A boy shares the news of Yuri Gagarin’s space flight with local shepherd. (1961, USSR)
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 1 day ago
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Interior of the fuselage of Handley Page Halifax B Mark II of No. 614 Squadron RAF. Photo shows some of the many holes caused by splinters from an anti-aircraft rocket which hit the aircraft during an early pathfinding operation over central Europe, ca. 1942.
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 1 day ago
Terry Fox was diagnosed with bone cancer in 1980 and decided to raise money for cancer patients. With only one leg, he ran across Canada, covering 3,300 miles in 143 days, averaging 26 miles daily. He passed away in June 1981 as cancer spread to his lungs but raised $24 million, helping many.
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 1 day ago
"Don't desecrate nature!", a Soviet poster from the 1970s.
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 2 days ago
These are the last known photos of Michael Rockefeller (1961), pictured with a New Guinean tribe known for cannibalism. Michael disappeared without a trace during his 1961 New Guinean expedition and his body was never found.
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 2 days ago
A girl presents the produce from the school plot at a state farm, (1954), Kirov region,USSR
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 2 days ago
Handyman, operated by it's inventor Ralph Mosher, twirling a hoola hoop at it's debut press conference.
Handyman was built between 1958-59 at Schnetectady, New York for the joint AEC-USAF Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Program by Ralph Mosher.
More info can be found here:
https://cyberneticzoo.com/man-amplifiers/1958-9-ge-handyman-ralph-mosher-american/
u/ReimuSan003 — 3 days ago
The inventor of the helicopter, Igor Sikorsky, in the Sikorsky H-5 helicopter, 1945.
u/Front-Coconut-8196 — 6 days ago
Intricate marble carvings inside the Luna Vasahi Temple, part of the renowned Dilwara Temples in Mount Abu, photographed circa 1948.
u/Suspicious-Slip248 — 12 days ago
The only surviving war elephant armour in the world from 17th century India displayed at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, England
u/SwiPerHaHa — 18 days ago