20 Fascinating Photos Collected From History

Fascinating photos collected from some of the most interesting moments in history.

Published 8 years ago in Wow

Fascinating photos collected from some of the most interesting moments in history.

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President Carter’s official statement placed on the Voyager spacecraft for its trip outside our solar system, June 16, 1977

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Rasputin and groupies. Gorokhovo street flat, Saint Petersburg, 1914. Who was Rasputin and what was his influence? Rasputin was a religious mystic and faith healer. The heir to the Russian thrown had hemophilia, which at the time was poorly understood and potentially very dangerous. Rasputin was able to stop his bleeding, either by using hypnosis or giving him aspirin. This gave him access to the royal family and influence with the Russian Empress. During WWI Rasputin prophesied that Russian forces would not be victorious until the Emperor personally led them. This did not go well. Rasputin was later assassinated for unclear reason. He famously took a long time to die and survived through several methods of murder.

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Japan’s Emperor Hirohito in Yokohama during his first visit to see living conditions in the country since the end of the war (1946)

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Emperor Hirohito and General MacArthur meeting for the first time, 1945. Many Japanese were extremely offended by this picture because of how casual MacArthur is looking and standing while next to the Emperor, who was supposed to be a god. The Japanese government immediately banned the photo of the Emperor with MacArthur under the grounds that it damaged the imperial mystique, but MacArthur rescinded the ban and ordered all of the Japanese newspapers to print it.

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This moment.. An East German soldier ignores orders to let no one pass and helps a boy, who was found on the opposite side from his family, cross the newly formed ‘Berlin Wall’- 1961

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John Dillinger, center, handcuffed to Deputy Sheriff R.M. Pierce during Dillinger’s murder trial hearing in Crown Point, Indiana. Though his trial was scheduled for March 12, 1934, Dillinger would escape from the Crown Point prison on March 3. The best-known American bank robber of the 20th century was John Dillinger. Although his career lasted only a little more than a year from June 1933 to July 1934 he gained nationwide notoriety as the country’s most wanted criminal. Dillinger was born in Indianapolis, Ind., on June 28, 1902. He grew up there and in nearby Mooresville. In 1923 he joined the United States Navy but deserted the service within a few months. He reappeared in Mooresville on Sept. 6, 1924, and was caught robbing a store. He served time in Indiana prisons until 1933, becoming a hardened criminal. Paroled in May 1933, Dillinger formed a gang and set out to rob banks. Captured four months later, he was rescued by gang members. After robberies in several states, he was arrested in Arizona and returned to Indiana and jailed. He executed a remarkable escape on Mar. 3, 1934, and continued his bank robberies. The object of a massive manhunt by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), he was so legend says lured to the Biograph Theater in Chicago on July 22, 1934, by Anna Sage, the mysterious so-called Lady in Red. There FBI agents gunned him down.

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Adolf Hitler’s pants after the failed assassination attempt at Wolf’s Lair in 1944.

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A British Army bomb-disposal specialist approaches a car bomb during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, ca. late 1970’s

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An airman being captured by Vietnamese civilians in Truc Bach Lake, Hanoi in 1967. The airman is John McCain

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Pablo Escobar’s body after he was shot dead after a 15 month manhunt, December 2nd 1993

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This photograph was taken at FBI headquarters in Washington DC.. It shows the weapons that were used by the Dillinger Gang. Note the modified Colt government model M1911A1 pistol in caliber .38 Super in the lower left portion of the photograph. It has been modified to use a Colt Thompson vertical foregrip, extended box magazine, and fired fully automatic.