To Late 1980s

The Red Warriors Often Acted As Security For Punk Shows And Left-Wing Activist Groups, Who Were Often Targeted With Violence By White Power Skinheads. Over Time, The Red Warriors, And Other Youth Gangs With Similar Goals, Became Well-Known In France For Their Confrontational Methods For Resisting Fascists

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Graffiti On Troops’ Helmets During The Vietnam War

Graffiti On Troops’ Helmets During The Vietnam War

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Some images portraying significant historical events or periods became known all over the world. For instance, the picture of a couple kissing taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt in 1945, titled V-J Day In Times Square. Or the Tank Man—a photo taken by Jeff Widener in 1989.

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1839. The Oldest Known Photographic Portrait Of A Human In The USA, Taken As Self-Image By Photography Pioneer Robert Cornelius. He Had To Remain Motionless For 10 To 15 Minutes To Capture The Photograph

1839. The Oldest Known Photographic Portrait Of A Human In The USA, Taken As Self-Image By Photography Pioneer Robert Cornelius. He Had To Remain Motionless For 10 To 15 Minutes To Capture The Photograph

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Eruption Of Mount St. Helens, 1980, By Richard Lasher

Eruption Of Mount St. Helens, 1980, By Richard Lasher

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C. 1910. Child Miners Photographed By Lewis Hine. Hine’s Photographs Were Instrumental In Bringing About The Passage Of The First Child Labor Laws In The United States

C. 1910. Child Miners Photographed By Lewis Hine. Hine’s Photographs Were Instrumental In Bringing About The Passage Of The First Child Labor Laws In The United States

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Some of the globally well-known images immortalized important moments of pop culture as well. One of the greatest examples of that was the cover for the Beatles’ Abbey Road album cover. It was taken by Iain MacMillan in August of 1969 as the band members were crossing Abbey Road in London.

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C. 1929. A Little Girl Hands Lilies To A Police Officer On Duty At The Porte Saint-Denis In Paris

C. 1929. A Little Girl Hands Lilies To A Police Officer On Duty At The Porte Saint-Denis In Paris

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1975. John Cleese On The Set Of Monty Python And The Holy Grail

1975. John Cleese On The Set Of Monty Python And The Holy Grail

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm getting so old that things from my teenage years are now considered "historical"

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Great Blizzard Of 1888, New York City

Great Blizzard Of 1888, New York City

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Certain historical pictures mark significant milestones in developing the process of photography itself. The first self-portrait, which could be considered the predecessor of the selfie, is a great example of that. Robert Cornelius, a chemist from Philadelphia, is believed to have taken the first portrait of such a kind back in 1839.

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#18

1967. Kangaroo Hits A Photographer For Trying To Photograph Him, England. Photo By Voller Ernst

1967. Kangaroo Hits A Photographer For Trying To Photograph Him, England. Photo By Voller Ernst

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The name of the photographer does not sound correct. "Voller Ernst" would be the equivalent of "dead serious" in German. Or am I missing something?

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1945. Boys Hanging On A Full Train After The Liberation Of Holland. Photography By Menno Huizinga

1945. Boys Hanging On A Full Train After The Liberation Of Holland. Photography By Menno Huizinga

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This photograph is incredible. I feel like you could build an entire novel or film over this one shot alone

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September 1945. Australian Soldiers Catch Up On News From Home After Their Release From Japanese Captivity In Singapore

September 1945. Australian Soldiers Catch Up On News From Home After Their Release From Japanese Captivity In Singapore

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My dad only knew his father for about 5 years, he and his twin sister and my grandmother were evacuated just before the Japanese invaded Singaore. My grandmother was given the choice of two boats to leave on, the first going to Australia (closer) the second to England (she was from Scotland). She chose the second. The first one got bombed at sea, all souls lost. Dad and his family made it back home. My grandfather wasn't so lucky. He was a sergeant in the Royal Coastal Artillery and taken prisoner in Singapore after his family left. Despite two attempts to escape, he failed and was executed by the Japanese five days before the Surrender. 5 days made the difference between me possibly meeting him one day and not, and him being reunited with his family.

