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While some photographs capture our attention because of how the artist behind the picture has decided tocompose the shot, others are fascinating simply because of the subjects that they depict. Below are somecaptivating photographs that tell stories about our past, depicting the people, places and events that haveshaped the course of history. Some of these pictures tell us about history in a way that books and documents willnever be able to.

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Woman With A Gas-Resistant Pram, England, 1938

Elvis in the Army, 1958

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Testing of new bulletproof vests, 1923

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Circus hippo pulling a cart, 1924

Annette Kellerman promotes women’s right to wear

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Annie Edison Taylor, the first person to survive going

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Unpacking the head of the Statue of Liberty, 1885

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Hotel owner pouring acid in the pool while black

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Hitler’s officers and cadets celebrating Christmas,

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Last prisoners of Alcatraz leaving, 1963

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A space chimp posing to camera after a successful

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Illegal alcohol being poured out during Prohibition,

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Kayla Ann Stockman • 8 days ago

That one with the hotel owner pouring acid in the pool made me feel physically ill.

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Kim Hernandez • 8 days ago Kayla Ann Stockman

How do we know it's acid? Because it is written? I looked at the picture and found nothing to prove it. able to use the pool then......right?

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Brian Schwanke • 7 days ago Kim Hernandez

It was a documented case, it happened quite often. They would put enough in to irritate the skin and drive the blacksout of the hotel, then close the pool for a day while they added enough fresh water to dilute the acid to a point ofcleaning the pool without harming people.

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Kim Hernandez • 7 days ago Brian Schwanke

Brian...don't know you from Adam but I'd like to thank you for taking time to respond like an adult...whensomeone talks like that people may be more willing to listen. What you just did was make sense! enough...right? Others think calling people trolls makes sense...anyway....thanks for taking your time!

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Brian Schwanke • 7 days ago Kim Hernandez

Y our welcome, I have a treasure trove of such useless information.

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Kim Hernandez • 7 days ago Brian Schwanke

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Tiberius • 7 days ago Kim Hernandez

The picture isn't all bad. There is a white guy swimming in the pool with everyone else. comforting the black ladies who are in distress. I do not know enough of the alleged practice of putting acid

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into pools in which black people are swimming, but I can clearly see from the picture that at least one manhas the brains and intelligence to see that skin colour is nothing and irrelevant. the bad...even though there is a lot of it.

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glorybe2 • 7 days ago Tiberius

The blind hatred in racists tends to make them think they are doing the right thing when they are hurting therace they dislike. Racism is a strange disease and it really is a disease. For example a white racist might offenda black man and get a punch in the shout. To the racist that punch is proof that he was right to drive theblack man into a rage. Even after the horrors during WWII were well exposed to the European populationthere were still quite a few that felt not enough Jews had been slaughtered. It is s strange problem that resistssolutions.

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Barbara • 3 days ago Tiberius

Well said! I agree with you. But the treatment of black people was still despicable.

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Ginnie • 4 days ago Kim Hernandez

I agree with you Kim!

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kim hernandez • 4 days ago Ginnie

Arm yourself Ginnie.,..they're not going to like you! lolThey get so upset and I haven't said ONE discriminatory thing....talk about up tight...right?

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Ginnie • 4 days ago kim hernandez

Oh well......I'm tough enough to take it and still smile. ~: )

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Ginnie • 4 days ago Brian Schwanke

Kudos, Brian! Right on!

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Jennifer • 8 days ago Kim Hernandez

Sometimes when hatred is that strong good judgement is pushed to the side. Truly blinded by hatred. It's not thatdifficult to believe, sadly. Worse crimes have committed, insensible ones, too.

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Jean • 6 days ago Kim Hernandez

Uh, the photo was snapped by a photog who worked for either Assoc. Press or UPI. The reporter on the scene got thedetails (name of man with jug, why he was pouring it into the pool, etc. News editors back in the day took a very dimview of reporters and photographers "creating" their own news items. The penalty for doing so was that you werefired and never got to work for another news outlet. (Today, they could work for several news and internet outlets,but we won't go there today...)

