An officer holds a cigar with two canaries perched on it, 1918.

A zoo-keeper gives a penguin a shower from a watering can, 1930.

Alfred Hitchcock impersonating Ringo Starr, 1964.

Twenty-two students cramming into a telephone booth to try and establish a stacking record, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, California, 1959.

Leonid Brezhnev (a Communist Party official who was the leader of the Soviet Union for 18 years) visits a factory owned by the Pepsi-Cola Company, 1974.

Pablo Picasso, dressed as a sailor Pop-eye, 1957.

Queen Elizabeth II driving a car with Prince Charles and Princess Anne, 1957.

The writers of ’The Simpsons’ hard at work, 1992.

John Lennon and Salvador Dali in Paris, 1969.

Marilyn Monroe having fun with a distorting mirror, 1950.

Walking a pet crocodile, 1950.

A woodcutters competition in Sydney, 1957.

A mama cat stops some traffic, New York, 1925.

Lipstick testing, 1950.

Paul McCartney, 1968.

Ernest Hemingway shares his dinner with a cat

From left to right: Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, the 29th President of the United States Warren G. Harding, and businessman Harvey Firestone, in 1921.

Elvis Presley backstage during a break between performances, 1956.

Muhammad Ali talking a suicidal man down from a ledge.

A farmer paints a cow during World War II to make sure it would not became the victim of a vehicle collision, UK, 1939.

The future 32nd President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, with his cousin, 1910.

Princess Diana pregnant with her first child, 1982.

Frida Kahlo when she was four years old, 1911.

David Bowie plays chess with his ’The Hunger’ co-star, Catherine Deneuve, 1982.

Elton John playing the piano at a bar aboard his private plane, as one does, 1976.

Charlie Chaplin and Mahatma Gandhi.

Bruce Lee — the Hong Kong Cha Cha champion, 1958.

Farrokh Bulsara (friends called him Freddie Mercury), 1950.

Salvador Dali and Walt Disney, plotting away in 1957.

A young Lady Diana Spencer, future Princess of Wales, with her pet guinea pig, Peanuts.

Frank Sinatra enjoying his pancakes.

’Chaplin’ (Michael Jackson).

A young Cristiano Ronaldo with his mother.

Prince Charles tearing up the dance floor while Cossack dancing, 1980s.

Albert Einstein visiting the Grand Canyon, 1922.

Clint Eastwood, all casual, breaking our poor hearts since 1956.

Alan Milne with the ’original’ Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh.

Mark Twain in the lab of Nikola Tesla, 1894.

Norma Jean Baker at the Van Nuys CA factory, soon to be known as Marilyn Monroe.

Young Winston Churchill.

Tricky game of lights and shadows. Walt Disney, 1939.

This is Willard Scott, and he is the first Ronald McDonald.

The first Michelin man.

The famous Bonnie and Clyde.

Sophia Loren at the Kremlin, 1965.

Dressing room at the Moulin Rouge, 1924.

The Disney employee cafeteria.

The first flight of the Wright brothers, the inventors of the world’s first airplane, 1903.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated, 1914.

Indira Gandhi, Charlie Chaplin and Jawaharlal Nehru in Switzerland, 1953.

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A three year old Russian girl who survived for 11 days in Siberian taiga forest by drinking from a creek and eating berries while being protected by her dog which went to get help after nine days and returned with rescuers

Dogs have only recently been able to watch TV, with the advent of HDTV with their higher framerates. Before that, with CRT’s, it was like watching a strobe light

in 2008 a dog tried to save his owners lives after 5 armed pirates hijacked their yacht off the coast of Venezuela. After the men climbed aboard the dog furiously attacked them, biting and snapping until he was stabbed then shot. The dog survived and the pirates left almost empty handed

A dog in Milan regularly catches the No. 54 bus by himself, to visit his favourite spot in the city. He will only get on if it’s the driver that he likes, and once he has reached his destination (a park) he leaps off and wanders around for a few hours before catching the same bus home again

Faithful Dog Refuses to Leave Graveside of Owner Who Died Six Years Ago (article)

German shepherd, Capitán, ran away from home after his owner and best friend, Manuel Guzman, died in 2006. A week later Guzman’s family, who live in Cordoba, Argentina, found the heartbroken dog grieving at the gravesite, reported Dog Heirs.
“We had never taken him to the cemetery so it is a mystery how he managed to find the place,” Veronica Guzman, Manuel’s widow, told the Sun.
Every Sunday, for the past six years, the Guzman family has gone to the cemetery to visit both Manuel and Capitán. Although the dog often leaves the cemetery to spend a short period of time with his family, he always returns to the gravesite before dark.

