When was the last time you had a history lesson? Perhaps it was watching a documentary or listening to a podcast centered around prominent events in the past? Or maybe you recently visited a museum that taught you more about your own country or city’s history? Regardless of how much you know about the world’s past, the beautiful thing about history is that there is always more to be learned!
If you’re interested in some photos that will give you more insight into our planet and the fascinating people in it, you’ve come to the right place. Down below, we’ve gathered some of the most captivating posts from the “Historyfeels” Facebook page that might make you feel like you’ve been transported to another time and place.
Be sure to upvote the photos that teach you something new, and feel free to share more historical fun facts you know in the comments section. Then, if you’re looking to continue your education, you can find a previous Bored Panda article featuring photos that belong in a history museum right here.
#1 Grover Krantz Was An Anthropologist Who Donated His Body To The Smithsonian Museum To Show How Skeletons Can Be Educational Tools
His only condition was that he wanted his beloved dog next to him even after death. The museum honored his request.
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#2 Teaching Each Other Their Respective Cultures
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#3 A Statue In Istanbul To Honor Tombili, A Famous Stray Cat. Tombili Would Sit In This Position And Watch People Pass By
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#4 On August 23, 1989, About 2 Million People From Latvia, Estonia And Lithuania Formed A Human Chain
It united all 3 countries to show the world their desire to escape the Soviet Union and communism.
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#5 Wedding Dress Made Out Of The Parachute That Saved Her Husband’s Life In Wwii
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#6 This Mirror Portrait Was Taken 100 Years Ago In Japan
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#7 Marilyn Monroe Visiting Injured Troops In Japan In 1954. Unfortunately For This Soldier, He Had A Broken Back And Had To Heal Facedown
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#8 1954 Camper With A Detachable Boat That Doubles As The Roof
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#9 Royal Portuguese Reading Room, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. It Opened To The Public In 1883
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#10 Photos Of A Sixteen-Year Old German Anti-Aircraft Soldier During WW2
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#11 The O’halloran Sisters, Armed With Poles And Boiling Water, Fended Off The Officers Evicting Their Family During The Irish Land War, 1889
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#12 When Both Sides Of The Eurotunnel First Met In 1990
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#13 Blackfoot Native Americans Looking Out Over Glacier National Park In Montana
Reed was part of an early 20th century school of photographers (along with his better known contemporary Edward Curtis) of Native Americans known as ‘Pictorialists’. Their passion was to show the lives and culture of Native Americans which was ‘gradually vanishing’. Reed lived with and photographed the Ojibwe in Minnesota; the Blackfoot, Piegan, Flathead, Cheyenne, and Blood in northern Montana and southern Canada; and the Navajo and Hopi in Arizona
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#14 Indian Air Force Helicopter Unit 116
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#15 Urban Planning Before Autocad
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#16 Hanako Was A Koi Fish Who Died At The Age Of 226
In 1966, two of her scales were removed and extensively studied to determine her age. She was the longest living koi fish (circa 1751 – 7 July 1977)
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#17 Oldest Door Still In Use In Rome, At The Pantheon
Cast in bronze for emperor Hadrian’s rebuilding, it dates to about 115 AD. Each door is solid bronze 2.3 m wide & 7.5 m high, yet so well balanced they can be pushed or pulled open easily by one person
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#18 Afghan Streets, 1979
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#19 Siberian Unicorn, ‘Elasmotherium’, Which Went Extinct 29,000 Years Ago
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#20 Soba Noodle Delivery In Tokyo, 1935
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#21 The Arctic Ocean Photographed In The Same Place, 105 Years Ago vs. Today
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#22 Self-Defense Glove For Ladies. London, 1850
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#23 The Herculaneum Papyri Are More Than 1800 Papyri That Were Carbonized By The Eruption Of Mount Vesuvius (79 Ce)
constituting the only surviving library from antiquity that exists in its entirety. Now using new x-ray technique, these scrolls are being read for the first time in millennia
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#24 Mt. Rushmore Unpresidented, 1905
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#25 The Swedish Warship Vasa. It Sank In 1628 Less Than A Mile Into Its Maiden Voyage And Was Recovered From The Sea Floor After 333 Years
Now housed at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, is the world’s best preserved 17th century ship
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#26 High-Rise Installer On One Of The Largest Bridges In The World, The Harbour Bridge, Sydney, 1971. The Installer’s Name Is Paul Hogan, In 15 Years He Will Be Known As “Crocodile” Dundee
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#27 Lady And Her Horse On A Snowy Day In 1899
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#28 An Open Air School In 1957, Netherlands
In the beginning of the 20th century a movement towards open air schools took place in Europe with classes taught in nature, so that students would benefit physically and mentally from clean air and sunlight.
