History in Photographs

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Circa 1983

Ironworker during construction of Columbia Tower. 

Seattle, Washington.

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1939 Versailles, France Last public execution by guillotine. "British actor Christopher Lee - who was 17 at the time - witnessed the event." Sauce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Weidmann

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1992 LA Riots (Rodney King Riots) Store owners arm themselves to defend their stores in Koreatown.

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1952 Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY Turning Barrel.

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1944 Crew of the USS New Jersey watch as a Japanese prisoner of war is shaved, deloused, and bathes himself.

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May 3, 1939 Ku Klux Klan warning blacks to stay away from polling places during the municipal primary.

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1903 Indian executioner in full armor, carrying a dhal (shield) and a large Tulwar sword.

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Circa 1940 During The Blitz the Germans used naval mines dropped with parachutes as improvised blockbusters. They exploded on contact with a hard surface; as the bomb was not in a crater, the force of the blast would disperse laterally- causing extensive damage.

 

The large raid on Coventry between November 14, and November 15 of 1940 included the use of 50 parachute naval mines- which caused extensive blast damage. 

The British called these devices 'air-mines', which was a cognate for the German term Luftmine, their own name for these ordnance items. These types were used also during air raids on Malta, especially on its harbour areas.

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1991 Gulf War Iraqi soldiers lay dead.

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Circa 1968 Vietnam Staff Sergeant Edgar D. Bledsoe, of Olive Branch, Ill., cradles a critically ill Vietnamese infant. The child was brought to Fire Support Base Pershing

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1855 (Crimean War) 13th Light Dragoons The survivors from the Charge of the Light Brigade. ('The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava' By Alfred Tennyson)

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Circa 1936 The interior of an Imperial Airline's biplane. Extra Sauce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handley_Page_H.P.42

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1893 (Present day Pakistan) His Highness the Khan of Kalat, and his sons.