During 8 years living in a UK animal shelter, a dog named Jasmine was a ‘surrogate mother’ to over 50 rescued animals; including puppies, foxes, 4 badger cubs, 15 chicks, 8 guinea pigs, 15 rabbits, a deer and a goose. She nursed each with affection, taking care of them as soon as they arrived

Actor Mickey Rourke attributed his comeback to his dogs and credit them during his Golden Globe acceptance speech in 09: “sometimes when a man’s alone, that’s all you got is your dog, and they’ve meant the world to me.”

Moscow street dogs display specialized behaviors that differentiate them from domesticated dogs & wolves: pack leaders tend to be the most intelligent rather than the strongest, and packs tend to deploy its cuter members first, as they are more successful in begging for food from people

There exists a festival in Nepal called Tihar that dedicates an entire day to thanking dogs for their friendship and loyalty

An Akita dog named Hachiko was so loyal to his owner that he waited for his owner for 9 years until he died. His owner would take the train to work and back, and Hachiko greeted him every time he came back. Even after his owner died of a hemmorhage at work, Hachiko thought he’d come back

Hachiko, Forever Reunited With His Human

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Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, somewhere in Arkansas, USA, circa 1933

Adolf Hitler visits the tomb of Napoleon at Les Invalides, Paris, France (1940)

Oldest known photo of a tornado, taken about 20 miles SW of Howard, South Dakota, United States. (August 28th, 1884)

Prostitutes in Can Tho, Vietnam, 1970 by Philip Jones Griffith

Billy the Kid, 1879

East Germans crossing into West Berlin check out western pornography, the day after the fall of the Berlin Wall, November 10, 1989

Spectators at a slave auction in the town square of Easton, Maryland, c. 1850’s

Marilyn Monroe and Joe Dimaggio at the Fairmont Banff Hotel in Banff, Canada, five months before their wedding. August 19, 1953

Rasputin and groupies. Gorokhovo street flat, Saint Petersburg, 1914

SS officer initiation – 1938

The moment of detonation at Nagasaki August 9, 1945

Recording an episode of “Gang Busters”, true crime radio show, New York, 1930’s

Authenticated photo of Jesse James and Robert Ford, ca.1880’s

Eva Braun at the Berghof, undated

PFC Richie sniffs at the delicate perfume of his girlfriend in Jay, Oklahoma, as he opens her letter in Vietnam, April 12, 1966

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Nose-picking at its finest.

This is how stilettos distorts your feet.

A boxing glove does not seem like enough protection for not breaking your wrist in a fight.

The breast cancer tumor starts off so small and inconspicuous (not the heart).

A handshake looks also very strange

Drinking water.

A cell phone and a simple briefcase beneath the complexity of the human body.

But flowers are still just as stunning and beautiful.

Clothes and skin suddenly seem so transparent and fragile.

Mouth cancer looks like nothing when you see it like this.

The colorization shows us how back pain radiates throughout your body.

Those hexagons make this person’s head look like a soccer ball.

Kissing

Skeltal family on vacation in Paris.

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An East German soldier ignores orders to let no one pass and helps a boy, who was found on the opposite side from his family, cross the newly formed ‘Berlin Wall’- 1961

Bonnie and Clyde’s car after they were killed, 1934

Hippie girl in Washington Square Park, 1968

In 1989, wanting to see how the American’s lived, Boris Yeltsin made an unscheduled visit to Randall’s supermarket in Houston. Between trying free samples of cheese and produce and staring at the meat selections, Yeltsin roamed the aisles of Randall’s nodding his head in amazement

Princess Diana meets comedian Rowan Atkinson while greeting the

Chester E. McDuffee’s patented diving suit c. 1911

Harriet Tubman in 1911. She was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and during the American Civil War, a Union spy. Born into slavery; escaped and subsequently made about thirteen missions to rescue others through the Underground Railroad organization

Harriet Tubman threatened death to escaping slaves if they wanted to turn back. “If he was weak enough to give out, he’d be weak enough to betray us all, and all who had helped us; and do you think I’d let so many die just for one coward man.” 

Hundreds of Russian children wearing gas masks, Leningrad, 1937

A crowd of youths taunt Dorothy Counts, 15, as she walks to the previously all-white Harding High School to enroll, September 4, 1957, Charlotte, NC. Leaving the school, she was pelted with trash, small sticks and pebbles

On the morning of September 4, 1957, fifteen-year-old Dorothy Counts set out on a harrowing path toward Harding High, where-as the first African American to attend the all-white school -she was greeted by a jeering swarm of boys who spat, threw trash, and yelled epithets at her as she entered the building.

