A Japanese teenage biker gang and their friends hang out in Tokyo in 1964.

Military members starting to use attack dogs on a crowd in order to disperse them during the Riots in Cape Town, South Africa in 1976.

Dar al-hannan schools girls taking a break in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 1980. The religious restrictions on women worked itself into government and eventually into law in the decade to come, changing Saudi Arabian women to the heavily covered look most of us recognize today.

Children play as if totally oblivious to their surroundings in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1982. This area had already been damaged in the fighting in the Lebanon War, and would be center of more fighting ahead as Beirut became the focal point of most of the 3 year war.

American chorus girl and an artists' model Evelyn Nesbit posing in one of her early shoots at age 16 in 1901. She also did a little acting, but was well known for he likeness being used in newspapers, advertisements, on posters, fine china, and much more. In fact, she seemed to have her face everywhere at the turn of the century.

A diver goofs off by holding an umbrella sometime in the mid 1940s.

A family of acrobats perform on a street in Berlin, Germany in 1920.

Some brave Cubans prepare to board a makeshift boat to sail to Florida in as part of the mass exodus of 1994. Many died, never making the 90 miles to the US.

Orson Welles reading War of the Worlds as if its really happening during a live broadcast in 1938. The public had no idea it was fake. Panic and mass confusion gripped the US in most places for at least a day as people, despite not seeing any of the events they heard on the radio, thought Mars had invaded.

Teddy Boys and Girls in London, England in 1952. The name derived from wearing clothes that were partly inspired by the styles worn by dandies in the Edwardian period (early 1900s). Colors and patterns could also signify a gang or group the youths would be affiliated with.

Father Yod of the Source Family with 13 of his 14 wives in 1973. Legally, he only had 1 wife, but he ran a spiritual cult which attracted 150 followers and even had a band called the Ya Ho Wha 13. The cults/communes ideals were clean, all natural living, basically everything that was at the very heart of the hippie movement of the 1970s.

The first Governor of Southern Nigeria Sir Walter Egerton with 2 of his servants in Lagos in 1910.

A stadium hosts 20,000 supporters during a Nazi rally in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1938. Surprisingly, rallies such as this took place in many countries before WWII began, including Argentina, the UK and the US.

An Australian soldier having a shave during the Battle of Somme in 1916 while wearing a captured German helmet.

Happy Cuban refugees applaud after receiving an announcement saying they are staying in the US while in a camp in Miami in 1980.

Native American children at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (PA, US) in the late 1800s. From 1879 to 1918, some 10,000 Native American children were forced from their families and tribes to attend this school and assimilate into modern American culture. Only 158 ever graduated from the school.

A policeman training police dogs in Warsaw, Poland in 1929.

The vastly different reactions of Czechoslovakian citizens in Sudeten greeting German soldiers as they march past them in 1938.

2 Women caught in a bad dust cloud that swept into Mexico City, Mexico in 1957.

Men and women alike stand in line at a polling booth in Auckland, New Zealand in 1899. New Zealand was the first country to allow women to vote in 1893.

An all girl Iranian pop band taking a promo picture before touring in Pakistan in 1974.

A young man uses a makeshift raft to cross the flooded street in front of Hankou City Hall in Hankou, China, in 1931. This was during the devastating Yangtze River floods that lasted for 5 months in 1931. The flooding was so bad, it is generally considered the worst natural disaster in history, as anywhere from 145,000 to 4 million people died as a result. Most experts agree more than 1 million died, but exact numbers were never counted.

18 Year old prostitute Katya scours the street for work as a police car drives past her in Moscow in 1991. An interview at the time with Katya showed that unfortunately many young girls like her struggled mightily for work even as a prostitute as the collapse of the USSR created every issue imaginable as their entire world crashed around them.

Mexican wrestler Irma Gonzalez posing before one of her first matches in 1955. She became one of the most famous Mexican female Luchadores of all-time.

Irish women's boxing champion Elsie Connor showing off for a magazine in preparation for a fight in 1931.

Construction workers take a break and play harmonicas while building the Rockefeller Center skyscraper in NYC in 1932.

The Statue of Liberty being constructed in Paris, France in 1878. Most people don't know this but the French offered, financed, and paid to build the statue and then gifted it to the US, who only paid for the base on which it stands. Another interesting note, Gustave Eiffel, who built the world famous Eiffel Tower, also assisted in The Statue of Liberty's construction.

Colorized photo of a brutal boxing match in 1913.

People wearing what was at the time normal swimwear while at the beach in New Jersey, US, in the 1920s.

A boy cries near the bodies of his family who were murdered during the Rwandan Genocide in 1994.

Fans of the Beatles go nuts during a concert in the late 1960s.

Mary "Bonnie" Baker goes to catch a ball that was just a bit inside during an All-American Girls Baseball League game in 1943. The batter is unnamed, but clearly has some impressive dodging skills.

French officers prepping Vietnamese soldiers in French Indochina to move out for battle in 1943.

Children dressed up for Easter Sunday in Chicago, US in 1941.

A British armored vehicle being made in 1919.

Ebbets field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers (NYC, US), in 1920. Notice how the fans walked on the foul grounds to get to their seats.

A police woman plays duck duck goose with children in Harlem, NYC, New York, US in 1978.

A model sits on a concept car, the Porsche Tapiro, in 1970.

A street gang in the Bronx, NYC, US in the mid 1970s.

A Japanese soldier stares at a US propaganda poster in Manila, Philippines in 1942.