historical pictures around the world

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Dear all please share historical pictures.

HISTORICAL PHOTOS.... And descriptions as we wonder what it was like to be there and surprises us with something we have never seen. There are some you may have never seen before and they are amazing.


A boxing match on board the USS Oregon in 1897

Albert Einstein

Here's his report card! 1896 - highest marks in Algebra - Physics - Geometry and

lower marks in languages

Samurai taken between 1860 and 1880.

A shell shocked reindeer looks on as World War II planes drop bombs on R

ussia in 1941

Roy O. and Walt Disney on the day they opened Disney Studios. Pic 1
Bill Gates ---- & ----The Microsoft staff in 1978. 11 people - 2 women 5 beards Pic 2

 

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The last known Tasmanian Tiger photographed in 1933. The species is now extinct.

The London sky following a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940.

Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945.

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A Native American overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in 1868.


A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.

 

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The original Ronald McDonald -- played by Willard Scott!

Hitler in Paris


British SAS back from a three month long patrol of North Africa, January 18, 1943.


California Iumberjacks work on Redwoods. Thousands of tree rings in these ancient trees each over 1000+ years old or even much older........such a shame - irreplaceable giants- national park treasures all gone but a few - what kind of men would do such a thing for over 100 years ---

Destroy something they cannot ever fix or replace for 2000 years?

It is an evergreen, long-lived, monoecious tree living 1200-1800 years or more. ...

An estimated 95% or more of the original old-growth redwood forest has been cut.

In 1850, old-growth redwood forest covered more than 2,000,000 acres

(8,100 acres by... 1968, by which time nearly 90% of the original redwood trees had been logged.

Bill and Hillary Clinton playing volleyball in 1975. A future US President

Bill and Hillary Clinton playing volleyball in 1975. A future US President