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A scene from the massive demonstration at Yerevan’s Lenin Square on April 24, 1965. [768x559]

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N.V.A tank infront of Majestic hotel a photo by Peter Wiles [800 x 523] ( 30-4-1975)

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A crowd blocks the passage of Soviet tanks on a road near Ganja, formerly Kirovabad, in Soviet Azerbaijan, on January 22, 1990. [1600x1017]

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An elephant gets a pedicure before its appearance in the London Circus at Earls Court, 1928. [1227 x 912]

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1963 Bronx Zoo, NYC “The Most Dangerous Animal In The World” [1200x900]

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The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion - the all Black, all female US Army battalion - parade while on duty in France, May 27th 1945. [980X768]

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James H. Banning pictured with mechanic Thomas C. Allen - in 1932 they became the first Black aviators to fly across the USA. They met just four days before their flight. New York's mayor welcomed them with a key to the city. [1200x900]

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#vintage #James H. Banning pictured with mechanic Thomas C. Allen - in 1932 they became the first Black aviators to fly across the USA. They met just four days before their flight. New York's mayor welcomed them with a key to the city. [1200x900] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2zJEQSo

Great Plains American Indian poses outdoors as he smiles. ~1880/1910. Unknown location. [540x775] The man wears beaded moccasins, leggings, a shirt, & fur pelts over his braids.

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Dutch army heading for WW2, 1940, 500x333.

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Charlie Chaplin on Wall Street, NYC, 1918.[1080*1080]

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In 1862, French neurologist Duchenne de Boulogne, faradized {electrified} the mimetic facial muscles of "The Old Man." [650×899] There were 6 living models used for scientific experiments to capture "aesthetically constituted beauty" & "gymnastics of the soul."

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#vintage #In 1862, French neurologist Duchenne de Boulogne, faradized {electrified} the mimetic facial muscles of "The Old Man." [650×899] There were 6 living models used for scientific experiments to capture "aesthetically constituted beauty" & "gymnastics of the soul." #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2KLcd9F

Repairing a Wurlitzer 1015 jukebox, ca. 1950 [597x715]

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North vietnamese soldier loading onto an MiL MI6 for operation Hồ Chí Minh 4-1975 [720×470]

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Malcolm Campbell and his team preparing his Sunbeam to break the Land Speed Record. He did it at 150.76 mph on 21 July 1925. (971 x 571).

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An Azerbaijani, Jew and Armenian hanging out, Soviet Union, 1963. [890x677]

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Gulag mugshot of author Varlam Shalamov, writer of the Kolyma Tales, who spent 15 years in a gulag near subartic climates for supporting anti-bolshevism and for Trotskyist activities. He would later die in 1982, 8 years before his only daughter. January 12th, 1937. [1000x687]

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#vintage #Gulag mugshot of author Varlam Shalamov, writer of the Kolyma Tales, who spent 15 years in a gulag near subartic climates for supporting anti-bolshevism and for Trotskyist activities. He would later die in 1982, 8 years before his only daughter. January 12th, 1937. [1000x687] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2yUim0E

Damdin Sükhbaatar (right), the leader of the Mongolian Revolution of 1921, with his wife Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa - 1922 [384x512]

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Dutch troops in Suriname, 1975 [1366 x 934]

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Soviet soldiers during a military parade on 1985. [480x468]

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Portrait of Serbian Prince Mihajlo Obrenovic by Anastas Jovanovic.(1865) (751x1024)

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Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro having a lunch in a kolkhoz in Georgian SSR, 1963. [960x726]

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On this day 28 years ago, April 29, 1992, the Los Angeles riots breaks out in response to the Rodney King verdict. 63 people are killed, 2,383 injured, 12,000 arrested, and $1 billion in property damage are caused. [1100 x 773]

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#vintage #On this day 28 years ago, April 29, 1992, the Los Angeles riots breaks out in response to the Rodney King verdict. 63 people are killed, 2,383 injured, 12,000 arrested, and $1 billion in property damage are caused. [1100 x 773] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2Yk0UgK

Serbian soldier coming back to his children after World war one in 1918. (506x684)

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Full Excavated Easter Island Head (and body), 1980s [540x675]

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A Lithuanian collaborator vaunts over the remains of those he's just beaten to death with that cudgel. Or so we are to believe. From the early Nazi occupation of Lithuania, so mid to late 1941.[709×1026]

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Duke Ellington, born April 29, 1899, poses with his piano at the KFG Radio Studio November 3, 1954. [2200 x 1750]

