Nelson Mandela keeps his fists raised after he was sentenced to life imprisonment, June 1964
Early publicity shot of The Rolling Stones in 1963
19 year-old Shigeki Tanaka was a survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima and went on to win the 1951 Boston Marathon. The crowd was silent as he crossed the finished line
A bar in New York City, the night before prohibition began
New Zealand soldiers pose with a captured German Mauser T-Gewehr anti-tank rifle near Grevillers, 1918
Children in an iron lung before the advent of the polio vaccination. Many children lived for months in these machines, though not all survived. c. 1937
Actress Jean Harlow poses with boxer Primo Carnera, 1933
Torpedo shop at the Washington Navy Yard, circa 1917
An exhibition of flying machines, Paris 1909
This is how they prove Londons Double-decker buses are not a tipping hazard. 1933
A lion riding in the sidecar of a go-kart at a wall of death carnival attraction at Revere Beach, Massachusetts, c. 1929
ENIAC One of the most historic computers
Bergonic chair, an early form of electric theraphy, used in cases of “shell shock” for WWI patients , photos circa late 1910s.
Group of a women undergoing slimming course in a courtyard. USA – New York City, 1922
Rocky Marciano, the only boxing heavyweight champion (49-0) to retire undefeated with his family. At the age of 32, Marciano stepped down from the ring, saying that family obligations came first.
Pictures from the funeral of the four Borgstrom brothers who were Killed in Action during WWII- June 25, 1948
The Japanese military delegation (one IJA officer and one IJN officer) attending the Red Square victory parade, June 24, 1945. The USSR was not at war with Japan, and Japan sent an awkward delegation to attend the ceremony commemorating the defeat of their German ally.
Soviet soldiers examine the guillotine in Berlin-Plötzensee Prison, May 1945, photo by Ivan Shagin. [1205x841px]
Pol Pot leading the Khmer Rouge through the Cambodian jungle, 1979.
German Wehrmacht soldiers on a truck loaded with gear driving past bystanders in Oslo, Norway, during the early days of the German invasion and occupation of the country, known as Operation Weserübung. (1940)
Shell-shocked US Marine, The Battle of Hue by Don McCullin (1968)
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