Muhammad Ali stopping a suicidal man from leaping to his death, 1981
This post was originally published on this siteThis is the story of how the famous boxer Muhammad Ali convinced a suicidal young man to come […]
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The story of Sarajevo’s Romeo and Juliet, 1993
This post was originally published on this siteFew good things come out of war, and the image of this young couple’s lifeless bodies embracing on […]
The weird history of flying cars, 1920-1970
This post was originally published on this siteEver since the car was invented, man has dreamt of taking it to the skies. The idea of […]
The 100 most influential historical pictures of all time
This post was originally published on this siteTIME magazine decided to create a list of the 100 most influential pictures ever taken. They teamed up […]
Inside the revolutionary Bell Labs Datacenter, 1960s
This post was originally published on this siteSince the early 1900s Bell Telephone Laboratories, or Bell Labs, has been a major source of technological experimentation […]
The photographic history of Light Therapy, 1900-1950
This post was originally published on this siteThe first therapeutic uses of light (so called light therapy) date back to the end of the twentieth […]
The golden age of the video rental store, 1970-1990
This post was originally published on this siteBefore video stores, movies were solely watched in theaters, leaving studios hesitant to embrace video technology and video […]
Helene Mayer, the Jewish fencer who fought for Hitler, 1927-1936
This post was originally published on this siteHelene Mayer, remains one of the Olympics’ great mysteries. She was, by definition of German law at the […]
Frida Kahlo before Fridamania swept the world, 1944
This post was originally published on this siteBorn in 1907, Frida Kahlo lived for just 47 years. Andre Breton summed up Kahlo as “a ribbon […]
The days of the drive-in movie theaters, 1930-1950
This post was originally published on this siteThough there were drive-ins as early as the 1910s, the first patented drive-in was opened on June 6, […]
Disneyland’s historical opening day, 1955
This post was originally published on this siteDisneyland was dedicated at an “International Press Preview” event held on Sunday, July 17, 1955, which was open […]
Jerusalem at the end Ottoman rule, 1900-1918
This post was originally published on this siteThese rare pictures depict the final days of 400 years of Turkish rule over Jerusalem. In its long […]
Producing the “People’s Car” of Germany, 1945-1960
This post was originally published on this siteIn 1933 Adolf Hitler commissioned automotive engineer Ferdinand Porsche to develop a “People’s Car” (literally a VolksWagen). The […]
The paradoxical history of the iconic DeLorean, 1980-1984
This post was originally published on this siteDeLorean DMC-12, an innovative sports car, produced from 1981–1983, with gull-wing doors and stainless-steel body panels. It should […]
What arcade games looked like before video games, 1968
This post was originally published on this siteIn the days before video games, amusement arcades were filled with a panoply of analog entertainment, from shooting […]
Remembering the hysteria over Windows 95 launch, 1995
This post was originally published on this siteOn Aug. 24, 1995, Microsoft—at that time a tech company with around $6 billion in sales and 17,800 […]
The coded world of Russian criminal tattoos, 1960-1990
This post was originally published on this siteIn jails and prisons around the world, tattoos can become a significant part of an inmate’s uniform, not […]
The state of the art gym on the Titanic, 1912
This post was originally published on this siteAt the beginning of the 20th century the shipping route across the Atlantic was extremely popular, driven by […]
Remembering the deadly Spanish Flu, 1918-1920
This post was originally published on this siteFrom January 1918 to December 1920, a deadly influenza outbreak infected 500 million people across the world. Estimates […]
Dr. Zbigniew Religa monitors his patient’s vitals after a 23 hour long heart transplant surgery, 1987
This post was originally published on this siteAmidst a tangle of wires Dr. Zbigniew Religa anxiously watches a monitor to see how his patient responds […]
The early teen bicycle messengers, 1908-1917
This post was originally published on this siteIn 1908, the National Child Labor Committee hired Lewis Hine, a New York sociologist and photographer, to document […]
The bookmobiles – Vintage photos of traveling libraries, 1910s-1960s
This post was originally published on this siteThe bookmobile was travelling library often used to provide books to villages and city suburbs that had no […]
The Hindenburg Disaster in pictures, 1937
This post was originally published on this siteThe Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst, New Jersey on May 6, 1937 brought an end to the age of […]
Rare photos of dangerous New York City’s subway system, 1970-1980
This post was originally published on this siteDuring the late 70’s and early 80’s, New York City’s subway system was one of the most dangerous […]
The first female bodybuilders and strongwomen showing off their gains, 1900s
This post was originally published on this siteThe first “strongwomen” appeared in the 19th century, but were almost unheard of until much later. The appearance […]