#vintage #A scene from the massive demonstration at Yerevan’s Lenin Square on April 24, 1965. [768x559] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/3bR6niY
#vintage #A crowd blocks the passage of Soviet tanks on a road near Ganja, formerly Kirovabad, in Soviet Azerbaijan, on January 22, 1990. [1600x1017] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2xlM2Dj
#vintage #An elephant gets a pedicure before its appearance in the London Circus at Earls Court, 1928. [1227 x 912] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2YjLHvS
#vintage #The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion - the all Black, all female US Army battalion - parade while on duty in France, May 27th 1945. [980X768] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2KOdP2h
#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
#vintage #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. #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2ydN0Sr
#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
#vintage #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). #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2VOuUzD
#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
#vintage #Damdin Sükhbaatar (right), the leader of the Mongolian Revolution of 1921, with his wife Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa - 1922 [384x512] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2ydc5wP
#vintage #Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro having a lunch in a kolkhoz in Georgian SSR, 1963. [960x726] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/3f233n3
#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
#vintage #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] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2W9z5Fd
#vintage #Duke Ellington, born April 29, 1899, poses with his piano at the KFG Radio Studio November 3, 1954. [2200 x 1750] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2Si0ovC
#vintage #A Soviet Soldier guarding surrendered German POWS after the Battle of Berlin, 1945. [500x304] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2yYQ5pq
#vintage #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] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2KKO2Ig
#vintage #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] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2YeKjL3
#vintage #A young boy rescuing his pet canary from the ruins of his home following a German air raid - Warsaw, September 1939 [1775x1200] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2VK3cUG
#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
#vintage #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) #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/3aPXvsl
#vintage #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] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2xhyIzP
#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
#vintage #Burlesque dancer Noel Toy (aka “The Chinese Sally Rand”) performing at the Forbidden City nightclub in San Francisco, 1943 (nsfw) [799x785] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2KEtBwz
#vintage #Entertainers Siegfried and Roy pictured with Muhammad Ali at The Stardust, Las Vegas in September 1980 [653x715] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/3aH6OuJ
#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
#vintage #Workers taking a lunch break during the construction of the Rockefeller Center, 1932 [777 x 600] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2xV6njj
#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
#vintage #American troops landing on Slapton Sands in England during rehearsals for the invasion of Normandy on April 1944. [3588 x 2895] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2SdW4xo
#vintage #Amish men being booked into a Pennsylvania jail for refusing to send their children to high school, 1955. [400 x 335] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2Sfve8b
#vintage #Three Women Exhibit Different Gas Masks Worn During the Dust Bowl (Oklahoma, USA) ca. 1935 [910x672] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2SfM3A2
#vintage #Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua explains the situation in Nicaragua shortly before his overthrow in 1979 [730 x 485] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2S9dAmH