These really provide a different perspective of the past. We have a tendency to think of
,a href="https://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/15-history-facts-to-blow-your-mind/86331623/" target="_blank">history as a static moment in time, forgetting that history is first *lived,* then recorded. There were infinite moments that led up to that one picture you've seen a thousand times, and there are also a thousand pictures you've never seen before. It's fascinating stuff!
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Japanese girls training in 1945 for the anticipated invasion of mainland Japan
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Tthe youngest soldier in WW1 was Momčilo Gavrić who joined the Serbian army as an 8 year old when his parents, grandmother, 3 sisters and 4 brothers were killed by Austro-Hungarian soldiers. He was later promoted to Corporal and again later to Lance Sergeant when he was 10 years old
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In 1880s, a baboon worked as a signalman for 9 years on South African RailRoad. He was paid 20 cents a day and half a bottle of beer weekly and never made a mistake. He died in 1890 due to tuberculosis.
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A Protest by Students 10 Days Before the Tiananmen Square Massacre May 25, 1989
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Shot taken moments before the famous Iwo Jima picture. 1945 – colorized
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Orient Saloon at Bisbee, Arizona, circa 1900. Faro game in full blast.
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A group of frontiersmen with an advertisement. United States, Montana, 1901
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CIA agent Felix Rodriguez (left) and Bolivian soldiers pose with Che Guevara moments before his execution. Bolivia, 9 October 1967
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The British airship R33 in its hangar as it prepares for its first-ever flight at an aerodrome in Barlow, Yorkshire. 1919
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Filming an episode of “The French Chef” with Julia Child, 1963
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Richard Flaherty (far right) at 4’9″, he was the shortest man to serve in the Vietnam war. He was a captain in the 101st airborne division, he was noted for bravery and got a silver star, 2 purple hearts and bronze stars. taken in 1968
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A woman adjusting her stockings by the light of a Goodyear illuminated tire, 1961
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Harvard report card for one “Roosevelt, Franklin Delano,” class of ’04
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Northumbrian miner at his evening meal, 1937.
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The musicians of the RMS Titanic. They played music, intending to calm the passengers, for as long as they possibly could. All perished when the ship sank in 1912. All were recognized for their heroism.
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Queen Genepil (1905-1938), the last queen of Mongolia.
