26 Amazing Photos From The Past, Captured With Perfect Timing

It often takes more than just pure skill to take a particulary good photo. Being in the right place at the right time definitely requires some dose of luck, but under the right circumstances, the results can be incredible. These archived images are the perfect proof.

1. A foot guard passing out as Queen Elizabeth II rides past during a parade, June 1970.

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2. Salvador Dali taking his anteaters for a walk in Paris, 1969

© Scientific American

3. Princeton students after a freshman/sophomore snowball fight, 1893

© Princeton University Archives

4. Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philipp dancing a country dance, Ottawa, Canada, 1951

© Eyevine/East News

5. Children playing among the wreckage of the D-Day Invasion, Normandy, France, 1947

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6. Nuclear weapon test Mike on Enewetak Atoll, November 1, 1952

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7. Cat Nohcha, the pet of Russian Special Police Force of Kaliningrad, resting, 1994, Gudermes, Chechnya

© Katya_qi/reddit.com

8. The partially excavated sphinx, 1878

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9. A Swiss village, Grindelwald, 1900

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10. Cakes for the soldiers fighting against the terrorists during the Romanian Revolution, 1989

© Denoel Paris/wikipedia.org

11. Broadway, New York, 1949

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12. A switch operator poses by the Trans-Siberian Railroad, Russian Empire, 1910 in rare, original color.

© autosear/imgur.com

13. Guevara ® at the wheel of a US-made car with his second wife Aleida March (L) on their wedding day, Havana, 1959

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14. The sign of the Russian restaurant, 1203 in New York inviting everyone to eat free borsht due to Stalin’s death, March 6, 1953

© Associated Press/East News

15. Mohammed Alim Khan, the last direct descendant of Genghis Khan to rule his own kingdom, 1911

© Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky/wikimedia.org

16. Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse, and Disney’s cat, 1931

© NiNagore/reddit.com

17. Adolf Hitler meeting the King of Thailand, 1934

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18. A French woman pouring a hot cup of tea for a British soldier fighting in Normandy, 1944

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19. Mark Twain in the lab of Nikola Tesla, Spring of 1894

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20. A group of women at George Washington University, Washington, D.C., circa 1924

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21. A New Zealand soldier resting and smoking a pipe in the deserts of North Africa, Egypt, 1942

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22. Stonehenge, 1897

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23. Reburial of the victims of the Bosnian war, July 8, 2005

© Associated Press/East News

24. A lama in a taxi, New York, 1957

© KinnerNevada/reddit.com

25. Rue de Rivoli, Paris, 1942

© André Zucca/wikimedia.org

26. The first female candidates to be NASA astronauts, 1978

SoItWas on brightside.me

© Polaris Images/East News