The small city of Amiens, located about 75 miles north of Paris, was a hotly contended site in both WWI and WWII. The cathedral is the largest 13th-century Gothic cathedral in France. Amiens was also the home of Jules Verne.[600x438]7yr ⋅ mun31 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The tower was built in the Swedish capital of Stockholm to connect over 5,000 telephone wires in 1887. It was shortly before telephone companies started burying their wires. Good thing, since the city’s residents hated it. The tower burned down in 1953.[620x479]7yr ⋅ mun31 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A native American man overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in Nevada, ~1868.7yr ⋅ mun31 ⋅ r/RedditThroughHistory
Nazi Party Day, Nuremberg, 1934 Adolf Hitler is the central figure of the three men in the foreground who are facing us and giving the straight-armed salute. To Hitler's right is Heinrich Himmler.7yr ⋅ mun31 ⋅ r/RedditThroughHistory
This is Laika, the first animal ever to be sent up into orbit. She was a Moscow stray before she was a Cosmonaut. Nobody expected her to survive the trip, and she didn’t. There’s now a monument erected to her in Moscow, of a dog standing on a rocket.[616x436]7yr ⋅ mun31 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Douglas MacArthur signing the official Japanese surrender instrument aboard the USS Missouri, 1945.7yr ⋅ mun31 ⋅ r/RedditThroughHistory
Opening sarcophagus of King Tut By An English archaeologist, [1924]7yr ⋅ mun31 ⋅ r/RedditThroughHistory
In the 28 April,the bodies of Mussolini,Petacci,and the other executed fascists were loaded onto a van and trucked south to Milan.Fifteen partisans had been shot there in August 1944 in retaliation for partisan attacks and Allied bombing raids.[980x552]7yr ⋅ mun31 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
German physicist Wilhelm Rontgen accidentally discovered X-rays in 1895. More than 100 years after Rontgen’s first X-ray experiments, Gerrit Kemerink, discovered an X-ray machine from the 1890s very similar to Rontgen’s original.[605x258]6yr ⋅ mun31 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
