15 Historical Photos to Give You Chills

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The quartzite sarcophagus in the burial chamber of Tutankhamun. The winged arms of goddess Isis and Nephthys are outstretched to envelop the basin in a protective embrace. Photo: Harry Burton, 1923

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A carrier pigeon being released from a port-hole in the side of a British tank near Albert during the battle of Amiens, 9 August 1918

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The Roman Catholic Church signed a Concordat with the Nazi government. This made the Vatican the first state to officially recognise Nazi Germany. Photo from 1933

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Two women in an opium den. New York City, USA. 1902

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The cap (3rd SS “Totenkopf”, Deaths Head Division) covered with mold lies on the floor of the Fuhrerbunker, flooded with water, Germany, 1945

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Teddy Roosevelt’s 1907 hunting guide Ben Lilly Roosevelt wrote of Lilly: “There is a white hunter, Ben Lily [sic], who has just joined us who is a really remarkable character. He literally lives in the woods. … He had tramped for twenty-four hours through the woods, without food or water, and had slept a couple of hours in a crooked tree, like a turkey. He has a wild, gentle face, with blue eyes and full beard; he is a religious fanatic and is as hardy as a bear or elk, literally caring nothing for fatigue and exposure which we couldn’t stand at all. … He was particularly fond of the chase of the bear, which he followed by himself with one or two dogs; often he would be on the trail of his quarry for days at a time, lying down to sleep wherever night overtook him.”

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British airmen dropping bombs by hand during 1st world war, 1914-1918

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Wedding portrait of a married Khalkha Mongolian couple, ca. 1920s

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Man wearing traditional Kiribati armor, circa 1925

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A medical examination of men enlisted to fight in the Red Army in 1918

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Medics of the US 6th Armored Division liberate a concentration camp for Women near Penig, Germany – April 1945

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Boy is just starting work, while an old man who has been there 33 years teaches him how to use a board saw. October 1908 – Peru, Indiana

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Launching the James Caird from the shore of Elephant Island to South Georgia which is 800 nautical away, April 24, 1916. The voyage of the James Caird was a journey of 800 mi from Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands through the Southern Ocean to South Georgia, undertaken by Sir Ernest Shackleton and five companions to obtain rescue for the main body of the stranded Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917. Polar historians regard the voyage of the crew in a 22.5-foot (6.9 m) ship’s boat through the "Furious Fifties" as one of the greatest small-boat journeys ever completed.

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A Wehrmacht veteran teaches Hitler Youth boys how to use a Panzerfaust. The badges on his sleeve represent enemy tanks destroyed

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The Kamloops Indian Residential School ran by the Catholic Church (1937). Last year they found 215 unmarked graves at this school. Likely at least a few of these children never made it home.