Wednesday, January 19, 2022

More Historical Pictures

 These are so good, I had to share them all!

26. Construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961


27. Bread and soup during the Great Depression


28. The 1912 World Series


29. The first photo following the discovery of Machu Pichu in 1912.


30. Construction of Christ the Redeemer in Rio da Janeiro, Brazil


31. Steamboats on the Mississippi River in 1907


32. Leo Tolstoy telling a story to his grandchildren in 1909


33. The construction of Disneyland


34. Arnold Schwarzenegger on the day he received his American citizenship


35. 14-year-old Osama bin Laden (2nd from the right)


36. Construction of the Statue of Liberty in 1884


37. Albert Einstein's office photographed on the day of his death


38. A liberated Jew holds a Nazi guard at gunpoint.


39. Construction of the Manhattan Bridge in 1908


40. Construction of the Eiffel Tower in 1888


41. Dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989


42. Titanic leaves port in 1912.


43. Adolf Hitler's pants after the failed assassination attempt at Wolf's Lair in 1944


44. ENIAC, the first computer ever built


45. Brighton Swimming Club in 1863


46. Ferdinand Porsche (yeah, that Porsche) showing a model of the Volkswagen Beetle to Adolf Hitler in 1935


47. The unbroken seal on King Tut's tomb


48. Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke left this family photo behind on the moon in 1972.


49. The crew of Apollo 1 practicing their water landing in 1966. Unfortunately, all of them were killed on the launch pad in a fire.


50. An aircraft crash on board during World War II

 

 

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