33 historical photo facts that make you think

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Viking ring with the inscription "In the name of Allah", the first elk skin leggings, weapons of the New York police in 1864, roads of "Ancient Rome", giant Volga sturgeons and many other amazing photos of facts.

The famous shadows of Hiroshima. There is no man, but the shadow remains …

1924 magazine illustration. Skype through the eyes of science fiction writers of the time.

Iran. A woman is buried in the ground before being stoned for treason.

Viking ring, 9th century Found in a woman's grave in Sweden. The inscription on the stone reads - In the name of Allah.

Leggings used to be worn exclusively by men, it was part of the ceremonial clothing. They were originally made from elk skin, hence the name.

The "ancient Roman" dentists were so harsh.

New York police weaponry in 1864.

The skeleton of a dog in one of the abandoned apartments in the city of Pripyat. The dog did not wait for its owners.

This is how the roads were done in "Ancient Rome" - better than now.

The famous Hugo Boss sewed the uniform for the Nazis.

Extraction forceps, 1860s. The screw was screwed into the aching tooth and pulled out by the root. No pain relievers.

This is a submarine from the First World War. And some find it hard to turn on the turn signal in their car.

Afghanistan. One and the same place 1970s and 2000s.

Such a fish was caught in the Volga River in 1924.

2017 Youth Letter from 1967 Youth.

And this is how Germany looked in the 30s.

Almost 80% of Soviet men born in 1923 died in the Great Patriotic War.

Ivan Burylov, who wrote the word comedy on a voting ballot, received 8 years in the camps, 1949.

The husband is a Protestant, the wife is a Catholic. The community did not allow them to be buried in the same cemetery. Holland, 1888.

The creator of the popular cartoon "Shrek" William Steig copied his character from the professional wrestler Maurice Tillet.

In 1859, 24 rabbits were released in Australia. For 6 years, their number has increased to 6,000,000 individuals …

Note by Yuri Gagarin, written after the flight around the Earth.

King George V of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and his brother - Emperor Nicholas II of Russia.

The diameter of Soviet cigarettes is 7, 62 mm, as is the caliber of a cartridge. There is a widespread myth that the entire production was set up so that in 2 hours it would be ready for the release of cartridges.

Afghanistan 1973 and 2016.

Give me 5 years and you won't recognize Germany. - A. Hitler

John Rockefeller dreamed of earning $ 100 thousand and living to be 100 years old. And he earned $ 192 billion and died at 97. Not all dreams come true.

Terry Savchuk - the face of the hockey goalkeeper, when the mask was not yet an obligatory attribute, 1966.

Mortgage - definition in the Soviet dictionary.

Minister of Women's Affairs Angela Merkel and Chancellor Kohl. 1991 She fired him 10 years later.

Stalin's son Yakov Dzhugashvili in German captivity, 1941. Later he was killed in a prison camp - his father refused to exchange him for captured German generals.

Public execution by guillotine, France, 1939.

A hotel manager pours acid into a pool where blacks swim, 1964. USA.