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In our times, most of humanity’s effort is set on exploring the future and the advancements that come with it, whether it’s technology or science. But delving into the past can be just as if not more entertaining.

Luckily, there’s a whole corner of Reddit dedicated to joining history aficionados together and sharing some of the most intriguing, rare and unique moments that happened a long time ago. Being home to a whopping 3.3M members, this subreddit is one of the biggest powerhouses on the platform!

Think of the moment Marlon Brando rejected his Oscar and gave the stage to Sacheen Littlefeather to protest Hollywood’s portrayal of Native Americans. Or the sunny afternoon when Che Guevara and Fidel Castro went fishing in 1960. Or a day in 1992 when Michelle and Barack Obama were giggling while getting married.

Thanks to photography, special moments like these were forever carved in our memories and so today, we invite you on a walk down memory lane. Scroll down and upvote your favorite ones!

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When They Realized Women Were Using Their Sacks To Make Clothes For Their Children, Flour Mills Of The 1930s Started Using Flowered Fabric For Their Sacks (1939)

When They Realized Women Were Using Their Sacks To Make Clothes For Their Children, Flour Mills Of The 1930s Started Using Flowered Fabric For Their Sacks (1939)

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Albert Einstein Defying The Prevailing Racial Climate At The Time By Visiting Lincoln University, Pennsylvania

Albert Einstein Defying The Prevailing Racial Climate At The Time By Visiting Lincoln University, Pennsylvania

The first degree-granting black college in the US - to teach a class. He was an outspoken civil rights advocate for black Americans. Photographed in 1946 

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

Being a jewish refugee from nazi Germany he knew a thing or two about the matter.

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Johnny Depp Saved The Old Horse Goldeneye From Sleepy Hollow Who Played Crane’s Companion, Gunpowder

Johnny Depp Saved The Old Horse Goldeneye From Sleepy Hollow Who Played Crane’s Companion, Gunpowder

The one-eyed horse was originally set to be euthanized after production was completed. But Depp stepped in and adopted Goldeneye after finishing the movie - 1999 

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

Why would you use a horse for a movie only to kill it afterwards? This is absolutely disgusting!

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“Photographs bring history to life in an immediate and visceral way,” Lisa Yaszek, a Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech where she researches and teaches science fiction as a global language crossing centuries, continents, and cultures, told Bored Panda.

Yaszek explained how it’s different from exploring history through written sources. “When we read books, we get lots of detailed information about historical events: who was involved, where the event happened, what factors led to and resulted from it, and so on.”

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"Happiest Man In China"

"Happiest Man In China"

Taken in 1901 by British anthropologists after deciding to document the Chinese. The Chinese didn't know photos were a "serious matter" and decided to be goofy, hence the pose and smile

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Tokyo Residents Mourning Hachiko

Tokyo Residents Mourning Hachiko

He would regularly meet his owner, professor Ueno, at Shibuya station after he returned from work. Sadly, Ueno died on May 21, 1925, & never returned. However, Hachiko would return to the station every day for 9 years, waiting for him to come back, 1935

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In 1973, Marlon Brando Rejected His Oscar For The Godfather To Allow Sacheen Littlefeather To Protest Hollywood’s Portrayal Of Native Americans

In 1973, Marlon Brando Rejected His Oscar For The Godfather To Allow Sacheen Littlefeather To Protest Hollywood’s Portrayal Of Native Americans

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Moreover, “Sometimes such information can be vividly detailed and prompt us to imagine what historical events might have looked like in ways that make us feel more connected to them, but sometimes we are so overwhelmed with dry or technical details that we actually feel more removed from the event than ever before,” the professor explained.

On the other hand, photos rarely have this problem. “Even when shot by the most amateur of photographers, images of people living in and through various moments in history provide a sense of immediate emotional connection—we think, ‘wow, so that’s what it would feel like to experience that moment of history!’” Yaszek explained.

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Six-Year-Old Austrian Boy “Werfel” Receiveing A New Pair Of Shoes At The Am Himmel Orphanage

Six-Year-Old Austrian Boy “Werfel” Receiveing A New Pair Of Shoes At The Am Himmel Orphanage

Donated by the junior red cross in America (colorized). Published in The Life magazine in 1946

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

We take so much for granted. I'm happy for his joy. I hope it was onward and upward from there.

