Interesting historical photos

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Joe Biden being Joe Biden

 

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The inscription on the helmet of the Vietnam War in 1967.

Announcement of the mobilization order in Berlin, August 1, 1914.

After the Allied bombing of Dresden, February 13, 1945

Anti-aircraft crew during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Territory of Hawaii. USA. December 7, 1941.

 

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1896 — the first Briton caught speeding - instead of 12 km/h, drove as many as 15.

Children who survived the Titanic disaster. April 22 , 1912

Assembling the first Canon cameras. Tokyo Japan, 1934

Weapons confiscated from passengers, Domodedovo Airport, Moscow 1991

 

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Spectators at the match of the Donetsk team "Miner", 1930.
Who needs these stadium seatings?

 

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WWI. A german soldier reads a letter from his mother, who writes to the frontline, and his father is standing next to him.



Women paint their legs to create the illusion of wearing stockings, USA 1942


John Smith was a Chippewa Indian from Minnesota. He lived for almost 137 years - this is indicated by the dates on his tombstone.


The prisoners released from the Nazi camp did not leave without punishment one of their own, who served the fascists and denounced his cellmates.

The War Crime No One Wants to Talk About (Published 2020)

“Our Bodies, Their Battlefields,” by Christina Lamb, a British foreign correspondent, provides one of the first exhaustive examinations of rape as a weapon of war.

www.nytimes.com

‘They Warned They’ll Rape Me’: Russian Soldier Stands by Mass Shooting - The Moscow Times

A Russian conscript who gunned down eight fellow soldiers in the country’s Far East last month acted in retaliation to hazing and a rape threat, according to his reported testimony and his father’s remarks published Wednesday.

www.themoscowtimes.com

STORY BEHIND:

 

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We prisoners had an unwritten rule. Steal another man's clothes and you'd get a hiding. Steal a man's bread and you'd die: The chilling testimony from the Gulags' forgotten victims

The word Gulag is a actually an acronym, derived from the Russian for Main Camp Administration. Over the years, however, it has come to signify the whole Soviet slave labour camp system.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

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Loud music meant to distract from all that pain during a dental treatment in 1920.

Norwegian children play at the crater of the Tallboy bomb against the background of the sunken battleship Tirpitz.
The battleship Tirpitz, part of the German Navy during Operation Catechism on November 12, 1944, was attacked by British bombers and after being hit by 3 Tallboy type bombs, fell on board and sank.

English actress Diana Dors sails to the Venice Film Festival on a gondola in a mink fur bikini. 1955
As a result, she gained worldwide fame almost in one day, earning the title of "British Marilyn Monroe".

Catherine Townsend from Minneapolis in 1961 was recognized as the Queen of Laughter.
This contest was dedicated to the International Humor Day. In addition to the external beauty, the jury evaluated the volume of the participants' laughter - Catherine amazed and stunned everyone with her loud laughter.

 

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Russian crimes in Chechnya and Ukraine are identical - Anzor Maskhadov

Tatyana Popova's special interview with the son of the President of Chechnya Aslan Maskhadov, the representative for especially important assignments under the President - Anzor Maskhadov. — Ukrinform.

www.ukrinform.net

 

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Peasant girls. The village of Topornya. Vologda province, Russia, 1909 Original color photo of S. Prokudin-Gorsky.

From a teen magazine. 1965

 

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A hut covered with empty disks from a DP-27 machine gun. Kaluga region, Russia, 1950s

Electric cars of The New York Edison Company, 1906.

Matador Florentino Ballesterosa falls wounded by a bull, Madrid, 1916
Having been seriously injured in this fight, Florentino, recovering, signed a contract for his performances next year. And, on the first of them, he was killed by a bull "Cochinero" from the Benjumea ganadería farm.

 

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School spanking. The teacher punishes the guilty student. Menomonie. Wisconsin. USA. 1905

At the service station during the war years, female car mechanics were not unusual. USA, 1943.

A student drinks a yard of ale in a Cambridge pub, May 1959.
The yard is a funny dish for drinking beer, which came into use in English pubs back in the seventeenth century. The name speaks for itself: the length is about a yard, and this vessel could hold from a pint to two. The intricate shape with a ball at one end and a bell at the other was a demonstration of glassblowing skill, and also allowed the drinker to pour beer when the air got into the ball. According to the Guinness Book of Records, the fastest yard was drunk in five seconds.

Scottish soldier Bill Millin walked the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, playing the bagpipes. 1944
Later, two captured German snipers told why the piper was not shot. According to them, they decided that he was a "dummkopf", a hopeless idiot.

The prison in Panama is a net over the abyss. 1920

 

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September 19. 1888 The first ever international beauty contest was held in Belgium at the Spa resort. 350 participants claimed the title of the most beautiful girl in the world, 21 of which reached the final.

 

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The right way to listen vinyl

What the *ell is she confessing, that these two are so scared of?

A menswear reform enthusiast walks down the Strand in London.
The MDRP (Men's Dress Reform Party) was formed in the interwar years in the UK in 1930.

Commercial flight before the invention of pressurized cabins. Boston, USA. 1939.

 

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Announcement of the mobilization order in Berlin, August 1, 1914.

There is another photo taken on the same day in Munich.

 

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Debbie Harry — future vocalist of the band Blondie while working as a dancer at the Playboy Bunny club . 1968

Clint Eastwood is Superman as a victim of a cowboy-style robbery. USA. 1970's.

The machine for creating shiny curls is still used in Japan and Korea. USA. 1930s.

High-rise installer Paul Hogan on one of the largest bridges in Sydney sends greetings to you from a height! Australia. 1971. After 15 years, he will become known as "Crocodile Dundee"

 

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Look at this portable radio!

 

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the reality of Marxist Moscow satanic empire :

 

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vodka wars ....

 

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Peasant girls. The village of Topornya. Vologda province, Russia, 1909 Original color photo of S. Prokudin-Gorsky.