20 Historical Pictures From Around the World You May Not Have Seen
Interesting collection of old school pics.
Published 8 years ago in Wow
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An Armenian mother and her daughter come across a fallen child on their way to Aleppo, Syria in 1915. This was during the Armenian Genocide, which claimed up to 1.5 million Armenians their lives. Some sources would sadly say this child is already dead, and that this was a common site even so close to safety as this family was.
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A father has a blank stare as he looks at a hand and foot that has been cut off one of his children as punishment for not meeting a quota of goods in the Belgian colony of the Congo in 1904. The tribesmen were basically slaves, working for no wages, to meet high demands, and were punished with lost limbs of themselves or family members for not meeting quotas. It was a brutal and dark time in Belgian and Congolese history.
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10 Year old Edith Houghton posing for a picture wearing her Philadelphia Bobbies baseball uniform to help promote a girls professional baseball league in 1922. You read that right. The remarkable Houghton not only was on a professional girls baseball team at just 10 years old but she was also their best player. She also joined the Navy, served in WWII, and was the first female scout for MLB.
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A mother and her 3 children take cover during a Soviet air raid in Finland during the Winter War in 1939. The Soviets invaded Finland, trying to secure territory changes. The near 5 month war was a huge surprise to the Soviets as the vastly outnumbered Fins held them off with the help of heavy snow, snipers, and strong guerilla tactics. This war also helped convince the Nazi's to eventually attack the Soviets, knowing they were unprepared for such a war. Finland also allied itself with the Axis powers because the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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A British paratrooper comforts a young girl who was wounded by an IRA bombing in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1972. The bomb exploded in a busy street, killing 7 people and wounding 148. The IRA did numerous bombings like these in the early 1970s as it went on the offensive, a time known as "The Troubles". Bombing targets were military or political locations, but also markets and economic centers in Northern Ireland and England, which resulted in many civilians deaths over the years. This lasted on and off until a cease fire was finally agreed upon in 1997.
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Children play in what is left of a US helicopter shot down during the Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia in 1993. US soldiers went into the city to capture high profile targets, only to have the city militia cut them off and a battle ensue. 2 helicopters were shot down, 19 US soldiers were killed, 2 coalition forces members were also killed, with another 82 total wounded. On the Somali side, anywhere from 300-500 were killed, and anywhere from 500-1000 were wounded. The excellent film Black Hawk Down (2001) depicts this battle.
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This woman has been put in a sealed box with 1 small hole, no food and no water, for the punishment of adultery in Mongolia in 1913. The sentence is actually death. The hole is part of the design, allowing the condemned to see the freedom they have been denied. This woman, and many like her, died this way and for many years Mongolia was known for some harsh, brutal, and humiliating punishments up until only the last half century.
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A man greets his brother after arriving in East Berlin, Germany in 1963. This was 2 years after the Berlin Wall was erected, dividing the city. For the holiday season, East Germany allowed West Germans to obtain a 1 day pass to visit family members. It was one of the only times anyone was allowed to cross freely before the wall was torn down in 1989.
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Workers take a break during the final stages of construction of the Panama Canal in 1913. The following year it would be completed. The French started the project, but ended up having 22,000 workers die due to diseases primarily. They even halted work numerous time since they had so few healthy workers. Eventually the US took over and finished the project. They too had issues, and lost 12,000 workers to disease and accidents. As amazing an engineering marvel it still is, and how much it helps shipping, the unsanitary conditions that cost 34,000 workers their lives are unparalleled.
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A white active soldier sent in to quell the race riots in Chicago, US in 1919 is confronted by a black former WWI soldier. The riots lasted a week and left 38 people dead (23 black and 15 white), and around 500 more injured as the city was completely divided. Thousands of homes were burned, mostly of black families, and tons of cars and shops destroyed. Former army members were deputized but it took over 4 days for the mayor to finally call in the national guard to put down the rioting.
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