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#8

Mass Demonstrations Against Soviet Union In Baku, The Capital Of Azerbaijan, 1989

Mass Demonstrations Against Soviet Union In Baku, The Capital Of Azerbaijan, 1989

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

These years were crazy, was a western Europe child, lived everything live on TV ( Berlin's Wall fall, the Ceaucescus been shot...) Big generational memories

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Nakano Takeko (Onna-Musha Of The Aizu Domain) In Imperial Japan

Nakano Takeko (Onna-Musha Of The Aizu Domain) In Imperial Japan

She and other women fought in the Battle of Aizu in October 1868 during the Boshin War, when on October 16th, she was killed in battle by a rifle shot. Shown in full samurai armour, c. 1860 - 1868

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The professor pointed out that “as the comments from posters on the ‘Exploring the Past through Historical Photos’ Reddit indicates, images of people from the past connect us to history in another, related way as well.”

In this sense, we’re not just mere viewers. Yaszek explained that “once we feel an emotional bond with the people in historical photos and perhaps even begin to imaginatively empathize with them—we forge new intellectual connections to history itself, asking ourselves: ‘Why are the people in this photograph in this situation in the first place? What happened leading up to this photo—and what happened afterward?’”

For viewers like us, this can be an empowering moment. “We begin to actively research and share what they know about events and people represented in specific photos,” Yaszek told us.

#10

African-American Boys On Easter Morning, Southside, Chicago, Illinois, April 1941 [colorized]

African-American Boys On Easter Morning, Southside, Chicago, Illinois, April 1941 [colorized]

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A Group Of Samurai Went On A Tourist Tour In Egypt And Took A Photo In Front Of Sphinx, 1864

A Group Of Samurai Went On A Tourist Tour In Egypt And Took A Photo In Front Of Sphinx, 1864

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Arnie Supporting Disables Athletes In The Early 1990's

Arnie Supporting Disables Athletes In The Early 1990's

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

I read "Arnie Disables Athletes In The Early 1990's", had me worried for a bit!

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Moreover, looking at historical photographs is an opportunity to both learn history from experts and to become an expert yourself, Yaszek argues. It’s because they give us an opportunity to “work with others to re-create the real story behind the image.”

“Sometimes, especially powerful photos can even prompt action in the real world, as we even begin to wonder, ‘how much does my own historical era have in common with this moment from the past?’ and ‘what can I do to make sure we do—or do not!—ever experience something like this again?’ And so by looking at historical photos, we can become agents of history!” the professor told us.

#13

Shoemaker’s Lunch, 1944. By Bernard Cole

Shoemaker’s Lunch, 1944. By Bernard Cole

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A Young Barack Obama Spending Time On The Beach With His Grandfather 1963

A Young Barack Obama Spending Time On The Beach With His Grandfather 1963

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A Selfie Taken By Emperor Nicholas II (1868-1918)

A Selfie Taken By Emperor Nicholas II (1868-1918)

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

Tragic what happened to him and his family. He was a clueless Tsar. But NO ONE deserves what happened. And those poor children.

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#16

Anne Frank And Her Sister Margot At The Beach, Zandvoort - August 1940

Anne Frank And Her Sister Margot At The Beach, Zandvoort - August 1940

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Tiananmen Square Just Before The Massacre, June 4, 1989

Tiananmen Square Just Before The Massacre, June 4, 1989

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

It's so scary that the most populous country on earth has such a repressive government and so sad the people living there have been taught that it's normal to have a government like that.

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This Boy’s Photo Was Taken In Los Angeles, California, Circa 1920s. A Stately Pose. From My Glass Negative Collection

This Boy’s Photo Was Taken In Los Angeles, California, Circa 1920s. A Stately Pose. From My Glass Negative Collection

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#19

112 Year-Old Teimruz Vanacha (Left), Veteran Of WWI And The Russian Civil War, With His Son Ivan, A Veteran Of WWII, In 1980

112 Year-Old Teimruz Vanacha (Left), Veteran Of WWI And The Russian Civil War, With His Son Ivan, A Veteran Of WWII, In 1980

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The Ethiopian Negus Menelik II Who Defeated The Italians In The Battle Of Adawa And Thus Saving His Nation From Colonisation. 1913

The Ethiopian Negus Menelik II Who Defeated The Italians In The Battle Of Adawa And Thus Saving His Nation From Colonisation. 1913

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Cannabis Rights Activist Ben Masel Smoking A Joint While Voting In The 1976 Presidential Election. Taking Advantage Of An Apparent Law That Prohibits Arrest While Voting

Cannabis Rights Activist Ben Masel Smoking A Joint While Voting In The 1976 Presidential Election. Taking Advantage Of An Apparent Law That Prohibits Arrest While Voting

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Rarely Did Photographers Make It To Frontier Families But When They Did Families Wanted To Show How Well They Were Doing Out West By Stripping The House & Pose For The Camera

Rarely Did Photographers Make It To Frontier Families But When They Did Families Wanted To Show How Well They Were Doing Out West By Stripping The House & Pose For The Camera

This family would like you to see their big melons are & a cow that appears to be able to climb your house! The 1870s 

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

The house is a dugout, "dig out" mostly into the side of that hill. The cow isn't standing on the roof of their house, but rather grazing on the hill. The dugout home had several advantages, but mainly it was inexpensive and it wasn't exposed to severe weather the same way a clapboard house would be.

