Historical images - Images that made history

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Happy Remembrance Day.
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Wanrong and Puyi tolerating each other enjoying a day in Tianjin after being expelled from the forbidden city.
 
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Snoop Dogg with a couple of Xbox 360s.

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This little baby is 20 years old today. Feels like just yesterday I'm unboxing this from Christmas and playing MW2 online for hours on end.
 
Photo taken from the periscope of U-123 off the coast of NYC showing the skyline at night.
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I believe the Germans altered this one for propaganda purposes (apparently the original was a lot more foggy) but I still think it's cool. U-boats were operating in basically every body of water you can think of at one point, even the Indian Ocean along with Japanese subs.
 
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Nasser and Gaddafi, both Cold War North African leaders, wild takes on socialism. Historians can’t agree if they helped or just fucked everything up.

Gadaffi was a religious hardass but then so is every pan-Arab movement.
 
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Grand Central Station. 1929
(It's no longer possible to see the light shining in because the surrounding buildings now block the sun.)
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Not so fun fact, there was actually serious discussion given in the late 20th century to the idea of building a skyscraper physically on top of Grand Central. Thankfully, this met with backlash over the irreversible and significant damage to the architects' original vision that would be done by planting a massive International Style office bloc right on top a building with a very different design language, so the whole concept was eventually scrapped.

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Found an artist's concept. You can tell they tried, but there's just no way to make this sort of concept work. It's just not doable.

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Core of the North Tower still standing momentarily after the collapse of the rest of the building at 10:28 AM. I believe it was reinforced following the 1993 WTC bombing.

Highly unlikely anyone was inside (the core mainly consisted of elevator shafts and mechanical stuff). The spire in the picture is hundreds of feet tall, WTC-7 is visible on the left.
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John Henry Holliday (Doc Holliday) at his graduation from the Pennsylvania School of Dentistry at the age of 20. 1872.
 
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