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25 Fascinating Photos Collected From History.

Amazing pictures from all parts of the past to help expand the way you see history.

By Nathan Johnson

Published 5 years ago in Wow

Amazing pictures from all parts of the past to help expand the way you see history.

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Man riding his skateboard in 1960s.

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State security officer "Kippe" (butt of a cigarette) shooting at two guys who wanted to escape to West Berlin, April 8, 1989

3
Cabaret at lesbian club 'Le Monocle', Montmartre, Paris 1930.

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German POW´s marching down the autobahn northwest of Frankfurt while American troops advance to the battlefront, March 29th 1945

5
Portable radio in a straw hat, made by an American inventor in 1931

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A man on a horse inside the trunk of a tree demonstrate the size of one of the Redwoods felled in California in 1902.

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West Germans face East German border guards at the Brandenburg Gate, 1989.

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Interesting View of the Japanese Surrender onboard the USS Missouri (BB-63), 2 Sep 1945

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AIDS activists block Grand Central Station's arrivals board with a banner reading "One AIDS Death Every 8 Minutes" - New York City, 1991

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Troops of the Eight-Nation Alliance (except Russia) that fought against the Boxer Rebellion in China, 1900. From the left: Britain, United States, Australia, India, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Japan.

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Workers re-assembling the 3,200 years old Abu Simbel temples at Aswan, Egypt in 1968. The sandstone temples had been hand-sawn into over 1,000 pieces and shifted 200 yards inland to avoid potential flooding due to the new Aswan High Dam.

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Bert Trautmann (Center) is escorted out the field after winning the FA cup with a broken neck (hit by a knee while catching the ball). He played the last 17 minutes with the injury and won FWA footballer of the Year in 1956 and was the first foreign player to win it. May 5, 1956

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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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Soviet Union, 1986: Liquidators clean the roof of the No. 3 reactor after authorities realized robots were unable to function due to the radiation levels

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German officers posing with a captured British tank at Cambrai. ca.1917.

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Cetshwayo ka Mpande, the leader of the Zulu Kingdom, ca. 1885

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Three Austro-Hungarian dreadnought battleships, Pola (now Pula, Croatia), 1917

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Enemies for 2 decades, in the early 90's Russia invited South Africa's Special Forces aka Recces to visit Ryazan to meet with their former enemy they faced in Angola.

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A street being renamed Adolf Hitler Strasse in 1939

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Easy Company captain Lewis Nixon (from Band of Brothers) poses after drinking liquor taken from Nazi military leader Hermann Göring's house the morning after V-E Day, 1945.

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Logging & deforestation in 1907. Glens Falls, New York.

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Top is the Cameron Highlanders battalion in 1914, before being sent to the front. Bottom is them after the armistice of 1918.

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A Fiat diesel train on the Mogadishu-Villabruzzi railway, 1930

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Spanish Civil War refugees are marched to a concentration camp in southern France March 1939

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Concert for Democracy in China, Hong Kong, May 27, 1989

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