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The Orgone Accumulator was a device sold in the 1950s to allow a person sitting inside to attract orgone, a massless ‘healing energy’. The FDA noted…
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This photographic series from 1860-1865 shows how quickly Abraham Lincoln aged while in office Abraham Lincoln’s physical appearance changed dramatically during his tenure as President of…
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German Gen. Erwin Rommel earned mutual respect with the Allies in WWII from his genius and humane tactics. He refused to kill Jewish prisoners, paid POWs…
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Vintage mugshots from Australia, 1920s; William Stanley Moore: Opium dealer./ Operates with large quantities of faked opium and cocaine./ A wharf labourer; associates with water front…
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“Little Boy on trailer cradle in pit on Tinian island, before being loaded into Enola Gay’s bomb bay”, 1945 “Little Boy” weighed as much as a…
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Two sailors get fresh ink from Tattoo Jack in Copenhagen, 1942. The tattoo parlor that Hans Hansen opened in 1884 when he was about 17 is…
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‘Radium Girls’ who worked in a factory where they worked with luminescent radium. Not knowing it was dangerous, they often painted it on their lips and…
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A soldier’s face after four years of war, 1941-1945 These two pictures are shown side by side in the Andrei Pozdeev museum. The museum caption reads:…
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Mary Mallon aka ‘Typhoid Mary’ is the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with typhoid fever. She…
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Adam Rainer, the only man in recorded history to have been both a dwarf and a giant. At 19, he was just 4’8” . Because of…