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A Chinese woman whose feet, known as lotus feet, were bound in the late 1800’s – Foot binding was the Chinese custom of breaking and tightly…
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By 1942 the FBI was adding 400,000 file cards a month to its archives, and were receiving 110,000 requests for “name checks” per month. By 1944…
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The letter George H.W. Bush wrote Bill Clinton as he left office Jan. 20, 1993 Dear Bill, When I walked into this office just now I…
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Theodore Roosevelt was shot mid-speech in an assassination attempt in 1912. He refused to have medical treatment until he delivered his 90 minute speech, in which…
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The headquarters of Mussolini’s Italian Fascist Party, 1934 The building in the picture is Palazzo Braschi in Rome, the headquarters of the Fascist Party Federation (the…
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(photo: Tristan Surtel) Dummy head used by John Anglin to fool prison guards during his escape from Alcatraz Prison. Him and his 2 companions whereabouts are…
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The Real-Life Mowgli, The Boy Who In 1872 Was Found Living In Jungle. They found him hunting alongside the wolves and noted that he was walking…
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In 1971, 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke was sucked out of an airplane after it was struck by a bolt of lightning. She fell two miles to the…
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Sketches used by the Soviet police to identify suspects based on ethnicity, 1960s This card was used by police in the Soviet Union to identify different…
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Frank "Silvers" Oakley, The Baseball Clown, 1904. Legendary circus performer Frank “Slivers” Oakley, known for his “One Man Baseball Game”, to which Buster Keaton pays homage…