15 Fascinating Photos From History That Have An Interesting Story
The past has so much to teach us. Let's take a trip.
Published 8 years ago in Wow
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An unknown performer, known as one of the Ziegfeld Girls, posing for an artistically sexy picture in 1922. Most of the girls did similar pictures to promote the theatrical Broadway revue spectaculars known as the Ziegfeld Follies in NYC, US from 1907-1931. Those pictures are some of the most tastefully sexy vintage pictures I have ever seen. Being a Ziegfeld Girl was a highly desired job, as the girls needed to be excellent singers, dancers, be physically strong, sexy, seductive but also graceful for the productions. They were paid alongside top female movie stars of the time, before the show ran its course. 2 Films even sprung up from their popularity after they ended.
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Passengers on a train traveling from Tokyo to Osaka go through three minutes of calisthenics under leadership of a drill master, during a five-minute stopover at Hammamatsu in 1952. This unusual service was set up to help travelers on the long journey limber up at the station which is about half way between the two cities. There is even music for the exercises, and a platform for the drill master.
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A crown gathers to watch the hanging of Murderous Mary in Erwin, Tennessee, US in 1916. A little hard to tell, but Mary is in the center of the photo, and is in fact a circus elephant. After years of abuse, she killed her trainer, and the population nearby to the circus at the time decided to have the poor creature hanged. There is a rather uncomfortably shocking aftermath picture as well.
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Miss NASA 1971 posing on the Apollo 8 capsule in Houston, Texas, US in 1971. Apparently NASA held a beauty pageant for many years from the 1950s until the late 1970s to try and get more people interested in the program. They originally had other titles such as Miss Guided Missile and Miss Jet Propulsion before becoming just Miss NASA in the late 1960s.
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A regiment of black soldiers, known as Buffalo Soldiers, guard captured Spanish soldiers after their victory at the Battle of Santiago in Cuba in 1898. The war made future US president Teddy Roosevelt a war hero, but people sometimes forget the huge role the Buffalo Soldiers played, being in major battles and achieving key victories.
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2 Men in protective gear have a match in the Olympic Event of Pistol Dueling at the 1906 Olympics in Athens, Greece. They used wax bullets, and competed with speed and accuracy being the key, similar to old west shootouts that most of us have seen heavily exaggerated in films. No gun powder, just the primer, which was enough to propel the wax bullet. This Olympic event, as one might guess, did not take off.
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