Pictures in History

History brought alive with images

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British scientists with the miniature black hole singularity created as the ultimate weapon in World War One, 1918. It was never used.

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An Italian soldier says a tearful farewell to his Austrian lover as he takes a train to the front, 1943.

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Steve Jobs's MacBook after his assassination by agents of rival Samsung, 2011.

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Alan Turing, Kurt Gödel, Albert Einstein and Clement Attlee at the controls of the first Enigma machine, 1944.

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The original Teletubbies only lasted six episodes due to childrens' absolute terror of them, 1964.

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A backstreet abortionist in Blackpool prepares herself, and her dog who will act as nurse, for an operation, 1951.

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Folk singer Joan Baez on her successful mission to rescue POWs including John McCain in Hanoi, Vietnam, 1973.

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Hunter S Thompson served a short stint in the US Air Force, bombing Kentucky, before being discharged in 1958

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Crowds climbing into the first Glastonbury Festival to see headliners Arthur Askey, Glenn Miller and Hawkwind, 1939.

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Audrey Hepburn about to snap a young fawn's neck and throw it on the pile with the rest, 1955.

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Peter Sutcliffe, the "Fifth Beatle", left the band before they became famous but said he never regretted it, 1965.

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Philadelphia's Roosevelt Boulevard was renamed Adolf Hitler Street after the Nazi leader's visit to the city, 1938.

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The young Woody Guthrie singing This Land Is Your Land at the Oklahoma Dustbowl, 1932.

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England's six-year-old Negro Queen issuing banknotes during the brief rule of the Mau Mau regime, 1953.

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The Taj Mahal being removed, brick by brick, from its original Paris site to be rebuilt in India, 1724.

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Madonna, before she was famous, performing at one of the Museum of Modern Art's Wednesday striptease evenings, 1981.

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Locals in Hartlepool, England, try to help a beached German U-boat back into the sea, 1939.

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James Earl Jones, banned from London clubs by their strict segregation laws, chose to socialise in costume, 1979.

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The Kray Twins began their reign of terror by using a stolen elephant to extort protection from trams, 1960.

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The 1920 steampunk reboot of Arrangement in Grey and Black No 1, known as Whistler's Mother, proved unpopular.