USCGC Spencer hits the German submarine U-175, 1943
Crown Prince Hirohito (future Emperor Shōwa) salutes upon arrival at Momoyama Station on his way to Emperor Meiji’s mausoleum, Kyoto, Japan. 11 March 1913.
Reichstag Graffiti by Russian Soldiers Honoring their Fallen Comrades. Berlin, 1945
Finalizing the Fat Man atomic bomb, which was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. On its nose it had stenciled the acronym “JANCFU”: Joint Army-Navy-Civilian F*** Up
A woman is photographed by police after being arrested for serving alcohol illegally from her “bootlegger’s life preserver” – 1924
Carving eye on Mount Rushmore 1930s
Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards at Jaggers 29th birthday party – July 1972
The Statue of Liberty under construction in Paris – 1884
Robert Williams Wood, Max Planck and Albert Einstein in the front row of a session of the Physical Society in Berlin on July 28, 1931
U.S. soldier in the Ardennes Forest, Belgium, Decemeber 1944
Samurai of the Satsuma clan on the Imperial side during the Boshin War (1868)
Pablo Picasso does long exposure light painting in 1949
Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father and only surviving family member, revisiting the attic, May 3rd, 1960
Leon Trotsky addresses soldiers of the Red Army. Russian Civil War, 1918
A crowd estimated at 500,000 pack Moscow’s Manezh Square next to the Kremlin, demanding the resignation of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and his fellow Communists, March 19, 1991
Helen Keller, 73, who is blind and deaf, guides her hand over U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower’s face as her companion Polly Thomson communicates the President’s comments by sign language on Keller’s palm, November 3, 1953
John C Woods, hangman of Nuremberg trials, who lied about his experience to get the job (he actually learned about hanging from old cowboy films). His lack of expertise led to excessive suffering of condemned Nazis.
Survivor of the atomic bomb of Hiroshima, Japan, 4 years after, 1949.
African american 12th Armored Division soldier with captured German prisoners, April of (1945)
Crazy Bull, sioux (1889)
“Soviet soldiers fighting till their last breath”, 1943.
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