Rarely Seen Moments of World History
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Moving a 7600 ton apartment building to create a boulevard in Alba Iulia, Romania, 1987
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Black officer protecting KKK member from protesters, 1983
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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as a young gentleman, 1986
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Hannah Stilley, born 1746, photographed in 1840. Probably the earliest born individual captured on film
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The glasses John Lennon wore when he was assassinated, 1980
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Spielberg doing the first Indiana Jones movie in 1980
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Due to strong crosswinds, a landing plane crashes with a truck standing near the runway, 1976
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Highway picnic during the Oil Crisis, 1973
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a Pakistani soldier during Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence examines whether the man is circumcised or not(i.e. Hindus are not)
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Filming of the MGM screen credits - The beginning of the Hollywood era, 1928
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Man working at analog computer, 1968
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Test pilot George Aird – flying a English Electric Lightning F1
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A flight simulator in 1942
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A beggar running alongside King George V’s coach, 1920
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The Prague Spring of 1968: Soviet soldier chasing young man who had thrown stones at a tank
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Overly manly man Carl Akeley posed with the leopard he killed with his bare hands after it attacked him, 1896
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Uploading the first 5 megabyte hard disk to a PanAm plane, 1956
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The unbroken seal on Tutankhamun’s tomb, 1922 (3,245 years untouched)
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Early morning train, Japan, 1964
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Audrey Hepburn shopping with her pet deer “Ip” in Beverly Hills, CA, 1958
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The Beatles play for 18 people in the Aldershot club, December 1961. They were to become superstars in one and a half years time
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In the aftermath of the D-Day invasion, two boys watch from a tree as American soldiers drive through the town of St. Lo. France
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The first international match at Wimbledon
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A gang of skinny dippers is chased down the street at Hyde Park by a police woman, 1926
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Factory workers race on the roof (test track) of the Fiat Factory in Turin, Italy, 1923
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The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, 1928
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An opium den in Singapore, 1941
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A stripper visits the trading floor of the Toronto Stock Exchange, late 1970s
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The East Bay Dragons, the first black bikers’ club, Oakland, California, 1960s
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The ceiling of the Russian Parliament collapsed, 1907
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Coca Cola is introduced in France, 1950
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A swimmobile in New York City, 1960
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Che Guevara and Fidel Castro fishing, 1960
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Princeton students after a snowball fight, 1893
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Charlton Heston as Moses in “The Ten Commandments,” drive-in theater, Utah, 1958
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Interior of a London Pub, 1898
