20 Fascinating Photos Collected From History

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Clyde Barrow, of Bonnie & Clyde fame, poses with his car and guns in Joplin, Missouri 1933

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The one-armed lion tamer who went by the name of Captain Jack Bonita and his pride, ca. early 1900’s.

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Dead Italian soldier clutching a photograph of his child. World War II

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Inside of an Airplane in 1930

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30,000 Russians queue for the first McDonald’s in the Soviet Union, January 30th 1990

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British soldiers fire their rifles at German aircraft flying overhead during the evacuation of Dunkirk, May-June 1940

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Breaker Boys at the Pennsylvania Coal Company’s mine, 1910

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An elephant used by German soldiers to move heavy logs near the Western Front of World War I, 1915

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A young Chinese woman sits on a stretcher at a liberated “comfort station” as she is interviewed by a British Flying Officer of the Royal Air Force following the Allied victory in the Battle of Burma. 8 August 1945

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Pierre Curie, Marie Curie and their daughter Irene Joliot-Curie in 1906. Everyone in this picture was a Nobel laureate in science.

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A circus dwarf eats at a diner in New Jersey Photo by Bruce Davidson, 1958

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Joe Arridy giving his toy train to another inmate before he’s taken to the gas chamber. The “Happiest prisoner on death row”, an innocent man with an IQ of 46, he used spend his time playing with that train. 1939

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French woman pours a hot cup of tea for a British soldier fighting in Normandy, 1944

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BBC sound effects workers making effects for a program in studio 1927

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December 1889. Useful Holiday Presents

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Ralph Edwards and Marilyn Monroe at the Hollywood Entertainers baseball game in 1952

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Grigori Rasputin with his admirers 1914

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Boeing B-29 Superfortress Cockpit

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Omaha Beach. June 6th, 1944. The first wave of American troops lands at dawn

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Dead German soldiers on the outskirts of Stalingrad, 1943