5883
posts in
History
Explore fresh reads on battles, biographies, culture and lesser‑known moments from history.
Loading
Jordan Peele (1999)
Posted 8 months ago
Comments:0
Loading
Loading
Young good looking couple pose for their photo circa 1940s. The man has a great smirk
Posted 8 months ago
Comments:0
Loading
Sagon Penn, 23, is escorted to a car after turning himself in for killing a police officer and permanently disabling his partner during a traffic stop. He was acquitted after his lawyer convinced the jury that the police instigated everything and attacked Penn without provocation, 1985 .
Posted 8 months ago
Comments:0
Loading
1980s photo of "Opium King" Khun Sa, Burmese warlord & the dominant figure in the "Golden Triangle" region from 1976-1996. Sa earned over $5,000,000,000 in drug sales & at one point supplied 1/4 of the worlds heroin. In 1996 he retired & spent the end of his life in "legitimate" business (1920x1080)
Posted 8 months ago
Comments:0
Loading
Loading
First all women gym owner in California, writer for Health and strenght magazine, organizer of the first women weightlifting contest in 1947, Abbye Stockton, Circa 1946
Posted 8 months ago
Comments:0
Loading
1943: Ten years ago : the Nazis burned these books --but free Americans can still read them.
Posted 8 months ago
Comments:0
Loading
Image from 1945 of Mussolini and his facist regimes public humiliation
Posted 8 months ago
Comments:0
Loading
My great-grandfather (left) and his siblings, next to their deceased mother. Ukraine, 1920s.
Posted 8 months ago
Comments:0
Loading
Loading
The only surviving image of Stalins two deadliest secret police chiefs, Lavrentiy Beria & Nikolai Yezhov, together in the 1930s. Yezhov directed the “Great Terror” of 1936-38 before being replaced by his deputy Beria, who is rumored to have personally strangled Yezhov upon succeeding him (2627x1985)
Posted 8 months ago
Comments:0