I would love to know his story behind this awesome scene! Can anyone help?

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Gif map of Axis expansion and subsequent collapse during WWII

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Poster advertising a Boston Minstrel show in the 1860's

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The juxtaposition of history in Montpelier. Horse & carriage at the Pavilion in 1910 vs Google Street View cars at the same spot this morning.

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Beware of Artists - Actual poster issued by Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1950s, at height of the red scare.

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In November of 1965 in Massachusetts, during a football game between Northfield Mount Herman School and Deerfield Academy, Silliman Hall on the NMH campus caught fire. Even as Silliman Hall burned, the game went on

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A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep - Haunting Civil War photograph by Alexander Gardner. -- A burial party, searching for dead on the borders of the Gettysburg battle-field, found, in a secluded spot, a sharpshooter lying as he fell when struck by the bullet.

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Hey, history sleuths! What is this thing?

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Old issues of my Grandfathers National Geographic collection

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I miss the 15¢ cheeseburger... McDonald's ad, circa 1950's

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Old truck, any ideas of purpose?

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Does anyone know what is going on here?

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Flying in style in the 30's and 40's the Pan Am Clippers crossed the Atlantic and Pacific while providing amenities like gourmet meals, a dining room and lounges.

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Creepiest picture of Hitler I've ever seen.

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Found this old pin in my crawlspace basement. Can anyone tell me what it is and/or what it says?

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Defenders of Leningrad (pic)

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Manhattan Bridge under construction, 1909

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A Map of civilization and history by John B Sparks warning very high resolution [4194x19108]

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This is a sketch made by 17 year old Titanic survivor Jack Thayer the morning after the sinking. His controversial claim that the ship had broken in the middle during sinking was met with skepticism. Only until Robert Ballard found the ship was it established the breakup had indeed happened.

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Robert Cornelius first known human portrait ever taken, Circa 1839 (2,006 x 2,633)

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This guy! He's the best teacher I ever had. He used to work in The White House and always posts great tidbits like this!

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A Phoenician necklace made out of gold and amber. The amber is from Denmark passed all the way down to Cadiz in southern Spain through ancient European trade routes. Cool!

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Hey Reddit i found an old World War 2 Poster that my uncle used to own. What do you think?

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Bow of the Dreadnought Tennessee

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Four thousand years of history in a single picture. [x-post from /r/atheism]

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Hermann Goering in WWI (far right)

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Nine European Monarchs who attended the funeral of King Edward VII in 1910.

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Can reddit help me identify my great grandfathers german medal? It says from top left to right Furver Dienste im feuer schutz

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My grandparents just gave me this iconic copy of the New York Times from the day of the first moon landing! (AND TWINKIES)

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My Favourite Picture of Lenin's Politburo

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An interesting method: Call for book donations, NY Public Library, 1919

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I recently found this certificate rolled up in a closet. I've had it framed, but I can't find any of the history behind these types of certificates.... Can anyone on r/history help me out?

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Danish resistance poster.

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My drawing of one of my favorite men in history

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Historic!

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Leonard G Siffleet, 1941 and 1943

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The last photograph ever taken of the Titanic until Robert Ballard's expedition in 1985. Taken as it left Queenstown for New York on April 11, 1912

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Christian knight world map, c.1596

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Shell shocked 1916 - [x-post from r/creepy]

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A young Lenin, Stalin and Kalinin-1919

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so I bought a shirt from Thailand with a logo that I couldn't quite pin point where I've seen it before. While going through an r/history submission, it hit me...

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This is *not* how a family tree is supposed to look (x-post from /r/wtf)

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World War 2 photo I found.

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Surrounded by Japanese - Original Combat Art c. 1944 on Ngesebus Island. I was very close to Death. (Cross from /r pics)

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Outside Little Bohemia where John Dillinger had a shoot out with the FEDS. 15 minutes from my place. Pretty awesome feeling all the history.

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I saw this flying in San Francisco today. It's clearly Soviet and it looks like it was from WWII. Can anyone identify? Il-2?

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Expansion of Mongol Empire between 1206 and 1294 under Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan! (GIF)

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A U.S. soldier stands in the middle of rubble in the Monument of the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig near end of WWII

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Guy in r/picrequests is trying to identify the uniform in this picture. Can any of you buffs help out?

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ITAP of a Grant

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Sovereigns of the world, 1889

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South Africa in the apartheid era!

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I work part-time as an archives assistant & thought some of you might appreciate this postscript from an otherwise very reserved 1869 letter.

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Only in the 60's? Only in the South? Only in the 60's in the South?

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14th century Chinese explorer Zheng He's ship compared to Columbus's [PIC]

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WWI comic, I'm sure most of you have seen this but it's all good fun. WWII in comments.

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Most badass mother fucker in the history of humanity.

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From an illustrated history of delaware c. 1985

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Happy 2368th birthday you conquering bastard!

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World War I as a cartoon strip, not too shabby...

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My subject is war,and the pity of war. The poetry is in the pity-Sir Wilfred Owen However,the pity of war is uniquely among human endeavour which makes manifest the very noblest parts of our nature,as well as the basest even when that nobility is bent towards a muddy,bloody and ignoble purpose 11/11

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The B-17 was a tough old bird...seen here after being rammed by a German plane

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Piece of hardtack from the civil war that my grandparents had in the attic.