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Whether it’s a portrait or not, you might have noticed that not many people would smile in photographs back in the day. Now, it is typical to put on a happy face for taking a picture (followed by a moment of awkward silence after everyone is done saying “cheeeeeeese”), but it wasn’t always like that, and there are several versions of why. Some say that it was based on poor dental hygiene, while others believe it was related to the time it took for one shot—smiling for 20 minutes straight can be quite a challenge.

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1954. A Young Boy Carrying Two Bottles Of Wine Under His Arms, Rue Mouffetard, Paris. Photo By Henri Cartier-Bresson

1954. A Young Boy Carrying Two Bottles Of Wine Under His Arms, Rue Mouffetard, Paris. Photo By Henri Cartier-Bresson

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1920s. Traditional Rwandan Hairstyle Of Amasunzu

1920s. Traditional Rwandan Hairstyle Of Amasunzu

Amasunzu Hairstyle Is Traditionally Worn By Rwandan Men And Unmarried Women, With The Hair Styled Into Crests, Often Decorated With Beads And Cowrie Shells. It Is Frequently Described As Crescent-Shaped. The Style Is Associated With The Rwandan People's Cultural Identity And Has Been Passed Down Through Generations

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1911. The Wreck Of The Arden Craig Off The Isles Of Scilly, West Of Cornwall. Photo By Francis James Mortimer

1911. The Wreck Of The Arden Craig Off The Isles Of Scilly, West Of Cornwall. Photo By Francis James Mortimer

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Some pictures age like fine wine—they become even more influential or appreciated as time goes by. And most such images undoubtedly deserve an award. One of the greatest photo competitions is held by the World Press Photo Foundation. It attracts thousands of spectacular submissions each year that immortalize our life as it is—the good and the bad—for future generations to see. Needless to say, choosing a winner is never easy.

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Grand Central Terminal In New York City, C. 1954

Grand Central Terminal In New York City, C. 1954

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of the few remaining examples of classic Art Deco still standing. Those windows look exactly the same now as they did then. There was a time in the 70s and 80s when real estate developers were talking about tearing it down. It's now a national historic landmark.

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1894. Archaeologists And Workers Pose In Front Of The Near-Perfectly Preserved And Still-Upright Statue Of Antinous, Unearthed Near The Temple Of Apollo In The Sanctuary At Delphi, Greece

1894. Archaeologists And Workers Pose In Front Of The Near-Perfectly Preserved And Still-Upright Statue Of Antinous, Unearthed Near The Temple Of Apollo In The Sanctuary At Delphi, Greece

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1931. German Photographer Willi Ruge Took This Photograph Seconds Before Landing During His Seven-Minute Parachute Jump From An Airplane Over Berlin

1931. German Photographer Willi Ruge Took This Photograph Seconds Before Landing During His Seven-Minute Parachute Jump From An Airplane Over Berlin

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Some other photo competitions that present attention-worthy shots include but are definitely not limited to the International Photography, the Sony World Photography, and the Big Picture Natural World Photography awards. For those interested in the wonders one can do with a camera phone, the iPhone Photography Awards might be something worth delving deeper into.

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1909, Wakefield, Massachusetts. Young Members Of The Payro Family Being “Photographed” By Their Cat. Photo By Joseph C. Payro

1909, Wakefield, Massachusetts. Young Members Of The Payro Family Being “Photographed” By Their Cat. Photo By Joseph C. Payro

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C. 1910. Portraits Of Immigrants At Ellis Island, New York, By Augustus F. Sherman

C. 1910. Portraits Of Immigrants At Ellis Island, New York, By Augustus F. Sherman

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1961. Audition For A Black Cat Role In A Low-Budget Hollywood Horror Movie

1961. Audition For A Black Cat Role In A Low-Budget Hollywood Horror Movie

More Than 150 Cats Showed Up For The Audition. The Lead Role Was Filled By A Professionally Trained Black Cat. Additionally, Seven More Cats Were Chosen For Publicity Based On How “Mean” The Look In Their Eyes Was. Photography By Ralph Crane

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C. 1930s. A Turkish Fisherman Returns With His Booty

C. 1930s. A Turkish Fisherman Returns With His Booty

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Powerhouse Mechanic, 1924, By Lewis Hine

Powerhouse Mechanic, 1924, By Lewis Hine

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And here my straight, mechanic self thinking, "yeah, I bet it gets dang hot in there. Probably have boilers and steam pipes running all over..."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow it's like a scene right out of Diego Rivera's mural at the Detroit Institute of Arts!

