Rare Discoveries That Show A Different Side To History Than We Already Know

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Holy Roman Emperor Maximillian I wore these armored gloves from 1508 until his death

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The first sunglasses date back to the prehistoric Inuits

Antoine Fraveau was wearing this breastplate when he was struck and killed by a cannonball at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815

King Tutankhamun's sandals

This 16th Century ring unfolds into an astronomical sphere

Boot dating back to 300 BC found preserved in the frozen ground of the Altai Mountains [Asia]

This rare Keaton music typewriter features a circular keyboard with 33 keys for musical notation

Surgeon's kit from the American Civil War

Carbonized bread from Pompeii that still has the baker's stamp on it, 79 AD.

Library inside of the Waldsassen Abbey in Bavaria holds thousands of volumes bound in white pigskin

'Cow shoes' used by moonshiners in the Prohibition days to disguise their footprints, 1924

Shoes worn by Allied spies during World War II to steer the adversaries in the opposite direction

Shoes of bog body Damendorf Man dated around 2nd to 4th century, found near Damendorf, Germany

James Dean at a gas station in 1955 was just before his fatal car accident

Clint Eastwood dancing with Princess Diana in 1985 at a presidential gala. While they were dancing Eastwood told Diana, “You’re too old for me,” even though she was only 24.

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Crowded ship bringing American troops back to New York harbor after V-Day, 1945

[Openurmind]

Wow, now there is a crew!

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The world’s oldest astrological clock (600 years old) is still functioning in Prague.

Installed in 1410, mounted on the southern wall of Old Town Hall in the Old Town Square in Prague.

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Final portrait of President Lincoln, two months before his assassination

[Paleo Pete]

Interesting stuff. I think I’ve seen the ship pic before, don’t think I’ve seen the tortoise...

[Paleo Pete]

Something I forgot earlier.

Behind and to the left of Tom Selleck, dancing with blue dress. Is that a young Prince Andrew I see? Or am I thinking of someone else?

[Gamecock]

More ornate than the ones worn by the Massai bushmen, or the ones sold at Cinqo de Mayo for that matter.

[Rebelbase]

Would make a good gift for Steve Martin.

[Rebelbase]

Prince Charles.

[Paleo Pete]

Charles...ok...not that familiar with the royal family.

So now my only question is...

why wasn’t I invited??

lol

[SunkenCiv]

:^)

[SaveFerris]

Heh, that almost looks like REAL marble that the rye was made of.

Of course, it might have hardened a bit over the years......

I can’t really tell until it’s on fishing line being reeled up to a window, several stories up.

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An East German soldier helping a lost boy sneak across the Berlin Wall.

When the Berlin Wall went up on August 13, 1961, the city wasn’t ready to be cut in half. The worst part about the forced splitting of the city was the fact that no one from East Berlin was allowed to cross over to West Berlin and vice versa. As chaos ensued this boy found himself on the wrong side of the wall. Rather than doom a child to a life without his family, this unknown soldier took his career into his own hands and helped the boy across the wall (at this point it was a simple barbed wire fence).

The soldier was caught after saving the boy, and while it’s believed that he was removed from his post no one really knows what happened to him.

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Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall pose in drag

[Professional]

Mick after this picture...realized he was not gay. Just wasn’t gonna pan out.

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Mata Hari in 1906

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Some things never change.

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These brothers from West Virginia fought on different sides of the Civil War. Both survived and posed for this photograph in 1910.

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Lincoln assassination conspirators getting prepared to be hanged. It was in the mid 90s that day. Look how they are dressed! Shorts and sandals were not a thing yet.

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Skull of a Roman legionnaire — with spear still embedded — killed during the Gallic Wars in 52 BC.

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