31 Photos From the Vault Of History
Mr_Incognito
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12/04/2015
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Some of these images and events are hard to believe.
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1. Police mugshot of Vladimir Lenin at age 25, 1895
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2. Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945.
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3. The first Wal-Mart.
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4. A young boy celebrates the liberation of the Netherlands by Allied Forces with a cigarette, 1945
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5. Fourteen year-old Osama bin Laden. He's second from the right.
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6. The models for "American Gothic" 1930s
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7. Prisoners beat two guards after their concentration camp is liberated by US forces
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8. Construction of George Washington's nose on Mount Rushmore in 1935
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9. John Belushi poses with Steve Martin on the day he died in 1980.
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10. The dead body of Che Guevara executed by the Bolivians on Oct. 9, 1967
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11. A house that was skewered by a huge tree uprooted by the Johnstown Flood that was caused by the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam, 1889
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12. "Beer day", the day that prohibition on beer came to an end in Iceland, 1 March, 1989
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13. An airman being captured by Vietnamese civilians in Truc Bach Lake, Hanoi in 1967. The airman is John McCain.
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14. David Bowie and Mick Ronson enjoy lunch on the train in 1973
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15. Four O'Clock shift at the Ford Motor Company, Detroit-ca. 1916
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16. Hitler Youth during a fire fighting drill, 1933
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17. IRA fighter fires an AR-18 at Pro-British troops during skirmishes in County Armin, Northern Ireland, 1972.
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18. Jobhunting in 1930
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19. Steve Jobs giving IBM the finger, 1983
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20. People's temple member holding a sign showing her support for cult leader Jim Jones, 1978
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21. A little American girl of Japanese ancestry waits with the family baggage before being evacuated to the internment camps in the spring of 1942, California
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22. A semi-nude FBI agent delivers a 1 million ransom to skyjackers, 1972
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23. LCOL James H. Howard proudly displays his kill markings on the side of his P-51 Mustang on January 11th 1944.
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24. Paul Remos, a circus strongman, hoists his son up in the air using only his right arm to feed a giraffe at the London zoo, 1950s
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25. 15 Year Old Erika Kornelia Szeles a Hungarian Resistance member who fought against the Soviets during the 1956 revolution
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26. Young German boy walks beside corpses of hundreds of prisoners from Bergen Belsen, April 20 1945
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27. Fidel Castro at the Lincoln Memorial, 1959
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28. "Taking a bath at twelve below zero in December along the Sha O River," Russo-Japanese War, c. 1904.
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29. Susan B. Anthony pummeled and arrested for attempting to vote in 1872.
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30. Black children standing behind a fence of a "whites-only" playground, 1956. Mobile, Alabama, USA.
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31. A different angle taken of "Tank Man," the man who stood against a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square. He is standing in the street between the tree trunk and the fleeing man. You can see the tanks approaching from the right.
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