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#29 A Couple Of Victorian Travelers, 1890s
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#30 Maybe The Smartest People Ever Assembled In One Photo. Seventeen Of Them Are Nobel Prize Winners
Einstein is in the middle and Marie Curie two seats to the left. She won prizes in two separate scientific disciplines – still the only person have done so – 5th Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics, 1927. Photo was originally black and white and has been colorized
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#31 2000 Year-Old Roman Mosaic In Zeugma, Turkey
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#32 Farmers “Arrest” The Sheriff Who Was Attempting To Evict A Woman From Her Farm On Behalf Of An Insurance Company. Michigan, 1952
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#33 The Ishtar Gate, Built By The Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II In Mesopotamia In 575 Bc
It was finished in glazed bricks mostly in blue and it was part of a grand walled processional way leading into the city. It’s now preserved in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin.
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#34 In 2010, A Family Discovered A Hidden Ancient Chappel Under Their House In Shropshire, England
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#35 Where The Great Wall Of China Meets The Sea
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#36 This Is Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov, The Soviet Ethnographer Who Deciphered The Mayan Writing System, 1980
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#37 The Inside Of A 1926 Rolls-Royce
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#38 Theodore Roosevelt’s Only Diary Entry On Valentine’s Day Of 1884, On The Day Both His Wife Alice And His Mother Martha Died, Just Hours After Each Other
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#39 This Is How The Head Of A Spear Went Through A Bone During The Roman Gallic Wars. It Still Remains In The Bone After 2070 Years
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#40 Nobuo Fujita, A Japanese Pilot, Was The Only Person To Ever Bomb The Contiguous Us. After The War, He Was Invited Back To The Same Town He Bombed (Brookings, Oregon)
Once there, Fujita offered his family’s katana to the mayor, as a token of remorse and humility.
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Hours before sunrise off the coast of Oregon in September of 1942, there was movement on a submarine. It was nine months after the attack on Pearl Harbor and a team of Japanese sailors were quickly assembling a seaplane on the deck.
Next to them was a catapult for takeoff and a crane to pick the wheel-less plane from the sea after the mission – they were going to bomb the coast as retaliation for what was known as the ‘Doolittle raids’ which had struck Tokyo months prior.
30 year-old fighter pilot Nobuo Fujita had wanted to bomb LA or San Francisco – but had been told by his superiors to target Brookings, Oregon.
Fujita would ignite the forest, engulfing a chain of towns, drawing valuable resources away from battle and inciting fear throughout the West Coast.
But Oregon conditions wouldn’t allow it. It was wet and the bombs fizzled in the damp woods.
The crew packed away the plane and headed back West.
20 years later, a group of Brookings businessmen invited Fujita back for the towns’ Memorial Day celebrations.
When Fujita arrived, he gifted his families prized 400-year-old samurai sword to the town.
Brookings and Fujita forged a bond that lasted the next 3 decades. The town made him an honorary citizen in 1997. He passed away just days later at 85 years old.
A tree had been planted in the place where Fujita dropped the bombs, his daughter spread his ashes at the location. She said she felt his soul would be flying over the forest forever.
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#41 A Boy Stares At A TV Screen For The First Time, 1948
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#42 Children At An Early 1900s Playground
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#43 Woman Taking A Selfie In 1900. The Camera She Is Holding Cost $1
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#44 The “Hasanlu Lovers” Died Around 800 B.c. And Were Discovered In 1972. They Died In What Seems To Be An Embrace Or Kiss, And Remained That Way For 2800 Years
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#45 World War 1 Observation Posts Disguised As Trees
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#46 A Child’s Carseat From 1950s
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#47 A Room From The Excavated Ruins Of Herculaneum – Destroyed During The Eruption Of Mount Vesuvius In 79 A.d
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#48 Archeologists And Workers Pose In 1894 In Front Of The Well Preserved Statue Of Antinous (130 Bc). It Was Unearthed Near The Temple Of Apollo In The Sanctuary At Delphi, Greece
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#49 A ‘Knocker-Up’ In London (1929). Before Alarm Clocks, People Were Paid To Wake Up Clients For Work By Knocking On Their Doors And Windows With A Stick
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#50 Welsh Royal Guard Falling Down Due To The Extreme Heat, None Of The Others Rescued Him To Not Break Their Rules, 1957
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