A story that you can see with your own eyes ...
1. Son, dying from AIDS
This photo was printed in the journal LIFE in November 1990, and it changed the attitude of Americans to AIDS. A dying man is supported by his father and family.
2. Mountain of buffalo skulls
Until 1870, the bison was exterminated very actively. Animals were on the verge of extinction. The picture clearly demonstrates how many individuals were killed in a short period.
3. Frozen Soviet soldier
Finns did not like the intrusion of Russians into their territory. They decided to use this frozen body of a Soviet soldier to demoralize the advancing troops.
4. Lessons of swimming on land
In 1922, they also taught swimming without swimming pools.
5. Victim of a sudden fire
In 1972 the woman ignited for no apparent reason. Her body burned almost completely.
6. Destructing fire escape
Nyanechka and the baby were rescued from the fire and climbed onto the fire escape. A couple of seconds, and they would have been saved. Unfortunately, the staircase collapsed. Only the baby was saved, having landed on the body of the nurse.
7. And what can go wrong?
In 1937, if the inhabitants of the metropolis wanted to release their baby to fresh air, they put him in such a cage. In fact, what could possibly be wrong with it?
8. A truly frightening photo
It is made in the cemetery. And to find the "mysterious guest" was very difficult.
9. The giant monstroscatterer
This is a real picture taken in 1937. And the grasshopper is real too.
10. The pierced heart of a vampire
August Delarange was a vampire who killed more than 40 people. In 1912 he was killed and, just in case, his heart was torn out.
11. KKKLend
Then there was not yet a Disneyland and the happiest place (but only for whites) was considered to be the CCCLand in Canon, Colorado.
PS This, of course, is not the real name of the park.
12. Scars from the bomb
The victim of a nuclear bombing in Hiroshima shows his scars six years after the tragedy.
13. How do you like this gun?
This weapon can kill 50 ducks in one shot. Unfortunately, it has been banned since 1860.
14. Terrible human nature
Turkey is guilty of the Armenian Genocide in 1915. The photo shows how the Turk teases the hungry, exhausted Armenian children with a piece of bread.
15. The collapse of Gindeburg
Airships are good only in movies and pictures. In real life, they were quite dangerous. And the collapse of Gindeburg in New Jersey is another confirmation of this.
16. The Tower of Booze
This tower was found shortly after the beginning of the operation of the dry law. What has been done to her can be considered a crime against the drinking people - the cache was burnt to ashes ((
17. Photographer on the 69th floor
This is Charles Ebbets, who took off the legendary "Breakfast on top of a skyscraper." In this photo, he was captured right after he took a photo.
18. The shooting of a communist
German soldiers shoot the communist in Munich. Most likely, the shot is staged. And judging by the way the Communist stands bravely, he was created with the purpose of propaganda of communism.
19. The boy and his dead brother
Heartbreaking photos: the boy brought his little brother to cremation.
20. Anthony Biddle
Colonel Biddle was so clever and strong that he managed to disarm all cadets who had instigated him with bayonets.
21. Hitler and the frostbitten soldier
The picture was taken in the beginning of 1940. The soldier who has received frostbite tries to greet the Fuhrer.
22. Remains from the Cosmos
Soviet cosmonaut Komarov lost control of his ship and fell to Earth. He managed to enter the atmosphere again. But only to fall back on Earth in 1967.
23. Pyroclastic flow
Before the eruption of the volcano Pinatubo in the Philippines released a huge pyroclastic flow, from which the truck tries to escape.
24. Bill Gates and CD
In 1994, Bill Gates demonstrated how effective it is to store information on CDs. For comparison, on one CD the information will fit more than in the stacks of papers under Bill.
25. Out of order
The British guardsman fainted in the heat during the meeting of Queen Elizabeth II.
26. Punishment of the offender
In 1968, a Vietcong criminal was shot and killed by a Saigon police officer. This picture was used for its own purposes by anti-war activists. That's just the full story of the fact that the murdered malefactor killed many government officials and their families, they did not tell.
27. Madame Tussauds after the fire
Exhibits of the Madame Tussauds Museum were damaged by fire in 1930.
28. Children for sale
4 children for sale
Turn inside
This woman and her husband found it difficult to support the family. Therefore, in the late 1940s - early 1950s they sold their children. Kids are not lucky to find a normal home, some beat. But the mother never regretted what she had done, and even when the children found her, she admitted that she had never loved them. Later she gave birth to four more children.
29. Harvey Milk's verdict
When the court found Dan White guilty of just unintentionally killing Milka, people (in particular, members of the gay community) rebelled. This is a photo of the protest that followed immediately after the announcement of the verdict.
30. Martin Luther King and his son clean the burnt cross from the courtyard
Someone set fire to the cross in the courtyard of the house. Burned particles of his Martin and his son are removed from the yard.
31. Einstein's board
This he left her on the eve of his death.
32. Unknown Beatles
Jimmy Nicole replaced Ringo Starr when he was sick. In the picture, he sits at the Melbourne airport and is about to embark on his quiet life.
