Pics that give a glimpse into the past.
History is much more interesting than our history books lead us to believe. Well, that isn't entirely the case. History is full of fascinating stories and even more fascinating characters, the problem with history class wasn't the subject matter, but how it was taught; reading.
Learning about history through photographs is a different experience entirely. When you can see the faces and figures who blazed the trails before you, their impact on our understanding becomes greater. So see the past like you've never seen it before with these fascinating pics from the past.
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The Leader Of The Street Gang The Crips, Stanley Williams Lived An Extreme Double Life — During The Day, He Was An Anti-Gang Youth Counselor, And At Night He Was The Boss Of The Crips, Committing Violent Gang Crimes Against A Rival Gang, The Bloods
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John D. Rockefeller Gifting A 5-Cent Coin To A Child, 1929
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Ronald Reagan Testifies Against Fellow Actors Before House Un-American Activities Committee In 1947
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Ex-American, Argentine Light Cruiser General Belgrano Sinking After Being Struck By A British Torpedo During The Falklands War. 323 Went Down With The Ship, 02,05/1982
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Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Wearing His Rough Riders Uniform, C. 1898. He Would Become The 26th President Of The United States In 1901
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Jfk Being Served Fettuccine Alfredo By Its Inventor, Alfredo Di Lelio At The Restaurant Alfredo In Rome, Italy. 1963
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British Troops March Past The Great Pyramids In Egypt, 1940
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Union (Left) And Confederate (Right) Veterans Meet For The Battle Of Gettysburg's 50th Anniversary In 1913
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The Jim Twins Were Separated At Birth And Reunited At 39. They Quickly Found That They Had Lived Oddly Similar Lives
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People At Daytona Beach In Florida, United States In 1904.
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Frank Lucas, The D Rug Lord Who Ruled Harlem In The 1970s, Was So Discreet That The Police Didn't Know Who He Was In 1971 When He Decided To Wear A $100,000 Full-Length Chinchilla Coat — To A Muhammad Ali Boxing Match
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Us Soldiers Drinking Coca-Cola. Over 5 Billion Bottles Were Distributed During The War
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Malcolm X Visiting The Great Pyramids During His Pilgrimage To Makkah, 1964
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Italian Summer, 1980s. Photos By Slim Aarons
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Soviet Basketball Player Arvydas Sabonis At The World Cup Final In Spain, 1986
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A Chunk Of Debris, Likely From One Of The Crashed Airliners, Lies On The Corner Of Murray Street In Lower Manhattan Near The World Trade Center In New York On Sept. 11, 2001
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Jean Bugatti, Engineer And Designer Who Was The Eldest Son Of Ettore Bugatti, The Founder Of The Car Manufacturer Bugatti. Here He Is Standing With A Bugatti Royale In Which Only 7 Were Built. Photograph Taken In 1932
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At 3 A.m. One Night In 1988, Hawaiian Singer Israel Kamakawiwo'ole Called A Local Studio And Said He Needed To Record Something Immediately. He Pleaded With The Engineer: "Please, Can I Come In? I Have An Idea." Kamakawiwo'ole Recorded The Iconic Version Of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" In One Take, Which Would Soon Touch Countless People Across The Globe
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In 1978, A Remarkable Discovery Was Made In A Los Angeles Yard When Children Playing Uncovered A Ferrari Buried Just Beneath The Surface. The Police Were Notified, And It Was Revealed That The Car Had Been Reported Stolen Four Years Earlier
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17 Year Old Juliane Koepcke Survived The Lansa Flight 508 Plane Crash In 1971. After The Plane Was Struck By Lightning, She Was Sucked Out And Fell 2 Miles Still Strapped To Her Seat. She Survived The Next 11 Days Alone In The Amazon Jungle
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An Armored Japanese Samurai Of The Tokugawa Shogunate Photographed By Photographer Felice Beato In The 1860s
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In 1925, A Man Flying From Casablanca To Dakar Photographed A Barbary Lion In The Atlas Mountains. This Photo Is Special Because It's The Last Known Picture Of A Wild Barbary Lion Before They Went Extinct
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This Is A Photo Of A British Veteran Of The Napoleonic Wars Posing With His Wife. He Can Be Seen Wearing A Campaign Medal, Commemorating The Fact That He Served In Spain
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During The Late 1960s, Coca Cola Orchestrated A Massive Birdseed Display In St. Mark's Square, Arranging The Seeds To Create Their Iconic Logo. Within Moments, Hundreds Of Pigeons Flocked To The Scene, Feasting On The Seeds And Inadvertently Forming The Coca Cola Emblem
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The Jaws Of An Ancient Megalodon Shark That Lived Around 23 To 3.6 Million Years Ago vs. A Modern-Day Great White
