Category: History
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Graves holding hands. Catholic woman and her Protestant husband who were not allowed to be buried together (1880s Netherlands) Religious separation and a taboo marriage in the 19th…
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A young 19-year-old Teddy Roosevelt at Harvard, 1877 As a child, he was more like Samuel L. Jackson’s Mr. Glass in “Unbreakable” than the eventual Rough…
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The real Peaky Blinders who operated in Birmingham in the early 1900s. Pictured from left to right are Henry Fowler, Ernest Bayles, Stephen McHickie and Thomas…
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Stock exchange trader at the end of the day on Black Monday, Toronto 1987 On that single day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the pulse rate…
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Civil War veteran Jacob Miller was shot in the forehead at Brock Field at Chikamauga, Georgia in 1863. “When I came to my senses some time…
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John Burns – The old man at Gettysburg Most details of Burns early life are unknown, but we know that he was born in Burlington, New…
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Winning family of the Fittest Family award stands outside of the Eugenics Building, 1925 The American Eugenics Society presented eugenics exhibits at state fairs throughout the…
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The Tollund Man – A naturally mummified corpse of a man who lived during the 4th century BC. He was found in 1950, perfectly preserved as…
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De Beer mine workers are X-rayed at the end of every shift before leaving the diamond mines, Kimberley, South Africa, October 1954 Each day at the…