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A Mob Pours Sugar, Ketchup And Mustard Over The Heads Of John Salter, Joan Trumpauer And Anne Moody

A Mob Pours Sugar, Ketchup And Mustard Over The Heads Of John Salter, Joan Trumpauer And Anne Moody

During a sit-in demonstration at a Woolworth's ‘whites only’ lunch counter in Jackson, Miss - May 28, 1963

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

1963. Think about it. NINETEEN SIXTY THREE. It's conceivable that many of the people in this photograph are still alive. And yet the American right seems to want to deny that the legacy of this period of hatred cannot possibly be manifest in today's society. How could it NOT be??? It's basically yesterday.

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

I wonder how they (the perpetrators in the picture) would honestly feel looking at this picture now, and what they would say to their descendants on the matter.

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

And now they're scared their great grandchildren are gonna find out how racist they were at school, and probably still are. .......... " A different time", indeed.

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

And here we sit today with the right wing Republicans FURIOUS that a black woman played a flute they didn't know existed.

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

I hope the people in that mob have endured ten thousand nights of sleepless shame and guilt for their part in that disgraceful act.

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

honestly i hope these people if they are still alive see this photo and their actions and hold their head in shame

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Esme love and squalor
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As mentioned above, the right is running on platform to ban teaching this history of Jim Crowe laws in the South. As it would offend white children. History we are doomed to repeat, apparently.

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

Three courageous, brave, admirable people sitting at a counter and a bunch of forgettable cowards in the back.

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

Oh yes, what a proud thing to be a part of: 25 young men making themselves feel all strong and manly by harassing a couple of women and a bloke who are minding their own business.

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

What a bunch of self-righteous, brain-washed human beings.

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

1963...it's not so long ago. Joan Trumpauer is still alive, and some of whites who harrassed this group probably are too.

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

Evil easily thrives when there is a helpful mob ready to do its bidding.

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

Most of those doing this are still alive. Guess who they voted for in the last two elections?

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

I hope they feel ashamed at their ignorance. How did they think this was okay? Hope they are filled with remorse.

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

Absolutely vile and disgusting pieces of racist trash. The scary part is that it wasn't that long ago and racism still happens on a daily basis. I hope that karma bit those racist cowards in the a*s.

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

JOAN TRUMPAUER!! I MET HER! SHE CAME TO MY SCHOOL WHEN I WAS IN THIRD OR FOURTH GRADE! (sorry couldn't contain my excitement)

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

Sometimes humans astound me with their intelligence and compassion. This was not one of those times...

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

Why judge the wrapping instead of the gift (treasure) ? Each life is a gift. Each gift comes in a wrapping. Your predudice will determine how many treasures you discover.

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

Do you notice that the one's doing this are men? The woman is looking elsewhere.

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

She's looking elsewhere, but still smiling, and making no move to stop what's happening.

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

Ignorance is amplified by the inaction of others… I’m sure not one person said “that’s not right”, and maybe that’s all it takes

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JonaLou2U
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would like to thinkI have that much courage- but I wonder....

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JonaLou2U
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am talking about those brave people sitting at the counter of course. Not the idiots pouring stuff

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

To have the courage to sit there during that time period in the American south took amazing courage.

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

It was only this year, 2022, that Biden make lynching a federal hate crime, THIS YEAR

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

Tradition can be an ugly word, but they were defending their past against changes they feared. We can guess at the world they feared losing, but we thankfully do not need to live in it.

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

I hope every one of those people have been ID'd by family members and summarily disowned.

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

Pity none of them had gas. With a room packed that tight it would have made terrific revenge.

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

i would like to go back in time and yell at these awful racist people, its horrible to see that racism is still here in 2022, i see it all the time from my teachers at school. I feel terrible for them:(

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

that's my birthday... so horrible. (not the 1963 part ofc, just the day)

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Basic White B1tch
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

anyone else notice its entirely white men harassing them? now i feel a bit bad about my username 0.0

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

MAGA ... DON'T THINK FOR A F****** SECOND THIS ISN'T WHAT THEY WANT TO GO BACK TO. CONSERVATIVES ARE CANCER.

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

These are the people against CRT. They don't want their grandchildren to know what they did.

