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These high school yearbook photos from 1946 are bit sexist in today’s world but it shows just how different life was then.
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In the first half of the twentieth century, Chicago had a flourishing criminal underworld and these photos show a small glimpse into life during this era.
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On Christmas Eve in 1914, in the middle of World War 1, something incredible happened.
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20 Dec 2014
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These vintage adverts might have been the norm back in the day but they wouldn’t go down well in modern times.
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This may seem like an impossible task but you can make your very own MP3 player in these simple steps.
These historic and modern photos capture the real differences between the way events used to be and how they are today.
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These great historical photos document our very interesting past as a human race.
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8 Nov 2014
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Used for railroad images in Chicago, this camera reached a height of 3.4 feet (1.06 m) and weighed a massive 1115.4 lbs (507 kg). The camera used plates that were 7.8 feet (2.44 m) long and one cassette weighed about 497 lbs (226 kg).
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3 Nov 2014
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The Great Depression is the name given to the time in history when the stock market crashed. This fateful event happened 85 years ago on October 29, 1929 and is known as “Black Tuesday”.
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28 Oct 2014
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These images offer additional insight into past events that shaped the world we live in today.
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23 Oct 2014
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It is hard not to believe that there is something really weird going when you see these pics.
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Goodyear created this inflatable airplane for the military in order to try and solve the problem of soldiers falling to their deaths after an air attack.
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20 Oct 2014
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In 1948, Kedoozle was designed to be a grocery store for the future and customers selected items through a series of windows that were then dispensed via a vending machine.
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These photos were taken of people who were tasked with readying the bombs just hours before they struck Japan.
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