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20 Fascinating Photos Collected From History

History is more interesting than we will ever know.

By Nathan Johnson

Published 9 years ago in Wow

History is more interesting than we will ever know.

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1
Jesse Owens crosses the finish line in Berlin to win the 100-meter sprint August 3 1936

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2
The identification card of Anny Horowitz, a French Jewish girl murdered in Auschwitz, 1940

3
German Panzerkampfwagen 38(t) tank neatly shot through the barrel – Belarus 1941
4
Heavyweight Boxing Champ Jack Johnson & wife, 1910s

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5
Ty Cobb “sliding” into home – 1920
6
Citizen Kane premiere, 1941
7
A thylacine or ‘Tasmanian tiger’ in captivity, circa 1930. The last thylacine died in captivity in 1936

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8
Disneyland’s “Rocket to the Moon”, 1967
9
Typical grocery store queue in Vilnius (the capital of current Lithuania), 1990, USSR consumer goods shortage
10
Newly liberated inmates at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp chase down and beat a former kapo (a prisoner assigned by the SS guards to supervise forced labor in the camp). Kapos were picked for their brutality towards fellow prisoners and received additional privileges, 16 April 1945.

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11
Salvador Dalí on a carriage drawn by his goat, 1953.
12
U.S. military authorities prepare to hang Dr. Klaus Karl Schilling, 74, at Landsberg, Germany, on May 28, 1946. He used 1200 Dachau prisoner’s for a malaria experiment.
13
Carving George Washington into Mount Rushmore – 1932

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14
Alcatraz Prison Menu from 1946
15
Trench Warfare. Photo taken by an official British photographer during WWI, 1917
16
Vietnam War 1965

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17
Arthritis-ridden Renoir painting flowers at his garden, circa 1910’s
18
Monopoly board created by POWs held captive in the Philippines by the Japanese during WWII
19
Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County, built in 1874

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20
Marshland in front of the Lincoln Memorial, near the Potomac River, in 1917. Work is underway to turn this site into the 2,000-foot-long reflecting pool.
21
Serial killer John Wayne Gacy poses with First Lady Roslynn Carter. This picture would become an embarrassment for the Secret Service as the pin Gacy is wearing indicates security clearance. 1978

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