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Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 309, click here. 1. A British blacksmith removing the leg irons off a slave, 1907. 2. Babies left to sleep outside, enforcing immune system, Moscow, 1958. 3. Nelson Mandela at a South African Communist Party rally, Soweto, 1990. 4. Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signing the Instrument…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 308, click here. 1. The consequences of landing on the wrong Aircraft Carrier, 1952. 2. The last photograph of Lenin was in May 1923, months before he died, with his doctor and his sister. 3. Catholic, Muslim, and Jewish military chaplains in the Austro-Hungarian army, WWI,…… Read More »

The cast of Starship Troopers agreed to do the nude shower scene only if the director Paul Verhoeven agreed to direct the scene naked, which he did. The post 25 Kickass Random Facts List #680 first appeared on KickassFacts.com. Source

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 307, click here. 1. President Lyndon B. Johnson drives his Amphicar on the lake of his Texas ranch in 1965. 2. Barbara Walters during her freshman year at Sarah Lawrence College in 1949. 3. Helen Keller visits wounded soldiers at a military hospital in Texas, 1944.…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 306, click here. 1. Woman cutting her birthday cake in Iran 1973, 5 years before the Islamic Revolution. 2. Reporters who exposed the Watergate Scandal watch President Nixon resign, 1974. 3. Russian Orthodox priest wearing deerskin, taken in 1901. 4. A Kurdish mother and her three…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 305, click here. 1. Mobsters hide their faces at Al Capone’s trial, 1931. 2. WWII: Chinese and Malayan girls were forcibly taken from Penang by the Japanese to work as ‘comfort girls’ for the troops, 1939-1945. 3. Ground view of human fly George Willig climbing the…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 304, click here. 1. African Americans lined up to volunteer in the Ethiopian military, New York City, 1935. 2. Weapons and ammunition found in Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow’s car after their death, 1934. 3. The early years of Nintendo, 1895. The company was still printing…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 303, click here. 1. What is now the fully developed Las Vegas strip, 1955. 2. The only surviving depiction of a Western POW being executed by the Japanese during WWII, ca. 1943. 3. Rare photo showing Niagara Falls without water, 1969. 4. Georgia cotton mill workers,…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 302, click here. 1. Bulgarian soldier giving his best battle cry for the camera, ca. 1916. 2. Harry S. Truman as a captain during WWI, 1918. 3. Pyramid of German helmets in celebration of victory, Grand Central, New York, 1919. 4. Florence Thompson, the Migrant Mother…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 301, click here. 1. A beach in Iran a few months before the Islamic Revolution, 1979. 2. A man browses for books in the old Public library of Cincinnati. The building was demolished in 1955. 3. Jewish-American soldiers conduct services in Schloss Rheydt, former residence of…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 300, click here. 1. A view of the destruction in Old Town Dresden from the Town Hall tower, 15 Feb. 1945. 2. Afghan Girl, 1984. 3. “One of America’s youngest newsboys. Four years old and regular seller, Tampa, Florida,” 1913. 4. A Soviet Mi-8 helicopter flying…… Read More »