quarta-feira, 18 de fevereiro de 2015

Fotografias históricas raras.

1. Boxing in Yankee stadium (1923).
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2. A Russian spy laughing through his execution (1939).
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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).

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4. The first passengers on the brand new New York subway (1904).
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5. Ernest Hemingway at a Havana bar (date unknown).
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6. Princeton students after a Freshman/Sophomore snowball fight (1893).
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7. Policemen inspect a "lumber truck" that smelled of alcohol
during prohibition (1926).

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8. Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they are assassinated,
which contributed to the start of WWI (1914).

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9. A native American watching the newly completed transcontinental railroad
in Nevada (1868).

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10. The oldest running car on the planet: the 1884 De Dion, Bouton et
Trepardou Dos-à-Dos.

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11. A newly liberated French citizen happily lights Winston Churchill's
cigar (1944).

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12. A US soldier offering his hand to a woman leaving a cave
during WWII.

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13. Queen Elizabeth during her WWII service.
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14. A last picture of the Titanic before sinking (1912).
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15. A pyramid of helmets from captured German soldiers on display
in New York (1918).

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16. Construction of Brasilia City, which would later become the
capital of Brazil (1960).

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17. Boeing 707 doing a barrel roll. When questioned about the stunt,
the test pilot said: "just selling airplanes."

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18. Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein debating over quantum mechanics
(1925).

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19. Fidel Castro and Malcolm X (1960).
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20. 106-year-old Armenian woman protecting her home with
an AK-47 (1990).

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21. Star Wars set at lunchtime.
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22. A WWI submarine washed ashore on the beach in England .
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23. William Harley and Arthur Davidson (1914).

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24. Execution of a German communist in Munich (1919).
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25. Muhammad Ali trying to talk down a suicidal man (1981).
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26. Construction of Mt. Rushmore National Memorial (1939).
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27. The assembly line of Porsche 911s at the Stuttgart factory (1970)
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28. American soldiers discover Manet's painting hidden in the salt mines
of Merker,
Germany (1945).

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29. John Young and Charles Duke training for the Apollo 16 mission
in the New Mexico desert.

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30. A rebel soldier tosses a grenade into a loyalist position in Burgos,
Spain (1936).

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31. Anne Frank pokes her head out of her family's flat in Amsterdam (1942).
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32. Archaeologist Howard Carter examining the opened sarcophagus
of King Tut.

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33. Hitler inspecting the massive 800mm "Schwerer Gustav" railway gun -
the largest-caliber rifled weapon ever used in combat (1942).

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34. Russian soldiers preparing for a gas attack against German positions
(1916).

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35. Eyes of hate: a photo of Goebbels after finding out his photographer
is Jewish.

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36. The first Wal-Mart store opened in 1962 by Sam Walton. It was called
Walton's Five and Dime.

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37. The Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the nuclear bomb
over Hiroshima .

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38. Albert Einstein's desk photographed the day after his death.
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39. B-32 Bomber Factory in Fort Worth , Texas (1944).
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40. The Cologne cathedral amidst the ruins (1944).
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41. A rare photo of a young Winston Churchill (1895).
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42. The construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco (1937).
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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.

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44. Gadget, the first atomic bomb.
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45. The night they ended Prohibition (December 5, 1933).
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46. German prisoners marching to Moscow after their defeat
at Belarus (1944).

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47. Testing a bulletproof vest (1923).
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48. Gas masks for babies tested at an English hospital (1940).
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49. Control room of the UB-110 German submarine (1918).
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50. A V-1 flying bomb "buzzbomb" plunging toward London (1945).
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51. Buzz Aldrin taking a selfie in space (1966).
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52. Samuel Reshevsky, age 8, defeating several chess masters at once
in France (1920).

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53. USAAF B-25 sinks Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze off the coast of Xiamen,
China (1945).

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