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50 Weird History Pics That May Change How You See The Past
Did you know that on September 10, 1970, there was a Miss American Vampire pageant in Los Angeles? Organized as part of a promotional campaign for the television series Dark Shadows, it elected actress and activist Sacheen Littlefeather as the winner. You might recognize her as the woman who declined Marlon Brando's Oscar on his behalf at the 1973 Academy Awards.
Yet, she wasn't the one who was crowned Miss American Vampire. What really happened? Well, it's up to you to find out, as you scroll down this list of historical pics. We've rounded up the most interesting ones from the Instagram page "Ethereal Fields," and present to you here those we think you might not have seen yet before.
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#1
Dutch Boys Ride The Freedom Train After Liberation From Germany. 1945
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#2
Eartha Kitt With Kitties, 1952
#3
Leningrad Region, Commuter Train, 1993
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
How else are you supposed to transport your horse? Make it walk? Also this is two years after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
#4
Tram 58 At Zugliget, Budapest, 1940
#5
Anita Ekberg Threatening A Paparazzi With Her Bow And Arrow, 1960
deano sweat 1 year ago
says here:https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/anita-ekberg-the-actor-who-opened-fire-on-the-paparazzi-with-a-bow-and-arrow/ the photographer revealed that “we were getting on our motorbikes to leave, when Anita came running out of the house with a bow and arrow in her hand.” Presumably unaware that she’d been training in archery for a role in The Mongols, she opened fire. According to Quinto, she demanded the pictures, and then unloaded. He was struck in the left forearm, while another paparazzo was reportedly struck twice in the back. Needless to say, they didn’t hang around much longer, but they’d already completed their assignment
#6
The Spanish Civil War
FreeDragon 1 year ago
Left around 500.000 people dead, they are still finding mass graves. Beware of right wing nationalists.
#7
A Woman Moving To Another Village Takes With Her The Bones Of Her Dead Son
#8
Spanish Archaeologist Manuel Esteve Wearing The Corinthian Helmet He Had Found - 1938
#9
Miss American Vampire Pageant, 1970
#10
Marvin Koner, A Nun Watches Orphaned Children Sleep, 1940
#11
Visited The Latvian Museum Of Medical History
#12
Notre-Dame By Marc Riboud, 1952
#13
The Hungarian Revolution Of 1956
#14
Croatian/Bosniak Traditional Tattoos
#15
Palamar With The Trinity. 1970s The Village Of Kryvorivnia, Ivano-Frankivsk Region, Ukraine
#16
The Virtues Crushing The Vices, Strasbourg Cathedral, 1853
#17
German Fireman Test A New Helmet Invention Ca. 1900
#18
Maria Germanova As The Witch In Maurice Maeterlinck’s Play "The Blue Bird". Moscow Art Theatre, 1908
#19
The Last Sword Duel In History, France, 1967
Riaan van der Walt 1 year ago (edited)
I can just imagine slapping some rude idiot person across the face with my glove and going " you have stolen my oxygen and I demand satisfaction". Ahhh the simpler times.
#20
Joan Jett
#21
David L***h With His First Painting, 1963
Peter Bear 1 year ago
FFS, it's a name. You really need to just remove the dam censor bots. There's no place for censorship in a free society.
#22
Gasmask Fashion
#23
D**k Smith’s Make-Up For The 1961 Golden Showcase TV Version Of The Picture Of Dorian Gray, 1960
#24
Canadian General Hospital, Ca. 1916-19
#25
Aleister Crowley Photographed By Jules Jacot Guillarmod During The K2 Expedition, 1902
#26
Morris Graves In His Garden Photographed By Immogen Cunningham, 1973
HardBoiledBlonde 1 year ago
Morris Graves was an American painter known for Abstract Expressionism.
#28
This Image Is Not Of Queen Genepil In 1923, But Rather A Different Mongolian Nobel Woman In 1921 Claimed To Be Genepil
#29
Betty Boop Enlisted To Sell Cigarettes In 1940s Iraq, Encouraging People To Smoke Them At The Cinema
#30
Before And After Pictures Of A Syphilis Clinic, Early 1900s
#31
Soviet Invasion Of Prague
Cuppa tea? 1 year ago
21.august 1968. Just few days ago. And in both Czech and Slovakia there are people who would welcomed them back.
#32
Tattooed Woman From Hans Prinzhorn’s Book „prisoner’s Art“, 1926
#33
Velvet Underground Performing At The Playboy Club In Chicago, 1966
#34
Grace Kirby Behind The Scenes Of Hellraiser, 1987
#35
Circus Elephants Many And Kiri Clearing Rubble In Hamburg After World War II, 1945
#36
Peter Lindbergh, Comme Des Garçons, 1988
#38
Students Publicly Denouncing/ Humiliating Their Teachers For Being „anti Revolutionary“ During The Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1967-1972
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Dark times. I really hope the USA isn't headed down that path but it's looking more and more like Maoism every day.
