30 Fascinating Photos From History's Vault

A collection of pictures saved from disappearing to time.

By palehorse95

Published 6 years ago

A collection of pictures saved from disappearing to time.

1
Close up look at a mother wolf spider carrying her young. They can live for up to 14 years. They carry their young on their backs for 9 weeks and their young feed on tiny milk pipes on the mother's legs.

2
Robert Wadlow, also known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois, was 8′ 11″ and the tallest person ever in recorded history, sadly he passed away from an infection at the young age of 22

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Spring Equinox at the Chichen Itza Kukulcan Temple in Mexico. The sun's rays falling on the Mayan pyramid create a shadow in the shape of a serpent to eventually join a stone serpent head at the base of the great staircase up the pyramid's side

9
The only Photo of 9 sitting reigning kings. 1910 From left to right, starting in the back row: King Haakon VII of Norway, Tsar Ferdinand of the Bulgarians, King Manuel II of Portugal and the Algarve, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Prussian, King George I of the Hellenes, and King Albert I of the Belgians. In the front row, from left to right, are King Alfonso XII of Spain, King George V of the United Kingdom, and King Frederick VIII of Denmark.

11
A little girl hugging Leo of Reynalton, the six-time champion bloodhound, at the Crufts Dog Show in Birmingham, England in 1935

12
Before alarm clocks, people were employed to wake workers up with a long stick. These people were called a "Knocker-Up"

16
Man with an alligator gar that he caught in Moon Lake, Mississippi back in 1910

19
The 1906 ground rupture in Marin County CA. The rupture was the result of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake

21
Shaquille O'Neal who is 7'1", being dwarfed by Robert Wadlow, the world's tallest man, who was 8' 11" tall

24
Frank Lentini, born with a parasitic twin had 3 legs, 4 feet, 16 toes and 2 functioning sets of genitals

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Anna Nicole Smith and oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall on their wedding day in 1991. Anna was a 24 year old stripper when she met the 86 year old billionaire

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Annie Edson Taylor was an American schoolteacher who became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel on her birthday, October 24, 1901