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ash • 2 days ago Kim Hernandez

there are names for people like you... white supremacist! There are documented cases of this happening at variousestablishments, are you naive or just uneducated?

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kim hernandez • 16 hours ago ash

ash....you bore me....LOL

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Angela Scalf • 3 days ago Kim Hernandez

They didn't care if they could use the pool again...all they cared is that the black people in the pool suffered...Howeasily we forget the atrocities of our past. Open a book and read about the past....it will help prevent us from relivingit!

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Irene • 8 days ago Kayla Ann Stockman

It is horrible, but from the little I know, wouldn't the acid just be diluted? If it was really strong, it might irritate their skinafter it's been diluted, but is it that easy to get strong acids?

I'm more worried about it splashing onto their skin - they look really close to it.

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KR • 7 days ago Irene

Y ou use muriatic acid in a pool. It's the same stuff that drain cleaner is made of. and is extremely dangerous (and easy to obtain). Y ou don't swim in a pool at the same time acid is being poured intoit. It has to circulate to be safe.

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glorybe2 • 7 days ago Irene

It doesn't dilute fast enough and is dangerous. Municipal pools sometimes stock powerful eye drops as swimmerssometimes hit pockets of chlorine or acid that have failed to mix with the water in a calm pool.

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glorybe2 • 3 days ago Irene

Walk into any pool supply store and you can but muriatic acid easily without an ID. It is not the strongest acid in theworld. It is wonderful for removing sprinkler. rust stains from the sides of painted, concrete homes and fences. If itgot on my skin I simply washed it off with the hose a bit. I used to apply it to concrete with a paint brush and hose itoff almost instantly and all the rust was gone.

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Michael Anderson • 6 days ago Kayla Ann Stockman

I bet the tragic photo of the melted mannequins didn't bother you one bit. Racist!

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mr_kev • 6 days ago Kayla Ann Stockman

Bet it was chlorine.

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nope • 4 days ago Kayla Ann Stockman

Oh, you're such an activist, go you

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Kayla Ann Stockman • 4 days ago nope

Excuse me?

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Jordan Bartholme • 11 days ago

That was one hell of a snowball fight.

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socialdiscard • 10 days ago Jordan Bartholme

No kidding, when I was young some people would put rocks in the snowballs, and/or make them hard packed ice balls. Bothwould do that kind that damage.

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chexay • 5 days ago Jordan Bartholme

I've seen that same photo used elsewhere captioned as bare knuckle boxers. Who to believe?

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Olivia • 13 days ago

This is amazing! So many different emotions depicted throughout the list!Where and how did you get these?

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Randy • 8 days ago

Is that Willard Scott as the first Ronald McDonald? Sure looks like him.

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Ranhimgu • 7 days ago Randy

Y es it is. That was his first gig.

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David • 7 days ago

The picture from Sweden is actually just before we switched to right hand traffic. At 0450 all traffic stopped and everyone parked tothe left. over the next ten minutes everyone (directed by police) carefully move to the opposite side of the road, and at 0500 on allradiostations the new law was proclaimed. It was actually a lot of preparations since car headlights are offset to the side, so all carshad had to have their headlights reset, and partially covered with stickers that were removed after the change. And all traffic signshad to be moved, and so forth.

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Yelena • 8 days ago

People, don't feed the troll...it wants "proof" from an incident that occurred over nearly 50 years ago, clearly the terror in thechildren's eyes is not enough. It could have been acid, could have been water, who knows, but the point was to terrorize andfrighten them and thats why its such a powerful photo.

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Michael • 13 days ago

Great stuff, thanks!

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Nadine Lumley Real • 7 days ago

I think the one of the mom supposedly with sign for sale of kids is a fraud. Do you really think that mom had the means to get asign, paint it, and plant it, let alone she could read and write?

