A vinaigrette of historical footage from past years. Issue 184

Funny photos, interesting events and people who made history - all this in a new selection.

Pablo Picasso in his studio, 1956





Richard Nixon greets the Apollo 11 astronauts after their return to Earth, 1969



They were quarantined so as not to bring any "extraterrestrial pathogens" to the planet.

122-year-old Jeanne Calment uses a computer, France, 1997



Inside the control room of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, 1986



89-year-old Winston Churchill leaves the House of Commons for the last time, 1964



He was a member of parliament for 64 years and at the end of his life even witnessed the dawn of The Beatles.

First image taken on the surface of another planet: Venus, 1975



Therese of Lisieux dressed as Joan of Arc, 1897



A photograph of a canonized saint posing as another saint is extremely rare.

Thérèse of Lisieux (1873–1897) was a French Catholic saint known for her spiritual concept of the "little way" — pursuing holiness through humility and love in everyday life.

Mount Fuji photographed through the periscope of an American submarine, April 22, 1943



Mary Mallon (foreground) is annoyed by the quarantine, because she is not even sick, 1909



This is a photo of the famous woman in US history Typhoid Mary - an Irish migrant who became the first known asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever. Working as a cook, she infected dozens of people, not believing she was the carrier of the disease. As a result, authorities forcibly isolated her for many years, making her a symbol of the asymptomatic spread of infections.

Sister Mary Kenneth Keller - first woman to earn a PhD in computer science in the United States, 1965



A businessman and secretary work in a pool during a heat wave in Berlin, Germany, 1926



A view of Manhattan in the early 20th century



How to move a tree? Reply from Poland, 1930s



This is not a reconstruction



A colorized photo of young peasant women in front of a traditional wooden house in the countryside along the Sheksna River near the town of Kirillov, 1909.