35 interesting photos and historical facts (36 photos)

Can history as a science promote progress and improvement of humanity? It seems like people learn from their mistakes. But also there is another popular idea that history is cyclical, and errors are simply repeated on its new coils. Let's think about it, looking at pictures from the /r/DragonUtopia subreddit collection.





1. Ron Cobb, Thanksgiving in America, 1975



By the way, Ron Cobb is the artist who came up with the design of the time machine. DeLorean DMC-12 from "Back to the Future", the ship "Nostromo" from "Alien" and scenery for Conan the Barbarian.

2. "The most dangerous animal in the world." Exhibition at the Bronx Zoo, 1960s



3 Senegalese soldier who lost both arms writes writing using their new dentures. In Professional rehabilitation school for the disabled, Paris, 1918



4. A Red Cross nurse records the last words of a mortally wounded soldier, 1917



5. Picket of activists near the pool "for whites", Ohio, 1960s



"Don't swim here, segregation swims here and democracy sinks"

6. Queen Genepil, the last queen consort of Mongolia. Killed in 1938



7. Diary of Theodore Roosevelt on the day his wife and mother died, 1884



"The light has gone out of my life"

8. Man in a bar (Saturday night) in Craigville, Minnesota, 1937



9. American veterans of World War I at a meeting in 1978



10. An East German soldier throws a ball to a child playing on the West German side of the Berlin Wall. 1962



11. Earliest known photograph of a surfer, Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1890



12. Japanese nurse in black during the Russo-Japanese War, 1905



13 Chief of Staff Andrew Card Interrupts the President US George W. Bush during a reading for schoolchildren in Sarasota, FL, 11 September 2001 to report the attack



14. Poster by Salvador Dali for the American army, aimed at combating sexually transmitted diseases, 1942



15. Prohibition Day in the USA, 1933



16. Manhattan from a bird's eye view, 1931



17. Paris Air Show, September 1909



18. Belgian miners rise from the mine after a working day, 1900



19. Collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, 2010



20. Robert E. Peary. An Inuit warming his wife's feet in Greenland, 1890s



21. Busts of US presidents thrown somewhere on a field in Virginia



22. Star Wars postern" in Tokyo, 1978



23. Stock market trader at the end of the day on Black Monday, Toronto, 1987



24. A worker paints the Golden Gate Bridge, 1956



25. The charred remains of the Apollo 1 cabin. It killed three astronauts: Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee.



26. Regulars at a bar called "Squirrel", Sweden, Stockholm, 1895



27. Daisy Cutter bomb effects. The bomb was designed to clear an area for a helicopter to land on.



29. Kim Il Sung, founder of North Korea, with leader Hungarian communists Janos Kadar, 1984. The tumor is clearly visible his neck



30. Freshly painted M4 Sherman tank in a tunnel with infrared lamp designed to reduce drying time paint from 24 hours to 4 minutes



31. Every day at the end of the shift, diamond mine workers had to go through an X-ray machine to be checked. Some swallowed diamonds and even hid them in incisions on their legs. South Africa, 1954 year



32. Workers build sewers in Chicago, 1912



33. A British soldier takes a bath in the port city of Tobruk, Libya, February 17, 1942



34. A man smokes a cigarette and reads comics while he gets a tattoo, Tokyo, Japan, 1970



35. Swedish pilots refuel Saab 105 at a gas station, 1980