Mermaids vingtage on the set of Peter Pan, 1924.
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Before selfies became popular, posing in front of a mirror and showing off both sides of yourself was also a trend. However, in this photo everything turned out differently.
Unusual photographs depicting incomprehensible phenomena have always aroused special interest and concern among people. For years, people have tried to unravel the mysteries hidden behind…
Max Factor’s Beauty Calibrator: A beauty-measuring device to analyze facial flaws, 1930s
This articel is to introuce our team’s idol, Maximilian Faktorovich, who promote the development of false eyelashes. Because of him, we love cosmetic industry and choose…
In the past, a woman or man would have scarification marks that will distinguish from anyone else, tell rank in society, family, clan, and tribe, and symbolize her beauty or strength.
In the past, a woman or man would have scarification marks that will distinguish her/him from anyone else, tell her/his rank in society, family, clan, and tribe, and symbolize her beauty or strength
In 1931, It shows school girls marching through the streets during the Tokyo Gas Mask Parade. There’s something about gas masks that are inherently creepy.
These pictures are genuine snapshots of the dark sides of history.
Her feet grew to be 17 inches long, and she wore a size 30 shoe! Her father took out an advert offering $5,000 and a well-stocked farm to any respectable man that would marry his daughter!
See and hear the stranger than fiction stories of famous carnival folk
43 Pictures That Show The Dust And Sweat Of Britainâs Coal Mines
Deep coal mining in Britain has come to an end. We do our own mining of historical snaps.
How lumberjacks used to cut trees in 1946!
Loggers posing with the trees they cut down by hand.
The Deltic is a British engine famous for its complexity and ambitiousness. It is a triangle-shaped, opposed-piston, valveless, supercharged, two-stroke diesel engine with a displacement of 88.2 litres (5,382 cu in).
The Napier Nomad, a British diesel aircraft engine, was developed and manufactured by Napier & Son in 1949.
The real story of the “Wait for me, Daddy” photograph, 1940
‘Wait for Me, Daddy’ â Story behind one of the most famous photos to come out of Canada during World War II .
Oldest Native American to Ever Live: White Wolf Chief John Smith, he lived to the age of 137.
White Wolf Chief John Smith, is reportedly the oldest Native American in history, with people claiming he lived up to 138 years.
This monster is the Fiat 2000. It was developed by Italy during the First World War, and was enormous, especially for the period. It weighed around 44 tons, and had up 20 mm of armor.
The E100 is a fascinating, elusive superheavy tank developed by Germany during the Second World War. At 136 tons its only beaten by the Maus, but the E100
These Africans were shown as exotic savages, and when they got tired of it, they cursed their showman and he died.
At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, circus performances were very common in the United States; it was the main form of entertainment for regions far from large cities. Circus creators have always tried…
Egon Cannon Erven, also known as “Cannon Colossus”, dubbed the heaviest man in Europe (and possibly the world)
What’s True This photograph shows “Cannon Colossus,” who was once billed as the “world’s heaviest man.” What’s Undetermined The date of this image, as well…
Soldiers returning home after the war – 1945
Evoked here is a quiet grief, a silent inner turmoil raging within the man shattered by the overwhelming news of his loved ones.
Malnourished boy in Amsterdam, 1945.
A chance discovery sheds light on the last famine in Western Europe: The Hunger Winter of 1944-45.
Albanian refugees from the Vlora in the Port of Bari (Italy) on 8 August 1991. Wikicommons/ Luca Turi.
On the rise of Islamophobia and rightwing parties, the ideology of nation-states and other barriers to self-understanding. An interview.
A lady who had two vaginas, four legs and eight children. Unbelievable but true
Josephine Myrtle Corbin was born on 12th of May 1868 in Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States.She was the daughter of William H. Corbin and Nancy Corb…
The Whipping Father was the Freddy Krueger of his day
Move over, Krampus! Meet the Whipping Father, Père Fouettard if youâre nasty (or French). As one of Santa’s many creepy friends, Père Fouettard travels alongside the man in red to dish out violent delights to disobedient children. Known mostly in the northern and eastern regions of France, the Whipping Father stalks through the country with his flog in hand on Saint Nicholas Day. The best that a bad child can hope to get from the Whipping Father is a lump of coal, and those who are truly wicked get—wait for it—a whipping from Santa’s sociopathic buddy.
Australian Aborigines in Chains at Wyndham prison, 1902
This picture is taken in the early 1900s at the Wyndham prison. Wyndham is the oldest and northernmost town in the Kimberley region of Western…