33. A German soldier bury a British soldier
The German bury an unknown Englishman who died in the Egyptian desert.
34. The psychiatric hospital of the beginning of the 20th century
Such abandoned buildings exist throughout the United States.
35. The first of the surfers
Legendary surfer Buzzi Trent is preparing to take his 12-meter wave.
36. Look at which vehicle
It looks strange, but it drives pretty well.
37. Championship on "Space Invaders"
National championship in Atari in 1980.
38. The first chimpanzee, who returned from the Cosmos
A happy monkey holds a newspaper after a successful return from the Cosmos.
39. Nuclear test near Vegas
Mother and child are watching the testing of nuclear weapons at 75 km from their homes.
40. Loneliness in Montana
Looking for a woman
Before there were online dating sites, the wives were looking like this.
41. A Soviet soldier in Berlin holds Hitler's head
A Soviet soldier holds Hitler's head after the seizure of Berlin in 1945.
42. Queen Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe.
They met at the premiere in London. Both then were 30 years old.
43. The Earth
He took a picture of Michael Collins, and he became the only person on Earth who did not get into this photo.
44. A girl with a doll during the Second World War in London
Sits on the ruins of a house destroyed by bombing (1940).
45. Kid with a bear cub during the Second World War
46. Original plan for Rushmore
How the national memorial was built.
47. The Cathedral of Amiens during the Second World War
Inside the cathedral.
48. Dear Hitler, Gandhi's letter
A letter sent in 1939.
49. "S ** a Buchenwald"
Ilsa Koch was nicknamed "Buchenwald from the second" for her excessive cruelty. It is known that her purse and lamp were made of human skin.
50. A priest and a dying soldier
51. The last public death penalty in America
The last time a public punishment was held in 1936.
52. Rations for prisoners
Prisoners receive their food rations in Andersonville in 1864.
53. A bruise from a meteorite
Anne Hodges was the only person in contact with a meteorite and a survivor. After the "meeting" she had only a bruise.
54. Presidential filing
President George W. Bush delivers the ball, opening the game of Texas Rangers in 1991 in Texas.
55. Adventurer
Annie Edison Taylor managed to overcome Niagara Falls, being in a wooden keg.
56. James Bond gives an autograph on coconut
Sean Connery signs a coconut for a Jamaican girl.
57. The First World Position War
The picture was taken by a British.
58. Soviet Kalinin K-7
Experimental aircraft, created and tested in the Soviet Union in the 30's.
59. The Japanese attempt
The attack of the 17-year-old Yamaguchi on the socialist Asanuma in Tokyo in 1960.
60. Transfer from / to the suburbs
61. Soldier ingenuity
Soldiers clean their onions in gas masks.
62. Reunification for the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.
63. Leaving Alcatraz
The last prisoners leave the walls of Alcatraz.
64. Cuban briefing on the missile crisis
65. Training on shooting
The German military passed this before the First World War.
66. The table of Einstein
The day after his death.
67. The Tuta sarcophagus
The greatest treasure that archaeologists have ever had to find.
68. Young Arnold Schwarzenegger
The first competition in bodybuilding.
69. Human ash in a concentration camp
Soviet soldiers found a mountain in the concentration camp in 1944.
70. Concussion
The face of a madman is a sign of concussion.
71. Advertising of drugs
These people did not accept Atabrin
Advertising of Atabrin - an antimalarial drug - in New Guinea during World War II.
72. The famous mime
The photographer took pictures accidentally in 1974. Only 30 years later he realized that he had photographed the young Robin Williams.
73. Eagle's Nest
Dick Winters in the residence of Hitler.
74. Famous persons
President Clinton with a young specialist Monica Lewinsky.
75. The new form?
76. Twain and Tesla
In the laboratory of Tesla.
77. Security above all
Telephone cables connecting more than 5000 telephone lines in Stockholm.
78. Lifeguard at the post
79. Limbaugh
You can not explain this photo.
80. Machu Picchu is discovered!
The first photo of the found city of Machu Picchu.
81. The first dog in Kosmos
Laika in her space capsule. No one was sure of her return. The dog died in orbit.
82. Young Morgan Freeman
I'm just a sad clown
83. The Giant Bass
Weighed the fish 192 kg.
84. General of the "Sideburns"
General Burnside was the first to introduce this term and fashion to whiskers.
85. Winnie the Pooh
And Christopher Robin.
86. Evidence of German cannibalism
Artifacts obtained in the ancient German city. Their age is more than 7 thousand years. Skulls are opened and, obviously, prepared for use.
87. The pool is closed for cleaning
At the bottom is a real dead body.
88. Cold War deadlock
German and Soviet tanks in checkpoint Charlie in Berlin.
89. Needle 5
Bomber of the times of World War II - one of the few color photos made during that period.
90. Consequences of the bombing in London
91. The bloodsucker
Presumably, Loana died because she drank her own blood.
92. Pray
The bodiless head of the first demon-possessed monk was kept as a relic.