28 Fascinating Photos and Stories Plucked From History

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History isn't all sunshine and rainbows. It is important to know history because as the old saying goes "those who don't know their history are bound to repeat it" and in many instances that would be disastrous. So take a virtual trip back in time and see these photos from days long ago.

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Norwegian Quislings (Nazi collaborators) of the collaborationist group “Sonderabteilung Lola” stand trial for treason. They were responsible for torturing, killing, and systematically informing on resistance fighters, 1946

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Stewardesses with Southwest Airlines had to wear hot pants and leather boots in the 1970’s.

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The 7th Panzer-Division in France, 1940

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Future president Teddy Roosevelt can be seen in this picture of Lincoln’s funeral

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A US flag flies at the Manzanar War Relocation Center, a Japanese-American internment camp. The camp was a detention facility for some of the 120,000 Japanese-Americans excluded from the West Coast under wartime presidential Executive Order 9066 (Manzanar, California 1942)

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Before the war American Nazis held mass rallies in Madison Square Garden

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The closed bed, or box bed, was a traditional piece of furniture. In houses with only one room, the box bed allowed a certain intimacy and helped to keep warm during the winter. Due to fashion and the cost of their manufacture, box beds were gradually abandoned in the 19th and 20th centuries

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Market Day in Fort Worth, Texas, 1875

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In 2009, George W. Bush invited President-elect Obama and all former presidents for lunch

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Mihailo Tolotos was a monk who lived for 82 years and died without ever seeing a Woman

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The Hatfield family poses for a portrait in 1888

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An old photo showing a 4000-year-old Sumerian classroom in Iraq

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Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek make a toast to celebrate the surrender of Japan in August 1945. It was the last time the leaders ever met

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This is a picture of the Empire State Building after a bomber plane crashed into it in 1945

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The “Sea Cats” that until the mid-twentieth century, traveled on boats to take care of rats and rodents, had passports and signed with their paw.

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The most destructive single air attack in human history was the firebombing raid on Tokyo, Japan – Also known as the Great Tokyo Air Raid – Occurring on March 10, 1945 – Approximately 100,000 civilians were killed in only 3 hours

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The oldest girl seated in the doorway of the house trailer cares for the family. Yakima Valley, Washington 1939. photo by Dorothea Lange

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Settlers outside their sod home in Aberdeen, S.D., 1892

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Lacemakers in Brittany, France, 1920

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Seventeen year-old on her wedding day (1956).

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As many as 50,000 lobotomies were performed in the U.S., most from 1949-1952 using Walter Freeman II’s transorbital technique of hammering an ice pick into the corner of the eye socket and jiggling it.

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Firefighter putting out an oil-well fire in California 1931

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Diner in 1941

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Teenager at Elvis Presley concert at the Philadelphia Arena in Philadelphia, April 6, 1957.

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Miner at His Evening Meal, 1937. by Bill Brandt

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A woman undergoing bloodletting. It remained popular in folk medicine long after falling out of favour among doctors. Mangskog, Sweden in 1922.

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Prom in 1954

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Mrs. Boris Komorosky at home in Hartford, CT, 1942, photo by John Collier

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Oklahoman family, survivors of the Dust Bowl. 1942.

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Homesteaders in Nebraska in 1888