#39
Iranian Embassy Siege, London 1980
#40
Tattoos Of A French Prisoner, 1951
#41
1971 Munich Hostage Crisis
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
"Germany's first bank robbery with hostage-taking (04.08.1971)"
#42
Sisters Of St. Joseph Of Carondelet, Practicing For A Possible Air Raid, 1942
#43
Valium Ad From The 80s
#44
The L’eplattenier Helmet Was A Prototype Military Helmet Designed For The Swiss Army By Charles L’eplattenier In 1916
Dragons Exist 1 year ago
Looks like a combo between a dystopian sci-fi secret police helmet and a Medieval knight's helmet
#45
Christine Spengler, North Ireland, 1970s
Ol' Stevie 1 year ago
This photo was taken in Ulster. North Ireland and Northern Ireland are parts of two entirely separate countries, the terms are not interchangeable. This photo was taken in Londonderry in '72, around the time of the Bogside live fire exercise. Free Soldier F.
#46
Nikita Khrushchev Excited About Corn, 1957-1962
#47
Soviet Prison Tattoos 1960-1980
#48
Cats In Zero Gravity
#49
Spanish Anarchists Pose With F*****t Skull During The Spanish Civil War
#50
An Opium Den In New York City, 1902
#53
A Croatian Soldier Poses During The Croatian War Of Independence
Dragons Exist 1 year ago
The wall says "IF I DIE YOUNG, SEND ME TO HEAVEN / I'VE ALREADY BEEN TO HELL"
#54
Doll Factory, 1950s
#55
Iranian Revolution By Abbas Attar, 1979/1980
David 1 year ago
When the communist and socialists made an alliance with Islamists and then were backstabbed for their naivety that religious zealots would keep their word for a unity govt. The Islamists arrested all the sociaist and communist leaders within months of taking over, and soon put in a system even more opporessive than the Shah
#57
Sword Swallower At A Carnival. By Diane Arbus. Maryland, 1970
HardBoiledBlonde 1 year ago
If you are not familiar with Diane Arbus's work, I encourage you to peruse it - it is very powerful.
#58
Jim Morrison In Teotihuacán, Mexico, 1969
#59
Mask Against Depression, 1937
Dragons Exist 1 year ago
TIL, I can just print a pic of a smile & tape it to my face to cure my crippling depression /s
#62
Shomei Tomatsu - Statue Of An Angel Shattered By The Atomic B**b At Urakami Cathedral, Nagasaki, 1961
#63
1982 Israeli Siege Of West Beirut By Catherine Leroy
AtMostAFabulist 1 year ago
Is it just me, or does he look like Orlando Bloom? Missing leg notwithstanding.
#64
Medival Shame Masks
Dragons Exist 1 year ago
What were they worn for? Like was it because of things like rape & murder or just sex before marriage & being gay
#65
Tlingit Shaman Binds A Witch, Sitka, Alaska
#66
Storyville Portraits By E. J. Bellocq, 1912
#67
Red Army’s Hijacking Of A Jal Flight In 1970
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
Red Army FACTION - I don't think the sovjet military hijacked that plane
#69
Catherine Leroy Documenting The Israeli Siege Of West Beirut In 1982
#70
Native From Adelaide Australia With Decorative Scars, 1908
Dragons Exist 1 year ago
Decorative??? I guess it's not that much different than tattoos, but it seems like it would hurt more
#71
1982 Israeli Siege Of West Beirut By Catherine Leroy
#73
French Press Photographer Catherine Leroy Looks At A Fellow Photographer As Israeli Airstrikes Rock West Beirut Along The Shore
#77
Storyville Portraits By E. J. Bellocq, 1912
#80
The Fluess Apparatus An Early Diving Device Created By Henry Fleuss, 1879
#82
Mexican/ Mazatec Spritual Mushroom Healer Maria Sabina
#84
Jackie Kennedy (John F Kennedys Wife) On Halloween 1962
#85
Croatian/Bosniak Traditional Tattoos
#87
Iranian Revolution By Abbas Attar, 1979/1980
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 year ago
So then we had the Israeli siege of West Beirut, today we have the Israeli siege of Gaza. The Israeli appetite for genocide knows no bounds.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
The difference is that Israel got attacked this time, citiziens got taken hostage and that the Hamas still continues to fight - Quite a different situation. Not to mention that there were constant attacks since 2007 breaking the "land-for-peace" treaty. Gaza didn't keep the peace so in return they don't keep Gaza as autonomous region since it's a threat to the security of the people in Israel
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Mreoww 1 year ago
Wish there were more photos from the rest of the world, like Asia or Africa.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
My guess would be that either those don't get uploaded as much or that they were less made back then
Load More Replies... Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 year ago
So then we had the Israeli siege of West Beirut, today we have the Israeli siege of Gaza. The Israeli appetite for genocide knows no bounds.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
The difference is that Israel got attacked this time, citiziens got taken hostage and that the Hamas still continues to fight - Quite a different situation. Not to mention that there were constant attacks since 2007 breaking the "land-for-peace" treaty. Gaza didn't keep the peace so in return they don't keep Gaza as autonomous region since it's a threat to the security of the people in Israel
Load More Replies... Mreoww 1 year ago
Wish there were more photos from the rest of the world, like Asia or Africa.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
My guess would be that either those don't get uploaded as much or that they were less made back then
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