Dedicated Twitter Page Shares Lesser-Seen Moments From History, And Here’re 30 Of The Best Ones
History often gets brushed aside by other subjects in school because of an oversimplified view of the discipline. For the most part, it’s presented as a “recollection of stuff that happened” and that’s it.
But many fail to see that it’s much, much more than that. Besides actually learning from past mistakes, history teaches everything from critical thinking to cause and effect, explaining who we are as a species, why we are that way, among many other things.
Besides, history’s interesting as all heck, and this one Twitter page brings that point across by featuring moments that are often lost in the annals of time. And so we’ve collected some of the best glimpses into history as shared by the Lost In History Twitter page, which you can see below.
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Absolutely love this 💜 It's sad, cuz I used to work in tech as a PM, and about 80% of all programmers I worked with were sexist neckbeards. That's actually why I quit, I couldn't take the awful treatment anymore. Funny how computers, wifi, computer code, and the internet itself wouldn't exist if not for women. Ada Lovelace, Margaret Hamilton, Hedy Lamarr, and Radia Perlman, we owe everything to you.
Lost in History is an online page—one that has a presence on multiple social media, including Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, where it has its largest following at 1.2 million—that focuses on showing interesting glimpses into human history.
By interesting, we mean lesser-known or lesser-seen moments from the past that stand out more than others. Either because they are weird or bizarre or just different, or because you mayhaps didn’t think of it that way, or it was a stepping stone to greatness in a certain field (e.g. medicine), and the like.
Whatever the case, it’s definitely a unique take on history, and this page shows it.
You would only get me on a cruise ship by force or drugging. Terrifying.
Trees are strung together at a height and angle that serves to block the road from the view of enemy watchtowers. All the enemy lookout sees is forest and trees, but not vehicles or roadway.
More specifically, the page features events, people or just plain ol’ things (or different angles thereof, in some senses) that you don’t see every day. Take the Titanic, for instance: it’s made out to be this huge cruise ship that was tanked by an iceberg, like a gargantuan natural force that took down a behemoth of technological advancement in logistics, but by today’s standard, it’s kinda tiny. But size doesn’t matter, right?
Here’s the King of Rock & Roll, Elvis Presley caught off-guard in an early-day selfie. Here’s Fidel Castro as a young boy back in his school days. Here’s a man begging his wife not to be divorced. Things you just don’t see every day, or on the front page of history.
"Best friend" considering she was openly bisexual? From what I understand, her husband, Diego Rivera, was not a very good husband to her, so she may or may not have had an affair (or multiple affairs) with a woman. Someone please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, this is coming from my own dusty memory banks. ETA: Wow a lot of you are assuming that I don't think Frida Kahlo can keep it in her pants JUST because she's bi. She has had relationships with women and history has an annoying way of heteronormalizing things (is that a word? Screw it, it is now). So it's therefore reasonable to wonder (NOT assume, but just wonder) if there was more to this friendship. I am NOT making assumptions. Go be mad at someone who is actually a bigot. You're wasting your time with me.
Photo taken in Snow King Resort, Jackson, WY. Operational between 1951 and 1978, it replaced a similar single seater arrangement operational since 1946, that reused posts and cables from an ore tram built in the '30s for a mine close by. It was replaced in 1981 be a modern Doppelmayr Garaventa double chair lift. Removed in 2014. There are several photos like this floating around because this was taken in a spot that was specifically designed for touristic photos, to give impression of being at height, while in reality the seat was barely 3 meters from the ground for the whole run. The uncropped photos show the bushes/small trees just below. It was not exactly safe, but forced perspective is the main factor here.
I grew up skiing in the OG Snow King lift… easily have 20k runs there … you didn’t mention the creaking and popping the wood towers would give off each time you went past… !! And how slow it was …
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Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope
How often do you fall off your chair when you're sitting on it?
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My 60 year old boyfriend showed me pictures on him and his mom on something similar in the 60s. I was petrified for them looking at it.
There are armrests on the outside now, for comfort more than safety. Your ticket says by buying it you release the resort from all liability. Finally a place where you have to take responsibility for your own dumb actions.
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Ground is probably 2 feet below them - after all where is the person standing to take the photo?
Their security: you won't fall off if you don't try Our security: you have to really try if you want to fall off
People weren't as dumb back then. Common sense was still common & people didn't need to baby-proof the world. They just used their heads unlike the people today who allow others to think for them. No idiot apps either like TikTok. Between TikTok and how dumb down people have become they would definitely need to be extremely secure. God knows if someone started a "trend" that involves jumping off one there'd be hundreds if not thousands of morons doing it.
