3. American soldiers shelter in a trench just over a mile from ground zero moments after the detonation of the 43 kiloton nuclear device Simon at the Nevada Test Site,
1953
4. 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.
5. A Clement-Bayard dirigible in shed, France, ca 1908. The lobes on the tail, meant for stability, were removed form later models, as they were found to slow the craft in
the air
7. One of the heaviest WW2 tanks ever created, the Tiger II. It weighed ~68.5 tonnes and had 100-180mm armour on the front. Budapest, Hungary, 1944.
8. A native American man overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in Nevada, 1868
9. The Infamous Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi - This photo was taken just before he was shot by the man, Nathuram Godse, touching his feet. January 30, 1948,
India
10. Joseph Goebbels on his wedding day. Hitler was his best man and can be seen behind him in a trench coat and top hat.
15. The Go lden Gate Bridge during
construction in 1935
16. America n soldiers in Exermont in the
Argonne Forest listening to one of their
comrades play an organ in a church, 1918
17. Aerial view of US 2nd Armored Division tanks fanning out as they fight across the fields where German self-propelled guns behind burning houses have open fire on
the tanks 4,000 yards from the Rhine River, 1945
22. American soldiers watching a boxing match on board a ship during the journey home from France, caveman circus. 1918
23. Dreadnought in dazzle camouflage, it works not by offering concealment but by making it difficult to estimate a target’s range, speed and heading. 1919
29. Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton
inspect art treasures stolen by
Germans and hidden in salt mine
in Germany. April 12, 1945
30. An American field hospital inside the ruins of a church in Neuvilly, France, 1918
31. 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
32. Two border patrol officers attempt to keep a fugitive in the US, 1920s
45. Using a traditional Japanese blade, 17-year-old Otoya Yamaguchi assassinates socialist politician Inejiro Asanuma in Tokyo, Japan, October 12th, 1960
46. Sad clown Emmett Kelly, in his performer's makeup, carrying a bucket of water in the aftermath of the Hartford circus fire of July 6, 1944, in which at least 167 people
were killed. The tragedy is often called "the day the clown cried" due to this photo
47. The german embassy in Sweden flying the flag at half mast april 30th 1945, the day Hitler died
58. USS Nautilus visiting New York in 1956. It was the world's first nuclear-powered submarine.
59. For the 50th anniversary of the Golden Gate
Bridge in 1985, 300,000 people crossed it on
foot. The weight caused the bridge to sag by
five feet.
60. Rip, a rescue dog who found one hundred victims of air raids in London between 1940 and 1941. He received the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945.
61. The fuel tanks of the B-24H Liberator "Little Warrior" explode over Germany after being hit by anti-aircraft guns in 1944.
62. Anastasia shares a smoke with her father, Tsar Nicholas II two years before their assassination in 1916.
63. The Japanese "War Tuba" used to locate enemy aircraft before the invention of radar. Circa 1930.
64. Ham the chimp returns to Earth following his historic 16 minute space flight in 1961.
65. An iceberg photographed in 1912 bearing an unmistakable mark of black and red paint. It is believed that this is the iceberg that sank the Titanic.
66. Allied forces mock Hitler from atop his balcony
at the Reich Chancellery at the end of WWII.
67. This is a manninquin from an
atomic bomb test site in Nevada
during the mid-50s.
68. The 1968 Olympics Black Power Salute African American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their fists in a gesture of solidarity at the 1968 Olympic
games. Australian Silver medalist Peter Norman wore an Olympic Project for Human Rights badge in support of their gesture. When Norman died in 2006, Carlos
and Smith were pallbearers at his funeral.
69. Fritz, a television celebrity bulldog, is shaved by a Californian barber. April, 1961
70. President Richard Nixon trying to figure out how to use chopsticks while visiting in China. 1972.
71. Driver of a Bugatti Type 13 has a bit of a mishap 1920s
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Dinosaurs are transported on the Hudson River to the 1964 World's Fair.
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