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Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 288, click here. 1. CIA agent Felix Rodriguez (left) and Bolivian soldiers pose with Che Guevara moments before his execution, Bolivia, 9 October 1967. 2. Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic from Nirvana at Kurt Cobain’s funeral, Seattle, Washington, 1994. 3. American Veterans from World War II,…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 287, click here. 1. Indian soldiers burying dead Pakistani soldiers according to Islamic rituals after Pakistan refused to accept their bodies, Kargil war, 1999. 2. A group of frontiersmen with an advertisement, United States, Montana, 1901. 3. Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards soars above a roaring crowd…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 286, click here. 1. Civil rights activist James Meredith, who defied segregation to become the first African-American student enrolled at the University of Mississippi, pulls himself across Highway 51 after being shot in Hernando, Mississippi, 6 June 1966. 2. Jewish refugees arrive in Palestine with a…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 285, click here. 1. Anti NAZI demonstration in Berlin, 1932. 2. Harlem, New York, 1948. The photograph was taken by Gordon Parks. 3. Survivors of HMAS Armidale on a raft after their ship was sunk by Japanese air attack, December 1942. A Catalina flying boat later…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 284, click here. 1. Las Vegas police facing Mike Tyson after he’d just bitten Holyfield’s ear off, 1996. 2. 20,000 Americans attend a Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden, 20 February 1939. 3. John Meintz, an American farmer tarred and feathered by a mob for his…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 282, click here. 1. Two armed farmers, father, and son, Zimbabwe, 1986. 2. A boy holding a stuffed animal amid ruins following German aerial bombing of London, 1945. His mother, father, and brother all dead and buried under the rubble. 3. Teddy Roosevelt in his rowing…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 281, click here. 1. American soldier wearing the crown of the Holy Roman Empire in a cave in Siegen, Germany, 3 April 1945. 2. A Romanian soldier giving a sign of victory after the 1989 revolution, having removed the communist insignia from his headwear. 3. George…… Read More »

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 279, click here. 1. The Procrastinators Club of America protesting against former President James Madison and the War of 1812, Philadelphia, 9 March 1966. 2. San Francisco’s iconic Cliff House, shortly before it was destroyed by fire in 1907. 3. Burial at sea on the USS…… Read More »

Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 606, click here 1-5 Kickass Random Fact 1. In 2014, the Indian government employed 40 people to impersonate monkeys, to scare off real monkeys causing havoc around the parliament in Delhi. The men made screeching noises similar to those of black-faced langur monkeys, imitating their whoops and…… Read More »