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The four torpedo tubes of UB 110, a German submarine that was sunk and risen in 1918. [1600 × 1277]

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Juventus fans spill over a collapsing concrete wall at Heysel Stadium as they flee charging Liverpool fans from the adjacent terrace. 600 people were injured and 39 were killed, crushed against the wall or trampled by other supporters attempting to escape. May 29th, 1985. [1920 × 1355]

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#vintage #Juventus fans spill over a collapsing concrete wall at Heysel Stadium as they flee charging Liverpool fans from the adjacent terrace. 600 people were injured and 39 were killed, crushed against the wall or trampled by other supporters attempting to escape. May 29th, 1985. [1920 × 1355] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2CXGn9y

Wernher Von Braun, former Nazi rocket scientist & later NASA scientist (as part of Operation Paperclip), with wounded arm in a cast, after surrendering to the American military. May 3, 1945. [464x600]

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Frida Kahlo, by Toni Frissell, 1937 [1038 × 1024]

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Mirza Ghulam Ahmad(Center with Kid in Front of him)and some of his companions ca.1899 [800x605]

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Belgian soldiers proudly going to WW1 (1914) [2594 x 1664]

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Queen Elizabeth II meets Marilyn Monroe and Victor Mature, 1956 [640x466]

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1948. Aerial view of U.S. Air Force's 100-ton Northrop Flying Wing YB-49 jet bomber in flight. Northrop Aircraft Inc., Hawthorne, California. [2100x1865]

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South of Kurdistan; Jewish kurdish women. 1934 [500x738]

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Albert Einstein loved sailing but didn't even know how to swim, 1939. [441x523]

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A man rides a bus in Durban, meant for white passengers only, in resistance to South Africa’s apartheid policies, 1986. [500 x 333]

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September 13, 1950. Pendulum pounding into a plastic helmet worn for testing by Dr. Charles F. Lombard of the University of Southern California Department of Aviation Physiology. This was part of a program planned to improve equipment, especially headgear for football players. [1500x1523]

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#vintage #September 13, 1950. Pendulum pounding into a plastic helmet worn for testing by Dr. Charles F. Lombard of the University of Southern California Department of Aviation Physiology. This was part of a program planned to improve equipment, especially headgear for football players. [1500x1523] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/33eNZiG

Italians viewing antique Emperor Caligula's Nemi ships in 1932. The ships were recovered after 2,000 years in 1929 and lost again during World War II. [1000x750]

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Billie Holiday in 1917 (age 2) [321x 480]

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Australian infantry with small box respirator gas masks, Battle of Polygon Wood, Ypres, BelgIum, September 1917, during WWI. [1200 x 1607]

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US Marines drag a casualty down a street to an ambulance in Hue, Vietnam. February 4, 1968. [1200x900]

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1 April, 1945: In the largest amphibious assault of the Pacific theater, US Army, Marines and 5th Fleet invade the island of Okinawa. The fierce 82-day battle lasted until June 22, 1945. (732x584)

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Peace-time Cavalry, "Passing the Time" in the 1930s. (941x640)

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A man adjusts the antenna of the first television set to be installed in a taxi, Chicago 1948. [877x1000]

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Assembly of Medium Tanks M3 at the Detroit Arsenal. 1941 [928x749]

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Mikhail Gorbachev meets President Reagan during his four-day visit to the US in December 1987 [1007x928 ]

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"A left front view of a U-2 reconnaissance aircraft parked on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS AMERICA (CV 66)", 1969 [3000 × 1991]

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A solemn crowd gathers outside the Stock Exchange in New York City after the stock market crash of 1929. [718x1024]

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Soldiers of the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force in Vladivostok, Russia, in 1919. These soldiers were a part of the Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War, which backed the White Russian monarchy against the Red Soviet uprising. [640x388]

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#vintage #Soldiers of the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force in Vladivostok, Russia, in 1919. These soldiers were a part of the Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War, which backed the White Russian monarchy against the Red Soviet uprising. [640x388] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/30bliAX

Austro-Hungarian soldiers executing Serbian soldiers, during the first years of WW1. [ 735 X 517 pixels ]

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Young women resting after collecting water from the Nile at Elephantine Island. The structure they are standing on is a Nilometer, which was used to measure the Nile's clarity and water level during the annual flood season. Aswad, Egypt, circa 1900. [2600x3139]