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So Chaplin’s Modern Times -movie wrench was actually correct size.

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Will Cable
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Read the title and thought about the music "Powerhouse" by Raymond Scott....you may know the music from old cartoons

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sorry - the previous link accidentally jumped into it at the 16 second mark. Try this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDqR4fqIWE

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Betcha there was no gym time involved in getting those muscles !!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

now machines do everything for them, so factory workers don't look like that anymore.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is by the same photographer that photographed the boys outside the mine.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Isn't this a still from the 1927 film, "Metropolis"? I could be mistaken but I think it is. If anyone here hasn't seen it, this is one of the oldest and most amazing science fiction films! If I remember right, it was a German film maker who wrote and filmed it but didn't finish editing it. He thought nobody would like it. Granddaughter found it in his attic after his passing and finished editing it. This was before sound in film (which BTW is where the term "movies" originates from. Once they figured out how to add sound, they called them talkies.) Before sound, theaters had a band pit where a live band would play along with the film. If you can imagine Looney Toons music dictating mood, suspense, excitement etc. It's powerful! So granddaughter kept it historically accurate and added fancy text for dialogue and band music for mood. The result is an absolutely amazing industrial-art-deco-utopia-dystopia-dichotomy-future film. One character even FaceTimed in it! I recommend!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Loving the double standards on this post. Imagine half these comments about a woman, you'd all be disgusted.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Somehow all I see now is Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times 🤦🏼‍♂️

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I tried to look up what a powerhouse was and all that came up was mitochondria...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is obviously staged, even if that particular bolt happened to be loose, that's definitely not the optimal way to be tightening it.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"So is this tight enough?" "I dunno, you just keep doing what you're doing. Do you need some water?"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He appears to be in great condition from his work, unlike that obese slobs nowadays.

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1930s. A Chinese Buddhist Monk Walking On A Chain Bridge At Jiangyou Figure Hill Temple In China

1930s. A Chinese Buddhist Monk Walking On A Chain Bridge At Jiangyou Figure Hill Temple In China

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1889. A Blind Man Carrying A Paralyzed Man With Dwarfism In Damascus, Syria. Photo By Italian Photographer Tancrède Dumas

1889. A Blind Man Carrying A Paralyzed Man With Dwarfism In Damascus, Syria. Photo By Italian Photographer Tancrède Dumas

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Queen Elizabeth II (1926 - 2022)

Queen Elizabeth II (1926 - 2022)

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1954. Marilyn Monroe On Stage Performing For Thousands Of American Troops In Korea

1954. Marilyn Monroe On Stage Performing For Thousands Of American Troops In Korea

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

After which she reportedly said to then-husband Joe Di Maggio ‘oh Joe, you never heard such cheering’ To which he replied simply ‘Yes, I have.’

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1928. A War Veteran Sells Matches On The Street In Canterbury, Kent, England. Photo By Clifton R. Adams

1928. A War Veteran Sells Matches On The Street In Canterbury, Kent, England. Photo By Clifton R. Adams

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This photo illustrates the sad state of affairs for veterans of any war.

