25 Historic Pictures To Take You Back In Time –
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1. Apollo 15 astronauts Jim Irwin (L) and Dave Scott (R) drive a Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) simulator to participate in geology training at the Cinder Lake crater field in Arizona, c.1970
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2. Masked witness, who identified himself as Cuban refugee, appears before House Committee on Un-American Activities on this date November 15 in 1962. Witness said he fled Cuba and wore mask because he feared relatives in Cuba might be harmed if his identity became known.
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3. Cambodian students, protest against the incursion by communist forces from North Vietnam in to Cambodian territory during the Cambodian Civil war, in Phnom Penh, March 1970.
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4. Giza pyramid complex, photographed from Eduard Spelterini’s balloon on November 21, 1904
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5. London Fire Brigade Members Searching in the aftermath of the Moorgate Tube Crash, 1975
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6. World War I. 1917
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7. Members of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) border forces observe a demonstration in West Berlin, where tear gas was fired, 1988.
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8. Study in Survival. At Lake Charles, Louisiana, McNeese State College students, Kelly McRight (L) & Dan Sistrunk, are deep in a survival test. They spent three days inside this fallout shelter in an experiment conducted by the college & civil defense officials. Circa 1968
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9. 1945: The Mona Lisa painting can finally be opened again after it had been hidden from German troops in 1939
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10. Bosnian soldier fires back at Serb sniper who shot at civilians during a peaceful demonstration, 6 April 1992
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11. Streetwalker near Place d’Italie, Paris. 1932
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12. Marine Sgt. Frank Praytor feeding a two-week old kitten he named ‘Miss Hap’ using a medicine dropper after its mother was killed by a mortar barrage near Bunker Hill. Korea, 18th of October 1952
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13. Akron-class airship USS Macon (ZRS-5) moored in Hangar One at NAS Moffett Field in 1933
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14. Unknown British Airborne Soldier’s Grave Buried by German Soldiers. April 15th, 1945
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15. American and Soviet troops meet at the Elbe River, meaning the two had successfully cut Germany in two. April 25th, 1945
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16. German Wehrmacht troops try on Fez hats at a local shop, Sarajevo 1943
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17. German Tiger tank “231”, which was hit by Soviet anti-armor weaponry a total of 252 times and survived (1943)
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18. Windsor Castle bursts in flames after a spolight was pressed against a curtain. November 20, 1992
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19. US soldiers celebrating on the back of an army truck in an Armistice Day Parade at the end of World War One, New York City, November 11, 1918
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20. A Serbian soldier sleeps with his father who came to visit him on the front line near Belgrade, 1914/1915
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21. Freddie Mercury is on Darth Vader’s shoulders during the concert 1980
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22. Punk Rockers at the Berlin Wall, 1989
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23. Al Capone with his young son at a baseball game; Comiskey Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA; 1931-Sept-9th
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24. Season 1 cast of Sesame Street circa 1969 for the show’s 50th birthday today! Yes, that’s an orange Oscar the Grouch.
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25. Over 7,000 bags of gold and silver the Nazis stole from citizens in an underground vault 1945
One has to wonder whatever happened to the 7,000 bags of gold and silver stolen from the citizens…..