Since anyone could (and still can) say anything on the internet, people started challenging unbelievable and outlandish online claims with the phrase “pics or it didn’t happen,” shutting down many ridiculous discussions before they even begin.

But real life can be hard to comprehend, too. Especially if we’re talking about long gone days. So in an attempt to forestall all the doubts and get right to chase, the Instagram account ‘Library Of The Bizarre’ shares images from the past first, and provides captions for them later.

People behind the account describe it as a “curated collection of the curious history of yonder years.” And they’re right on the money with those words.

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#1 World War One Soldiers Paying Tribute To The Millions Of Donkeys, Horses, And Mules That Passed Away In The War

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#2 Black Cat Open Casting Call For An Edgar Allen Poe Movie In 1961

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#3 Queen Genepil, The Last Queen Of Mongolia. 1920

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#4 How Did You Think All These Pictures Were Taken? 1909

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#5 Brazilian Girl Refusing To Shake Hands With Military Dictator João Figueiredo. This Photo Was Taken In 1979

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#6 Soldiers Returning Home From World War 2. This Photo Was Taken In 1945

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#7 Norte Dame Sandbagged During World War One

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#8 Mr. Rogers Invites A Black Officer To His Show And Asked If He Wanted To Cool His Feet Off In His Mini-Pool

With heavy discrimination still a reality for most black members of society, Fred Rogers took a stand against racial inequality with this simple, yet heartwarming gesture.

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#9 Horse Training By Félix Thiollier. Photo Taken In 1899

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#10 A Portrait Of Arctic Explorer Peter Freuchen And His Wife, Fashion Illustrator Dagmar Cohn. This Photo Was Taken In 1947

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#11 Don’t Forget To Cast Rituals With Your Friends (6ft. Apart, Please)! The Devil Rides Out, 1968

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#12 A Young Girl Trying To Cut A Sunbeam. This Picture Was Taken By Adam Diston In 1886

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#13 A Small Girl Balances On Her Mother’s Hand In Pittsburgh . Taken In The Mid-1900s

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#14 “Do Not Buy Where You Will Not Be Hired.” – North Carolina, 1960

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#15 A Portrait Of An Interesting Hair Style From 1894

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#16 A Female Samurai Warrior, 19th Century

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#17 Performance Art From The 1970s

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#18 School Girls In Gas Masks. World War 2

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#19 Roland, A 4,000 Pound Elephant Seal, Getting A Bath From His Handler At The Berlin Zoo. This Photo Was Taken In 1930

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#20 San Francisco’s Iconic Cliff House, Before It Was Destroyed By A Fire In 1907

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#21 In The Late 1930s, Budapest Tried To Combat Their High Suicide Rates By Enacting A “Smile Club”: A Club That Taught People To Smile

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#22 A Victorian Home Being Moved By Boat In Tiburon, California, In 1957

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#23 This Photo Shows The Inside Of An Airplane In 1930

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#24 Two Children Ignoring The Artwork At The San Francisco Museum Of Art

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#25 An Italian Monk Wearing A Funeral Mask, Circa 1892

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#26 Marilyn Monroe And A Funhouse Mirror, 1950

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#27 In The 1960s, Bars In Istanbul Would Hire Someone To Carry Drunk People Back To Their Homes In Baskets

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#28 Children On A Spiral Staircase In The Newly Built Children’s Library In Clamart, France. Photo Taken In 1965 By Martine Franck

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#29 Helmet Testing In The Year 1912

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#30 A Man Browses The Books In The Public Library Of Cincinnati. It Was Demolished In 1955

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#31 What You’re Looking At Is The Very First Known Permanent Photograph

In the 1820s, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce set up a device called a ‘camera obscura’, which projected scenes illuminated by sunlight, and positioned it outside his studio window in France. The image was cast on a specially treated pewter plate that produced a copy of the buildings outside.

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#32 Haruo Nakajima And Momoko Kochi On The Set Of Godzilla, 1954

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#33 A Policeman In Daytime Directing Traffic During The “Great Smog Of London”. This Photo Was Taken In 1952

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#34 The 1944 Eruption Of Mount Vesuvius

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#35 Anti-Drinking Public Service Announcement From The Early 1900s

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#36 In The Summer Of 1933, A Man Named A.l. Khan Was Fishing With His Friends Off The Coast Of New Jersey When He Landed This 20 Ft. Long, 5,000 Lb. Manta Ray

It took him, his friends, and the coast guard almost three hours to wrestle this monster of a fish onto their boat.

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#37 The Azores Is In Archipelago Made Up Of Nine Volcanic Islands In The North Atlantic Ocean

The Azorean Hood is a traditional garment worn by the locals of this secluded location up until the 1930s. Here are a few pictures of this strange outfit!