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C. 1911. Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, Cuernavaca, Mexico

C. 1911. Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, Cuernavaca, Mexico

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Hong Kong, 1950s-60s By Fan Ho

Hong Kong, 1950s-60s By Fan Ho

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C. 1917. Frozen Fountain, Washington Boulevard, Detroit

C. 1917. Frozen Fountain, Washington Boulevard, Detroit

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1910. Paris Motor Show At The Grand Palais In Paris

1910. Paris Motor Show At The Grand Palais In Paris

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1936. The New York Central Railroad Streamliner 'Mercury' Passes Through Syracuse City Hall

1936. The New York Central Railroad Streamliner 'Mercury' Passes Through Syracuse City Hall

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1932. Sailing Ship S.v. Penang In Millwall Docks, London, Towers Above The Poverty Of The Surrounding Housing

1932. Sailing Ship S.v. Penang In Millwall Docks, London, Towers Above The Poverty Of The Surrounding Housing

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Love seeing the faces of the lady and the couple kids looking right at the camera

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1930. Worker Smoking Cigarette And Carrying Bag Across Shoulders Pauses In The Middle Of Steel Beam High Above City Streets, During Construction Of The Manhattan Company Building At 40 Wall Street, New York City. Photo By Arthur Gerlach

1930. Worker Smoking Cigarette And Carrying Bag Across Shoulders Pauses In The Middle Of Steel Beam High Above City Streets, During Construction Of The Manhattan Company Building At 40 Wall Street, New York City. Photo By Arthur Gerlach

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Golden Gate Bridge Under Construction, C. 1935

Golden Gate Bridge Under Construction, C. 1935

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1972. A Burning Wall Crumbles Down, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Photo By A. Abbas

1972. A Burning Wall Crumbles Down, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Photo By A. Abbas

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1970s. Girl Licking Ice Cream And Playing With The Tip Of The Gun’s Bayonet To Elicit A Reaction From A Royal Guard Outside Stockholm Palace, Stockholm, Sweden

1970s. Girl Licking Ice Cream And Playing With The Tip Of The Gun’s Bayonet To Elicit A Reaction From A Royal Guard Outside Stockholm Palace, Stockholm, Sweden

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C. 1970s. A Math Teacher At Dana Hills High School In Southern California Explaining The Physics Of Surfing

C. 1970s. A Math Teacher At Dana Hills High School In Southern California Explaining The Physics Of Surfing

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1970s. Female Ira Fighter In West Belfast With An Ar18 Assault Rifle. Photo By Colman Doyle

1970s. Female Ira Fighter In West Belfast With An Ar18 Assault Rifle. Photo By Colman Doyle

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1938. Coal Miner's Child Using A Hole In The Door To Enter A Bedroom With A Smoking Pipe In One Hand And A Gun In The Other In Bertha Hill, West Virginia. Photo By Marion Post Wolcott

1938. Coal Miner's Child Using A Hole In The Door To Enter A Bedroom With A Smoking Pipe In One Hand And A Gun In The Other In Bertha Hill, West Virginia. Photo By Marion Post Wolcott

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1962. Workmen Trim The 11-Meters High Yew Hedge, Encircling Oakley Hall In Cirencester, England. The Hedge Was Planted In 1720 By The First Earl Of Bathurst

1962. Workmen Trim The 11-Meters High Yew Hedge, Encircling Oakley Hall In Cirencester, England. The Hedge Was Planted In 1720 By The First Earl Of Bathurst

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1939, Oregon. An Unemployed Lumber Worker With His Wife. Photo By Dorothea Lange

1939, Oregon. An Unemployed Lumber Worker With His Wife. Photo By Dorothea Lange

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Original Caption: “School Leaver Bryn Owen Aged 17 With His Vespa Scooter, Which Has 34 Mirrors And 81 Lights, All Bought With His Pocket Money. Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, 1983.”

Original Caption: “School Leaver Bryn Owen Aged 17 With His Vespa Scooter, Which Has 34 Mirrors And 81 Lights, All Bought With His Pocket Money. Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, 1983.”

