The world around us is in a constant state of change and the people, places, and technology changes right alongside it. It is intriguing to look at old and historical photos to see what life was like back in the day and can be a great way to kill some time, cure your boredom, or just let your imagination run wild with what it must have been like to live back in those days.
So browse through these photos and take a virtual tour of the past with this collection of odd and Interesting pics from days long gone.
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Founder Of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard: "You Don't Get Rich Writing Science Fiction. If You Want To Get Rich, You Start A Religion". A Quote From Hubbard 7 November, 1948, During A Meeting Of The Eastern Science Fiction Association
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Babe Ruth Right In The Middle Of His Fans In 1926
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A Band Entertaining U.S. Servicemen In Europe On New Year's Eve, Early 1950s
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Elizabeth Taylor For The Look Magazine In 1956
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Actress And Module Debra Jo Fondren Pictured At An L.a. Roller Disco Party In 1979
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The Saturn Launch Vehicle Carrying The Apollo 7 Spacecraft, 1968. Apollo 7 Was The First Crewed Flight In Nasa's Apollo Program, And Saw The Resumption Of Human Spaceflight By The Agency After The Fire That Killed The Three Apollo 1 Astronauts During A Launch Rehearsal Test On January 27, 1967
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The Tree Like View Looking Down Onto A Car Park, Taken From The 26th Story Of The Great Shell Centre On The South Bank Of The River Thames In London. The “Tree” Effect Is Formed By The Wheels Of The Cars As They Enter And Leave The Park. (1963)
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(1932) Al Capone's FBI Criminal Record, Showing Most Of His Criminal Charges Which Were Dismissed
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Colonel Donald Blakeslee Of 4th Fighter Group Of The United States Army Air Force Briefing A Group Of Pilots During Wwii. Photograph Taken In England In April, 1944
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(1987) An Estimated 800,000 People Flocked To The Golden Gate Bridge In San Francisco, California For Its 50th Anniversary. The Weight Of The Large Crowd Caused The Bridge To Sag 7 Feet, Flattening Its Usual Convex Shape
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A Llama Takes A Tour Around Times Square, NYC, 1957
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Operation Buster-Jangle. Dog Atomic Bomb Test At The Nevada Test Site, Had Troops Participating In The Exercise Desert Rock I. It Had A Yield Of 21 Kilotons Of Tnt, And Was The First U.S. Nuclear Field Exercise Conducted With Live Troops Maneuvering On The Ground. Troops Were Six Miles From The Blast 1 November, 1951
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Rms Mauretania, The Largest Ship In The World From 1906 Until The Launch Of Rms Olympic In 1910. Photo By Clifton R. Adams For The National Geographic In Southampton, 1928. The Photo Was Colorised Using The Autochrome Process
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Notre-Dame, Paris. 'Diable Et Pigeon' (Devil And Pigeon)
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A Militiaman On Horseback Chases A Thief Who Stole A Bag Of Potatoes In A Field Near The City Of Naro-Fominsk, 90 Kilometers Southwest Of Moscow, Russia, On August 27, 1995
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Korean Woman At The Beginning Of The 20th Century
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A Group Of Elderly Men Sitting On A Mat,taken In Peshawar, Now In Pakistan, Circa 1865
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Climactic Eruption Of The Mount Pinatubo Volcano In The Philippines (15 June 1991), The Second-Largest Volcanic Eruption On Earth Of The 20th Century
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(1944) Hms Howe Steams Past A Dhow While Transiting Through The Suez Canal, Egypt
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Nuclear Physicist Norman Ramsey Signs The 'Fat Man' Nuclear Weapon, Later Dropped On Nagasaki On 6 August, 1945. 60-80,000 Japanese Civilians Were Killed As Large Swaths Of The City Was Instantly Obliterated
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Harry Houdini Demonstrates Photo Manipulation By Taking A "Spirit Photograph" With Abraham Lincoln, 1920s
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(Fdr Funeral) Tears Stream Down The Cheeks Of Accordion-Playing Chief Petty Officer Graham Jackson As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Flag-Draped Funeral Train Left Warm Springs, Georgia, On April 13, 1945. Roosevelt's Fellow Polio Victims Sit Crying At Jackson's Side
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Lyndon B. Johnson Singing With His Dog Yuki In 1968
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Fidel Castro Shooting Basketball With His School In 1943
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Astroman At Astroland. Astroland Was The First Space Age Theme Park. It Was Located On Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, Opening In 1962 It Was Formally Closed On September 7, 2008
