In 1943, a Pennsylvania dentist convinced FDR to fund a secret World War II weapon, bats, armed with napalm. The result accidentally burned down a United States Army airfield on this day later that same year. Croatians and Marion kissed near the end of the Croatian War of Independence in 1995. At the 1939 World’s Fair, Westinghouse showed off a robot that could smoke cigarettes. P47 Thunderbolt Daddy Rabbit with an impressive collection of mission symbols flown by Captain Neil D. Stanley of 391st Fighter Squadron, 366th Fighter Group, 9inth Air Force in the European theater of operations, circa 1945. Paying his tab with gold dust, Klondike Goldrush, 1899. Fortune teller at table, Hjo, China, 1908. The Mad Tea Party at Disneyland is one of the most iconic Disney attractions, originally opening with the park on July 17th, 1955.

The Kennedy Children in 1928 Jesse James photographed in 1864 at age 17 while serving as a Confederate gerilla fighter. French soldiers goofing off before shipping out. 1914. The local priest takes a strong turn at the front and gives these Atala cyclists a break during their training run in preparation for the 1959 Jirro datalia stage race. Italy near Milan 1959. Amsterdam coronation riots 30 April 1980 New York May 16th 1918 police experiment with a machine gun motorcycle. British ladies assemble Sten submachine guns in 1942 from the 1930s when Nepal’s King Judah Schumer went on a hunting expedition. a German Shepherd and his human in 1943. Gas generator car in Madrid, October 25th, 1941. Huge numbers of South Vietnamese civilians scale the 14 ft wall around the United States embassy in Saigon on trying to reach evacuation helicopters as the last Americans departed from Vietnam.

April 1975 coachman strike in Buenosyus 1899. loading a polar bear carcass onto Neptune Hudson Bay, Nunovette, July 20th, 1904. abandoned boats during the California Gold Rush. Miss Jukebox, Paris, France. Minutes on 59. Children cool off under a makeshift street shower during the 1925 heatwave in DC. Harry Houdini. Tightroppe walker at a Ringling Brothers circus. Circa 1905. The Berberov family with lion Soviet Baku modernday Azerbaijan 1970s Three Boys in Germany playing with their new Zeppelin toy. 1928. The Watts riots in Los Angeles, 1965. The mascot of Ascot, Mrs. is Gertrude Schilling at Ascot 1970s. Kev residents clear the rubble of destroyed buildings on Creschhatic Street near Kenan Square, 1944. Inuit woman coutuk in her beaded atigi Fullerton Harbor Nunovet February 1905 Apache warriors armed with rifles 1886 1988 Olter loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and TV host Larry King on the set of Larry King Live 2000. Putin had taken power just 4 months before the interview took place. 1950s the streets of London carried the familiar excitement of Guyox night. Children crafted effiges of Guy Fox proudly displaying their creations on corners and outside shops while calling out Penny for the Guy. Halloween costume in the 70s. Bully packed Londoners leave town carrying golf clubs and a happy dog for an Easter holiday break in 1930. Hans Martin Schlier, a German business executive and former SS officer after being kidnapped by the far-left militant group Red Army Faction in 1977. Marilyn Monroe, May 1951. Vanessa Angel in a one-piece swimsuit. 1990s Soviet soldiers raised the flag over the Reichto on May 2nd, 1945. Member of Royal Dutch Navy demonstrates the Belgian version of how to diffuse a sea mine.

Fleelland, Netherlands, 1939. Coming home from school in Dartmore, United Kingdom, circa 1981. Heather Lleair hugging a dog. 80s. A horsedrawn wooden snowplow in Kansas in 1912. Anastasia Vetranova, a resident of the village of Miovka with her children at a destroyed house. Ukraine 1943, Soviet soldiers evacuate a wounded soldier across a river. in 1943. Bonito Mussolini and his mother. 1884. The only black soldier of the Austrohungarian Empire. 1915. Robert Wadllo standing next to other people. In this 1940 photo taken during his vacation in St. Petersburg, he’s seen trying to squeeze into an elevator, towering over everyone around him. An elderly couple met for a beer at a bar. New York City, 1950. Princess Margaret in the bathtub wearing the tiara. 1962. Kent State University. During a demonstration against the Vietnam War, students dive to the ground as the guard fires on faculty and students. May 4th, 1970.

Italian young man photographed 1899. Halloween costumes in the 1970s. Lucy the Giant Elephant. She was built in Margate, New Jersey in 1881. It’s one of America’s oldest roadside tourist sites. Solid family photo taken in the backyard in 1996. construction of the Panama Canal. The aftermath of the flood in Lennengrad, September 1924. Children wearing very scary masks for Halloween. This is how they took selfies in 1949. Theodore Roosevelt taking a rest while on a safari. Woman water skiing next to someone also water skiing while playing piano. Snow Bunny on an unseasonably cold Easter in New Jersey, 1970. Singaporean workers transport boxes on bicycles. 1969. British South Asians in London protesting against neofascists after the murder of Atlab Ali. 1978. Rambling Gold makes a world record high jump of 12 ft and 2 in. 1925. Benio Del Toro and Parker Posey, photo by Mark Celiger, 1995.

