Thanks to the invention of
photography last week by a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, we can now see moments in ancient history without having to travel back in time and experience them in person. It's truly incredible. These newfangled
"photographs" show old stuff that happened before you were born. Their subjects include people, places, and things. Most of them are of historical importance. And remember, there's no way the people in the photos can reach out from the screen and grab you. They're just "still images" and not real people alive today. You may now
commence the scrolling.
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A Serbian soldier sleeps beside his father who visited him in the trenches near Belgrade, 1914/15
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A Soviet soldier, a World War II veteran, is perhaps on his deathbed, reaching out to his past heroics.
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Very rare photo of Russian priests blessing Red Army soldiers during WW2 (this practice was allowed by Stalin to raise wartime morale, after furious anti-Church policy of the 1930’s)…USSR, 1941-1943
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An American GI treats the wound of a very young German soldier. September 6, 1944
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France lost more soldiers between 1914 and 1918 than the USA in its whole history. 30% of the 18-35 years old French men died in WW1
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Halifax heavy bombers interior after bomb run, second world war
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The aftermath of a skirmish during the Battle of Somme, 1916
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A pigeon with a small camera attached. The trained birds were used experimentally by German citizen Julius Neubronner, before and during the war years, capturing aerial images when a timer mechanism clicked the shutter – WW1
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A French trench raider with a revolver and dagger in 1916
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A South Vietnamese soldier punches a captured Viet Cong guerrilla during an operation in Quahm Nam province in 1965
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French Flamethrowers at Verdun, 1916
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Woman and children crouch in a muddy canal as they take cover from intense Viet Cong fire, 1966
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A Red Cross nurse writing the last words of a dying British soldier in 1917
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In 2009, George W. Bush invited President-elect Obama and all former presidents for lunch
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A CIA case officer is photographed at a dead drop location in Moscow, 1962
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Otto von Bismarck on his deathbed, 30 July 1898
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Vice Mayor Dr. Ernst Kurt Lisso, his wife Renate Stephanie, in the chair, and his daughter Regina Lisso after committing suicide by cyanide to avoid capture by American troops on April 18, 1945
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A young private waits on the beach during the Marine landing at Da Nang, 1965
