Amazing historical photos - people, events, facts (29 photos)

18 April 2017

In the history of mankind, many interesting events have always happened, are happening and will continue to happen. Thanks to photography, many unique moments were captured for posterity. We present a selection of amazing photographs and historical facts...

The heart of the Scandinavian Viking giant was mummified. The inscription on the box is made from old Scandinavian runes and reads: “Look! In this casket lies the heart of a fiery and terrible giant known as Hrungnir, whose courage and cunning will live forever!”

Removing trash from an apartment where two brothers collected about 130 tons of trash. One of the brothers tried to crawl to his paralyzed brother, but he was covered with garbage to death along the way, and the second died of hunger.

The process of putting on a ball gown, 1850-1860

The most “beautiful” suicide - May 1, 1947, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale stood on the 86th floor of the observation deck of the Empire State Building and jumped. Her body landed on a UN limo that was parked on the side of the road. A nearby photographer, Robert Wiles, took a photograph of Evelyn's body, the photo became famous.

A Chinese woman's legs, artificially made smaller by tight bandaging, compared to an American woman's cup of tea and shoes.

The US Postal Department operated "Baby Mail" from 1913 to 1915 - children and infants were legally mailed as packages.

Historical photo of the engagement of Princess Dagmar and Nikolai Alexandrovich, son of Emperor Alexander II. Shortly after the engagement, the Tsarevich died, and Princess Dagmar subsequently became Empress Maria Feodorovna, wife of Alexander III and mother of Emperor Nicholas II.

Elin Wagner standing next to 351,454 signatures demanding women's right to vote. Sweden 1914

Illegal liquor poured out during Prohibition, Detroit 1929

Belgian miners in an elevator, 1904

One of London's most feared street gangs in the late 1880s was a group of female thugs known as the Clockwork Orange.

New York - telegraph, electric and telephone wires overloaded with snow after a snowstorm in 1888

50th Anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge: Crowds walk across the bridge (May 24, 1987)

At the beginning of the last century, so-called tableaux vivants were popular in America. 650 officers and men of Auxiliary War Plant 326, Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico, 1915.

The car of the famous American robbers who operated during the Great Depression - Bonnie and Clyde

Dentistry in Ancient Egypt

Alison Spooner, from the British city of Fleet, gave birth to two daughters in 2001. Lauren looks like her mother - she has red hair, white skin and blue eyes. And the dark-skinned brunette Hiley looks like her father, the Indian Dean.

Doctors then said that this happens once every few years. The chances of this happening are one in a million. But this happened TWICE in their family! The second pair of twins born to the Spooners also have different skin colors.

Easter Island statues, after scientists wanted to understand how deep they were buried

Plague doctor costume - 17th-18th century. The beak or its tip was filled with strong-smelling medicinal herbs, which made breathing easier during the constant stench of the plague.

Ballet school in evacuation, Russia, 1943

Secret rooms installed inside abandoned well manholes on the streets of Milan

East Berliners flock to West Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989

Unique footage of the Queen Elizabeth ship arriving in New York Harbor in 1945 with thousands of soldiers returning from World War II

Children orphaned after the death of their parents during the Vietnam War are transported to the United States, 1975. The operation was called babylift.