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This is a photo of conjoined twins Violet and Daisy Hilton, pictured here in the mid-1920s. They spent most of their lives on the sideshow circuit, later suing for emancipation in the 1930s, and eventually working at a grocery store in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Violet was even briefly engaged to a musician named Maurice Lambert. They could not find a state to issue them a marriage license:
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Here’s what the bottom of Manhattan looked like in 1933:
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And here’s what that same part of New York City looks like today:
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President Woodrow Wilson had notoriously poor dental health. Here you can see a rare photo of him smiling:
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Here’s a look at a woman competing in the high jump from all the way back in the 1908 Olympics:
Here’s a photo of a much more recent women’s high jump competition:
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This photo shows two women being led off a beach by police in 1922 for violating a law that banned abbreviated bathing suits:
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Some of the women being arrested even fought back:
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This is apparently the first photo of Canada ever taken. It’s from 1840 and is, appropriately, of Niagara Falls:
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This, ladies and gentlemen, is a prototype flying car, meant to well, drive on land and fly in the sky:
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This is Millvina Dean who, until 2009, was the last living survivor of the Titanic:
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Speaking of the Titanic, this is what one of the actual life vests worn that night looks like:
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Here’s what Paris looked like in the year 1900:
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Speaking of neat photos, check out this aerial show of Edinborough, Scotland from 1920:
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This is what one part of the border between Belgium and the Netherlands looks like:
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Speaking of which, this picture from 1915 shows what the USA-Mexico border looked like in Arizona over 100 years ago:
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Last week, I shared some pictures of Missouri’s Gateway Arch being constructed in the 1960s. Here’s another picture, this time of the final piece being put into place:
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Here’s a closer look that shows just how huge the arch actually is. You can see some tiny little people up top:
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This the only picture of Abraham Lincoln’s actual casket. It was lost for almost 100 years and rediscovered in the 1950s:
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You’re probably familiar with the Costa Concordia, the cruise ship that ran aground and tipped over off the coast of an Italian island…
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Well, did you ever see what it looked like AFTER it was put back upright? Check out the intense damage:
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This, in all its glory, is a scene from a New York City Burger King in 1998. The restaraunt had a bunch of computers set up, free to use:
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Okay, let’s go back in time. Here’s an old picture of an Inuit man teaching his young child how to use a bow:
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This is Brigadier General J.C. Campbell addressing his men after capturing the bridge in the closing months of World War I:
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Speaking of World War I, here’s a photo from years after the war, showing a giant crowd gathering for a moment of silence on the anniversary of the end of the war:
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This is Jacques Plante, who in 1959 became the first goalie to ever wear a protective face mask:
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Here’s Jacques BEFORE he donned his game-changing mask:
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This is one of the last pictures taken of President Harry S. Truman, shortly before his death in 1972:
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This is Civil War veteran Jacob Miller, a man who was shot right between the eyes and lived for 17 more years:
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This is the first picture of a tornado ever taken:
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During World War II, the statue of “David” by Michelangelo was completely encased in bricks to prevent damage from bombs:
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And, finally, this is how condoms were tested in the 1930s: