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The Kiss of Life - A utility worker giving mouth-to-mouth to co-worker after he contacted a low voltage wire, 1967
Defiantly stares down Heinrich Himmler, the dreaded head of the SS, at the Shirokaya Street Concentration Camp in Minsk, Belarus, in 1941.
The face of Harold Whittles, who was born deaf, when he hears for the first time with his new hearing aid.
The remains of the astronaut Vladimir Komarov, a man who fell from space, 1967
War photographer Robert Capa took this iconic photo of an American soldier shot and killed by a German sniper in the battle for Leipzig on 18 April 1945.
“4 poses for 25 cent”.
Before she became famous as an actress in All in the Family, Maude, and Golden Girls, Bea Arthur worked as a truck driver and typist in the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve during WWII.
Pigeons gather in Times Square on a rainy day in 1954 in front of the marquee for “A star is Born” starring Judy Garland.
A Jewish woman who conceals her face as she sits on a park bench marked "Only for Jews", Austria, 1938.
The Empire State Building, New York, New York, 1941.
Cutting one of the tallest hedges in England.
"log drive" on the Little Fork River in Minnesota, circa 1937.
A 22-year-old Jacqueline Bouvier – before she became a Kennedy – blowing smoke rings, 1951.
A French woman pours cider for a British soldier during fighting in Lisieux, 1944.
Mary Winsor holds a sign in support of suffrage protestors who had been imprisoned. Washington D.C., 1917.
Paper boys at 2 A.M. getting ready of the morning rounds, 1908.
Men taking a selfie, 1920.
Robert Wadlow was tall. Very tall. By sixteen, which is when this photograph was taken, he was almost eight feet tall. And he would continue to grow. All the way to a height of 8 feet 11.1 inches.
Standing Holy, daughter of Sitting Bull.
Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, from 1925.
thunderlegz
Is there info on the defiant solider vs. Himmler?
RobSquareBalls
LimeMime565
#1 GAAAAAYYYY
kuke554
Where is the group that is colorizing old photos? Can we get these photos colorized?
SillyJumpluff
woah dr suess was kinda cute
covenguy90
Cosmonaut, not astronaut.
giveittomestraightlikeapearcidermadefrom100percentpears
космонавт not cosmonaut!
covenguy90
I don't have a Cyrillic keyboard so....
EvilKam
#1925swag Not sure if I could rock those leggings though.
Myshoesasmokin
The Kiss Of Life is a Pulitzer Prize Winner and is copyrighted. The unconscious man contacted HIGH voltage. He survived due to the CPR.
Pjlweymouth
The 2 paper boys on the left that are smoking look to be brothers. Love these old pics.
sikzik
#1 I bet there was a small fight about who got to climb that ladder.
fistermatic5000
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cavymeister
That New York skyline, tho
immodicus
It's a bit of a deceptive angle, NYC was pretty built up at that point still, notably lower Manhattan. Check out a Blimp flying over in 1933
SqueakyCleanButthole
Pff Himmler surely didn't have dreads
kinkyreggae
Those paper boys look like they could whoop my ass and steal my money and possibly my girl.
Kjuhaszzlenozzle
Do you ever look at pics of Robert Wadlow or Andre the Giant, and just like...REALLY want to know what their junk looks like?
MildlyIrateBomber
Dick pic or it didn't happen!
nakedangel
Did the utility worker's wife dump him after he gave C.P.R.?
TheMathmos
Great post, @OP I don't think I've ever seen any of these before!
GeneralKenobi2
The first photo is from an old Bellsouth training video. It's a dramatization of something that happened to a lineman. I work for ATT.
RagingSlab
Nope. Taken by Rocco Morabito in Jacksonville, FL. He was awarded a Pulitzer for it.
