Maoris of ‘C’ Company, 28th Maori Battalion of the 2nd New Zealand Division perform the ‘Haka’ (ancestral war dance) for the visit of King George II of Greece, his wife…
These are fascinating.
Exploring the past through historical photographs.
In May 1910, European royalty gathered in London for the funeral of King Edward VII. Among the mourners were nine reigning kings, who were photographed together in what very well…
Paris built the Eiffel Tower as an entrance for this extravagant 1889 event
A reconstruction of the Parthenon, the principal building of the Acropolis in Athens, supported by two-storey Doric columns, complete with a huge statue of the goddess Athena
At a glance, they look like any other Civil War-era vignettes and portraits of children kneeling in prayer or cloaked in the U.S. flag. But, there's more to these cartes de visite than meets the eye.
By the 1890s postcards were widely available throughout continental Europe. The postcards appealed to tourists looking for a souvenir of their travels abroad. Although travel was still largely limited to…
By the 1890s postcards were widely available throughout continental Europe. The postcards appealed to tourists looking for a souvenir of their travels abroad. Although travel was still largely limited to…
Jesse Owens' Medal ceremony for the long jump at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Want to know more about Black History ? Visit Discover Black Heritage, The Black Heritage Travel Guide.
sassy: adjective ˈsa-sē impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart and stylish, showing no respect for people in authority, saucy, pert, confident, chic. Greece, 1960s, submitted to Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/996n6h/my_dad_with_my_uncle_greece_late_
Anne Frank (1929-1945) was a teen writer who went into hiding during World War Two to avoid the Nazis. She was one of over one million Jewish children who died in the Holocaust. After her death, Anne becomes world famous because of her wartime diary "The Diary of a Young Girl" she wrote while in hiding. “One day this terrible war will be over. The time will come when we will be people again and not just Jews! We can never be just Dutch, or just English, or whatever, we will always be Jews as well. But then, we'll want to be.” - April 9, 1944, an excerpt from "The Diary of Anne Frank." We take a look at her life through pictures. Anne Frank 12 years old - May 1942. Anne Frank with three friends. Beekbergen, summer 1941. Left to right: Anne, Tineke Gatsonides, Sanne and Barbara Ledermann. A photograph of the Frank family taken on the Merwedeplein in Amsterdam, May 1941. Left to right: Margot, Otto, Anne and Edith. Anne Frank, 11 years old - May 1941. Anne Frank writing at her desk in her room in the Merwedeplein apartment, Amsterdam. Anne Frank with her teacher and two fellow pupils at the 6th Montessori School in Amsterdam. From left to right: Martha v.d Berg, Miss Godron, Anne and Rela Salomon. Anne Frank (left) and her friend Hanneli Goslar on the Merwedeplein in Amsterdam. May 1940. Anne Frank with Isa's dog Dopy in Laren, The Netherlands. Margot (left) and Anne Frank on the beach at Zandvoort in the Netherlands, August 1940. Anne Frank, 10 years old – May 1940. Anne with Inge Kurpershoek at Isa Cauvern-Monas home in Laren. Anne's 10th birthday on 12 June 1940. Anne Frank and friends on the Merwedeplein Amsterdam. From left to right: Lucie van Dijk - Anne - Sanne Ledermann - Hanneli Goslar - Juultje Ketellapper - Käthe Egyedi (Kitty Gokkel-Egyedi) - Mary Bos - Ietje Swillens - Martha v.d. Berg Margot and Anne (near left) on the beach at Zandvoort with their grandmother Ida, 1939. Anne Frank, 9 years old - May 1939. Anne Frank, 8 years old - May 1938. Anne Frank with a rabbit in Amsterdam. Anne (2nd from left) with friends in the sandbox in July 1937. Margot (3rd from right) and Anne Frank (2nd from right) with a group of children on the beach in Belgium. Margot Frank and her friend Hetty Ludel at the skating rink in Amsterdam. Anne Frank, 7 years old - May 1937. A school photo of Anne Frank at the 6th Montessori School in Amsterdam, which she attends from 1933 to 1941. Anne (right) with friends on the Merwedeplein. Anne Frank, 6 years old - May 1936. Anne Frank during a holiday in Sils-Maria in Switzerland. Anne Frank (right) and her friend Sanne Ledermann in front of Anne's home on the Merwedeplein