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17 Fascinating Photos From Our Fascinating World

Interesting images from mankind's storied past.

By Nathan Johnson

Published 8 years ago in Wow

Interesting images from mankind's storied past.

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A grief stricken American infantryman is comforted by another soldier in the Haktong-ni area, Korea, August 28 1950.

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Mussolini and Hitler attempt a handshake.

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Members of the Red Warriors – a Paris street gang that used violent force to remove neo-Nazis from France in the mid-late 1980s.

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“I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.” – Sophia Loren, 1965.

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Johnny Cash’s to-do list sold at auction for over $6,000.

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An Indian ascetic wearing an iron collar around his neck so that he can never lie down 1870s.

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Until the 1960s, Australian Aborigines fell under the Flora and Fauna Act, classifying them as animals.

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At New York’s Penn Station in 1944, a private moment repeated in public millions of times over the course of the war: a guy, a girl, a goodbye – and no assurance that he’ll make it back.

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Ernesto “Che” Guevara after his execution – Bolivia – October 9, 1967

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David Isom, 19 years old, bravely broke the color line in a segregated pool in Florida on June 8, 1958, which resulted in officials closing the facility.

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Two Moons, one of the Cheyenne chiefs who took part in the Battle of the Little Bighorn against the United States Army, 1910

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Under British military escort, two captured Luftwaffe crewmen walk out of the London Underground, 1940

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American troops on board a landing craft heading for the beaches at Oran in Algeria during Operation ‘Torch’, November 1942

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The English football team give the Nazi salute in front of 110,000 spectators, including Goering, Hess and Goebbels, ahead of their game against Germany at the Olympiastadion, Berlin. May, 1938

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An exhausted trader at the end of the worst day in stock market history, “Black Monday”, October 19, 1987. After “Black Monday”, stock exchanges instituted circuit breakers, or trading pauses, when there are large declines.

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The morning after the first battle of Passendale, 1917.

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Breakfast for the Apollo astronauts, 1969.

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