25 Fascinating Photos From History's Vault
The world we live in is a truly interesting place. Since its very beginning, the one thing that has remained constant about this planet we call home is that it is in a constant state of change. As the years go by, time touches all things and we see everything from the landscape to the living creatures around us changing. So get ready to take a virtual field trip back in time with this collection of pics that give us a glimpse into the past.
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A baseball team of death-row inmates. Their executions were delayed only as long as they kept winning. 1910
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Couples rush to secure a marriage license and get married in Las Vegas, ahead of Executive Order 11241 taking effect, which eliminated the draft exception for married men. August 26, 1965.
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Patients having a happy time fishing and swimming under the walls of the old chateau. These American soldiers are recovering from war neurosis, as the scientists now call the condition that used to be described as ‘shell-shock.’ September 1918
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Belka, a Soviet dog who went to space in the Sputnik 5. She returned to Earth safely. August 1960.
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The “Dodge City Peace Commission” in 1883. Wyatt Earp is seated, second from left; Luke Short is standing, second from left; and Bat Masterson is standing, third from left.
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Testing prototype space suit intended for use in NASA’s Apollo moon landing program, Mojave Desert, California 1962
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Portrait of an immigrant family from Scotland. Taken at Ellis Island in 1905. The family would later settle in Alabama
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The woman in this 106-year-old photo wears a traditional dress that signifies she is married and part of the Mongolian nobility.
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Ladies of the evening posing as “working girls” in Dawson, Canada during the gold rush 1900
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Phnom Penh, April 17, 1975: The day Cambodia fell under control of the communist Khmer Rouge Guerilla forces
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