30 Fascinating Historical Photos that are Often Overlooked
Man's time on earth has been filled with a lot of history. From incredible finds from the past to inventions and the creation of new technologies, and of course, the tragic and darker moments that have happened, the history books are chock full of all kinds of fascinating info that tell our collective story.
So if you're interested in taking a virtual tour of the past, then enjoy this collection of interesting photos and intriguing moments that are rare snapshots from the past, that don't get the credit they deserve.
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Mary Anne Macleod Was A Poor Scottish Immigrant Who Arrived In America In 1930. She Eventually Married An Up-And-Coming Businessman Named Frederick Trump And Became The Mother Of Businessman And Future President. Donald Trump
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German Soldiers March Triumphantly Past The French Wwi Victory Monument In Verdun During The Fall Of France, 1940
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An Assembly Worker In Front Of A Weight And Size Model Of The First Soviet Atomic Bomb. Ussr, 1949
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Battalion Courier Adolf Hitler In May 1915, With His Rifle Slung Over His Shoulder, On His Way To Deliver A Message During WWI
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Listening To Copies Of The Beatles “Rubber Soul” In The Quality Control Room At The Emi Pressing Plant In London, England, 1965
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An Atlanta Boy’s High School Basketball Player Shooting A Free Throw Against Tech High School In 1921
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The Undertaker Looks Down At Medical Staff Checking On Mankind After He Fell, Unscripted, Through The Top Of He11 In A Cell Into The Ring 16ft Below. June 28, 1998
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Soviet Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev Stuck In Space During The Collapse Of The Soviet Union, 1991
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Lyndon B. Johnson Yelling At The Pilots Of A Nearby Plane To Cut Their Engines So That John F. Kennedy Could Speak As Kennedy Is Seen Trying To Calm Him Down. Taken During The 1960 Presidential Campaign In Amarillo, Texas
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Miners Light Up Reused Cigarettes At The End Of An Eight-Hour Shift Underground At The Zhdanovskaya Coal Mine, All For $30 A Month. Donbass, Ukraine. February 1992 - By Shepard Sherbell
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Yukio Mishima Addresses Members Of The Self-Defense Forces In Tokyo Shortly Before Committing Seppuku On Nov. 25, 1970
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A British Soldier Gives A V-For-Victory Sign To German Prisoners Captured At El Alamein, 26 October 1942
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Press Photographers And Police Snipers Lie Side By Side On A Roof Opposite The Kreditbanken Bank On Norrmalmstorg Square In Stockholm. A Misfired Robbery Turned Into A Six-Day Standoff That Gave Birth To The Phrase "Stockholm Syndrome", Stockholm, Sweden 1973
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A Firefighter Looks Towards The Heavily Damaged Belgrade's Tallest Building, Nato Bombing, April 1999
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U.S. Helicopters Pour Machine-Gun Fire Into The Tree Line To Cover The Advance Of South Vietnamese Troops Ca, 1965
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The Scene On The Highway Near Palermo After A Bomb Killed Anti-Mafia Judge Giovanni Falcone, His Wife, And Three Police Protective Agents On 23rd May 1992. The Bombing Was A Terror Attack By The Sicilian Mafia Who Placed 400 Kg Of Explosives Under The Highway (Sicily, Italy 1992)
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1 Of The 11 Surviving Pictures Taken By Life Magazine Photographer Robert Capa On D-Day, June 6, 1944
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