I remember going to Ghost Town in the Sky in North Carolina and their chair lift was like this.
Um. If they're that high up, then who took the photo? I think they're close to the ground, it's just so tourists don't have to slog uphill all that distance.
back then people had common sense, sad to see just how many people still need their hand held.
For people freaking out about this, they probably aren't that far off the ground. The picture is being taken by someone who is standing on the hill. We know it's not being taken by a passing lift on the other side due to the lack of overhead cabling. The lift is following the incline of the hill, and even though they are far from the flat ground in the far background, there is still ground beneath them. This is just a perspective trick.
Pretty sure they had seat belts and this is some kind of composite picture for an ad. Not really taken when they are up this high.
I'm guessing they weren't actually that high above the ground... maybe a few metres? Easily jump down...
Used to ski a place in the Angeles National Forest above Los Angeles called Kratka Ridge that had a single wooden chair run by a Chevy big block. Early 80’s. They would let us take shovels up on the lift to build massive jumps. Those days are gone!
Ski lifts are actually quite smooth and you can be comfortable and calm while riding them. When I worked at a Lake Tahoe ski resort, our chairs only had a bar on the outside of the chair on each side to hold onto. Wasn't a big deal.
If God wants me to be in a picture like this, that's why he gave us Photoshop.
My grandmother has a picture of her and my mother riding one of these together when my mom was 5 years old. Looking at the picture gives you goosebumps 😟
Yes, there are a lot like this still. But they really aren't scary. No one just falls out of their seat. The drive to the resort on a snowy, icy day...now that's the scary part!
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And speaking of unique angles on history, History Today elaborates on it by saying that history is narratives. It’s a certain kind of journey to explain things, decisions, outcomes, facts, whatever, and these various narratives hold them.
The article also proposes that the main task of history as a discipline is to be the epicenter of a constructive debate on our existence and everything in it—from political systems to leadership to economy to society and culture.
While it can be argued that the study of the “how” and the “why” in all things history seems like the most interesting part of the discipline, the entirety of history is as important as everything else in it. It’s more than just specific stories—context also matters, and marginalizing history will in fact hinder the full potential understanding of what’s what.
I think we (americans) need a new name for our ball. What's latin for "pointy-ended ball that bounces in all directions"?
People on 1969: quietly takes picture. People in 2023: calls 911, child protection services, fbi, cia, dea, nsa, nasa, cnn, nbc, and fox news, while going live on both instagram + tiktok and screaming threatening the young mom.
All romanticism aside, history is what led to the way things are today and can ultimately lead to how things will be in the future. Massive Open Online Courses, an online education organization, puts it into perspective:
“Take the Great Depression, for example—one of the most difficult but impactful periods in American history. The economic crisis put almost 15 million people out of work and sent countless families into homelessness, stealing their sense of security. Many of those people would feel insecure for the rest of their lives.”
“The government had to learn how to help. This effort gave rise to Social Security, federal emergency relief programs, and funding for unemployment efforts. These changes continue to make life more secure for millions of Americans.”
“Society today comes from hundreds and thousands of actions like these. The more you learn about how these things happened, the better you understand real life.”
Her sister published a book about her life because she wants her to be remembered for her life more than her death.
This, to me, is still the scariest movie of all time. It leaves me feeling horrible inside. When my parents were dating, they went to this, and my mom had to leave early. On the way out, they had stretchers along the wall. Then again my mom likes to embellish things so the stretchers may not have been there.
Fun fact! John Ringling bought a palacial estate on the Sarasota Bay and when he died, destitute, he gifted the estate to the state of Florida. It is now home to Ringling museum, circus school and is open to the public to walk the grounds and tour the home. It's beautiful and worth the trip if you find yourself in the area.
Note: this post originally had 43 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
The 1970s in America seemed like it was a banging time. So much progressive progress for women in that decade.
We marched, protested, had sit-ins, and worked our butts off for rights that are now being chiseled away. It chaps my hide. Yes, I'm still protesting.
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I hate when the put pod from the 80s & 90s in black and to make them seem old then a color ones that predator them.
Black and white photography still existed in the 80's and 90's among professional photographers for newspapers and magazines. It saved the publishers money to not print everything in color. So those pictures may not have been changed to black and white.
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We marched, protested, had sit-ins, and worked our butts off for rights that are now being chiseled away. It chaps my hide. Yes, I'm still protesting.
Load More Replies... I hate when the put pod from the 80s & 90s in black and to make them seem old then a color ones that predator them.
Black and white photography still existed in the 80's and 90's among professional photographers for newspapers and magazines. It saved the publishers money to not print everything in color. So those pictures may not have been changed to black and white.
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