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The sinking of the SS Vaitarna in 1888. One of the deadliest maritime disasters in Indian history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd91p6q6v5U&ab_channel=TheHistoryofIndiaShow
https://redd.it/112p34b
The Kiss of Life - A utility worker giving mouth-to-mouth to co-worker after he contacted a low voltage wire, Jacksonville, Florida. 1967 [1276x1600]
https://redd.it/132oxug
An iconic image of Michael Jordan, 1988.
https://redd.it/132fkn0
"US 3rd Army soldier guarding loot found stored in the Schlosskirche (Castle Church) at the Ellingen Castle in southern Germany, April 24, 1945" (photo enhanced and colorized by me) [1491x1484]
https://redd.it/1324baw
First Miss Universe contest 1952
https://redd.it/131krcu
A grim picture of a 13 years old Turkish girl who, after getting raped, lost his jaw to a bomb thrown in the house where she and many others were put in one of the Yalova Massacres, which was a campaign of ethnic cleansing of Turkish population carried out by invading Greek armies. 1921.[654x960]
https://redd.it/1300hl3
'The Liberator of Korea' — Painting of Kim Jong Un trampling over the American and South Korean flags with the Arch of Reunification visible behind, 2013.
https://redd.it/130nriq
If you ever wanted to know what those torpedo booms on pre-WW1 era battleships looked like when deployed, well, here you go. HMS Hotspur with torpedo booms and nets out. Photo taken in 1887. [2000x1609]
https://redd.it/13094e7
[1940] Definition of "Keep Calm". Milkman delivering milk right after The "London Blitz". Touched up and colorized [1042x700]
https://redd.it/12zopao
Laura Dern and Nicholas Cage (1989)
https://redd.it/12zepzz
My mum and dad just married (1983)
https://redd.it/12yudzo
Fred Rogers performing a "bedside solo show" for 7-year old Beth Usher during her coma after undergoing surgery for "Rasmussen’s encephalitis" at the John Hopkins Childrens' Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. February 1987 [720 x 478]
https://redd.it/12yr0bp
French AMX-10P (amphibious infantry fighting vehicle) at the Camp Taji vehicle graveyard: (27 km) north of Baghdad, Iraq. That message was spray painted by a U.S. military serviceman - „Completely Yours Even in Iraq. I luv u babe“, c. 2003 [828 x 878]
https://redd.it/12ybcaw
The city centre of Rotterdam almost leveled by a carpet bombing on May 14, 1940.[3000 x 2269]
https://redd.it/132qvvy
( 1986 - college ) Last weekend of drinking age being 18.....
https://redd.it/132ksbh
A color photo of Mao Zedong in 1924, in Shanghai. [444 x 588]
https://redd.it/132068t
Brad and Ed take a polaroid selfie, 1998
https://redd.it/1326anl
A Chilean policeman, called carabinero, stands below a sign that points the direction to the Carabineros. The Carabineros de Chile were created on 27 April 1927 by the merge of the Fiscal Police, the Rural Police, and the existing Corps of Carabineros (Chile 1983) [1965x2867]
https://redd.it/130arq2
Woman in white bathing suit on beach wearing big straw hat. 03 August, 1938. Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts
https://redd.it/1318akr
78 years ago today (27.4.1945). The Finnish flag was raised on the three-country cairn between Norway, Sweden, and Finland to celebrate the last German troops withdrawing from Finland and marking the end of World War 2 in Finland [780x595]
https://redd.it/130a8hg
CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow, 1953. He gained fame covering the London Blitz during WW2. He later reported on McCarthyism and migrant workers. He even hosted a celebrity interview show. Color original. [722 x 521]
https://redd.it/130ku7n
Times Square, New York, 1989. [1285x1594]
https://redd.it/12zkp4l
NSFW. Mangled and crushed body of a German soldier on the Eastern Front. RIP
https://redd.it/12zkt82
Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement Poster - c.1910 [638x1022]
https://redd.it/12z5ur8
1918: Women workers of a flour mill at Rank & Sons, Birkenhead, England happily pose for the camera. [900X683]
https://redd.it/12ys1b0
A fashionable lady from Moscow, 1860s
https://redd.it/12rvslq
A Marine Corps war dog patrol moves up to the front lines. Iwo Jima. 21 February 1945.
https://redd.it/12yg28t
Château Comtal in Carcassonne, France
https://redd.it/12y3ths