Interesting historical photos

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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.

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Women paint their legs to create the illusion of wearing stockings, USA 1942
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John Smith was a Chippewa Indian from Minnesota. He lived for almost 137 years - this is indicated by the dates on his tombstone.
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The prisoners released from the Nazi camp did not leave without punishment one of their own, who served the fascists and denounced his cellmates.
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Although this invention never became widespread, but in the 1950s and 1960s people bought such vending machines for whiskey on tap.
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This strange historical photograph shows a street vendor selling mummies right at the Egyptian pyramids in 1865.
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A simulator for "rolling fat" off the legs, 1936. Cosmetology at the dawn of its development offered very unusual ways to lose weight.
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A rare shot of Sophia Loren. At the age of 16, she won Miss Elegance 1950 in the Miss Italy contest and almost immediately married a 37-year-old man.
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WWI. A german soldier reads a letter to his mother, who writes to the front, and his father is standing next to him.


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Women paint their legs to create the illusion of wearing stockings, USA 1942
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John Smith was a Chippewa Indian from Minnesota. He lived for almost 137 years - this is indicated by the dates on his tombstone.
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The prisoners released from the Nazi camp did not leave without punishment one of their own, who served the fascists and denounced his cellmates.
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Was that George Soros getting the crap beat out of him?
 
The concept of a portable TV, 1967. Now we are easily immersed in virtual reality with the help of more portable devices.
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A woman on the beach wears a raincoat that protects from harmful ultraviolet rays, 1946.
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At the time of the shooting, an аmerican base was being bombed during the Vietnam War.
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A group of US veterans of the World War I in the 1970s
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The inscription on the school blackboard: "Russians must die in order for us to live." October 2, 1941
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USA, Great depression reality

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Members of the Soviet militia, summer 1921. . Can you name the models of pistols they are holding?
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Soviet sailors of the Northern Fleet with lend-lease Thompson submachine guns.
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The concept of a portable TV, 1967. Now we are easily immersed in virtual reality with the help of more portable devices.
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A woman on the beach wears a raincoat that protects from harmful ultraviolet rays, 1946.
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At the time of the shooting, an аmerican base was being bombed during the Vietnam War.
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A group of US veterans of the World War I in the 1970s
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They all look like George Burns.
 
An eight-liter Rolls-Royce Phantom of 1925 with a machine gun.
His master was Maharaja Umed Singh II, a great lover of hunting elephants and tigers.
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Helga Goebbels with Adolf Hitler's dog.
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The Iraqi Embassy in Beirut after a suicide attack from the Dawa party, 61 dead, 1981
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Arnold Schwarzenegger and porn star Joyce Gibson, 1970s.
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Igor Sikorsky, 1908
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United Airlines flight attendant, 1970.
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A typewriter with a cylindrical drum containing 1132 characters. Tokyo, Japan, 1949.
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Passengers watch a movie in flight on an Imperial Airways flight, 1925.
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Samantha Fox and Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) in the promo of the movie "A Nightmare on Elm Street, 5: 1989".
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Dessau Arjan Dangar has the longest mustache in the world - 198 cm. 1933.
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Sunbathing on the roof of an apartment building in Tudor City, New York, 1943.
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Paul McCartney in a NASA Mercury spacesuit with Jean Shrimpton (aka "Shrimp") 1965.
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Soviets capture Berlin and place their flag on the Reichstag as WW2 nears an end.

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Red Sox end the curse and win the WS

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Larry Bird in HS. He made the varsity team as a 6-1, 135-pound sophomore. As a junior he sprouted to 6-5. By his senior year Bird reached 6-7, but did not lose any of his ball-handling ability and quickness. He averaged a ridiculous 30 points and 20 rebounds in his final year at Spring Valley.
 
Training camp for cheerleaders. Alabama, 1965.
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Levi's Rodeo traveling puppet Theater. USA, Dallas, 1940
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Linda Carter // Miss World USA and Wonder Woman - 1970s
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The golden ring-sarcophagus.
The ring was created in 1933 after the explosion of general "Egyptomania" caused by the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by British Egyptologist Howard Carter in 1922.
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Three Samurai archers, sometime in the 1860s.
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Buffalo soldiers, around the 1880s
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American Ace Eddie Rickenbacker with his Spad SXIII, 1918
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Civil War veterans sharing cards at a reunion in the 1930s
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London, 1942
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A B-32 Dominator factory in Fort Worth, Texas, 1942
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Bookmobile, Prince Georges County, Maryland, 1950s
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LBJ signing the Civil Rights Bill, 1964
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Two young people on their way to Woodstock, August 1969
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Flying Pinto prototype, 1973
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The inscription on the school blackboard: "Russians must die in order for us to live." October 2, 1941
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USA, Great depression reality

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Members of the Soviet militia, summer 1921. . Can you name the models of pistols they are holding?
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Soviet sailors of the Northern Fleet with lend-lease Thompson submachine guns.
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Nahant revolvers, TT-33 pistols, and the top rear has either a Luger or a Lahti, picture isn't clear enough to make out.
 
An eight-liter Rolls-Royce Phantom of 1925 with a machine gun.
His master was Maharaja Umed Singh II, a great lover of hunting elephants and tigers.
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Helga Goebbels with Adolf Hitler's dog.
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The Iraqi Embassy in Beirut after a suicide attack from the Dawa party, 61 dead, 1981
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Arnold Schwarzenegger and porn star Joyce Gibson, 1970s.
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The machine gun is a Nepalese Bira gun.
 
Nahant revolvers, TT-33 pistols, and the top rear has either a Luger or a Lahti, picture isn't clear enough to make out.
T-33 couldn't be in 1921. I think on top is Colt1911 and bottom is more like german Langenhan or FN Browning 1903
 

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