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50 Interesting History Pics From The Page Dedicated To Teaching Us “Weird Things About History” (New Pics)
History happens every day. In fact, history is happening every day, and even right at this moment. We might not realize that the period in which we live may one day be the subject of history books that children will learn about in school. Which events will make it into the books and which will be excluded?
For some perspective, we're inviting you to look through this list of fascinating historical events you might not have seen before. Courtesy of the History Defined page that keeps curious netizens satisfied, we've compiled a collection of photographs that may shock you, make you say "Aww," or make you nostalgic for the good ol' days.
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#1
A Member Of The Harlem Hellfighters (369th Infantry Regiment) Poses For The Camera While Holding A Puppy He Saved During World War 1, 1918
XenoMurph 5 months ago
Over 100 years, and there's still no equality in the US, and much prejudice in the West overall. We are a ridiculous species.
Winnie the Moo 5 months ago (edited)
This picture always captivates my attention. His gaze is so intense. A tear rolled from his right eye. This man has seen things, no one of us will ever comprehend, but still manages to care for a puppy amidst it all. I always feel sad, because I know when (or if…) he came home, he STILL was a second class citizen.
BrunoVI 5 months ago (edited)
Weird association comes to mind when I read "Harlem firefighters": They invented baseball. Yes, it has precedents but they were closer to cricket; yes, it was popularized by Abner Doubleday, also known for firing the first Union shot in the Civil War and and being related to the world's largest book publishers. But the folks who made the game close enough to baseball that you'd call it baseball (and whose rules I was astonished to find were so similar to those used by kids where I grew up 140 years later) were the Harlem firefighters. (Ironically, they gave their Knick-name to the New York BASKETBALL team, quite literally.)
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#2
A Ute Warrior Poses With His Dog On The Eastern Slope Of Utah’s Wasatch Mountains In 1873
Cydney Golden 5 months ago (edited)
America's treatment of the first peoples is obscene. That history along with the treatment of the enslaved, and other minorities Asians will be erased if the snowflake right wing conservatives have their way.
#3
A Protestant Husband And His Catholic Wife Were Not Allowed To Be Buried Together. Here Are Their Headstones Reaching Across The Two Cemeteries In 1888
JoNo 5 months ago
I don't understand why there are separate cemeteries, especially when these two denominations belong to the same religion (Christian). What's going to happen when they're dead? Why can't everyone be in the same cemetery, regardless of their faith. I suppose they believe they'll be segregated in heaven - but more than likely they think there chosen church is the only one there!
liam newton-harding 5 months ago
Welcome to all of human history…You see those people over there? That worship EXACTLY the same god we do? That do one minor thing ever so slightly different from our Church? We should go and k**l them!
Load More Replies... Ge Po 5 months ago
The saddest thing is that this had nothing to do with God or believing in Him. This is about people trying to gain or keep control over the masses, without any regard to what the bible/religion/their God actually says. You will find it in any religion, but also in politics/law (and the constitutions they should stand for), the military (and the people they should be protecting, healthcare (and the hospitals they should be running) etc.
Lupita Nyong'heaux 5 months ago
no offense, ge po, and i say this with all due respect: it has EVERYTHING to do with god/believing. because the people who invented gods and religions (or at least, the ones who codified it into "organized" religions) did so for the exact reason you stated - to gain and keep control of the poor, "unwashed" masses.
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DC 5 months ago
Twosided knife, this is. Itself, this is a nice display crossing a made-up border, crossed by their love ... at the same time, it also is a monument of this very seperation that was forced upon people, which never was worth or deserving of being held intact. The stronger message, of course, is the love of theirs that crosses this outdated-at-best wall of seperation. That totally deserves David Hasselhoff singing it down from right on top of it!
Christina A Davis 5 months ago
That's beautiful. BUT--once they were dead, WHAT WOULD IT MATTER??!!! I am SURE the Lord didn't care.
The photograph of death row inmates on this list might seem jarring, but prison baseball was actually quite a popular thing. Sing Sing prison in Ossining, N.Y., was one of the first institutions to try out baseball as a form of "self-government" for inmates in 1914. "Baseball would be the best way to cement an honor system among the men," warden Thomas Mott Osborne said.
In fact, the teams became so popular that such Hall of Famers as Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, together with the New York Mets, came to play an honorary match against the prison team in 1929. Granted, the inmates lost 17-3, but it did set a precedent for future matches, which became a tradition.
#4
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Was Arrested For Protesting In 1961. She Was Tested For Mental Illness Because Law Enforcement Couldn’t Think Why A White Woman Would Want Civil Rights
T'Mar of Vulcan 5 months ago
To quote my mother, "Because you can't treat people like that!!" (She used to run outside during 'pass raids' and yell at the cops for their treatment of people who weren't doing anything wrong.)
Michael Largey 5 months ago
Today is no different. Now if you stand up against racism you're also accused of a mental illness - Trump Derangement Syndrome.
The Darkest Timeline 5 months ago
The only people that have TDS are those that think Trump is good for this country
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Austzn 5 months ago
There is a subculture here in the US that could include so-called "Christian nationalists". Make no mistake, they don't worship Jesus, they worship narcissism. This is why this person was arrested: they just couldn't imagine a reality outside of their own biases. I think this is still a very prominent problem to this day.
Michael Largey 5 months ago
She saw the effect that it had on those who arrested her.
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Son of Philosoraptor 5 months ago
That was brutal social control as outspoken women were diagnosed and sent away. See Francis Farmer.
BrunoVI 5 months ago
She was also given a "vaginal examination" and served two months in prison. She gave Micheal Schwerner an orientation on what to know about being a white civil rights activist in Mississippi, two days before Schwerner was killed. She now lives outside DC, where she has worked for the Smithsonian, the Justics Department and Commerce Department (which runs the census, but I don't know if she worked for the census; I'm only guessing what part of Commerce would attract a civil rights worker.) I also wonder if the accusation of insanity came from her family, who disowned her and believed she had fallen in with a cult.
#5
This Is Port Authority Police Officer Christopher Amoroso On The Morning Of September 11th, 2001
After Saving This Pregnant Woman, Chris Decided To Go Back Into The Twin Towers For The 5th Time To Help Others Escape. He Didn't Make It Out Alive.
Austzn 5 months ago
I knew a former NYC firefighter who served during 9/11 and he said one of the most traumatic parts of that event was when they decided the buildings were going to collapse soon and they stopped the first responders from continuing to attempt rescues. He said of course he understood their reasoning but it was pretty hard when you can still hear people screaming down the stairwells.
Teresa Spanics 5 months ago
Please accept my deepest condolences and please send my deepest condolences to your dear friends' families from Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada 😭💔
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Maples Dad 5 months ago
Quite a few pregnant women died in those Towers. There is a horrendous photo of a heavily pregnant woman jumping to her death.
Marlene Ricker 5 months ago
Such a wonderful, caring man. It doesn't seem fair that he didn't survive!
#6
Blackfoot Tribe In Glacier National Park, 1913
Sapna Sarfare 5 months ago
This has to be hands down the most beautiful photo ever. perfection
Molly Reece 5 months ago
I wish we’d allowed these nations to live on their lands in peace and learned from their ways.
Son of Philosoraptor 5 months ago
Hey remember when like a hundred years ago we destroyed the last of the original owners of this land?
Sarah 5 months ago
Does anyone know what they are doing? Hunting? Watching out for enemy? It’s beautiful
Pyla 5 months ago (edited)
They are posing. Many photogs went out to capture images as the west was considered won, so there was a zeitgeist of nostalgia and a sense of preservation. Roland Reed took this. Also look up Edward Curtis. ……remember these are huge box cameras on heavy tripods with glass plates instead of celluloid film. Shots took about 30 seconds and entailed setup of human subjects. .there are a few who have YouTube channels who do this.
