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23 Jul 2016 13:52

Space Shuttle Challenger during an electrical storm prior to STS-8. August 30th, 1983

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22 Jul 2016 23:32

Little girl playing with guns left on streets of Berlin after war in 1945

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21 Jul 2016 09:43

USSR censorship example: picture was altered again and again after each person fell out of favor with the regime of Stalin, 1926

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19 Jul 2016 11:58

Women firefighters direct a hose after the Japanese attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor (1941)

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17 Jul 2016 12:01

French soldier at the foot of a hill in the vicinity of Monte Cassino. 1944.

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16 Jul 2016 15:21

📜Tower Bridge was begun in 1881 and opened in 1894, to designs by Sir Horace Jones. It was designed so that the central section could be raised to allow the passage of ships to and from the busy wharves of London. The 11,000 tonnes of steelwork would be eventually clad in Portland stone and Cheesewring granite from Cornwall which can be seen at the base of the bridge. The numerous ships and skiffs lurking in the background are all sourced from contemporaneous paintings of the era.

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14 Jul 2016 18:13

President Obama and Anthony Bourdain eating pho in Vietnam while no one around them seems to care

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10 Jul 2016 13:55

San Francisco Street, south side of Plaza, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Date: 1961

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08 Jul 2016 20:01

Women protesting forced Hijab days after the revolution, Iran, 1979

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08 Jul 2016 15:01

The Battle of the Neva in 1240 between the Novgorod and Swedish.

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08 Jul 2016 07:03

Assyrian bireme warship from around 700 BC, Nineveh

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08 Jul 2016 00:12

📜 Emperor Francis I of Austria and II of the Holy Roman Empire

Leopold Kupelwieser (1796-1862), 1830.

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07 Jul 2016 23:59

72 years ago, 167 people died during the Hartford circus fire

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06 Jul 2016 08:01

Ruins of commanding officer’s quarters, guardhouse in background, Fort Craig, New Mexico
Photographer: John W. Buchanan Date: 1957

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06 Jul 2016 01:01

German Troops raising the Swastika over the Acropolis of Athens, May 1st, 1941

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22 Jul 2016 23:36

Hitler salutes as he oversees troops during the Nazi occupation of Poland.Thetroops march in formation toward a wooden bridge, constructed by the Nazis across the San River,near Jarolaw,Poland,Sep1939

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21 Jul 2016 19:19

📜Inside the FBI’s Colossal Fingerprint Factory (1943)
Before the FBI went digital, it looked a little more like a giant stock warehouse for Amazon.com. In the 1920s, the bureau was only employing 25 workers to classify around 800,000 print cards, but by 1943, there were more than 20,000 employees sorting through 70 million fingerprints. At the height of wartime, the archives were so overwhelmed that the FBI eventually moved into an 8,000 square foot facility in the National Guard Armory in Washington D.C. They called it the Fingerprint Factory.
With the war came new responsibilities for the FBI. No longer was it only investigating domestic crimes committed in the United States, the bureau was now tracking suspected spies, gathering information abroad, pursuing draft dodgers, tracking immigrants and even their own personnel who could be potential saboteurs. There were fingerprint cards for members of the armed forces, US foreign agents, war-material manufacturers and even all the government girls who were working amongst the labyrinthine archive of cards themselves. Everyone needed background checks. Agents looked into nearly 20,000 reports of sabotage during the war, of which they found 2,282 actual attempts.
The thousands of women working at the FBI in the early 1940s were trained in the Henry System of fingerprint identification, a method used in the United States and other English-speaking countries which manually categorised fingerprints by their physiological characteristics. They worked 10 hour days, six days a week, processing upwards of 35,000 prints in total in a single day. Their salaries were paid by war bonds, the same bonds they were endlessly encouraged to buy.
A complex and time-consuming process, essentially, these ladies would spend their entire day assigning numerical value according to the ridge patterns of loops, whorls, and arches they saw in the magnified fingerprints. It was as this time that the bureau began investigating cases of espionage against the United States and its allies, which would continue until the 1970s. If promoted from classifying and categorising fingerprints, female employees would spend most of the war getting vital information and military secrets into the right hands to keep the war machine running. They worked 10 hour days, six days a week, processing upwards of 35,000 prints in total in a single day.

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20 Jul 2016 14:11

📜"Two forsaken children in the Bellary district of the Madras Presidency", by Willoughby Wallace Hooper, 1877

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19 Jul 2016 08:38

View from the storm shelter door, Oklahoma 2013

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17 Jul 2016 08:57

Just under 50 years apart

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14 Jul 2016 18:23

Jeremy Corbyn arrested after protesting agents Apartheid regime out side the South African Embassy in 1984.

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14 Jul 2016 18:08

Elephant orphanage in Nairobi

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10 Jul 2016 13:54

Soda Jerk. Peoples Drug Store, 14th & U, Washington, D.C. between 1920 and 1921. National Photo Company Collection.

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08 Jul 2016 18:01

Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Madrid, Spain)

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08 Jul 2016 11:01

Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Prince of Finland

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08 Jul 2016 03:01

Chris Montoya working on water mill wheel at living history village, El Rancho de las Golondrinas, La Cienega, New Mexico
📷 Edward Vidinghoff Date:1989 From the Santa Fe New Mexican Collection

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07 Jul 2016 23:59

Japanese prisoners of war on board USS Ballard after being rescued from a lifeboat two weeks after the Battle of Midway. June, 1942.

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06 Jul 2016 10:01

CORTES AND THE FALL OF THE AZTEC EMPIRE:
THE Aztec empire flourished between c. 1345 and 1521 CE and dominated ancient Mesoamerica. This young and warlike nation was highly successful in spreading its reach and gaining fabulous wealth, but then all too quickly came the strange visitors from another world.
Led by Hernan Cortés, the Spaniard’s formidable firearms and thirst for treasure would bring devastating destruction and disease. The Conquistadores immediately found willing local allies only too eager to help topple the brutal Aztec regime and free themselves from the burden of tribute and the necessity of feeding the insatiable Aztec appetite for sacrificial victims, and so within three years fell the largest ever empire in North and Central America.

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06 Jul 2016 06:01

John F. Kennedy’s coffin lies in state at the Capitol Building, November 25, 1963.

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05 Jul 2016 23:48

Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, c. 1934.