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The History Thread

Rules

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• Include an accurate description.
• Include a date (or rough estimate).
• Only post pictures that are at least 25 years old.
• Please resize your pictures if they are over 1000px in width (1000px is the max).
• Try not to repost.

 

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The Hindenburg floating past the Empire State Building, 1936

 

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Samuel Reshevsky, age 8, defeating several chess masters at once in France, 1920

 

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A teary-eyed Neil Armstrong photographed by Buzz Aldrin shortly after walking on the moon, 1969

 

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Joseph Goebbels scowling at photographer Albert Eisenstaedt after finding out he's jewish, ca. 1935-45

 

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Salvador Dali at a book signing, taken with a fisheye lens, by Philippe Halsman, 1963

 

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Clinton meets JFK -1963

 

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Protesters tear down the Berlin Wall as East German police watch. 1989

 

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The unbroken seal on Tutankhamun's tomb 1922. 3,245 years untouched

 

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A woman hitting a skinhead with her handbag, Sweden, 1985.
The woman was reportedly a concentration camp survivor.

 

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Adolf Hitler breaks ground on his ambitious plans to link all major German cities with highways, 1933
This ceremony kicked off construction of the Frankfurt-am-Maine - Darmstadt/Mannheim highway.

 

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Native American couple, Situwuka and Katkwachsnea, 1912

 

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

 

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Sydney Opera House under construction, 1966

 

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The first McDonalds.

 

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German POWs weep and sit in disgust as they watch footage shot at a German concentration camp, 1945

 

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

 

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Survivors of the Titanic are taken on board the Carpathiain, 1912

 

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Crowds rush through the castle on Disneyland 's opening day, 1955

 

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Construction of Hoover Dam, 1934