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Geishas are a cultural icon of Japan, and their hair is a vital part of the iconic look. In the past, the women would style their own hair, which they would have to take impeccable care of. But nowadays, geishas wear wigs called Katsura. They started using wigs after WWII, when there was a shortage of hairstylists.
The styling of the hair also depends on the seniority of a geisha. Those in training, or maiko, will have a red piece of cloth in their hair. After two or three years of their apprenticeship, maiko will have a triangular piece of cloth pinned to the back of their hair.
At the end of their apprenticeship, maiko will put tortoiseshell ornaments in their hair, silver wires that imitate the wings of a dragonfly, and a tuft of hair at the back of their head. Katsura wigs are reserved for mature geishas only.
#7
Protesting The High School Dress Code That Banned Slacks For Girls, Brooklyn, 1940
Xenia Harley 5 months ago
Girls weren't allowed to wear pants when I went to grade school! It was about 1970 when that changed!
Upstaged75 5 months ago
I worked at a fancy hotel in the late 90's after I finished college. Women employees were not allowed to wear pants. We had to have on a skirt/dress with pantyhose. I worked in the back office, so guests never even saw me. The CEO just didn't like looking at women in pants. 🙄
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Austzn 5 months ago
And yet there are still people today who don't want men wearing skirted clothing and don't see the irony.
Michael Largey 5 months ago
Some are terrified that men's skirts will evolve to a kilts, leading to bag pipes.
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Philippa Davies 5 months ago
On a similar topic: a few years ago here in Melbourne, a school, or maybe a few schools, made a rule that girls’ skirts/dresses had to be beyond a certain length because if they were too short, they were distracting the male teachers…
Kit Black 5 months ago
And yet they're totally okay, with not firing those teachers...
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SlothyK8 5 months ago
My "Silent Generation" parents somehow thought, in the mid-80's, that girls STILL weren't allowed to wear pants in high school in the US. I remember my father remarking about not buying jeans and such during back to school shopping. They were weird.
jonesnori 5 months ago
It hadn't been that long at that point, depending where you were. It seemed like a 2-year change where I was, in the early 70s. First year, we were allowed pant suits with a tunic top longer than a certain length (basically like a mini-dress over matching slacks). The next year they gave up and everyone wore jeans. At least, that's the way it seemed in my memory. Churches took far longer to loosen up. Still, mid-80s is pretty late not to realize, for sure!
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KnightOwl86 5 months ago
We did a similar protest in the 90s. Our Catholic school uniform meant girls were forced to wear skirts in all seasons (not fun in winter in scotland). Took years of protests and fighting but eventually they changed the rules and by 1999 the uniform included trousers for girls!
JayhawkJoey 5 months ago
My mom couldn't wear pants in college in the 1950s unless it was very cold. (Chicago, IL).
#8
Clara Gantt, Widow Of Army Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Gantt, Waited 63 Years For His Remains After He Was Captured And Died During The Korean War In 1951. His Remains Were Identified In 2013
Teags 5 months ago
absolutely heartbreaking, but i can only imagine how she was feeling to have him back home ❤️❤️❤️
nomnomborkbork 5 months ago (edited)
Kudos to the military unit whose sole job is to repatriate soldiers' remains. They are unsung heroes.
Load More Replies... Beth Wheeler 5 months ago
Oh that poor lady, the look on her face is heartbreaking. It took so long to find him and bring him home.
Molly Reece 5 months ago
Too many were never identified and never brought home in this and other wars.
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17 Year-Old Juliane Koepcke Was Sucked Out Of An Airplane In 1971 After It Was Struck By A Bolt Of Lightning
She Fell 2 Miles To The Ground, Strapped To Her Seat And Survived After She Endured 10 Days In The Amazon Jungle.
Upstaged75 5 months ago
Read her story, she's incredible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane_Koepcke
Glen Ellyn 5 months ago
Per that Wiki article: "As many as 14 other passengers were later discovered to have survived the initial crash but died while waiting to be rescued." Holy moly! Incredible.
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Trashy Panda 5 months ago
Surviving the Amazon is even more impressive than surviving the fall
tameson 5 months ago
Her parents were zoologists in Peru. She lived in the Amazon at a research station and learned survival skills there.
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Cindy Brick 5 months ago
I am amazed at the surprising number of single survivors of plane crashes -- including the most recent one, from an Air India catastrophe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sole_survivors_of_aviation_accidents_and_incidents
Rich Black 5 months ago
that is one fantastically clean dress for a girl who spent 10 days walking in the amazon rainforest. was photoshop involved?
Renaissance man 5 months ago
If that happened today you would die because today seats have far less padding than the earlier ones did.
When you look at Chauncey Bradley Ives's "Undine Rising from the Waters," you might think it's a sculpture from ancient Greece. Experts call his technique "illusionistic carving," which was done masterfully for this particular sculpture. It depicts a scene from a 19th-century story by Baron Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouqué, Undine.
It's a story about a sea spirit that gained human form when she married a human king. After he cheats on her, Undine is set to take his life, and Ives's sculpture is the moment she rises from the water to do this.
#10
David Bowie And Iman, 1992-2016
ॐBoyGanesh 5 months ago
🥺😢😭 This is the first & so far only celeb death I haven’t gotten over. I don’t think I ever will. And their love for each other. When asked his greatest achievement, he said marrying his wife. When he was then asked, “but as a musician?” he replied, “Nothing else matters.”
Bec 5 months ago
At first I thought it was a hoax, as he had a new album out. Then it was real! Then I watched the videos from the new album, about death and loss, and bawled my eyes out.
Load More Replies... T'Mar of Vulcan 5 months ago
I've always been a huge fan of Iman's. In interviews (I've only read interviews) she comes across as no-nonsense and she doesn't take herself too seriously. She was the first Black woman on the cover of South Africa's women's magazine, Fair Lady, in the early '80s. Been a fan since then.
JoNo 5 months ago
The dates on the heading makes it seem like they both died in 2016. While David Bowie sadly passed away then, Iman is still living and is 69 (still looking amazing).
Michael Largey 5 months ago (edited)
It makes you think they died in 2016 only if you think they were born in 1992. The dates are actually the dates of their marriage.
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Louisa johnson 5 months ago
I love this comment, it’s seems so appropriate.
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Skywitness 5 months ago
In interviews, David Bowie often said that nothing in his life was ever as important as the love he had for his wife.
#11
East German Soldier Helps A Little Boy Sneak Across The Berlin Wall The Day It Was Erected In 1961
Upstaged75 5 months ago
Can you imagine being that young and trapped on one side of the wall without your family??
Michelle Grantham 5 months ago
Children are being separated from their parents in the US BY ICE and so called “Homeland Security “ :(
Load More Replies... Verena 5 months ago
https://sammlung.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/Details/Index/1379806 This is the link to the archive of the Berlin Wall. No detailed information given. The soldier is in Eastern Germany, Soviet sector (uniform insignia, he could not be in any of the other sectors), so most likely he helps the kid back to East Germany, where his family is. The separation happened so quickly, that quite some families were suddenly separated while taking a stroll and happened to be in different sectors
#12
The 9000 Who Never Made It Home, 1945 This Is A An Art Piece Dedicated To Those Who Died On D-Day. It Was Designed By Andy Moss And Jamie Wardley
Kristy Marion 5 months ago
And we seem to be willing to sacrifice our young men and women. Yet again. Will we ever learn?
Alexandra 5 months ago
Would you rather the Allies did not invade and have the Nazis carry on with their activities in occupied territory? They continued with killing people in concentration camps until t he very last moment of the war. They caused a hunger winter in the Netherlands which decimated an already weakened population. Almost no one wants war but when it's forced upon you you have to make a choice: subjugation or fight back.
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Pedantic Panda 5 months ago
And 20,000 French civilians, and probably at least 5,000 Germans, many of whon were not fervent Nazïs. Very few winners in war.
