Historical

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Before clocks became

popular, Mary Smith made a
living waking workers by
blowing peas against their
windows.

Old municpal
library in
Cincinnati
(Ohio) before
its demoliton in
1955.

Traffic jam in Berlin,

Germany, on the first
Saturday after the fall of the
Wall.

Charlie Chaplin and a crowd of supporters in New York City,

1918.

Bar clients celebrating the end of Prohibiion in December 1933.

Construction of a
Zeppelin in 1923.

Dirigible over the Capital dome in Washington, DC.

Dresden,
after the
1945 Allied
Forces
bombing.

Albert Einstein with an

Einstein marionette in 1931.

A Russian physician in an Antarctic Expedition, removing his own

appendix in 1961.

Construction of the Christ The Redeemer status in Ro de Janeiro, Brazil,

1930.

The first winner of the

Tour de France in 1903.

Propellors of the Titanic in 1911.

Folliwng his release, a Jew of a German concentration camp points to a

Nazi.

Playing golf high up on the Empire State Building in New York City
during its 1932 construction.

Eruption of Mount
Vesuvius in Naples, Italy,
1944.

New York Citys Grand Central Station in 1929. Currently, skyscrapers

around the site prevent this illuminating view.

Construction of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France.

Niagara Falls (Ontario/New

York), frozen in 1911.

Marilyn Monroe entertains

American soldiers during
the war in Korea, 1954.

Buddist monk immolation in Saigon, Vietnam, to protest religious

persecution of the South Vietnamese government. Since then, this
protest is called "self-immolation".

Nelson Mandela raising fists after being sentenced to life imprisonment in

1964.

Nikola Tesla in his laboratory.

London, England, children celebrating Christmas in a bomb shelter, 1940.

Children suffering from polio are placed into iron lungs, which apply
external air pressure and vacuum to allow their own lungs to work,

People from Baileys Circus, 1930.

First publicity
photo of the
Rolling
Stones, 1963.

Searchlights on the Gibraltar peninsula, protecting against Nazi air attacks

in 1942.

Samuel Reshevsky, only 8 years old, simultaneously playing against

multiple Chess Masters in France, 1920.

Three Chinese women accused of witchcraft in 1922.

Final four couples of a marathon dance contest in Chicago, USA, in 1930.

A group of
lumberjack
s cutting
down a
giant
Californa
redwood
tree, about
1900.

Selling coats in Copenhagen,

Denmark in 1936.

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