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WW II soldiers wearing gas masks while peeling onions in Tobruk, Libya
on 15 October 1941

‘Basket Jim’ does his balancing act in Covent Garden, London — 1930

Ku Klux Klan members on a ferris wheel in Cañon City, Colorado — April 26, 1926

Railwaymen, a smoking rocking horse, a toy cannon, and a baby doll in 1933 Germany

Ravi Shankar and George Harrison

Fire Brigade in Al Mansoura, Egypt — 1924

The shortest, tallest, and fattest European playing poker in 1913

Mount Rushmore before the action

 Workers with the National Air Raid Precautions Animal Committee carry an
Airedale, injured during an air raid, into an animal hospital — England, 1940

Railway Bicycles from the late 1800s

Pigeons were fitted with cameras to take aerial photos in 1908
Photo: Boyer/Roger Viollet/Getty

 Dutch counterculture movement in the mid-1960s called Provo

Miss New Zealand faints at "Miss Universe," Long Beach, 1954

A game of human chess with actual soldiers in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1924

The pretty Romanov sisters of Russia, 1910. From left to right: Grand Duchesses
Maria, Olga, Anastasia, and Tatiana.

 

Ojibwe Native American spear fishing in Minnesota, 1908

Giza Plateau, 1930

A hop garden in Kent (circa 1940)

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German POWs watching footage shot at a German concentration camp;
while some were weeping, others looked quite disturbed — 1945

A lion riding in the sidecar during a performance of The Wall of Death
carnival attraction at Revere Beach, Massachusetts in 1929

A permanent stable cavity caused by the detonation on an underground nuclear test, 1961

Sexy Albert Einstein in 1932

Amelia Earhart receiving what proved to be her last haircut, 1937

Anastasia sharing a smoke with her father, Tsar Nicholas II, two years before their
assassination in 1916

Camp Commandant Amon Goeth, infamous from the movie Schindler's List, on the balcony
of his house overlooking Plaszow labor camp in Poland, 1943-44

Children for sale in 1948 Chicago when some parents were forced to do this due to poverty

Children rushing into a candy store following the end of “sweets rationing” in 1953

Dinosaurs being transported on the Hudson River to the 1964 World's Fair

Frank Sinatra asking Lou Gehrig for an autograph, 1939

Ham the chimp returns to Earth following his historic 16 minute space flight in 1961

Harry Houdini exposing “spirit trickery” in 1925

Turkish sniper/sharpshooter, dressed as a tree, captured by two Anzacs in
Gallipoli on June 1915

Shirtless Mark Twain, 1883

Native American couple, Situwuka and Katkwachsnea in 1912

OJ Simpson carrying the Olympic Torch in 1984. Nichole Brown can be seen on the left.

A girl with prosthetic legs, 1900

Six-year-old Arthur Conan-Doyle in 1865

Soldiers comfort each other during the Korean war in the early 1950s

Survivors of the Titanic are taken on board the Carpathia in 1912

The aftermath of the Great Hurricane of 1900 which killed an estimated 8,000 people in
Galveston, Texas

The earliest known aerial photograph, taken from a balloon over Paris in 1858

The Japanese “War Tuba” were used to locate enemy aircraft before the invention of radar,
Circa 1930

The RMS Olympic, the Titanic's sister ship, in wartime camouflage in 1915

Two childhood friends unexpectedly meet on opposite sides of a demonstration
in Saint-Brieuc, France, 1972

Union prisoners receive rations at Fort Sumter in 1864

Washington-Hoover Airport which was demolished in 1941. This is where the Pentagon
stands today.

What is thought to be the oldest known war photograph: New Hampshire volunteers
departing for the Mexican War in 1846

Betty White at home with her dog in 1952

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A man, Nikolai Machulyak, sharing some of his condensed milk with
a starving polar bear and her cubs — Russia, 1976

Selfie on the roof of Marceau’s photography studio in New York City on December 1920

(Photo by The Byron Company via The Museum of the City of New York)

Muhammad Ali talking a suicidal 21-year-old man out of jumping, 1981.
Here is The Video.

“Wait For Me Daddy” ― New Westminster, Canada on October 1, 1940
(Photo by Claude P. Dettloff)

Inflating bullock-skin boats for crossing the Himalayan River Sutlej — North India, 1903

“Miss Beautiful Ape” Contest — Century City in Los Angeles, 1972

Frank Sinatra mugshot, 1938

George Lucas and Steven Spielberg playing with water pistols in Sri Lanka, 1983

A family portrait left behind on the moon by astronaut Charles Duke, 1972

Jimmy Page partying with Jack Daniels and Robert Plant in the background

Marlon Brando before and after the Don Vito Corleone makeup

People walk across a row of chairs to avoid flood waters in Paris, 1924
(Photo by Henri Manuel)

My grandfather Omar Hussein Cherif (sitting down far right) with his football team 
― France, circa 1895

Police officer guarding a pharmacy in waist-high flood waters — Galt, Ontario,
Canada on May 17, 1974

5 MB hard drive being shipped by IBM, 1956

Ronald Reagan telling Frank Sinatra to stop dancing with his wife, 1981

A salesman refueling his motorized roller skates at a gas station, 1961
(Photo by F. Roy Kemp/BIPs/Getty Images)

Construction of the legs of the Eiffel Tower using scaffolding on December 7, 1887

Russian soldier playing an abandoned piano in Chechnya, 1994

An Elephant stops a tram on Gray's Inn Road to eat an apple from the driver —
London, December 1936

A sign at the Memphis Zoo in the 1950s — Memphis, Tennessee
(Photo by Ernest Withers)

 
Bruce Lee playing with his son Brandon, 1966

A Coca Cola advertisement from the late 60s made by pigeons in St. Mark’s Square, Venice
 

James Dean and Rock Hudson rehearsing a fight scene on the set of Giant, 1956

Salvador Dalí and Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel sharing a smoke break, 1938

Workers posing more than 100 feet in the air during construction of the Brooklyn Bridge

Chester E. Macduffee standing next to his newly patented 250-kilo diving suit, 1911

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