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17 Fascinating Photos From Our Fascinating World

Interesting images from mankind's storied past.

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David Isom, 19 years old, bravely broke the color line in a segregated pool in Florida on June 8, 1958, which resulted in officials closing the facility.

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Breakfast for the Apollo astronauts, 1969.

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The morning after the first battle of Passendale, 1917.

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An exhausted trader at the end of the worst day in stock market history, “Black Monday”, October 19, 1987. After “Black Monday”, stock exchanges instituted circuit breakers, or trading pauses, when there are large declines.

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The English football team give the Nazi salute in front of 110,000 spectators, including Goering, Hess and Goebbels, ahead of their game against Germany at the Olympiastadion, Berlin. May, 1938

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American troops on board a landing craft heading for the beaches at Oran in Algeria during Operation ‘Torch’, November 1942

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Under British military escort, two captured Luftwaffe crewmen walk out of the London Underground, 1940

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Two Moons, one of the Cheyenne chiefs who took part in the Battle of the Little Bighorn against the United States Army, 1910

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A grief stricken American infantryman is comforted by another soldier in the Haktong-ni area, Korea, August 28 1950.

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Ernesto “Che” Guevara after his execution – Bolivia – October 9, 1967

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At New York’s Penn Station in 1944, a private moment repeated in public millions of times over the course of the war: a guy, a girl, a goodbye – and no assurance that he’ll make it back.

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Until the 1960s, Australian Aborigines fell under the Flora and Fauna Act, classifying them as animals.

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An Indian ascetic wearing an iron collar around his neck so that he can never lie down 1870s.

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14.

Johnny Cash’s to-do list sold at auction for over $6,000.

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“I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.” – Sophia Loren, 1965.

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Members of the Red Warriors – a Paris street gang that used violent force to remove neo-Nazis from France in the mid-late 1980s.

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17.

Mussolini and Hitler attempt a handshake.

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