15 Stirring Photos From The Past

We can not reverse time and change things that have happened. But the old photos help us to see the past.

A typical medical examination on a spaceship, 1973

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A young French woman’s hair is being cut off as a punishment for a connection with the occupation forces, 1944

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Live chess in Saint Petersburg, 1924

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Stella Liebeck, a woman who got a crazy amount of money in damages from McDonald’s because she spilled hot coffee on her lap, 1995

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Arches in Japan that survived a bombing in 1945 and an earthquake in 2011

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One of the first light bulbs, 1900

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Banned women bowling, 1900

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In 1895, the American Bowling Congress issued the rules which stipulated that women could not bowl equally with men.

The first bananas in Norway, 1905

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Passengers being transported over ice to shore in June, 1920

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Unemployed men are in line to get a free meal at Al Capone’s cafe, 1931

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A cow is being painted with white stripes to make it more visible during blackouts in Great Britain, 1941

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Dorothy Counts, the first black student who went to a school for white people, 1957

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Princess Anne visiting her bodyguard Jim Beaton in the hospital, 1974

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Princess Diana visited the Taj Mahal alone, 1992

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Young evacuees of Hurricane Katrina, US, 2005

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