8 Photos from the Past That Tell Entertaining Stories (8 photos)

There were many more events in the past that shocked contemporaries, but not all of them are included in school textbooks. Official chronicles tell about outstanding characters, but there were people on earth who accomplished incredible feats without becoming so famous. In this post, you will see interesting retro photographs that will tell about distant days.





1. Levitation Fraud



In 1938, Colin Evans, a Welsh spiritualist medium from the early 20th century, claimed to have the ability to levitate. He deceived many people. It was later revealed that the whole thing was a hoax and that he had jumped just as he was being photographed to create the illusion.

2. College Students Marching





In 1900, university students in England were required to undergo military training at school in case they had to go to war.

3. Hero Photographer



From April to December 1986, photojournalist Igor Kostin covered the progress of the liquidation of the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Kostin's photographs were taken in dangerous conditions of highly active dose loads. He made the shooting of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and Pripyat his life's work - he descended into the fourth reactor twice, climbed onto the roof of the third reactor, contaminated with radioactive fragments, flew around the nuclear power plant in helicopters fifty times, photographed liquidators, displaced persons and children with pathologies born after the accident.

4. Women Leaders of the USSR



In the USSR, during Stalin's rule, many women held leadership positions in factories.

5. Fearless Tamer



This photo shows lion tamer John Friedrich Gentner. One of the most outstanding numbers of the "lion whisperer" was a performance called "The Chair", when the trainer, in the role of a true king of beasts, sat on a chair, and 13 adult lions sat around him like submissive domestic cats. The dangerous profession still killed the man in 1917. He tried to train a wild polar bear. The ferocious animal attacked the tamer, causing head injuries incompatible with life.

6. The first victory of artificial intelligence



This was the first time that the IBM Deep Blue computer defeated chess champion Garry Kasparov.

7. Suicide Prevention



This woman was about to commit suicide after her son married a woman she didn't approve of and they stopped talking to each other. A police officer had to wrestle with her to save her.

8. Mom for Life



This woman lies near a basement window to read a story to her six-year-old daughter. The baby was infected with polio and was quarantined.