15 stories frozen in forgotten frames (16 photos)

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1. Lee Harvey Oswald (in dark glasses, center) spends time with his colleagues in Minsk, 1960



Oswald arrived in the USSR in 1959. He wanted to enroll at Moscow State University, but he was sent to Minsk, given an apartment, and a job as a lathe operator at the Minsk Lenin Radio Plant, where he received a higher salary. Pictured above, on the right, is senior engineer Stanislav Shushkevich, who would sign the Belovezh Accords on behalf of Belarus in 1991. Oswald, meanwhile, would leave for the United States in 1962, and on November 22, 1963, he would assassinate John F. Kennedy.

2. VIP guests watch the US government's 81-kiloton nuclear weapons test on April 7, 1951, at Enewetak Atoll.





3. Nannie Doss - American Serial Killer



From the 1920s to In the 1950s, she killed her four husbands, two children, two sisters, mother, two grandchildren, and mother-in-law. She was nicknamed the Giggling Grandma because she would burst into fits of laughter while confessing.

4. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara fishing, 1960



5. 17-year-old Rowan Atkinson, electrical engineering student at Newcastle University, 1972



This is what the future Mr. Bean looked like in his youth.

6. In 1924, a London muffin vendor was photographed balancing a tray of pastries on his head and ringing a bell to announce his door-to-door breakfast delivery.



These street vendors were a common sight in early 20th-century Britain, delivering fresh muffins and crumpets (a type of pancake) to homes before supermarkets and bakeries became widely available.

Muffin vendors often rented bells from local guilds, and some were fined for ringing them outside of designated hours, as the noise was considered a public nuisance in busy areas.

7. A Canadian police officer guards a drugstore during a flood. Galt, Ontario, Canada, 1974



8. Tightrope Wedding in Toulouse, France, 1954



Bertie Omankowski and Roger Decugis were star tightrope walkers in the legendary Les Diables Blancs troupe, led by Bertie's father, Rudolph "Papa Rudy" Omankowski.

On May 22, 1954, they were married on a tightrope suspended over the Place du Capitole in Toulouse. Several meters above the crowd of spectators, Father Robert Simon, known as the flying priest, blessed them from a fire escape. Toulouse photographer Jean Dieuzaide captured the moment, perched on the shoulders of Pope Rudy, who balanced on the tightrope.

9. Milk distribution to children at Mayakovskaya Station during one of the bombings in January 1942.



10. Woman in a rubber mask with heating coils, 1930s.



They were supposed to eliminate fine wrinkles and folds in the skin.

11. A woman carries a swordfish on her head. Calabria, Italy, 1945.



12. Military personnel and officials stood on chairs, tables, and a sofa to watch the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I, on June 28, 1919.



13. This is a traditional Ottoman-era wooden Ferris wheel (dönmeh). Dolap")



Located probably in rural Turkey or the Balkans, early 1900s. These hand-held amusement rides were quite common at village fairs and markets throughout the Ottoman Empire and neighboring regions.

14. Feodor Chaliapin with his children on the Mediterranean shore, 1907



15. A mother and two children listening to the radio, Karczew, Poland, 1932