Load More Replies... Maples Dad 5 months ago
I dread to think how many people are going to die in the next war. Because being realistic, the world is coming to boiling point and world war is inevitable.
Rich Black 5 months ago
the defense of human rights and civilian lives comes at a high cost, sometimes
One historical photograph in this list includes a Ute warrior posing with his dog. The Ute are a tribe of Indigenous Americans in the mountains, or what we currently call Utah and Colorado. Interestingly, the Ute creation story includes the figure of a dog as well: along with the Creator, there was a Coyote who lived on Earth in ancient times.
#13
On July 17, 1967, A Florida Lineman Named Randall Champion Accidentally Touched A High-Voltage Line — Which Sent 4,000 Volts Of Electricity Through His Body And Stopped His Heart
Luckily, His Friend And Fellow Lineman J.d. Thompson Was Close Enough To Perform Mouth-To-Mouth Resuscitation.
Author SJ Baily 5 months ago
This is a puzzler. Wouldn't he need to do chest compressions to get his heart to restart?
Limey 5 months ago (edited)
1967. Paramedics were barely starting to be a thing around then (1967 was quite literally the first year), and CPR? That was still relatively new, too! Not even a decade since it was instituted in medical settings. Rescue breathing is a much older method of aid, by hundreds of years. More people were familiar with it.
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Gunnar Kaasen And His Team Of 13 Dogs
Led By The Siberian Husky, Balto, Completed The Last Leg Of A 1925 Trip To Deliver 300,000 Units Of Diphtheria Antitoxin To Nome, Alaska To Prevent An Outbreak.
Upstaged75 5 months ago
Everyone always forgets about Togo! He actually lead the team for the majority of the trip. Balto was just the one that did the final leg.
sturmwesen 5 months ago
that's teamwork for you... only who does the presentation gets applause
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Undine Rising From The Waters (1880) By Chauncey Bradley Ives
Three Possums in a Coat 5 months ago
They somehow made marble see through, This is what AI can never achieve
Roni Stone 5 months ago
One of the most beautiful pieces of statuary anywhere. The talent it took to master the wetness of the veil carved out of marble! It is clinging to her stomach like it would tear at the slightest touch.
Queen Boudicca 5 months ago
Ladies - it goes to show you - it isn't *your* fault if someone cheats on you. Even a goddess had this happen...
According to the Ute creation story, the Creator sent the Coyote with a bag of "sticks" to the sacred valley. He forbade him to open the bag or look at what was inside it. His curiosity got the better of him, and the Coyote opened the bag before reaching his destination.
People spilled out of the bag and ran in many different directions. Coyote, unable to catch them and put them back inside the bag, reached the valley and let out the remaining people, who were the real Utes. As punishment for his foolishness, the Creator cursed the Coyote to forever run the Earth on all fours "as a nightcrawler."
#16
Temporary Nypd Headquarters At A Burger King, September 11, 2001
#17
A Team Of Archeologists LED By Professor Kutalmis Grkay Of Ankara University Recently Unearthed Three Ancient Greek Mosaics In The Turkish City Of Zeugma
Verena 5 months ago
25 years ago Zeugma was already famous for this. I worked on an international construction site close by, and since a visit of the police - asking if we saw anything curious in the night when a mosaic disappeared - we know how to quickly steal a mosaic without damaging it. They explained it to us. We often found coins and other small artefacts, it was a clear rule that everything had to be handed in at the local authorities. The consequences, especially for non-Turkish, were hard.
Jamie Peterson 5 months ago
A few more historical reasons NOT to promote war... art, lives, children, pets, nature
Joe Reaves 5 months ago
Imagine the feeling of slowly uncovering something as beautiful and intact as that that no one has seen for centuries.
Tabitha 5 months ago
I love mosaics. I have seen some that are absolutely stunning. If I ever get rich, I would love to have a lovely mosaic floor or two or three in my house. Maybe one in the entrance hall and another on the patio, and the third in a room that would become my favorite to hang out in.
Just Little Ol' Me 5 months ago
Good grief! Who in their right mind would want to cover such beautiful work up but thank goodness they did...
#18
Anne Frank Photographed With Her Sister Margot At The Beach In Zandvoort, Netherlands, In 1940
Charlotte 5 months ago
I have similar pictures of my father’s half sisters, ages 6 and 8. Sent to Auschwitz and never came back.
Wild Cream 5 months ago (edited)
They look very alike! My twin sister and I don’t even look this similar 😂
Renee Smith 5 months ago
They died way too young. The Ann Frank Pen Pal Museum is close to my home in Iowa. I can't imagine what those brave people went through!
Tom 5 months ago
And yet - this same hate is very much alive these days. Italy, Hungary, Netherlands, US .. i may have forgotten a few.. Seems humanity has not learned a lot :(
Load More Replies... The first photo taken after the explosion at Chernobyl that you'll find in this list belongs to photographer Igor Kostin, who was one of the five photographers tasked with documenting the disaster. Although he spent some time in the radiation zone, he didn't end up with radiation poisoning and passed away in 2015 in a car crash at the age of 78.
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Elsie Alcock, Born In 1918, Has Lived Her Entire Life In The Same House On Barker Street In Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire. Remarkably, She Was Born In The Very Home She Still Lives In Today
UKGrandad 5 months ago
It will be her 107th. birthday next Saturday, 28th.June. She is indeed still alive.
amy lee 5 months ago
Not having the stress of moving house adding years to her life!!
Load More Replies... Louisa johnson 5 months ago
She has not changed much at all. Obviously older but almost exactly the same
MygrandsonscallmeNia 5 months ago
She looks so sweet! I just love the elderly! Can you imagine the stories she can tell? I would love to hear them!
Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 5 months ago
Didn't you see UKGrandad's edited comment from 14 hours ago? Elsie is still alive.
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Cats Blackie And Brownie Catching Squirts Of Milk During Milking At Arch Badertscher’s Dairy Farm, Fresno, California, 1954
Peeka_Mimi 5 months ago
My great grandmother had a black cat named Blackie. I have 4 black cats named, Nacho, Byron, Puck, and Dora.
Niki 5 months ago
I never went with that name for mine, and now I feel silly. I went with Cleopatra, Bean, and Hecuba....
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Julia Ford 5 months ago
When they treated the cows with some dignity. Now it’s a horror show.
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Oskar vanZandt 5 months ago
Blackie isn't looking too impressed... I named my cats after dances Lindy (Hop) and Samba... Predeceased by Rumba and Tango.
Huddo's sister 5 months ago
I can imagine my dad's family doing the same for the cats that kept the rats out of the barns on their dairy farm.
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Dutch Boys, Recently Liberated From A German Labor Camp, Ride A 'Freedom Train' Home, May 5th 1945. Photo By Menno Huizinga
Verena 5 months ago (edited)
This is the link to the Dutch archive of WWII photos and this specific photo (it one of a series) https://beeldbankwo2.nl/nl/beelden/detail/78f2cd0f-3b18-9286-05c6-2a95baddb6b5/media/809b7733-89e4-803f-22c6-f100b27222bc . These boys were NOT liberated from a labour camp. Original caption: "Uitgelaten jongens hangen na de bevrijding aan de deur van een rijdende trein (1945)" = "Elated boys hang from the door of a moving train after Liberation (1945)" = Liberation of the Netherlands. There is no exact date given. If they had been in a labour camp, they would not have the strength to do this. People, use your brains, please! Correct translation is an art, having knowledge about and respect for local culture, time and context. Google translate and other simple automatic AI translators fail all the time. Cheers from the Netherlands.
Ge Po 5 months ago
These may have been boys living in the north part of the Netherlands, which had gone through a harsh winter where famine raged the country, after retreating German soldiers had taken whatever resources (food, fuel) they could get their hands on and left the population with the scraps. It was the winter where the Dutch found out that tulip bulbs are edible.
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JoNo 5 months ago
My first thought was along those lines. My husband's uncle was killed by a passing train while hanging outside like this.
