1. A baseball team of death-row inmates. Their executions were delayed only as long as they kept winning. 1910
2. Couples rush to secure a marriage license and get married in Las Vegas, ahead of Executive Order 11241 taking effect, which eliminated the draft exception for married men. August 26, 1965.
3. Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (Bonnie and Clyde)
4. Nuremberg trials, 1945
5. John Clarence Woods on the 16th of October 1946 shortly after the conclusion of the Nuremberg Trials . He was tasked with the duty of putting to death the convicted NAZI war criminals
6. Qantas Airways 747 upper deck in 1971
7. Rows of infected people assembled into warehouses suffering from 1918 Influenza Pandemic. A total of 50-100 million people were killed, c.1918.
8. Patients having a happy time fishing and swimming under the walls of the old chateau. These American soldiers are recovering from war neurosis, as the scientists now call the condition that used to be described as ‘shell-shock.’ September 1918
9. This is how enemy aircrafts were detected before the invention of RADAR, 1921
10. High school football players practice in Chicago. 1902.
11. The last public execution to take place in the US. August 14, 1936.
12. Belka, a Soviet dog who went to space in the Sputnik 5. She returned to Earth safely. August 1960.
13. King George V shooting tigers from above an elephant, Nepal, 1911.
14. The “Dodge City Peace Commission” in 1883. Wyatt Earp is seated, second from left; Luke Short is standing, second from left; and Bat Masterson is standing, third from left.
15. A group of Navajo in the Canyon de Chelly, Arizona. 1904.
16. Maori women from New Zealand in 1902
17. Testing prototype space suit intended for use in NASA’s Apollo moon landing program, Mojave Desert, California 1962
18. A balloon apron is suspended to defend London from air attacks, 1915
19. Portrait of an immigrant family from Scotland. Taken at Ellis Island in 1905. The family would later settle in Alabama
20. Houdini exposes spirit trickery to New York clergymen, 1925.
21. Dunkirk Evacuation, 1940
22. Canadian Troops land at Courseulles at Juno Beach June 6th, 1944
24. Samir, The Iraqi-American military interpreter for Operation Red Dawn poses with a recently captured Saddam Hussain in Ad-Dawr, Iraq. Decemeber 13th, 2003.
24. Samir, The Iraqi-American military interpreter for Operation Red Dawn poses with a recently captured Saddam Hussain in Ad-Dawr, Iraq. Decemeber 13th, 2003.
25. The woman in this 106-year-old photo wears a traditional dress that signifies she is married and part of the Mongolian nobility. 
26. Flattening hills to build Seattle, 1905-1930
27. A very early photo of the Pantheon in Rome, captured in 1860.
28. Prostitutes on display in Yoshiwara during the Meiji period, 1882
29. Prostitutes posing as “working girls” in Dawson, Canada during the gold rush 1900
30. Tauentzielgirl team (lower class prostitutes) in Weimar Berlin, 1920’s.
31. Phnom Penh, April 17, 1975: The day Cambodia fell under control of the communist Khmer Rouge Guerilla forces
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