The first photograph upon discovery of Machu Picchu, 1912
Einstein's desk photographed a day after his death -- Read
Abandoned boy holding a stuffed toy animal amid ruins following German aerial bombing of London, 1940
The orginal prototype of Mt. Rushmore in 1941- this was before funding ran out.
Notice the prototype was from the waist up but the finished product shows only Faces.
George Washington * Thomas Jefferson * Teddy Roosevelt * Abraham Lincoln
JFK and LBJ during the Cuban Missle Crisis (1962). The crisis brought the US within an eyelash of World War III
A German soldier in WWII buries an unknown English soldier that was killed in air combat in the Egyptian desert.
Soviet soldiers stand dumfounded at a large pile of human ashes found at the
Majdanek concentration camp in 1944
This man jumped into the water of Rabaul Harbor on the island of New Britain in the country of Papua, New Guinea to rescue a badly burned Marine pilot who was shot down while bombing the Japanese held fortress of Rabaul. He stripped naked as clothes and boots would have impeded his ability to swim. All the while, Japanese coastal defense guns were firing at the plane while it was in the water during take-off. This brave guy, after rescuing the pilot, manned his position as machine gunner without taking time to put on his clothes. The man, Horace Bristol, photographed right after he completed his heroic act and got back to work. Naked. Sweet!!!
Smiling on death row: This 1928 photo provided by the Franklin County
Historic Preservation Society in Benton, Ill., shows bootlegging gangster
Charlie Birger, center, on the gallows just before his public hanging in Benton
The last person to be publicly executed, by hanging or otherwise, in the United States was Rainey Bethea in 1936
The remains of the astronaut Vladimir Komarov, a man who fell from space, 1967
Ambrose Burnside Civil War General who coined the term 'sideburn')
Millions of Bison skulls- hunted to near extinction in 1870
Testing of a hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll
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