A Black police officer is protecting members of the Ku Klux Klan from their rivals. This incident took place in Austin, Texas in 1983. A family in Tokyo watches the moon landing in 1969.
This is a portrait of Hollow Hornbear, a Brulee Native American man. The year is 197. In 1901, there was a story about Blanch Monet being imprisoned for 25 years.
American soldiers are sheltering in a trench more than a mile from the epicenter of the explosion shortly after the 43-kiloton Simon nuclear bomb detonated at the Nevada Test Site in 1953. Washington, D.C., around 1927, Walter Layman traveled across the country with his small dog, Pocahontas, documenting Native American culture. His photographs appeared in magazines such as National Geographic and Nature. She is about to turn 16.
He was 17 years old. They met at a party. It was in the fall.
She was wearing a red dress. He was wearing a blue shirt. They talked for an hour.
He invited her for a walk. They walked along the lake shore. It was a full moon.
He stopped and looked at her. She looked at him. He bent down and kissed her.
She returned his kiss. It was the most wonderful kiss of her life. A couple with 11 children on Palm Sunday in 1954.
A German woman is burning tons of legal tender. This happened during the hyperinflationary period of the German currency in the 1920s. Paper money was actually cheaper than wood or coal.
Families used it to start fires during times of crisis. Friendship. Once upon a time, there was a friendship between two women, Maria and Sophia.
Maria and Sophia were inseparable, like two peas in a pod. They lived together for many years, sharing everything. This is a picture of a young Lee Harvey Oswald as a Marine in 1956.
General Alfred Jodel, Chief of Staff of the German Armed Forces High Command, signed the document of unconditional surrender to Nazi Germany. That was May 7, 1945. Around 1973, Barbara Clack was waterskiing on a human ski.
Joker Osborne and Ken White, champion skiers at Cypress Gardens, Florida, were also there. When the tide went out, London reverted to the atmosphere of a 1930s movie night. It was February 1942.
We are in Tar County, California, at a farm worker camp run by the Federal Agricultural Service (FSA). A woman walks around renting out books, like a mobile library. Robert Earl Hughes, who lived from 1926 to 1958, was the heaviest person ever recorded.
He weighed 1,071 pounds (approximately 442 kg) and walked without any assistance. This is a scene from Fujama, Japan, in 1920. Truck driver Robert Newtonur and his family gathered around a television in 1949 when screens first appeared in American living rooms.
A new train station has just opened in the Newhurst family’s hometown of Eerie, Pennsylvania. The Yale University pipe smokers’ endurance competition in 1959. Two children riding a pony in 1924.
Clearly, not everyone walked to school back then. Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney. Those were the good old days.
During World War II, there was a man trying to detect planes in the distance. They used listening devices. An image of Charlie Chaplin on his shoulder appears in one frame of the film.
1918. Alexander Graanbell (right) and his assistants are observing the testing of one of his tetrahedral kites. 198. Ronald Reagan, 29, is posing for an art class in 1940.
Walter Yao, a sailor, was the first person to undergo plastic surgery. He was injured in World War I in 1917, suffering severe facial injuries.
He had a skin graft. This is a new medical procedure. Three boys are paddling a makeshift raft.
They are in Frenon Sea, Essex. It is the 1930s. A girl is hosting a tea party around 1913.
In 1922, a white sturgeon was caught at the mouth of the Vulga River. It was about 23 feet (approximately 6.9 meters) long and weighed 3,463 lbs (approximately 1,222 kg). They truly are the “dinosaurs” of the sea.
Let’s go rowing together. July 27, 1933. London schoolchildren crowd into a children’s swimming pool at King Edward Memorial Park, amidst a heatwave.
Two Spruce girls are standing on the beach, wearing swimsuits made of spruce wood, probably in Hokam, Washington in 1929. A cocktail party. August 21, 1930.
A group of actors, including Tula Bankhead (born 1903 and died 1968), laugh heartily in the play Let Us Be Gay at the Lyric Theatre in London, and a scene of bottling ketchup at the Hines factory in Pittsburgh in 1897. The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 was the deadliest earthquake in U.S. history. After the disaster, the splits of the land along the San Andreas Fault were clearly visible.
