Collection The History Thread

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Two business owners preparing to defend their property, L.A Riots, 1992

 

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Bonnie and Clyde’s car after they were killed, 1934

 

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Queen Elizabeth jumps from a barge onto the dock during a state visit to Turkey in October 1971

 

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Inmates playing chess from their prison cells, by Cornell Capa, 1972

 

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American soldiers shelter in a trench just over a mile from ground zero moments after the detonation of the 43 kiloton nuclear device Simon at the Nevada Test Site, 1953

 

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Zulu Pool Players, 1903

 

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Water cooling towers of the John Amos Power Plant near Poca, West Virginia, in August of 1973

 

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Truck fleeing from Mt. Pinatubos cataclysmic eruption in 1991

 

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Hyperinflation in Germany, 1923. Banknotes had become so worthless that they were being used as wallpaper

 

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A B25 crashed into the Empire State Building, 1945

 

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"Boxing match in progress on the deck of New Zealand troopship Dominion Monarch, carrying 2nd Echelon 4th Reinforcements to the United Kingdom." 1940

 

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Ski Jumping at Chicago's Soldier Field, 1937

 

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Ferdinand Porsche, Adolf Hitler and other Nazi officials admire Hitler's 50th birthday gift: a convertible Volkswagen (~April 20, 1939)

 

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Aftermath of first-ever armored car robbery, Pittsburgh, PA. March 11, 1927

 

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Koryu Type D Midget Submarines, Kure dry docks, Japan, 1945

 

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Marshall Stalin 1945, Potsdam

 

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The Loneliest Job: John F. Kennedy, 1961

 

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Members of the Swiss Military wrestle in the Alps, 1919

 

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An Irish UN soldier flees from an exploding ammunition dump during the Congo Crisis, Elizabethville, 1960

 

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John F Kennedy's coffin lies in state in the Capitol Building (Nov. 1963)