23 Captivating Historical Images
Joey Lamb
Published
04/23/2015
Fascinating photos from the past...
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A happy chimp holding a newspaper after surviving his trip to space. -
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A man testing a prototype football helmet. -
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A mother and her child in Las Vegas watching the nuclear testing just 75km away... -
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Children without access to water learn to swim in a schoolyard. -
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Every time a plane landed on the wrong carrier, it was tradition to graffiti it before sending it back. -
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German soldiers of war execute a communist in Munich, 1919. -
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Ilse Koch, 'The Bitch of Buchenwald', in captivity. Her atrocities involved making human skin lampshades. -
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Image of "Loana the Bloodthirster", who died in 1909. It is purported her death was from the drinking of her own blood. -
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Moody Jacobs shows a giant bruise on the side his patient, Ann Hodges, after she became the only person in history to have been struck by a meteorite. -
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Morgan Freeman sporting an afro in one of his first television roles. -
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Russian slave laborer among prisoners liberated by 3rd Armored Division points out fromer Nazi guard who brutally beat prisoners. Germany, April 14, 1945 -
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Shooting practice for German soldiers in 1935. -
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Socialist Politician Asanuma as he was assasinated by 17-year old Yamaguchi in Tokyo, 1960. -
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Steve Buscemi during his days as a New York firefighter. -
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The great class divide in Great Britain before World War Two. -
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The last ever public execution in the United States, 1936. -
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The original prototype of Mt. Rushmore in 1941- this was before funding ran out. -
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The severe effects of shell shock, what we now know as PTSD, on a WWI soldier. -
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The Telefontornet, which connected 5,000 phone lines in Stockholm. -
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This is a Punt Gun- used for duck hunting, it had the potential to kill 50 birds in one fell swoop- it was banned it the late 1860's. -
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Tommy Lee Jones in his senior year at St. Mark's School of Texas. -
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U.S. intelligence produce fits of what Hitler may look like if he was going into hiding. -
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Little Girl With Her Doll Sitting In The Ruins Of Her Bombed Home, London, 1940
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