History in photos thread

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Orin Kerr
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1/ Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, also known as Yom HaShoah. In honor of this day, I'd like to tell you about the photograph below. It was taken in 1938, in a small town in Suwalki, Poland. Everyone in the photo is a Jew. See the boy front row center? That's my dad.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dak2dpWUQAAoFXJ.jpg






Germany passed laws and made it illegal for Jews to own virtually any weapon, and they confiscated all guns.

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Listening to music, 1960s


Betty White while filming an interview on NBC, 1940.


Human chess in 1924, St. Petersburg, Russia.


Soldiers working on а locomotive, Chicago, 1945.


Crystal Palace, Madrid, Spain
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DaoMG3_W0AA7JXG.jpg

https://www.google.com/search?q=kroh...6ebsxKJwSUGuM:

http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net...114141140a.jpg

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а near-perfect frozen 40,000-year-old baby mammoth, discovered in 2007 by a reindeer herder in northwestern Siberia

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Queen Alexandra of Great Britain drove through the City of London on Alexandra Rose Day in June 1914.
http://www.gettyimages.com/license/3282669

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Earth from the moon. Beautiful


Waddad's family picnic


You should watch this

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Disneyland early on

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The Battle of Adrianople or Siege of Adrianople (Bulgarian: Обсада на Одрин, Serbian: Опсада Једрена, Turkish: Edirne Kuşatması) was fought during the First Balkan War 1912–13.

Bulgarian and Serbian army had been fought against Ottoman army.


Adrianople siege artillery



Serbian artilery at Adrianopoli



Serbian soldier with captured Turkish soldier



Serbian general Stepa Stepanovic (third from left) with officers.

https://prvisvetskirat.rs/wp-content...017/01/108.jpg


Serbian soldiers cemetery in Andianople

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Zastava 750 or commonly known as Fića was most popular small and economic car made in Yugoslavia. Created in 1955 year, produced for next 30 years.

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Saddam Hussein flirting during his youth.


Robert Plаnt holding a dove that flew into his hands. 1973.


JFK аt а campaign stop in West Virginia in 1960. Notice the boy absently playing with a realistic gun just feet away.


John Tyler, the 10th President of the United States has two living grand-children. He was born in 1790.


Bertha Benz driving the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, c. 1886.


Woodstock, 1969 (these people probably academia in the USA now)

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World Press Photo of the Year. Venezuela