Helen Bush, whose mother disapproved of evacuating children to the countryside, helped a French pastor salvage clothes from a bombed house in London’s East End. Okay. So, Paul McCartney at a photo booth in France, 1966.
Valuchia County, Florida, circa 1897, on the Tamoka River. A match seller, disabled by polio, ekes out a living on the streets of London. This scene took place around 1900.
After Germany annexed Austria, police struggled to control the cheering Austrian crowds during Adolf Hitler’s visit to Vienna. This occurred in March 1938. In the middle of the photograph, Nazi prison warden Gerta Steinhoff struggles to suppress a smile as she is brought to trial for torturing and murdering prisoners in Poland.
In 1946, a lightning strike hit the smoke plume from a detonated US Navy depth charge. This event occurred in Chesapeake Bay on October 24, 1957. August von Mackinson was a German field commander in World War I.
He was one of Germany’s most outstanding and brilliant military leaders and remained a loyal monarchist until his death in November 1945 at the age of 95. An Italian Navy airship sinking in 1915. A German railway plow in Italy in 1944.
A samurai warrior with a longbow from Satsuma, Japan, in 1860. Similarly, to win a bet in New Jersey in 1956, someone is gesturing toward protesters as the Ku Klux Klan marches through the center of Houston’s city gates. A community in 1984.
The marching group was protected by police. There was shouting between the two sides, but no clashes occurred. Marines with three M23 and 124 rifles at Camp Pendleton, October 1956.
This is an outdoor movie theater in San Francisco in 1948. An 8-year-old boy is working on a farm. This scene takes place in western Massachusetts in 1915.
In the 1940s, Koko Chanel had a romantic relationship with a Nazi officer. She attempted to seize her Jewish lover’s perfume business, joined a Nazi delegation called Westminster, and was freed after the war, presumably thanks to Churchill. (Sketch depicts a young woman with beautiful hair.)
It must have taken hours to style it. This photo was taken in the late 1890s. The children are studying a special embossed globe.
1914. A West Berlin police officer is on guard duty. Behind him are East German soldiers building the Berlin Wall in 1961.
A sniper was captured while disguised as a tree. This happened in Gallipoli in 1915. Victorian-era stunt cyclists are performing a balancing act in 1891.
Wounded American soldiers are inside a war-torn church from World War I. The Fort Peek Dam is under construction in Montana in 1936. Ceil J.
Williams, a photographer, was drinking water from a public tap that was reserved for white people only. This happened in 1964.
In 1973, Marlon Brando refused an Oscar for The Godfather and asked Sachin Little Feather to protest Hollywood’s portrayal of Native Americans. African American students are arriving at the newly inclusive Southern High School in Baltimore, Maryland. White students walk behind them, holding a sign that reads “Southerners don’t want Black people.”
This event took place in 1954. On February 4, 1912, Austrian inventor France Reichelt fell to his death from the Eiffel Tower. He parachuted from the tower hoping to demonstrate his new low-altitude parachute, but failed.
A pair from 1850. Let’s take a look. The first tourist buses in New York City in 1904 were pulled by horses. They had an open roof and sides.
The buses were painted dark blue and pulled by a team of four horses. Collaborators with Germany are gathering in Minsk, Belarus in 1943. This is a brand-new child safety seat from the 1950s.
Buried at Seashore Atlantic City, New Jersey, around 1905. There are beachgoers and a steel pier. It was October 1938, and the German army officially entered Czechoslovakia.
They came there to annex the Sudata region into the German Empire. The local German people were welcoming the army. There was a baby chimpanzee, Cookamo Jr.
In a New York City apartment in 1955. These are masks mimicking the faceless students in Pink Floyd’s album, The Wall. Confiscated German rifles.
The Mouser 98K speedometer was used during the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco around 1936. Jane Mansfield is posing on a bench on the set of the television show The Bachelor from the 1950s.
Charlie Chaplin, 1918. Jane Russell’s first Western film was Outlaws. She was an American actress and a sex symbol of the 1940s and early 1950s.
