16 Fascinating Photos Collected From History
Nathan Johnson
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02/01/2018
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Interesting images and events that help bring the past to life.
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The Soviets opening the gates of the Auschwitz concentration camp after liberating it exactly 73 years ago. January 27, 1945 -
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Hungarian SS guards, exhausted from their forced labour clearing the bodies of the dead at Bergen-Belsen, are allowed a brief rest by British soldiers but are forced to take it by lying face down in one of the empty mass graves, 1945 -
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French WW1 Trench, 1915 -
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is attacked by States Rights Party member Jimmy Robinson as King tries to register at the Hotel Albert in Selma, Alabama, on January 18, 1965. -
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Martin Luther King Jr. being welcomed to Chicago’s Marquette Park, 1966 -
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Assembling the sports section of the New York Times, 1942 -
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George Herman “Babe” Ruth (Top row, center) at St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys, Baltimore, Maryland, 1912. -
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A Vietnamese policeman attempts to put out the fire as a Buddhist monk burns to death in front of Saigon’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, Oct. 27, 1963 by Horst Faas -
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Using a two-horn listening device at Bolling Field in Washington, D.C., in 1921 before the invention of radar, to listen for distant aircraft. -
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The Beginning Of The Eiffel Tower -
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The hellish mines of the 1980s Brazillian gold rush -
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German civilians are forced to walk past the bodies of 30 Jewish women starved to death by German SS troops in a 500-kilometre march across Czechoslovakia, May 11, 1945 -
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The Avengers, The Jews who planned to kill German SS after the War. 1946 -
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An FBI agent, wearing only a pair of swim trunks, per the hijackers’ instructions, carries a case containing a $1 million ransom to the opened door of a hijacked Delta DC8 jet in Miami. The jet later took off for Algeria -
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The first public demonstration of a computer mouse, graphical user interface, windowed computing, hypertext and word processing, 1968 -
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The Dalai Lama (age 4) being enthroned as the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, February 22, 1940
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