29 Poignant Historical Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Previous Decades
Nathan Johnson
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05/03/2024
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Knowing your history is an important thing. It keeps us from repeating the mistakes of the past, time and time again -- if enough of us pay attention, that is. That said, it's also undeniably interesting. One of the great crimes of the modern age is how we've managed to make history a boring or dry subject for many -- take a gander at just a smidgeon of the powerful and poignant pics history has produced for us.
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Meet Margaret Hamilton, The Woman Who Took Mankind To The Moon. She Is Standing Beside The Code She Created To Program The Computer Systems On The Apollo 11 Spacecraft, 1969 -
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The Original Michelin Man From 1894. -
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In 1990, An Improperly Installed Window On British Airways Flight 5390 Fell Off During Midflight Causing Rapid Decompression In The Cockpit. -
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Salvador Dali Walking An Anteater. Paris, 1969 -
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In 1996, Binti Jua, An 8-Year-Old Female Western Lowland Gorilla, Tended To A 3-Year-Old Boy Who Had Fallen Into Her Enclosure At The Brookfield Zoo In Illinois. -
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Michelangelo's Moses Is A Marble Sculpture Made In 1513–15 -
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A Father Looking For His Two Missing Sons That Went Missing During The War, Mitrovica, Kosovo, 1999 -
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Albina Mali-H0čevar Was A Slovenian Fighter Who Was Wounded In Combat Several Times During Ww2. She joined the People's Liberation Movement at 16.She was wounded twice at 17.She was wounded again by an exploding mine three days after her 18th birthday.She continued fighting and working as a nurse for the rest of the war.She lived until the age of 75. -
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In 1996, A Newborn Baby Girl Was Left In A Garbage Can Near The City Of Kolkata, India. Three Friendly Street Dogs Discovered And Protected Her For Nearly Two Days, Even Attempting To Feed The Child Before Authorities Were Contacted And The Young One Was Saved. -
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Belgian Coal Miners Crammed In An Elevator At The End Of A Long Day Of Work. 1900 -
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Jenny Joseph Modeling For The Columbia Pictures Logo, 1992. She Had Never Modeled Before, And Never Did Again. -
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Hippy High School Fashion In The 1960s -
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Kenyan Runner Abel Mutai Was Only A Few Meters From The Finish Line, But Got Confused With The Signs And Stopped, Thinking He Had Finished The Race -
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In 1731 King Frederick I Of Sweden Sent A Taxidermist His Favorite Lion Who Had Died And This Is What He Received Back. King Frederik's Lion Is On Display To This Day At Gripsholm Castle, A Former Royal Residence And Now A Museum In Mariefred, Södermanland, Sweden. -
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André The Giant On A Plane Traveling To Japan, 1980 -
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Portrait Of A “Mestiza De Sangley," Philippines, 1875. Photo By Francisco Van Camp. -
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This Is Shavarsh Karapetyan, A Retired Armenian Swimmer. -
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Undine Rising From The Waters (1880) By Chauncey Bradley Ives -
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Eiffel Tower Under Construction, July 1888 -
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Billed As "The Sheep-Headed Men," "The White Ecuadorian Cannibals Eko And Iko," And "The Ambassadors From Mars,” George And Willie Muse Were World-Famous Sideshow Performers In The Early 1900s. But Even Their White Audiences Hardly Knew The Horrors Of Their Story. -
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Lebanon Pre-Civil War, Byblos, 1965. Photo By Raymond Depardon -
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The Daredevil Sky Boys Who Built The Empire State Building, 1930-1931. -
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Three Jewish Men Who All Survived The Auschwitz Concentration Camp And Were Liberated On The Same Day, Reunite 73 Years Later, 2019 -
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Corporal Jackie Was A Baboon In The South African Army During World War I. He Was The Official Mascot Of The 3rd Transvaal Regimen When His Owner, Albert Marr Was Drafted Into War, And Would Not Leave Jackie At Home. He Asked His Superiors If Jackie, Too, Could Join The Army And They Said Yes. -
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A Couple At Woodstock Only 48 Hours After They Met And The Same Couple 50 Years Later, Happily Still Together. -
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A German Coal Miner Waiting To Get Into The Communal Shower At The End Of A Long Shift, 1958. -
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Shirley Slade Was One Of More Than 1000 Women Who Had Been Solicited By The U.S. Government To Enter An Intensive Seven-Month Training Course That Would Make Them The First Female Pilots To Enter The Air Force. -
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“My Uncle Getting Caught Growing Weed In The Backyard." - 1970s -
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The Man Who Inspired The Creation Of Shrek, 1944
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