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A mod. If you’re interested in this, watch Quadrophenia

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C. 1911. Telephone Pole In Pratt, Kansas

C. 1911. Telephone Pole In Pratt, Kansas

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The 2800 Years Old Kiss. Estimated To Be Buried Since 800 Bc, These Human Skeletons, Seemingly In An Embrace, Were Unearthed In 1972 At The Teppe Hasanlu Archaeological Site In Iran

The 2800 Years Old Kiss. Estimated To Be Buried Since 800 Bc, These Human Skeletons, Seemingly In An Embrace, Were Unearthed In 1972 At The Teppe Hasanlu Archaeological Site In Iran

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C. 1865. Samurai, Yokohama, By Felice Beato

C. 1865. Samurai, Yokohama, By Felice Beato

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1888. Mullen's Alley, Cherry Hill, New York By Jacob Riis

1888. Mullen's Alley, Cherry Hill, New York By Jacob Riis

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1941. An Unauthorized Photo Of Joseph Stalin, Taken Inside The Kremlin At The Very Moment He Was Informed That The Germans Were About To Take Kiev, Beginning Their Invasion Of The Soviet Union

1941. An Unauthorized Photo Of Joseph Stalin, Taken Inside The Kremlin At The Very Moment He Was Informed That The Germans Were About To Take Kiev, Beginning Their Invasion Of The Soviet Union

The Photographer Was Ordered To Destroy This Photograph But He Secretly Defied These Orders And Instead Saved It

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What's wrong, Soso Djugashvili? It's just your friend and ally Adolf coming to see you! You congratulated him on annexing lands, you divided Poland together. He took Kiev and Minsk in weeks because you sent the most professional and popular soviet generals to Gulag or to grave. Cheer up suka!

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C. 1918. Inside A German Ub-110 Submarine

C. 1918. Inside A German Ub-110 Submarine

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Turn that valve no the other no the other one now you shut off the water to the bathroom. Wait I’ll come over there and do it.

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1957. A Teen Girl At An Elvis Presley Concert At The Philadelphia Arena In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1957. A Teen Girl At An Elvis Presley Concert At The Philadelphia Arena In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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1966. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach And Lee Van Cleef On Location For The Climactic Finale At Sad Hill Cemetery During The Filming Of The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

1966. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach And Lee Van Cleef On Location For The Climactic Finale At Sad Hill Cemetery During The Filming Of The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Saw a really interesting documentary about the 50th anniversary of the filming. The people in the village nearby recreated the cemetery and held a festival to mark the anniversary.

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1927. U.S. Navy's Airship Los Angeles (Zr-3) In A Near-Vertical Position, After A Turbulent Wind From The Atlantic Flipped The 658-Foot Airship On Its Nose, While She Was Moored At The High Mast At Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey

1927. U.S. Navy's Airship Los Angeles (Zr-3) In A Near-Vertical Position, After A Turbulent Wind From The Atlantic Flipped The 658-Foot Airship On Its Nose, While She Was Moored At The High Mast At Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey

The Ship Suffered Only Slight Damage And Was Able To Fly The Next Day. There Were No Serious Injuries To The Crew

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C. 1910s. Carrier Pigeons Wearing Miniature Camera, Invented By German Inventor Julius Neubronner, And Aerial Photographs Captured By These Pigeon Cameras

C. 1910s. Carrier Pigeons Wearing Miniature Camera, Invented By German Inventor Julius Neubronner, And Aerial Photographs Captured By These Pigeon Cameras

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1920s. Racetrack On The Rooftop Of Fiat’s Lingotto Factory In Turin, Italy

1920s. Racetrack On The Rooftop Of Fiat’s Lingotto Factory In Turin, Italy

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've seen photographs of the entire Fiat rooftop track. It seems so insane that something like that could be built there. I have found out that it has been fully renovated with a garden to test drive their electric cars.

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1923. Pierre Labric Rides His Bicycle Down The Stairs Of The Eiffel Tower. He Won A Bet, But Was Arrested By The Police

1923. Pierre Labric Rides His Bicycle Down The Stairs Of The Eiffel Tower. He Won A Bet, But Was Arrested By The Police

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1970s-80s. Photos Of New York City’s Subway System, From Swiss Photographer Willy Spiller’s Collection Hell On Wheels

1970s-80s. Photos Of New York City’s Subway System, From Swiss Photographer Willy Spiller’s Collection Hell On Wheels

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Kearny Street, San Francisco, 1952, By Fred Lyon

Kearny Street, San Francisco, 1952, By Fred Lyon

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Raine Soo
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love old photographs. I'd love to see what this street looks like today.

