Posted on 06/28/2022 6:43:48 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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John Quincy Adams, the first president to have his picture taken, 1843 In this photo Adams was 75 years old and serving in the House of Representatives representing Massachusetts, a position he held until he passed away in 1848.
He was president from March 4, 1825 to March 3 1829. This daguerreotype of Adams was taken at his home in Massachusetts.
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8-year-old Różyczka Goździewska, the youngest nurse in the Warsaw Uprising. She helped as an assistant in the field hospital, bringing water to the injured, chasing away flies and serving as a source of happiness. She didn't have any training but she did what she could.
She survived the war and went on to graduate from the Silesian University of Technology.
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Photo of Joseph Stalin taken at 4:31 am on June 22, 1941. He was just told that Germany had attacked the USSR, starting a war against the Soviet Union. The photographer was told to destroy the photo but he saved it.
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British veteran of the Napoleonic wars posing with his wife
Taken in 1850, 35 years following the battle of Waterloo Notice the medal pinned to the man's jacket showing he served in the Spanish campaign
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Nicholas II, the last Tzar of Russia, informal photo (unknown date)
He was crowned Tzar of Russia in 1896.
On July 17, 1918, the Bolsheviks murdered Nicholas and his family.
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US Soldier with pictures of his girlfriend, Chu Chi base camp, Vietnam 1968
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Queen Elizabeth, at Buckingham Palace, in 1942
Selfie taken by Edvard Munch after admitting himself to a psychiatric clinic in 1908
Munch is best known for "The Scream," one of the most iconic pieces of art ever created,
Ann Elizabeth Hodges, the only person recorded to have been hit by a meteorite, in 1954. She survived 🌠
Ann Hodges was just napping on her couch at her home in Alabama on November 30, 1954, when an 8.5 pound meteorite crashed through her roof, bounced off her radio console and then hit her torso.
The meteorite that hit Hodges was a piece of a much larger rock that broke in two as it hurdled towards the Earth. The piece that didn't hit Hodges landed a few miles away and now it can be seen in the National Museum of National History
German prisoners of war in an American camp, photographed as they’re forced to watch a film about the German concentration camps, 1945.
Bruce Lee with producer Fred Weintraub, on the set of 'Enter the Dragon', in 1973
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British Army soldier handles a homing pigeon at an Air Ministry Pigeon Section loft in England
during World War II in April 1941
Each photo worth a thousand words.
thank you for posting these
the photographer who kept that photo of stalin, if the story is true, risked their life (quite literally).
the photo of the napoleonic vet is a glimpse at an early 19th century peasant (I assume not career military). I would guess he was in his 50s or 60s?
I think the last one looks like Gomer Pile.
The photographer of Stalin was risking his life by keeping that pic.
Ping for tomorrow
Thank you for posting!
Elizabeth...so beautiful!
Munch...world’s first selfie? :-)
The one of John Quincy Adams is just incredible
Ping
Good Canteen material.
Fascinating!
Excellent historical photos, thanks for posting!
My wife, who grew a British citizen, says the picture Elizabeth is actually Margaret
British veteran of the Napoleonic wars posing with his wife
Marty Feldman, I thought.
It’s the chin.
Yes! Wow!
Fascinating
British veteran of the Napoleonic wars posing with his wife
The Czar looks like the Captain Obvious character from the commercials.
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