25 photos that will change your perception of world history
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By Pictolic https://pictolic.com/article/25-photos-that-will-change-your-perception-of-world-history.htmlWhen you read something about history, whether a memoir, a textbook or article, the mind develops its own unique view about how it was a fantasy she completes the entourage, the details, colors, sounds and smells. And sometimes we can't even really imagine how it was then. Thankfully, photography exists for a good century and a half, and have the ability to at least visualize some of the places and moments that are gone forever.
A group of tourists sunbathing on top of the Great pyramid of Giza.
Happy Walt Disney opening day of Disneyland in 1955.
Luxurious main dining room of the Titanic.
The construction of the Eiffel tower in 1888.
The shadow of a man after a reset of a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima.
The Hollywoodland sign in Los Angeles in 1925.
The construction of the Sydney Opera house in 1973.
Start of construction of the world trade center towers in new York in 1971.
A group of tourists in Las Vegas from the front row watching the tests of a nuclear bomb in 1953.
Couple shows their newborns to the grandparents on the other side of the Berlin wall in 1961.
American Indian on the roof of Alcatraz in 1971, when the prison was captured by the Indians.
The left hand of the statue of Liberty gather in Paris in the winter of 1882.
Ruined wall of the Empire state building after the collision of a bomber B-25 in 1945.
Japanese on a sailing boat on the background of mount Fuji 1890-ies.
London in ruins after an attack by German aircraft on 29 December 1940.
The empty halls of the National gallery in London during the Second world war: all the paintings hid from the Nazis.
Fireworks on red square in Moscow in honor of the victory over Nazi Germany in 1945.
The unfinished tower bridge in London in the late nineteenth century.
The sculpting on mount Rushmore in the 1930s. At that time the mountain was removed, 500 thousand tons of granite.
Archaeologist Howard Carter examines the Golden sarcophagus of Tutankhamun after the opening of his tomb in 1923.
Hooverville in Central Park in new York city during the great depression.
At Niagara falls "turned off" the water in 1969 for studies related to soil erosion.
Men go fishing on the background of the construction of the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco in the 1930-ies.
The construction of Madison square garden in new York in 1966.
The Capitol building in Washington is still without a dome, 1859.
Keywords: XIX century | XX century | Historic images | Moments | Events
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