Load More Replies... Michelle C 5 months ago
I can only imagine what that must’ve been like for them! Thank God they were freed!
Verena 5 months ago
They were not at a labour camp. Shoddy translation. Here's the original, with original caption: https://beeldbankwo2.nl/nl/beelden/detail/78f2cd0f-3b18-9286-05c6-2a95baddb6b5/media/809b7733-89e4-803f-22c6-f100b27222bc Liberation = liberation of the Netherlands as a whole. Cheers from the Netherlands.
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persephone134 5 months ago (edited)
So Dutch minors were kept in N**i labour camps? That I have never heard of before. (Assuming they were not part of a religious or ethnic minority.)
Ejteh 5 months ago
Not these boys specifically, but many others were. Ever heard of Anne Frank perhaps? She's just one of many.
Load More Replies...Anatoly Rasskazov, another of the five photographers, had a different fate. He took photos of the reactor the morning after the disaster, when the officials sent him to take photos to see the scope of it. He took photos from a helicopter above the reactor and then from a car on the ground.
When he tried to develop the film, all of it from the first camera was burned by radiation. The film from the second camera was slightly blurry, but still visible. Because of the exposure to radiation, Rasskazov was left with a permanent radiation burn on his forehead and had "blood diseases and cancer," from which he passed away in 2010.
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John Candy Took This Picture Of Conan O’brien While Conan Was His Tour Guide At Harvard University In 1984
The Majestic Opossum 5 months ago
That is so cool! RIP John Candy, he was a true legend. Conan is the best ♥️
Michael Largey 5 months ago
O"Brien was the editor of the Harvard Lampoon, the university's humor magazine.
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In 1990, The Windshield Of British Airways Flight 5390 Came Off At An Altitude Of 17,000 Feet. This Triggered A Sudden Decompression In The Cockpit, Resulting In The Captain Being Partially Ejected Out Of The Aircraft
Cronecast AtTheRisingMoon 5 months ago
Another super wild one, the pilot lived, and the crew holding onto him ( at first a flight attendant who was then replaced by two people when he was too exhausted) thought he was dead but were holding onto him to keep his body from colliding with a wing. The poor flight attendant had PTSD afterward …which I will just bet he did, the pilot was unconscious but his head was being bashed around.
Atom Bohr 5 months ago
The poor flight attendant had frostbite on his eye
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 5 months ago
The pics are from a documentary about the incident. They're not from the real event.
G A 5 months ago
I don't think they would have gotten the bottom pic without divine intervention
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Ace 5 months ago
The pictures are stills from a movie reconstruction, in case anyone wondered how they happened to be taken.
Mophead 5 months ago
Without the quick and intelligent actions of the co-pilot the captain would have died. He dropped down into a breathable height, But the flight attendent who was gripping hold of the captain's legs and co-pilot thought the captain was dead. I watched this documentary and was disappointed the co-pilot didn't take part in it along with all the flight's crew, I just wanted to see this hero and congratulate him even though it would be theough my TV screen. This episode of Air-crash investigation is one that really stuck with me.
Doug FM 5 months ago
The photos don't match, he's sideways in one and straight back in the other.
🇫🇮 Goth Nurse 🇫🇮 5 months ago
But aren't these pictures from the recreation of this incident, shown on Nat Geo channel?
Petra Peitsch 5 months ago
No, they were IRL taken. Any other dumb questions you have?
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Marilyn Holt 5 months ago
I don't understand how that second picture--outside the plane--could have been taken.
Petra Peitsch 5 months ago (edited)
Recreation, Sherlock. How did you survived till now?
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A Photograph Of A Fire Truck Rushing To The Scene Of 9/11. All Six Of The Firemen In Ladder 118 Lost Their Lives Saving People In The World Trade Center
SlothyK8 5 months ago
It's hard to believe that the 25 anniversary of that awful day is just over a year away. It's astonishing that time has gone by so fast.
MygrandsonscallmeNia 5 months ago
I'll never forget that day.... I was getting ready for work, when my BF called, she told me we are being attacked by terrorists, and to turn on the news! Just as I turned it on, the second plane crashed into the towers.... We went to work, and the woman we cleaned for, sent us home. Because everyone was glued to the TV, watching more devastation.
QuincyForrest 5 months ago
Religion did this! Never forget that fact. Virtually all wars ever fought in recorded history have had religion as their basis, one way or another. Yes, even Vietnam. What were we supposedly fighting? "Godless" communism, that's what.
Today, Times Square in New York is the epitome of entertainment and consumerism. But in the '50s, as evident from the photograph in this list, it emanated a vintage coolness many of us are so nostalgic for. In the '50s, the landmark wasn't as dangerous and seedy as it became from the 1960s until the 1990s. But disreputable businesses still reared their ugly heads at high speed.
#25
Average American Family In Detroit, Michigan, 1954. A House, Car, And Enough To Support A Family, All On A Ford Factory Worker's Wages!
Queen Boudicca 5 months ago
And the average CEO only made about 15x's what the average employee made..
Verena 5 months ago (edited)
In the glorified 50s, Earth was home to 2,5 billion people, of which many lived in poverty. However, with a growing population, growing markets and enough space in European and North America, lots of well paid working opportunities and cheap ground were available. In the 70s/80s, workers at the Ford-factory in Cologne could afford houses and two or three kids and put them through high school and university (education was a priority of the government, so free and most loans for student housing did not need to paid back). With growing population, goods as housing space get scarce, so prices rocket. The answer are less people, we cannot afford the 8 billion as of now
XenoMurph 5 months ago
It's not as simple as that. BILLIONS of people have been lifted out of grinding poverty over the last 50 years. Globalisation has been great for human prosperity, but terrible for the planet. Late stage capitalism is also reversing that progress as protections break down and wealth is hoarded. |Things are going to look rather bleak fairly soon. We need some more uprisings and revolutions.
Load More Replies... Bailey 5 months ago
We really need to stop peddling this nostalgic idea that in the 50s, 60s and 70s in the US it was easy to get a job that allowed a family to live well on a single income and have no money worries. There were some jobs like that, just like there are now, but there were also people living in slums and poverty, and households struggling to get by even on 2 incomes. The percentage of married households where both parents had a job actually increased across the 1950s, and continued to increase as time went on.
General Anaesthesia 5 months ago
The growth of the middle class was a fact, as is the decline. "...The share of adults who live in middle-class households fell from 61% in 1971 to 50% in 2021..." - pew research. Further: "A marriage bar is the practice of restricting the employment of married women.[1] Common in English-speaking countries from the late 19th century to the 1970s, the practice often called for the termination of the employment of a woman on her marriage, especially in teaching and clerical occupations... [in the US]marriage bars were not banned by law until 1964 when Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, s*x, or ethnic origin." - Wikipedia, marriage bar
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Marilyn Holt 5 months ago
I grew up in Canada in a very similar situation: dad a mechanic, mom at home, 4 bedroom brick house,, car.... No one can do this these days.
MygrandsonscallmeNia 5 months ago
Back then: a house was $5-6,000, a car was around $3,000. I know the rate of pay was a lot less, but still many had a comfortable life. My Dad, was just a truck driver, my Mom, stayed at home. We had a 3 bedroom house, and two cars. 4 in the family.
Jamie Peterson 5 months ago
Aaahhh the 'good times'.... Remember if you just cut out the Starbucks, you too could have a home. HAHAHAHAHA!
Bleau 5 months ago
No but over a year you could at least have a few months worth of emergency savings. Which the pandemic proved just how many did.
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Lori T Wisconsin 5 months ago
To hell with Reagan and all the GOP who promote trickle down economics by lowering taxes on the wealthy. Let’s give a big tax break to the middle and lower class workers. The resulting money will trickle up - we can call it UpYours Economics!!
