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25 Random History Facts To Learn Something New About The Past
The world and the web are filled with millions of historical photos from all around the globe and from all points in time. It seems like there isn't much left out there that is undiscovered. There are so many events that have taken place in history that are so interesting and worth learning about. History is so broad and winding that there is something for everyone to become interested in. With everything there is to read up on, it can be a bit overwhelming at times. It's impossible to know everything about history, but people can learn a lot online.
Images from all points in time can be found, from the Wild Western days to some of the most iconic events from the 90s. From celebrities before they were famous to behind the scenes of major events in the news that everyone has seen, it is all captured. Knowing that all of these images exist out there can be mind-blowing but pretty amazing. It's easy to get lost in a sea of historical facts and photos.
It's fun to get away from the normal content the web has to offer. Instead, take the time to indulge in some interesting historical facts and rare photos with a cool backstory. Here are 24 utterly unique images and some unknown facts to wonder about today.
Portrait of Titanic passenger and millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim 1910. Refusing to enter a lifeboat, he reportedly asked a steward to inform his family "that I played the game straight to the end and that no women was left on board this ship because Ben Guggenheim was a coward"
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Viktor Yushchenko before and after poisoning by dioxin on the orders of Vladimir Putin, 2004
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Ser Oswald Mosley on the ground after getting punched by an anti-fascist protestor, Ridley Road, London, 1962
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Gay activists carry a mile-long rainbow banner through New York City to mark the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, 1994
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A North Vietnamese Army officer laughs at the peace symbol necklace of a captured American soldier, North Vietnam, 1973
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A British soldier scolding a German civilian for laughing at a screening of concentration camp conditions. She was ordered to rewatch the film, 1945
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With smoke still billowing from the World Trade Center disaster site, President Bush en route from New York City to Washington, 2001
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Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia fooling around. Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna is sick in bed on the left, 1915
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In 1983, a 61 year old potato farmer, Cliff Young, in work boots entered Australia's most brutal ultramarathon against world class athletes. He had no idea you were supposed to sleep during. He won by 10 hours.
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Wernher von Braun, director of NASA's Marchall Space Flight Center, at his office in Huntsville, Alabama 1965
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General Eisenhower upon hearing the news that President Truman had relieved General MacArthur in Korea, April 11, 1951
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acques Cousteau and his crew in a submersible during the Conshelf II Expedition in the Red Sea, 1963
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Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany and his daughter, Princess Alexandrine, she was born with Down syndrome, 1916
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A photo of Sid Hatfield, the police chief of Matewan, West Virginia. Hatfield is known for his surprising stance on strikes. Unlike most police chiefs, he not only refused to help crush ongoing strikes, but sided with the strikers outright, 1921
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Mugshot of Australian criminal Sydney Skukerman, arrested for having "obtained goods from warehousemen by falsely representing that he is in business", 1924
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Joy White stands next to the empty crib meant for her newborn daughter. Her baby, Carlina, was 19 days old when she was kidnapped from a hospital in Harlem, New York. The girl was found alive over 20 years later, 1987
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A photo of Emperor Menelik II after successfully defeating the Italians and saving Ethiopia from European colonization 1896
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A 1925 photograph that might show the last wild Barbary lion before its extinction. It was taken by the French photographer Marcelin Flandrin while he was aboard a flight on the Casablanca-Dakar air route.
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