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This was from mustard gas btw.

 

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General Pyotr Wrangel, head of the White forces in the Russian Civil War and author of the memoir Always with Honor:

 

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Colorized photo of a young Winston Churchill:

 

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Joe McCarthy with his wife and their adopted daughter, Tierney:

 

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Johnny Cash on the day of Folsom State Prison concert, January 13, 1968.

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When Johnny Cash stepped onstage at Folsom State Prison in 1968, for the concerts that would change his life, he was in rough shape. His record label had threatened to drop him, his addiction to pills was increasingly out of control, his personal life was in tatters and he had recently contemplated suicide.

On January 13, 1968, after two days of rehearsals in a Sacramento motel, Cash and June Carter, along with the Statler Brothers, Carl Perkins and the Tennessee Three, entered Folsom State Prison in Folsom, California. Cash held two concerts for the inmates, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Many of the songs were prison-themed, from the opening “Folsom Prison Blues” to the execution countdown “25 Minutes to Go.”

The highlight of both performances was the closing song “Greystone Chapel,” which was written by Folsom inmate Glen Sherley, who was present for the performance.

Encouraged by concert MC, Hugh Cherry, the convicts in the audience were not shy about responding raucously to Cash’s songs and shout-outs, occasionally unnerving the prison guards.

Upon its release, the album was a critical and commercial success, reinvigorating Cash’s career and inspiring him to record another album at San Quentin Prison the next year.

 

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Gorbachev in 2019 receiving assistance walking:

 

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Old school photos of the now late Sinead O’Connor of before and after she had hair

 

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Some of the first colored photographs of the final remnants of Qing China in 1912-1913 through Autochrome Lumière

A young and frail soldier of the Beiyang Army (which ultimately established the Republic)	Chinese man with queue

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Photographer: Stéphane Passet

 

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Article from Reno Gazette-Journal, July 20, 1908.

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As the story goes, a vagrant wandering the streets of Goldfield, Nevada in 1908 was rummaging through the trash outside the local library, looking for something to eat. The best sustenance he came across was a jar of book paste. He would have found the paste surprisingly sweet, because in addition to flour and water, it was 60% alum. Unfortunately, the concentration was deadly.

The legend continues to say that when the townspeople found the deceased drifter, he was buried in Pioneer Cemetery, which was little more than a dirt patch. The grave was topped with a headstone that stated what little they knew about him. It reads, “UNKNOWN MAN DIED EATING LIBRARY PASTE JULY 14 1908.”

 

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Harding with Taft after the latter lost weight:

 

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The 1910 Dominguez airshow aviation meet

 

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Young J.R.R. Tolkien dressed as Hermes

 

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Last photo ever taken of Chairman Mao: