Some great/interesting historical photos...

[Aphex]

Mongolia - a woman sentenced to death by starvation

A Zulu tribesman pulling his female employer around in a cart. Durban, South Africa. 1930

Russian soldiers teaching the Cossack dance to German prisoners of war. Eastern Front, 1915

The frozen body of a dead German soldier is used as a signpost. Eastern Front, c. 1942

 

[Afro_Samurai]

10 Commandments for Teenagers, 1956

- Interesting grammar.

 

[backagain]

Great pics

 

[Lapsy Pa]

Joey Stalin aged 23, 1902

Chilean volcano

Grieving chimpanzees watch as one of their buddies is carted off to the big tyre in the sky

A doctor disposing of bodies after the earthquake in Haiti

 

[Afro_Samurai]

Frightened children in a bomb shelter during the Battle of Britain, 1940-41

- The blonde girl at the top right, smiling. She looks like a WUM.

 

[Aphex]

A swimming lesson in 1930

2 young girls speak with their grandparents over a barbed wire fence, which later became the Berlin Wall. 1961

A Spanish lion tamer performing a dangerous stunt in Hamburg, 1962

A penniless mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale. Chicago, 1948

 

[Lapsy Pa]

Self explanatory

French locals lay flowers at the body of a dead american soldier

Francis Ford Coppola's potential cast list for the Godfather

Teddy Roosevelts diary after his wife and mother die on the same day

 

[Aphex]

Champion beer drinker of the Midlands, George Dyler, downs a pint in 4 seconds. 1954

A small white boy touches the riot shield of a black state trooper at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Atlanta, Georgia, 1992

Brooklyn Supreme, world's largest horse ever. 1928-1948

On May Day 1930, just after leaving her fiancé, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note. ‘He is much better off without me … I wouldn’t make a good wife for anybody,’ … Then she crossed it out. She went to the observation platform of the Empire State Building and jumped.

 

[Lapsy Pa]

Castro laying a wreath at the Lincoln memorial Washington DC 1959

Sidecars

Three genrations of Welsh miners 1950

an 11 year old hitler,

1900

 

[Afro_Samurai]

Ruby Bridges, first african-american to attend a white elementary school in the South 1960