20 interesting and unusual photos from around the world (21 photos)

It may seem like we live in a crazy world these days, but believe it or not, we've always lived in a crazy world.





Tasman Bridge Collapse. Australia, 1975.

At 9:27 p.m. on January 5, 1975, a cargo ship carrying 10,000 tons of zinc concentrate for Electrolytic Zinc collided with one of the supports of the Tasman Bridge. As a result of the collision, two bridge supports and three concrete sections (total length 127 m) collapsed into the water, sinking the vessel. Seven crew members and five motorists, whose cars fell into the water before traffic was stopped, died.

Since the end of the USSR, the media will describe such an incident as "a drunk captain and his crew", "vatniks" "can't do anything"... They have a tragedy, an accident, a coincidence.



A smoke break at a bridge construction site in Auckland, New Zealand, 1950.

These workers apparently have not heard anything about safety precautions. There is no occupational safety. What kind of inspector would climb up there to check?

Only a photographer for a good shot.





Boat on a canal. Kashmir, India, 1868.

The photo looks like an illustration to a fairy tale, and the shot was taken 156 years ago.



Don Quixote on a Lamppost, 1965.

Alberto Korda was a Cuban photographer best known for his 1960 photograph El Guerillo Heroico, depicting Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara. He was Fidel Castro's photographer for ten years and created many iconic images of the Cuban Revolution. Korda took El Quijote de la Farola on July 26, 1959, in Havana's Revolution Square, when a crowd of more than 500,000 farmers came from the countryside to hear Castro, who had recently become prime minister, speak. Here Korda captures the density of the crowd and shows a viewer perched on a lamppost to get a better view of the masses. In the title, Korda refers to the idealistic character from the classic novel Don Quixote.



Testing the strength of a pipe. The inventor is inside. Canada, 1920.

Back in the day, we tested bridges this way by putting engineers under the bridge.



Worker on the face of Abraham Lincoln on Mount Rushmore, 1962.

Gulliver in the Land of Lilliputians. The mountain in South Dakota is famous for the fact that its granite rock is carved with a bas-relief 18.6 meters high, containing sculptural portraits of four US presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.



The Mercury Train, New York, 1936.

The futuristic and unusual appearance of the train is surprising, as if it were a photograph from the future. The Soviet Union did not lag behind the States and in the 1930s presented its own train of the "future" - the IS series steam locomotive (Joseph Stalin), which also looked cosmic.



Sports games of the Arizona cowboys. USA, Phoenix, 1955.

The American version of Polo.



The Graf Zeppelin flies over the Pyramids of Giza, Egypt, 1931.

This photograph from 1931 shows the famous German airship Graf Zeppelin gracefully soaring over the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, particularly the Pyramid of Khafre. This enormous airship, named after the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, was one of the most advanced of its time.



The attraction "Flight from a cannon to the Moon". USA. 1934.

The main thing from the point of view of the performer's safety is not the process of "firing" from the cannon itself, but well-provided landing conditions. More than 30 "human cannonballs" died during the performance of this trick.



Stuntmen Gladys Roy and Ivan Unger play tennis on the wing of a biplane in flight, 1925.

Another plane with a photographer was used to shoot this staged shot. I think he flew pretty close, which is pretty dangerous.



A dog named Pip, 1924.

The dog was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder - he bit the governor's cat.



Arrival of Italian immigrants to the United States, 1905.

In the late 19th - early 20th century, Italy had a government program to resettle its own citizens to other countries. There was overpopulation in rural areas, there was no work. Money was allocated, special ships were built. The flow mainly went to South America.



Arab with three wives and two maids. Egypt, 1870s.

Note that the wives have their faces covered, while the maids have theirs uncovered.



Advertisement for a portable sauna from the 50s.

There was no demand for this device, but the idea is very interesting.



South Africa, 1903

The photo was most likely taken by the colonialists. They dressed the natives in hats and poured a drink into glasses, very funny...



Sheep competition champion. Argentina, 1949.



A small dog sled.

Antarctic expedition member George Black plays with sled dog puppies, harnessed to a small sled, 1929.



A Scottish Terrier named "Fala", President Franklin Roosevelt's favorite dog, listens to his speech on the radio, 1944.



Paris metro station during the flood, 1910.

In January 1910, as a result of the Seine flooding, Paris turned into Venice for several weeks. Squares, streets, train stations and metro stations were under water. Parisians switched from regular transport to boats and rafts.