18 historical photos that will tell you more than a textbook

History is a very interesting and informative science, but for some reason many people find it boring. Perhaps because textbooks usually contain only "dry" information, which, moreover, is difficult to remember. We have figured out how to solve this problem: a selection of photos below will allow you to learn a little more about the world without straining your brains.

A defeated German soldier sits in front of the burning Reichstag in Berlin, 1945.

The first street lights of the Galata Bridge, 1913, Istanbul.

The commissioning ceremony of the Italian battleship Roma, June 14, 1942.

A policeman and a rebel during a street clash in Havana in the last days of the Cuban Revolution. January 1959.

Disinfection of the autopsy table in Mukden, China, 1910, during the epidemic of pneumonic plague.

A protester inserts a flower as a symbol of peace into the barrel of a soldier's rifle in Arlington, Virginia, October 26, 1967.

"Drunk basket". In the 1960s, bars in Istanbul hired people to transport drunks home.

American troops of the 28th Infantry Division walk along the Champs-Elysees in Paris during the parade, August 29, 1944.

People celebrate Victory Day in Times Square, New York, 1945.

In 1918, the Georgia Institute of Technology hosted a football game during the Spanish flu pandemic.

Protein and Strelka, 1960.

The plane made an emergency landing on the George Washington Bridge due to engine problems, on December 26, 1965.

Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signs the final act of unconditional surrender of the German military in Berlin on May 9, 1945.

On the way to Woodstock, August 15, 1969.

A Japanese woman with a child among the ruins of Hiroshima in December 1945.

The last public execution using the guillotine, 1939.

British inventor W. T. Warren demonstrates the safety of the protective flight helmet he invented, 1912.

From left to right: Natalia Sedova (Trotsky's wife), Frida Kahlo, Leon Trotsky and Marxist theorist Max Schachtman, who spoke in Mexico City in 1937.