36 Important Photos From History

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History can be a fascinating subject to explore. There are obviously many different time periods and eras one can delve into and essentially an endless supply of events, people, and fascinating information to digest.

So get ready to take a virtual field trip back in time with this round up of some truly interesting and unique snapshots of moments in time that went down in the history books.

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The Most Dangerous Animal In The World. Exhibition In The Bronx Zoo, 1960s

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Senegalese Soldier Who Lost Both His Arms Writes A Letter With His New Prosthetic Limbs. At Vocational Rehabilitation School For Amputees, Paris 1918

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Nurse From The "Red Cross" Writing Down Last Words Of Mortally Wounded Soldier, 1917

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Activists Picketing Outside Of A Segregated Swimming Pool, Ohio 1960s

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Theodore Roosevelt's Diary The Day His Wife And Mother Died, 1884

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Queen Genepil The Last Queen Consort Of Mongolia. Killed During Stalinist Purges In 1938

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Joaquin Phoenix In 1996

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American World War I Veterans At A Reunion In 1978

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Tourists Atop The Great Pyramid, 1938

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An East German Guard Throws A Ball Back To A Child Playing On The West German Side Of The Berlin Wall. 1962

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Man In A Bar (Saturday Night) In Craigville, Minnesota 1937

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Japanese Nurse Dressed In Black During The Russo-Japanese War, 1905

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Earliest Known Photo Of A Surfer, Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1890

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End Of Prohibition, 1933

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Manhattan, 1931

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Paris Air Show, September 1909

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Belgium Coal Miners Coming Up After A Day Of Work, 1900

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Viktor Yushchenko Before And After His Poisoning By Vladimir Putin In 2004. He And His Family Believe The Assassination Attempt Was Ordered By Moscow When He Attempted To Steer Ukraine To Closer Integration With Europe

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Collapse Of Deepwater Horizon Rig, 2010

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Robert E. Peary, An Inuit Man Warms Up His Wife’s Feet In Greenland, 1890s

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Abandoned Presidents' Heads In A Rural Virginia Field

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Star Wars Poster In Tokyo, 1978

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Stock Exchange Trader At The End Of The Day On Black Monday, Toronto 1987

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A Worker Paints The Golden Gate Bridge, 1956

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The Charred Remains Of The Apollo 1 Cabin Interior. Three Astronauts Died In It: Gus Grissom, Ed White And Roger Chaffee

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Greaser Takes A Break From Working On His Car, Brooklyn 1950s

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Men Outside The Bar Called “The Squirrel”, Sweden, Stockholm, 1895

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The Effects Of A Daisy Cutter Bomb, The Bomb Was Designed To Clear An Area For The Helicopter To Land

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An Orthodox Priest In A Deerskin Gizhiga, Russia, 1901

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Bobby Kennedy Taking A Lunch Break At The Bluefield Drive-In, 1960

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Each Day At The End Of The Shift, The Miners Would Have To Go Through The X-Ray Machine For Inspection. Some Miners Would Swallow Diamonds, Even Hide Them In Self-Inflicted Incisions In Their Legs, South Africa 1954

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A Freshly Painted M4 Sherman Tank In An Infrared Lamp Tunnel ,which Is Designed To Cut The Drying Time Of The Paint From 24 Hours To 4 Minutes

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Men Constructing Chicago Sewers, 1912

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Kim Il-Sung, Founder Of North Korea, With The Hungarian Communist Leader János Kádár, 1984. Tumor On His Neck Clearly Visible

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British Soldier Takes A Bath In The Port City Of Tobruk, Libya, 17 February 1942

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Martha Cooper, Man Smoking Cigarette And Reading Comics While Being Tattooed, Tokyo, Japan, 1970

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Swedish Pilots Tanking Saab 105 On The Gas Station, 1980

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A Commuter Reads The New York Post’s Rundown Of Black Monday Stock Market Crash, 1987