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#vintage #Young women resting after collecting water from the Nile at Elephantine Island. The structure they are standing on is a Nilometer, which was used to measure the Nile's clarity and water level during the annual flood season. Aswad, Egypt, circa 1900. [2600x3139] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2D0DAfu

Sgt. Duane T. Macbeth of I Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, at the ready with his M1 Garand rifle in Beirut, Lebanon. July 1958. [2283x2802]

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Budapest, 1945. During the 50-day siege of Budapest an airplane crashed into an apartment building [1490 x 2274]

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Ballet dancers on the set of “Destination Moon”, 1950 [759x770]

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Captain Carlo Montu (front), the first pilot ever to be wounded in combat, he was shot and wounded near Tobruk, Libya during the Italian-Turkish War in 1912 [505x601]

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Colour Sergeant William McGregor 1865 (Colourised by Me) [1422 x 2000]

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Skinhead fashions, UK, 1969. Glenda Peake and Tony Hughes. Finchley area, London, 7th October 1969. Photos by Doreen Spooner [1024 x1023]

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US troops relax around an Army M42 Duster flying the Confederate flag in Quang Tri, South Vietnam. April, 1967. (960x691)

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Franklin Roosevelt reviews Mexican troops in Monterrey, 1943 [900 x 706]

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A Navy sailor mans the dual .50 cal. Browning mount on a U.S. PBR through a free-fire zone along a river in the Mekong Delta, Feb, 1969. (960x654)

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Mao Zedong and Richard having a toast, February 1976. [980 x 600]

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The Main Building tower at the University of Texas at Austin where Charles J. Whitman opened fire indiscriminately on the people below seen through a bullet hole in a store window across the street, August 1st, 1966. [1920 × 1279]

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This 7 feet (2.13 meters) sword belonged to Pier Gerlofs Donia aka Grutte Pier, a 16th century Frisian rebel leader who was slightly taller than his sword. Picture was taken in 1951 at the Museum of Friesland in Leeuwarden, Holland, where the sword is still on display today. [990x1309]

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#vintage #This 7 feet (2.13 meters) sword belonged to Pier Gerlofs Donia aka Grutte Pier, a 16th century Frisian rebel leader who was slightly taller than his sword. Picture was taken in 1951 at the Museum of Friesland in Leeuwarden, Holland, where the sword is still on display today. [990x1309] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/30bSWGU

RF-51 ‘Little Lynn’ of 45th Tac Recon Squadron, Kimpo, Korea 1952 [1024 × 698]

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in 1982 in soviet occupied afghanistan the deadliest road accident ever happened when a fuel tanker in a military convoy exploded in the salang tunnel unleashing an explosive chain of reactions that claimed the lives of 2,700 people. known as the salang tunnel fire [1242x810]

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Negotiations between Vichy French and British for the surrender of Diego-Suarez, Madagascar, 1942 [800 x 616]

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Last chance weapon: Volkssturm (German militia) armed with Faustpatrones. Berlin, March 1945. [900x540]

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An elephant-mounted John Moses Browning's M1895 Colt -Browning "Potato Digger" machine gun, 1914 [1080x855]

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Men Washing Windows of Empire State Building - 1932 [600x474]

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Unpacking the “Mona Lisa”, oil painting on a poplar wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, at the end of World War II (1945). [640 x 618]

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I am going through my great-grandfather's pictures, he took during the war. This picture was taken during the invasion of France (that exact picture was taken in Belgium). The caption says:"Our Bunkercat". My great-grandfather got sent home in 1942 due to a heavy injury on his arm. [1082x1443]

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#vintage #I am going through my great-grandfather's pictures, he took during the war. This picture was taken during the invasion of France (that exact picture was taken in Belgium). The caption says:"Our Bunkercat". My great-grandfather got sent home in 1942 due to a heavy injury on his arm. [1082x1443] #history #HistoryPorn #Bot https://ift.tt/2DcUIyu

Edinburgh Ale. Here’s the earliest known photograph of men drinking beer, 1844. [1600x1138]

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Unidentified US government agent at an IBM 360/85 console of the NSA, 18th January 1971 [1080 × 875]

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The Pacific Northwest ca. 1918. Kissel Military Highway Scout Kar, America's first camouflaged automobile. [812 x 614]

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Child actress Shirley Temple salutes the colors as they pass her box at the Motion Picture Electrical Pageant in Los Angeles, Ca. on July 17, 1936. She is with her father, George Temple. (AP Photo)[1200x1358]

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