Rare Historical Photos That Will Transform Your Worldview (43 PICS)

Posted in PICTURES       30 May 2024       5867       5 GALLERY VIEW
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This is Robert Wadlow, the tallest man who ever lived:

And this is Pauline Musters, the shortest woman ever to live:

This is what the end of 13,000 miles of the Great Wall of China looks like:

This painting by Leonardo da Vinci is the most expensive painting ever sold:

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This, wicker chairs and all, is what the interior of a plane looked like in 1925:

In 1955, it cost $4.75 to go on 10 rides at Disneyland:

This is the violin Wallace Hartley, bandleader on the Titanic, played as the ship sank:

 

This monument to the doomed Donner Party shows just how deep the snow the unfortunate travelers had to deal with was:

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This is the world's oldest surviving photograph, taken by Nicéphore Niépce in 1827:

Here's what the original, un-enhanced world's oldest picture looks like today:

The presidents on Mount Rushmore were originally planned to look like this:

This is what a 3-year-old Albert Einstein looked like:

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This is what the iceberg that sank the Titanic looked like after being hit:

This is what the Mayan temple at Chichen Itza looked like before it was restored:

And this is what it looks like today:

This is Ham the chimpanzee, the first ape launched into space:

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This pointy thing is what a nuclear bomb actually looks like:

In 1962, three men escaped Alcatraz Island prison after fooling guards with papier-mâché decoy heads that looked like this:

This man, Gay Jewel, was declared the "world's heaviest man" in 1899:

This beauty is Britain's oldest door, constructed almost 1,000 years ago, in the 1050s:

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This is Charles Ponzi, the infamous scammer ponzi schemes got their name from:



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Leon 1 month ago
#14 oh my, look at what feminism and DEi has done to pilots and attendants
       
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Donny 1 month ago
Leon,

You poor, barely sentient tw@t. Feminism, DEI as the cause of those requirement changes? And pilots are not even mentioned in #14.
       
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Edwin 1 month ago
Donny,

That Leon character is a sad lonely looney.
       
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Chan 1 month ago
#14. We need to back to that.
       
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Virdie 1 month ago
#9 and #10 Are the exact same photograph of Lincoln. The brightness and contrast were changed, and he was mirrored, but it's exactly the same. As an actual historian I'm horribly offended at this fake history.
       
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