A boring story: 35 photos that will allow you to look at the past with different eyes (36 photos)

History can be learned from books, but it is a long and thorny path, therefore, it is not surprising that during the school years most avoid it. TO Fortunately, the internet offers more than just cat videos: educational social media accounts are becoming more and more popular, so Expanding your horizons is now possible without much effort. For example, with this a selection of bright, rare and forgotten moments of the past, caught on camera!





1. After the collapse of the USSR, the Lithuanian national basketball team could not afford to participate in the 1992 Olympics. And here to help them came the rock band Grateful Dead.



They sponsored the guys' trip and gave them a license to sale of exclusive Grateful Dead-Olympics merchandise that has been used huge popularity with fans at the Olympic Games.

2. Speaking of rock stars: even they were small once!



Left to right: Johnny Rotten (Sex Pistols), "father Rock and Roll Chuck Berry, Steven Tyler (Aerosmith), Tom Waits, Janice Joplin, Ozzy Osbourne, Jim Morrison (The Doors), David Bowie, Keith Richards (Rolling Stones).

3. Iran in the good old days



4. In 1960, David Latimer planted a garden inside a giant bottle and sealed it.



Latimer opened the bottle only once in 1972 to add some water. The autonomous ecosystem has been thriving for 60 years.

5. This is how Marlene Dietrich appeared in Paris in 1933 year after she was forbidden to wear trousers upon arrival.



Source 6The door to the dining room of Alcobaça Monastery in Portugal purposely made narrow to force plump monks to fast



7. The famous photo of stylish Chicago guys, taken in 1941. They must be in their 80s or 90s by now.



8. Irony as it is. Photo 1966



9. Miami Zoo workers placed 30 flamingos in a toilet to protect them from Hurricane Andrew, 1992.



10. Did you know that food delivery in Japan appeared more than 300 years ago, during the Edo period? This photo is, of course, much younger: 1935 of the year



11. In 1983, Freddie Heineken was the victim of a kidnapping (for he was demanded 16 million euros), and then said: “I was tortured for 3 days, forcing you to drink Carlsberg."



12. Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany and Prussia poses during an inspection of troops, 1915



13. Roger Moore on the set of the 1973 Bond film Live and Let Die



14. A 1983 letter autographed by Steve Jobs that recently went on auction for $479,939.



"Dear M. Varon, I am honored by your letter, but I'm afraid I don't I'm signing autographs. Yours sincerely (signed) Steven P. Jobs."

15. Bridget Nielsen with Sylvester Stallone in 1986.



16. A touching photo of golfer John Daley with his wife after winning the British Open in 1995



17 Spice Girls in 1997



18. In 1921, visitors invited waitress Lillian Boiler fly. At the very firstflight she climbed onto the wing of the plane.



During her career, Lillian Boiler performed in 352 shows, but in 1929 year, new safety rules spoiled all the fun and forced aerial circus performers retire early.

19. Traveler, anthropologist, journalist, actor, writer and, perhaps one of the most interesting people on the planet, Peter Freuchen with wife Dagmar Freuchen-Gale



The two-meter Dane Freuchen participated in several Arctic expeditions (including a 1000-mile journey on dog sledding through Greenland), starred in an Oscar-winning film, wrote more than a dozen books (novels and non-fiction books, including "The famous book of the Eskimos"). He lost his leg due to frostbite in 1926. year and replaced it with a piece of wood, independently amputated gangrenous toes, participated in the Danish resistance against Germany and once escaped from hiding, cutting his way out with a knife, made from his own feces.

20. West German Chancellor Willy Brandt in front of the memorial to the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1970



21. About 40 years ago, on the morning of October 1981, Sweden discovered a Soviet Whiskey-class submarine stuck on rocks



The incident was nicknamed Whiskey on the rocks.

22. Prague 110 years apart



23. In the 70s, at the home of the star of "The Birds" Tippi Hedren lived here such a 180-kilogram pet. She later admitted that it was "incredibly stupid"

24. Citroën Karin, a concept car presented at the Paris Motor Show in 1980



25. Salvador Dali exits the Paris metro with his anteater, 1969



26. An attempt by a fearless journalist to photograph the mafiosi at the trial of Al Capone in 1931



28. Joachim Bonnier hung his Mclaren M5a on the wall, with which he took sixth place in the 1968 Italian Grand Prix.



29. In the 1987-88 season, the highest and lowest players NBA, Manute Bol and Mugsy Bogues played for the same team, Washington Bullets".



30. The photographer was able to accurately capture the moment when he exploded IRA car bomb in London, March 8, 1973



31. Millennial childhood in one shot: Macaulay Culkin leans on Delorean



32. "Watch this place." Photo by Dennis Hutchinson, 80s



33. The world's last Stone Age tribe lives on an island Northern Sentinel in the Indian Ocean and is known for protecting its island from all visitors



As they have lived in isolation for the past 60,000 years, between them and their pre-Neolithic ancestors, there is a direct genetic connection. However, in 1991 they accepted a gift of some coconuts during the only "friendly" meeting in history between the Sentinelese and strangers.

34. Photographs of the 90s from the childhood of the French writer Tippi Degre



Born in Namibia to French wildlife photographers nature, Tippi called the five-ton elephant her "brother", rested with cheetahs and hugging giant bullfrogs like teddy bears.

35. In the early 1980s, drug lord Pablo Escobar opened a family zoo in Colombia full of exotic animals.



When Escobar's empire collapsed in the 90s, the animals were transferred to other zoos, with the exception of four hippos, which are now are considered invasive species whose wastes harm the aquatic ecosystem Colombia.