EveryNameIsTakenDammit
I have never heard of Judy James or Garland Mason.
icecreamngravy
Judy James Garland Mason
joshuasplinth
https://imgflip.com/s/meme/Grandma-Finds-The-Internet.jpg
RocknRootRanchcuzallwegotisrocksandrootsandafewtrees
Glad to know I'm not the only one who read it that way.
OneUpperSteve
#1 technically touched a medium or high voltage wire, depending on what standard you use. It was estimated to be 4000v. Definitely not low.
MironGaines
That first guy just wanted a kiss and he finally figured out how to get it.
backstabbr1001
I too have found that the best way to get someone to kiss you is to electrocute them first.
rapemeokrobmoneyarenot
Haha. Figs!
thiscommentwillselfdestruct
How did it end up like this
MakingCouchMuffins
Ansatsunin
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TheGiggityGuy
SerialChillinSpree
Won't cash me ousside..on a 40ft A-fram ladder.
HauntingPariah
How dare you not find the actually selfie....
Ihaveaclevername
Judy James, Garland Madon
douglasamaya
the picture of the dead soldier is so fucking sad
BallsLikeWatermelonsPeckerLikeAThimble
I'd bang the shit out of Bea Arthur. Even today. Hell, especially today.
MeowAlert
Dude. She ded.
guhnomee
#11 I don't think OSHA would approve of this.
blairmichod
Not their domain since this is in England.
MomSaidNotToGiveMyRealName
Interesting an all, but it's a shame that I can't get over your mistake of calling Vladimir Komarov an astronaut instead of cosmonaut.
sweaterrarium
Why american space explorers aren't spacionauts btw? They haven't been to stars yet. Cosmonauts and taikonauts are more correct.
LucyBelle
You're totally on point! Copied text from pic and so used to the word astronaut, never thought twice. Thanks!
MomSaidNotToGiveMyRealName
For once my nitpicking helped :D
groovyman
Genuinely curious here...whats the difference?
infrabasse
EN: Astronaut, RU: Cosmonaut, FR: Spacionaute. Its all the same
Flyndaran
Sinonaut for Chinese, I think.
SeekyTheFox
GDI: Juggernaut, 40K: Space Marine...
Jackpody
Astronaut was the Western term and cosmonaut was the East bloc term. No real difference as to the meaning of the words.
espressoandpostrock
Kosmos is the Russian word for space. Similarly, Taikong is one word for space in Chinese, so they're called Taikonauts.
Lapkin
Actually it is greek origin, not Russian.
espressoandpostrock
What isn't though, really ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
darthbiscuit
When I was little I thought Bea Arthur was the definition of badass and used to pray for her to come save me from my abusive stepmother.
DeadOnionSaysWhat
That is funny, I was frightened of her and assumed she would not like me and would bully me. I like yours better.
PanicAtTheEverywhere
darthbiscuit
It's cool. Bea Arthur never came but my Stepdad (who I call Dad) did. He legally adopted us and sued for custody when I was five.
NoLollygagging
Thank you, I needed closure. Glad it was a happy ending for you and your siblings
PanicAtTheEverywhere
I'm glad! He sounds like a great man
darthbiscuit
Actually, he's a paranoid, grumpy, anal retentive hillbilly. I wouldn't trade him for nothing though.
Corki
I'd take that over the avg pretentious know-it-all but actually ignorant and naive and unwilling to admit mistakes "College educated" idiot
LawFiveGuy
interesting enough to make me look up Vladimir, so +1
FlyingTigerRose
An awful story. He died cursing the people who made such a shitty "spacecraft", yet he went so his friend Yuri Gargarin did not have to go.
SaveTheBees
I was surprised to see on Wikipedia that they still had an open casket funeral for him :0 NPR also had a really great article about him.
damelamusica
I think he requested it to make the guys see what they had done.
donttalktomeihaventhadmycoffee
He knew there were issues with the capsule, but the leaders wouldn't listen. They can't ignore an open coffin.
mrgetumgone9
OMG to fall from space would be helllll ur stomach just turning the whole time