20 Fascinating Photos Collected From History

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1. U.S. military authorities prepare to hang Dr. Klaus Karl Schilling, 74, at Landsberg, Germany, on May 28, 1946. He used 1200 Dachau prisoner’s for a malaria experiment.
2. Serial killer John Wayne Gacy poses with First Lady Roslynn Carter. This picture would become an embarrassment for the Secret Service as the pin Gacy is wearing indicates security clearance. 1978
3. Marshland in front of the Lincoln Memorial, near the Potomac River, in 1917. Work is underway to turn this site into the 2,000-foot-long reflecting pool.
4. Monopoly board created by POWs held captive in the Philippines by the Japanese during WWII
5. Arthritis-ridden Renoir painting flowers at his garden, circa 1910’s
6. Vietnam War 1965
7. Trench Warfare. Photo taken by an official British photographer during WWI, 1917
8. Alcatraz Prison Menu from 1946
9. Carving George Washington into Mount Rushmore – 1932
10. Jesse Owens crosses the finish line in Berlin to win the 100-meter sprint August 3 1936
11. Salvador Dalí on a carriage drawn by his goat, 1953.
12. Newly liberated inmates at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp chase down and beat a former kapo (a prisoner assigned by the SS guards to supervise forced labor in the camp). Kapos were picked for their brutality towards fellow prisoners and received additional privileges, 16 April 1945.
13. Typical grocery store queue in Vilnius (the capital of current Lithuania), 1990, USSR consumer goods shortage
14. Disneyland’s “Rocket to the Moon”, 1967
15. A thylacine or ‘Tasmanian tiger’ in captivity, circa 1930. The last thylacine died in captivity in 1936
16. Citizen Kane premiere, 1941
17. Ty Cobb “sliding” into home – 1920
18. Heavyweight Boxing Champ Jack Johnson & wife, 1910s
19. German Panzerkampfwagen 38(t) tank neatly shot through the barrel – Belarus 1941
20. The identification card of Anny Horowitz, a French Jewish girl murdered in Auschwitz, 1940

1. U.S. military authorities prepare to hang Dr. Klaus Karl Schilling, 74, at Landsberg, Germany, on May 28, 1946. He used 1200 Dachau prisoner’s for a malaria experiment.
2. Serial killer John Wayne Gacy poses with First Lady Roslynn Carter. This picture would become an embarrassment for the Secret Service as the pin Gacy is wearing indicates security clearance. 1978
3. Marshland in front of the Lincoln Memorial, near the Potomac River, in 1917. Work is underway to turn this site into the 2,000-foot-long reflecting pool.
4. Monopoly board created by POWs held captive in the Philippines by the Japanese during WWII
5. Arthritis-ridden Renoir painting flowers at his garden, circa 1910’s
6. Vietnam War 1965
7. Trench Warfare. Photo taken by an official British photographer during WWI, 1917
8. Alcatraz Prison Menu from 1946
9. Carving George Washington into Mount Rushmore – 1932
10. Jesse Owens crosses the finish line in Berlin to win the 100-meter sprint August 3 1936
11. Salvador Dalí on a carriage drawn by his goat, 1953.
12. Newly liberated inmates at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp chase down and beat a former kapo (a prisoner assigned by the SS guards to supervise forced labor in the camp). Kapos were picked for their brutality towards fellow prisoners and received additional privileges, 16 April 1945.
13. Typical grocery store queue in Vilnius (the capital of current Lithuania), 1990, USSR consumer goods shortage
14. Disneyland’s “Rocket to the Moon”, 1967
15. A thylacine or ‘Tasmanian tiger’ in captivity, circa 1930. The last thylacine died in captivity in 1936
16. Citizen Kane premiere, 1941
17. Ty Cobb “sliding” into home – 1920
18. Heavyweight Boxing Champ Jack Johnson & wife, 1910s
19. German Panzerkampfwagen 38(t) tank neatly shot through the barrel – Belarus 1941
20. The identification card of Anny Horowitz, a French Jewish girl murdered in Auschwitz, 1940

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20 Fascinating Photos Collected From History

1. U.S. military authorities prepare to hang Dr. Klaus Karl Schilling, 74, at Landsberg, Germany, on May 28, 1946. He used 1200 Dachau prisoner’s for a malaria experiment.

2. Serial killer John Wayne Gacy poses with First Lady Roslynn Carter. This picture would become an embarrassment for the Secret Service as the pin Gacy is wearing indicates security clearance. 1978

3. Marshland in front of the Lincoln Memorial, near the Potomac River, in 1917. Work is underway to turn this site into the 2,000-foot-long reflecting pool.

4. Monopoly board created by POWs held captive in the Philippines by the Japanese during WWII

5. Arthritis-ridden Renoir painting flowers at his garden, circa 1910’s

6. Vietnam War 1965

7. Trench Warfare. Photo taken by an official British photographer during WWI, 1917

8. Alcatraz Prison Menu from 1946

9. Carving George Washington into Mount Rushmore – 1932

10. Jesse Owens crosses the finish line in Berlin to win the 100-meter sprint August 3 1936

11. Salvador Dalí on a carriage drawn by his goat, 1953.

12. Newly liberated inmates at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp chase down and beat a former kapo (a prisoner assigned by the SS guards to supervise forced labor in the camp). Kapos were picked for their brutality towards fellow prisoners and received additional privileges, 16 April 1945.

13. Typical grocery store queue in Vilnius (the capital of current Lithuania), 1990, USSR consumer goods shortage

14. Disneyland’s “Rocket to the Moon”, 1967

15. A thylacine or ‘Tasmanian tiger’ in captivity, circa 1930. The last thylacine died in captivity in 1936

16. Citizen Kane premiere, 1941

17. Ty Cobb “sliding” into home – 1920

18. Heavyweight Boxing Champ Jack Johnson & wife, 1910s

19. German Panzerkampfwagen 38(t) tank neatly shot through the barrel – Belarus 1941

20. The identification card of Anny Horowitz, a French Jewish girl murdered in Auschwitz, 1940

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