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Vivian Maier Was A Full-Time Nanny Who Worked For Different Families In The 1950s And 1960s, Mainly In Chicago And New York, But She Also Happened To Be A Photographer By Hobby

Vivian Maier Was A Full-Time Nanny Who Worked For Different Families In The 1950s And 1960s, Mainly In Chicago And New York, But She Also Happened To Be A Photographer By Hobby

She Took More Than 150,000 Photographs During Her Lifetime, Primarily Of The People And Architecture Of Chicago, New York City, And Los Angeles, But She Kept Those Photographs To Herself. Her Work Was Only Discovered Because She Fell Behind On Payments For Storage Lockers She Rented In A Chicago Warehouse, Which Were Crammed With Negatives, Boxes Of Slides And More Than 1,000 Rolls Of Unprocessed Film. When These Possessions Were Sold Off At Auction In 2007, John Maloof, A Real-Estate Agent, Bought Most Of It For Less Than $400 And Began Posting Her Photographs Online. These Photos Went Viral And Would Ultimately Make Maier Famous. But The Fame Came Too Late For Maier To Appreciate: She Died In 2009, Aged 83, Penniless And Alone. “I’m The Mystery Woman” Vivian Maier Once Told The Children In Her Care

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1945. The Final Moments Of A Japanese Dive Bomber, After Being Hit By Anti-Aircraft Fire From The Uss Hornet

1945. The Final Moments Of A Japanese Dive Bomber, After Being Hit By Anti-Aircraft Fire From The Uss Hornet

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1983. Dr. Fukushi Katsunari With A Wet Specimen From The Preserved Japanese Skin Tattoo Collection At Medical Pathology Museum Of Tokyo University

1983. Dr. Fukushi Katsunari With A Wet Specimen From The Preserved Japanese Skin Tattoo Collection At Medical Pathology Museum Of Tokyo University

Started By His Father, Dr. Fukushi Masaichi, Pathologist And Emeritus Professor Of Nippon Medical School In Tokyo, Who Founded The World's Only Collection Of Tattoos Taken From The Dead. In 1926, Dr. Fukushi Masaichi Initially Became Interested In Tattoos When He Noticed That Skin Lesions Caused By Syphilis Stopped Where Tattoos Started. However, During His Research He Became More Fascinated By Tattoo Art. Dr. Fukushi Often Helped Fund Tattoos For People Who Couldn't Afford Them – In Return For The Ownership Rights After Death. His Collection Included About 2,000 Tattooed Skins And 3,000 Photographs, Which Were Mostly Lost In 1945, During World War II. Dr. Fukushi Masaichi And His Son Dr. Fukushi Katsunari Are Known In Japan As "Irezumi Hakase" (Approximately: "Dr. Tattoo")

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1940s. New Year's Hangovers, New York

1940s. New Year's Hangovers, New York

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Raine Soo
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The people are sloshed, but I like the art deco of the bottom photo.

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1893. Princeton University Students After The Annual Freshman-Sophomore Snowball Fight. It Was Common For Students To Pack Rocks Inside Their Snowballs

1893. Princeton University Students After The Annual Freshman-Sophomore Snowball Fight. It Was Common For Students To Pack Rocks Inside Their Snowballs

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Early 1900s. Workers Pose With Anchor Chains Of Rms Mauretania

Early 1900s. Workers Pose With Anchor Chains Of Rms Mauretania

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They are some big guys but this makes them look like the size of mice.