#26
A Father Looking For His Two Missing Sons That Went Missing During The War, Mitrovica, Kosovo, 1999
Mia Chapman 5 months ago
This kind of reminds me of the book When Stars Are Scattered. Omar and Hassan never stopped looking for their mom and their mom never stopped looking for them
Colleen Glim 5 months ago
War is such a pointless waste. It’s a giant pissing contest between nations whose leaders are no where near the front
me McG 5 months ago
What if the rich and powerful threw a war and nobody came? Paraphrasing the title of a movie that stuck with me.
Tabitha 5 months ago (edited)
In my opinion, if they want to play war games so bad, they should suit up and do the fighting themselves. I don’t care if the only weapons they’re allowed to use are sacks full of horse manure, they need to go fight amongst themselves and leave the rest of us, who have way better things to do with our lives, TF out of their little petty squabbles.
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#27
An Unknown Soldier, Vietnam, 1965
Nicole Weymann 5 months ago
Reminds me of a Hawkeye quote from M.A.S.H.: Hawkeye: War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse. Father Mulcahy: How do you figure, Hawkeye? Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell? Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe. Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.
tameson 5 months ago
His was Larry Wayne Chaffin from St. Louis. https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/soldier-war-is-hell-vietnam-1965/
Spencer's slave no longer 5 months ago
Thanks, I used your post to find out more about him and I've posted it above.
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Spencer's slave no longer 5 months ago
Larry Wayne Chaffin (thank you #tameson below) survived Vietnam and went on to be a fish biologist after he left the Army. He passed away in 1985 from complications of diabetes, at the age of 39.
Renee Smith 5 months ago
My father did two tours. The second trip did something to him. He wasn't the same person when he came back. My Mother thinks it had something to do with Agent Orange.
Schoolgirls might have protested the slacks ban back in the 1940s, but similar policies persist in schools to this day. For example, in 2018, a North Carolina charter school forbade girls from wearing pants and shorts to "promote chivalry and respect." In 2019, a judge found that ban unconstitutional, but the school pushed back and lost in court again in 2023.
#28
On August 8, 1982, The Red Sox Were Playing. Jim Rice Saw 4 Year Old Jonathan Keane Bleeding Profusely From His Head
Cronecast AtTheRisingMoon 5 months ago
The boy was hit by a foul ball, Rice was not the batter, but he leapt into the stands and then carried the boy back to the dugout where the team doctor was, the boy had a fractured skull and Rice’s quick thinking likely really helped with his outcome as it would have taken a while for help to get to him otherwise. Rice also paid the hospital bill…again, he wasn’t the batter, just a badass hero.
Baba Caine 5 months ago
BP do some research Jesus's h christ , it a well documented picture ffs
#29
Kmart Employees In North Carolina Watching The Moon Landing (July 16, 1969)
Melinda Flick 5 months ago
My husband watched at the local deli where the owner had brought in a tv for that purpose.
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Bored Birgit 5 months ago
Yes, my Dad woke me up at 2 am as well, I was 9 years old.
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Roberta Surprenant 5 months ago
Ah yes, when all that was needed to watch TV was a plug and antenna. No cable, no satellite, just free TV over airwaves.
Jumping Jellyfishes 5 months ago
This is still the case. We get quite a few channels with our over the air antenna for free
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Renaissance man 5 months ago
I remember watching that when we lived in Wichita Falls Texas. After I saw them on the moon I ran outside and looked up at the moon to see if I could see them there, the mind of a child is something else.
Marianne Grann 5 months ago
I saw the moon landing in 1969 when I was 17 years - I was impressed and I still remember it vividly - it was a BIG thing then.
#30
In 1962, Test Pilot George Aird Narrowly Survived When His English Electric Lightning F1 Suddenly Nosedived
BrunoVI 5 months ago
It's wierd that it's shaped so much like the space shuttle.
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UKGrandad 5 months ago (edited)
At such a low altitude there wasn't time for the parachute to open. He crashed through the roof of a commercial greenhouse (the white buildings on the left) and had a relatively soft landing in thick vegetation. Aside from several broken bones and some cuts he was fine, and after recovering went back to work as a test pilot. The photo was taken by his neighbour who had taken his children to watch the test flight. EDIT: the photographer's neighbour, Bob Sowray, was supposed to be the pilot that day but decided to let his colleague, George Aird, fly instead. The reason he was so low - just 200ft -when he ejected was that it was at the end of the test flight and on final approach to land back at the airfield.
Which of these photographs taught you the most today, Pandas? Let us know your favorites by upvoting them and sharing your thoughts about the most memorable events in the comments! Also, if you're looking to see more rarely seen moments from history, head over to our previous articles here, here, and here!
#31
Anne Frank’s Father Otto, Revists The Attic Where He And His Family Hid
Joshua David 5 months ago
The last memories the had with his family semi safe and all together. Hate this.
Norm Gilmore 5 months ago (edited)
The Frank's and others were in an annex off the main house which was over several levels. I have a heart breaking book called Anne Frank, Beyond the Diary which has many fascinating photos of how the annex was situated but this shows it much better. I think the stairs are leading up to the roof space above the attic. https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/secret-annex/
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Monet With His Wife Alice, 1908
Multa Nocte 5 months ago
Tuppence, actually, but I was singing the same song.
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#33
A Geisha After Washing Her Hair, Before Styling It, In Japan In 1905
#34
Shoichi Yokoi, The Japanese Soldier Who Hid In The Jungle In Guam For 27 Years To Avoid Capture, Weeps Upon His Return To Japan In February 1972
Wild Cream 5 months ago
When American forces captured the island in the 1944 Battle of Guam, Yokoi went into hiding with nine other Japanese soldiers. Seven of the original ten eventually moved away and only three remained in the region. These men separated, but visited each other periodically until about 1964, when the other two died in a flood. For the last eight years before his discovery, Yokoi lived alone. He survived by hunting, primarily at night. He also used native plants to make clothes, bedding, and storage implements, which he carefully hid in his cave. On the evening of 24 January 1972, Yokoi was discovered by two local men checking shrimp traps along a small river on Talofofo. They had assumed Yokoi was a villager from Talofofo, but he thought his life was in danger and attacked them. They managed to subdue him and carried him out of the jungle.
Wild Cream 5 months ago
Yokoi later said that he expected the local men to k**l him at first but was surprised when instead they allowed him to eat hot soup at their home before turning him over to the authorities. He was in relatively good health, but slightly anemic due to a lack of salt in his diet, according to doctors at Guam Memorial Hospital. His diet included wild nuts, mangos, papaya, shrimp, snails, frogs, and rats. "It is with much embarrassment that I return," he said upon his return to Japan in March 1972. The remark quickly became a popular saying in Japan. He had known since 1952 that World War II had ended, but feared coming out of hiding, explaining: "We Japanese soldiers were told to prefer death to the disgrace of getting captured alive."
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Major Harris 5 months ago
i had a MUCH older cousin who was stationed on guam in the early 50s. he would say that every once in a while, a shot would come out of the jungle at his fellow servicemen. they knew that there were still some japanese soldiers on the island who had not surrendered.
Salty Wild Hair 5 months ago
And the first thing he asked was "Who won the war?" When he was told that Japan had lost, he surrendered.
to old to care 5 months ago
My father was stationed on Guam, on the Air Force base, during 1969 to 1972. I was just a kid then BUT I do remember this.
#35
Australian Soldiers Being Thrown Into The Air By The Shockwave Of An Explosive Device That Their Boat Crashed Into. Everyone Survived. 1942
Ben Aziza 5 months ago
The "everyone survived" turned what would be a tragedy into pure hilarity. Look at that guy at the top! He is levitating! I mean he WAS LAUNCHED. The one on the right is doing a sick pose as if he is using powers some consider to be unnatural!