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Shannon • 3 days ago Nadine Lumley Real

It's a real photo. There was recently an article following up on it. The kids were adopted out, then she had more children(she was pregnant at the time the photo was taken). :( I'm afraid I don't have a link to the recent article, though.

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Frank • 7 days ago

Kim Hernandez, you're an irritant, a pebble in the shoe, a mosquito, a gnat, congratulations. Y ou spent your time being stupid, on

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purpose. Hilarious. Y ou did indeed show that when people are irritated they get angry. I'm not laughing because it makes me sadthat someone like you exists.

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Me10 • 5 days ago Frank

So because Kim says things that Frank thinks are not nice, Frank feels at ease saying things that aren't nice. A strangelesson.

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Natty Dreads • 6 days ago Frank

Sir, where do you live? Is it acceptable to speak to people in this way where you come from?

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Kim Hernandez • 7 days ago Frank

LOL!

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yarnm57 • 4 days ago Kim Hernandez

I continually see the worst hatred in reader comments whenever the subject of race comes up. I don't understand theneed to belittle people of other races or to make excuses for racism amongst one's own people. Grow up and getalong!

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glorybe2 • 3 days ago yarnm57

In times past people usually attacked people of their own race. For example American Indians only had otherIndian tribes to raid, pillage and rape. In early Africa black folks only had other black folks to attack. InEngland the attack might be against the Irish, the Scotch, the French or the Germans or even the Welsh butthose folks are all of the same race. When societies became more racially mixed the attacks often focused onattacking a different race. In India it was usually attacking people of the other religion. In China it was aconflict between the snow white Chinese of Manchuria and the slightly more tanned Chinese of the southernparts of China and every now and then a battle with the Japanese. To us in the west those folks seem to be ofthe same race but not to them at all.

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Kim Hernandez • 8 days ago

Why do people ALWAY S jump on the race card band wagon? The acid in the pool pic got more comments than the others....whydidn't anyone say anyrhing bout putting that baby out the window?? LOL I'm sorry, but without proof....I can't say it is acid he ispouring in the pool but people WANT to believe that is what it is. Sad.

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BA • 8 days ago Kim Hernandez

The hotelier's name was James Brock. The photo was taken in St. Augustine, FL during a protest organized by Dr. King.Brock himself is the one who said he was pouring acid into the pool to get the protesters out. All easily verifiable information.

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daized79 • 3 days ago BA

Thanks! I was wondering why he let them in the pool in the first place. color. but that they were illegally trespassing his pool reserved for paying customers. couldn't actually be paying customer. Still there were better forms of protest and your explanan makes him slightlyless criminal.

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glorybe2 • 7 days ago BA

In the 1950s there were barber shops in Ft. Lauderdale that had signs saying no niggers or Indians allowed. And Ft.Lauderdale was probably less racist than most other towns in the US. Meanwhile the top hotels on Miami beachwould not rent a room to a Jew nor a Cuban. Things were so screwed up that it was hard to even know who youwere supposed to hate.

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carlaeh • 5 days ago glorybe2

My husband was in the Navy in the late 60s. He said some of the hotels in Jacksonville, Florida posted signswhich stated "No dogs or sailors."

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kim • 3 days ago carlaeh

WHAT??? No support for the dogs or sailors?? Because people think they have to say nice things and insupport of black people all the time or else there is something wrong with them and I'm not inagreement....doesn't make me racist...just don't like that I'm supposed to feel and think like others? but I'll think for myself...I don't need help!

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glorybe2 • 4 days ago carlaeh

I think you got a hold of some older information. During WWII there were huge numbers of sailors inNewport News, Va.. Some locals got frustrated at sailors on their lawns and posted signs saying no dogs orsailors allowed on lawn. It is quite odd that despite the patriotism of the hour that there were times when thepublic turned against the war effort even while our soldiers were dieing in large numbers.

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