Historical Photos That Will Change Your Opinion Of The Past
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20 photos that give an alternate perspective on the days of old.
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1. A failed concept for portable TV created in 1967.
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2. Salvador Dali with his pet anteater in 1969.
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3. This monowheel was built in 1932, and could reach speeds of 25 miles an hour.
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4. A policeman judges best ankle in 1930.
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5. These wooden bathing suits pictured here in 1929, were made to help buoyancy.
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6. A fugitive is being dragged by border patrol, as he desperately attempts to escape to Mexico.
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7. Contestants for Miss Lovely Eyes compete in Florida, 1930.
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8. Sound finders were used during World War I to detect enemy planes.
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9. Orphans of the Vietnam War are flown to the USA, during Operation Babylift in 1975.
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10. Women paint their legs in 1942, to make it seem as if they are wearing stockings.
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11. Alfred Hitchcock has tea with Leo, the MGM lion.
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12. Kegs of beer are attached to a spitfire for the troops in Normandy.
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13. A woman throws a killer right while boxing on a rooftop in the 1930s.
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14. No self-respecting New York man left his home without a hat in 1939.
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15. Hundreds of people walk across a walkway of chairs, during floods in Paris.
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16. A woman waits for her massive hoops to be completed, in a London dress shop, 1860.
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17. The real Christopher Robin with his bear, Winnie the Pooh.
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18. In 1968, a Soviet soldier chases a young man through the streets of Prague, for throwing stones at a tank.
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19. Steven Spielberg takes pictures of miniatures that would feature in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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20. This man decides to go against the grain, by refusing to perform a Nazi salute in 1939.
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