Artist uses paint brushes to recreate the lunar surface on each of four models comprising the Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach simulator (LOLA) built at Langley to study problems related to landing on the lunar surface of the moon and for astronauts to practice in a simulator, 1960’s

Soldiers from the U.S. 45th and 42nd Divisions arrived at Dachau camp, near Munich, on April 29, 1945. Investigators later concluded that vengeful GIs gunned down at least twenty-eight SS guards after they had surrendered

110 Years Ago Today, The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York City kills 146 garment workers, mostly women, due to a lack of safety regulations. The public nature of the victims’ deaths (most died by jumping to death) led to sweeping safety reforms.

U.S. soldier: Sgt. Ronald Payne, 21, of Atlanta, Georgia, emerges from a Viet Cong tunnel while holding a silencer-equipped revolver, January 21, 1967

A British couple sleeps inside a “Morrison shelter” used as protection from collapsing homes during the WWII ‘Blitz’ bombing raids… March 1941

A priest administers last rites to Laurence Duggan, WWII State Dept Head, Soviet spy, after he jumped from the window of his Manhattan office in December 1948.

Soviet pilot Victor Radkevitch gestures as he tells his fellow pilots how he forced a German Luftwaffe airplane down behind Soviet lines, USSR, January 1942

Neil Armstrong eating his last breakfast on Earth before leaving for the moon (July 1969)

North Korean founder Kim-Il Sung had a baseball sized tumor on the back of his head. North Korean propaganda officials had all photos taken of him from the left side. This is one of the few candid photos of the tumor.

Early 1900’s fireman suit for the fireman to get closer to the fire

A woman that survived the Nagasaki bombing – 1945

Southern Cheyenne village in Wyoming (1880)

George Lincoln Rockwell (far right) with American Nazi party members, including the man that later killed him, John Patler (kneeling, left), and their Volkswagen hate bus in Virginia, 1961

American soldier wearing the crown of the Holy Roman Empire in a cave in Siegen, Germany, on April 3, 1945

The funeral procession for Abraham Lincoln after his assassination on April 15th, 1861. A young Teddy Roosevelt watches the procession from the open second story window in the left of the photo

Orson Welles explaining to journalists that he had not intended to cause panic with his ‘War of the Worlds’ broadcast. 1938