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

The Nazis may have lost in Europe, but their ideology certainly was alive in the US 20yrs later.

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

White AmeriKKKa is rotten to the core and hasn't fundamentally changed. Eveil and Ugly.

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

“We aren’t racist. We just come from a different time.”

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

I was born in "64." Some was actions against whites. I can't blame them for some of the attacks either. Around 1969, or 1970, a group of black girls on skates, came by a house I was in the yard playing with a neighbor boy. They stopped, and called him over, they took a razor blade, and cut his arm 3 times! He lost a pint of blood by the time he got to the hospital. We didn't say anything to them, or do anything to them, they just did it. I had a hard time in school with them too. But, everybody bullied me, because I was different.

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

So when they say make America great again what period are they talking about exactly? When was this "greatness"? Shameful

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

I'm glad they photographed this. If our schools taught education this would be one of the pictures in American history.

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

The shoulders of Giants...everyone is of equal value regardless of color.....just being alive give a person more value than they will ever know.....you may be bullying the person that cures cancers or AIDS, all lives are precious

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

The same people who don't want their embarrassing history taught in schools.

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

Sadly, this mindset hasn't changed too much in nearly 60 years. Whites think they own the GD world and the rest of us are there to serve them.

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

We (white Americans) still have so much to learn from our extremely shameful history

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

I bet most of them are still alive. I wonder what they think of these pictures. Let's hope they realized the err of their ways. If not, then f*** them.

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

If you're white, look at this picture. Who would you be? Would you be in the crowd? Would you walk by, horrified, but keep walking? Would you sit at home and read about it in the paper? Or would you be at the counter?

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

Maybe it's just me but the guy under the donut sign looks like he might be starting to question what he's doing. One can hope.

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On This Day 59 Years Ago, Soviet Space Mission Vostok 6 Was Launched With Valentina Tereshkova Onboard, Who Became The 1st Woman In Space

On This Day 59 Years Ago, Soviet Space Mission Vostok 6 Was Launched With Valentina Tereshkova Onboard, Who Became The 1st Woman In Space

This is her during the fifth earth orbit on June 16, 1963

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A Smiling Girl In A Kimono On New Year's Day. Japan, 1914

A Smiling Girl In A Kimono On New Year's Day. Japan, 1914

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

Proof that wearing socks with sandals and be beautiful... uncomfortable but beautiful!!

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Greenpeace Tries To Stop Radioactive Waste From Being Dumped In The Ocean, 1982

Greenpeace Tries To Stop Radioactive Waste From Being Dumped In The Ocean, 1982

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

i think they recently put massive boulders in common fishing spots to rip up any nets to deter overfishing and pollution :)

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Russian Conscript With His Family Before Being Deployed To The Front, Karachev, Bryansk, Russia, 1943

Russian Conscript With His Family Before Being Deployed To The Front, Karachev, Bryansk, Russia, 1943

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Võ Thi Thang Smiling After Being Sentenced To 20 Years Hard Labour In A Prison Camp By The South Vietnamese Govt - 1968

Võ Thi Thang Smiling After Being Sentenced To 20 Years Hard Labour In A Prison Camp By The South Vietnamese Govt - 1968

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

Additional context (slight paraphrasing): After sentencing she said "20 years? Your government won't last that long". She was released six years later.

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In The 1890s, The Congo State (Controlled By Belgian Settlers) Allowed The Companies To Maneuver Almost Entirely Freely

In The 1890s, The Congo State (Controlled By Belgian Settlers) Allowed The Companies To Maneuver Almost Entirely Freely

Which resulted in various atrocities, including the amputation of hands as punishment for those who refused to collect rubber

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My Grandfather. 1933. In A Cornfield He Planted That Was Destroyed By Locusts

My Grandfather. 1933. In A Cornfield He Planted That Was Destroyed By Locusts

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Chinese-American War Worker In Los Angeles

Chinese-American War Worker In Los Angeles

Wore a handwritten sign in his back to avoid being mistaken for Japanese 1942

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

This is actually so sad. I recently watched a Cold Case episode about life for American Japanese after Pearl Harbor. Heartbreaking.