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1958. Jimmy Armstrong Aka The Dwarf Clown At Clyde Beatty Circus In Palisades, New Jersey. From Photographer Bruce Davidson’s Series ‘Circus’

1958. Jimmy Armstrong Aka The Dwarf Clown At Clyde Beatty Circus In Palisades, New Jersey. From Photographer Bruce Davidson’s Series ‘Circus’

“He Was Standing Alone Outside The Tent Smoking A Cigarette,” Davidson Upon Seeing Armstrong For The First Time. Dressed In A Tux And A Top Hat He Held A Small Bouquet Of Paper Flowers, And “Stood There Pensively In The Privacy Of His Inner Thoughts.” “He Seemed To Know That It Was The Inner Moment I Was Drawn To And Not His Clown Face Or Physical Appearance. We Became Friends, Although We Seldom Spoke To One Another.” “I Found Something In Jimmy That Was More Than Loneliness, It Was A Story About Surviving" - Bruce Davidson

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Tourism At Egyptian Pyramids During The Early 20th Century

Tourism At Egyptian Pyramids During The Early 20th Century

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Totally-at-a-tangent fun fact, the sphinx has a tail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sphinx_of_Giza#/media/File:Nazlet_El-Semman,_Al_Haram,_Giza_Governorate,_Egypt_-_panoramio_(27).jpg

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Horror Movie Villains Behind The Scenes

Horror Movie Villains Behind The Scenes

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4th Of July 1950, Santa Monica, California, By Ralph Crane

4th Of July 1950, Santa Monica, California, By Ralph Crane

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1993. Behind The Scenes Of Pulp Fiction

1993. Behind The Scenes Of Pulp Fiction

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1969. Photographs Showing A Nasa-Funded Research Of A Cat Demonstrating Its Natural Ability Of Physically Rotating Its Body In Mid-Air To Right Itself When Falling, And An Astronaut Training To Replicate The Feline Motion To Develop The Ability To Right His Body In Zero Gravity. Photography By Ralph Crane

1969. Photographs Showing A Nasa-Funded Research Of A Cat Demonstrating Its Natural Ability Of Physically Rotating Its Body In Mid-Air To Right Itself When Falling, And An Astronaut Training To Replicate The Feline Motion To Develop The Ability To Right His Body In Zero Gravity. Photography By Ralph Crane

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1985. 18-Year-Old Mike Tyson And His Trainer, Cus D'amato, Before His First Professional Fight Against Hector Mercedes. The Fight Lasted 1 Minute And 47 Seconds, With Tyson Defeating Hector Mercedes Via First-Round Tko. Photo By Ken Regan

1985. 18-Year-Old Mike Tyson And His Trainer, Cus D'amato, Before His First Professional Fight Against Hector Mercedes. The Fight Lasted 1 Minute And 47 Seconds, With Tyson Defeating Hector Mercedes Via First-Round Tko. Photo By Ken Regan

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1978. Tim Allen’s Mugshot After He Was Arrested At The Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport For Possession Of Over 650 Grams (1.43 Lb) Of Cocaine

1978. Tim Allen’s Mugshot After He Was Arrested At The Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport For Possession Of Over 650 Grams (1.43 Lb) Of Cocaine

He Later Pleaded Guilty To Drug Trafficking Charges And Provided The Names Of Other Dealers In Exchange For A Sentence Of 3 To 7 Years Rather Than A Possible Life Imprisonment. He Was Paroled In 1981, After Serving 2 Years And 4 Months In Prison

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm shocked. He's always seemed so wholesome to me. Of course I had no idea who he was until the 90's, so there is that.

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Cornett Boys Smoking By Car, Leatherwood, Kentucky, 1964, By William Gedney

Cornett Boys Smoking By Car, Leatherwood, Kentucky, 1964, By William Gedney

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1945. Atomic Bombing Of Nagasaki

1945. Atomic Bombing Of Nagasaki

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Agfox
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The bomb was called Fat Man & used plutonium. It was more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Little Boy, which used uranium-235. I've been to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum & some of the exhibits are gut-wrenchingly sad & horrible

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1980s. Vintage Band Publicity Photos

1980s. Vintage Band Publicity Photos

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Please don't call the 80's vintage.........unless you want to see a grown (old) man cry! 😂

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New Year’s Eve Hangovers Through The Years

New Year’s Eve Hangovers Through The Years

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