Saturday, April 4, 2026

What are some amazing historical photos?

 Former United States Secretary of State, Colin Powell was "doing selfies 60 years before you Facebook folks."

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Theodore Roosevelt's diary on Valentine's day, after his wife and mother died on the same day in 1884.


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A swimming lesson in the Thames, 1906.


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Salvador Dali. Photograph by Philippe Halsman. It took 28 attempts to get this perfectly-timed shot, 1948.


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The Beatles step onstage in Tokyo, Japan. 1966.


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Princess Diana with Mother Teresa in New York, 1997.


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The Old Cincinnati Library, Ohio. Built in 1874, and designed by James W. McLaughlin in 1868.


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Commander Neil Armstrong making pizza at his home a few months before walking on the moon, 1969.


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Martin Luther King being arrested for demanding service at a white-only restaurant in St. Augustine, Florida, 1964.


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Arnold's favorite bicep. 1974 - 2015.


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Antarctica from Space by NASA.


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A French postcard with the tallest, shortest, and fattest men of Europe playing a game of cards, circa 1913.


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Barack and Michelle Obama on their wedding day, October 3, 1992.


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The first picture of the earth from space, taken from a captured German V2 rocket by American scientists in 1946.


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Young Leonardo DiCaprio, 1995.


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Robert Overacker went over Niagara Falls for the homeless in '95. His parachute failed and he fell to his death.


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A crowd gathers after Jumbo the elephant is hit and killed by a train in Ontario, 1885. Photo by Andersons Limited.


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Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio bowling, 1989.


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Blizzard of 1888 in New York City, a storm which led to the death of more than 400 people.


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Christmas in the German trenches, WWI, circa 1915.


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EnVogue 1988 and 26 years later.


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2500 year old Mummy of a Scythian Princess with tattoos.


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Mugshot from back in the 1940s when it was a crime to be a homosexual.


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Stephen Hawking and his wife Jane Wilde, 1965.


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Robert Wadlow, the world’s tallest man in history, with his brothers and sisters, 1936.


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American heavyweight boxer Cassius Clay(Muhammad Ali) in a mock victory pose over The Beatles, 1964.



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