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Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 340, click here. 1. British soldiers after their release from Japanese captivity in Singapore, 1945. 2. A boy and his owl, 1933. 3. 59 years ago, Soviet space mission Vostok 6 was launched with Valentina Tereshkova onboard, who became the 1st woman in space! This is…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 339, click here. 1. An Atlanta Boy’s High School basketball player shooting a free throw against Tech High School in 1921. 2. Homosexual prisoners at the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, wearing pink triangles on their uniforms on 19 December 1938. 3. The Ethiopian Negus Menelik…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 338, click here. 1. Children in front of the world’s largest log cabin in Portland, Oregon, USA, 1938. It was built in 1905 and burned down in 1964. 2. A “victorious” Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returns from Germany and declares “peace for our time” after Hitler…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 337, click here. 1. Dr. Erich Salomon faked a broken arm so he could hide a camera in his cast to photograph the US Supreme Court, 1932. 2. The scene on the highway near Palermo after a bomb killed anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife, and…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 336, click here. 1. Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussaud’s Wax Museum in London, 1925. 2. The last known photograph of Tsar Nicholas II, seen with his wife Alexandra, c. August 1917. 3. Teddy Roosevelt’s 1907 hunting guide Ben Lilly. 4. Filming…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 334, click here. 1. Zanzibar, 1947. An exhausted nanny poses with her young charge, named Farrokh Bulsara. A quarter of a century later, he would adopt the pseudonym of Freddie Mercury. 2. Gale Benson, model and daughter of British MP Leonard Plugge. In 1972, she was…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 333, click here. 1. 17-years-old girl named Maria Ginesta in Barcelona during the Spanish civil war, 1937. 2. 112-year-old Teimruz Vanacha (left), a veteran of WWI and the Russian Civil War, with his son Ivan, a veteran of WWII, in 1980. 3. Former beauty Queen, Miss…… Read More »

Michael Dukakis drives both a tank and the final nail into the coffin that is his election campaign in 1988. The post 25 Interesting Historical Photos – Part 334 first appeared on KickassFacts.com. Source

Balloon view of Boston 1860, first recorded aerial photograph. The post 25 Interesting Historical Photos – Part 333 first appeared on KickassFacts.com. Source

Egyptian men watch as the Graf Zeppelin floats over the Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt, while atop the Great Pyramid of Khufu, 1931. The post 25 Interesting Historical Photos – Part 332 first appeared on KickassFacts.com. Source

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 330, click here. 1. In 1973, Marlon Brando rejected his Oscar for The Godfather to allow Sacheen Littlefeather to protest Hollywood’s portrayal of Native Americans. 2. “Happiest Man in China”, taken in 1901 by British anthropologists after deciding to document the Chinese. The Chinese didn’t know…… Read More »