Alan Milne with the ’original’ Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh.
Mark Twain in the lab of Nikola Tesla, 1894.
A Russian woman had a total of 69 children — 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets — all with the same man.
Norma Jean Baker at the Van Nuys CA factory, soon to be known as Marilyn Monroe.
Young Winston Churchill.
Alice Liddell — the very Alice from ’Alice in Wonderland,’ by Lewis Carroll.
Tricky game of lights and shadows. Walt Disney, 1939.
This is Willard Scott, and he is the first Ronald McDonald.
The first Michelin man
The famous Bonnie and Clyde.
Sophia Loren at the Kremlin, 1965.
Dressing room at the Moulin Rouge, 1924.
The Disney employee cafeteria.
The first flight of the Wright brothers, the inventors of the world’s first airplane, 1903.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated, 1914.
Indira Gandhi, Charlie Chaplin and Jawaharlal Nehru in Switzerland, 1953.
John Dillinger, center, handcuffed to Deputy Sheriff R.M. Pierce during Dillinger’s murder trial hearing in Crown Point, Indiana. Though his trial was scheduled for March 12, 1934, Dillinger would escape from the Crown Point prison on March 3
The best-known American bank robber of the 20th century was John Dillinger. Although his career lasted only a little more than a year from June 1933 to July 1934 he gained nationwide notoriety as the country’s most wanted criminal.
Dillinger was born in Indianapolis, Ind., on June 28, 1902. He grew up there and in nearby Mooresville. In 1923 he joined the United States Navy but deserted the service within a few months. He reappeared in Mooresville on Sept. 6, 1924, and was caught robbing a store. He served time in Indiana prisons until 1933, becoming a hardened criminal.
Paroled in May 1933, Dillinger formed a gang and set out to rob banks. Captured four months later, he was rescued by gang members. After robberies in several states, he was arrested in Arizona and returned to Indiana and jailed. He executed a remarkable escape on Mar. 3, 1934, and continued his bank robberies. The object of a massive manhunt by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), he was so legend says lured to the Biograph Theater in Chicago on July 22, 1934, by Anna Sage, the mysterious so-called Lady in Red. There FBI agents gunned him down.
This photograph was taken at FBI headquarters in Washington DC.. It shows the weapons that were used by the Dillinger Gang.
Note the modified Colt government model M1911A1 pistol in caliber .38 Super in the lower left portion of the photograph. It has been modified to use a Colt Thompson vertical foregrip, extended box magazine, and fired fully automatic.
Pablo Escobar and family at Disney World, 1981
Vietnam POWS going home 1973
A British Army bomb-disposal specialist approaches a car bomb during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, ca. late 1970’s
German air raid on Moscow in 1941
Adolf Hitler’s pants after the failed assassination attempt at Wolf’s Lair in 1944.
The Wolf’s Lair conference room soon after the explosion
Freed Jewish prisoner takes revenge on Nazi while American soldier looks on
Titanic leaves port in 1912.
Here’s What Passengers Actually Ate on the Titanic
This moment.. An East German soldier ignores orders to let no one pass and helps a boy, who was found on the opposite side from his family, cross the newly formed ‘Berlin Wall’- 1961
Japan’s Emperor Hirohito in Yokohama during his first visit to see living conditions in the country since the end of the war (1946)
Martin Luther King Jr. confers with Marlon Brando in 1964.
Norma Jean Dougherty — later to be known as Marilyn Monroe — poses for David Conover (before she went platinum blonde), the photographer credited with discovering her.
Queen Elizabeth during World War II.
Muhammad Ali talks a man out of jumping in 1981.
Pablo Picasso as Popeye in 1957.
Model turned war photojournalist Lee Miller took this self-portrait in Hitler's bathtub after his suicide.
Elvis Presley in 1958, the year he was inducted into the U.S. Army.
Frank Sinatra in 1939, asking Lou Gehrig for an autograph.
Muhammad Ali (then still known as Cassius Clay) with the Beatles in 1964.
Anthony Perkins stands by as Audrey Hepburn gives Pippin, her pet deer, some bubbly in 1959.
Harley-Davidson founders William Harley and Arthur Davidson pose on two of their company's motorcycles in 1914.
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