Okay, let’s get started. I think I need a bigger boat. My psychologist told me I should accept my flaws.
So I did. Now I’m hugging a bunch of people. I’m not sure which is tighter, our jeans or our friendship.
I don’t always speak sarcastically. Sometimes I’m asleep or eating. I listen to my heart and it leads me to the refrigerator.
I’m not sure which is worse, my decisions or my friend’s reaction to them. I’m not sure which is more enduring, our genes or our friendship. (Annie Oakley, 1894)
I summon the power of darkness to protect this vehicle and transform it into a tool to carry out my will. I banish all evil spirits from this vehicle. Recite this phrase three times.
Then you can get out of the car. Third, you oil the car. You need oil.
The oil can be any type. First, you apply oil to the tires. Second, you apply oil to the hood.
Third, you anoint the door. While anointing, you recite the following incantation: I anoint this chariot with the essence of darkness, and I bind it to my will.
May it guide me through life’s journey. May it protect me. Recite this three times.
The vehicle was then ready for use. February 1937, Posie County, Indiana. The 1937 flood caused extensive damage to farmland, highways, roads, farm buildings, equipment, and homes.
A car after flooding on Mackie Ferry Road near Mount Vernon. On November 27, 1967, a soldier from the 30th Regiment of the Beckman Division saved the lives of Vietnamese children during the Battle of Dien Han. This soldier’s name was Anonymous.
Today I learned that in London in the 1940s, people often held gas defense drills for civilians to prepare for gas attacks from Germany. There was a protest against abortion taking place at Benhof in the Netherlands in 1974. An American soldier showed off the helmet that saved his life during the Vietnam War.
Around 1969. A British Mark V tank, named Bratannia, leads a parade down Fifth Avenue on Liberty Day in New York in 1917. A school lunch in the 1980s.
The meal consisted of cheese pizza, some corn, soft pretzels dipped in mustard, a glass of mixed fruit, and chocolate milk. French women who had collaborated with the Nazis during World War II were being publicly humiliated by resistance members during the 1944 French liberation. Tommy Lee Jones played an offensive defender at St.
Mark’s School of Texas in 1965. The world’s last commercial sailing ship, the Premiere, is making its final roundabout at Cape Horn in 1949. There is a shaman holding a man captive.
The location is Alaska and the year is 1886. The man is accused of witchcraft. The pilots are overjoyed about their victory in the attack on the Marshall Islands.
They grinned from the tail of an F6F Hellcat aboard the USS Lexington after shooting down 17 of the 20 Japanese planes heading toward Terawa in 1943. An SS member is seen frolicking in a field of daffodils during World War II. The Michelin man was not only incredibly fearsome, but he also associated with a gang of other Michelin men who were musically gifted.
Consolidated B-24H Liberator aircraft, serial number 42-95379. The Extra Joker appears in the last photograph taken on August 23, 1944. It belonged to Bomber Squadron 725, Bomber Group 451, 15th United States Air Force.
October 6, 1933. Players are competing for the ball in a rugby game, the image illuminated by floodlights. A human zoo once existed.
This photograph was taken in 1904, when the U.S. government imported 1,300 indigenous Filipinos from various tribes to display at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition. British paratroopers are admiring the graffiti on the fuselage of their Horsa glider as they prepare to fly to Normandy during the second troop transport of the 6th Airborne Division on the evening of June 6, 1944.
New York City around 1900. It was a Jewish market on the east side of the city. A person is riding a rocket scooter in 1931.
On June 4, 1937, Silvin Goldman, a native of Ardmore, invented the shopping cart. Fred Rogers is testifying before Congress regarding funding for public broadcasting. The date is May 1, 1969.
Christian Trollstrip, a Danish fashion designer, covered a building with over 1,000 jackets to attract buyers. This took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1936. A carrier pigeon was released from a small hole in the side of a British Mark 5 tank during World War I.
This event took place near Albert, France, in 1918. Nicola Tesla, born in 1856 and died in 1943, a naturalized American physicist, was sitting in his laboratory in Colorado Springs with his magnifying glass in 1899.
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