Rare historical photos.

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Take a look at this collection of rare photos that is sure to blow you away!

Construction of the Eiffel tower in July, 1888:


The first photo upon discovery of Machu Picchu, 1912:


Mathias Rust's Cessna 172 that landed illegally in the Red Square on May 28, 1987:


Charles Godefroy taking his Nieuport 11 “Bébé” through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on August 7th, 1919:


Construction of Brasilia city, which would later become the capital of Brazil. 1960:


Filming Star Wars inside of the iconic “Millennium Falcon” spacecraft.:


The US-built ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first computer ever made:


The unbroken seal on King Tut's Tomb:


The First Google Team in 1999:


The first Wal-Mart store was opened in 1962 by [a salesman] Sam Walton. It was called Walton's Five and Dime:


One of the first McDonald's restaurants open in 1948:


Steve Jobs and Bill Gates chatting in 1991:


During the Apollo 16 mission, Charles Duke left a family photo on the moon that was enclosed in a plastic bag:


The following photo is believed to be the last photo ever taken of the RMS Titanic before it sunk in April 1912:


This
photo was taken in space right after World War II (1946). A team of
soldiers and scientists used a German-made V-2 missile equipped with a
camera to capture this shot. Making it the first photo in space:


Hitler
inspecting the massive 800mm “Schwerer Gustav” railway gun from afar.
It was the largest-calibre rifled weapon ever used in combat, and fired
the heaviest shells of any artillery piece:


Samurai. ~ 1860 – 1880:


Soviet soldiers stop for a break in 1945 on the outskirts of Berlin:


Tsar Nicholas II goofing around with his friend in 1899:


An American soldier replaces "Adolf-Hitler-Str." sign with a "Roosevelt Blvd" one in Berlin, Germany, 1945:


Microsoft staff. December 7, 1978:


A
different angle of the popular stand off between a man (top left in
photo) and a column of Chinese Type 59 tanks (top right in photo) on
Tiananmen Square. Photo by Terril Jones:


Princeton students after a Freshman / Sophomore snowball fight. Princeton, NJ, 1893:


Martin Luther King Jr. removing a burned cross from his front yard. His son is at his side. Atlanta, GA, 1960:


Disneyland employee cafeteria of 1961:


Bob
Marley playing soccer backstage. (Contrary to popular belief, that
isn't Jimi Hendrix playing with him - it was a musician from "The
Wailers"):


Bill (Clinton) & Hillary playing volleyball in Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA. 1975:


106-year old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47. 1990:


Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein at the Bohr-Einstein debates over quantum mechanics:


Star Wars set at lunchtime:


Times Square in New York, 1911:


Train Derailment at Gare Montparnasse, Paris, France. 1895:


Release of Windows 95:


The Beatles meet Muhammad Ali:

Comments

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

Those are pretty awesome, thanks.

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

cool beans!!!!!