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Montezuma Castle National Park

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Hey Reddit, check out this sweet arrowhead I found in my backyard yesterday

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Anyone know if newspapers like this are worth anything? I have come across a box of WW2 newspapers. I just don't know anything about them if they are rare or not. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks

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Dear History Channel: In case you forgot, 2012 is 3 years from now. It's not history

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The stress of the Presidency: FDR's thirteen years in office

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The other day a photo of soldiers going 'over the top' at the Somme was posted. This is my great grandfather and other sergeants from the Grenadier Guards who went to the Somme together. My great grandfather is the second from the right on the top row.

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What a lovely war

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I held a piece of American history yesterday.

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Beauty lies in your past. And what you've been through.

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56 Years ago today was the Day the Music Died: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. The Big Bopper Richardson were killed when their plane crashed in rural Iowa.

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Cockiest portrait photo EVER.

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WWII dogfight after action report

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Germany: Map of the Occupation Areas

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I don't know why but I found this picture to be amazing!

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A combat knife my great-grandfather (6th SS Panzer Army) took from an American.

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Wouldn't want to receive this... Letter from World War One my great grandfather had (xpost from /pics)

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saw this at the pub. made me laugh

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My grandfather, 1918, recovering from several injuries, a corporal of the French 33rd colonial regiment.

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My father lived his childhood in the GDR before he fled to West Germany. He showed this to me recently.

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History According to the History Channel [x-post /r/funny]

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What kind of tank is this?

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Japanese-American Grocer, The Day After The Pearl Harbor Attack. The Man Was Later Interned. [2709x2128]

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A 92-year-old WW1 veteran stands to observe two minutes of silence on Remembrance Day at a memorial site in the village of Alrewas in the British Midlands.

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Who is the man wearing an eyepatch standing next to Himmler in this photo?

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Can someone help me identify the 2 men pictured here with my Grandfather?

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Nazi nudge election ballot from 1938: Do you agree with the reunification of Austria with the German Reich...and do you vote for the party of our leader; Adolf Hitler? YES -- no (x-post)

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In the mountains of Tennessee for a family funeral. 2nd time in this isolated cemetery and some of these dates still blow my mind. (The church keeps fantastic records and adds newer headstones to the unreadable ones, obviously)

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The entire Bayeux Tapestry in one .jpg

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Finland history as a comic strip

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This little misnomer issue has always bugged me.

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Pretty sure he's not a notable boatswain wikipedia...

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Perfectly represents the military technological shift during The Great War

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Can anyone tell me anything about this helmet? (British I think)

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One of the best things about working in a museum is the old newspapers. This is from the St. Johnsville Enterprise, August 13th, 1908.

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Can anyone identify what this ring is from? It belonged to my grandfather who fought in WW2.

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The New World Moral Order

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I see your June 6, 1944 Philadelphia Inquirer, I raise you my June 29, 1863 edition.

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Hitler attending Piłsudski funeral

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My husband's Opa fought in WWII in the Luftwaffe. He kept a detailed album of his photos and drawings from his time in the war. This is the painting he did depicting the day he was taken POW.

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TIL about the original design of Mount Rushmore

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Interesting how historical references can be mis-construed. I posted this to politics and then pics and they thought it was Joe when in fact it was Eugene. They jumped down my throat.

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Regarding Hiroshima-Letter from LIFE magazine's photographer Bernard Hoffman, September 1945.

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I found an old picture of my grandfather during the World War II era.

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History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme. - Mark Twain

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Nespretan (pretty sure I couldn't fit this in /r/funny or /r/pics)

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A brief history of the world as told by tree rings (X- POST from r/pics)

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Little seen pic of Gandhi wearing a suit

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World's Tallest Buildings — in 1884 [PIC]

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Hurricane Katrina Warning Bulletin: 7 years and 1 day ago today

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1889-Group picture of 22 heads of state

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What are the 14 men on the right hand side of this map depicting/representing?

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Can anyone tell me the context of this poster?

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1937 World Fair: German-Soviet Face-off

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The Contest to Kill 100 People with a Sword

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(Article in comments) My mother brought home some old magazines from the 50s that belonged to my great grandfather. Inside one, I found this.

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I made an animated gif that shows the political borders of Europe from around 350 a.d. - 1500 a.d. I figured /r/history might enjoy it.

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Stosstrupp Adolph Hitler awaiting sentencing after the Beer Hall Putsch

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Aerial view of opposing trench lines between Loos and Hulluch, July 1917. German trenches at the right and bottom, British at the top-left.

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I found this old photograph in my 84 year-old grandfathers attic in Warsaw, Poland. Any information regarding; the time period, the people, or the location in the photograph is appreciated. Thanks reddit! :)

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Tomorrow, April 29th, 2012, will be the 20th anniversary of the Rodney King riots. (X-post from r/pics)

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I got this lighter for Christmas from my grandmother, it was her husband's before he passed and she doesn't know the history behind it, is it anything interesting? Google didn't reveal much at a glance.

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William Patrick Hitler

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Che Guevara, master of disguise

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TIL Abraham Lincoln didn't receive a single vote in nine southern states in the 1860 presidential election

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Always Coca - Cola

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According to the History Channel

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Early Norwegian kings, part 1 [collage]

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A 4500 year old city (Lothal) in India had bathrooms with fully functional drainage system which many modern Indian cities lack.

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