XenoMurph 5 months ago
I'm not sure "survived" is a high bar in this situation. They'd have been incredibly badly injured
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#36
Photos Of Peter Dinklage When He Was Young
Delicate Fcuking Flower 5 months ago
He was in a punk rock band called Whizzy (I believe that's the proper spelling of it)
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Hoban Michelle 4 months ago
I just saw him in a bit part in the show Oz. He is m******d by being thrown from a roof.
#37
Audrey Hepburn With Her Pet Deer, 1958
#38
Marcy Borders - "Dust Lady" After Escaping The North Tower Of The World Trade Center On 9/11. She Would Die Of Cancer At Age 42
Atom Bohr 5 months ago
Can you imagine being in her position and finally you see a person, but rather than helping you, they take a photo?
XenoMurph 5 months ago
Without the principle of "observer rather than participant" photographers would never be able to take photos of tragedy. Events which are important to document.
Load More Replies... Dying_Rainbow 4 months ago
There have been a large number of individuals who ended up with cancer who were survivors of 9/11. I can't remember what type of cancer but i do think it had something to do with the respiratory system
Cara Vinson 4 months ago
Again I am aghast at our politicians ignoring the cancer patients particularly among the first responders. Shame. Eternal Shame.
#39
This Is The First Image Captured Of Chernobyl, Taken 14 Hours After The Explosion On April 26, 1986
Wild Cream 5 months ago
I’m going to have to go rewatch the Jared Harris HBO Chernobyl show again
Russell Bowman 5 months ago
or the photo was taken from a distance ... and they cropped this section out of the original photo
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Onlookers Witnessing The Challenger Explosion Shortly After The Space Shuttle Took Off, January 28th, 1986
Xenia Harley 5 months ago
I was a young mother and had just started teaching. I had a very strong premonition because the first teacher was being sent up to space. I knew she would leave her three children without a mother. It did hit hard, because of being a mom myself.
Upstaged75 5 months ago
I was 11 years old and we were off school for some reason. I remember watching it while standing in the kitchen with my mother. They still live in the same house.
Jamie Peterson 5 months ago
Watched it live in 3rd grade. Kids see everything, and hold the sorrow.
Rick Seiden 5 months ago
This is one of those moments, like 9/11, that you remember where you were, what you were doing, and it divides your life into before and after. I was home from school (11th grade US) on a snow day, cleaning under my bed. My sister called me out to see it. I remember they stuck microphones in the face of the family of Christa McAuliffe asking how they felt. The "announcer" said, "obviously a major malfunction." Yah think?
Lupita Nyong'heaux 5 months ago
they shoulda punched whoever asked that in the face and said, "that's how we feel, a*****e."
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Angela Corvaia 5 months ago
They stopped school and had all of us watch such a historic moment…we didn’t know what was going to happen and we all keep it
Cydney Golden 5 months ago
I felt so bad for all the school children (and teachers) watching in their classrooms.
jasper 5 months ago
I was watching it on tv while getting ready for work. I actually fell on my knees. I works at an Air Force base at the time, no one knew about it yet, when I got to work. I had them turn on the tv. About 5 minutes later the base went into lockdown because no one knew yet what caused the explosion. Very surreal. Like 9/11.
#41
Hippy High School Fashion In The 1960s
Cyndi Hafele 5 months ago
The next time you see an 80ish year old woman and think she's just an old fuddy duddy that doesn't know c**p about c**p, remember, she was once this vibrant, sexual, glorious creature. She knows lots of stuff.
Marianne Grann 5 months ago
True - I was dressed like that in the 60’ties and in to the 70’ties and also in hot pants.
Crissy Newbury 5 months ago
Not my high school. You would be sent home because your skirt was too short. 66-68
#42
In 1974, Japanese Photographer Masahisa Fukase Photographed His Wife, Yōko Wanibe, Every Morning From The Window Of Their Apartment In Tokyo As She Left For Work
Ni Na 5 months ago
Not really sweet when you hear how she described his obsession with photographing her, just like he did his first wife who he photographed miscarrying. “In the 10 years that we lived together, he only looked at me through the lens of a camera, and the photographs he took of me were unmistakably depictions of himself” Fukase confessed in 1982, he became plagued by the paradox of “being with others just to photograph them “there were moments of stifling dullness, interspersed with violent and almost s******l outbursts of excitement”
#43
This Is A Photo Of A British Veteran Of The Napoleonic Wars Posing With His Wife. He Can Be Seen Wearing A Campaign Medal, Commemorating The Fact That He Served In Spain
Ace 5 months ago
Well yeah, if he fought in the Napoleonic wars, although I guess it's just possible he was at Waterloo (1815) as a 16 year old. Anyway, from Instagram "It’s a big assumption that he fought in Spain - he has a 5 clap Military General Service Medal. Of the 29 claps created for the medal, 17 were for actions outside of Spain; 10 for actions outside of the Iberian Peninsula. He certainly fought Napoleon and it’s a fantastic picture."
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jasper 5 months ago
Here's what I found: Rosanna “Rose” Belben Maidment Birth Nov 1775 Child Okeford, North Dorset District, Dorset, England Death 11 Jan 1857 (aged 81) Pimperne, North Dorset District, Dorset, England Burial St Peters Churchyard Pimperne, North Dorset District, Dorset, England Daughter of MARY BELBEN. She was baptised on 12th November, 1775 at Child Okeford, Dorset. She married HENRY MAIDMENT at Child Okeford on 27th January, 1808. They do not appear to have had any children. She died at her home in Priors Lane. Cause of death was "dropsy", which she had suffered from for a number of years. Her death was registered on 14th Jan, 1857 by her husband Henry.
MygrandsonscallmeNia 5 months ago
He looks like he doesn't want to be there, and she looks like she's miffed at somebody! LoL
#44
On September 11, 2001, Gary Box, A 35-Year-Old Firefighter Stationed In Brooklyn, Vanished Without Leaving Any Trace
Cronecast AtTheRisingMoon 5 months ago
This one has such a heart wrenching story behind it, it took ten years for this photo to surface and it was the first clue his family had of what happened. Box is headed towards the towers a car with blown out tires was blocking the tunnel. A business traveler snapped this and it finally gave his family some closure. http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/09/10/september.11.photo/index.html
Lupita Nyong'heaux 5 months ago
i read the article and i'm glad the family got some kinda closure, i guess. but we still don't know what actually happened to him, and i think that would haunt me.
Load More Replies... Renaissance man 5 months ago
Unfortunately many people will never heard of or found. When you have hundreds of thousands of pounds of concrete hitting the human body, it can be ground to dust.
#45
In 2018, Researchers Excavating White Sands National Park In New Mexico Uncovered A 1.5-Kilometre Trail Of 427 Ice-Age Footprints
Most Belong To A Young Woman Who Appears To Have Been Walking Quickly Across The Mudflats Of A Long-Vanished Lake About 10,000 Years Ago.
Apatheist Account2 5 months ago
1500 m, 427 prints - slightly less than 1 every 3 metres. Must have been running, not walking.
Surly Scot 5 months ago
Found in 2009, thought to be 10,000years old. Retested in 2021, found to be 23,000 years old, disproving the Bering Strait theory.
Pyla 5 months ago
No it doesn’t. It just means earlier crossing. And probably use of boats.
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Norm Gilmore 5 months ago
Because people with considerable amount of knowledge and experience are able to sort this stuff out better than people who sit behind a keypad who "dun my resurch"...
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#46
In 1985, At The Age Of 30, Sharbat Gula Became The Face Of National Geographic's Most Iconic Photograph
General Anaesthesia 5 months ago
Yes, born 1972, picture published 1985. Thirty, thirteen, shrug, it's only history /s
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Kira Okah 5 months ago
She was given residence in Afghanistan in 2017, but had to be evacuated in 2021 because her fame as Afghan Girl put her at risk of being targeted by the returning Taliban. She now lives as a refugee in Italy.
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Iconic image you never forget... Ms Gula looks equally haunted in her adult picture. Hope she's found some peace in Italy.