Charlotte Observer photographer Don Sturkey captured the ugly incident on film, and in the days that followed, the searing image appeared not just in the local paper but in newspapers around the world.

A week later, the girl in the photograph was gone. Her parents -having been told by the school administrators and police officials that they could not guarantee her safety -sent her to live with a relative in suburban Philadelphia, where she could peacefully attend an integrated school.

Construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961

German air raid on Moscow in 1941

Bread and soup during the Great Depression

Hitler’s bunker

This room is thought to have been the Fuhrer’s command center conference room – which was partially burned out by SS troops and stripped of evidence by invading Russians in 1945

A ripped, blood stained and burnt sofa inside the bunker – which was located under the Reichschancellery building in the heart of Berlin. Hitler lived in the Führerbunker with Braun for the last months of the war

A shell shocked reindeer looks on as World War II planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941

U.S. Army veteran Shawn Timothy Nelson drives a M60A3 Patton tank on a slow paced police chase through San Diego, California

The Priscilla Nuclear Test detonation during Operation Plumbbob. A series of nuclear tests conducted between May 28 and October 7, 1957

A wave of mass suicides swept Nazi Germany at the close of WW2. Here, the Deputy Mayor of Leipzig and his wife and daughter, committed suicide in the Neues Rathaus as American troops were entering the city on 20 April 1945

Rush Medical College lecture auditorium, 1900, Chicago

Messenger dog in mid-air while leaping over a German trench, possibly near Sedan, May 1917

Railroad bridge from the years 1901-1904, in the State of Oregon, USA

Actress Jean Harlow poses with boxer Primo Carnera, 1933

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Soccer commentators cheat sheet: The art of commentary with BBC’s Nick Barnes

Despite the hours that Barnes pours into each page, he uses his notes only sparingly during actual gameplay. “They are there purely as a crutch and a point of reference if need be,” he said. “If I was a newspaper reporter, I could keep my match reports, but radio is transient, so my notebook is my personal record of the matches I cover.”

Barnes creates a detailed two-page spread for each match he commentates for BBC Radio Newcastle. The notes are divided into two color-coded segments: The left-hand page contains background information on Sunderland’s opposition—the club’s starting XI from its last fixture, previous results, and stadium details—while the right-hand side is updated in real time as the action happens.

Sometimes the action gets ahead of Barnes’s pen and paper. “There have been a couple of occasions when I’ve been writing something down during the match and there has been a goal or an incident,” he said. “Then I have to thank [Gary Bennett, Barnes’s co-commentator] for being beside me or the monitor which will hopefully replay it.”

Just a normal tight rope trick

Picasso’s “Women of Algiers (Version O)”: The most expensive painting ever sold at auction Sold for $179.4MM

Artist Creates Glass Loaves That Can Be Sliced Into Beautiful Portraits Like Bread. Each Slice Sold for $5000

The uniforms for the Canadian Supreme Court makes the judges look like Santa Clauses in training

Antartica

Sikh in New Zealand removes turban to cradle injured child’s head

The International Space Station just got a new projector screen. They’re using it to watch Gravity

Part of the reason for fingerprint identification

A new pic of the human Barbie…this is a normal pic of her.

Normal Pic Of Her…

Guy cleans his mom’s windows for Mother’s Day. 30 stories up

Skull from Civil War. Fatal wound inflicted by exploding 12 pound artillery shell

Alex Trebek’s perspective while hosting “Jeopardy”

The set of Jeopardy! with the lights off

San Pedro Sula, Honduras, had 187.14 homicides per 100,000 residents and is considered the murder capital of the world.

Rich Drug Cartel Leaders Of Instagram

If you’re involved with a major drug cartel, you might not want to plaster your exploits on social media. Jose Rodrigo Arechiga Gamboa, otherwise known as ‘El Chino Antrax,’ was arrested at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in the beginning of January after he arrived on a flight from South America. Inside sources say that he was caught because of his public Instagram account that he used to post photos of his extravagant lifestyle. Gamboa is reportedly the right-hand man of Sinaloa Cartel bosses Ismael Zambada and recently captured Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman. He’s suspected of murdering and hanging three men from a bridge in 2011, and he’s so infamous that several narcocorrido folk songs have been written about him.

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“The man pictured was unable to save one of his patients. Though this is a common occurrence in our field of work, the patients we lose are typically old, sick, or some combination of the two. The patient that died was 19 years old, and for him, it was one of those calls we get sometimes that just hits you.”

