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Here’s silent film star Dorothy Gulliver portraying the role of a lifetime, Humpty Dumpty:
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Here’s a man flying above New Jersey demonstrating the very safe pastime of wingwalking:
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These are the contestants of a “spaghetti-swooshing” contest, a competition to see who can eat a bowl of pasta the fastest without using their hands:
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Here’s Barbara Clack using the best waterskis money can buy – human water skis:
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This, in all its glory, is apparently the first wedding ever held on a parachute. The groom, Arno Rudolphi, said of his wife, “No man on Earth was good enough for her”:
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Speaking of unconventional weddings, here are some underwater nuptials featuring a bride, a groom, a reverend, and 3,000 fish:
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Here’s a puppeteer and his not-terrifying at all puppet that definitely won’t watch you sleep tonight:
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Here’s some proto-Photoshop featuring a now headless man sticking his tongue out:
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This is inventor Fred J. Snyder wearing a device to invert his vision and, unsurprisingly, having a difficult time adjusting to it:
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Here’s an EXTREMELY focused nun, Sister Mary Ellen, about to bowl a strike:
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Here’s a bunch of dudes with missile cones on their heads, for some reason:
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Here’s a very relaxing scene of two people enjoying lunch while a cowboy on a massive steer jumps right over them:
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Here’s a sheep and a goose sharing an elevator together at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel:
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Here’s golfer Joe Kirkwood summarily executing his caddy, uh, I mean, hitting a golf ball out of his mouth:
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Here are a bunch of workers at an orchard, showing us how safe and relaxing that type of work was back in the day:
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Nothing too historical here, just a fun picture of some men with a mustachioed giant snowman named “Father of the Glaciers” they built in the early 1900s:
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You asked for it, so here’s a Dutch man straddling a model village and definitely not dancing a jig for berries and cream:
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This absolutely scandalous image depicts a woman and her forbidden lover… a robot with a giant head:
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Here’s a woman with what I assume to be the world’s largest donut and the world’s smallest cup of coffee:
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Here’s a whole bunch of nuns shooting hoops:
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This is John Smith, a Chippewa man who was reported to be 137 years old at the time of his death, enjoying a pipe:
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This is the beginning of the world’s strangest race, featuring a runner, a man with a dog, a bike, a motorcycle, and a couple of cars:
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Here are two women wearing what I will affectionately refer to as “just a bunch of crap on our heads” hats:
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Here’s a young couple riding a penny-farthing underwater, as all young couples did back in the day:
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This is woman undergoing an early beauty procedure meant to remove freckles:
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This is Duke, the saxophone playing tiger, playing, well, saxophone:
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These are two astronauts demonstrating the versatility of NASA’s new spacesuit, which the astronauts flying in Project Mercury would eventually wear:
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Here’s Babe Ruth himself swinging a bat, dressed as an admiral for some reason:
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Naturally, here’s a big ol’ ape making a very important phone call:
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Here’s a whole bunch of waterskiers wishing you a Happy New Year, 1970:
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This is Sister Euphemia having an absolute blast on a rocketship ride at Disneyland:
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Here’s another high-flying daredevil demonstrating proper plane-flying protocol:
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Here’s Sister Magdalene about to absolutely TEAR the stitches off the ball:
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This is, evidently, the monkey chief of police gazing on in his official duties:
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Here are three guys wearing three barrels as they galavant through the countryside in 1910:
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Speaking of threes, here are three men drinking three margaritas under a large portrait of an even bigger margaritas:
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This is apparently a hypnotized woman suspended between two chairs, looking quite comfortable:
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Here’s a man and a kangaroo going jump for jump on a trampoline:
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As you can plainly see, this is your typical goat pushing a typical stroller full of dogs:
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Movie theater etiquette has always been a top priority for Americans. This slide, circa 1912, would be shown before movies to remind filmgoers to maintain some decorum:
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People did what they had to do during Prohibition. Here’s an enterprising young woman pouring liquor out of a secret compartment in her cane into a cup, circa 1922:
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This very relaxing and not at all terrifying picture shows two women wearing special gigantic masks made for a Mardi Gras celebration in Venice Beach, California in 1932:
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This is S. Shapiro and his invention, the Shapson Aquaplane, about to be tested by a very brave young woman:
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Here’s a picture of a bunch of soldiers with comically oversized jumbo weapons, practicing how to use them:
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Here’s a photo of a hospitalized World War I soldier being handed the magical early 20th-century cure-all… a pack of cigarettes:
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Here’s a young woman dressed as “NIGHT” for Halloween in the early 1900s:
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Among the more unusual events at the 1908 Olympics was the sport of Bicycle Polo. Here are the German and Irish teams facing off in a match for the ages:
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Here’s a young enterprising fellow and the wooden bicycle he built:
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This, in all its glory, is a meeting of the Swansea Cycling Club of Toronto around 1901:
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Finally, here’s a man commandeering his very strange yet powerful invention, the one… the only… the Goat-Mobile:
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