These images archived at the Library Of Congress show scenes in 1890-1900 from Israel, Lebanon and Syria, which was at the time controlled by the Ottoman Empire. It was a largely pastoral land that looks like it had ...
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These are previously unpublished images taken from the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. ...
The images below show the evolution of the summer and winter Olympic torches betwteen 1936 and 2010. ...
On 28th August 2003 one of the most bizarre crimes ever seen in America unfolded in Erie, Pennsylvania. Events start when 46-year-old pizza deliveryman Brian Douglas Wells calmly walks into a PNC Bank in the town ...
Thankfully we’ve come a long way since the days of dial-up modems. ...
We all make mistakes. Some are small blunders that are soon forgotten, while others are pretty awful – like the time you backed your car through the garage door before opening it. Then there are the ...
The gallery below shows images taken at Christmas, in and around New York, ranging from the early to late 1920′s, showing a range of storefronts, decorations, and posed family groups this is a unique look back ...
The following map depicts the dominant ancestries in each county in the USA based on the US census data from 2000. The majority of the 300 million people currently living in the United States are descended ...
In the spring of 1955, as the Cold War intensified and the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union escalated at a shocking pace, America — as it had many times before — detonated an ...
In the 1920s and 1930s, domestic interest in US slavery was rekindled, and as part of the Federal Writers’ Project of the Work Progress Administration, more than 2,000 first-person accounts of slavery were collected, as well ...
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