1. British sappers were trained to defuse mines blindly so they could work in the dark, 1943

2. Women protest against the forced wearing of Hijab after the revolution, Iran, 1979

3. Traffic jam in Berlin as East Germans move into West Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989

4. Adolf Hitler meets the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini, Germany, 1941

5. Young woman falls unconscious from the heat in front of Princess Elizabeth inspecting a guard of honor in the Women’s Royal Army Corps in Shrewsbury, England, July 6, 1949

6. Dinner at Windows On The World in The World Trade Center (Tower One), New York, 1993

7. A man at Heemskerk Beach is fined for not wearing decent clothes, Netherlands, 1931

8. Chinese suicide bomber putting on an explosive vest made out of hand grenades to use in an attack on Japanese tanks at the Battle of Taierzhuang, 1938

9. Stockholm, the day after Sweden changed driving from the left-hand side of the road to the right, September 3, 1967

10. First African-American astronaut Robert Lawrence on June 30, 1967. Unfortunately, he died in an airplane crash on December 8, 1967 and didn’t have a chance to go into space.

11. An American soldier and his best friend — baby kangaroo, Australia, 1942

12. Portable radio in a straw hat, made by an American inventor, 1931

13. Felix Wehrle — a man with incredibly stretchy skin, early 1900’s

14. Dogs pulling sleds during first Australasian Antarctic expedition, 1911-1914

15. John Jacob Astor IV, his 19-year-old wife Madeleine, and dog Kitty headed for the Titanic, 1912. He and Kitty did not survive. Madeleine survived and later gave birth to their son John Jacob Astor V.

16. A child receiving sun therapy, 1928

17. Opening of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, May 27,1937

18. A child gives another child a flower shortly after they arrive at Auschwitz, May 1944. Everyone in the photo was dead within hours.

19. Ali and Stallone pretending to fight at the Oscars, 1976

20. 5-year-old girl, after working all day, was tired and refused to be photographed. Her mother said, “Oh, she’s just being ugly, and picking shrimp is very hard on the fingers.” Mississippi, 1911

21. Line to the first McDonalds in Moscow, January 31, 1990

22. Duke Kahanamoku, the man who popularized surfing around the world, Hawaii, 1920

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