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21 Intriguing Moments From History Captured Via Photograph

Sometimes history is amazing, and sometimes it can be pretty boring. Good thing we've collected some of the better captured moments from our past to share with you today.


What you'll notice is that while many things have changed over the year, many things have stayed the same.

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Sometimes history is amazing, and sometimes it can be pretty boring. Good thing we've collected some of the better captured moments from our past to share with you today.

What you'll notice is that while many things have changed over the years, many things have stayed the same.

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Polish Girl, Lidka, 21, Member Of The Resistance, During Warsaw Uprising 1944. Survived The War, Died In 1993

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On January 19, 1981, Heavyweight Champ Muhammad Ali Became So Upset When He Found Out That A Vietnam Veteran Was About To Commit Suicide Near His Home, That He Dashed To The Scene In Just Four Minutes. Not Only Did Ali Prevent The Man From Killing Himself, He Also Personally Drove Him To The Hospital

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This Is A 392-Year-Old Greenland Shark That Was Recently Discovered In The Arctic Ocean. He's Been Wandering The Ocean Since The Early 1600s!

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50 Years Ago They Tried To Stop Katherine Switzer From Running The Boston Marathon Because She Was A Woman. Last Month, At 70, She Ran It Again Wearing The Same Number

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A Reusable Shopping List From The 1920s

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225-Million-Year-Old Petrified Opal Tree Trunk Located In Arizona

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Two Brave Armenian Women Pose With Their Rifles Before Going To Battle Against The Ottomans - 1895

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A German Woman With Her All Belonging Sitting Alone In War Ruined Cologne. 1945

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A Peruvian Elongated Skull With A Metal Plate Surgically Implanted, Estimated To Be From About 2000 Years Ago. The Broken Bone Surrounding The Repair Is Tightly Fused Together Indicating It Was A Successful Surgery

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South Dakota 126 Years Ago. Indian Chiefs Who Had Council With General Miles And Settled The Indian War. 1. Standing Bull, 2. Bear Who Stands And Looks Back, 3. Has The Big White Horse, 4. White Tail, 5. Living Bear, 6. Little Thunder, 7. Bull Dog, 8. High Hawk, 9. Lame, 10. Eagle Pipe

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A Triple Decker Bus. Germany, Berlin, 1926

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Young Oyster Shuckers, Josie, Six Years Old, Bertha, Six Years Old, Sophie, Ten Years Old, Port Royal, South Carolina, 1912. Work Began At 4 Am. Photo By Lewis Hine

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Three-Year-Old Peggy Kennedy, A Polio Patient, Smiles At Therapy Ducks In A Pail Of Water. 1956

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This Skeleton Of A Roman Man, Who Was Crushed By A Flying Stone Slab During The Eruption Of Mount Vesuvius Nearly 2000 Years Ago, Was Discovered In May Of 2018

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Letter From A Trapped Coal Miner Says Goodbye To His Wife, 1902

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US Veterans Of Four Different Wars, That Lived In The Same Town Of Geary, Oklahoma - 1940s

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Tinder During 1901

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Union Blue And Confederate Gray Veterans Reunite At Gettysburg In The Year 1913 — Standing Where Pickett’s Charge Took Place 50 Years Earlier And Over 3,000 Soldiers On Both Sides Lost Their Lives — Now They Clasp Hands Over The Stone Wall As Brothers

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In 1895 In Paris, An Express Train Overruns A Buffer Stop, Crosses More Than 30 Meters Of Concourse Before Plummeting Through A Window At Gare Montparnasse

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