25 interesting and memorable pictures from the past (26 photos)

Historic Pictures online project collects the most amazing and incredible moments of history caught on film decades ago. Thanks to photography, you can rewind the historical tape a little bit and scroll it again, noticing the most interesting details. It's never bored.





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Her father said, "If you marry this man, your foot will no longer be in my house.” Mary soon learned that most people think the same way. Early years of their marriage in Birmingham were hell: no one spoke to them, they could not find housing, because no one rented housing to a black man, and they had no money. But they didn't give up. Gradually, life became easier. Mary got a job teaching job and eventually became the deputy director of the school. Jake worked in a factory and then got a job at the post office. Gradually they made friends, but it was difficult. Mary used to tell people, "Before than I invite you to my house ... my husband is black. Some after this disappeared forever. The two celebrated their 70th anniversary last year. They they still love each other very much and have never regretted what they did.

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August 8, 1982. At the Fenway baseball stadium Boston, the ball from the penalty hit a four-year-old boy in the head. Player Jim Rice, instantly realizing that an ambulance was coming too long and too long to wade through the crowd, popped out dugout on the field and grabbed the child. He laid it on a flat floor dugout, and there the doctors of the Red Sox team immediately began to provide help the boy. Half an hour later he was taken to the hospital, and the doctors said that Jim's prompt action saved the boy's life. Jim returned to the game in a bloodied form. A real sign of courage. Visiting boy in the hospital and realizing that the family is not rich, he went into the office hospital and asked that the bill for the treatment be sent to him.

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When she applied for the Boston Marathon in 1966, she was refused, saying: "Women are physiologically incapable of run a marathon and we can't take responsibility." In a day marathon Bobbie Gibb hid in the bushes and waited for the start of the race. When about half the runners passed by, she jumped out to them. On it were brother's Bermuda shorts, a pair of children's sneakers, a bathing suit and sweatshirt. As she threw herself into the crowd of runners, Gibb felt that she's hot, but she didn't take off her sweatshirt. “I knew that if they saw me, then try to stop,” she said. I even thought that they could to arrest". It didn't take long for the male runners around Gibb to time to realize that she is a woman. She expected them to take her off distance or call the police. Instead, the other runners told her, that if anyone tries to interfere with her run, they are with this will figure it out. Finally feeling safe, Gibb removed sweatshirt. As soon as it became clear that a woman was participating in the marathon, the crowd exploded—not in anger, but in sheer joy, she recalls. The men applauded. The women were crying. By the time Bobby got to Wellesley College, news of her spread, and female students were waiting for her, jumping and shouting. The governor of Massachusetts met her at the finish line and shook hands. First woman ever to run Boston Marathon, finished in the first third.

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This is one of the most incredible moments in medicine. In 1922 year at the University of Toronto, scientists went to the hospital room with children who were in a coma and died from diabetic ketoacidosis. Imagine a room full of parents sitting by the sick bed and expecting the imminent death of their child. Scientists moved from bed to bed and injected children with a new purified extract - insulin. When they began to inject the last child in a coma, the first the child who had been injected began to wake up. In sequence All children came out of a diabetic coma. The room of death and darkness has become a place of joy and hope. The scientists also transferred the patent to the University Toronto for just one dollar that no company could monopolize the production of insulin. Thanks to Dr. Bunting and Doctor Best.

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Simone Segouin, more knownnative under the code name Nicole Mina was only 18 years old when the Germans invaded France. Her first an act of defiance was to steal a bicycle from a German military administration and cut the tires of all other bicycles and motorcycles, so they can't follow her. She found a resistance cell and joined the fight by acting (on a stolen bike) as courier and delivering messages between resistance groups. She She learned extremely quickly and quickly became an expert in explosives. The soldiers under the command of Simone let the German trains off the rails, blocked roads, blew up bridges ... She was lucky: she was not caught and she stayed alive. Segouin was present at the liberation of Chartres 23 August 1944, and then at the liberation of Paris two days later. She was promoted to lieutenant and was awarded several medals, in including the Military Cross. After the war, she studied medicine and became children's nurse. She died February 21, 2023.

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A powerful photograph taken by Major Clarence Benjamin in April 1945. It depicts a train with Jewish prisoners, captured by the allied forces. At that moment they knew that they released and the train will not go to the concentration camp.

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Famous photographer Sebastian Ribeiro Salgado and his wife Lelia started a project to plant two million trees, and 20 years later the seeds and seedlings they planted turned into a lush forest in the region Minas Gerais in Brazil.

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First interracial marriage in Mississippi, August 1970.

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In 1968, a few months after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mr. (Fred) Rogers quietly made something that was completely unthinkable at the time. He not only hired black man play a role in his television program for children "Mr. Rogers's Neighbors", but also offered him the role of a policeman. He also regularly invited Officer Clemmons to cool his feet in one pool together. Years later, in 1993, Officer Clemmons last once appeared in the series "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood". In touching moment Mr. Rogers again invited Officer Clemmons to join him in the pool in the yard. Two friends white and black get wet together feet and discussed the importance of friendship and kindness to each other. When they said goodbye, Officer Clemmons thanked Mr. Rogers emotionally and said, "I like being human right here and now." Beautiful a reminder that wherever there is a person, there is an opportunity show kindness.

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In 1988, Hawaiian musician Israel Kaanoi Kamakawiwoole phoned the recording studio at 3am and said he needed record the song immediately. After 15 minutes, he arrived at the studio. Owner Studio Milan Bertosa said: “And then ... the largest the person I have seen in my life." The guard gave the man a weight of 227 kg large steel chair on which he could sit. Then Milan set up the microphone, quickly checked the sound, rewound the tape. And the musician played and sang the famous composition "Somewhere Over the Rainbow. This is how it was recorded.

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On February 8, 1943, the Nazis hanged 17-year-old Lepa Radic for that she was a Yugoslav partisan during World War II. When asked the names of her comrades, she replied: "You will recognize them, when they come to avenge me."

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Imagine that you were born in 1900. When you are 14 years old World War I begins and ends on your 18th day birth, killing 22 million people. Later that year begins epidemic of Spanish flu throughout the planet and continues until until you're 20. Fifty million people will die from this for these two years. Yes, 50 million. When you are 29 years old, the US starts The Great Depression. Unemployment reaches 25%, world GDP falls by 27%. This continues until you are 33. The country is practically is collapsing along with the global economy. When you turn 39, World War II begins. When you are 41 years old, United States fully involved in World War II. Me