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#38 Tibetan Shaman Wearing A Citipati Skull Mask

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#39 Nikola Tesla Sitting In His Laboratory With His “Magnifying Transmitter”, December 1899

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#40 A Boy’s Reaction To Seeing A Television Screen For The Very First Time. This Photo Was Taken In 1948

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#41 A Photo Of A Japanese Samurai Archer Taken In 1870

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#42 Two Friends Who Can’t Keep Their Eyes Off Each Other In The Early 1900s

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#43 Aerial Photography In Edinburgh, Circa 1920

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#44 “The Ghost Of Bernadette Soubirous”, 1890

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#45 An Engineer Wiring A Primitive Computer Of Ibm In 1958

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#46 A Performance At The Théâtre Du Mouvement In France, 1985

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#47 A Chicken Costume From The Early 20th Century

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#48 The Original Michelin Tire Man, 1926

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#49 The Ornate Skeletons Of Rome’s Capuchin Crypt. This Crypt Contains The Remains Of 4,000 Different Individuals. This Photo Was Taken Around 1900

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#50 Parisian Woman With Her Cat In Her Cannabis Garden, 1910

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#51 A Man Night Fishing Off The Coast Of Hawaii, 1948

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#52 The Unbroken Seal On King Tutankhamen’s Tomb, Which Stayed Untouched For 3,245 Years Before Being Excavated In 1922

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#53 A Helmeted Bulldog Guarding A Family Outside A Block Of Flats During The Blitz. This Photo Was Taken On October 15th, 1940

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#54 Dallas Mercier Conklin Standing On A Stuffed Alligator, 1908

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#55 Back In The Old Days, Cows Would Walk 15 Miles In The Snow, Uphill Both Ways, To Get You Your Milk

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#56 Don’t Mess With Granny

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#57 The Shepards Of Gascony, France Used Stilts To Walk Through The Marshlands. Photo Taken In 1895

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#58 Unpacking The Head Of The Statue Of Liberty, 1885

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#59 New York City Construction Workers

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#60 A French Women Pours Cider For A British Gunner In Lisieux, France, 22 August 1944

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#61 This Horrific Picture Is Part Of A Photo Sequence Taken By The Automatic Bomb Strike Camera Of A B-17

The photo sequence shows the final seconds of the B-17G 42 ‘Wee Willie’ over Stendal, Saxony- Anhalt, Germany, after it was hit by an 88mm flak burst. Photo taken on April 8, 1945.

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#62 A Man Holding Up The Monster Gabara On The Set Of A Godzilla Movie. This Photo Was Taken Sometime Between 1968 And 1969

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#63 Anti-British Propaganda From Japan, 1941

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#64 Maurice Maeterlinck’s “The Blue Bird” Performance In Moscow Art Theatre, 1908

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#65 Six Skeletons Smoking Around A Dinner Table, Circa 1865

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#66 A Woman Wearing A Crab Hat At The League Of Women Voters Convention In 1958. Photo By Robert W. Kelley

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#67 Sunbeams In Grand Central Station

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#68 A Curious Sea Lion Poses For The Camera

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#69 People Wearing Face-Masks During The Spanish Flu Epidemic In The 1920s

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#70 Late Victorian Mountaineers Cross A Crevasse In The Alps In The Year 1900. Apparently It Was A Fashion Crime To Be Caught Dead In Anything Other Than Your Finest Clothing, Even When Climbing Some Of The Worlds Most Treacherous Mountains

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#71 David Jones (Aka David Bowie) Stepping In As A Saxophonist And Lead Singer For The Kon-Rads At A Gig In South London, 1963

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#72 Portrait Of Comtesse De Castiglione, Hermit In Passy, 1863

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#73 The “Hand Hat”, A Creation By Elsa Schiaparelli For Life Magazine In 1953

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#74 Portrait Of The Pantomimist – 1870-79

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#75 From A German Fashion Magazine In 1951, “The Bat” Was A Mask Created By French Make-Up Artist Fernand Aubry

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#76 Weekend Plans

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#77 A Ghost Attacks A Man With A Sword, 1865

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#78 Plague Doctor Outfits

They had long, strange noses attached to their masks, which held herbs and other nicely scented items to ward off the “bad air” believed to be the source of the sickness. Perhaps they should bring them back for the strange times we live in today?

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#79 Virginia Oldoini, Countess Of Castiglione (1837 – 1899)

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#80 In 1945, A B-25 Bomber Got Lost In A Patch Of Fog And Crash Into The 79th Floor Of The Empire State Building. Fourteen People Passed Away In The Incident

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#81 A Crowd In Time Square, New York City Celebrating The Surrender Of Germany In World War 2. This Photo Was Taken On May 7th, 1945

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#82 This Amazing Photo By William Hope Caught The Attention Of The Entire World As It Apparently Showed A Mourning Mother And Father’s Recently-Deceased Daughter Hovering Above Them

What set Hope’s work apart from others that were deemed hoaxes is that the apparitions all appeared pale, sickly, and in mourning.

