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25 Fascinating Photos Collected From History.

Amazing pictures from back in time.

By Nathan Johnson

Published 5 years ago in Wow

Amazing pictures from back in time.

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A snowman in Penza, USSR. 1966.

2
A bleeding reporter interviews a bleeding activist after one of the mass anti-war demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, which were violently broken up by Chicago police and federal troops.

3
The Coast Guard seizing around 1,000 cases of illegal alcohol from a speedboat off the coast of Watch Hill, R.I., after a crew of rum-runners led them on a guns-blazing chase from Montauk Point. November 1930.

4
Modeling a hard plastic 'safety bra' to protect female workers at war plants, USA. 1943.

5
French Soldiers standing in front of The Char FCM 2C in 1921. The World's Biggest Operational Tank.

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Japanese soldiers wearing gas masks during the 1937 Battle of Shanghai in the Second Sino-Japanese War.

7
German infantry advance through a Russian cornfields, Caucasus area, summer 1942.

8
Old timer structural worker, c.1930.

9
The Hollywood sign. The last four letters were removed when the sign was refurbished in 1949.

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Three infantrymen at Quang Tri Combat Base, North Bunker Line, Vietnam War, July 4, 1970.

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Policeman outside of the first McDonalds in the Soviet Union, 1990.

12
Martin Luther King Jr. making a behind-the-back pool shot, Chicago 1966.

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Young boy standing in the doorway, His leg was cut off by a streetcar while he was playing in the street, 1944.

14
An Abacus Seller, St Petersburg, Russia - c.1860.

15
Annie Bruce - first woman (17 years old) convicted of murder in Wyoming (1908). She confessed to using rat poison in her father's pie and was sent to jail for four years for manslaughter, but her confession may have been coerced.

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An FBI agent delivering a $1 million ransom to a plane hijacker, in his underwear. 1972.

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Portrait of Franklin Roosevelt dated February 3rd, 1911. A few days after his 29th birthday.

18
Cornish Miners working a stope - 1800s.

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Freed Dachau Inmate beats a former guard, 1945.

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Winston Churchill and several police officers observing the siege of Sidney street, 3rd January 1911.

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Igor Sikorsky set a world speed record of 111 km per hour on his C-6 plane in Kiev, Dec. 29, 1911.

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Construction of the Chernobyl reactor building for the power unit No.4, circa 1980.

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A Soviet POW defiantly stares at Heinrich Himmler, circa August, 1941.

24
Winston Churchill is carried from a nursing home following being struck by a car in New York City. (1931). He was crossing Fifth Avenue and forgot that cars drove on the opposite side of the road from England, and failed to look to his right.

25
Female Viet Cong fighter wielding a captured M16 patrolling the Mekong Delta in Sóc Trăng, 1972.

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