Free time observations : found some Rare pictures from wiki
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The following post contains images that may be disturbing to some readers.
Topsy the circus elephant, electrocuted in 1903 because she killed a circus spectator that burnt her trunk with a lit cigar.[1]
Dr. Robert E. Cornish holding Lazarus IV, a dog he brought back from the dead after having killed him with a nitrogen gas mixture.[2]
One of the oldest selfies ever circa 1900.
The clothes of victims killed during the Rwandan genocide are laid out on benches in the Nyamata Church in Rwanda. 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days.[3]
(Now downtown) Los Angeles, circa 1860.
Robin Williams as a cheerleader for the Denver Broncos, 1980.
Civil War Veteran Jacob C. Miller photographed around 1913. He lived with an open bullet wound in his forehead for many years with the last pieces of lead dropping
Three athletes in training for the marathon at the first summer Olympics in Athens, 1896.
Ayano Tokumasu (the girl in red) fell to her death shortly after this picture of the vacationing couple was taken in Niagara Falls.[4]
Major Erik Bonde smokes a cigarette after being shot twice in Congo, 1961.
Wojtek the bear in 1942. Polish soldiers adopted him and had him carry artillery. But because only soldiers could be transported after the war had ended, he was enlisted as a soldier with the rank of private[5].
Two frozen Soviet soldiers in Finland, 1940.
Buzz Aldrin’s selfie from space, 1966.
German soldiers exchanging clothes wih their girlfriends during WW2.
17 year old Armi Kuusela, the first winner of the Miss Universe pageant, 1952.
Albanian refugees arriving in Italy, 1991.
Mike, the headless chicken who lived for 18 months before suffocating to death.[6]
An elephant from the Warsaw Zoo. The zoo’s directors hid up to 300 Jews during WW2.[7]
Lyuba, the best preserved mammoth mummy suffocated when she inhaled mud more than 40,000 years ago.[8]
Highbury Stadium in London, 1951.
A father holds his dead child in front of S. Vietnamese Army Rangers (1964).
Four Korean Comfort women (one is pregnant) that were raped by the Japanese Military.[9]
Colourized photo of two Titanic survivors, Mrs. Charlotte Collyer and her daughter.
During a motor race in Le Mans, France in 1955, a crash caused debris to fly into the crowd, killing 83 spectators and injuring even more.[10]
Nazi rally in Buenos Aires, 1938.
Panama Canal construction, 1913.[11]
Russian survivor in Buchenwald camp identifies a former guard, 1945.
The forward cabin of an Imperial Airways liner of the Heracles class, circa 1932.
The Sultana steamboat shortly before exploding killing more than 1,000 people, 1865.
The room where Richard Speck raped and strangled 8 nurses in Chicago, 1966[12].
Man feeds polar bear and cubs, 1976.
German troops raise the Nazi flag over the Acropolis, 1941.
Quagga mare at London Zoo 1870, the only specimen photographed alive before becoming extinct. The last quagga died in captivity in 1883.
Juliane Koepcke, the sole survivor of LANSA Flight 508, poses in front of a piece of the plane wreckage.[13]
Empire Patrol disaster, September 29th, 1945 near Castellorizo island (Greece).
Dogs stranded on ice after the Endurance ship got trapped in ice, in 1915.[14]
Wing walker Lillian Boyer, hangs from the wing of her airplane during a stunt, 1922.
And here she is again:
The world’s first ever photograph taken in 1826 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce.
Here is the enchanced version:
Soldiers stand before three women who have committed suicide in Nazi Germany, 1945.[15]
American marines with their pet dog in Vietnam (1968).
A woman lying on the pavement inside Warsaw ghetto, 1941.
Harrison Okene, photographed by a diver soon after he was discovered alive inside a ship that had sunk 3 days before.[16]
The original Moulin Rouge in Paris after it was ravaged by the fire, 1915[17].
Eugène Weidmann was the last person to be publicly executed by guillotine (1939).
Anandi Gopal Joshi (left), Kei Okami (center) and Sabat Islambouli (right), training to be doctors at Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1885.
The streetcar that fell into the river above the retractable bridge it was supposed to cross, drowning 46 of its passengers, Boston (1916).
People look for relatives among the dead bodies of the Beslan hostage crisis victims at the morgue in North Ossetia, 2004.[18]
Baby Elvis Presley photographed with his mother Gladys and father Vernon.
A Venice canal being drained and cleaned, 1956.
14 year old Keith Sapsford was accidentally photographed falling from the wheel of a flight from Sydney to Japan in 1970.
Mestiza de sangley: a woman of mixed ancestry photographed by Francisco Van Camp, circa 1875.
Baby nursery at Jonestown, home to the Peoples temple, a religious movement founded by Jim Jones that lead to the mass suicide of 900 people in 1978[19].
Dogs aboard the Titanic. (Out of the twelve dogs on Titanic, only three
small ones survived).[20]
A mourner bows in front of a memorial altar for the victims from the sunken South Korean ferry Sewol. Out of the 476 passengers (including 325 high school students) only 172 survived. Five people were never recovered[21].
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