Welcome to Mt Everest!

It has become a major tourist attraction; you have to stand in line to get to the top (then quickly get back down for the next group).

A South Korean shipyard worker

The exoskeleton fits anyone between 160 and 185 centimetres tall. Workers do not feel the weight of its 28-kilogram frame of carbon, aluminium alloy and steel, as the suit supports itself and is engineered to follow the wearer’s movements. With a 3-hour battery life, the exoskeleton allows users to walk at a normal pace and, in its prototype form, it can lift objects with a mass of up to 30 kilograms.

Homes Not Spikes

Boxer’s Urine Post-Fight

Blunt force to the kidneys bruises them resulting in the blood

A nuclear reactor being made in a forge

The space shuttle being carried by a 747 and escorted by two F-18’s…

It can hold the fucking space shuttle but I get hit with extra baggage fees.d

Havana, Cuba

A Buddhist monk in Thailand

Ceiling of the smoking room at Washington-Dulles airport

Curtain from a smokers apartment, after being dunked in a bathtub

The West African Black Rhino has been officially declared extinct. It was hunted for its horn

This is a school lunch that a local elementary school served…anyone know what this is?

The bullet that killed Abraham Lincoln 150 years ago

Beznau I Nuclear power plant, control room 2011

Selfie of German track cyclist Robert Förstemann

Rebecca Francis posing next to her kills…using a high powered rifle to shoot an animal is not a ‘sport’. F**K this biatch!

This Is What Guy Fieri Looks Like Without Frosted Tips

The Foo Fighters have been giving small 100-200 people concerts at small venues all over.

Jack White played three songs at City Laundry in the Pearl

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Manute Bol playing defense in 1984 (At 7 ft 7 in tall, he was one of the tallest men ever to play in the National Basketball Association)

Andre Berto’s demolished face after fighting Roberto Guerrero

Boston Celtics’ Brandon Bass Learning How to Swim at Age 28

 Halftime at Super Bowl I (Kansas City Chiefs’ Quarterback Len Dawson. He would later win Super Bowl IV in 1970 and be named MVP. Diagnosed with cancer in 1991 but still alive – he’s 78 now.)

 8 Years of NHL hockey

Brett Favre getting the call on draft day, 1991

nd let’s not forget that the Rock is 6’5, 265 pounds

The combined injuries depicted on the face of hockey goalie Terry Sawchuk, before masks became standard equipment, 1966

One of the first Pro Football teams: The Akron Ohio ‘Centuries’ in 1910

High-school student LeBron James meeting Michael Jordan

Injuries suffered from the 1892 Princeton freshmen/sophomore snowball fight…

Lebron James’ toes

Anthony Davis’ teeth

Wilt Chamberlain as a 17 year old

NFL Starting Quarterbacks – 1961

100 year old boxing photo restored … Roy Campbell vs Dick Hyland 1913

Jonathan Ogden run blocking during high school and looking comically gigantic

The cleaning of the Dallas Cowboys giant TV

The Original Jamacian Bob Sled Team

The scarred up back of a Japanese Death Match wrestler

Mike Tyson at a typical party in the late 80s

This Is What UFC Announcer Bruce Buffer’s Notes Look Like

Willie Davis slides into second at Dodger Stadium, 1965

Tiny reporter comparing hands with NBA Player(Giannis Antekounmpo)

Floyd Mayweather’s $40M check (Floyd vs Canelo – 2.5 Million PPV buys, fight grossed $136m in pay per view)

Beer prices at the Super Bowl

 Scott Mendelson after he tore his pec trying for the world record bench press

 18 year old goalie Malcolm Subban after being drafted in the first round by the Bruins

1989, the Detroit Lions drafted Barry Sanders. Here he is being toured through the Pontiac Silverdome by coach Wayne Fontes

 Rocky Marciano vs Jersey Joe Walcott – September 23, 1952

 Mercedes F1 steering wheels from 1954 and 2014

FIFA’s guest list for the final

6’8 Arizona Cardniel Offensive Tackle, Jared Veldheer, Is Why I Get Killed Playing Football

 Bartosz Huzarski`s legs after 18th stage. Tour de France 2014

This female volleyball player from Kazakhstan is branded ‘too beautiful’ and distracting to play the game

Goalie Camo, taking every advantage you can get

High Jump in perspective

 Photo of blind cross country runner

The Mountain from Game of Thrones age 20, age 25

Tom Brady posts his resume online: “Found my old resume! Really thought I was going to need this after the 5th round

Mexican bicyclist Mayra Rocha

The Style at the NBA Draft: 2013 vs. 2003

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