In 1915, Wilmer Russy, New York City, became the first woman taxi cab driver. Bucharest residents posing for photos with a Romanian flag cut out in the middle during the Romanian Revolution in December 1989. The first mermaid show at Wikiwatchi Spring State Park, Spring Hill, Florida. 1940s. Lou Alsendor’s graduation at UCLA 1969, later known as Karim Abdul Jabar. 1974 photo of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco presenting the grand cross of the order of Isabella the Catholic to Saddam Hussein, then vice president and deacto ruler of Iraq. German railway gun crook Eisenban Lefetta K12 firing 1942 Ted Turner launches Cartoon Network outside its new headquarters in Atlanta October 1st 1992. two. A Japanese kamicazi plane attacks the American cruiser Louisville. 1945. Miners shower after a shift in a coal mine. United Kingdom, 1940. A woman greets her son, an Austrian prisoner of war returning home to Vienna.

1947, contortionist only known by the name Percy. a segregated classroom in Mississippi, 1939. On May 17th, 1954, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Brown versus Board of Education, declaring racially segregated public education inherently unequal. Aboriginal group central Taiwan 1900s. Dog giving you a very good reason to vote in the 1964 election. British troops patrol the bogside, a predominantly Catholic neighborhood in Derry, 1971. Two ladies light their cigarettes circa 1890s. The Northern Territory Special Reconnaissance Unit, NTSRU, was an irregular warfare unit of the Australian Army during World War II, composed mainly of Aboriginal people from the Northern Territory. Squadron Leader Donald Thompson, training the NTSRU. Hindenburg disaster, Lakehurst, New Jersey, 1937. Palestinian women and children transferring water. Ainaram village, 1944. A bust in front of a destroyed cathedral 2 miles from the atomic bomb detonation site. Nagasaki, Japan, 1945.

Horses wearing gas masks during World War I. Two girls standing outside of a snow fort. 1910. Moroccan soldiers belonging to the French foreign detachments dragging a Nazi flag during the liberation of Mull House, France, 1944. Chefs at the Berkeley Hotel showing off their 6-foot Christmas pudding. 1920s Harrison Ford hanging around in his workshop. 1984. Children are playing Ring a Ring of Roses on a street marked with graffiti reading No Surrender in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1962. Girls in Bathing Suits, England, 1919. School children demonstrate against conscription. Liverpool, 1980s. Woman in a dress decorated with fish scales. 1921. Diver vacuuming the aquarium floor of the Miami Sea Aquarium in 1959. Aloyia Vagner, born 1906, was a famous German sideshow performer. She was born with tetra Amelia syndrome, which caused a lack of arms and legs.

Columns of the SS Corps Danmark, Fryor’s Danmark, passed through the streets of Copenhagen. 1945, the Branch Devidian compound at Mount Carmel was engulfed in flames on April 19th, 1993, ending a 51-day siege outside Waco. 82 members of the branch devidian organization were died. Lone Wolf and Eetla Kaa Apache 1860. On in May 1945 during VE Day celebrations in Paris, a procession of wartime political prisoners and deportiz at the Arct Triumph. Little trainer. The 100meter sprint. The very first event of the first modern Olympic Games, Athens, April 6th, 1896. Chaplain and Gandhi, Canning Town, London, England, United Kingdom. Sept 22 1931. An auxiliary territorial service girl crew dressed in warm winter coats works a search light near London on January 19th, 1943, trying to find German bombers for the anti-aircraft guns to hit.

A man poses with a motorcycle equipped with skis in order to travel through the snow in Kerat, Switzerland during World War I. People around a Sculpy Tone jukebox watching a music video. Paris, France, 1963. School uniforms from mid1 1920s China. Moments after the signature of concordant signed between the Vatican and Nazi Germany by Hitler and later confirmed by Pope Pius Duntheine coffee queen of 1940 Peggy Van Vleet posing inside the world’s largest iced coffee glass with well an iced coffee. Bruce Lee with his master Yipman. Raquel Welch dances with United States troops during a USO show in Daang, Vietnam, 1967. Beijing, 1966. Citizens of the Soviet Union participate in China’s anti-revisionism parade, defending the principle of revolution over reform. A 1930 shot of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Times Square from above. These parades had begun in 1924.

Times Building 42nd Street and Longacre Square soon to be renamed Times Square, New York, circa 1904. Playboy Models at Duns River Falls, oo Rios, Jamaica, 1972. Ford Aurora 2, designed as the living room on wheels, 1969. In 1964, Bobby Fischer, age 21, playing chess against 50 opponents simultaneously, he won 47, drew two. Albert Einstein as a grad student, 5 years before he revolutionized physics, 1900. Frank Sinatra, Minot 65. Able nuclear test 23 kilotons, air burst 160 m. Bikini Lagoon, 1st July 1946. The purpose of the tests was to investigate the effect of nuclear weapons on warships.

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