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#83 A Mother Uses A Trash Can To Contain Her Baby While She Crochets In The Park, 1969

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#84 Ballerinas Stretching In Class, 1928

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#85 A British “Splatter Mask”, Made To Protect The Wearer From Shrapnel. This Photo Was Taken In October 1918

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#86 337 Lb. Tuna Caught At Cabo Blanco, Peru By Member Of The Cabo Blanco Fishing Club. Photo Taken May 01, 1959 By Frank Scherschel

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#87 A C&o T-1 Steam Locomotive After A Boiler Explosion. This Photo Was Taken In 1943

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#88 Soviet Peasants Listen To The Radio For The First Time. This Photo Was Taken In 1928

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#89 A Victorian Woman Posing For A Selfie, 1900

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#90 A Lone Scientist Descending Into The Radioactive Darkness Of Chernobyl In 1986

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#91 Coin-Operated “Tel-A-Chairs” In The Los Angeles Greyhound Bus Terminal. Ashtrays Also Included. 1969

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#92 What Mount Rushmore Was Supposed To Look Like. This Photo Was Taken In 1936

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#93 Two Teenagers Out On A Date In The 1950s

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#94 This Is A Photo Of White Wolf, Also Known As Chief John Smith

He was considered to be the oldest Native American to have ever lived. According to the legends, he was born in 1785 and died in 1922, living a life of 137 years.

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#95 Women Campaigning Against Alcohol Consumption In The Late 1800’s

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#96 Another Amazing Photo Of The Frozen Niagara Falls In The Winter Of 1911

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#97 A Well-Dress Mrs E. N. Dickerson Of NYC (Right) Poses Next To The 363 Pound Black Sea Bass She Caught Off The Coast Of New York In 1901

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#98 A Young Girl Scolds A Frog. This Strange Image Is A Vaudeville Publicity Photo By The Apeda Studio Of New York, Circa 1920

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#99 Stunt Performers Jumping Two Large Embankments In El Paso, Texas. This Photo Was Taken In 1922

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#100 Archduke Franz Ferdinand Posing As A Mummy On A Trip To Cairo In 1896

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#101 Two Women Boxing With Boxing Gloves On Their Hands And Feet In A New York Nightclub, 1938

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#102 Felix Nadar And His Wife, Ernestine Taking A Photo In A Stationary Hot Air Balloon, 1860

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#103 A Game Of Human Chess In St. Petersburg, Russia. This Photo Was Taken In 1924

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#104 In Romania, Having A Bear Sit On Top Of You Was A Popular Back Pain Remedy In The 1940s

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#105 Construction Of The Mount Rushmore National Memorial, 1928

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#106 French Aviator Charles Godefroy Flies Through The Arc De Triomphe. Paris, 1919

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#107 This Is The Most Famous Clown Of Yesteryear, Bozo The Clown, Who First Appeared On TV In 1949

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#108 Actress Loie Fuller, Circa 1928

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#109 Two Ladies In Mourning Dresses

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#110 A Fish Shop In Amsterdam Showing Off Their Latest Catch. Photo Taken In 1913

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#111 Chester Mcduffee And His Diving Suit, Weighing 485 Lbs, December 1911

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#112 People On The Coney Island Rotor Ride Before It Was Shut Down For Safety Issues In The 1950s

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#113 A Performance At The Theater Of Cruelty In Paris, France. Photo Taken In The Late 1920’s

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#114 A Meeting Of The Mickey Mouse Club, Circa 1930

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#115 Sir Richard Owen (Left) Standing Next To A Moa Skeleton And Holding The First Bone Fragment Of A Moa Ever Found

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#116 Belgium Coal Miners Crammed Into A Coal Mine Elevator, Coming Up After A Day Of Work, Circa 1900

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#117 The Last Of The Prisoners Leaving Alcatraz In 1963

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#118 Professor Meredith Thring And His Stair-Climbing Chair Prototype In 1964

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#119 A Happy Clown From The Early 1900s

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#120 Watch Your Back

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#121 Photographer Gotthard Schuh Snapped This Picture Of A Clown In 1936

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#122 A Giant Sequoia Tree Felled By Loggers In The Early 1900s

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#123 An English Electric Lightning F1 Crashes In A Farmers Field. The Pilot Survived With Multiple Breaks And Cuts. Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Sept 13, 1962

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#124 Three Air Raid Wardens Wearing A New Type Of Gas Mask That Are Designed For The Elderly. Photo Taken In 1941

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#125 The Work Of French Photographer Claude Cahun, 1939

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#126 A Boy Between Two Mounted Lobsters Caught Off The New Jersey Coast. This Photo Was Taken In 1916

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#127 Pope Saint John Paul II Meets With Mehmet Agca, The Man Who Attempted To Assassinate Him, 1983

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