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German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen accidentally discovered X-rays in 1895. More than 100 years after Röntgen’s first X-ray experiments, Gerrit Kemerink, discovered an X-ray machine from the 1890s very similar to Röntgen’s original.[605x258]

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#vintage #German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen accidentally discovered X-rays in 1895. More than 100 years after Röntgen’s first X-ray experiments, Gerrit Kemerink, discovered an X-ray machine from the 1890s very similar to Röntgen’s original.[605x258] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot http://ift.tt/2ivqhcI

Spruce Goose, Howard Hughes' plane (1200 x 810)

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Russian soldiers playing piano in a wrecked living room in Berlin, 1945 [599 x 820]

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In 1928 the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin became the first commercial passenger transatlantic flight service in the world. Here it is entering Rio de Janeiro, one of its 64 total round trips to Brazil. [900x642]

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Algerian woman forced to remove veil for French army internment camp identity card, photo by Marc Garanger, 1960 [995x1000]

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Crowded Czech Legion trasport train during the Russian Civil War (circa 1917-18) [800×280]

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William Lanne, the last "full-blooded" Aboriginal Tasmanian man, 1866 [600x878]

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Commemorating the Centennial of the Romanoff murders, a colorized photo of the last Russian Imperial family, ca 1914 [5200x4500]

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Setting the flag at the Reichstag on April 30 1945 [1000x660]

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Royal Navy ship HMS Coventry is consumed by fire after being bombed by Argentine aircraft during the Falklands War (1982) [964x620]

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Corporal Walter Norman Ellis, Service Nº1917 27th Battalion and the 5th Machine Gun Battalion, 1st Australian Imperial Force. Summer 1915 colourised By RJM[757×1024]

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On the steps of Eros, Piccadilly Circus, 1969 [1600 x 1062]

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Coca Cola bottle history 1899, 1900, 1915, 1916, 1957 & 1986 [763x579]

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Neil Armstrong before the start of "Apollo 11" [710х986]

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Santa Claus with the children during Croation War. Vukovar, 1992.[1240 × 1050]

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My grandfather in his US Air Force Uniform, Dec 7 1960 [3264x1836]

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Nazi leaders Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, 1943 [1797х1245]

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Joe Kennedy Sr's 75th birthday party [1000*986]

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Marcus Sarjeant Firing Blanks at the Queen, 1981. [1600x 1228]

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Washington, DC - The U.S. Capitol under construction, 1860 [1354x1133]

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Olivia Newton John and John Travolta at the Grease premiere party, 1978 (683 x 1000)

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High-wire artist Philippe Petit performing on an illicitly installed cable between the towers of Notre Dame de Paris, June 26, 1971. [1280x721]

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The Execution of Murderous Mary, 1916, [410x625]

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1945 - GI with a captured Killinger and Freund motorcycle - 600 cc 3 cyl 2-stroke, front wheel drive [948x768]

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Western front WWI, a group of captured Allied soldiers representing 8 nationalities: Anamite (Vietnamese), Tunisian, Senegalese, Sudanese, Russian, American, Portuguese, and English [1500x1040]

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Louis Ross racing in the twin-engined Stanley Woggle-Bug steam automobile, Daytona Beach, Florida, 1905 [1200×710]

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September 1938. "WPA (Works Progress Administration) worker's children with toys in their play yard. South Charleston, West Virginia."[1065x663]

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A man sells ice cream to children 1918[563x417]

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Laika. First dog in space. No provisions were made for her return, and she died there. 1957. (750 x 519)

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Two lend-lease Bell P-63 “Kingcobra” aircraft flying over the Niagara falls. Note the Soviet stars on the fuselage of the airplanes. These planes are most likely being moved to be shipped off to join the fight in the European theater against the Nazi war machine. 1943.[775x585]

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A man sells ice cream to children, 1918[4760x3560]

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Testing of the first new bulletproof vests, 1923 [730 × 596]

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Renty, a man of Congolese origin who was enslaved on a cotton plantation near Richland County, South Carolina March 1850 [2848x3642]

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Muslim woman covers the yellow star of her Jewish neighbor with her veil to protect her, Sarajevo, 1941. [599×389]

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A "dead" John Lennon, pretending to have been run over by his psychedelic Rolls-Royce. In an ominous harbinger his iconic eyeglasses lie before him on the pavement. (1967)[1200×1503]

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A German-American man who was tarred and feathered for allegedly not buying war bonds during World War I, 1918 [2308x2958]

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American Man Protests during the Bitburg Controversy, 1985 [2031x2975]

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Pleasure wheel in Elbasan, Albania. 1924 [643x716]

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Leviathan of Parsonstown, Rosse 6ft Telescope, Built 1845, [1000x768]

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Mugshot of an unidentified boy incarcerated at Mountjoy Prison in Dublin, Ireland, 1857. More 1857 mugshots from the prison in comments. [1324x1672]

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As Soviet troops approached Berlin in 1945, citizens did their best to take care of Berlin Zoo's animals [444x599]

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Wounded American soldiers are attended to by medics on a coast guard landing barge alongside an assault transport's sick bay in the English Channel on June 16, 1944. Colour By Richard James Molloy[2560x2113]

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Disco Demolition Night, 1979, Comiskey Field, Chicago [736x736]

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Members of the GTO, the Soviets' physical culture training program, parade in Moscow, 1956. The Russian word used in the original title, “физкультурники“, now means “gym teachers.” [1118x1600]

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A warrior is ready for a tournament in Jaipur, India. Photography by Franklin Price Knott, 1929 [1136 x 640]

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Toasting the repeal of the Volstead Act, 1933 (3243 x 2598)

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German child playing with abandoned weapons, Berlin, Germany, 1945. [536 × 734]

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German Submarine U-701 survivors are rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard, after their boat was sunk off Cape Hatteras on 7 July 1942. [1000 × 660]

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A white girl follows an African-American girl down the slide at Thomas J. Semmes school in New Orleans during recess on Sept. 7, 1962. The children played together as the school went into its second day of integrated classes. [1247 x 818]

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Bulgarian medics helping a french POW Colorized (WWI) Credits: Back in Color (FB) Resolution [1024X717]

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