Oh, this amazing past!

Oh, this amazing past!

Categories: History

It is always interesting to observe the amazing past of mankind, even if not so far away. The silent witnesses of historical events gathered in this issue in the form of archival photographs tell us about the affairs of the past days.

Oh, this amazing past!

Oh, this amazing past!

1914. German mounted patrol crossing the Meuse

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1944. The landing of the Canadian brigade in Normandy

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1888. Prince of Wales at the Hiram Stevens Maxim Machine Gun test

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1945. Survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

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1948. Anti-communist protests in Berlin

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1949. The crowd tries to have time to pick up their valuables from the bank before the Communists enter Shanghai

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1918. An elderly refugee woman with her cow. Amiens

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1963. The inventor of glasses-TVs Hugo Gernsback

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1940. Children on the London Underground

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1944. A Soviet soldier wearing a CH-42 breastplate on the Karelian front

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1906. Rainer Maria Rilke © Bernard Shaw

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1921. Portrait of an imbecile © Philip Supo

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1902. Leo Tolstoy with his daughter Tatiana in Crimea

Keywords: 19th century | Archive

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