Amazing picture thread

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Animals are sentient and have the same impulse for survival that we possess.

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Pink Floyd, Venice, 1989

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Girl taking an alligator ride in the 1920s.

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The skull of a Roman Soldier who died during the Gallic Wars, 1st century BC.

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A young African girl on display inside a Human Zoo, 1950s

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Willie Nelson visiting President Jimmy Carter at the WH back in 1977. This would be the day that Willie was caught smoking marijuana (allegedly) with Jimmy’s son Chip on the roof of America's best known home.

In his book, Willie said it was a security guard that he smoked weed with on the roof, not Chip.

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“Her nipples were about to come onto my plate. In my face you can see the fear.” - Sophia Loren on Jayne Mansfield, 1957

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Cop writing a ticket to a woman for wearing a bikini on a public beach in Rimini, Italy, 1957

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It was discovered in 1955 that the Easter Island heads have large bodies buried deep in the ground.

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Not sure what to make of this, issued by NASA to represent the observable universe squeezed into one image.

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Waiting in line for the premier of ‘Star Wars', 1977

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This is the only surviving pair of authentic Necropants, and is on display at the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery & Witchcraft in Holmavik, Iceland.

'Necropants' are made from human skin; sorcerers and witches would wear these trousers all day and night under their clothes as a sort of underwear. It was a great honour in 17th century Iceland to be asked by your sorcerer friend if they could use you in a pair of Necropants after your death.

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Men standing outside an early drug store, c1880

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Pulitzer Prize winning photo from 1963 of the Buddhist Monk Thich Quang, who is burning himself alive outside the Cambodian embassy in Saigon, Vietnam.

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Robert Wadlow, the tallest human ever recorded at 8’11”, standing next to his father, 1938

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World famous image of a 14 year old stowaway falling from the wheel well of a plane in 1970.

Didn't know they had cameras that good back then, must have been a chance shot in a billion.

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A 12 year old Freddie Mercury, 1958

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Snowboarder Marco Siffredi beginning his descent down Everest on a snowboard. He was never seen again.

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A Goliath Birdeater, the world’s largest spider.

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Johnny Cash with wife June outside Folsom Prison, 1968. He proposed more than 30 times before she finally accepted.

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Unwanted babies for sale in France during WWII, 1940

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Must be the scariest way to watch Jaws.

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Late 19th-early 20th century condoms made from fish bladders. They were often used up to 10 times before being trashed.

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A bridge that turns into a tunnel, Virginia, US.

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One for the conspiracy nuts:

A 1943 photograph showing Hitler, a Nazis Officer, and an alien known only as “V”. It is reported that the alien had to use a special gas mask because he could not breathe on Earth. Hitler captured V and used him to develop futuristic weapons such as the V-2 rocket. After the fall of Nazi Germany, the US captured the alien and used him to develop military weapons. The story goes that V is still living today in Area 51, and continues to help the US in futuristic warfare such as cloaking devices and robotic infantry.