in Amsterdam. Left to right: Sanne Ledermann, Hanneli Goslar, two unknown girls, Anne and Margot Frank, two unknown girls in Amsterdam. Anne Frank, 5 years old - May 1935. Anne (left) and Margot (2nd from right) play with German Jewish friends during a visit to Gabrielle Kahn (right). Margot, Anne and Edith with Mrs Schneider (behind) on the beach. Anne Frank (in the middle at the back wearing a white dress) with her class at the 6th Montessori School in Amsterdam. Anne and Margot Frank wearing their summer vests in Aachen. Anne Frank, 4 years old - May 1933. Anne, Edith and Margot on the Hauptwache square in the center of Frankfurt am Main in March 1933. Anne, Edith and Margot Frank, Frankfurt am Main, 10 March 1933. Grace with Margot and Anne Frank in the Spring of 1932 in Frankfurt am Main. Anne Frank, 2 or 3 years old - 1932. Otto Frank with daughters Margot and Anne on his knee. Frankfurt am Main, 1931. Edith with Anne in the garden of their house on the Ganghoferstrasse. Frankfurt am Main, 1931. Margot Frank with neighbourhood children in fancy dress in Frankfurt am Main, 1931. Anne Frank. Frankfurt am Main, 1931. Anne Frank, 2 years old - 1931. Margot and Anne with children from the neighbourhood. Frankfurt am Main, september 1930. Anne Frank, 1 year old - 1930. Käthi Stilgenbauer, Margot Frank, Ilse Angrick, Mrs Dassing, Anne Frank, Edith Frank, Rosemarie Angrick and Gertrud Naumann, 1929. Margot Frank with her new baby sister Anne. Anne Frank, 0 years old - June 1929. (Photos © Anne Frank Fonds, Bazel / Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam)
Rare photos of San Francisco's Chinatown, before the earthquake
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A rare photo collection from the 1899 Paris Fair Exposition Universelle which celebrated the 100-year anniversary of the storming of the Bastille.
The Elephant’s Foot would have killed anyone within a couple of minutes.
If you're ever reading about a historical event and something just doesn't seem to add up, it's because the editors cut the line 'and, of course, they were all wasted.'
There's an awesome little subreddit that has been getting a lot of press coverage as of late. It's called ColorizedHistory, and is a 20,000+ person strong
© Robert Doisneau If you were living in Paris during the years that followed World War II and liked to party, you'd better have known Boris Vian. In 1950, he wrote the original guidebook to bohemian Paris and pioneered a movement which brought back the city's "joie de vivre" that had been lost du
Voici des photos historiques incroyables qui ont marqué l'Histoire. Elles sont la preuve d'événements rares et cruciaux.
Bis heute ist das geheime Archiv des Warschauer Ghettos eine bedeutsame Quelle. Auch der Film "Geheimsache Ghettofilm" greift auf das Material zurück. Der Historiker Samuel D. Kassow hat in seinem international anerkannten Buch die Geschichte des Arc
As history is often shaped by the goals of those who record it, many examples of important historical events do not reflect the full truth of what happened.
When the Blitz forced Londoners underground, human spirit triumphed
You can learn about history from books, but that’s a long path, and quite likely not the one you took back in your school years. Or you did, and in that case, hats off to you!
Sir Jonathan Pryce felt compelled to apologize to Princess Anne for portraying her father on Netflix's The Crown.
In the early morning of June 30, 1908, something exploded in the sky above the Stony Tunguska river in Siberia, but the lack of physical evidence prevented geologists from determining the cause.
Zhanna was only 11 when she was sadly murdered during the Babi Yar massacre on September 1941
On Veterans Day, LightBox presents rare, vibrant color autochromes documenting the soldiers and battles of the First World War.
History is more interesting than we may ever know.
When the famous bank robber Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks, he supposedly replied, "That's where the money is." Sutton claimed he never actually said it. Pity. Someone should have. Anyway, here are the stories of five famous bank robberies.1. The Great Northfield, Minnesota, RaidOK, in terms of actual success, this 1876 robbery was a bust. But it had a heck of a cast: legendary bandits Frank and Jesse James; Cole, Jim, and Bob Younger; and three lesser known outlaws. Their target was North...
