Some photos remastered,others are not.
Enjoy!
1: 106-year old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47. 1990.
2: A distant Kremlin is seen in this 1852 photo of Moscow, Russia.
3: A German Krupp K5 283mm railway gun firing. It was one of the most commonly used railway guns during World War 2 by Germany.
4: A native American man overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in Nevada, ~1868.
5: A WW1 submarine with a hull number of U-118 was found washed ashore on the beach at Hastings, Sussex, England. After the surrender of Germany, its towing cable snapped as it was being towed to France for dismantling.
6: Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (June 28, 1914). These assassinations were a contributing factor to the start of World War I.
7: Auto Polo, circa 1910
8: Civil rights activist James Zwerg after being beaten by a white mob in Alabama, 1961. (After the beating he had to wait two hours for treatment as no white crew would pick him up.)
9: Construction of the Manhattan Bridge. 1908
10: F1 pilot ejects at extremely low altitude. The pilot survived with multiple fractures. 1962
11: Fuel tanks of the B-24H Liberator exploding over Germany after being hit in 1944
12: George Armstrong Custer and some of his fellow soldiers, during the American Civil War
13: German engineers testing the Messerschmitt BF109 E3
14: German prisoners of war marching east under the supervision of Soviet soldiers, 1944. Take note of the Soviet woman showing a 'dulya' with her hand to the Germans as they pass by. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig_sign
15: Manfred von Richthofen, aka "The Red Baron", petting his dog on an airfield
16: Niagara Falls during the freeze of 1911. You can see people walking right at the bottom of the frozen waterfall.
17: Princeton students after a Freshman - Sophomore snowball fight. Princeton, NJ, 1893.
18: Samurai. 1860 - 1880
19: Soldiers comfort each other during the Korean war in the early 1950's
20: Soviet cruiser "Murmansk" that ran aground off the Norwegian village Sorvaer during the transfer to be scrapped in India. 1994
21: Soviet sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko. By the end of World War 2, she had 309 confirmed kills - thus making her the most successful female sniper in history.
22: Train Derailment at Gare Montparnasse, Paris, France. 1895
23: Vought F4U Corsair crashes on the deck of a carrier when the arresting gear failed. Most likely sometime during WW2 in the Pacific Theater.
24: Californian lumberjacks working in the Redwoods. These trees have lived for thousands of years.
25: Californian lumberjacks working in the Redwoods. These trees have lived for thousands of years.
26: Hoover Dam penstocks and outlet pipes such as this one were fabricated from 45,000 tons of steel and welded into nearly three miles of pipe varying from 8.5-30ft (2.6-9m) in diameter.
27: Horten H. VII (Ho 254) flying over G"ottingen, Germany. It was one of the first flying wing experiments. ~1945.
28: Jimi Hendrix driving a dune buggy with an unidentified woman. October 6, 1968
29: Titanic in dry dock. Here you can see the scale of the person standing next to one of the propellers. 1912.
30: Bob Marley playing soccer backstage. (Contrary to popular belief, that isn't Jimi Hendrix playing with him - it was a musician from The Wailers.)
31: Boeing 707 doing a barrel roll. When the test pilot Tex Johnson was questioned about the stunt, he simply replied by saying - "Just selling airplanes".
32: Golden Gate Bridge construction. 1937
33: Hitler inspecting the massive 800mm "Schwerer Gustav" railway gun from afar. It was the largest-calibre rifled weapon ever used in combat, and fired the heaviest shells of any artillery piece.
34: This photo gives a great size comparison of Titanic's propellers.
35: This worker in a Van Nuys CA factory in 1944 soon started calling herself Marilyn Monroe.
36: A baby cries at a bombed train station in Shanghai, 1937.
37: A boxing match on board the USS Oregon in 1897.
38: A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.
39: A liberated Jew holds a Nazi at gunpoint.
40: A US Marine prepares to enter a Vietcong tunnel, 1969.
41: British troops cheerfully board their train for the first stage of their trip to the western front - England, September 20, 1939.
42: Che Guevara.
43: Chester E. Macduffee next to his newly patented, 250 kilo diving suit, 1911.
44: Child laborers in 1880.
45: Evacuating Saigon, April 30, 1975. An American evacuee punches away a South Vietnamese man for a place on the last chopper out of the US embassy.
46: Mark Twain in the garden, circa 1900
47: Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945.
48: Stalin goofing around.
49: The London sky following a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940.
50: Leo Tolstoy tells a story to his grandchildren in 1909.
51: Bread and soup during the Great Depression.
52: Thomas Craig, Raymond Neil (aka "Gaffney the Gunman"), William Thompson and FW Wilson.
53: Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.
54: W.H. Murphy and his associate demonstrating their bulletproof vest on October 13, 1923
55: Albert Einstein, Summer 1939,Nassau Point, Long Island, NY
56: Fourteen year-old Osama bin Laden. He's second from the right.
57: An airman being captured by Vietnamese civilians in Truc Bach Lake, Hanoi in 1967
58: German air raid on Moscow in 1941.
59: I was told he had come back from playing and found his house a shambles-his mother, father and brother dead under the rubble - Toni Frissell (Kid survived the war and later became a truck driver)
60: Japanese Archers circa 1860
61: Beautiful color image of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-5 fighters, of Fighter Squadron JG54, during flight, 1943.
62: Bob Marley on the beach with Miss World 1976 Cindy Breakspeare, mother of Damien Marley.
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