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The real story of the “Wait for me, Daddy” photograph, 1940

Women Being Arrested for Wearing One Piece Pathing Suits in the1920s: Old Photos

Execution by Cannon: A Brutal Historical Practice Used by the British and Mughals

Engineers demonstrating the cantilever bridge system, 1887

Santa Claus with the children during Croatian War, Vukovar, 1992

Taxidermist Carl Akeley posing with the leopard he killed with his bare hands after it attacked him, 1896

Moving a 7,600 ton apartment building to create a boulevard in a Romanian town, 1987

Albanian Refugees Arriving in Italy: Photos and Stories, 1991

Ann Hodges shows off her bruise after being hit by a meteorite, 1954

Duelling with wax bullets, 1909

A Lithuanian book smuggler, 19th century

Spyros Louis, the first marathon race winner of the Modern Olympic Games, 1896

Proving that London’s double-decker buses were not a tipping hazard, 1933

A Mongolian woman reaches out from the porthole of a crate in which she is imprisoned, 1913

Troops of the Eight-Nation Alliance lined up in a propaganda picture, 1900

A mother shows a picture of her son to a returning prisoner of war, 1947

Factory Lectors: Vintage Photos That Reveal the Lives of Workplace Readers in the 1910s

Iron Lungs for Polio Victims: Photos from the 1930s-1950s

Lina Medina, the youngest confirmed mother in medical history, 1939

Packing up human skulls, 1948

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