1. The molten radioactive core after the Chernobyl accident. Known as the "Elephant's foot"

2. Gadget, the first atomic bomb

3. General George S. Patton’s dog on the day of Patton’s death on December 21st, 1945

4. Control room of the UB-110 German submarine, 1918

5. Young Winston Churchill, 1895

6. A politician in the Philippines Reynaldo Dagsa photographs his own assassination

7. USAAF B-25 sinks Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze off the coast of Xiamen, China, 6 April 1945

8. Illegal picture inside the Supreme Court. A man faked a broken arm and hid a camera in his cast. (Yes electronic gadgets are still banned from the US Supreme Court)

9. Einstein’s desk photographed a day after his death

10. The first photograph upon discovery of Machu Picchu, 1912

11. Underwater detonation of 15 kiloton nuclear weapon

12. Using banknotes as wallpaper during Hyperinflation, Germany 1923

13. Laughing at Auschwitz – Nazi SS auxiliaries poses at a resort for Auschwitz personnel, 1942

14. Turkish official teasing starved Armenian children by showing bread during the Armenian Genocide, 1915

15. Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, 28 June 1914

16. Two German soldiers and their mule wearing gas masks in WWI, 1916

17. The Cologne cathedral stands tall amidst the ruins of the city after allied bombings, 1944

18. Henry Ford receiving the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from Nazi officials, 1938

19. Using a traditional Japanese blade, 17-year-old Otoya Yamaguchi assassinates socialist politician Inejiro Asanuma in Tokyo, Japan

20. Germans testing a Messerschmitt Bf 109 E3, 1940

21. Execution of a German Communist in Munich, 1919

22. Nazis singing to encourage a boycott of the allegedly Jewish-founded Woolworths, 1933

23. Annual midnight swearing-in of Nazi SS troops, Feldherrnhalle, Munich, 1938

24. U-118, a World War One submarine washed ashore on the beach at Hastings, Sussex, England

25. An illegal picture atop the Giza pyramids in Egypt

26. Testing a bulletproof vest, 1923

27. Gas masks for babies tested at an English hospital, 1940

28. A V-1 flying bomb “buzzbomb” plunging toward central London, 1945

29. Samuel Reshevsky, age 8, defeating several chess masters at once in France, 1920

30. The last Jew in Vinnitsa, 1941

31. The 2800 year old kiss

32. A picture of 14-year-old Regina Kay Walters taken by serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades shortly before he murdered her

33. 1989 - East German soldier passing a flower through the Berlin Wall before it was torn down.

34. The last picture that was taken of the Titanic before it sank

35. 1963 - JFK’s funeral in the Capitol Building.

36. Dr. Leonid Rogozov operating himself to remove his Appendix in Antarctica (1961)

Amazing!!!

I love history...

Great information

I don't wish this naira becomes so useless that it will be used as wallpaper like that German currency.

WOW

Very informative and educative as well
Good job OP

Tragic and terrific

Cool
This , I believe , ought to be in front page...not does ones of ini edo n praiz goofing around in d airport

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secret of statecraft.
Winston Churchill

oloriooko:
Very informative and educative as well
Good job OP

Too bad there is none about Africa though... this is mostly european themed but chilly too...

Nice thread worthy of front page.

Dope

nice

Thanks so much for this post.

We need this on front page...not Tonto Dike's watery soup. Seun, lalasticlala take note.

Man's a Demi god but some people are more god than others @ that little boy in no 29 na badass !

Awesome stuff

Wow