RARE PICTURES
*1. Boxing in Yankee stadium (1923).*
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*2. A Russian spy laughing through his execution (1939).*
[image: rh5]
*3. The evacuation of Saigon, in which some 45 UH-1 Hueys and one CH-47
Chinook were pushed overboard to make room for others to land (1975).*
[image: rh74]
*4. The first passengers on the brand new New York subway (1904).*
[image: rh78]
*5. Ernest Hemingway at a Havana bar (date unknown).*
[image: rh72]
*6. Princeton students after a Freshman/Sophomore snowball fight (1893).*
[image: rh27]
*7. Policemen inspect a “lumber truck” that smelled of alcohol during
prohibition (1926).*
[image: rh77]
*8. Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they are
assassinated, which contributed to the start of WWI (1914).*
[image: rh22]
*9. A native American watching the newly completed transcontinental
railroad in Nevada (1868).*
[image: rh25]
*10. The oldest running car on the planet: the 1884 De Dion, Bouton et
Trepardou Dos-à-Dos.*
[image: rh36]
*11. A newly liberated French citizen happily lights Winston Churchill’s
cigar (1944).*
[image: rh81]
*12. A US soldier offering his hand to a woman leaving a cave during
WWII.*
[image: rh50]
*13. Queen Elizabeth during her WWII service.*
[image: rh12]
*14. A last picture of the Titanic before sinking (1912).*
[image: rh70]
*15. A pyramid of helmets from captured German soldiers on display in New
York (1918).*
[image: rh79]
*16. Construction of Brasilia City, which would later become the capital
of Brazil (1960).*
[image: rh39]
*17. Boeing 707 doing a barrel roll. When questioned about the stunt, the
test pilot said: “just selling airplanes.”*
[image: rh18]
*18. Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein debating over quantum mechanics
(1925).*
[image: rh19]
*19. Fidel Castro and Malcolm X (1960).*
[image: rh20]
*20. 106-year-old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47
(1990).*
[image: rh21]
*21. Star Wars set at lunchtime.*
[image: rh17]
*22. A WWI submarine washed ashore on the beach in England.*
[image: rh23]
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*23. William Harley and Arthur Davidson (1914).*
[image: rh7]
*24. Execution of a German communist in Munich (1919).*
[image: rh45]
*25. Muhammad Ali trying to talk down a suicidal man (1981).*
[image: rh65]
*26. Construction of Mt. Rushmore National Memorial (1939).*
[image: rh28]
*27. The assembly line of Porsche 911s at the Stuttgart factory (1970)*
[image: rh29]
*28. American soldiers discover Manet’s painting hidden in the salt mines
of Merker, Germany (1945).*
[image: rh30]
*29. John Young and Charles Duke training for the Apollo 16 mission in
the New Mexico desert.*
[image: rh31]
*30. A rebel soldier tosses a grenade into a loyalist position in Burgos,
Spain (1936).*
[image: rh73]
*31. Anne Frank pokes her head out of her family’s flat in Amsterdam
(1942).*
[image: rh80]
*32. Archaeologist Howard Carter examining the opened sarcophagus of King
Tut.*
[image: rh34]
*33. Hitler inspecting the massive 800mm “Schwerer Gustav” railway gun –
the largest-caliber rifled weapon ever used in combat (1942).*
[image: rh35]
*34. Russian soldiers preparing for a gas attack against German positions
(1916).*
[image: rh55]
*35. Eyes of hate: a photo of Goebbels after finding out his photographer
is Jewish.*
[image: rh52]
*36. The first Wal-Mart store opened in 1962 by Sam Walton. It was called
Walton’s Five and Dime.*
[image: rh37]
*37. The Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the nuclear bomb
over Hiroshima.*
[image: rh38]
*38. Albert Einstein’s desk photographed the day after his death.*
[image: rh40]
*39. B-32 Bomber Factory in Fort Worth, Texas (1944).*
[image: rh41]
*40. The Cologne cathedral amidst the ruins (1944).*
[image: rh61]
*41. A rare photo of a young Winston Churchill (1895).*
[image: rh51]
*42. The construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco (1937).*
[image: rh71]
*43. Pre-Taliban days in Afghanistan when women enjoyed professional
careers, university education, etc… By mid-90s, the Taliban outlawed
employment and education of women over the age of 8.*
[image: rh2]
*44. Gadget, the first atomic bomb.*
[image: rh46]
*45. The night they ended Prohibition (December 5, 1933).*
[image: rh47]
*46. German prisoners marching to Moscow after their defeat at Belarus
(1944).*
[image: rh48]
*47. Testing a bulletproof vest (1923).*
[image: rh54]
*48. Gas masks for babies tested at an English hospital (1940).*
[image: rh56]
*49. Control room of the UB-110 German submarine (1918).*
[image: rh57]
*50. A V-1 flying bomb “buzzbomb” plunging toward London (1945).*
[image: rh58]
*51. Buzz Aldrin taking a selfie in space (1966).*
[image: rh53]
*52. Samuel Reshevsky, age 8, defeating several chess masters at once in
France (1920).*
[image: rh60]
*53. USAAF B-25 sinks Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze off the coast of
Xiamen, China (1945).*
[image: rh42]
*54. An assassin attacking the socialist politician Inejiro Asanuma in
Tokyo, Japan (1960).*
[image: rh62]
*55. A woman who survived the Nagasaki bombing (1945).*
[image: rh66]
*56. The first car factory in the US for Ford (1926).*
[image: rh67]
*57. Allied forces mocking Hitler (1945).*
[image: rh10]
*58. A US soldier replacing “Adolf-Hitler-Str.” sign with “Roosevelt
Blvd” in Berlin, Germany (1945).*
[image: rh11]
*59. The 2,800 years old kiss.*
[image: rh63]
*60. Nine Kings in one photo (1910).*
[image: rh49]
*61. Mark Twain pays a visit to Nikolai Tesla’s lab (1894).*
[image: rh76]
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