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These 24 Timeless Photos Will Give You A Healthy Dose Of History
A lesson in history should always be of utmost priority. So here are some historical photos, for your enjoyment and learning.
By Sadho Ram — 03 Nov 2013, 01:45 AM — Updated over 10 years ago
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2. Exhausted Russian soldiers sleeping with puppy in liberated Prague at the end of the World War II. Prague, May 1945
3. Photo of Alfred Hitchcock and his three granddaughters, Mary, Tere, and Katie
4. W. Eugene Smith´s beautiful portrait of Charlie Chaplin, captured during his preparations on the set of Limelight, 1952
6. Photo of unknown gentleman with magnificent beard, who-knows-when, who-knows-where
8. In 1994 Nelson Mandela won the first ever multiracial South African election. Here, supporters climb election bilboard whilst awaiting the arrival of Mandela in a Natal township
9. Patrick Zachmann´s photo of two lovers in Paris during flooding of the Seine, February 1978
10. Poster in a London travel agency advising people to book their holidays in spite of the tense situation in Europe, 1939
11. British soldiers smile at a 'Viva Il Duce' slogan on a wall in Reggio, Italy, September 1943
12. John Cleese and Graham Chapman on the set of Monty Python and the Holy Grail
13. Roger Vadim preparing Jane Fonda's costume during the making of the film "Barbarella, 1967
15. Photography of young Rudolf Brázda. He died in 2011 and is believed to be the last surviving person, who was sent to a Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald because of his homosexuality
16. Post war reunion of U.S soldier William Best and 19-year old Joseph Guttman, whom he liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp, New York 1948
17. Ulster rioter captured by photographer Clive Limpkin during Northern Ireland riots in 1969
21. The opening of Woodstock. Here image of Swami Satchidananda (Indian religious teacher, spiritual master and yoga adep) giving the opening invocation for the festival, 1969
24. One of Ian Berry´s photos which documents an apartheid-era life in South Africa, Northern Transvaal, 1969
