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20 Fascinating Photos Collected from History

Amazing pictures from all parts of the past to help expand the way you see history.

By Nathan Johnson

Published 5 years ago in Wow

Amazing pictures from all parts of the past to help expand the way you see history.

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1
Forging the chain for the Titanic's anchor, 1910

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2
A Red Army veteran confronting an anti-communist protester in the USSR, circa 1990.

3
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
4
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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5
Yolanda Kloppers, Miss South Africa aims m1911 pistol while visiting the troops of the Rhodesian army,Rhodesia,1970s.
6
Pablo Escobar (right) poses as a gangster in Las Vegas, next to his cousin Gustavo Gaviria in the 1980s
7
Marilyn Monroe performing for the thousands of American troops in Korea. (1954)

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8
Soldiers paying tribute to 8 million horses and mules that died during WW1. 1915
9
A picture of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and his (first) wife Jane. Taken in the 1960’s.
10
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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11
Victorian Houses moving in San Francisco, 1973
12
B-25 laying down a smoke screen in the South Pacific. Late-1944.
13
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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14
Chinese soldiers desperately throwing rocks at incoming South Koreans after they ran out of ammunition during the Battle of Triangle Hill, November 1951.
15
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
16
Celebrating 4th of July on Nantasket Beach in Hull, Mass. in 1920.

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17
Infantrymen pose for a photograph on the Great Sphinx, at Giza, in Egypt. March, 1920.
18
Some of Hitler’s Youth parading in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium (June 20, 1938).
19
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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20
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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