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The view from inside a German bomber over Poland, 1939. [900 x 588]

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A Soviet Soldier guarding surrendered German POWS after the Battle of Berlin, 1945. [500x304]

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Bogotá on April 9th, 1948 in the middle of an episode called "Bogotazo" (assassination of the working class presidential candidate, Jorge Eliecer Gaitán) [1000 × 739]

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Olympic Tug of War: The United States and Great Britain national tug-of-war teams face off at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. [1438 x 830]

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A young boy rescuing his pet canary from the ruins of his home following a German air raid - Warsaw, September 1939 [1775x1200]

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A South Vietnamese helicopter is pushed over the side of the USS Okinawa during Operation Frequent Wind, April 1975. The helicopter had to be disposed of to make room for the extensive Marine Corps helicopter operation helping to evacuate the city of Saigon. [2676 x 3589]

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#vintage #A South Vietnamese helicopter is pushed over the side of the USS Okinawa during Operation Frequent Wind, April 1975. The helicopter had to be disposed of to make room for the extensive Marine Corps helicopter operation helping to evacuate the city of Saigon. [2676 x 3589] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/3cPD2FI

Presidents Woodrow Wilson and William Howard Taft posing for photos together in front of the White House prior to Wilson’s inauguration ceremony, 1913 (497x400)

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April 28, 1988: The roof of an Aloha Airlines jet ripped off in mid-air at 24,000 feet, but the plane still managed to land safely! [1200x669]

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Members of the Mu-So-Lit Club (est. 1905) - Washington DC, 1940. The Mu-So-Lit was a famously exclusive Gentlemen's club for the African-American upper class. One could only be invited as a member by connections. [1920x1920]

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#vintage #Members of the Mu-So-Lit Club (est. 1905) - Washington DC, 1940. The Mu-So-Lit was a famously exclusive Gentlemen's club for the African-American upper class. One could only be invited as a member by connections. [1920x1920] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2VLHDDh

Musician John Jacob Niles practicing yoga in 1943 [822x705]

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Burlesque dancer Noel Toy (aka “The Chinese Sally Rand”) performing at the Forbidden City nightclub in San Francisco, 1943 (nsfw) [799x785]

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The London Fire Brigade conducting a drill, June 1896 (3370x2330)

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Entertainers Siegfried and Roy pictured with Muhammad Ali at The Stardust, Las Vegas in September 1980 [653x715]

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Worker's demonstration in Turin, 5 May 1976 [1992 x 1444]

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The dead body of Benito Mussolini and mistress Claretta Petacci and those of other executed fascists, on display in Milan on 29 April 1945, in Piazzale Loreto, the same place that the fascists had displayed the bodies of fifteen Milanese civilians. Photo by Vincenzo Carrese. [800 x568]

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#vintage #The dead body of Benito Mussolini and mistress Claretta Petacci and those of other executed fascists, on display in Milan on 29 April 1945, in Piazzale Loreto, the same place that the fascists had displayed the bodies of fifteen Milanese civilians. Photo by Vincenzo Carrese. [800 x568] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2YcsLzh

Albert Einstein riding a bicycle in California, 1933. [1560x1600]

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Workers taking a lunch break during the construction of the Rockefeller Center, 1932 [777 x 600]

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The ceremony for the driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit, Utah on May 10, 1869; completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad. At center left, Samuel S. Montague, Central Pacific Railroad, shakes hands with Grenville M. Dodge, Union Pacific Railroad (center right). [4514 x 3435]

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#vintage #The ceremony for the driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit, Utah on May 10, 1869; completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad. At center left, Samuel S. Montague, Central Pacific Railroad, shakes hands with Grenville M. Dodge, Union Pacific Railroad (center right). [4514 x 3435] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/3cY141s

American troops landing on Slapton Sands in England during rehearsals for the invasion of Normandy on April 1944. [3588 x 2895]

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Launch of liner SS Rex in Sestri Ponente, 1 August 1931 [1390 x 992]

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Amish men being booked into a Pennsylvania jail for refusing to send their children to high school, 1955. [400 x 335]

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A Jewish family shows their new litter of puppies - Lwów, August 10th, 1935 [1543x1046]

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Three Women Exhibit Different Gas Masks Worn During the Dust Bowl (Oklahoma, USA) ca. 1935 [910x672]

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Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua explains the situation in Nicaragua shortly before his overthrow in 1979 [730 x 485]

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