20 Fascinating Photos Collected from History
Nathan Johnson
Published
03/10/2020
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Amazing pictures from all parts of the past to help expand the way you see history.
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Forging the chain for the Titanic's anchor, 1910 -
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A Red Army veteran confronting an anti-communist protester in the USSR, circa 1990. -
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The Pichincha volcano erupts near the Ecuadorean capital of Quito, launching ash 54,000 feet into the sky that would then cover the city like a fog for days. 7 October 1999 -
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Artillerymen of the Kentucky National Guard's 1st Battalion, 623rd Field Artillery Regiment wave the Confederate battle flag on their M110 self-propelled howitzer during the Persian Gulf War, circa 1991. -
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Yolanda Kloppers, Miss South Africa aims m1911 pistol while visiting the troops of the Rhodesian army,Rhodesia,1970s. -
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Pablo Escobar (right) poses as a gangster in Las Vegas, next to his cousin Gustavo Gaviria in the 1980s -
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Marilyn Monroe performing for the thousands of American troops in Korea. (1954) -
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Soldiers paying tribute to 8 million horses and mules that died during WW1. 1915 -
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A picture of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and his (first) wife Jane. Taken in the 1960’s. -
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Jeanne Bauer walks with a DynaTAC mobile phone on 6th Avenue in New York, accompanied by John Mitchell, the Motorola engineer behind the phone. (1973) Mobile phone. -
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Victorian Houses moving in San Francisco, 1973 -
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B-25 laying down a smoke screen in the South Pacific. Late-1944. -
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Jan. 27, 1967: L to R, astronauts Roger Chaffee, Edward White II, and Virgil Grissom, practice for their launch test in the Apollo Mission Simulator at Cape Kennedy, FL. During a launch pad test, a flash fire erupted inside their capsule killing the three Apollo crew members -
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Chinese soldiers desperately throwing rocks at incoming South Koreans after they ran out of ammunition during the Battle of Triangle Hill, November 1951. -
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The largest passenger ship in the world, White Star Line's RMS Olympic, arrives in New York at the end of her maiden voyage, 21 June 1911 -
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Celebrating 4th of July on Nantasket Beach in Hull, Mass. in 1920. -
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Infantrymen pose for a photograph on the Great Sphinx, at Giza, in Egypt. March, 1920. -
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Some of Hitler’s Youth parading in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium (June 20, 1938). -
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Americans push helicopters overboard for more space on the flight deck during the withdrawal from Vietnam and the fall of Saigon, 1975. -
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New York police officer fires his .38 service revolver at almost point-blank range into a piece of bulletproof glass, with test subject behind it, 1931.
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