24 Mesmerizing Photos From History's Vault

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People sitting on curb among confetti and paper after celebrating the end of WWII in NYC, 1945.

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A circus elephant balances on its front legs, 1920.

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The now lost "From Hell" letter posted in 1888, along with half a human kidney, by a person claiming to be Jack the Ripper.

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Workers at Disney discussing on how to animate water bubbles in Pinocchio, 1930s.

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A Menorah sitting inside a house while a Nazi flag is right outside, 1931.

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A staged photo by Dutch photographer Cor Jaring in support of the Provo movement of 1960’s Amsterdam.

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A young Bill Paxton (Top-Middle) at JFK's speech on the same day he was shot and killed, 1963.

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Between 1996 and 2001, Kim Jong Un was sent to high school in Switzerland for education, while in the school, he referred to himself as "Pak Un".

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Alfred Hitchcock eating snow with his three granddaughters, Mary, Tere, and Katie, 1960s.

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Supporters climbing an election board while waiting for Nelson Mandela in a Natal township, 1994.

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Inflating cow skins used as boats to cross the Himalayan River, 1903.

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What is believed to be the head of former French King Henry IV, 1930s.

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Bonnie and Clyde in one of their hideouts after a police raid, 1933.

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Russian firefighters in Moscow, 1903.

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Pablo Escobar and his cousin Gustavo posing as old school gangsters, 1980s.

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A British soldier with a group of children in Belfast, 1981.

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Ronald Reagan posing with a Terra Cotta Warrior statue without a head, 1984.

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"We Want Beer!", Prohibition Protest, 1931.

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A "Sorcerer's Passport" that was obtained by Albert Métraux during research in Haiti, 1940s.

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A British soldier with a 7ft tall German soldier, 1944.

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Marilyn Monroe working at a Van Nuys factory in CA, 1944.

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How they filmed the credits roll in "The Empire Strikes Back", 1980.

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Högertrafikomläggningen, the day Sweden switched from driving on the left to driving on the right, 1967.

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Filming of the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man scene in Ghostbusters, 1984. The real Ghostbusters, which according to the "Female Ghostbusters" never happened.