Foxglove🇮🇪 5 months ago
She was Afghan, living in a refugee camp in Pakistan. National Geographic tracked her down in 2002 and paid for medical treatment for her family. 35 years after her arrival in Pakistan, she was deported for having "false documents"; she has since been granted asylum in Italy.
Multa Nocte 5 months ago
"Portrait taken by American photojournalist Steve McCurry" - Wikipedia.
Salty Wild Hair 5 months ago
In 1984 when the photograph was taken, she was 12. The photo on the right was when she was 30 years old, taken in 2002. Later, she immigrated to Italy where she lives today with her family.
MygrandsonscallmeNia 5 months ago
I've seen this picture circulate for years. I've always wondered what she looks like after she grew up. She still has beautiful eyes....
#47
N American Marine Tries To Communicate With Two Japanese Child Soldiers Captured On Okinawa, June 1945
Marlene Ricker 5 months ago
That is just disgusting. There should never be such a thing as child soldiers.
Rich Black 5 months ago
surprising that the nation didn't rise up and overturn their government, when 10 years olds were sent to fight in the war.
IntombiyoMzulu 5 months ago
These are babies! Seriously what is wrong with us! And we never learn.
#48
The Absolutely Massive Chain For The Titanic’s Anchor, C. 1909
Michael Largey 5 months ago
An anchor allows a ship to remain at a single location. That turned out not to be a challenge.
Anonymouse 5 months ago
Cool Fact - The Titanic's swimming pools are STILL full of water, to this day!
Eastendbird 5 months ago
Thoroughly recommend a visit to the Titanic museum in Belfast if you're ever visiting the city.
me McG 5 months ago
Flava Flav says its not the size of the chain that matters. FlavaFlav-...08-png.jpg 
#49
A German Child Meets His Father, A World War II Soldier, For The First Time 1956
UKGrandad 5 months ago
Whoever wrote the title didn't do much checking. The child met *her* father.
Jamie Peterson 5 months ago
Grammar. Spell Check. Yes, it still matters. To some of us!
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Bookworm 5 months ago
She looks terrified. Doing a slow introduction privately probably would have been better for her.
Verena 5 months ago (edited)
The photo was taken on 9 October 1955, at Camp Friedland in Western Germany by Helmuth Pirath. The sequence of this family consists of 5 photos. This one was World Press Photo winner of the year 1956 and Photo Stories 1st prize, more information about the photo here: https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo-contest/1956/helmuth-pirath-pst/2 (edited for more information)
G A 5 months ago
War ended 45. If he was in prison til 56 that's 11 years, that kid doesn't look nearly 12....
Pittsburgh rare 5 months ago
I teach ages 10-17ish. Some kids look very childish until late 13-14
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Spanish Archaeologist Manuel Esteve Wearing A Corinthian Helmet He Found In Jeréz, Spain (1938)
LinkTheHylian 5 months ago
You'd smoke too if you had to live through WWII and escape the Nazis.
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#51
Acrobat From The Ringling-Barnum And Bailey Circus, From Kodachrome Slides, From The Mid 1940s To 1950s
#52
Mount St. Helens Erupts In 1980
The Majestic Opossum 5 months ago
Wow... I hope the photographer made it out safely (I assume since the photo was recovered).
Serena Myers 5 months ago
I think the photographer was Robert Landsburg? He put the film under his body, and it was recovered later. As usual, correct me if wrong.
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Altamura Man Is One Of The Most Complete Neanderthal Skeletons Ever Found. His Fossilized Bones Still Lie At The Bottom Of A Sinkhole Near Altamura In Southern Italy, Where He Likely Fell And Starved More Than 130,000 Years Ago
#54
The Discovery Of The Ancient Statue Of Antinous Found In Delphi, Greece During An Excavation In 1894 (Colorized)
#55
An American Soldier In Vietnam Holds Up A Scolopendra Subspinipes, A Species Of Giant Centipede Found Throughout Asia
Cathleen Cummings 5 months ago
They are still quite big -- can be over 8 inches.
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#57
Lo Manh Hung A Child Photo Journalist Of The Vietnam War, 1968
#58
French Knife Grinders Were Called Ventres Jaunes (“Yellow Bellies” In English) Because Of The Yellow Dust That Would Be Released From The Grinding Wheel
Pink kitty 5 months ago
Wonder how much longer they lived after inhaling all that dust continuously?
5 months ago (edited)
They worked lying down to save their backs, and had dogs sit on their legs for warmth and company.
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A Cat Nestled In A Carrier During An Air Raid, 1941
#60
Gasoline Prices In 1955
Teachzebra 5 months ago
That’s about $2.50 today. Gas has always been roughly the same price. The only unusually high periods were the early 70s and mid 2000s. The only unusually inexpensive time was the late 90s.
Michael Largey 5 months ago (edited)
Few businesses are so open about their costs and pricing.
#61
Times Square In 1957
kaycee14 5 months ago
That's not Times Square. That triangular building is the Flat Iron Building at the intersection of Broadway, 5th Ave., and 23rd St. The photo was taken looking downtown along 5th. AVE.
Allison Ricketts 5 months ago
Nope. The street sign says W. 47th Street. It’s Times Square and that is the Times building.
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Harry Gondalf 5 months ago
I prefer the Flatiron building in this view, not as a 20-storey led billboard
#62
Housewife Poses With A Weeks’ Worth Of Groceries In 1947. She Spent A Total Of $12.50 (Not Including Milk) To Buy Her Groceries
Day Andie 5 months ago
Probably had milk delivered. Eggs too, unless she had a couple chickens. Probably was either getting most of her vegies from a garden, or if in winter, her home canned produce. Looks like celery was the only 'exotic' vegie she had to buy. There's five pounds of sugar, but she probably had a 20 pound sack of flour at home for baked goods. Can't tell if that's three loaves of bread on the right side of the photo or not. She'd still be baking biscuits, cakes, making gravy, etc. Probably a easy a $150 now sitting there with her.
Wild Cream 5 months ago (edited)
Wow. Every time I go to the grocery store it somehow ends up being $100 😅
Crissy Newbury 5 months ago
No fresh vegetables except a couple of skinny celery bunches and some radishes. Maybe a lettuce? Not particularly healthy.
#63
Family On A Cross-Country Roadtrip In Their Station Wagon, 1964
Upstaged75 5 months ago
We had an awesome one when I was a kid. The iconic wood paneled one with rear facing seats in the trunk area. I loved that thing!
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LooseSeal's $10 Banana 5 months ago
Back when people had the freedom to move about the car instead of being tied down by an oppressive government. /s
Mary Tonningsen 5 months ago
I remember those long trips in our station wagon. My mom seemed to fall asleep the instant the engine started. I was carsick the whole time, and my brother and sister would fight. Poor dad was the most patient man in the world!
Crissy Newbury 5 months ago
Yup. Travelled from Amarillo to Lawton OK each summer in the back of a Rambler.
#64
Photo Of An Ironworker During Construction Of The Columbia Tower, Seattle, 1984
E2U&U2 5 months ago
What was he supposed to be doing? He's not anchored to anything; he doesn't seem to have equipment. How did he get up there? How did he get down?
Mike F 5 months ago
Well, someone is in front of him to take the photo so perhaps there's a crane?
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#66
Historydefined 1w In May Of 1861, 9 Year Old John Lincoln "Johnny" Clem Ran Away From His Home In Newark, Ohio, To Join The Union Army
Fred L. 5 months ago
As a drummer boy, though he was not accepted first. When the picture was made he was at least 12.
Load More Replies... T'Mar of Vulcan 5 months ago
Well, my dad ran away from home in 1941 when he was 13 and joined the army. His father went and brought him back. Dad finally joined at 15 and was deployed to Egypt and Europe (mostly Italy) at the tail-end of WW II.
#67
Life In The 1910s America. 20% Of Adults Could Not Read Or Write And Only 6% Of Americans Had Graduated From High School
RS 5 months ago
Been going that direction for a long time. Functioning illiterates are everywhere.