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Commuters In New York On The Evening Of November 22, 1963

Commuters In New York On The Evening Of November 22, 1963

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Jaques Biederer, The First Photographer In History Specializing In Erotic Photos. This Photo Was Taken In Paris In 1928

Jaques Biederer, The First Photographer In History Specializing In Erotic Photos. This Photo Was Taken In Paris In 1928

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An Enthusiast For Men's Dress Reform Walking Down The Strand In London. The Mdrp (Men’s Dress Reform Party) Was Formed In The Interwar Years In Britain, 1930

An Enthusiast For Men's Dress Reform Walking Down The Strand In London. The Mdrp (Men’s Dress Reform Party) Was Formed In The Interwar Years In Britain, 1930

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Santa Claus With The Children During Croatian War Of Independence. Vukovar, 1992 (Colorized)

Santa Claus With The Children During Croatian War Of Independence. Vukovar, 1992 (Colorized)

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[colorized] Three Scout Girls Collect Peach Pits, Which Will Later Be Processed To Make Gas Mask Filters During World War I. Washington, 1917-1918

[colorized] Three Scout Girls Collect Peach Pits, Which Will Later Be Processed To Make Gas Mask Filters During World War I. Washington, 1917-1918

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UPS Worker Delivers Packages In New York City During The Attacks Of 9/11 2001

UPS Worker Delivers Packages In New York City During The Attacks Of 9/11 2001

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

There was a ups guy out delivering packages during the hurricane last week

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Memorial Day 1945: French Teen Helene Chapelle And Her Mother Kneel At The Grave Of James Simonian Who Was Killed During The Normandy Invasion

Memorial Day 1945: French Teen Helene Chapelle And Her Mother Kneel At The Grave Of James Simonian Who Was Killed During The Normandy Invasion

She is reading a letter from Simonian’s mother who asked that it be read at her son’s grave. La Cambe Cemetery, France

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

The American (and British and Canadian) cemeteries of Normandy and Brittany are such sad but beautiful places. All so young.

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Queen Elizabeth; The Queen Mother, Princess Margaret And A Bored Prince Charles Watching The Coronation Ceremony Of Queen Elizabeth II. Westminster Abbey, 1953

Queen Elizabeth; The Queen Mother, Princess Margaret And A Bored Prince Charles Watching The Coronation Ceremony Of Queen Elizabeth II. Westminster Abbey, 1953

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Dr. Erich Salomon Faked A Broken Arm So He Could Hide A Camera In His Cast To Photograph The Us Supreme Court - 1932

Dr. Erich Salomon Faked A Broken Arm So He Could Hide A Camera In His Cast To Photograph The Us Supreme Court - 1932

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Captain Lewis Nixon Of The 101st Airborne Wakes Up After A Night Of Celebrating Courtesy Of Goerings Private Liquor, Wine And Champagne Collection, Austria May 4th 1945

Captain Lewis Nixon Of The 101st Airborne Wakes Up After A Night Of Celebrating Courtesy Of Goerings Private Liquor, Wine And Champagne Collection, Austria May 4th 1945

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J. Robert Oppenheimer And Albert Einstein, 1947

J. Robert Oppenheimer And Albert Einstein, 1947

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Anton Dostler, Nazi General Moments Before Being Executed For War Crimes. Aversa, Italy. 1 December, 1945

Anton Dostler, Nazi General Moments Before Being Executed For War Crimes. Aversa, Italy. 1 December, 1945

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

I have a feeling that we will be returning to this, but with Russian officers.

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P.t. Barnum & Bailey's Combined Circus Performers, New York 1924

P.t. Barnum & Bailey's Combined Circus Performers, New York 1924

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

So this is the one that had the albino twins who where told their mother was dead and then they saw her in the crowd?

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Photo Of A British Man Wearing A Chain Around The Neck Of Aborigines, Who Are Natives Of Australia. 1900's

Photo Of A British Man Wearing A Chain Around The Neck Of Aborigines, Who Are Natives Of Australia. 1900's

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Mohawk Warrior Attacks Canadian Soldiers During Oka Crisis July-Sep 1990

Mohawk Warrior Attacks Canadian Soldiers During Oka Crisis July-Sep 1990

Which began when the Canadian government approved the seizure of Mohawk land for a private golf course - a 14 yr old Mohawk teen was bayoneted in the chest and almost died

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

A Gross exaggeration of what happened. A municipal government gave approval for construction on a disputed property and the Mohawks reacted. A police officer was shot and killed and then he ensuing standoff was resolved after a lot of time passing, by the army who were filmed and showed immense tolerance. I never heard about any bayoneting, perhaps it happened but was overshadowed by the police officer being murdered. No one was found responsible. Don't attempt to rewrite history while some us of lived it.

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Ms. Lee Merlin, The Winner Of The “Miss Atomic Bomb” Pageant In Las Vegas, 1950s

Ms. Lee Merlin, The Winner Of The “Miss Atomic Bomb” Pageant In Las Vegas, 1950s

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

Am I the only one to think this pageant was in extremely poor taste? "Miss Atomic Bomb"? Damn.

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