Historical photos that allow you to look at the past from a different angle
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By Pictolic https://pictolic.com/article/historical-photos-that-allow-you-to-look-at-the-past-from-a-different-angle.htmlHistory as a subject, especially at school, can become a real nightmare, consisting of a list of dry dates and a meaningless kaleidoscope of names.
But if you take a closer look at what exactly was happening, everything will certainly seem more lively and interesting. After all, people whose names have gone down in history forever really lived, breathed, made mistakes and laughed, that is, they lived brightly, often even with scandalous details.
Alfred Hitchcock plays with his grandchildren, 1960.
Hat fashion, New York, 1939.
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg play with water pistols, Sri Lanka, 1983.
When you don't have a single chance to distract a girl from Alain Delon. Even if you're Mick Jagger.
Salvador Dali and the tame anteater, New York, 1969.
Osama bin Laden on a family vacation in Sweden, 1970.
IBM is loading a 5 MB hard disk, 1956.
Nikola Tesla in his laboratory.
Ernest Hemingway after one of his parties.
Iranian women are protesting against the forced wearing of the hijab, introduced after the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
The last photo of the Titanic before it sank.
Models of the Dior fashion house on the streets of Moscow, 1956.
A Frenchman gives a light to Winston Churchill, 1944.
A smoke break at the construction site of the G. I. Building, New York, 1932.
Coca-Cola appeared in France in 1950.
Seal on the door of the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, Egypt, 1922. The seal remained untouched for 3245 years.
Keywords: History | Archive | Past | B/w | Interesting | Photo archives | Rare photos | XX century
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