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#68
A Baseball Team Of Death-Row Inmates. Their Executions Were Delayed Only As Long As They Kept Winning, C. 1911
Fred L. 5 months ago (edited)
Apparently he is not, just the mascot. The son of the manager/prison warden (Wyoming State Pen.). Meanwhile the text is wrong, most were not on the death row and eventually were released.
Load More Replies... Kira Okah 5 months ago (edited)
Well that caption is bs. This is the Wyoming State Penitentiary All Stars - the team existed for one year, they only played four games total against a single setup team, only one person was on death row from the list I have (Joseph Seng), Seng wasn't fighting for his life (that was a rumour promulgated to get people to watch), and he was hanged in 1912 for the whole first degree murdering someone that he was in for. The rest were either freed because they served their sentence, freed because they were granted parole, one dude was pardoned, and one dude successfully escaped.
Norm Gilmore 5 months ago
Thanks. I knew that had to be strange and unusual punishment even for then :-) Unfortunately once a false headline is online it becomes impossible to remove or stop it spreading and contaminating future searches.
Load More Replies... Apatheist Account2 5 months ago
Imagine being under the catch at the end of the game - drop it and you die. No pressure...
#69
The 1921 Boxing Match Between Jack Dempsey And Georges Carpentier Drew A Record-Breaking Crowd Of Around 90,000
Boyle’s Thirty Acres In Jersey City, New Jersey. The Largest Sporting Event In U.S. History At The Time.
Nicole Weymann 5 months ago
"The back" beginning roughly at row 20, I'm guessing - so out of 90 000 spectators at least 88 000 couldn't see shít. I doubt I'd relish the bragging rights that "I WAS THERE!!" if the follow up was something like "...and my most vivid memory is how that guy in front of me stepped on my corns for the second time"
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The Twin Towers From A Wheat Field In Manhattan
Taylor's Ferry 5 months ago
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/wheatfield-manhattan-1982/
Load More Replies... Nicole Weymann 5 months ago
For the next 20 people asking (as I was): apparently it was an art project. "A wheat field" implied to me that they were a regular sight in the 1989s in Manhattan. They were not.
Taylor's Ferry 5 months ago
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/wheatfield-manhattan-1982/
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https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/wheatfield-manhattan-1982/
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A Young Private Waits On The Beach During The Marine Landing At Da Nang, 1965
James Twong 5 months ago
Trump never mentioned Vietnam when he was bragging about how great the US military is. This guy must either be a 'sucker' or a 'loser'.
axle f 5 months ago
...how the hell a cowardly draft dodger gets the NERVE to criticize brave young men and women ..🤬🤬🤬🤬
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#72
At Just 16, Robin Lee Graham Departed From California On A Solo Voyage To Sail Around The World
Serena Myers 5 months ago
At age sixteen, Graham sailed alone from California to Hawaii on July 21, 1965. He continued heading west in his 24-foot sloop. He was originally given two kittens for company (Joliette and Suzette), and kept two or three cats throughout the entire journey (ending his travels with Kili, Pooh, and Piglet). He married along the way and, after almost five years, ended his journey in Los Angeles. He and his wife, Patti Ratterree, briefly attended Stanford University, then settled in Montana. Source: Wiki.
Faramir10 5 months ago
I read his autobiography. Robin wasn't doing too well in school and had already skipped school to go sailing. Robin really wanted to to something like this, so they let him.
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Princess Grace Of Monaco Visiting Jfk At The White House, 1961
Ben Aziza 5 months ago
I think it is her perpetual "meerkat" look. Not an insult just an observation XD
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British Infantryman In 1941 With A Long Wwi-Style Bayonet Affixed To His Rifle
#75
A Man Begging For His Wife’s Forgiveness Inside Divorce Court. Chicago, Ca. 1948
[>.<]/ 5 months ago
Maybe he's begging because she is the one with the money.
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Bruce Lee's Workout Routine From The 1960s
StPaul9 5 months ago
Thank you for saying this is Bruce Lee's routine. BP censored his name on the sheet.
UKGrandad 5 months ago
Because it says "Bruce Lee. Séx M'. Can't be having our delicate eyes exposed to séx.
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#77
"Tragedy By The Sea" By John L. Gaunt. A Couple Is Photographed Moments After Learning That Their 19-Month-Old Child Had Been Swept Out To Sea (Hermosa Beach, California 1954)
Cronecast AtTheRisingMoon 5 months ago
Yikes, so the story is really sad. It’s not clear if Gaunt understood that he was photographing people whose child was missing. The photo won a Pulitzer. Those poor people and the poor woman who eventually pulled the poor little boys body out of the water a mile away, twelve days later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_by_the_Sea
#78
Different Angle Of The Meeting Of Sophia Loren And Jayne Mansfield In 1957
basmilko 5 months ago
While she has her father's coloring, if you look at their faces, Mariska Hargitay looks exactly like her mother Jayne.
Bartlet for world domination 5 months ago
I think she looks like both her parents. https://www.vintag.es/2022/05/nelson-sardelli-and-jayne-mansfield.html
Load More Replies... Mike F 5 months ago
I initially thought that was the pic when I first scrolled down.
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Five Broadway Show Girls In A “Spaghetti Swooshing” Contest In Which They Had To Eat A Plate Of Spaghetti With Red Sauce Without Using Their Hands, 1948
Motivated sloth 5 months ago (edited)
I would be the one that immediately got sauce on my forehead
#80
On September 25, 2000, 19-Year-Old Kevin Hines Attempted To Take His Own Life By Jumping Off The Golden Gate Bridge. Remarkably, He Survived This Harrowing Fall
Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 5 months ago (edited)
On Monday, September 25, 2000, Hines traveled by bus to the Golden Gate Bridge. ABC News reported Hines began hearing voices in his head telling him to die. Hines threw himself over the rail. After leaping, Hines instantly felt regret. He turned himself around to land in the water legs first. Hines says that after he surfaced, a sea lion helped to keep him afloat until he was rescued by the Coast Guard.[10][11] Hines tells his story to at-risk groups around the nation and urges people to get treatment for mental illness to help them realize that s*****e is not the answer.As of 2018, he was working as a mental-health advocate. (From Wikipedia)
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Serena Myers 5 months ago
Thank you. These were interesting, and a refreshing change from the AITA and Karen(s) on planes copy/paste, Kornelija!
Su Boddie 5 months ago
I think it's sad that, of all the emotions and thoughts these pictures evoke, all the writer ('bot?) could come up with as a description was "weird things about history". All the newsworthy events from 1949 on are a part of my history; from 1959 on, a part of my memories. None of these ever struck me as "weird".
Forrest Hobbs 5 months ago
Some I've seen before, some I haven't - but all interesting. Thank you.
Cindy Brick 5 months ago
Thanks so much - this is the stuff that BP should be featuring regularly!
Baba Caine 5 months ago
BP posting unchecked and random c**p as can be bothered to research the pics they steal from other sites, just 2 mins and would found the true facts about 70% of pics they threw up
Serena Myers 5 months ago
Thank you. These were interesting, and a refreshing change from the AITA and Karen(s) on planes copy/paste, Kornelija!
Su Boddie 5 months ago
I think it's sad that, of all the emotions and thoughts these pictures evoke, all the writer ('bot?) could come up with as a description was "weird things about history". All the newsworthy events from 1949 on are a part of my history; from 1959 on, a part of my memories. None of these ever struck me as "weird".
Forrest Hobbs 5 months ago
Some I've seen before, some I haven't - but all interesting. Thank you.
Cindy Brick 5 months ago
Thanks so much - this is the stuff that BP should be featuring regularly!
Baba Caine 5 months ago
BP posting unchecked and random c**p as can be bothered to research the pics they steal from other sites, just 2 mins and would found the true facts about 70% of pics they threw up
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